Heal Yourself-The Natural Way

Also by Walter Last
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Heal Yourself - The Natural Way

Overcome Diseases & Create Superior Health.
By Walter Last.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Naturopathy. 2. Healing. I. Title.
ISBN 978-0-9803281-7-2
Disclaimer
The aim of this book is to provide information on using natural healing methods to improve health
and overcome illness. The author or publisher cannot accept any legal responsibility for any
problem arising from experimenting with these methods. For any serious disease, or if you are
unsure about a particular course of action, seek the help of a competent health professional.
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Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Healing the Body 1
Step 1:
The Road Towards Disease
Become aware of the factors that cause your illnesses……………………………………… 2
Step 2:
The Road Towards Health
Learn the principles of natural living to restore your health………………………………….. 7
Step 3:
Intestinal Sanitation
Clean out and sanitize your gastrointestinal tract……………………………………………... 12
Step 4:
Fasting and Cleansing
Become clean on the inside by removing accumulated wastes and toxins………………... 22
Step 5:
Allergy Testing
Discover and overcome your food allergies and chemical sensitivities…………………….. 30
Step 6:
The Acid-Alkaline Balance
Bring your body back into balance by testing for and correcting any
overacid or over-alkaline condition……………………………………………………………… 36
Step 7:
Living Water
Living water has a great healing potential—learn how to use it……………………………... 41
Step 8:
The Practice of Healthy Living
Improve your environment—your house, clothes, even your teeth………………………..... 40
Step 9:
Exercise
Get into the habit of exercising regularly……………………………………………………..... 48
Step 10: The Healing Crisis
Sooner or later you are bound to have a healing crisis, so use it to your advantage……... 55
Part 2: Natural Healing Methods……………………………………………………………… 60
Step 11:
General Examination
Examine yourself to assess your state of health………………………………………………. 61
Step 12: Iris Diagnosis
Study your eyes to find out more about internal conditions of your body…………………... 65
Step 13: Muscle Testing
Test your muscle strength to see whether a food or remedy is good or bad for you……… 69
Step 14: The Endocrine Pattern
Simple arm and leg measurements can show the condition of your endocrine glands…...
Step 15: Reflexology
Press reflex points on your hands and feet to diagnose and
treat conditions within your body…………………………………………………………………
Step 16: Ear Acupuncture
Try this easy method to improve the function of any diseased or unbalanced organ……...
Step 17: Color Therapy
Use colours to balance body conditions and your emotions………………………………….
Step 18: Magnet Therapy
Take advantage of the fact that both poles of a magnet have useful biological effects…...
Step 19: The Electronic Zapper and Magnetic Pulser
Use electrotherapy to keep your body free of undesirable microbes and parasites……….
Step 20: Spinal Therapy and Massage
Improve the activity of all your organs and glands by massaging your spine and body…..
Step 21: Hydrotherapy, Packs, and Colonics
Use water to relax or alleviate painful conditions……………………………………………...
Step 22: Urine and Urea Therapy
It may not be your “cup of tea,” but many swear by this ancient therapy……………………
Part 3: Nutrients and Remedies……………………………………………………………….
Step 23: Vitamins
Find out what these essential nutrients do and if you have special
requirements for any of them…………………………………………………………………….
Step 24: Minerals
Find out what minerals do and if you have increased requirements for them………………
Step 25: Amino Acids
They’re the building blocks of all body proteins.
Adequate levels are essential for good health…………………………………………………
Step 26: Digestive Enzymes
These vital substances are needed for digestion, but poor diet and
cooking practices can deplete your supply……………………………………………………..
Step 27: Nutritional Supplements
Concentrated nutrients in pill form can shore up nutritional
deficiencies and build optimal health……………………………………………………………
Step 28: Herbs
You may benefit from using herbal remedies instead of pharmaceutical drugs……………
Step 29: Homeopathy
Homeopathic remedies are effective, and you can even make them yourself……………..
Step 30: Colloidal Silver, Copper, Zinc, and Gold
Use these powerful remedies whenever you have an infection or inflammation…………...
Step 31: Oxygen Therapy
Oxygen, therapeutically applied, helps you quickly overcome any infection…………….....
Part 4: Healing Foods……………………………………………………………………………
Step 32: General Dietary Rules
Understand the principles of healthy food selection, preparation, and combination……….
Step 33: Food Groups
Learn the health characteristics of the various food groups and apply them for healing….
Step 34: Health Diets
Adopt a health diet suited to the specific requirements of your body………………………..
Step 35: Special Foods
Take advantage of the health-giving properties of bee pollen, sprouted seeds,
fermented foods, and purple foods………………………………………………………………
Step 36: Water and Juices
Heal yourself with fresh vegetable and grass juices…………………………………………..
Step 37: Healing Recipes
Transform healthy foods into enjoyable meals…………………………………………………
Part 5: Problem Foods and Food Problems…………………………………………………
Step 38: Cow’s Milk Products and Lactose
Have a closer look at cow’s milk products and lactose. In some forms they
can be beneficial, but as commonly used they tend to create a lot of health problems…...
Step 39: Wheat and Gluten
Wheat may be the staff of life, but in many people it is actually unfavourable to health......
Step 40: Sweet Foods
Your sweet tooth may be your undoing, so consider reducing your intake of sugars……..
Step 41: Meat and Fat
Overconsumption of meat and fats can create serious health problems.
Try cutting back on your intake…………………………………………………………………..
Step 42: Chemicals in Your Foods
Minimize your exposure to toxic chemicals, water additives, and yeasts
and moulds—your body will thank you for it……………………………………………………
Step 43: Metabolic Types, Pathways, and Diets
Know your individual metabolic type and your specific dietary requirements………………
Part 6: Specific Health Problems……………………………………………………………...
Step 44: Self-Care Help for Health Problems—Practical Tips for Relief
If you have a specific disease, this summary of typical treatment protocols
can show you what to do………………………………………………………………………….
Step 45: Deficiency Symptoms
Check out this list of deficiency symptoms to see if you are lacking in
key nutrients—and start replacing them………………………………………………………...
Step 46: Cancer
If you have cancer, here are some useful suggestions……………………………………….
Step 47: Emotional-Mental Shocks
The secret to preventing illness is to undo shocks that unbalance the body……………….
Step 48: Candida Infections
If you have an overgrowth of Candida, here is what to do about it…………………………..
Step 49: Cardiovascular Disease
Managing cholesterol and improving your heart health - some practical tips………………
Part 7: Energies - Dealing with Harmful and Helpful Ones………………………………
Step 50: Electromagnetic Energies
Protect yourself from the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation
and make sunlight your friend……………………………………………………………………
Step 51: Bioenergy
Bioenergy is the true energy of healing, so for optimal health learn as
much about it as you can…………………………………………………………………………
Step 52: Cultivating the Energies
Learn to sense subtle bio-energies and use them to energize your body…………………..
Step 53: Energy Accumulators
Use orgone accumulators, pyramids, cones, or water to concentrate bioenergy…………..
Step 54: Energy Healing
Give energy or remove excess energy to facilitate healing yourself and others…………...
Step 55: Meridian and Acupressure Therapy
Balance the flow of energies along your acupuncture meridians by tracing their circuits....
Step 56: Healthy Sexuality
Channel your sexual energies into pleasure rather than frustration…………………………
Part 8: Healing Your Emotions………………………………………………………………...
Step 57: Understanding Emotions and Disease
Learn how you came to be so out of touch with your feelings, what
emotional problems and diseases this causes, and how this is expressed in your body….
Step 58: Healing Relationships
Try out these tools to heal your personal, family, and social relationships………………....
Step 59: Heal in Groups
Join a group of like-minded individuals with the goal of healing your
feelings and helping others do the same……………………………………………………….
Step 60: Learning to Feel
Feel what your body and your soul tell you, and use your feelings to
improve your health rather than destroy it………………………………………………………
Step 61: Take the Love Cure
Lead a radiant life filled with love and joy, and practice the Love Cure……………………..
Part 9: Healing Your Mind………………………………………………………………………
Step 62: Harness the Power of Mind
Appreciate the power of your subconscious mind. It is the real power
behind the throne of the ego……………………………………………………………………..
Step 63: Helpful Mind Tools
Use relaxation, regression, reprogramming, prayer, meditation,
and inner communication for a more fulfilled life………………………………………………
Part 10: Spirituality and Health………………………………………………………………..
Step 64: The Spiritual Dimension
Enter the spiritual dimension of life and make it your home………………………………….
Step 65: Life on the Path
The spiritual path is the crowning glory of human endeavour, and by
following the 65 steps you are already on it…………………………………………………….
A Review of the 65 Steps……………………………………………………………………….
Endnotes…………………………………………………………………………………………..
Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………………
About the Author………………………………………………………………………………...
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INTRODUCTION
This book is for those who are searching for a way to live a healthy and fulfilled
life. I have no doubt that we can do this, live a healthy and fulfilled life, regardless of
age, and that this is actually our natural birthright. We just need to avoid or remove
the artificial living conditions that prevent us from being as we really are. A modern
problem for genuine health and spiritual seekers is the great flood of advice available
in these areas. Much of it is contradictory or, alternatively, there are so many different
methods to choose from that it seems almost hopeless to find the right one.
I have sifted through much of this information and experimented with many
different healing methods in my 30 years as a natural therapist, with the aim of
finding out what works for whom and in which conditions. Even more important for
me was my spiritual quest. Here I share the fruits of my experience as a lifelong
health and spiritual seeker.
While this book does not go into great detail about the treatment of specific
diseases, by using the outlined methods and following the provided guidelines to
rebuild your health, you are likely to improve anyway, whatever the name of the
disease. Rather than fighting your disease, I recommend you focus all your
resources on improving your health. Your disease may then disappear on its own.
To show how simple, natural methods can be very effective in overcoming
medically incurable diseases, I mention an example from The Food and Health of
Western Man, by Dr. J. L. Mount. In five cases of bowel cancer, surgery revealed that
the cancer had already metastasized all over the body. Therefore, these patients
were just closed up again and sent home to die. But instead of doing that, these five
people, independently of each other, became keen gardeners and from then on ate
only home grown, organically raised food. When they finally did die, 21 to 30 years
later, no traces of cancer could be found in post mortem examinations.
Such cures without medical intervention are regarded as “spontaneous
remissions.” It should be comforting for those with advanced cancer and other
“incurable” diseases to know that spontaneous remissions can be induced with such
simple natural methods. However, while not mentioned in Dr. Mount’s book, I suspect
that there was another important factor at work: These five had made peace with
themselves and the world.
Similarly, you may use this book to improve your health or to lead a more
happy and fulfilled life, more at peace with yourself and the world. Ideally, it is meant
to provide guidance to heal not only your body, but also your emotions and mind as
part of your spiritual growth. By following this path and the 65 steps I present, you will
need less and less to rely on this book or any other “expert” advice. Instead you will
realize that all the answers for your healing and spiritual growth are within you. You
just need to ask and learn to listen. In order for you, the reader, to gain a better
understanding of the purpose of this book and the principles on which it is based, I
will share with you my basic philosophy on health and spirituality.
My most basic assumption of existence is that it has purpose. I came to this
conclusion gradually through observing, experiencing, and thinking. Countless
people share this view, but for most it is just a belief, commonly adopted from parents
and society. In order to make it a knowing, our beliefs have to be consciously
evaluated and tested.
On the other side of the fence is the orthodoxy of the scientific community and
its followers who assume that existence evolved according to inherent physical laws
and does not have a purpose. This, too, is just an untested belief. In line with this
belief about the nature of our existence, we regard our health problems and other
problems in our life as accidental, coincidental, or just due to biological
considerations and without a deeper meaning or purpose in our life.
I believe that our health and social problems are part of the purpose of our
existence. Therefore, in order to overcome any health problems and be able to lead a
healthy, happy, and fulfilled life, we need to have a basic understanding of the
purpose of our life.
It has been my healing experience, especially in serious conditions such as
cancer, that with apparently the same amount of effort and dedication some people
get well while others do not. I believe that success or failure in healing depends only
partly on doing the right thing on the biological level and to a larger degree on our
emotional, mental, and spiritual constitution. This applies even more to the degree of
happiness, fulfilment, and joy we have in our lives.
Therefore, after starting out as a biochemist and nutritionist, I gradually moved
towards a holistic perspective, which increasingly included the spiritual dimension. I
came to the conclusion that important events in our lives, and especially life or death
decisions, are never “accidental.” Not only do they follow the laws of cause and
effect, but also the dictates of our higher guidance as to whether this body is still
useful for the purpose for which it was created and inhabited.
Here are two examples to illustrate this point. One of my early lung cancer
patients recovered well with only biological therapies. Soon afterwards he had
surgery for an unrelated problem. The tumour had disappeared but he died from the
surgery. Another patient was in a wheelchair with permanent unbearable pain after a
spinal accident. We found a way to stop the pain. So he went out drinking with a
mate to celebrate and smashed his chin in a fall. This landed him back in the hospital
with constant pain.
These and similar cases are not scientific proof of anything, but for someone
looking for an answer they are signposts to show the way. Also consider an
experience related by the American psychic Edgar Cayce. He routinely saw auras
around people. Once he entered a department store elevator but immediately backed
out again because he sensed that something was very wrong. Soon after, the
elevator crashed and all in it were killed.
Cayce realized what was wrong. None of the occupants had an aura. (An aura
is an energy field around a living body that can be seen by some individuals as a
nebulous outline.) For those who know that auras exist, this can mean only one thing:
It was no accident that these people died together. The guiding consciousness of
every single occupant had decided beforehand to dispose of the body in this
seemingly accidental way. In an odd sense, they were already dead. I am convinced
that if Edgar Cayce had remained in the lift, he would have been the only miraculous
survivor and without any serious injury.
If you can follow me to this conclusion, you may ask: How can we find the
purpose of our lives and live accordingly? That is what spirituality is all about. We
need spirituality, not only to overcome serious diseases, but also to lead a healthy
and genuinely happy and fulfilled life. But what is spirituality? Different people have
different ideas about it. I can only tell you my version. This may change somewhat
over time, as my understanding is still growing.
In addition to an individual, more narrowly defined purpose, we all have the
same general and overall purpose to become more complete or perfect as human
beings. Normally, this is a very slow evolution for the whole human race. However, if
we do this consciously, then our snail-pace evolution becomes a personal revolution
and we call it “the spiritual path.”
As I see it, our higher guidance tries to lead us towards or along this spiritual
path. There are two possibilities. We may be led gently if we ask and listen for this
guidance as with prayer and meditation or just with our general attitude and conduct.
The alternative is more common and painful. If we stray too far from the desired
direction, we may run into a brick wall that forces us to change course. We may
encounter a disease or calamity in our social or professional life that causes us to re-
evaluate our life. Many former cancer sufferers have said that cancer was the best
thing that ever happened to them because it helped them to end a spiritually
meaningless life and start a new, meaningful, and more fulfilling spiritual life.
There are different levels of our existence, as for instance the biological,
emotional, and mental levels. Following the spiritual path means that we consciously
work on improving ourselves on all of these levels. This is the focus of the 65 steps in
this book. On the biological level, this means that we cleanse the body of lifelong
deposits of metabolic wastes and -toxins. We also improve our living conditions by
minimizing harmful factors and maximizing beneficial factors. On the emotional level
we do the same: We cleanse our emotional body of blocked and negative emotions
and cultivate uplifting feelings and emotions. It is similar on the mental level: We
cleanse ourselves of negative thoughts and belief systems and learn to generate
positive and beneficial thoughts and beliefs.
After achieving a certain level of control over our body, emotions, and mind, we
are able to move along on the spiritual path. As a reward, our body will most likely be
much healthier; we will generally be content, happy, and increasingly joyful; and we
may even achieve a state of mental illumination with a flood of intuitive insights. By
this time also our individual purpose for being in this body will have become clearer
and we may act accordingly.
The overall theme of this book is health and harmony - learning to live in
harmony with our biological, social, and spiritual nature. This book will give you the
tools to achieve this worthwhile goal. Do not be concerned that it seems far away.
The most interesting part of life is the journey, so enjoy it, make it fulfilling and
meaningful. It does not matter how fast you master the steps; it is more important
that you enjoy doing them and in the process get to know your body and your mind
and become friends with both. Learn to love yourself, and you will find it easier to
love everyone else as well. If in doubt about any particular course of action, choose
what on reflection appears to be more natural or will lead to greater harmony or
balance.
In this book you will find a wide range of natural health improvement and
healing methods with easy-to-follow, do-it-yourself instructions. I suggest that you
experiment with as many of these as you can in this venture. On the biological level,
these are intestinal sanitation, allergy testing, and cleansing. Some idealistic
individuals may embrace these measures enthusiastically, while others will try a little
here and there but generally wait until poor health launches them more determinedly
into a program of health improvement. That is quite all right. Just keep this book
handy until you are ready. For those who want to start right now, however, here is the
“prescription.”
The main purpose of this book is to serve as a practical instruction manual for
creating and maintaining good health. To get a basic overview and understanding of
the underlying principles of natural living and holistic healing, I recommend that you
start by reading the book in a selective way. Read more carefully those steps that
provide a basic understanding of healthy living, nutrition, emotions, and beliefs, but
skim over the details of specific exercises and procedures, or diseases in which you
are not currently interested.
Then start working through the steps in a practical way. I regard all of the
practical steps in Part 1 as essential for establishing a solid base for improving and
maintaining health. Try to do them as thoroughly as possible. The steps in Part 2 are
designed to help you identify and overcome specific health problems. Therefore, you
may use these steps in a selective way; concentrate on those that you expect to be
most suitable with your current problems. It is similar with Part 3. Use this information
to select suitable supplements and remedies.
Part 4 is another fundamental chapter. Adopting a natural diet - fresh, raw, and
organic - may be the most difficult, but also the most rewarding part of the whole
program. Do it gradually. Part 5 provides a deeper understanding of nutrition and
helps you to fine-tune your diet for your individual requirements. In Part 6 you need
only study the information that is relevant to a current health problem.
The practical steps in Part 7 help you feel and direct your inner or life-force
energies. This is a key requirement for improving health beyond what is possible with
a healthy lifestyle. Continue practicing in this area for the rest of your life. In Parts 8
and 9, select and experiment with the methods that most appeal to you for healing
your emotions and adopting an appropriate belief system. Part 10 helps you
understand and reapply your health improvement efforts as part of your spiritual path.
Do this review when you feel ready for it.
Finally, use this book as a reference manual whenever you encounter a
specific health problem. In Part 6, look for specific diets, remedies, and treatment
modalities, and in addition use suitable therapies described in Part 2 and other parts.
Here is a vision I have of our near future. I see health clubs and healing groups
springing up all over the world, like mushrooms after a warm rain. Many people come
forward, willing to accept self-responsibility for their health and eager to learn.
Friends meet regularly, testing each other, experimenting with new healing methods,
discussing results, exchanging recipes, sharing books, exercising and meditating
together, and studying spiritual philosophy for healing.
Many become healers in their community, guided initially in workshops by
experienced healers. City groups rent suitable buildings to establish healing and
meditation centres. Communal farms produce organic food and are used as healing
and spiritual retreat centres, where visitors can share the healthy life, learn to heal
themselves, and find guidance on the spiritual path.
I see the physical and spiritual rejuvenation of nations starting at the grassroots
level in a worldwide movement for social and environmental responsibility. All you
rejected and disillusioned individuals unite, to make the world a better place for
everyone!
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Part 1
HEALING THE BODY
Initially, most health seekers are mainly concerned with overcoming a specific
health problem, using the specific method or remedy promising the quickest result.
However, in the long run and as we get older, more health problems or diseases pop
up and become increasingly difficult or impossible to overcome just by using a “magic
bullet.” This then makes the idea of serious lifestyle changes towards natural living
and holistic healing more attractive, giving us a much better chance to become and
remain healthy and fit into old age.
I have no doubt that it is our natural birthright to be healthy and that it is
unnatural to have a disease. A disease means that we (or possibly our parents) did
not live according to our biological, social, or spiritual nature. At present most of
humanity lives in unnatural conditions surrounded by a minefield of technological and
chemical health hazards. Even worse is our ignorance about the nature of these
hazards that are mainly hidden from our awareness.
Therefore, in order to live more naturally we need to become aware of the main
health hazards in our environment and learn to avoid them or minimize their effect on
us. We can learn from our own experiences and from those of others and we can
also develop our intuition or ask for guidance through prayer and meditation. If in
doubt about a choice, try to imagine which course of action is more natural or more in
harmony with your biological, social, and spiritual nature.
The main biological influences on our health are nutrition, exercise or how we
use our body, and environmental factors. In addition to improving these conditions,
there are numerous natural healing methods to help us in our quest for good health.
These include herbs and other natural remedies, working on muscle and bone
structure, and using electrical, magnetic, and vibrational medicines and approaches.
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Step 1
THE ROAD TOWARDS DISEASE
Become aware of the factors causing your illnesses.
People in Western society are rarely healthy. Real health - the perfect
functioning of all parts of body and mind - is so rare that people mistake the
temporary absence of disease symptoms for health. Formerly, people suffered
mainly from violent but short-lived infectious diseases; now many are afflicted with
chronic degenerative diseases for a lifetime.
The main factors causing widespread health degeneration are as follows:
1. Unnatural nutrition: food refining; lack of “living food” and of vitamins, minerals,
and enzymes; GM food, junk food, incorrect food combining, unsuitable diet for
metabolic type.
2. Chemicalisation: pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, medical drugs, food additives,
water and air pollution, plastics, and even contact with synthetic garments.
3. No exercise: lack of sufficient physical activity or exercise in natural, unpolluted
surroundings.
4. Harmful negative feelings and emotions: resentment, fear, discontent, greed,
envy, and lack of positive feelings and emotions, such as gratitude, devotion,
contentment, joy, unselfish love.
5. Harmful mental attitudes: lack of spiritual or humanistic goals, lack of faith.
6. Emotional damage: sustained during birth, childhood, or adolescence; lack of
positive role models.
7. Inherited genetic problems: genetic makeup of poor and deteriorating quality.
The general sequence leading to the development of poor health and chronic
diseases commonly is as follows: Emotional injuries received during birth and
childhood, as well as negative attitudes and emotions experienced during later life,
cause muscle tension which block the free flow of bioenergy within the body and
especially within the acupuncture meridians. This weakens the blood circulation and
the glandular system, as well as the functions of affected organs. Inherited metabolic
weakness and poor nutrition as well as chemical pollution combine to cause an
inefficient use of biochemical building blocks and poor cellular energy production.
Disease is the result.
Metabolic Residues: As a result of this metabolic weakness and the overuse
of unsuitable food, toxics and metabolic residues accumulate in the body. Toxics
(toxic waste products from our chemicalised food) accumulate mainly in the fat
tissue. Metabolic residues consist of protein debris, mucus, fatty sludge, and organic
acids. Here are some further complications:
• Protein Debris: This accumulates when we eat more protein than we
metabolize. Small protein fragments clog up capillaries and lymph channels
through which nutrients move into cells and waste is removed. Current research
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shows that virtually all chronic diseases are strongly associated with protein debris
accumulating within cells.
• Mucus: This originates from lactose (milk sugar) in dairy products, gluten (in
wheat products), refined carbohydrates, fat, moulds, and food allergens. Mucus
has a special affinity to mucous membranes, causing catarrh, ear and sinus
problems, respiratory diseases, and malabsorption of food.
• Fatty Sludge: Mainly formed from oxidized (rancid) fats and oils, fatty sludge
leads to poor circulation and heart problems by clogging the blood vessels and
congesting the lymph system.
• Organic Acids: General overacidity contributes to the accumulation of organic
acids in the tissues and induces inflammations and mineral deficiencies.
Overacidity results from insufficient cellular oxidation and from the formation of
lactic acid after eating sweet foods or foods to which we are sensitive or allergic.
Infections: Wastes accumulate wherever the blood circulation slows down,
whether because of emotional blocks leading to permanently contracted muscles
(called muscle armouring), injuries, or insufficient use of muscles. Up to 30 percent of
the volume of cells in elderly people may be filled with waste material, usually in the
form of old-age pigments (oxidized fats and proteins). This is comparable to 30
percent of a city or a household being filled with refuse dumps. Just as dumps
become infested with rodents and insects, the waste accumulations in the body
provide favourable breeding grounds for microbes and parasites.
Infections are healing efforts of the body designed to destroy any foreign
invaders and reduce the heavy load of toxic and obstructive residues (mucus)
accumulated in the body. The use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs in fighting
these infections prevents this cleansing action and reduces our vitality still further; the
body’s immune system - its ability to defend itself against foreign invaders - is also
damaged.
If the body is still reasonably strong, it fights these invaders and simultaneously
reduces the load of stored wastes. This is experienced as an acute (sudden and
severe) infection, often in the form of a cold or fever. However, as the body becomes
weaker and the amount of stored wastes increases, the body does not fight back
anymore. It can then only limit the invasion to a certain part of the body, and chronic
(low-key but long-lasting) infection results.
Finally, the immune system becomes too weak to limit the chronic infiltration of
toxic substances and its distress becomes more generalized as autoimmune
diseases, cancer, and leukaemia. However, it should be understood that this invasion
or infiltration does not necessarily occur from the outside. Especially in the case of
cancer, it is more an “uprising of germs from within” created by the disintegration of
diseased body cells. It is similar to a revolution spreading through a country with
dissatisfied inhabitants.
The German cancer researcher P. G. Seeger, M.D., D.S.c., demonstrated in
thousands of experiments that the virulence of cancer cells depends on the
nutritional status of the host. Another interesting study found that viruses breeding in
hosts that are deficient in protective nutrients, such as selenium or vitamin E, tend to
mutate and change from benign into very virulent and lethal forms. With sufficient
levels of these nutrients, someone may be immune to the benign form of the virus but

not to the mutated form that is produced within a deficient host. For example, most of
the influenza epidemics with new virulent strains that periodically sweep the world
originate in selenium-deficient parts of China1. Furthermore; the African HIV epidemic
appears to have emerged in northern Zaire where many people are selenium
deficient. The lesson from this is that poor nutrition breeds deadly viruses.
Food Addictions and Allergies: Health deterioration, closely linked to the
weakening of the immune system, also takes place with the development of
addictions and allergies. These are extremely widespread in our society.
Conventionally, an allergy is seen as an immunological reaction against a foreign
protein. However, in most instances, and especially in the early stages, food allergies
may be better described as food sensitivities. This means that the body is sensitive to
a particular food and when confronted with it, enters a state of stress. The glandular
system is induced to pour adrenal hormones into the bloodstream and dopamine into
the brain, and this may be felt as an uplifting stimulation. Eventually, the body begins
to crave this stimulation and this leads to an addiction to that particular food. In our
society, these food cravings develop mainly for sweet and fried foods, bread, dairy
products, and red meats, but also for other foods that we frequently eat.
After many years of exposure to an addictive food, the glandular system is
markedly weakened and stronger stimulants are required. You then become addicted
and sensitive or allergic to alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco, or various drugs. Eventually,
even these will not achieve the desired effect or only for ever-shorter periods.
The body then becomes chronically fatigued and disease symptoms begin to
surface more forcefully. Some symptoms can be linked directly to incompletely
digested foods that are absorbed through a weak intestinal wall and now cause
strong immunological reactions; these symptoms are the result of a food allergy.
Disease symptoms develop selectively in parts of the body with hereditary defects or
in those weakened by misuse or injured by accidents.
Problem Foods: Almost any food, if used to excess by susceptible people, can
cause allergies. However, certain foods, such as rice and vegetables, rarely cause
allergies, while others carry a high risk of causing them. These high-risk items are
called “problem foods” because, in addition to allergies, they frequently cause health
problems in people who are not susceptible to allergies.
People who are prone to food allergies generally have hypoglycaemia (low
blood sugar) or diabetes, low blood pressure, a weak immune system, or a lack of
digestive enzymes. People who have alkaline blood chemistry, as opposed to acidic,
rarely have allergies. (For an explanation of the acid-alkaline balance, see Step 6.)
Instead, they are insensitive to pain and skin irritants and may suffer from chronic
degenerative diseases or become victims of an unexpected heart attack or stroke.
However, the same problem foods are major contributing factors in the development
of disease of both groups.
The main problem foods are as follows:
1. Cow’s milk and its products; also lactose or milk sugar added to processed
foods.
2. Wheat and to a lesser extent the other gluten grains oats, rye and barley (e.g. in
beer).

3. Sweet foods, especially sugar, fructose used as sweetener, and synthetic
sweeteners.
4. Hydrogenated fats (for example, margarine) or heated oils and fats.
5. Overuse of alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco, drugs, and other stimulants.
These five groups should generally be used sparingly. Foods that are
incompatible with our blood-type group often cause problems. In addition, any food
that contains pesticide residues or added synthetic food chemicals is a potential
health hazard. I do not believe in a “safe” limit for these chemicals, especially as
limits are set for each item individually while ignoring the cumulative effect of multiple
chemical residues and additions.
Social and Economic Factors: With the present poor eating habits deeply
ingrained in our society and the all-out chemicalisation of our lives, it is almost
impossible to remain reasonably healthy - and very few people do. Almost everyone
has obvious or hidden health problems. From attending to children, parents, and
grandparents of the same family, I have seen how the level of health deteriorates in
successive generations.
This trend is also clear from statistics and general observations for anyone who
wants to see it. Statistics showing increased life expectancy due to greatly reduced
infant mortality are irrelevant for judging the health of a population. These figures
simply mean that more babies survive the early childhood infections, that we have
better plumbing, and that more elderly people are kept artificially alive by organ
transplants or life-support machines.
But this is not health. More relevant statistics show that most people in Western
countries suffer from chronic diseases and that the percentage of chronically
disabled people is increasing rapidly. Arthritis, cancer, and Parkinson’s disease used
to be diseases of old people. Now they are affecting children and juveniles. Health
authorities so far have ignored the claims of natural medicine that it is the superior
form of treatment for chronic and medically incurable diseases. The very fact of a
high rate of chronic disease in our society attests to the inability of the conventional
medical profession to successfully treat these diseases.
This is highlighted by the embarrassing phenomenon of the falling death rate
during doctors’ strikes. Statistics show that with a strike by doctors, the death rate in
the affected population fell dramatically. In 1976 during a doctors’ strike in Bogota,
Colombia, the death rate fell by 35 percent. In Los Angeles County, California, it fell
by 18 percent during a strike in the same year, while in Israel it fell by 50 percent
during a strike in 1973. Only once before had there been a similar drop in the death
rate in Israel and that was during another doctors’ strike 20 years earlier. After each
strike, the death rate jumped again to its normal level.
During these strikes, emergency care was provided. This means the patients
who lived longer during the strikes were those with chronic diseases. They obviously
benefited from a reduced exposure to medical drugs, operations, and other
technological interventions. There is an abundance of statistics, estimates, and case
reports of the great number of patients who are in the hospital or worse because of
disease caused by medical drugs and medical technology.

Selfish Motivation: Our medical and economic leaders do not want to face
reality. They brainwash the public into believing that the present health situation is
completely normal. Most importantly, the economic structure of Western civilization is
largely based on the production and distribution of goods and services that are
contributing to poor health. These include chemicalised agriculture and food
processing, the pharmaceutical industry, technological medicine, and the
petrochemical and plastics industries.
The guiding motto for industry is profit, while for the consumer it is
convenience. The price we all pay is the loss of our health. This situation is the
natural outcome of a society based on selfish motivation. A change for the better can
come only when more and more people realize that ultimately they harm themselves
with selfish attitudes. Recognizing this is a first step towards improving your health.
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Step 2
THE ROAD TOWARDS HEALTH

Learn the principles of natural living to restore your health.
The first and most important step in reversing the deterioration of your health is
to realize that you may have caused it yourself. Due to ignorance and habit, we
select the wrong foods; out of laziness, we do not exercise; from lack of self-control,
we create destructive emotions. Therefore, only the realization that poor health is the
result of a lifetime of wrong living, which includes the living habits of our parents, can
initiate a real change in us for the better.
This understood, the next step is to find guidance on your road towards health.
There is so much contradictory advice available today that it is confusing for the
aspiring health seeker. Worldwide, medicine is in a state of chaos. The sterile
monopoly of the conventional medical establishment is beginning to break down and
multitudes of different healers are rapidly filling the gap. Find out by reading,
listening, meditating, and experimenting which healing system is most appropriate for
your needs. Then start a determined healing program using careful self-observation
to monitor your progress.
Measuring Health: It can be seen from the above discussion that disease is
not something that happens suddenly, that one day you are healthy and the next day
you are sick because cancer has been detected. Instead, your state of health has
greatly deteriorated over many decades to only a fraction of what it might be in true
health. Even suddenly appearing infections are possible only because of a gradual
deterioration of your immune system.
Health should be measured as vitality, as the body’s ability to regenerate itself.
An indication of the inherent vitality of the body is given by the speed of wound
healing or bone mending and possibly hair and nail growth; in a more scientific way,
we could measure it by the electric potential of body cells.
According to this yardstick, hardly anyone alive today is likely to be more than
90 percent healthy, while most people of “normal” health live at below 50 percent of
their personally attainable health potential. When a chronic degenerative disease
becomes manifest, the health potential drops to below 10 percent of optimal, and at
death, of course, it is zero.
It is meaningless to be elated about the success of conventional medicine in
greatly reducing the number of people contracting certain infectious diseases. It is
the overall number of unhealthy people that counts. If one disease is eliminated,
unhealthy people will contract a different one. What is needed is a general health
improvement that will effectively reduce the total number of people becoming sick
and ultimately hinder the development of any disease.
Eventually, with better genetic stock and improved living conditions, we should
be able to live an active and enjoyable life until the age of about 120 years and then

quietly withdraw from the body. This is the presently unknown “natural death.” My
reason for taking this position is the fact that some individuals have managed to
reach an age of between 110 and 120 years without even trying, just due to their
genetics. I interpret this as meaning that we all can reach this age if our gene pool is
sufficiently improved. I believe that we will be able to surpass this limit if, in addition,
we also consciously adopt a healthy lifestyle. However, for me it is irrelevant how
long I “live,” because I know that I live equally well without a biological body. The
important part for me is how well I live and not how long.
In regard to the postulated natural death, I know personally of some individuals
who were active until a ripe old age and then just died in their sleep, sometimes even
saying goodbye to their relatives beforehand. For most of us who have serious
inherited weaknesses and have misused our body for many decades, this may not be
possible to achieve. Nevertheless, better health and an enjoyable life are possible for
almost everyone. The key to success is in your mind!
Table 1-1: Opposite Body Forces
If the body is out of balance, then a condition may be improved by using a remedy from
the same column.
Condition Condition
sympathetic nervous system parasympathetic nervous system

tension, contraction relaxation, expansion
aggression, extroversion placidity, introversion
anger, fear, activity resentment, rest
rapid pulse and breathing slow pulse and breathing
pupil dilated, mouth dry pupils narrow, mouth waters
good muscle tone, body rigid poor muscle tone, body soft
poor digestion good digestion
overexcited, hyperactive low energy, depression
high blood pressure low blood pressure
farsighted nearsighted
overactive thyroid/adrenals under active thyroid/adrenals
inflammation, pain debility, weakness
diabetes, schizophrenia hypoglycaemia, allergies, arthritis
Remedy Remedy
blue, indigo, purple red, orange, yellow

vegetarian diet animal protein
more potassium, magnesium calcium (sodium), iodine
lecithin, choline, insulin adrenaline, cholesterol
sedation, releasing energy stimulation, giving energy
magnetic south-pointing pole magnetic north-pointing pole
deep, slow acupressure rapid, light acupressure

Basic Rules for Healthy Living
Avoid or minimize your contact with:
• Microwave cooking, frying; use of aluminium, non-stick and stainless steel cookware
• Wheat, gluten, cow’s milk, sweetened foods
• Meat from feedlots, or processed and seasoned meats such as sausages
• Acid foods in contact with metal
• Soy protein except if sprouted or traditionally fermented such as miso
• Genetically modified foods
• Margarine, cooking oils, trans-fatty acids
• Chemical additives; artificial sweeteners such as aspartame (Nutra-sweet)
• Soft drinks and processed fruit juices
• Foods listed as inappropriate for your metabolic type or blood type (see part 5)
• Starches mixed with food high in protein or acids
• Smoking; overuse of coffee, tea, alcohol, drugs
• Precooked or reheated meals
• Chlorinated and fluoridated water
• Metal beds; innerspring mattresses; sleeping near live electric wiring or appliances
• Fluorescent lighting
• Synthetic clothing, especially worn close to the skin (such as underwear)
• Mercury amalgam tooth fillings; root-canalled or otherwise dead teeth; dental metals inside
the mouth
• Mobile/ cell phones, microwave stations for telephone and computers.
• Vaccinations
Maximize your contact with:
• Fresh, raw, and organic food; purple foods (e.g., black grapes or red beets)
• Sprouted seeds; fermented foods with acidophilus and bifidobacteria; sourdough baked goods
• Seeds and nuts sprouted or soaked before eating or cooking
• Cooking in glass or enamel utensils; eating food soon after it is cooked
• Freshly ground linseed (flaxseed); extra virgin olive oil; coconut oil
• Fresh vegetable and grass juice and blended green leaves.
• Barley or wheat grass juice powder, spirulina, chlorella, pollen, lecithin, kelp
• Neutralize fruit acids or vinegar with dolomite; have a high intake of magnesium and trace
minerals
• Bitter herb teas to improve digestion; hydrochloric acid as supplement if fingernails are soft
• Energy devices: crystals, magnets, pyramids
• Energized food and water
• Sleep with the head towards north, northeast, or east; pull out electric plugs close to bed
before sleeping
• Sleep on latex, natural fibre, or air mattress; energize water in water beds
• Increase outdoor activity and exposure to mild sunlight without sunglasses or sunscreen
• Press tender points on feet and body; squat for bowel movements; exercise; meditate
A fundamental aim of all healing is to provide the body with more vitality or a A

The Health Improvement Program: The basic requirements for real healing
involve the reversal of the factors previously listed (Step 1) as the cause of health
degeneration. Then add natural living, good nutrition, proper breathing, sufficient
physical activity, improved emotional and mental attitudes, as well as specific
procedures, uppermost of which is cleansing - the purification of body and mind.
A fundamental aim of all healing is to provide the body with more vitality or a
higher charge of freely circulating bioenergy. True healing is always a holistic
process, involving all levels of the personality - physical, bio-energetic, emotional,
mental, and spiritual.
Using the types of self-testing described in this book and possibly with the help
of a suitable health professional, you can work out an individualized health
improvement program for yourself as well as for interested members of your family.
This program may have to be changed and modified as you progress and gain
experience. Preferably, it should include the following steps:
1. Improve your nutrition: discover and break addictions and allergies; avoid
problem foods, chemicalised, and refined food; pay attention to food
combinations; select foods suitable for your body type and condition; use suitable
supplements.
2. Remove metabolic wastes and toxins: drink plenty of unpolluted water and use
colonics and laxative foods; stimulate the skin; have repeated cleansing periods.
3. Eliminate harmful microbes and parasites from your body and repopulate your
intestines with healthy lactobacteria.
4. Strengthen the body: use regular exercises such as yoga, tensing and stretching,
or suitable outdoor activity.
5. Improve energy flows: work out specific problems with reflexology, acupressure,
ear acupuncture, magnet and meridian therapy, massage, and homeopathy.
6. Create natural living conditions: minimize the use of synthetics and plastics;
reduce your exposure to pollution and harmful radiation in your home; frequently
be in fresh air with mild sun exposure; bathe in the sea or unpolluted streams;
walk barefoot on the grass.
7. Learn meditation and mind control: learn to express your negative emotions
appropriately; practice generating positive feelings and emotions; love yourself as
well as your neighbour; adopt a positive or spiritual philosophy of life; find a
worthy goal or ideal and strive to manifest it.
8. Form or join a health or healing group: support yourself, heal yourself, and
support others in their healing.
In addition to these self-help measures, it is advisable to seek expert
professional help for specific problems. It is self-defeating, however, to view your
health improvement efforts as a deadly serious matter, a “life-or-death” struggle. Like
everything else in life, they are best conducted in a light and playful way, by exploring
and enjoying yourself, even if it sometimes hurts. Remember: True healing means
growing - learning and applying the laws of nature.

Balancing: An important general principle in healing is to aim for an overall
balanced condition. Generally, every condition in our body is the result of the
interaction of two opposing forces; in Chinese medical philosophy these are called
yin and yang. Yin is cool and receptive; yang is hot and active. In our Western
thinking, we see body processes as an interplay between overactive (yang) and
underactive (yin) conditions, between tension and relaxation, and the sympathetic
and parasympathetic nervous systems. However, yin can be overactive and yang
underactive, depending on the individual.
As part of our healing, we aim for balance not only on the biochemical level, but
also in our emotions and thinking. If you are an extrovert, for instance, aim to go into
yourself by meditating, learning to listen, feel, and understand. If you are an introvert,
then try to become more outgoing and open in your relationships and social
interactions. Table 1-1 shows some of the opposing forces that rule our body.
Many natural therapists believe that most disease starts in the bowels or, more
generally, in the gastrointestinal tract. This certainly is a common factor in many
diseases and requires our initial attention. Allergy (food and substances) testing is
most important for sensitive individuals and children with health problems. Fasting
and cleansing are required to remove the heavy load of metabolic wastes and toxins
that most of us have stored in the body. This cleansing process often leads to
unpleasant symptoms - healing reactions, also called the healing crisis - which we
frequently must endure before we can advance to a higher level of health. This is
especially the case for those with a chronic degenerative disease.
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Step 3
INTESTINAL SANITATION AND ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY
Sanitize your intestines and rid your body of harmful microbes.
Most diseases are caused or aided by microbes and parasites. Due to

antibiotics, steroidal drugs and chemotherapy our natural intestinal bacteria
commonly have been replaced with pathogenic microbes. Also microbes from
childhood vaccinations may still be present, and there tend to be infection foci in root-
canal treated teeth and possibly in scars due to surgery. All of these greatly weaken
our immune system and allow fungi, viruses, bacteria and parasites to invade the
blood and internal organs. Now we become susceptible to frequent acute infections,
or to chronic infections and immune disturbances such as autoimmune diseases,
allergies, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
This antimicrobial therapy is designed to rid our body of pathogenic microbes
and parasites, and at the same time regenerate our immune system. The necessary
steps are intestinal sanitation or re-establishing a healthy intestinal flora, followed by
a longer period of systemic antimicrobial therapy. For long-term healing also root-
canal filled teeth may need to be removed.
INTESTINAL SANITATION
One of the first and most important causes of our health deterioration at the
biological level is an inability to digest all the food we eat. This may be because of
habitual overeating; insufficient chewing; consumption of too much milk, bread, meat,
and other problem foods; wrong food combinations; emotional problems; vitamin and
mineral deficiencies; or inherited weakness of our digestive organs. However,
presently the main cause of intestinal distress is the use of antibiotics and other
drugs that damage our protective intestinal flora.
This has two immediate effects: a proliferation of undesirable bacteria, fungi
and other parasites as well as putrefaction in the large intestine. A major part of our
immune system is located in the small intestine with an important centre in the
appendix. For years before the onset of illness, there will be fierce fighting between
our lymphatic cells and the proliferating intestinal microbes, resulting in chronic
inflammation of parts of the intestinal wall.
This may cause intestinal discomfort and various digestive disorders, and in
children it can often result in appendicitis. This chronic inflammation weakens the
intestinal wall and allows proteins that are only partly broken down, as well as
bacterial toxins, to be absorbed and cause allergies. Apart from many unpleasant
symptoms, this will greatly weaken the immune system and predispose us to
rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, and it makes us susceptible to
infections and cancer.
While the intestines are often overactive during childhood due to high bacterial
activity, with increasing age we tend to become more and more constipated. This is
largely due to a lack of dietary fibre and a decrease in the bile flow, indicating a
deficiency of lecithin and choline. The walls of the intestines become weak and

deformed as with diverticulitis; hard crusts begin to cover the intestinal walls and
restrict their flexibility.
Eventually, putrefaction products may cross the weakened walls of the large
intestine and enter the bloodstream. This can poison the whole body, though the
liver, heart, and brain usually bear the brunt of the attack. Irregular heartbeat,
headaches, and fuzzy thinking are frequent initial symptoms. Every part of the
nervous system may be affected. In addition, the valve between the large and small
intestines (called the ileocaecal valve) may become inefficient and allow bacteria
from the large intestine to invade the small intestines and the bloodstream.
When the sewerage in a city breaks down or is not working efficiently, refuse
accumulates in streets and on properties and greatly contributes to the spread of
diseases. It is similar in a body with inefficient intestinal elimination. Waste products
accumulate in the bloodstream and tissues and cause or contribute to the
development of most diseases as well as to the general deterioration of health. Colon
cancer is the most obvious and direct result.
A diet of predominantly raw foods will, in time, correct these intestinal problems
by supplying plenty of high-quality fibre and strengthening the intestinal walls. I do
not recommend the habitual addition of bran to meals, as this makes minerals
unavailable; instead, I recommend freshly ground raw linseed (flaxseed). Add one
tablespoon or more to meals to ensure at least one and preferably two or three bowel
movements daily.
Another consequence of microbial overgrowth, often in combination with food
allergies, is inflammation of the pancreas. This leads not only to a deficiency of
digestive enzymes and problems of malabsorption, but it is also a main cause of
insulin-dependent diabetes. A first step in this process is the bottle-feeding of infants
from birth. This deprives them of important protective factors that are normally
transmitted in breast milk.
To overcome these problems we must improve our eating habits, learn to chew
well, eat less, combine foods correctly, eat more raw foods, especially vegetables,
eliminate harmful microbes, and reintroduce beneficial bacteria.
Garlic Flush: A key step in improving digestive function, the immune system,
and overall health is the restoration of healthy intestinal flora. This is important for all
health improvement but especially if chronic diseases are present, and in particular
AIDS, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
For this we reduce the pathogenic microbes in the intestines with a suitable
microbicide followed by probiotics or healthy lactobacteria. I prefer fresh, raw garlic
which has powerful antimicrobial and especially fungicidal properties. To carry the
garlic through the length of the intestinal tract and also to minimize unpleasant
reactions, such as headaches, nausea and other discomfort due to microbial die-off,
it is preferable (but not essential) initially to take the garlic together with a strong
laxative. This is called a flush. An effective flush is with a tablespoon of Epsom salts
(magnesium sulphate) in a large glass of water. Drink some more water afterwards.
If you are constipated or overweight you may take 2 tablespoons when using it
for the first time to make sure that it quickly comes out at the other end. It tastes less
bitter if you refrigerate the dissolved Epsom salts overnight. In the morning you crush
a large clove of garlic, mix and drink it with a small amount of water, and follow this

with the refrigerated drink and some more water. You may minimize the garlic odour
by crushing cloves while they are submerged in lemon juice.
During the following mornings you may use less Epsom salts or take a milder
laxative instead, such as psyllium. If you dislike garlic you may put the crushed or
chopped garlic into gelatine capsules. If you seem to be allergic to garlic, then use
another antimicrobial, such as Lugol’s iodine solution, a teaspoon of sodium
bicarbonate, 1 or 2 teaspoons of 3% hydrogen peroxide, olive leaf extract, pau d’arco
extract, or wormwood. Similar if you cannot use garlic because of social restraints.
Nevertheless, I believe that initially garlic is best suited to disinfect the
gastrointestinal tract.
Other laxatives that may be used for a flush are Glauber Salz or sodium
sulphate, castor oil, aloe vera, senna, or an isotonic flush: within about 5 minutes
drink a litre of water in which is dissolved a heaped teaspoon of salt. You may need
to experiment with your chosen laxative to find the right amount to take with the garlic
so that it is effective within a few hours.
Psyllium is excellent and strongly recommended for long-term use. It is
especially effective for removing endotoxins from the intestines and reducing allergic
and autoimmune reactions. It also helps to carry any added microbicide through the
whole intestinal tract. To a large glass of water add a teaspoon of sodium
bicarbonate and a heaped teaspoon of psyllium hulls, stir and drink immediately
followed by another glass of water. Until you start with the systemic antimicrobial
therapy in the next step add chopped garlic or another antimicrobial to the psyllium
drink but continue adding a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate as long as there are
signs of pain, inflammation, Candida or overacidity.
Probiotics and Ferments: This leads us to the next step: replacing the
decimated pathogenic microbes with desirable or "friendly" lactobacilli. This must be
done in a massive dose 30-60 minutes after each flush; otherwise the unwanted
microbes may grow back to full strength after the next meal. Commonly probiotics
contain acidophilus and bifido bacteria in addition to other lactobacteria.
These bacterial cultures are available from health food shops as powders or
capsules that should be refrigerated. Preferably buy milk-free cultures, especially
with Type 1 diabetes and allergies. High-potency cultures should contain 10 Billion or
preferably 25 Billion live bacteria per gram or per capsule (keep refrigerated).
However, these dried cultures are dormant and relatively inactive as compared
to bacteria in fresh or live ferments, and often have only a limited number of strains.
Therefore experiment with making your own ferment as explained in Part 4.
Alternatively obtain genuinely fermented sauerkraut or lactic acid fermented foods
from health shops or the Internet. If you do not regularly use lactose-containing
products then it is better to repopulate your intestines with bacteria grown on grains
or vegetables.
Kefir grains can be used to ferment not only milk but also vegetables. For an
excellent information site see users.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html. It has the
advantage of containing a wide range of protective microbes and also to work at
room temperature. I do not recommend using commercial yogurt to sanitise the
intestinal tract because of the high content of mucus-forming lactose and limited
strains of lactobacteria.

Commonly these ferments are rather acidic and may cause digestive problems
in sensitive individuals. Therefore it is preferable for sensitive individuals to partly
neutralise this acidity by adding some alkalizer before ingestion, such as bicarbonate
until it is only slightly sour, or you may let the ferment stand for a few hours with the
addition of some dolomite powder and decant it shortly before use.
Take a cupful of ferment about 30 to 60 minutes after each flush, and possibly
use more before other meals. Continue taking either probiotic cultures or ferment
several times daily during the intestinal cleanse and the following systemic
antimicrobial therapy. Continue this Intestinal Sanitation for a minimum of two weeks
but preferably use ferments on and off for the rest of your life.
Raw Food; The type of microbes that will readily grow and possibly dominate
in our intestines depends very much on the nutrients that they get, meaning it
depends on the food that we eat. A negative example is the strong influence that
sugar and grain products have on the growth of yeasts, and especially Candida
albicans.
The opposite effect can be found in fresh raw foods, they tend to suppress
harmful microbes and encourage beneficial ones. Besides raw lactic acid fermented
foods, the strongest beneficial effect have green leaves and sprouted seeds. In
addition to their own range of good bacteria they also provide the fiber and other
nutrients for them to thrive in our intestines.
As an added bonus fresh raw foods and in particular green leaves are strongly
anti-inflammatory. Therefore they are the best healing agent for inflammatory
intestinal conditions and (I believe) in sufficient amounts will prevent and probably
cure bowel cancer.
In addition to raw vegetable salads, a relatively easy way to ingest more fresh
green leaves is as a blended pulp: blend a handful of leaves at high speed with
sufficient water or juice and drink without straining. For best results the leaves should
be organically grown and used as fresh as possible. Even a handful of fresh grass
(cut in short length) or garden weeds may be used.
You may also add sprouted seeds to the blend but not much fruit or other
sweet foods as the combination of raw vegetable fibre and sugar can produce strong
bowel fermentation. To a degree that can be good for those who have problems with
constipation but it needs to be properly regulated. Also fibrous fresh fruits on their
own tend to stimulate bowel activity by providing food for bowel bacteria.
Hydrochloric Acid: In the elderly and especially those with chronic
degenerative diseases, or often even young asthmatics, the body frequently loses its
ability to produce an adequate amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. This
leads to incomplete digestion of proteins and poor absorption of vitamins B1 and B12
as well as minerals. The resulting mineral deficiency usually causes fingernails to be
soft; also the hair may be unhealthy.
Hydrochloric acid is also needed to activate pepsin (a protein-digesting enzyme
in the stomach) and kill microbes in food. An inadequate amount of hydrochloric acid
(HCl) in the stomach often results in overgrowth of the digestive tract with
undesirable and pathogenic bacteria and fungi. This can cause or contribute to
malabsorption, intestinal distress, and allergies to products resulting from bacterial
and fungal breakdown, and in turn it will weaken the immune system.

Symptoms associated with insufficient gastric acid are belching, discomfort
after eating or food lying heavily in the stomach, and anaemia. Often the lymphatic
fluid is either over-alkaline or overacid (too far above or below neutral) and the
energy level is low. In mild cases it may be helpful to add some lemon juice or cider
vinegar as well as a small amount of magnesium chloride to a protein meal or drink
half a cup of a bitter herb tea before meals. However, with obvious mineral
deficiencies and lack of hydrochloric acid, typical of most cases of chronic
degenerative disease, it is beneficial to use hydrochloric acid supplements with
cooked meals that include meat, fish, eggs, cheese, legumes, or nuts.
You can easily buy hydrochloric acid tablets, commonly with added pepsin. Use
one or two tablets depending on the amount of cooked protein. Alternatively you may
also buy and dilute hydrochloric acid yourself. Commercial diluted hydrochloric acid
is usually 20 percent HCl, while the concentrated acid (from a hardware store) is 35
percent. To make a two percent solution that is safe to use, mix one part of the 20
percent acid with nine parts of water, or one part of the 35 percent acid with 16 parts
of water. You may then mix one to two teaspoons (use plastic) of two percent HCl
with your meal. It may be mixed with the protein portion or used as part of the salad
dressing. Alternatively, you may dilute the acid with half a cup of water or herb tea
and drink it after the meal. You may protect your teeth by drinking this through a
straw.
However, habitually taking acids will soon make the body overacid. Further,
those who do not produce enough stomach acid also do not make enough sodium
bicarbonate to neutralize an increased amount of acid in the duodenum. While the
stomach content needs to be acidic, the contents of the small intestines need to be
alkaline, otherwise nutrients are not properly absorbed. Therefore, it is advisable to
take half a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in some water about two hours after a
small meal and three to four hours after a large meal (with flesh food or other
proteins).
SYSTEMIC ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY
Systemic antimicrobial therapy involves cleaning the bloodstream, lymph fluid,
and internal organs of pathogenic microbes. I believe the best and most powerful
combination is a 3-week course of Lugol’s iodine solution followed by a gradually
increasing dose of MMS. This may be followed by a longer period on
Frequently, especially with Candidiasis, there is a die-off or Herxheimer
reaction during intestinal sanitation or systemic therapy. You may feel weak and
nauseous. In this case temporarily interrupt or reduce the intake of antimicrobials, but
make special efforts to clean out your bowels. There is some anecdotal evidence that
sipping a litre of water with the addition of half a teaspoon of salt may help
eliminating headaches associated with a reaction.
Lugol's Solution
Compared to MMS, iodine is much better tolerated. Therefore you can use
iodine to remove much of your microbial load in a relatively easy way, and with fewer
side effects than with MMS. Furthermore, iodine has a special affinity for mucous
membranes which are also an attractive hiding place for fungi. Iodine is an all-round
antimicrobial and an excellent fungicide.

It is commonly used as Lugol's solution with 10% of potassium iodide and 5%
iodine, and may be called 5% iodine solution. Each drop contains about 6.5 mg of
iodine/iodide. Other names for Lugol’s solution are Aqueous Iodine Oral Solution BP
or Strong Iodine Solution USP (both of which contain 130 mg iodine/iodide per ml).
Iodine. Topical Solution (USP) contains 2% iodine and 2.4% potassium iodide.
Therefore if you use this 2% iodine solution take 2.5 times more than the amount
recommended for Lugol’s solution. In the US you may also buy Iodoral tablets, each
with the equivalent of 2 drops of Lugo’s solution. I do not recommend pharmaceutical
types of iodine dissolved in alcohol or other solvents as they often cause side-effects.
To test for allergy (which is very rare) take a drop of iodine in liquid other than
just water. If there is no reaction, gradually increase to 6 to 8 drops 4 times daily or
10 drops 3 times daily in liquid or mixed with food. Do not take the iodine directly with
antioxidants but it is fine to have antioxidants five or more minutes later during a
meal. You may use more or less iodine according to body weight. I believe that a 3-
week course adjusted for body weight is generally safe for children. However, it may
not be suitable if the thyroid is overactive or with goitre; with these conditions the
amount of iodine may need to be increased much more gradually and adjusted
according to symptoms.
Continue for 3 weeks with the full dose, but interrupt or temporarily reduce the
dose if you develop a serious reaction; if necessary repeat the course after several
months. In the meantime continue with several drops daily for a much longer time.
For more information on iodine see www.health-science-spirit.com/iodine.html.
MMS – Sodium Chlorite
Sodium chlorite is being used in many countries as an antimicrobial treatment
in the food industry, as disinfectant, mouthwash, in toothpastes, and for water
purification. As a 3.5% solution it was called ‘Stabilized Electrolytes of Oxygen’, and
as a nominally 28% solution it is known as Miracle Mineral Supplement or MMS, or
as water purification drops.
In solution sodium chlorite (NaClO2) is very alkaline and stable but when
acidified it forms the gas chlorine dioxide (ClO2) which is one of the strongest all-
round antimicrobial and parasite remedies. The only residue left in the body after
treatment with MMS is a small amount of table salt or sodium chloride.
After intestinal sanitation and a course of iodine you may start with MMS
therapy. The original procedure involves starting with 1 or 2 drops of MMS and
gradually increasing this up to 15 drops once or twice daily. However, this often
causes nausea to develop at higher doses. In this case you may absorb the gas from
the mouth or the rectum as this usually does not cause nausea.
An alternative method for intensifying the antimicrobial program or for
overcoming an acute or persistent infection is by taking 3 to 4 drops of acidified and
diluted MMS every two waking hour for several days. Temporarily reduce the dose if
any nausea should occur.
In all cases mix the MMS with five times the number of drops of lemon or lime
juice but preferably with a more effective 10% solution of citric acid in water. You can
make this yourself by dissolving 1 part of citric acid crystals in 9 parts of water. Less
recommended is white vinegar (but not cider vinegar which can sometimes
aggravate fungal problems).

Three to four minutes after adding the acids add half a glass of water or herb
tea, or juice without added vitamin C, e.g. apple or grape juice but not orange juice.
Do not take any antioxidant supplements close to MMS; generally keep them 3 or
more hours apart. If it tastes too acid then you may wait 5 minutes longer and add
some sodium bicarbonate shortly before drinking. Watch that it remains slightly acid
because when the solution becomes alkaline chlorine dioxide converts back into
sodium chlorite.
Acidified MMS acts strongest on an empty stomach but that also easily causes
nausea. Generally it is better to have some food in the stomach and be able to take a
higher dose. If nausea occurs temporarily reduce the dose. Commonly nausea,
vomiting and diarrhea may occur sooner or later and are beneficial for cleaning out
but may be avoided or minimized with the preceding intestinal sanitation and iodine
therapy.
With an acute and serious infection, including malaria, influenza and urinary
tract infection, you may immediately use a high dose, such as 10 or 15 drops,
possibly followed an hour later by the same amount. You will vomit and be very
uncomfortable for about a day but it may immediately overcome the infection.
However, for chronic conditions and general health improvement it is best to increase
by 1 drop each day until you feel some nausea.
Then cut back by 2 drops and stay at this level for several days until increasing
again by 1 drop a day. In this way you gradually work your way higher, reducing and
then increasing again to keep nausea under control. You may reduce problems by
dividing the daily dose into a morning and a bedtime portion, but after some time
always try to edge higher until you start feeling the nausea.
To quickly stop nausea you may take 1000 mg or more of vitamin C, but this
also stops the antimicrobial activity. To avoid or minimize oxidative damage I
recommend taking MMS only in the morning and evening or only once a day and use
a combination of antioxidants, including vitamin C, at lunchtime or several hours
away from the MMS.
The oral absorption method is designed to avoid nausea and seems also
effective with smaller doses then swallowing it. To 1 part of MMS add 5 parts of 10%
citric acid and after 3 or 4 minutes dilute with about 30 ml or a big mouthful of water.
Wait another 5 minutes and then add up to 8 parts of a 10% sodium bicarbonate
solution to protect the teeth from acid attack. This will give a pH of about 5 to 6, and
one can keep it in the mouth for 5 to 20 minutes before swallowing or spitting it out. It
should not become neutral or alkaline or it will become much less effective. You
make the 10% bicarb solution by dissolving one level spoonful of bicarb in 9
spoonfuls of water. Instead of water you may also use fruit juice as mentioned
before, or herb tea, or sweeten with Xylitol or Stevia.
I regard 6 drops of MMS as a good strong dose for oral absorption. For an
acute infection you may follow up with a second dose As a general cleanse you may
use this or a lower or higher dose for 2 to 3 weeks, best at bedtime. With a persistent
infection continue on and off for a longer time, you may experiment with one week on
a high dose of MMS alternated with several weeks on a high antioxidant intake.

The rectal absorption method is good with problems in this area, such as
rectal or prostate cancer, irritable bowel, and infections, cysts and cancers of the
female organs. This is similar to using coffee enemas for cancer patients.
Preferably have a bowel movement and a cleansing enema, and then try 2
acidified drops in 250 ml of water. Hold for several minutes, then expel, clean again
with an enema and finally insert a larger number of drops, perhaps 4 to 8 activated
drops in 250 ml water and hold for a longer time, up to 30 minutes. As with oral
absorption you may also add some bicarbonate to make it less acid. Protect the anus
with some fat or Vaseline. There tends to be no direct discomfort, but for several
hours afterwards energy may be low, and several cleanout bowel movements may
follow. You may try this once a week with gradually increasing doses.
In case of vaginal thrush you may also try one activated drop suitably diluted
and later followed by some probiotics. Also try the mouthwash solution.
Mouthwash: You may make a mouthwash by diluting a teaspoon of MMS in
500 ml of water. This is only slightly alkaline and tends to release small amounts of
chlorine dioxide in contact with acid-forming bacteria. It is also commercially
promoted as the most effective method for removing bad breath or halitosis. It does
this by oxidising smelly sulphur compounds in the mouth to non-odorous sulphates.
Swish a mouthful around for a short time, gargle, and spit it out. You may also flavour
the solution or make it weaker. Some people claim that regular use has protected
them from ‘catching’ infections.
Furthermore, occasional oral absorption of chlorine dioxide and regular use of
MMS mouthwash tend to eliminate pathogenic microbes and inflammation in the
mouth. These may originate from root canals, deep tooth pockets or gum
inflammations and are strongly implicated in the causation of arteriosclerosis, heart
attacks and other heart diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, prostate cancer and
other cancers.
To combine the stronger antimicrobial effect of oral absorption with the
convenience of a mouthwash add a drop or two of lemon juice or citric acid to a
teaspoonful of mouthwash solution and immediately start swishing this in the mouth
for a minute or two before spitting it out. This has a relatively mild effect on the taste
buds. One teaspoonful of mouthwash contains about one drop of MMS.
A recent addition to the MMS arsenal is MMS2 or calcium hypochlorite. It is
especially good for killing microbes and parasites in the intestinal tract. This is
beneficial with Crohn’s disease and other inflammatory bowel conditions as well as
cancer of the colon and prostate, and possibly of the pancreas and liver. For details
see http://www.health-science-spirit.com/MMS2.htm.
Preferably inform yourself further by reading my MMS Internet articles at
www.health-science-spirit.com, and visit http://www.jimhumble.com and
http://jimhumble.biz/; Jim Humble discovered and developed the MMS treatment.
Other Antimicrobials
Fungi can be controlled with alkalizers. Due to its alkalinity sodium bicarbonate
is a strong fungicide, and potassium bicarbonate is even stronger. Half to one
teaspoon of bicarbonate in a glass of water taken on an empty stomach or 2-3 hours
after meals can be used several times daily to sanitize the intestinal tract and alkalize

the lymphatic system. Bicarbonate solution is very effective in direct contact such as
for rinsing out the mouth, sinuses or vagina or as packs over sites of fungal infection
and tumours.
Some additional remedies for systemic antimicrobial treatment are
concentrated olive leaf extract, concentrated Pau d’arco extract, and wormwood.
These may not be as strong as the combination of Lugo’s solution and MMS but are
milder acting and easier to use for a longer period.
The following herbal dosages are for average body weight, overweight
individuals may take more and underweight individuals or children less. These
remedies may not be suitable in high doses during pregnancy, in this case consult a
health professional.
Further supportive methods are oxygen therapy, coconut oil or caprylic acid
(Capricin), an electronic blood purifier and magnetic pulser. Some other good anti-
microbial remedies are propolis, extract of Neem leaves, and the oils of tea tree,
Neem tree, cinnamon, eucalyptus, mustard, oregano, shark liver, and thyme. You
may try using 1 to 2 drops of essential oil four times daily diluted and ingested or
kept in the mouth.
Colloidal silver is best for direct treatment of affected areas, such as douching
or gargling, as after ingestion it may not be effective past the stomach. For asthma,
lung infections and lung cancer I would also consider spraying colloidal silver into the
mouth during deep inhalations.
Even if systemic infestations with Candida and other microbes are successfully
eliminated there may still remain problems in isolated areas, such as fungi or
parasites in skin patches, vagina or under toenails. These should be intensively
treated with local application using a wide range of the mentioned remedies.
If you continue to have persistent long-term microbial or parasite problems use
a combination of different antimicrobials and frequently vary the composition of the
treatment as well as the dosage, also add alkalizing and possibly electronic zapper
and pulser. Also read about the importance of the Basic Cleanse in Step 4.
Olive leaf: Olive leaf is an effective anti-microbial. It can be used as tea or
powder but commonly it is now used as an extract. The active ingredient is
oleuropein. Preferably use up to 1000 mg of oleuropein daily as part of the anti-
microbial rotation program. Dried olive leaf has about 30 mg of oleuropein/gram.
As the tea is rather bitter it is now rarely used: simmer 30g of dried leaves in 1
litre of water for 1-2 hours, top up, strain and refrigerate, and drink 3-5 cups daily.
In powder form olive leaf extract has 200mg to 220mg/g. Use up to 5 g of
powdered extract daily. You may stir half a teaspoon in water or other non-protein
liquid two or three times daily and take before meals (oleuropein may be inactivated
by high amino acid levels). The normal retail form is as 500mg capsules of extract,
and you may use up to 10 capsules daily. Commercial liquids commonly contain only
4 mg of oleuropein per ml.
Pau d’arco; Pau d’arco (also called taheebo or lapacho) is a strong fungicide
from the inner bark of a South American tree. It has the advantage of tasting
reasonably pleasant. Either use extract or make tea: one tablespoon of bark or a
heaped teaspoon of powder in a large cup of water. Bring to boil and let simmer or

steep for 5 to 15 minutes; drink 3 cups a day. Powdered pau d’arco in capsules or
cold water does not work but you may use the extract in capsules. Use 3 capsules of
extract 3 times daily. For severe Candidiasis or other systemic fungus problems try to
obtain 1 kg of extract powder and take several teaspoons daily.
Wormwood: Wormwood is effective against most microbes and parasites.
Commonly used for Candida is Artemisia absinthium, but also Artemisia annua or
Sweet Annie can be used. Both herbs have different active ingredients, and it may
even be good to use a mixture of both. They should not be used during pregnancy.
To avoid the bitter taste of A. absinthium stir a rounded teaspoon of powder in
some cold water or juice and drink immediately. Use a teaspoonful three times daily.
However, the bitter qualities of wormwood tea stimulate the digestive system -
stomach, pancreas, liver and gall bladder. It has been used as a folk remedy to cure
jaundice.
Therefore, you may sometimes drink it as tea during or after a meal. Make the
tea by adding a teaspoon of wormwood to a cup of boiling water and steep for ten to
fifteen minutes. It is easiest to take by swallowing it quickly and, before breathing
again, drinking something pleasant afterwards. For children you may also use
wormwood powder in capsules (3 to 5 capsules 3 times daily), or use only Sweet
Annie.
Conclusion
While orthodox medicine uses specific drugs for specific microbes, in natural
medicine we use broad-based remedies that commonly cover viruses, bacteria, fungi
and parasites at the same time. Medical antibiotics tend to kill our friendly gut
bacteria, which then allow Candida and other fungi to invade the body and cause
numerous health problems. This can be easily prevented by also taking fungicides in
the form of natural remedies while using antibiotics, and adding probiotics soon
afterwards.
Broad-based remedies are cheap and effective and ideally suited for self-
healing. But this does not mean that they are harmless. While damaging side-effects
are much less common than with drug medicine, problems can occur, especially with
high doses of MMS, and for those with overactive thyroids also when using Lugol’s
solution. This means, you need to use common sense, observe how your body
reacts, and cut back or use another remedy if indicated. This is an experimental
approach in which you need to be flexible and take responsibility for your health and
your actions instead of just following the orders of a doctor.
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Step 4
FASTING & CLEANSING
Become clean on the inside by removing accumulated wastes and toxins.
Fasting is a period of restricted food intake and cleansing is the removal of

waste products from the body as a result of fasting. This combination of fasting and
cleansing is the most effective general healing method. It is essential for overcoming
chronic diseases and for rejuvenating an aging body. It is also excellent for ensuring
continued health and minimizes the risk of a disabling disease later in life.
In recent years a steady stream of research articles has pointed to the
accumulation of metabolic waste products inside of cells as a main factor in the
causation of practically all chronic diseases. In addition to weakening the cell and its
energy metabolism, these waste products are also the breeding ground for internally
evolving or endogenous microbes that are a basic cause of cancer and autoimmune
diseases.
Cellular Waste Products
The body recycles millions of cells and their components every second, usually
without a problem. However, if cells are unhealthy, then some of their proteins,
especially nucleic acids from DNA and RNA, are abnormal and cannot be properly
broken down and recycled. Instead they accumulate as cellular sludge. Various
researchers have shown that out of this sludge can now arise primitive microbes.
It appears that new viruses arise from RNA fragments surrounded by a cell-
wall, while mycoplasma are from DNA fragments without a proper cell-wall, and
nanobacteria develop from damaged mitochondria, the cellular energy factories.
These primitive life forms are pleomorphic which means that they can change into
higher forms of bacteria and fungi which then are at the basis of cancer and
autoimmune diseases.
A large part of these cellular waste products are composed of oxidized and
peroxidized or polymerized polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially trans-fatty acids,
and combinations with degraded or wrongly folded proteins. Included are also
metals, such as mercury, aluminium and iron. Residues with oxidized fats are
commonly called age pigments, and more scientifically ‘lipofuscin’. In the aging skin it
can be seen as yellow-brown or brown ‘age spots’ or ‘liver spots’.
Another waste product associated with vitamin E deficiency is called ‘ceroid’,
while ‘amyloids’ are protein residues that accumulate mainly in the brain and in nerve
cells, causing. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS). Up to 70% of the volume of nerve cells may consist of such waste
until cells are finally killed, although they would have lost most of their normal
functions much sooner.
These waste products impair cellular functions and our overall health in many
ways: they interfere with the movement of nutrients into the cell and metabolic
wastes out of the cell, they poison the oxidative energy production or respiratory

chain of the mitochondria and cause us to be low in energy, they interfere with the
signalling capacity of nerve cells and the normal function of muscle cells, and they
provide the raw material out of which the pleomorphic microbes arise that weaken
our immune system and cause autoimmune attacks and cancer.
If you now understand the devastating impact of cellular wastes on your long-
term health you will also realize the importance of repeated fasting and cleansing
periods in your health program. Even medical research can now show that removing
protein debris from cells keeps aging organs young and healthy.
The main causes leading to the accumulation of these wastes are:
1. devitalized food due to processing, cooking, and long-term storage

2. lack of enzymes due to cooking. processing and overeating
3. eating highly heated proteins and oils
4. antioxidant deficiencies
5. exposure to unbiological chemicals in food, water, air and drugs.
What to do
Just by fasting alone many chronic diseases can be healed. The only
disadvantage is that it can be unpleasant, especially for beginners. Fasting is not
indicated for anyone who is weak, fatigued, or underweight with difficulty gaining
weight. We need a reasonably good energy level to fast and cleanse successfully.
When we stop having normal meals our digestive enzymes become available
to digest and remove the sludge in our cells. While it is essential to minimize the
intake of food, it should be as high as possible in vitality and enzymes, meaning that
it should be fresh and raw. Ideal would be freshly cut wheat or barley grass, or leaves
freshly picked in a garden. Eat any food in small amounts or drink any juices in small
sips spaced out over a longer period. This is especially important for fruits or any
sweet juices as from carrots etc. Keep each bite or sip in the mouth for several
minutes.
Start with several one-day fasts, possibly once a week, before trying a three-
day fast. Then have a three-day fast once a month; if you live according to normal
working hours, have your first fast day on a Friday, as the second day often feels the
worst, and this way you’ll be at home.
Once or twice a year you may fast for seven days or longer. Instead of a series
of strict fasts you may have longer periods on a raw food diet and use a strict fast
only occasionally. With chronic diseases the need for cleansing is much greater than
for general health improvement. After a year or two of good health, the number of
cleansing periods may safely be reduced to twice a year, unless you use much
processed food. With the onset of a cold, flu, or other infectious disease, start a fast
immediately.
The more often you have a fast, the less you normally are affected by it in a
negative way; a sense of peace and well-being may develop instead. As long as you
are still congested during a fast, your tongue will be strongly coated and your breath
may have a strong odour when you get up in the morning. Conversely, if your breath
and tongue are clear in the morning, your body is reasonably clean and no more

fasting is needed. To freshen your breath, you can scrape or brush your tongue clean
whenever it is heavily coated; use a sharp-edged spoon for scraping.
For several days before a longer fast, start reducing your amount of food and
preferably do not eat flesh or processed foods on the last day before a fast. Best
have only raw fruit and vegetables on that last day. In the same way, increase the
amount of food only gradually after a fast and have only raw food on the first day
after a fast. The longer the fast, the less you should eat at the first meal and the
longer it should take to return to the usual diet; an apple is a good food for breaking a
juice or water fast. Drink plenty of fluids during the fast.
It is important to keep the bowels moving during a fast, and you may use
laxatives, enemas or colonics as required. With a juice fast it is advisable to use
several glasses of psyllium in water. Keeping the bowels clean is not a problem if
fasting on fresh raw salads, fruits, and blended green leaves.
The effectiveness of the fast can be further increased by using a hot castor-oil
pack for 3 or more days during the fast. Coat the liver area (the bottom of your right
rib cage) and upper abdomen with castor oil, cover with a woollen cloth folded in four
layers, and keep the area warm for an hour or two with a hot-water bottle. At bedtime
drink two tablespoons of olive oil, possibly shaken in a jar with lecithin and fresh
orange or lemon juice. The next morning take sufficient laxative to produce a good
clean-out within a few hours.
The topical castor oil stimulates the liver’s capacity to detoxify, while the olive
oil induces the gallbladder to empty and expel fat-soluble toxins from the liver, and
the laxative removes the poisons quickly from the bowels. This method of cleansing
causes a minimum of discomfort as the fast might otherwise result in headaches,
nausea, and weakness.
Take it easy during fasts; rest whenever you feel weak, or just stay in bed if
necessary. Skin brushing, deep-breathing exercises, mild sun exposure, and
frequent showers are helpful.
Learn to listen to your intuition and the language of your body, rather than just
following expert advice or sticking to a pre-determined program. Sometimes it may
be better to ease the program and have some cooked food, You also need to keep
your 'inner child' reasonably happy. Ask it for cooperation, and in return promise and
deliver some treats for any hardships that have to be endured.
With chronic diseases cleansing may trigger healing reactions, lasting for days
and sometimes weeks. During a reaction, pain or areas of discomfort may shift
around to different body locations. During this time you may ease any strict program
and do whatever is necessary to make yourself more comfortable. For a better
understanding of this important subject see Step 10.
The Basic Cleanse
I recommend that you use this most effective cleanse from time to time,
perhaps once or twice a year. It is designed to clean out and sanitize your
gastrointestinal tract, liver, and gallbladder. Eat organic apples only for the first three
days, as many as you like. Granny Smith or other tart apples are preferable, but if

you feel that they are too acidic for you, then use a sweeter variety. If organic apples
are not available, then remove the skin and core of conventionally grown apples.
In the evening place a hot castor-oil pack on your liver and upper abdomen and
take a tablespoon of olive oil orally at bedtime. However, on the evening of the third
day, drink half a cup of olive oil in this way. Then lie down immediately on your back
or right side. After the first bowel movement the next morning, look in the toilet bowl
for gallstones. There may be hundreds of little greenish wax balls of different sizes
floating on top of the water.
First thing in the morning on the second to fourth day, drink a glass of water
mixed with a crushed clove of garlic and one tablespoon of Epsom salt (to cause a
good bowel clean-out within a few hours). If you cannot take Epsom salt, then try
another strong herbal laxative (e.g., senna) or use the isotonic flush. If you have
trouble taking raw garlic, put it into empty gelatine capsules, or use hydrogen
peroxide instead. About one hour after consuming the Epsom salt and garlic, take a
large dose of acidophilus-bifido culture in the form of high-potency capsules, powder,
or homemade yogurt, or some self-made ferment.
If you do not have the time or energy for the full cleanse, then you can at this
point return to your normal diet and do the rest at another time. Otherwise, from the
fourth morning on stop using the apples, Epsom salt, and garlic, and for the next five
days drink only freshly pressed vegetable juices, although these may be flavoured
with apple or some other fruit. Every three hours (5 times daily) take a heaped
teaspoon of psyllium hulls together with two to three teaspoons of ground linseed
(flaxseed). Mix this in a glass of water and drink immediately, followed by more
water. The linseed should be freshly ground in a blender or coffee grinder and stored
frozen or refrigerated. The purpose is to fill the bowels, with a moist mass that will
soften and dislodge any hard crusts and putrefying matter. This is essential and very
effective with all inflammatory bowel conditions, diverticulitis, intestinal parasites, and
cancer.
Take a spoonful of lecithin granules and plenty of protein-digesting enzymes
together with the juices. With every glassful of juice, you can take two or three tablets
such as pancreatin, bromelain, or papain. Alternatively and even better, if available,
use mature green papaya, when it turns yellow inside and the seeds are already
black. You can make a Smoothie by blending it with some vegetable juice or yogurt;
use up to half a medium-size papaya a day. You could also use the juice of papaya
leaves or immature fruit, but this may need to be flavoured and well diluted, as it is
bitter.
On the morning after the last juice day (or possibly at bedtime the night before)
take a tablespoon of Epsom salt in water or generally enough laxative to produce a
strong bowel clean-out during the morning. Often long strings and parts of
compacted faecal matter, which look like sections of bowel, are eliminated. It is
advisable to increase the variety of food very gradually while doing allergy testing at
the same time (see Step 5).
There are many possible variations of this Basic Cleanse. For instance, if you
do not have a juice extractor, you can either continue longer with apples or have a
few small raw salads instead. If you cannot get organic apples but have plenty of
wheat or barley grass and vegetables for juicing, then you can extend the juice

schedule from five to eight days; have the castor-oil packs, olive oil, garlic, Epsom
salt, and acidophilus during the first three or four days. Also highly recommended are
fresh green leaves blended in water for part or all of the cleanse.
Another possibility, especially good for those with high blood pressure, is to use
freshly pressed lemon juice instead of the vegetable juice and possibly instead of the
apples as well. Use psyllium hulls and ground linseed as for the last five days of the
Basic Cleanse, but instead of vegetable juices drink the juice of five to eight lemons
diluted in three or four quarts of pure water. You may do this for the full eight days or
instead of the vegetable juice for the last five days. If doing this for the full eight days,
then use castor-oil packs, olive oil, Epsom salt, garlic, and acidophilus (as described
for the apple days).
Another often recommended additive is Bentonite, a form of powdered or liquid
absorbent clay. This helps to remove plaque or old coating from colon walls and also
absorbs toxins. Each time you use the ground linseed and psyllium, add either one
teaspoon of powdered or one tablespoon of liquid Bentonite, which you can consume
orally.
Lymphacising
A good way to greatly increase the cleansing action during a fast is
lymphacising - gently bouncing on a rebounder or mini-trampoline. This speeds up
the lymph flow to many times its normal rate. Lymph is the blood fluid that filters
through the walls of arteries and capillaries into the tissue, delivering oxygen and
nutrients to individual cells and carrying away carbon dioxide and other waste
products. However, if the cellular waste production is high and lymph flow is slow,
cells begin to clog up and become inefficient, preparing the ground for the
development of a disease. Increasing the lymph flow greatly helps to reduce this
danger; bouncing on a rebounder can do this.
Cleansing the body involves dislodging wastes and toxins from within and
between cells and transporting them with the lymph fluid to the large veins near the
neck; there they enter the bloodstream to be discharged through the liver and
kidneys.
A greatly reduced food intake is the main way to dislodge stored wastes and
toxins. Muscle activity propels the lymph flow; castor-oil packs, fruit acids, olive oil,
bitter herbs, and sulphur compounds stimulate liver detoxification of fat-soluble waste
while a high fluid intake and herbs for the kidneys, such as dandelion, help remove
water-soluble wastes.
During fasting we usually do not have much energy for muscle activity, but
lymphacising can come to the rescue as it does not consume much energy and one
feels energized afterwards. With each bounce on the mini-trampoline the lymph is
pushed towards the neck and prevented from falling back again because the valves
through which it pushes are one-way (also see Step 9).
Another way of speeding up your lymph circulation is by inverting your body.
Special inversion equipment, on which you can hang upside down, is available, or
you can use an inclined board, simply put your legs up against a wall while lying on
the floor, do the leg motions of bicycling while in the inverted position, or do a
shoulder stand or headstand as described in hatha yoga.

THE LONG CLEANSE
A Long Cleanse of about 6 weeks duration on either a small amount of
vegetable juice or grapes has been used to shrink or dissolve tumours and normalize
lymph and blood cancers in thousands of cancer victims. If the body is starving it
digests its own non-essential tissues, and it starts with diseased parts and tumours.
Famous examples of this kind of cleanse are the Breuss Cure on half a litre of fresh
vegetable juice; the grape cure of Johanna Brandt; the wheat grass cure of Ann
Wigmore; and even the urine fast of John Armstrong.
It works even better with large than with small tumours as these are a source of
protein, but it also eliminates the large amount of protein debris that is a main cause
of cancer. This long cleanse is usually the best way to eliminate or greatly reduce
tumours without strong and unpleasant side effects. It is especially suited for
overweight individuals.
On the Breuss Cure you drink half a litre of fresh organic juices daily, extracted
in a non-centrifugal way. The usual composition is 3 parts of beetroot, 1 of carrot and
1 of grass juice or celery, and preferably a small amount of horseradish, radish or
turnip or their leaves.
As an alternative you may use 1-2 litres of juice consisting mainly of about
equal parts of green juice as from grass and leaves, and beetroot-carrot juice
flavoured with ginger and pollen, in addition to unstrained blended green leaves. Hot
onion broth may be used in the evening, purple onions are best; cook the skins as
well. This larger amount of juice is more suitable for maintaining energy without
compromising the cleansing effect. The weight loss during a 6-week fast is usually
between 5 and 15 kg, mainly due to losing water and from half to one kilogram of fat
per week.
With the grape cure eat black or purple grapes. Eat them with skins and pips.
Preferably chew the pips to release their antioxidants. Soak the grapes best with the
addition of some hydrogen peroxide to kill and remove any fungi. Eat about 1kg daily
according to appetite. If a temporary aversion to grapes develops, have a few days of
juices in between. Eat only a few grapes at a time to avoid a strong rise in the blood
sugar level. Store grapes cool and dry, you may hang them over a washing line in a
garage.
If you feel that you definitely need something savoury to keep going, prepare
and drink a warm strained vegetable broth in the evening, including plenty of purple
onions. Also simmer the outer purple onion skins. Furthermore, you may make a tea
from savoury herbs and spices or turmeric and ginger.
Different Cleansing Methods
Apples are good for the first three-day fast. Preferably obtain unsprayed
apples, otherwise either peel or scrub them in warm soapy water and rinse well. Do
not ingest waxed skins. Eat as many apples as you like, generally the more the better
to keep the bowels moving. Apple fasts are usually well tolerated, and they are also
good for children.
Fasting on freshly pressed vegetable juices is somewhat more severe but
generally well tolerated. Preferably use plenty of green juice made from wheat or

barley grass, vegetable leaves, and celery, flavoured with sweet vegetables such as
carrot, beet root, or pumpkin, and possibly an apple. This juice may be diluted with
water for a total fluid intake of two to three litres daily. If you are sensitive to pain,
cold, or skin irritants, minimize the amount of sweet juices you consume and possibly
add some alkalizers.
For sensitive, weak, or underweight individuals, a rice diet lasting ten or more
days may initially be better. Eat only cooked brown rice, lightly flavoured with salt and
olive oil and supplemented with preferably one to three tablespoons per meal of
unheated ground linseed (flaxseed). Use sufficient linseed to have three easy, bulky
bowel movements daily. You do not need to eat “proper” meals; just have a few
spoonfuls whenever you feel hungry, and chew it very slowly. Preferably follow up
the rice diet with a period of eating raw food only; or alternate periods on cooked rice
and raw foods several times. However, if brown rice is not tolerated, try white rice. A
rice diet helps to overcome allergy problems.
For non-sensitive individuals, a three-day lemon-juice fast is excellent and
especially good for improving liver functions; it is also recommended for those with
high blood pressure and who are overweight. About ten times during the day drink a
large glass of water to which is added the fresh juice of half a lemon. You may
flavour this with a small amount of fresh grapefruit or orange juice. Later you can
extend this fast to seven days or longer. This is especially helpful with diabetes.
The “grape cure” is not only known as a cancer cure, but is also good for
coronary artery disease and other chronic diseases. You eat about one kilogram of
grapes spaced out in intervals during the day to avoid any strong rise in the blood
sugar level. Continue for several weeks. Black grapes are best, otherwise use purple
or red.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain unsprayed, organic grapes. If you have to
use sprayed grapes, wash them thoroughly in warm soapy water and rinse well. If
you are sensitive to moulds, soak the grapes in diluted hydrogen peroxide or expose
them to sunlight before a last rinse and eating.
For a longer cleansing period, use a mixed fast. You may, for instance, start
with several days on a rice diet and follow this with a period of raw food only, with a
time on apples or grapes and a further period on juices. Then repeat this sequence in
reverse order with days of eating only fruit, raw food, and finally rice before returning
to your normal diet. The cleansing period may last for several weeks, or even
months, with repeated sequences.
Unless you have an acute infectious disease, do not start a strict fast when you
feel weak. In this case, you can alternate between a rice/vegetable diet and a raw
food diet. Those with acute infections should have only fresh fruit, fresh salads or
vegetable juice until health improves and good appetite returns.
A urine fast has the advantage of providing vital nutrients and activating the
immune system while ingesting a fluid that is already charged with your own life
force, It is not as difficulty to do as it may sound because after a few days it is so
diluted that it just tastes like water. For details see Step 22.
If you suspect your body is overloaded with chemicals or that your liver’s ability
to detoxify is reduced, do only mild fasts initially, such as the rice diet and raw food

diet. Also supply yourself with plenty of sulphur in the form of MSM (see Part 3) or,
alternatively, use onions, raw egg yolk, and possibly the amino acids cysteine and
methionine, or even powdered sulphur. Regular cleansing is the more important the
older and physically less active you are.
Mucus problems are very common. This is obvious when we have a cold with
a congested or runny nose, but at other times it may be noticed as congested or
inflamed sinuses, ear or hearing problems, including tinnitus and “glue ear” in
children, glaucoma, and throat and lung problems, especially asthma. To overcome
these conditions, see Steps 38 and 44.
An oil rinse can be helpful. Fat-soluble toxins can be removed from the system
before they reach the liver. First thing in the morning take a large sip of a light oil,
such as sunflower or grape seed (stored in glass bottles), and vigorously swish it
around the mouth for 10 to 20 minutes; do not swallow it; spit it out (be careful: it may
clog the sink). Rinse your mouth several times with warm water. Continue this daily
for several months. This rinse is especially important if the lymph system is
congested, as it commonly is with cancer and other chronic diseases, and it is very
effective with health problems in the head and neck area, including dental problems.
At other times, you can use distilled water to filter out water-soluble toxins. After
rising in the morning and again at bedtime, use a cup of distilled water. Take a
mouthful and hold it under the tongue for about two minutes. Then spit it out and
repeat the process until the cup is empty.
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Step 5
ALLERGY TESTING
Discover and overcome your food allergies and chemical sensitivities.
Usually we are addicted to any daily-used food or substance to which we are

also allergic. The reverse is also true, that we have allergies to addictive foods.
Initially when we eat a sensitizing food (one that may produce an allergic reaction),
we experience stimulation due to the release of adrenal stress hormones. However,
eventually the adrenal glands become exhausted, and we develop a chronic
degenerative disease and lack energy. In this book, I use the term “food allergy” in a
general way to include not only genuine immunological reactions, but also food
intolerances and chemical sensitivities.
In 1936, Hans Selye, a Canadian professor of experimental medicine and
surgery, discovered the allergy-stress mechanism. He was the first to describe this
mechanism, which he did in his pioneering book The Stress of Life. So far the
medical profession has not yet grasped the importance of his fundamental discovery
for understanding the diseases of our society, I assume because it is not profitable to
do so. However, in light of this stress model, we now know what we need to do to
heal ourselves.
Initially an environmental challenge such as an incompatible food or emotional
stress causes an alarm reaction. The adrenal glands release inflammatory
hormones, and the sympathetic nervous system is overstimulated. This may result in
an acute allergic reaction or a general inflammatory condition, hyper-excitability,
increased blood pressure, palpitation, aggressiveness, anxiety or anger, and poor
digestion. This incidentally, is the basis for the connection between junk food
consumption and criminality.2
If we continue eating the same problem food nearly every day or continue to be
plagued by stressful memories or conditions, then the stress becomes permanent
and the body adapts by releasing anti-inflammatory hormones. The symptoms of the
alarm reaction with its inflammatory tendency subside. This is the resistance phase,
a state of adaptation for a hidden or masked allergy. Commonly, the alarm reaction
occurs in early childhood when we are first introduced to wheat, cow’s milk, maize, or
soy milk and then settles down to several decades of hidden allergies with minimal
outward symptoms.
However, eventually the capacity of the adrenal glands to produce sufficient
anti-inflammatory hormones becomes exhausted and we enter the exhaustion phase
of the allergy. Now we have a maladaptation to allergens and other stressful
conditions with chronic and generalized inflammations. These can manifest as
arthritis, cancer, heart disease, and any of the other diseases typical in our society.
Finally, even this chronic inflammatory condition subsides and we have the stage of
advanced old age with senility, debility, and the final non-sensitive stages of
degenerative diseases.

This sequence of ill health shows us the requirements for genuine health
improvement. By permanently removing the offending problem food or other chronic
stressor and at the same time supporting the body with high-quality nutrition we
slowly begin climbing back to health. We leave the exhaustion phase and re-enter
the resistance phase with a period of quiet recovery, and finally we move back into
the alarm phase with a series of acute but beneficial healing crises. At the end of this
long healing process, we may have reacquired the adrenal function and disease
resistance that we had as a small child before we started getting colds, allergic
reactions, and digestive upsets due to consuming problem foods.
Sometimes energetic individuals, often males with blue-white irises who cannot
relax, experience a prolonged period of lethargy when avoiding wheat or gluten
products. During this time, the adrenal glands have time to recover. Others who are
already closer to adrenal exhaustion feel much stronger as soon as they avoid
allergenic foods. The main allergenic foods tend to be the same as the most
commonly eaten foods and include wheat, cow’s milk, eggs, soy, corn, peanuts, and
synthetic food additives (for a compilation of possible food allergy symptoms, see
Table 5-2).
Addictions and allergies are part of the stress syndrome. Prolonged severe
stress of any kind leads to adrenal exhaustion in the same way that an addictive
allergy does. The only real solution lies in avoiding excessive stress factors such as
allergenic foods, work pressures, and so forth.
Discovering your allergies and addictions is an essential step in your healing
process. You may do this by adopting a five-day water fast or rice diet as described
in the following pages.
After complete avoidance of an allergenic food (one you suspect or know
produces allergy symptoms) and while reducing the overall allergenic load from other
influences at the same time, one usually becomes hypersensitive to that food for a
period lasting from a few weeks to several months. After this, the sensitivity to the
offending food gradually declines. If during the hypersensitive period you are
occasionally exposed to the allergenic food, then an immediate strong reaction can
be triggered, resulting in pain, weakness, a rash, or whatever its characteristic effect
is on your body.
If this is done repeatedly but separated by at least four days between
exposures, this may delay the complete recovery, but is not likely to result in serious
internal damage. However, permanent damage will result if you use this food so
frequently that you do not get an immediate reaction any more or only a much
weaker reaction than initially.
Generally, however, it is essential to avoid the offending food as much as
possible for an extended period in order to heal yourself completely. Depending on
the severity of your initial symptoms or degenerative disease this may be from a few
months up to several years. How soon you can overcome your allergic tendencies
depends mainly on the effort you put into adopting a comprehensive health
improvement program.
Types of Allergies: Depending on its severity and mode of manifestation, we
may distinguish five types of allergy: addictive, cyclic, fixed, multiple, and trigger.

An addictive allergy induces us to eat our favourite food every day or we are
threatened with withdrawal symptoms. Therefore, we have a craving for a certain
food and eating or drinking it makes us feel better. The person usually is not aware of
the addiction and for this reason this type of allergy is also called a hidden or masked
allergy, corresponding to the period of adaptation.
In a cyclic allergy, we have a reaction to a specific food only if it is eaten in
excess, either by eating large quantities of it at any one time or by eating it on several
successive days. In addition, a reaction to a cyclic allergen can be triggered by other
adverse factors, especially by stress as from emotional and mental problems or from
environmental agents such as chemical fumes, tobacco smoke, and so on.
Combining two different cyclic allergens in the same meal can also cause a reaction
due to the effects of both. Poor food combining or a generally acidic body condition
may be further contributing factors.
If you realize that you have a cyclic allergy - the food agrees with you
sometimes but not always - then eat it only on a rotation basis, not more often than
once every four or five days. Fruits and the lactose content of dairy products often
belong in this category. They may not cause immediate reactions, but eating fruits on
successive days can cause an increasing degree of overacidity and skin problems in
sensitive individuals, while an oversupply of lactose can lead to a build-up of mucus.
Both, in turn, can trigger secondary symptoms such as arthritic pains.
With a fixed allergy, one reacts every time the offending food is eaten, no
matter how small the quantity. Fixed allergies, therefore, are non-adapted allergies
and thus easy to recognize. One soon becomes efficient in avoiding offending items.
Fortunately, only a small percentage of all allergies are of the fixed variety; most are
addictive or cyclic in nature.
With multiple allergies, we react to a wide range of foods and chemicals and
quickly become allergic to any replacement foods. This has sometimes been called
being allergic to the twentieth century. The main causes are deficiencies of zinc,
digestive enzymes, and gastric acid, weak liver function, and bacterial overgrowth of
the digestive tract, often with systemic Candida infestation. The solution is intestinal
sanitation, a raw food diet, and a high intake of zinc and sulphur compounds. Before
testing for allergies by elimination, sanitize the intestines and minimize any
deficiencies by using vitamin and mineral supplements.
We can also speak of a fifth type, trigger allergy. Attacks of asthma or hay fever
are often triggered by inhaled substances such as pollen or house dust with residues
from house mites. However, such reactions would not occur if one’s mucous
membranes were not already hypersensitive because of underlying food allergies,
mucus congestion, and various deficiencies. (A deficiency is a state of higher nutrient
requirement than is available.) In a similar way, food chemicals can act as triggers for
hyperactivity. A hypersensitive skin reacts very strongly to insect bites because of its
high histamine levels due to underlying food allergy and overacidity. Removing the
triggers will help to some degree, but the underlying health deterioration continues
and a new trigger can readily be adopted.
Elimination Testing: There are various forms of allergy testing, some
technical, others a simple skin scratch method, and there is also muscle testing or

pulse testing. None of these, however, is as reliable as proper elimination testing,
called the elimination diet. Here’s how to do it:
For five days or longer, abstain from all your commonly eaten foods, as well as
alcohol, nicotine, or other drugs. During this time, try to minimize any other possible
allergenic influences such as exposure to solvent or car exhaust fumes, house dust,
moulds, gas, or cigarette smoke - basically anything with a strong or unusual smell.
Starting on the second day, there may be more or less troublesome withdrawal
symptoms, with cravings for the food or stimulant to which you are addicted. You
may have headaches, dizziness, weakness, and other problems. On the fourth day,
these symptoms usually subside and you begin to feel much better. Often symptoms
of long-standing diseases such as arthritis, heart pain, or schizophrenia disappear as
well.
If you still do not feel right on the fifth day, it may be better to extend the
program until you do feel well. Chemicals and drugs, be they medical or recreational,
take much longer to clear from the body. It will greatly speed up the elimination and
lessen your discomfort during the fast if you take a strong laxative on the first
morning of the fast, using an isotonic flush, herbal laxative, or a tablespoon of Epsom
salts in water; in addition, drink a lot of pure water.
The most reliable fast is on pure water only, which means unchlorinated and
unfluoridated, and not stored in plastic containers. In a less strict form, it should be all
right to use a weak, unsweetened herb tea of a variety you do not habitually use.
Non-sensitive (non-reactive) individuals can become more balanced by having a fast
on diluted lemon juice, while sensitive individuals can use cooked white or brown rice
only, preferably unflavoured; otherwise use a small amount of olive oil, herbs, and
possibly salt with the rice. If rice has been habitually eaten before, then use cooked
millet, sago, or arrow root instead. Eat as much as you like and drink about two litres
of fluid daily. If you use a cleansing period as recommended in Step 4 then you may
do elimination testing when gradually re-introducing different foods.
If you fast on fluids, use another laxative on the last day of the fast, normally
the fifth day. On the morning of the sixth day, eat cooked rice as the first test meal,
possibly lightly salted but with no other additions. As explained in Part 2, check your
pulse rate for a full minute before a meal, and 30 and 60 minutes after the meal.
Always test sitting in the same position and when the pulse rate is not increased from
previous physical activity.
Before and after each test meal, make the pulse tests and any other relevant
tests. If there is a reaction involving a combination of newly tested foods, repeat
testing with the individual food components at a later date. If the pulse after a test
meal is significantly higher than after the first test meal of rice, say more than 10
percent, then this indicates a possible allergy or incompatibility; the higher the pulse
rises after the meal the more likely is it that a food is allergenic.
Make other tests relevant for your condition. If you have weak eyesight, you
can check your reading ability with a wall chart; schoolchildren can be tested for
clarity of writing and speech. Check the range and pain level of impaired joints or
muscles, and watch for any sign of bodily or emotional discomfort. Keep a detailed
diary of the pulse rates, measurements, and any unusual happenings, feelings,

discomforts, and so on. Those with diabetes should also test their blood sugar level,
and those with hypertension preferably should check their blood pressure (you can
easily buy a sphygmomanometer to do this).
With each subsequent meal, expand the basic rice meal with one or more
additions, such as oil and various vegetables. Test a sprout salad and then other
basic foods. You can have four or five small meals a day. In the beginning, test
mainly foods that you expect to be safe. Test suspected allergenic foods at the last
meal of the day, so you can sleep off any prolonged reactions. Use suspect foods
only individually or with previously tested foods.
You can stop a strong food allergy reaction by taking one level teaspoon of
sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) or, better, two parts baking soda with one part
potassium bicarbonate. Also take one tablespoon of Epsom salt or milk of magnesia
as a laxative if the reaction occurs soon after the meal. On a normal diet, however,
reactions can be delayed and manifest up to two days later.
Reactions can also be stopped using homeopathy. Liquefy a sample of the
allergenic food, dilute one part of it with nine parts water, and shake in a bottle or jar
about 40 times with a strong downward movement. Dilute one part of this with nine
parts water and so forth until the dilution process has been done four times in all.
Then place one teaspoon of the fourth dilution in your mouth and hold it there for a
few minutes before swallowing. Then make two more dilutions and keep a teaspoon
of each of these in your mouth in the same way. Take additional teaspoons of all or
just the last dilution some time later if still required.
Test offending foods again three to six months later. Commonly, small,
infrequently consumed amounts can then be tolerated. Eat suspect or problem foods
no more than once a week. If conditions deteriorate again after some time, return to
testing or adopt a safe, low-allergen diet. The body can be made less sensitive to
allergic reactions by making the body more alkaline, as in Step 6.
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Step 6
THE ACID-ALKALINE BALANCE
Bring your body back into balance by testing for and correcting any
over-acid or over-alkaline condition.
Our blood is slightly alkaline, and the body makes every effort to maintain this
alkalinity at a constant level. For this purpose, we normally have an ample reserve of
alkalizing minerals. Most of our foods supply minerals. The total balance of minerals
in a particular food can be either acid or alkaline. Mineral salts are composed of an
acid group (anion), such as chloride, citrate, or phosphate, and of an alkaline group
(cation), mainly metal ions such as sodium, calcium, or potassium. If one of these
groups is stronger, then the salt is either acid or alkaline.
In plants, metal ions such as potassium are combined with organic acids such
as citric acid. In the body, the organic acids are converted to energy, while the metal
ions remain to produce an alkaline reaction. Therefore, we say vegetables and fruits
are alkalizing. Animal tissue, on the other hand, contains a high percentage of
phosphoric acid bound to proteins. Some of the proteins are converted to energy and
an acid remains. Accordingly, we can classify our food as either alkalizing or
acid-forming. Here’s a rule of thumb:
Alkalizing foods: vegetables, fruits, sprouted seeds, almonds, most legumes
Acid-forming foods: meat, fish, eggs, cheese, most grains and nuts
Neutral foods: refined starches and sugar, fats, oils
In order to maintain an amply alkaline body reserve, eat approximately four
times the weight of alkalizing food compared to acid-forming food, or 80 percent
alkalizing to 20 acidifying food. There are food tables available to show the amount of
acid or alkaline equivalents in different foods. However, I regard these as useless
because some of the listed foods may change their values in the body due to
specific, individual metabolic problems.
Sugar and chemically neutral and normally alkalizing fruits become acid-
forming in sensitive individuals, while a high intake of meat and fat can lead to a lack
of acids required for energy production. No matter how alkalizing a food is supposed
to be, if you are sensitive or allergic to it, then it is acid-forming for you. Even the
same food may change from alkalizing to acid-forming if it is incorrectly combined
with other foods or if consumed when you are emotionally upset.
All of this is contrary to what you would expect by using acid-alkaline food
tables. The values in these tables reflect the typical mineral content of the food, but
this varies greatly depending on soil and storage conditions, production methods,
and cooking. Therefore, the only reliable and meaningful method is to observe your
body: skin sensitivity, tendency towards inflammation, allergic reactions, and possibly
to test your urine and saliva for acidity.
The Regulation of Body Acidity: The body tries to keep the blood acidity
constant within a very narrow band, between pH 7.35 and 7.45. This is actually a
slightly alkaline condition. The pH is a measure of acidity or alkalinity and indicates

the hydrogen ion concentration in a fluid. These hydrogen ions are the originators of
acidity. A pH of 1 indicates the highest hydrogen ion concentration and with this the
highest acidity. At the other end of the scale is a pH of 14, with the lowest hydrogen
ion concentration and the highest alkalinity. A pH of 7 is neutral.
In our younger years, our metabolism often is too fast; too many acids are
produced and the body becomes chronically overacid. Later in life, however, with
decreasing muscle activity and vitality, not enough metabolic acids are produced,
potassium is lost from the cells, and the metabolism becomes sluggish. With this, the
body often becomes chronically over-alkaline and loses its ability to regenerate and
heal infections or wounds.
By excreting more acids or more alkalis through the urine, the body tries to
maintain a normal pH level. The body also does so by changing the breathing rate:
An increased volume of breathing makes the blood more alkaline by releasing
additional carbon dioxide into the air; decreased breathing, on the other hand,
increases the carbon dioxide level in the blood and makes it more acid. The balance
in the blood between carbon dioxide and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is the
main buffer system to keep the blood pH constant.
With an efficient metabolism, the pH of the urine depends mainly on the acid-
alkaline balance of the diet. A diet high in acid-forming foods will naturally produce
acid urine. This is not dangerous as such but it is an indicator that the diet is
unbalanced and may in time lead to exhaustion of the body’s alkaline reserve.
Similarly, on a diet high in alkalizing foods, the urine is always alkaline. This
can lead to stone formation in the urinary tract, and it may show that the cells don’t
have enough metabolic acids for efficient energy production. A normal mixed diet
containing about 80 percent alkalizing foods and 20 percent acidifying foods should
give a slightly acid morning urine, while urine formed after meals is naturally slightly
alkaline as a result of the production of gastric acid.
Test Your Body Acidity: To obtain an indication of the acid-alkaline balance of
your body, test your first morning urine from time to time. In evaluating the results,
take into account whether your present diet in general and the last meal in particular
were balanced or acid or alkaline forming. If you test the urine during the day, the
result may be much more variable because of the temporary alkaline tide after
eating. Urine paper should have a range from pH 5.5 to 7.5. You can obtain it over
the internet. For an approximate test, you can use litmus paper which turns red with
an acid reaction and blue when it is alkaline.
Instead of using pH strips you may use the yellow powder turmeric or possibly
curry powder. Dissolve a teaspoon of powder in half a litre of methylated spirits,
shake and let settle to produce a clear yellow solution. To make a test pour a
teaspoon of the yellow solution into a small drinking glass. Add a teaspoon of urine or
saliva, if it turns ruby red then what was added was alkaline with a pH greater than
6.8, if it stays yellow then it is still acid and less than pH 6.8.
Also red cabbage juice can be used as pH indicator. The colour at pH 2 is red,
at pH 4 purple, pH 6 violet, pH 8 blue, pH 10 blue-green, and pH 12 green-yellow.
Finely chop some red cabbage, pour hot water over it and soak for 10 to 20 minutes,
then filter through some gauze or tissue. In a small clear glass add a spoonful of
filtered juice to a similar amount of a test liquid, stir gently and compare with the

colour chart. Refrigerated the rest of the juice, use within a week or two, or keep
frozen. Also other purple juices work in a similar way, just experiment.
It is also valuable to check saliva acidity, especially if there are any digestive
difficulties and if you do not seem to get sufficient value from your food. An allergic
reaction makes the saliva too acid, so you can use this test as part of your allergy
testing program.
Before a meal, the normal acidity of the saliva is 6.4 to 6.7, while 30 to 60
minutes after the meal, it should be above 6.8. If test results remain too low you may
be to acid or produce not enough stomach acid. For testing first clean your mouth
with plain water, fill it with saliva, swallow, and then test the second lot of
accumulating saliva.
Acidity Problems: The main reasons people become overacid are:
1. Inefficient metabolism
2. Stress reactions due to food allergy, chemical sensitivity, emotional upset
3. Eating sweet foods when the blood sugar regulation is poor
4. Acids accumulating after eating fruit
5. Strenuous muscle activity
6. Candida albicans infestation
Chronic overacidity has a serious effect on the body. It causes a continual loss
of minerals needed to neutralize excess acid and the body becomes hypersensitive.
The more acidic the body becomes, the more histamine (the allergy chemical) is
released. This means acidity causes and greatly increases inflammations and
allergies, and it makes the skin very sensitive to insect bites and other irritants.
Remember that degenerative diseases are associated with chronic inflammation.
Overacidity of the body is often felt as pain; it is most prominent in arthritis and
rheumatism. If the alkaline reserve is insufficient to neutralize these acids, more
calcium will be mobilized from the bones for this purpose, thereby causing the bones
to become brittle and the tissues and joints to calcify. Further, tumours grow only if
the surrounding tissue is too acid. Acidity around a tumour may be due to the lactic
acid production of the tumour itself; however, sensitive individuals are generally too
acid and this promotes rapid tumour growth and pain.
Table 1-2: Symptoms of Calcium–Phosphorus Imbalance
Calcium level too high Phosphorus level too high
Colds and flu are rare Frequent colds and flu

Insensitive to pain and noise Sensitive to pain and noise
Insensitive skin Sensitive skin
Signs of magnesium deficiency Signs of calcium deficiency
Blood pressure raised Tendency to low blood pressure
Blood is too alkaline Blood is too acid
Caries of the crowns Caries near the gum
Tartar on teeth Gums very red and tender: pyorrhoea,
gingivitis
Calcium kidney stones Tendency to inflammations & swellings
Stiffness, rigidity Red-rimmed eyes
Fusion of vertebrae Headaches, nausea
Arthritic deposits causing bone deformations Acute arthritic attacks
Arteriosclerosis Allergies, palpitations

Alkalizing the Body: Fresh green vegetable juices and vegetable broth are
strongly alkalizing foods, especially the broth of boiled potato peelings. While fresh
fruits increase the acidity of sensitive individuals, they are usually beneficial for those
with a normal carbohydrate metabolism, raised blood pressure, and insensitive skin.
Habitually taking several grams of vitamin C in the form of ascorbic acid can
deplete mineral reserves or increase body acidity. This may lead to inflammation,
increased pain, and other problems in sensitive people. Therefore, for such people it
is advisable to use the neutral sodium or calcium ascorbate.
The best alkalizing food cannot bring lasting improvement if you continue to eat
food to which you are allergic or if you eat sweet foods and fruits when you are overly
sensitive.
Alkalizing with Sodium and Potassium: Sodium is the highest mineral in the
blood, and sodium bicarbonate is well tolerated but should not be taken with meals
as it then reduces our stomach acid. Potassium citrate can be mixed with meals and
it as well as potassium carbonate and bicarbonate have the strongest alkalizing
effect of any mineral supplements.
Whether sodium or potassium is preferable for alkalizing depends on some
additional factors. The following conditions favour the use of potassium:
1. A high sodium and low potassium intake as in a conventional Western diet
2. Raised and especially high blood pressure
3. Kidney problems or water retention/edema.
Sodium bicarbonate, on the other hand, is called for:
1. With low blood pressure
2. With a diet high in fruits and vegetables and low in salted foods.
Those who do not fit into one of these categories may take both alkalizers.
Commonly a ratio of 2 parts of sodium bicarbonate to 1 part of potassium citrate or
bicarbonate is being used, but also 1 : 1 or an excess of potassium is alright. These
may be mixed and taken together in the same drink, or they may be taken separately
during the day. If you use more than 1 teaspoonful then space the intake out during
the day. Do not take more than 3 level teaspoons of potassium salts in a day mixed
with meals as this may cause irregular heart beat.
Alkalizing with Calcium and Magnesium: A recommended way of obtaining
more calcium and magnesium and at the same time alkalizing the body is to dissolve
dolomite powder in vinegar or lemon juice. In the body, the organic acid tends to be
broken down and converted to energy while the mineral remains to alkalize the body.
Keep in a jar several tablespoons of finely powdered dolomite mixed in a
glassful of vinegar. You can stir or shake the mixture occasionally to speed up the
reaction. Drink about 50 ml of the decanted liquid daily, either before one meal or
divided before two meals, best diluted with water or other liquid. This supplies
approximately 500 mg of calcium and 300 mg of magnesium.
The day before all the liquid is used up, start a fresh mixture of dolomite with
vinegar. You can use apple cider vinegar, preferably organic, but white vinegar is
adequate for this purpose as well. It is also possible to use lemon juice instead of
vinegar.

Table 1-3: Calcium/Phosphorus Ratio of Foods
You can minimize inflammations by selecting foods with a high ratio of calcium to
phosphorus
Ca/P ratio mg/100 g Ca/P ratio mg/100 g
Bone 36,700/16,400 Dried apricots 67/108

Kelp, dry 1200/300 Raisins 62/101
Molasses, blackstrap 684/84 Sweet potatoes 31/52
Sesame seeds 1160/616 Filberts 209/337
Carob flour 352/81 Cottage cheese 90/165
Turnip greens 246/58 Salmon 188/328
Kale 249/93 Beet root 16/33
Parsley 203/63 Cauliflower 25/56
Mustard greens 183/50 Almonds 234/504
Dandelion greens 187/66 Soybeans, dry 226/554
Endive 181/54 Pumpkin 21/44
Watercress 151/54 Capsicum 12/28
Beet greens 119/40 Spirulina 396/1023
Leaf lettuce 68/25 Buckwheat 114/282
Green barley powder 1100/590 Bananas 8/26
Grass juice 150/75 Beans, dry 135/460
Spinach 93/51 Jerusalem artichokes 14/78
Broccoli 103/78 Potatoes 8/53
Cheese 750/480 Herring 66/254
Goat’s milk 129/106 Eggs, whole 54/205
Cow’s milk 118/93 Egg yolk 141/569
Cabbage 67/54 Lentils, cooked 25/119
Celery 39/28 Pecans 73/289
Pineapple, raw 17/8 Walnuts, English 99/380
Turnips 39/30 Coconut, dried 26/187
Grapes 16/12 Peas, dried, cooked 11/89
Butter 20/16 Peanuts 69/401
Carrots 37/36 Brazil nuts 186/693
Tofu 128/126 Barley 16/189
Grapefruit, whole 16/16 Mushrooms 6/116
Cucumber 25/27 Sweet corn 3/111
Dates 59/63 Corn, dried 22/268
Lemon juice, apples 7/10 Rice, brown 37/292
Watermelon 7/10 Cashew nuts 38/373
Pears 8/11 Millet 20/311
Apricots, fresh 17/23 Sunflower seeds 120/837
Plums 12/18 Rye, wheat 37/380
Orange juice 11/17 Oats 53/405
Onions 27/36 Torula yeast 424/1713
Peaches 9/19 Brewer’s yeast 210/1753
Sardines 430/575 Bran, rice/wheat 100/1300
Eggplant 11/21 Wheat germ 72/1118
Peas, fresh 62/90 Pumpkin seeds 51/1144
Parsnip 50/77 Meat average 10/200
Tomatoes 13/27 Liver average 15/540
Dolomite supplies calcium and magnesium in the generally desirable ratio of

2:1. However, if you are already routinely using magnesium chloride or only
additional calcium is required, then you can use powdered eggshell, powdered shell
grit, or commercial calcium carbonate for neutralizing. A 50 ml amount of neutralized
vinegar carries about 800 mg of calcium into the body.

If we took calcium carbonate or dolomite powder instead of dissolving it, we
would use up our precious supply of gastric acid to neutralize and dissolve these
carbonates. Many individuals have mineral deficiencies precisely because of a lack
of gastric acid. If, on the other hand, we use an inorganic mineral supplement, such
as calcium or magnesium chloride, then we can absorb the calcium or magnesium,
but it will not reduce any overacid condition of the body.
The Calcium-Phosphorus Ratio: In a person of good health, the ratio of
calcium to phosphorus in the blood is 10:4. If there is a glandular imbalance,
especially in regard to the parathyroid glands (in the neck), then this ratio will be
maintained at a different level, causing long-term health deterioration. In particular, a
high ratio of phosphorus to calcium sensitizes the body and increases acidity and
inflammatory tendencies.
In addition to this regulation by the parathyroid glands, the calcium-phosphorus
ratio is affected by our food choices. If we consistently eat foods high in phosphorus
and low in calcium, such as meat, oats, wheat, and corn, then this tends to make the
body overacid, depletes it of calcium and other minerals, and increases the tendency
towards inflammation. By selecting suitable foods, these effects can be minimized.
You can judge from Table 1-2 whether you might have an imbalanced -calcium-
phosphorus ratio in your blood or your food selections. A low phosphorus intake is
especially helpful with cancer and leukaemia.
As you can see from the foods listed in Table 1-3, it is easy to obtain sufficient
phosphorus. In fact, if the blood calcium level is high, more magnesium rather than
phosphorus is generally required.
You may wonder how the body can maintain the blood ratio in favour of calcium
despite its relative scarcity in our foods. The reason is that normally about 1 g of
phosphorus but only 150 mg of calcium are expelled daily with the urine. In metabolic
imbalance, this excretion ratio is changed. In addition, using more phosphorus leads
to the excretion of more calcium together with the excess phosphorus.
An excess of up to three to one in favour of phosphorus might still be regarded
as metabolically neutral. In addition to the ratio, the actual amount of the excessive
mineral is important. Therefore, to an extent the generally recommended daily
calcium allowance is meaningless if it is not geared to the levels of phosphorus and
magnesium. With low blood pressure, your calcium intake should be about double
the intake of magnesium. However, with high blood pressure it is better to have equal
amounts of magnesium and calcium or sometimes even to have more magnesium.
The higher the phosphorus intake, the higher your combined calcium and
magnesium intake should be.
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Step 7
LIVING WATER
Living water has a great healing potential - learn how to use it.
Water, air, and food are the three main essentials to sustain life. For remaining
healthy, these should be as clean and life-enhancing as possible. All three are highly
polluted in our present environment, and we need to make an extra effort to improve
them. Food is the most difficult aspect and is explained in later chapters. Individually,
we cannot do much to improve our air, besides living in the countryside or buying an
air purifier and ionizer. This leaves water in need of our attention.
Water has the ability to attract and accumulate bioenergy. Bioenergy or life-force
energy is known in all traditional cultures under many different names, such as chi,
ki, od, orgone, or prana. It can be seen or felt by many psychic or sensitive
individuals. Water also stores an energy memory of harmful or helpful vibrations to
which it was exposed in the past. This is the basis of homeopathy. Our chlorinated
tap water is polluted with non-biological chemicals and negative energy imprints. It is
also devoid of bioenergy and so may be regarded as being badly polluted as well as
“dead.”
Contaminated water can be filtered, distilled, or treated with reverse osmosis,
but it remains dead unless it is energized to make it a “living” water again, one that
can improve our health. While polluted and dead tap water can contribute to the
deterioration of our health, living water is one of the greatest healers.
Ideally, healthy, living water should have the following properties:
• Purity: free of unhealthy chemical and biological contamination as well as

negative vibrations or frequencies
• Minerals: well mineralized with calcium, magnesium, and trace minerals
• Low surface tension: due to the small cluster size of water molecules, making it a
microwater
• Antioxidant activity: an abundance of negative hydrogen measurable as a
negative oxidation-reduction potential (ORP)
• Vibrations: carrying positive, health-promoting vibrations
• Bioenergy: strongly charged with life force
All of these health-giving properties are naturally present in cascading, sunlit

mountain streams. While it is easy to produce water meeting several of these
requirements, there are some problems getting all of them in the same water. A main
problem is the present lack of reliable measuring devices for bioenergy and the
quality and strength of health-promoting vibrations.

Purity: This is easiest to achieve with readily available filters, distillers, and
reverse osmosis. I have no strong preference for any particular method as long as
you feel assured that your purified water is free of chlorine, fluoride, heavy metals,
pesticides, microbes, as well as agricultural, industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals.
However, most of these methods take out, in addition to the nasties, the beneficial
minerals, which I recommend to put back into the water afterwards. However, there
are also filters available that remove only pollutants and leave beneficial minerals in
the water.
Normal water filters do not remove added fluoride but water ionizers, especially
on high settings, channel fluoride into the acid water fraction so that the alkaline
water becomes safe to drink. Also water high in calcium lowers the fluoride level by
forming insoluble calcium fluoride.
Minerals: The minerals in our drinking and cooking water should supply a
sizable part of our overall mineral intake. In living water, minerals are largely present
in an energized form such as colloids and stabilized within small clusters of water
molecules. I know of individuals who became badly demineralised from drinking
distilled water over a long period; reverse osmosis water and rainwater (except if
stored in concrete tanks) are commonly very low in minerals.
Using water low in minerals can be beneficial as a temporary measure for
“calcified” individuals with high blood pressure, those who might otherwise use
chelation therapy, but it is detrimental for anyone with low blood pressure. Overall,
the most important bulk mineral commonly supplied with our drinking water is
magnesium. Various studies show the beneficial effect of high magnesium levels on
the rate of common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease as well as
bone and dental disorders.
Therefore, remineralise your purified water and add a teaspoon of hydrated or
half a teaspoon of desiccated magnesium chloride to about ten litres of water.
Alternatively, you can add a spoonful of sea-mineral liquid or bitterns, which is the
brine left over after salt has crystallized out of seawater. In addition to being very high
in magnesium, it contains all trace minerals. Instead of or in addition to magnesium,
you can add an appropriate amount of commercially available colloidal minerals.
Low Surface Tension: This is a common by-product of energizing water.
Water contains organized clusters of water molecules, also called liquid crystals,
surrounded by large numbers of randomly moving single water molecules. In normal
water, these clusters are larger and there are fewer of them. Energized or living
water contains many more liquid crystals and of a smaller average size, forming
cage-like structures of about six molecules. Due to this effect, energized water is also
called “microwater.”
The smaller clustering causes a lowering of the surface tension of the water. It
makes the water “wetter” and more easily absorbed. It also becomes more like the
water in fresh fruit and vegetables and within our cells. Colloidal minerals and fat-
soluble nutrients can become suspended within the water cages and more easily
absorbed during digestion. Also, various biochemicals, such as lecithin, detergents,
soaps, and saponins, reduce surface tension, but this is not due to the formation of
microwater.

Antioxidant Activity: The principle of antioxidant activity is the availability of
electrons to neutralize any so-called free radicals, which have oxidizing qualities that
can damage biological systems. Living water tends to contain highly reactive loosely
bound electrons that react much faster than organic antioxidants to neutralize free
radicals. Most of this antioxidant activity is assumed to come from an abundance of
negative hydrogen, which is also present in fresh fruits and vegetables.
Such antioxidant-rich water is now commonly produced with water ionizers as
electrolytic reduced water (ERW). Alternatively, you can buy capsules of Microhydrin.
This is a commercial powder containing an abundance of negative hydrogen
stabilized with colloidal silica; by dissolving a capsule in water, the water acquires a
high antioxidant or reducing quality.
As we age, our body structures lose elasticity; everything becomes more rigid.
On a biochemical level, this increasing rigidity is due to cross-linking of structural
biochemicals, which in turn is due to a loss of electrons. Providing the body with an
abundance of highly reactive electrons can be expected to slow cross-linking
reactions and, with this, the aging process.
All biochemical energy in our body is produced by transferring electrons from
food molecules onto inhaled oxygen. Thus, having more available electrons can help
us to produce more energy. This may be the reason why some individuals feel more
energetic on alkaline ionized or reduced water.
A water ionizer basically consists of a cell or container with two electrodes,
which are separated by a membrane to minimize mixing of the water. The electrodes
commonly consist of titanium, usually plated with platinum for better resistance to
corrosion. When a current is applied, one electrode becomes positive, the anode,
while the cathode becomes negative and releases electrons.
Positively charged ions, such as calcium and magnesium, accumulate on the
side of the cathode. They form hydroxides and make this fraction of the water
alkaline. Negative ions, such as chloride and fluoride, move to the anode and, in
combination with positive hydrogen ions, make this part of the water more acid. At
the same time, an abundance of electrons in the alkaline water leads to the formation
of hydrogen gas and negative hydrogen ions, while oxygen and active oxidizing
species are formed in the acid water.
In through-flow ionizers, the amount of reducing activity in the alkaline water
depends mainly on the mineral content of the water, the flow rate, and the current
flow or ionizer setting. With batch ionizers, it depends on the voltage of the power
source, the size of the electrodes and distance from each other, the mineral content
of the water, and the duration of ionizing.
Higher mineral concentrations are desirable as they require shorter ionizing
times and produce greater pH and lower oxidation-reduction potential (ORP)
changes. It is advisable to use water low in calcium, otherwise the cathode soon
becomes coated with calcium deposits during long ionizing periods and loses its
effectiveness or frequently needs to be cleaned. While the pH can be very high in
alkalinity, it is in fact very weak, because the mineral density of ionized water is
rather low and easily neutralized.

The negative charge of the alkaline water declines quickly with exposure to
light and air and in contact with blank metal and soft plastics. However, in closed
brown glass bottles filled to the top or in a cupboard, the water can keep for days and
sometimes weeks.
Aim for a high ORP of between 500 and 800 mV, which can be measured with
a commercially available ORP-meter. You can ask a distributor of water ionizers or a
local water treatment or testing company to check the mineral level of your water and
possibly the ORP of your alkaline water. Batch ionizers are more robust and easier to
repair, but they are also more labour intensive; through-flow ionizers are more
convenient.
Vibrations: This is an informal term based on the observation that water
seems to retain a memory of various influences to which it has been exposed. There
is a close connection between vibrations and energy: we may regard vibrations as an
energy imprint on the water. Retained vibrations may be due to chemical,
mechanical, electrical, or magnetic influences or even to feelings, emotions, and
possibly thoughts. These retained memories in turn may influence the user of the
water. This is the basis of homeopathy, which double-blind studies have shown to be
therapeutically valid. However, it seems that only natural ingredients can be used to
make homeopathic remedies, and some scientific tests for the memory of water and
the effectiveness of homeopathy failed because synthetic chemicals that cannot be
energized were used.
A method to assess the vibrational purity or degree of contamination of water
was developed by researchers in biodynamics. If a drop of water is added to a
concentrated mineral solution such as copper sulphate, it changes its crystallization
pattern. The purer or more beneficial the water, the more harmonious is the
crystallization pattern and vice versa. Polluted water causes a confused
crystallization pattern.
Consider the work of Masaru Emoto. In his The Message from Water and on
his website (www.adhikara.com/water.html), he shows in countless pictures how the
crystallization pattern of freezing water changes when exposed to human thoughts
and feelings. Some of these he did by typing a positive word such as “love” or a
negative one on a piece of paper and sticking it on a glass of water. The positive
word induced a beautiful and symmetrical crystallization pattern, while the negative
word resulted in a chaotic or confused crystallization.
As our biological body contains large amounts of water (e.g., blood, lymph
fluid, cells), you may now appreciate what negative thoughts and feelings are doing
to your health. In a similar way, we can improve water before ingestion by blessing it
with thoughts and feelings of love, joy, and peace. We may also hold it for a moment
in front of the heart while doing this. For special healing effects, you can expose
water to light in coloured glass containers or cover the container with coloured
cellophane. For cancer therapy, green-treated water has an overall healing and
balancing effect. Yellow and orange are energizing; blue is sedating and anti-
inflammatory.
Another possibility is to expose water overnight to a strong magnet. Water
exposed to the south-pointing pole is most suitable for pain, cancer, and infectious or
inflammatory conditions. The north-pointing pole can be used to energize weak

muscles and the digestive system, provided there is no inflammation or infection. You
can also combine suitable magnet and color treatments.
Various energized waters are commercially available. While I expect these to
be a great improvement on dead tap water, the energies and vibrations of
uncontaminated natural ground, bore, or spring water are no doubt even more
beneficial for us.
You can also keep water in a pyramid or immerse a suitable crystal or precious
stone or pure gold or silver in it, possibly while the water is exposed to sunlight
and/or moonlight. You can attach a magnet, crystal, or other energizing device to the
water pipe to improve your shower or bath water or when filling a water bed.
Some good water filtering and energizing systems impart natural rock
vibrations in combination with a vortex formation. A device can be fitted to a tap,
which then produces running energized water, although the water may need to be
chemically decontaminated beforehand. Another energizing system is a spiralling
copper device through which the water flows.
A good way of energizing water is as follows: attach two magnets on opposite
sides at the bottom of a funnel so that they face each other with unlike poles. Then
pour water tangentially into the funnel so that it forms a vortex before running out into
a collecting bottle.
Finally, you can use homeopathic potentising. Water and any active substance
dissolved in it becomes energized by shaking it with a strong downward thrust. Use
any uncontaminated water and shake it in a half-filled bottle or jar about 40 times. If
possible, do the shaking outdoors, preferably on a dry, sunny day. Instead of
potentising only water with its naturally dissolved ingredients, you can add a small
amount of a live (unheated) substance that you believe may be good for you.
Commonly used are herbal remedies, colloidal minerals, natural vitamins, or fresh
vegetable juice.
Bioenergy: If we eat fresh raw food, we gain additional bioenergy. If we eat
precooked or processed food and drink dead water, then our body loses bioenergy
by charging the ingested food or drink from its own energy store. Rainwater is
energized, especially during thunderstorms and if it comes as showers on sunny
days. However, the maximum benefit is gained if the rainwater is collected and used
without it touching metal. It appears that good quality rainwater has a beneficial
negative electric charge (negative hydrogen ions), which is instantly neutralized by
contact with metals. I recommend keeping energized water away from contact with
blank metals, and I recommend the same for fresh raw food and especially fresh
juices.
The simplest method for energizing water is to expose uncontaminated water
to sunshine for several hours. However, a stronger charge can be achieved more
quickly if the water is exposed to a source of bioenergy, such as sunshine, while it is
in turbulent motion leading to vortex formations. High mineral content, especially
colloidal silica, helps in retaining a high charge. Another recommended way is to
leave drinking water for a while in contact with some freshly cut grass or leaves
before using it.

The vortex principle is used in biodynamic agriculture for energizing liquid
preparations. Use a large glass or ceramic container or a plastic bucket half-filled
with uncontaminated water. Vortex energies can be absorbed into the water by first
creating a deep vortex in one direction and then immediately reversing its direction
until another deep vortex has formed. Stir for several minutes with a wooden handle
or any suitable flat piece of wood or possibly plastic to create alternating vortexes.
Electrical vortex machines are available from biodynamic sources for longer charging
times.
Charging the water with vortex energy will be more successful when the air is
high in bioenergy or orgone energy, such as outside on a sunny afternoon in natural
surroundings. The energy is low during the night, on rainy days, in wet surroundings,
and inside modern, tightly-sealed buildings.
You can also extract energy from volcanic rock dust or silica beach sand. Add
a spoonful of rock dust to uncontaminated water and use the biodynamic vortex
method before letting it settle overnight. Use the water while it is still milky from the
suspended colloidal minerals. Most of the residue settles at the bottom and can
eventually be used to fertilize plants. A stronger effect can be achieved by highly
heating the rock dust or beach sand, preferably until it glows red, and then plunging it
into water (in an enamel pot). Alternating several times of boiling the sand for 15
minutes (no microwave) and then freezing it is another method of liberating trapped
orgone energy to energize water.
Another possibility is the use of flow forms, manufactured rock, or cement
shapes in a series that simulate the action of mountain streams. From a reservoir,
the water cascades through several levels of spiral formations, preferably while
exposed to the sun. A recently developed energizing device is “orgonite,” a mixture of
about equal parts of metal particles and resin; for more information on orgonite and
bioenergy see Part 7.
Preferably do not store energized water near strong electric appliances. It also
loses its beneficial energy if highly heated as in cooking. It is best to use energized
water for drinking, to dilute juices, for enemas, or rubbing into the skin. Preferably
avoid contact between energized water and metal. However, if you store drinking
water for a longer time, you can add some colloidal silver or hydrogen peroxide to
keep it free of moulds and other microbes or possibly put a piece of clean copper or a
silver coin at the bottom of the container.
Our most common source of energized water is the water content of fresh raw
fruit and vegetables. I expect the bioenergy of organic produce to be much higher
than that of commercial produce. This is one more reason to eat your fruit and
vegetables fresh, raw, and organic as often as conveniently possible.
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Step 8
THE PRACTICE OF HEALTHY LIVING
Improve your environment—your house, clothes, even your teeth.
Healthy living is the solid base for any health improvement. It includes all the
habits that should become part of our daily lives. Our future well-being or diseases
will arise from how we think, feel, and live habitually, not from any occasional
transgressions of the rules of healthy living. The most important general principle of
healthy living is to live in harmony - with ourselves, our social interactions, and with
the forces of nature. In regard to health and natural living, this concept encompasses
our environment, housing, clothing, workplace, exercise and nutrition, the water we
drink, and the air we breathe.
In the following section, we will investigate various aspects of healthy living. It
is important to realize that the concepts of healthy living often overlap with specific
healing methods; for example, positive thinking, nutrition, reflexology, and physical
exercises may all be used for normal healthy living as well as for healing yourself.
Therefore, when reading this book, keep in mind that the separation between healthy
living and healing methods is fluid, even somewhat artificial.
At present, most of us live in such an artificial and unnatural environment that it
is not possible to remain healthy by living in the -commonly accepted way. Instead,
we must become aware of the multitude of negative influences in our environment
created by modern technology and try to minimize their harmful effects on us.
Improve the Physical Aspects of Your House: When building a new home,
preferentially select building materials that do not shut out or distort the natural
electric, magnetic, and life-force fields of the Earth. Therefore, minimize sheet metals
and any steel or wire-mesh concrete reinforcements that form a cage-like structure
(called a Faraday cage). Stone, brick, tiles, shingles, wood, plywood, and
combinations of fibre and cement are acceptable for building. If you live permanently
in a metal-clad dwelling, such as an aluminium caravan or mobile home, it is better to
sleep in a non-metal annex.
Here are some practical tips:
• New copper or plastic water pipes may leach undesirable concentrations of heavy
metals into the water. This is another reason, in addition to avoiding chlorine and
fluoride, to use a good filter for your drinking and cooking water.
• Make your home a low-pollution sanctuary. Use natural materials for interior use
whenever feasible, especially in the bedroom or wherever you spend most of
your time. By far the best mattresses are those made of latex.
• Avoid cooking and heating inside with gas or kerosene except if the combustion
gases are being efficiently vented. Many people are allergic to these. Wood
stoves or solar heating are preferable wherever feasible.

• If you live in a modern house, try to sanitize it by minimizing the use of synthetic
items that release or outgas chemicals, such as formaldehyde from glued
material (many carpets, chipboard, and plywood).
• Avoid solvents and odorous household cleaners and disinfectants, tobacco
smoke, mothballs, and insect sprays. If the outside air is reasonably clean, good
ventilation helps to minimize the problem of indoor air pollution.
• New synthetic materials have a tendency to accumulate static electricity that can
reduce our well-being in addition to releasing toxic chemicals. Synthetic materials
(as well as television sets) also lower the amount of beneficial negative ions in
the indoor air. Negative ions are energetic molecules with additional electrons in
the air. Generally, the more negative ions there are in the air, the better we feel.
Commercial air ionizers are available to improve room air.
Consider the Health Aspects of Your Clothes: Clothes are our “second
skin,” and their material and color have a direct influence on our emotions and well-
being. This applies especially to garments worn directly on the skin. Except for
occasional short-term use, avoid underwear, including pantyhose and stockings,
made of nylon or other synthetic material. They do not absorb moisture or “breathe”
as well as natural fibres and appear to encourage fungal growth; sensitive individuals
may experience skin irritations. Nylon seems to be worse in this regard than
polyester. Synthetic clothing can also cause discomfort by accumulating static
electricity. A more acceptable human-made fibre is rayon, as it is based on cellulose.
The best material for underwear and stockings is silk; otherwise, use cotton.
Generally, select colours that balance your emotional state: wear bright colours
when you are low in energy and blue when you are nervous and irritable. Avoid
murky and dull gray colours and be extra careful with black; these can increase
depressive tendencies in susceptible individuals. Commonly, the negative effect of
black is balanced by combining it with red. You can use muscle testing as described
in Part 2 to discover whether a certain material or color is suitable for you.
Shoes ideally should be made of natural materials with a leather sole to allow
static electricity to flow off the body and into the ground. This is prevented by rubber
and synthetic soles and by nylon socks and stockings. Walking barefoot for at least
several minutes each day on moist grass or wet sand will discharge static electricity
into the ground and improve well-being.
For women, it is advisable to reduce the time you wear a bra. A study reported
by Singer and Grismaijer in Dressed to Kill found that women who wear a tight bra all
the time had a 125 times higher rate of breast cancer than women not wearing a bra.
Women who wore their bras 24 hours a day had a 75 percent chance of developing
breast cancer. If they wore bras more than 12 hours daily but not to bed, the risk was
one out of seven. Wearing a bra less than 12 hours per day improved the risk to one
out of 152, a rate reasonably close to women who wear bras rarely or never; they
have a one out of 168 chance of breast cancer. Women who never wear a bra have
the same low breast cancer risk as men.
While this study was not adjusted for other factors, the difference in cancer rate
is certainly large enough to be significant. A tight bra blocks the lymph circulation in
the breasts and is much worse than a loose-fitting bra. If you need to wear a bra in

public, use a loose-fitting one without underwires and minimise using it at home. Also
do some exercises to stimulate the lymph flow in the breasts, such as circling your
arms or massaging the area around the breast while doing inversion exercises.
Sanitize your Bedroom: Preferably use mattresses (futons) filled with natural
fibres such as kapok, wool, horsehair or cotton; latex or natural rubber may be the
best material. A cheap alternative is straw or hay from a pesticide-free source.
Innerspring mattress may direct confused magnetic fields into the body, depending
on how the spirals have been tempered. When moving a compass across the surface
of the mattress the needle should not be deflected from its north-pointing position.
Synthetic foam rubber mattresses are not good either. They emit toxic gases
that may be a major factor in cot death. Wrap them in clear polythene with only a
small opening at the bottom. Use natural blankets and sheets on top of the mattress.
Even sheepskin is chemically treated and can cause problems. Frequently expose
pillows and featherbeds to the sun to kill moulds and dust-mites. This can greatly
reduce asthma problems. Alternatively, use an airtight pillowcase.
Try not to use steel-framed beds or steel-spring frames that deflect the
compass needle, move the bed if there are metal beams or live wires in the wall
behind the bed. Featherbeds may contribute to arthritic problems due to static
electricity between the feathers. Try to sleep with the head in a northerly direction or
otherwise between north and east. Our brain waves are slowest when the head
points towards magnetic north. Cover your head during cold nights to minimize heat
loss.
Sleep in total darkness or cover your eyes during sleep, as production of
beneficial melatonin is interrupted by exposure to electric light, including street lights,
although moonlight and red light are harmless. Avoid even short exposure to electric
light in the first part of the night.
Minimize Electromagnetic Pollution: Strong electromagnetic fields (EMF’s)
of about 50 to 60 cycles per second (hertz, or Hz) and the related electromagnetic
radiation (EMR) may be harmful to us. Long-term exposure can aggravate any
existing health problems or diseases and may cause or intensify them; this is
especially true of lack of energy or fatigue, irritability, aggression, hyperactivity, sleep
disorders, and emotional instability. Increasing numbers of individuals are becoming
hypersensitive to EMR; many can feel the electricity going through their body and
may experience disabling symptoms such as convulsions, memory problems, and
depression. I have encountered many of these problems with patients.
Chronic exposure to high levels of EMR, especially while asleep, is a constant
drain on our vitality. It creates chronic stress, which interferes with the regeneration
and healing that normally take place during a good night’s sleep. You may compare it
to always swimming against a strong current, and this may well make the difference
between recovering from a serious disease and succumbing to it. For more
information on health problems due to electricity and many case reports, see:
www.emrsafety.8m.net.
EMR exists around power lines, power tools, electric stoves, heaters, boilers,
freezers, and television sets when in use, extending several feet or yards around the
appliance. Stay away from them, if possible. Using an electric iron or an electric

keyboard or working with handheld power tools can quickly drain our energies. When
working with electrical equipment, we can reduce harmful effects by holding our
hands under running water from time to time, in addition to having a shower in the
evening or walking barefoot on grass.
Try to minimize electromagnetic pollution, especially while sleeping, when the
pineal gland is most susceptible. Also sleep in the dark or at least cover your eyes to
produce the immune-stimulating hormone melatonin. Before going to sleep,
preferably switch off all power points in the bedroom and unplug all electric leads with
two-prong plugs, especially any power points or leads close to the bed. This applies
also to water beds, which need to be switched off or unplugged overnight. Three-
prong plugs may remain connected to power points because this allows stray
electricity to flow off through the grounding connection.
Increasingly governments insist that we get maximum exposure to harmful
fluorescent lighting in the form of compact fluorescent light or CFL. The flickering,
even if not perceptible, electromagnetic "noise", and the unnatural frequency
distribution of CFL's frequently cause health problems for sensitive individuals. Most
affected are those with vision problems, autism, migraines, traumatic brain injury,
vestibular problems, multiple sclerosis, muscle spasms, epilepsy, tremors, cardiac
arrhythmias, memory loss, diabetes, difficulty concentrating, and lupus. For details
see www.cflimpact.com.
Here are some more tips:
• If your head faces a wall with power points or other electric wiring inside the wall
close to the bed, then move the bed towards the middle of the room so that you
can walk around the bed. The best sleeping position is with the head towards
north or otherwise somewhere between north and east.
• When using an electric blanket, warm the bed beforehand and disconnect the
power before you go to bed or better still, connect the blanket to a good earth. Do
not habitually remain within a few meters of a working electric appliance, and
minimize fluorescent lighting, watching television, using video games, computers,
and even electric typewriters and handheld electric tools.
• Stray currents and radiating fields can still be emitted from electric wires even if
appliances are switched off. AC electric fields do not disappear when an
appliance is switched off, only AC magnetic fields disappear. Keep live wires
away from your body. Preferably do not live near high-voltage lines, microwave
towers, or electric-train tracks. Alternatively, you may take extra precautions to
shield your house from the effects of their energies.
• Old fashioned TV sets and computer monitors emit harmful X-rays. Preferably sit
as far away as conveniently possible. Flat or liquid crystal screens are much
safer. An increasing hazard is microwave radiation from ovens, mobile phones,
cordless phones and keyboards and other equipment. Most dangerous are long-
reaching microwave stations inside the house for phones and computers, or
equipment such as a mouse or keyboard that are not connected by wires, but
USB modems for wireless broadband are harmless.
Electro-Proofing Your House: The measures outlined so far will go some way
towards reducing the harmful effects of EMR on your health. However, often they are

not enough. There is a simple way to check whether your home and workplace are
sufficiently safe. You can do this by measuring the electricity that is absorbed by your
body. For this you need a digital voltmeter that can measure millivolts.
Get some insulated electric wire that is long enough to reach from most rooms
to the ground outside and attach an alligator clip to each end. Then get a ground
stake or earth spike (a copper pipe is good for this) and drive it into moist soil. One
end of the wire is clipped to a clamp at the top of the ground stake and the other to
the black probe of the voltmeter. It will not work to attach the earth wire to a water
pipe or to the main electricity ground stake of the house as they may carry high
voltages.
To close the circuit, hold the metal end of the red probe firmly in one hand.
However, it is more convenient to hold a piece of copper pipe, which is connected
through a clipped or soldered insulated wire to the red probe. Set the dial to 2 AC
volt; if it shows less than 200 mV, that is good and you can switch the meter to the
200 mV setting. Preferably the reading should be below 100 mV in commonly used
rooms, and on your bed, below 10 mV.
In reality the readings will be much higher and you may get a reading between
2 and 80 V while lying on your bed. This is a constant drain on your vitality. By
moving the bed away from any electrical wiring, you can perhaps get it to read
between 500 mV and 2 V. A relatively easy way of reducing the voltage a lot further
is by using a grounded electric blanket.
The easiest way is to cut off the plug. Then you can easily solder or clip a
ground wire onto all three wire strands. If you want to keep using the electric blanket
for heating as well, then you can attach a plug to the ground wire. Lying on a well-
earthed electric blanket can bring the body voltage down to between one-quarter and
one-tenth of the previous measurement.
If the bed has a steel frame or innerspring mattress, then these may also need
to be grounded. Commonly all springs are internally connected and need to be
grounded only at one point, but some mattresses have individual springs, which
would need to be grounded individually. However, steel frames and inner-spring
mattresses can still deflect the compass needle when it is moved across the bed and
that is not good either. It is healthier if the earth’s magnetic field is not distorted
where we sleep. The needle should continue pointing north everywhere over the bed.
Metal beams in the wall or ceiling can cause the same problem, and the bed should
be moved far enough away from magnetic field disturbances.
Ground any metal parts, such as window frames, metal wall claddings, or
roofing iron, that show an unacceptably high reading when touched with one hand
while holding the grounded probe in the other. This is especially the case if there are
high-voltage power lines, microwave towers, or transformers nearby or power lines
that form a right angle at street corners.
Occasionally, there may be so much ground electricity that it shows a higher
reading when you’re lying on a grounded electric blanket than on one without a
ground connection. In this case, move the ground stake as far away as possible from
any power sources that can cause this problem and find or create a good grounding
behind the house where you can reach moist soil with a long ground stake. With a

short ground stake, try to keep the soil around it moist at all times. It is also possible
to get a good ground by connecting the wire to a moist part of a tree or large outside
plant.
To get a true reading on a concrete floor or when outside the house, you should
be insulated by wearing shoes; otherwise, the reading will be much too low.
For sanitizing an apartment or office in a large building where you cannot get a
good ground, a ground connection to the water pipe may be sufficient, or you could
get expert help. An upper floor of a building commonly has much higher voltages
than the ground floor, as there is wiring in the floor as well as in the ceiling. In this
case, you may be able to reduce the EMR considerably by placing grounded wire
netting under the carpet. If this is not possible with the entire floor, then ground a
smaller area where you usually sit.
In other cases, it may be advisable to shield and ground the wiring inside a wall.
This is much more difficult, as wall panels need to be removed, but it may be
relatively easy under the roof or if the wiring is under the house. You can simply wrap
electric cables with grounded wire netting or aluminium foil or nail grounded metal
strips over them.
You can also disconnect the fuse or switch in the meter box for the bedroom
(which commonly includes all power points in the house) overnight. Alternatively,
have a separate fuse switch installed for the bedroom only or a demand switch that
supplies power to the circuit only when needed. In addition, strategically placed
copper coils can deflect radiation and may be used to de-stress the whole house.
Such coils are offered on the Internet.
To improve your well-being while driving, and avoid road-rage or fatigue earth
the inside of your car by leading the electricity from metal frames of seats and large
metal areas back to the negative pole of the battery.
Beware of Earth Rays: Some dowsers claim to have discovered harmful earth
rays from fault lines and underground streams under the beds of most cancer
victims. Earth rays may also aggravate many other diseases. Find someone who is
able to check the location of your bed for harmful underground radiation. This can be
a problem even if you sleep on an upper floor. Commonly, dowsing or muscle testing
(kinesiology) are used. Geopathic disturbances (another term for harmful earth rays)
can also be detected with a scientific instrument that indicates the degree of
distortion of the local geomagnetic field.
If you cannot have your bed checked, then move it to a different location if you
were sleeping there before a serious health problem developed. In addition, use a
shielding device under the bed: place wire netting under the whole area of the bed
and connect this to an electric ground. To protect against fault lines or ley lines, you
can also cover the area under the bed with several centimetres of quartz sand and
use additional copper coils; moving the bed is the safest option. You may be able to
check the bed yourself with a shortwave radio, because over a fault line the reception
deteriorates; especially dangerous are crossings of fault lines.

Table 1-4: Teeth–Organ Connections
Teeth are numbered from 1 to 8 starting at the midline of the upper and lower jaw.
1 and 2 upper and lower jaw kidney, bladder, pineal gland (upper), adrenals (lower),
frontal sinus, sacrum, coccyx, foot
3 upper and lower jaw liver, gallbladder, hip, eye, pituitary (upper), gonads
(lower)
4, 5 upper and 6, 7 lower jaw lung, large intestine, shoulder, elbow, thymus (upper),
arteries, veins (lower)
4, 5 lower and 6, 7 upper jaw pancreas, spleen, stomach, breast, thyroid (upper), lymph
system (lower), jaws, front of knee
8 upper and lower heart, small intestines, shoulder, elbow, ear, nervous
system, pituitary (upper)
Dental Problems: Another aspect of our environment is our mouths - our

teeth, specifically. A major factor causing or contributing to poor health and many
diseases is our teeth. Frequently, there are mercury amalgam fillings or different
types of metal in the mouth that act like an electric battery, and dead teeth with filled
root canals or inflammation inside the jawbone (cavitations) even after removal of
teeth are also a serious health problem. These problems may not cause any local
pain and so are difficult to detect, but they can cause health problems in other parts
of the body. Through acupuncture meridians as well as other mechanisms, each
tooth is connected with a specific organ or other part of the body as shown in Table
1-4, so health consequences of problem teeth can occur throughout the body.
Heart disease, for instance, is commonly connected with inflammations or
infections in the wisdom tooth positions, while kidney problems are related to the
front teeth. This has been known for a long time. A 4,000-year-old papyrus describes
the dialog between the pharaoh and his physician. The pharaoh complains of severe
arthritis, and his doctor replies that this is due to the bad condition of some teeth that
need to be removed. Even orthodox medicine is now slowly catching up and realizing
that heart disease is frequently associated with microbes originating from infected
teeth, gums, or jaw bones.
Root-canalled teeth appear to be a major contributing factor in many health
problems, not only cancer but also heart disease, kidney disease, and autoimmune
diseases. This is due to microbes that multiply in the multitude of tiny canals or tubuli
in the dentine and gradually leach out into the lymph system. Even normally
harmless microbes become very dangerous under the anaerobic conditions in dead
teeth.
Weston Price, a dentist and former director of research for the American Dental
Association some years ago, observed that the removal of root-canalled teeth from

patients with kidney or heart disease would in most cases lead to an improvement in
those conditions. When he inserted a removed root-canalled tooth (human) under the
skin of a rabbit, the animal would die within two days; when he implanted normal
teeth, there was no adverse health effect. In some experiments, he implanted the
same fragments of root-canalled teeth in succession under the skins of up to 100
rabbits and they all died within two weeks of the same disease that the human donor
had!
The safest solution with dead (root-canalled) teeth is immediate removal, but
problems might still persist if an infection has spread to the jawbone. The microbes in
dead teeth and infected jawbones apparently cannot be eliminated with
pharmaceutical or natural antibiotics. Removal of dead teeth is especially urgent if
they are already dead for several years and show signs of deterioration, and also in
the case of cancer, autoimmune diseases, and other serious diseases. If you cannot
immediately have all your dead teeth removed, have some, and for several weeks
after their removal, use natural antimicrobial therapy. You do not need to fill single
tooth gaps where they cannot be seen. To fill the gap of a missing front tooth, find a
dentist who can cement an artificial tooth in this place without resorting to crowns or
other metal support.
A possibly safe way of keeping root-canalled teeth is to fill them with Calcium
Hydroxide or Iodine instead of the commonly used Gutta Percha, but no long-term
studies on health outcomes are yet available. For tooth implants Titanium is
commonly used but this is a metal and can still sometimes cause problems. A safer
alternative with good durability is Zirconia, the dioxide of zirconium.
Try to have amalgam fillings replaced with plastic composite, preferably by a
holistic dentist. A rubber dam and suction should be used when removing old fillings.
If you cannot pay for proper replacements, just have them sealed with temporary filler
and do not chew any hard items. However, with serious conditions and large fillings,
extraction of amalgam-filled teeth can bring much better results than simple
replacement.
In a German study of multiple sclerosis patients, extraction of compromised
teeth resulted in an 85 percent recovery rate versus only 16 percent for filling
replacement alone. Other studies have found that recovery from serious autoimmune
diseases, dementia, or cancer may require more aggressive mercury removal
techniques than simple filling replacement, due to the body burden of mercury. This
appears to be due to the migration of mercury not eliminated by simple filling
replacement into the roots and gums. Mercury in the teeth and gums has direct
routes to the brain and central nervous system.3
Try to find a dentist who is familiar with safe amalgam removal procedures as
recommended by holistic dentistry associations. Remove mercury by using high
doses of vitamin C, Alpha Lipoic Acid, L-cysteine, MSM and chlorella before and
after amalgam removal. Preferably, also use homeopathic mercury 1M and higher
potencies.
Injections of the mercury chelator DMPS can be administered by qualified health
professionals. However, this procedure has occasionally lead to complications and
the oral DMSA is less expensive and apparently safer. Nevertheless, both of these
chelators can activate very high mercury levels from the bones and cause serious

problems, especially in sensitive individuals and neurological diseases. Therefore, I
generally prefer the slower but safer method of using careful cleansing diets together
with detoxifying natural supplements.
The pink color of dentures may be due to heavy metals, possibly mercury or
cadmium. If you cannot get a guarantee that the colouring is free of heavy metals, it
is safer to ask for clear plastic dentures made of methyl methacrylate or flexite for
partial dentures. Use plastic denture teeth rather than porcelain teeth that have a
metal base. Bridges and metal partials should be changed to clear plastic partial
dentures. Nickel, as in stainless steel, can suppress the immune system and is
generally classified as carcinogenic.
Even dental gold can be a problem because it is commonly blended with 20
percent of the more harmful palladium. A small amount of gold as for one crown may
be acceptable, but as a general rule keep your mouth free of all metals and make
sure only metal-free plastics are used as replacements. Nevertheless, any metal in
the mouth can lead to allergies, and on average about 30 percent of individuals are
allergic to the dental metal in their mouth.
After removal of bad or dead teeth, health problems can still arise or continue
from root or metal fragments or due to chronic infection and inflammation in the
jawbone. An experienced dentist can discover this with panoramic X-rays. If you
cannot do all of this to sanitize the inside of your mouth, just do the best you can and
do not worry. Compensate for any shortcomings here with a better diet and positive
thinking.
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Step 9
EXERCISE
Get into the habit of exercising regularly.
Adequate physical activity is one of the main requirements for achieving and
maintaining good health. Deep breathing while exercising is essential: Lack of
oxygen - becoming breathless - is harmful. You have probably heard of aerobics.
Aerobic exercises are those that can be maintained for long periods because the
heart and lungs can supply enough oxygen to the muscles. If insufficient oxygen
reaches the muscles, the exercise becomes anaerobic and causes a harmful buildup
of lactic acid in the tissues; this is commonly noticeable as sore muscles. Therefore,
when exercising, breathe more vigorously than required for the activity at hand;
increase the intensity of your exercises only gradually.
Arm and leg muscles should be regularly exercised. Supplement cycling,
walking, and jogging with push-ups; swimming in unchlorinated water is also good for
this. When jogging without running shoes, touch down with the ball of the foot and
use your ankle joints as cushions. By using these springs freely provided by nature
you cause less damage to your joints.
Everyday Physical Exercises: Depending on your body needs and
inclinations, you can perform many different exercises. The more important ones are
stretching, hanging from the hands or feet, using a rebounder, circling the pelvis,
head-and--shoulder stand, isometric exercises, scalp and face exercises (pulling
faces, tensing and relaxing scalp muscles), shaking to loosen the body, and slow
graceful and rhythmic movements with (or without) music. Hatha yoga exercises are
excellent for stretching and massaging the internal organs.
During the day, frequently stretch, tense, circle, or shake your muscles. Select a
time of the day or week for a more thorough workout. With advancing age, stretching
your muscles becomes increasingly more important. Lie on a large bed or carpeted
floor and move your limbs and spine in various positions to the limits of their range,
and then stretch them a bit farther. Try to let your body move on its own without
much mental direction. Do what feels good.
Rejuvenation Exercises: The following five exercises were first presented in
Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth by Peter Kelder. They are effective for
strengthening glandular activities and may help to rejuvenate the body if practiced
faithfully every day. Deep breathing during and between exercises is important.
Inhale and exhale during the slow movements between the two end-positions as
shown in Figure1-1.
Hold your breath in each end-position and tense all your muscles with maximum
effort. In one position, press the chin to the chest and pull the abdomen inwards and
up; in the other position, drop the head back as far as possible.
Pull your stomach in with your exhale in the lying position (Fig. 1a); in the
forward bending position (Fig. 1b); while sitting (Fig. 1c); and with the pelvis raised

(Fig. 1d). Start with a few exercises daily and gradually increase to 20 of each, but do
not strain yourself.
Figure 1-1: Rejuvenation Exercises

For a fifth rejuvenation exercise, spin or whirl 20 times with horizontally
outstretched arms. In the Northern Hemisphere, the instructions are to spin
clockwise; I have the impression that in the Southern Hemisphere anticlockwise
spinning is preferable. However, you may choose to spin in whichever direction
makes you feel better; use muscle testing to see what is best for you.
Inversion Exercises: Hanging upside down by your feet strengthens the
internal organs, drains lymph fluid from the lower part of the body, and flushes the
brain and face with blood. This exercise is especially good to delay or reverse
symptoms of aging. While in the inverted position, rhythmically tense and relax the
muscles of the face and neck and then the whole body. You can use inversion
equipment that lets you hang straight upside down, or a slant board that puts you at a
30 to 45 degree angle. If you are sufficiently athletic, you can also do a shoulder
stand, headstand, or handstand against a wall. You can do bicycling movements
while in the inverted position.
Caution: Do not invert yourself if Muscle Tensing: Tense and release one
your blood pressure is high and muscle after another, starting with one foot,
requires medical attention. then the other, working up towards the top of
the head. Inhale deeply, each time gradually
increasing the tension; hold for a few seconds, then slowly release the tension while
exhaling. Finally, tense all your muscles, starting with the feet and moving up to your
neck; simultaneously inhale deeply. Hold the whole body tightly tensed for several
seconds; then gradually release the muscles, starting with the neck, and moving
down to the feet, exhaling simultaneously.
If a particular organ or limb is weak, focus on it with repeated cycles of tension
and relaxation. Frequent tensing is especially important if you have to stay in bed for
a prolonged period. Do this exercise repeatedly during the day, whenever you
remember it. Tensing may be done in any position such as sitting, standing, or lying
down. It is easy to do while sitting at a desk all day: just take a deep breath, hold it for
a few seconds while tensing the whole body simultaneously, then relax during
exhalation.
Head and Neck Exercise: Slowly, but firmly, bend your head three times in
each direction, forward, backward, and sideways; try to let the head drop to each
side. Then move the head in circles, again slowly and firmly, three times in each
direction. This is excellent for strengthening the neck and is helpful in cases of head
congestion, eye and ear problems, and recurring headaches. In addition, you can
circle the head up to 100 times in each direction.
Body-Mind Exercise: Slowly move a stiff joint several times to the limit of its
range. Then imagine the same movement but with an extended range; repeat this
several times. Then move the actual limb again and see whether its range has
improved. The actual movements are easier if performed during slow exhalation.
Rebounding and Lymphacising: Rebounding may be better than jogging,
especially for those low in energy. You could even bounce on top of one or two
innerspring mattresses.
While you may develop a routine with various bounces, you can also use a
lymphacising program instead of this or in addition to it. This is designed to greatly

speed up the lymph circulation while energizing your body at the same time. While
lymphacising, remain with both feet firmly on the rebounder mat. Bounce gently up
and down, starting with just a few minutes and gradually increasing up to 10 or 15
minutes, three or four times daily; it is best done before meals and bedtime, and the
more often the better.
Keep your hands touching body areas in need of healing, such as a tumour
area, liver, kidneys, or wherever you feel discomfort. With each upward bounce, take
a sniff until your lungs are filled after ten to 20 sniffs, and then exhale again in sniffs.
Always try to fill and empty your lungs as completely as possible. If you do it right,
you should feel energized after the exercise.
Practicing “Good Use”: F. M. Alexander, the Australian formulator of the
Alexander Technique, developed the principle of “good use.” It means using your
body efficiently and with ease, maintaining maximum balance and coordination
between all of its parts. Most of us use our body poorly most of the time. By learning
good use, we can harmonize our posture and movements, and with this improve our
spine, muscular structure, even the functioning of our internal organs and glands. To
learn good use, we concentrate mainly on the way we sit, stand up, sit down, walk,
and breathe.
Start by exploring your present use in front of a mirror: Observe how you move
your head from side to side, up and down, how the shoulders move, how you talk
and breathe. Then try to practice the basic movements of good use: Move your head
up and away from the torso, but at the same time let the whole body ease upwards in
a movement that flattens and lengthens the spine.
When turning the head, moving it up or down, standing, sitting, walking, or lying
down, always let the head “float up,” which means away from the body and in line
with the spine. This is not just a position to be maintained but part of a continuous
process of easing the head up to lengthen the spine.
When you look at yourself at eye level, the neck should be straight and the chin
down. Watch that the back of your head is not dropped backward where it will
produce a hollow where the head joins the neck. Except when intentionally tilting the
head, there should be no hollow at this point. Watch that your head remain up and
your neck straight while you talk, sit down, stand up, or move in any other way.
Instead of directly moving your head upwards, think and feel it floating up. Let the
move be manifested through this thought and feeling.
Standing and Sitting: Another important aspect to watch is that your muscles
be relaxed when at rest. When standing, feel that your eyes, jaw, shoulders, and
abdomen are relaxed; when sitting, do the same for the thigh and calf muscles.
Check repeatedly because these muscles have a tendency to tense when we do not
watch them. Do the same when lying down: Check that all your muscles are relaxed.
When sitting down or standing up, your back and neck should remain in a
straight line. Only the joints at the ankles, knees, and hips should bend. When
standing up, lean forward by having your body follow your head. In this way, bend at
the hips, which creates a momentum that lifts you off the seat and brings you onto
your feet without any effort. Now you only need to straighten the three lower joints
and you can stand in front of the chair.

Exactly the reverse procedure takes place when sitting down. The arms are not
used in any way to push or swing when you’re standing up or sitting down. When
sitting, keep your head moving upwards in order to counteract the tendency to slump.
Check yourself frequently to be sure you sit straight but relaxed. When lifting
something from the floor, keep your back and neck straight and bend only at the
ankle, knee, and hip joints.
Walking: When walking, touch down lightly with the full foot, not just with the
heel. While the other foot is brought forward, the whole body weight now rests on the
foot on the ground. Start rolling your weight off this foot by lifting your heel. In this
way rise onto the ball of the foot and even onto the toes. This creates a strong
momentum that propels you forward without any effort. Repeat the same process
with the other foot.
The important part of walking is rising onto the toes, which gives you a light,
bouncing step, as if you’re walking on air. Your spine and neck remain in a straight
line, your shoulders relaxed. The arms swing gently, as opposite arm and leg move
at the same time. When climbing steps, rise onto your toes in the same way as for
walking. (For more information, see “The Complete Guide to the Alexander
Technique” and other information at www.alexandertechnique.com.)
Correct Breathing: Generally, we breathe just enough for the activity at hand.
However, to prepare for action it is beneficial to supercharge your body with oxygen
by breathing more deeply than you need. This makes you more energetic, helps to
cleanse the body, and neutralizes overacid conditions. Practice deep breathing in
fresh air. Watch that during normal breathing your lower rib cage is moving.
However, during sedentary activities it is preferable to breathe as slowly and deeply
as possible. This helps to relax both body and mind. Therefore, by deliberately over-
breathing we create useful tension, and by under-breathing we practice relaxation.
Here are some tips on breathing exercises:
Watching the Breath: This is a relaxing exercise to still the mind. Mentally follow
the breath flowing in and out but without any attempt to control it.
Full Breath: Inhale for several seconds, consciously filling first the lowest part of
the lungs, causing the abdomen to lift. Then expand the middle part and finally the
upper part of the chest. Hold the breath for several seconds then slowly release it,
starting with the upper chest; end by contracting the abdomen. After about four
seconds, start a new cycle.
Abdominal Breathing: This is important for people with breathing problems.
Place a hand on the abdomen and feel it rise and fall without your chest moving.
Adopt abdominal breathing whenever an acute breathing problem develops.
Long Exhaling: This is good for people with obvious or hidden anxieties and for
those who need to establish a proper orgasm reflex. While standing, exhale for about
ten seconds in one continuous sweep. Near the end, the shoulders move forward,
the buttocks press together, and the pelvis moves forward and upward in an
involuntary movement. A long, gentle exhalation also helps to relax body and mind
and may be used to direct energies and relax specific muscles. Inhale quickly in
about one or two seconds and then exhale slowly for about ten seconds. During
exhalation, focus your attention on a specific part of the body and imagine the breath

energy flowing into it, making it feel warm and expansive. Use this to reduce muscle
tension and pain or to relax the whole body, starting with the feet and gradually
working your way upwards to the head.
Super-breathing (Hyperventilation): This is to quickly saturate the body with
oxygen. Quickly and deeply—at the rate of about one or two cycles per second—
inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth. Stop when you begin to feel
dizzy. A slower, but more sustained form of super-breathing, done through the nose
only, can be adopted during energy healing, or before and during heavy physical
work or exercises.
Hara Breathing: Sit or lie, relaxed, with the hands folded as in prayer or over the
abdomen, left palm on the navel, right hand on top. Inhale gently through the nose,
hold the breath, and exhale through the mouth; each period lasts five seconds. While
inhaling, touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue. Accompany this with
abdominal breathing. Envisage with each breath that life energy fills the abdomen;
feel it as warm and tingling. Hara is a Japanese word for the centre and storehouse
of vital energy located just below the navel.
Alternate Nostril Breathing: This is helpful for balancing body polarities. Close
the right nostril with a finger and inhale through the left nostril, then close the left
nostril and exhale through the right nostril. Inhale through the right nostril, and exhale
through the left one, and so on. Several rounds of this are good at the start of
meditation.
Eight–Two Breathing: This may be used for stilling the mind and emotions
during meditation or spiritual healing. Inhale for a count of eight, hold for two, exhale
for eight, hold for two, and so on. The flow of the breath should be smooth and
harmonious.
Skin and Organ Breathing: For improving a particular part of your body, imagine
and feel your breath moving through this part during inhalation and exhalation. As an
example, for improving the liver, feel the breath as a cool stream penetrating your
liver. When holding the breath, feel a slight pressure in the liver area and an
increasing warmth.
Vocal Exercises: Sounds have a strong influence on us, and music particularly
can have a profound effect on our emotions. Mantras (special words or sounds) are
used in certain techniques of meditation to achieve particular effects. Much stronger
is the impact of our own voice on our body. If properly pronounced, each vowel
produces a vibration in a specific body part, mainly the large cavities. If you cannot
feel a resonance vibration, just imagine it.
Produce the sounds as clearly as possible. Take a full breath and sing each
vowel forcefully in different intonations. If your voice is low and deep, try to produce
the sounds in the front of the mouth; if you have a high-pitched voice, make the
vowels vibrate deeper down the throat.
Feel the resonance of each vowel in the indicated body cavity. The lower the
body cavity in which you want to experience the sound, the deeper or lower you
should try to make the sound. Initially, use each vowel in turn, then concentrate on
the ones most appropriate to your condition. Select and use vowels according to
resonance areas. A high-pitched “I” sound may be used to stimulate the brain as well

as the pineal and pituitary glands. Imagine the sound vibrating from the centre of
your brain.
Vowel Resonance Areas
This table shows the correct intonation of vowels and the body cavities, which
they stimulate if properly performed. Try to grade the vowels with the highest note for
“I” and the lowest for “U”
I Bee Head
E Fairy Throat
A Father Upper Chest
O Coma Lower Chest, Upper Abdomen
U Zulu Lower Abdomen
If you make the sounds properly, you will feel the vibrations in your throat and
mouth and possibly in your lips and cheeks as well. When you leave a tiny gap
between your teeth, you should be able to feel them vibrating strongly. This effect is
usually strongest with the “m” or “om” sound. Also try to vibrate your tongue with a
rolling “r” sound. If correctly done, you can feel these vibrations energizing the whole
structure of the head, bones as well as tissue.
Instead of sounding “om,” you can intonate “a-u-m” or “a-o-u-m” in sequence
with the same breath. Gradually lower the sound, and try to feel the vowels vibrating
in the appropriate resonance areas. Feel the “m” sound moving up the spine with the
pitch gradually rising higher, ending at the centre of the brain.
Singing is an excellent vocal therapy, so try it often. Listen to stimulating,
sedating, or uplifting music according to your needs. Lie down in a relaxed position
and become fully immersed in the sounds. Feel something inside you moving,
expanding, rising in resonance with the music. Try singing along.
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Step10
THE HEALING CRISIS
Sooner or later you are bound to have a healing crisis,
so use it to your advantage.
Even on their first clinical visit, I routinely recommended that my patients adopt
a high-quality, low-allergen diet. When they came back two or three weeks later, they
often said they felt much better but that a week earlier they had had a cold. When
asked about the symptoms, these turned out to be mainly a profuse mucus discharge
or sometimes diarrhoea, but rarely were there signs of infection. These patients had
experienced their first healing crisis on their path to better health.
This shows us the general principles of a healing crisis. With each crisis or
reaction, there is a temporary worsening of the condition, with either new symptoms
appearing or existing ones getting worse. This is the result of toxins being mobilized
for elimination by the body in what is clinically known as the Herxheimer effect.
However, after the healing reaction, we reach a higher level of health than before.
This concept of a healing crisis clearly shows the opposite perceptions in drug-
based medicine and holistic medicine regarding health and the healing process. In
drug medicine, it is assumed that a patient who is free of disease symptoms is more
or less healthy, and the aim of drugs is to achieve this condition by removing
disagreeable symptoms. Frequently, alternative medicine is used in the same way;
instead of toxic drugs, benign natural remedies are used. This is what most patients
want, and according to their beliefs, they use either drugs or natural remedies to
eliminate symptoms.
However, holistic medicine, following in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century
Nature Cure movement, aims higher. Here, health is regarded not just as a
temporary absence of disease symptoms, but as a state of profound physical,
emotional, and mental well-being so that we cannot develop a disease.
Animals living in an unspoiled natural habitat commonly display this kind of
health. If we want to come close to such outstanding health, we have to work for it by
consciously minimizing the multitude of negative influences on our health and by
maximizing the positive factors instead.
Experience shows we do not follow a straight line of health improvement or
deterioration. Similar to the way periods of illness are interspersed amidst relative
well-being on the long road to chronic degenerative diseases and death, we have
ups and downs on the road to superior health. The main difference is that the road to
deteriorating health slopes downhill while the road to superior health goes up.
Travelling downhill is easy; we do not need to do anything about it, but
improving our health requires consistent effort, and it can seem like an uphill climb.
Contrary to the lengthy periods of ill health on the downhill road, the dips on the uphill
road are usually short and sharp. Such a dip is called a “healing crisis,” although I
prefer the less dramatic names “healing reaction,” “cleansing reaction,” or simply
“reaction.”

After each reaction, we advance to a higher level of health than we had before
the reaction. Holistic therapists realize that the road to better health follows a definite
pattern, once known as Hering’s Law of Cure (from homeopathy), which says: “All
cure starts from within out, from the head down, and in reverse order as the
symptoms have appeared.”
The emotional side of our health problems is important as well. Each disease,
accident, or surgical intervention contains a strong emotional component that needs
to be re-experienced during a reaction. Otherwise, the healing will remain incomplete
and the problem will present itself again at a later time for healing at a deeper level.
This also means that the body selects the kind of healing crisis that is most
appropriate at the time, taking into consideration its needs and abilities to have a
certain area healed or improved. We can consciously influence this choice by
working on a particular problem. I’ve noticed that the “body self” tries to select a
timing that does not disable us during important upcoming events. No doubt we are
guided on our healing path by our inner intelligence that has our best interests at
heart.
In the beginning, our healing reactions will be mainly on the physical or
biological level, but increasingly we will experience the release of emotional blocks
and changes in consciousness, preparing us for greater activity on the spiritual level.
Patterns of Healing: In every healing, the sequence of our health deterioration
will automatically be retraced. This means that old, long-forgotten disease symptoms
may suddenly flare up again in the form of a healing crisis. The reason for this is
based on the nature of disease.
At first, when the body is still vital, it reacts forcefully against pathogenic
invaders; the resulting battle causes fever and inflammation. If the body is not strong
enough to win completely, the acute battle symptoms will eventually subside, with the
remaining invaders leading a somewhat subdued existence in a weakened gland or
organ. Repeated attacks will result in the degeneration of this body part, causing
chronic disease.
At some stage on the road towards health, the body will feel strong enough to
start the fight again to heal the diseased organ; when it does, inflammation will result.
Such healing reactions are usually short-lived but can be intense. If one supports the
body during this period with rest and cleansing diets, then the organ will eventually
acquire a much better level of health than before the flare-up. If, however, drugs are
used to suppress the healing symptoms, then the inflamed organ will return to its
subacute, chronic condition and wait for another opportunity to heal itself.
The healing pattern of other health problems that are not related to
immunological processes and infections follows a similar line to this. Healing takes
place on many different levels: at the biochemical within cells; in the blood circulation;
in the nervous system; and especially in the flow of bioenergies (such as chi, as
described by acupuncture). Healing activity will be increased on all of these levels.
At the bioenergetic level, the increased energy flow may cause congestion at
various places, in the weak body part itself as well as in related acupuncture points
and zone reflex areas. Excess energy in such places may be noticed as pain, heat,
or tension - the common symptoms of inflammation. Eventually the body will clear the

obstruction in the energy flow. We can support this process with specific healing
methods or by healthy living practices in general. However, trying to suppress any
acute inflammation may leave the body part permanently weak. Inflammation in itself
is a healing energy release, and it is best overcome by removing the blockages in the
energy flow.
Frequently there will be periods of greatly increased bowel activity or diarrhea.
This is due to the detoxifying action of the liver. These toxic waste products are very
irritating to the intestinal wall and the body tries to flush them out as quickly as
possible to avoid intestinal discomfort and headaches. Do not try to suppress this
process but you may try to ease it with frequent drinks of psyllium which help to bind
the toxins and solidify the bowel content.
Skin Reactions: Another common form of healing reaction is the development
of a rash or other skin problem, especially over a weak body part, such as, for
instance, at a hip or shoulder. This skin reaction signifies that the energy that has
been bound internally in this area in the form of muscle armouring, stiffness, and
accumulated metabolic wastes is now surfacing and dissipating. Thus the affected
joint or limb will become much freer and stronger. However, if the skin reaction is
interfered with and made to go away prematurely, then the suppressed energy and
metabolic wastes will remain in that body part, keeping it in a state of pain or
weakness.
Thus there usually is no need to interfere directly with skin reactions or other
healing symptoms. On the contrary, that may only drive the problem “underground” to
affect internal organs and body structures. Natural healers have noticed that by
artificially producing a rash over an arthritic joint, the joint greatly improves, but when
a rash over a joint is artificially suppressed, then arthritic symptoms may appear in
that joint.
This observation applies only to healing reactions, not to possibly infected or
chronically inflamed skin areas which may be treated with antimicrobials and
alkalizers in addition to nutritional therapy.
You may learn much about yourself, your body, health problems, and emotional
reactions by patiently observing the healing process instead of rushing to do
something about it. What you should do, however, is live healthily, cleanse the body,
helping the suppressed energy to come out and dissipate, and be optimistic about it
all.
Frequently, boils and increased mucus discharge, as in colds, arise during the
initial stages of the healing process. Sometimes they start one or two weeks after you
improve your diet and begin to take supplements. This indicates that your organs of
elimination are congested. During such times, take little food, but instead consume
generous amounts of herb teas, fresh vegetable juices, and pure water, and ideally
go on a cleansing diet. Such healing crises may appear from time to time, separated
by weeks, months, or even years, bringing you ever closer to your goal of superior
health.
Listen to Your Body: Some further problems may develop during your
program of health improvement. Formerly, the body response may have been dulled
- it did not even react to harmful foods or drugs - but now the reaction is often

immediate and forceful. Foods that you may have eaten habitually before going on a
cleansing diet can now suddenly cause a gastrointestinal upset, making you feel sick
and miserable for days. However, such reactions do not need to happen if you take
proper precautions: Find out to which foods you are allergic and try to avoid these. If
you eat in restaurants and do not know what to expect, take plenty of digestive
enzymes and lecithin during the meal, and try to eat foods in correct combination; if
allergy symptoms appear, use alkalizers together with sodium ascorbate to mitigate
their effects.
Your body now trusts that you will not hurt it anymore in the old ways. But if you
do, your body is very “offended” and lets you (your mind) know about it in no
uncertain terms. This is the most effective language the body has. However, if you
learn to listen, your body will first try to tell you about its requirements in a more
subtle way such as in intestinal rumbling, an itch, a slight muscle weakness, a
passing pain. There are numerous ways a body expresses its needs, and each body
has its own language of symptoms.
If you are honest and persistent in your desire to become a “friend” to your
body, it will eventually let you know its needs, its likes, and dislikes; you will
rediscover your lost body instincts. This is what we should aim for: to become
independent of outside expert advice and do what our body tells us is right to do, not
only in nutrition, but in everyday living.
While one can usually gain relatively quick relief from distressing symptoms,
rebuilding a strong and healthy body is a slow process. It requires a great deal of
experimenting to find your optimal individual conditions for healing and it needs your
solid determination to carry through with a program over the years.
The Progress of Healing: Generally, recently acquired chronic weaknesses
are the first to flare up and become healed, while our oldest and most persistent
health problems are the last to yield. Thus there appears to be an orderly sequence
to our health improvement. Healing proceeds in a wave pattern on an upward slope.
On the peak of a wave we feel much improved, while in a trough we experience
cleansing activity or a healing reaction and feel sick. The overall movement,
however, is towards greater well-being.
The body always tries to heal itself and an acute inflammation is an important
tool for this purpose. An inflammation makes the walls of the blood vessels porous to
allow an increased flow of lymph fluid to move immune cells in and move
accumulated toxins out. At this stage it is just an acute inflammation and we can
choose to turn it into a healing crisis by supporting the body mentally and
nutritionally, or we can choose to suppress the acute condition and return ourselves
to a chronic degenerative condition.
Therefore, anything that suppresses an acute inflammation prevents healing of
the affected area. This includes not only anti-inflammatory drugs and remedies, but
also strong alkalizers that reduce the release of histamine. The pain and heat in the
inflamed area are the price we have to pay for healing.
However, anti-inflammatory agents and alkalizers have their role in easing the
discomfort of a chronic inflammation until the body has been nutritionally and
mentally prepared for a healing reaction. Further, the symptoms during a reaction

may either be too severe or come at an inopportune time. You can lessen or
temporarily stop them by adding cooked food to a raw food cleansing diet, by
alkalizing the body, or by using anti-inflammatory remedies.
Usually, we can select a suitable time for a healing crisis by starting a strict
cleanse on raw food only, especially fresh vegetable juices, or fruit or vegetable
salads. A fruit cleanse is more suitable for insensitive individuals (less allergy-prone),
while vegetables are much better for an overacid and sensitive body.
One of the main factors reducing the severity of any symptoms is a clean
bowel, regardless of whether the reaction was triggered deliberately or involuntarily.
The easiest way to achieve this is by taking a tablespoon of Epsom salt in water at
bedtime or upon rising in the morning. If no solid food is used, then take a teaspoon
of psyllium hulls several times daily in a glass of unchlorinated water; too little water
can cause constipation (refer to Step 3 for more information).
You can further support your body with light, enjoyable outdoors activity. Prayer
and meditation or guided imagery are also recommended.
As you can see, there is no simple path to completely avoiding health-related
discomfort. We can only choose in which way we want to “suffer.” We can either
deliberately and cheerfully endure unpleasant healing crises with the promise of
better health to follow; or we can expect to suffer involuntarily and in an uncontrolled
way from chronic degenerative diseases as we get older. The choice is yours.
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Part 2
NATURAL HEALING METHODS
This chapter contains a selection of natural healing methods, presented in a

concise form suitable for do-it-yourself healing and experimentation. It is especially
useful in the context of healing groups. You will find diagnostic methods followed by
selected therapeutic methods. However, several of these overlap and can be used
for both diagnosis and treatment. Experiment with those methods that appeal to you
while disregarding others.
In conventional medicine, diagnosis is extremely important because the
predominant use of surgery and toxic drugs directed against specific disease
symptoms leaves little room for error. Holistic healing, on the other hand, aims to
improve the overall health of the patient, so diagnosis is less important. Healthy
living, which includes correct nutrition and mind control, in combination with various
nonspecific healing methods, will be enough in many cases to lift one’s health to
such an extent that, even without diagnosis, diseases and their symptoms gradually
disappear.
However, improvement may be faster and easier, especially in serious
conditions, if you concentrate additional healing efforts on specific glands or organs.
Here, diagnosis is -useful in pinpointing the areas most in need. Generally, the aim of
diagnosis in holistic healing is to assess whether an organ, gland, or other part is
overactive or underactive; whether energy flows are too strong or too weak; or
whether there are deficiencies or harmful outside influences, attitudes, or emotions.
Worldwide, an emerging and especially active area of the healing arts is
electro-medicine. This includes a multitude of diagnostic and therapeutic instruments
from simple to very elaborate and computer-programmed. While some of these have
a long track record, including mainstream medical use in Germany, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) has either outlawed many of these products or
actively discourages their use. In view of this, and also because of the evolving and
constantly changing nature of this whole area, I recommend getting the newest
information from the Internet. Look for key words such as Rife technology, BEFE
(bio-electric field enhancer), electro-acupuncture, electrodermal screening, electronic
blood purifier, zapper, and magnetic pulser. For the definitive publication in this area,
see Bio-electromagnetic Medicine, with contributions by a wide range of scientists
and medical researchers, and edited by Paul J. Rosch, clinical professor of Medicine
and Psychiatry, New York Medical College, with Marko Markov of the Mount Sinai
Medical School.
Here then is a selection of practical methods you can use to improve your
health and that of your family and friends.
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Step 11
GENERAL EXAMINATION
Examine yourself to assess your state of health.
Testing Body Fluids: Tests in this step are recommended as a way to get to
know and monitor your body rather than to replace medical diagnosis. Urine dipstick
tests, available at most pharmacies, give indications of pH (acid-alkaline balance),
kidney function (protein status), diabetes (glucose), fat metabolism (ketones), urinary
tract infections (blood, nitrites), liver and gallbladder function, and blood stability
(bilirubin, urobilinogen). Cloudiness in a fresh urine sample, for example, may be due
to urates, phosphates, pus, dead bacteria, or inadequate liquid intake.
A dipstick test for vitamin C is available in some countries; otherwise you can
test by adding ten drops of a five-percent silver-nitrate solution to ten drops of your
urine in a test tube. Read it after two minutes. A white precipitate shows vitamin C
deficiency; if beige, a small amount of vitamin C is present; if gray, your vitamin C
status is good. During severe infections, sufficient vitamin C should be given to cause
a charcoal-like appearance in the test fluid. From the colours of these dipsticks, you
can clearly see whether the result is normal or whether there is a problem, in which
case you can repeat the test from time to time or seek professional advice. (Caution:
Silver nitrate badly stains skin and garments.)
Low-cost instruments are now available for measuring the level of glucose in
the blood. In a standard glucose-tolerance test, 100 g of glucose, or 2 g per kg body
weight, are given in water to the fasting patient. Blood and urine samples are tested
every 30 minutes. A test for diabetes can be terminated after two or three hours,
while for hypoglycaemia, test for five hours. Diabetes is suspected when the glucose
level peaks and remains higher than normal.
Hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) is more difficult to evaluate and may be
suspected if the blood sugar curve shows a high plateau or remains flat, if it shows a
steep drop, or if it falls below the fasting level. In addition, test the soft-palate pH (in
the mouth) before and after the test. Greatly increased acidity shows inefficient use
of glucose. Frequently, the blood sugar reaction depends on the source of the
glucose or carbohydrate; that is, an abnormal blood glucose level may be caused by
an allergy response to a particular carbohydrate.
Pulse and Blood Pressure: Take the pulse while sitting and standing. To find
the pulse, lightly press with the pads of three fingers on the inside of the wrist of the
other hand just below the pad of the thumb. Adrenal stress (predisposition to
allergies) may be indicated if the rate is higher when standing than sitting.
Statistically, the average pulse rate for men is 72 per minute and 80 for women.
Physical activity, raised temperature, infections, an overactive thyroid gland, strong
emotions, and allergies increase the pulse rate. An irregular pulse may indicate heart
disease, potassium or magnesium deficiency in the heart muscle, or an allergy.
Sometimes the pulse is irregular only under stress, for example, when standing or
running. If there appears to be a problem, check again on subsequent days under
different conditions.

Blood pressure is measured with a sphygmomanometer and is important for
body balancing and assessing nutritional requirements. The normal readings are
120/80 mm Hg (millimetres of mercury). The upper value is produced when the heart
contracts (systolic pressure) and mainly indicates the rigidity or elasticity of the main
arteries. The lower reading (diastolic pressure) occurs when the heart dilates and
indicates the amount of tension or relaxation in the small peripheral blood vessels.
The difference between both readings is the pulse pressure. The normal pulse
pressure is about 40. To obtain an indication of the metabolic rate (how fast or how
slow the body produces energy from food) multiply the pulse pressure by the resting
pulse rate. The
average value is
2800 plus or minus
500. A value higher
than 3300 indicates
an overactive
thyroid, while a
result lower than
2300 indicates an
underactive thyroid.
A fall in blood
pressure when
standing compared
with sitting indicates
adrenal stress.
Sometimes a low blood pressure when sitting will rise when standing because of
increased tension. The blood pressure of healthy adults does not rise with increasing
age. The most common causes for high blood pressure are arterial hardening and
congestion, kidney problems, and allergies.
Examination of Organs: While the person to be examined lies relaxed on the
back, exert direct pressure on the organs to be tested. Inflamed or infected
conditions will usually be indicated by tenderness. Of special importance is the liver;
to gauge liver health, press gently under the front of the right rib cage. Press into the
stomach, at the lower end of the sternum, and all around the abdomen, to check the
small and large intestines. If most of these intestinal areas are tender, you can
suspect an overgrowth of Candida albicans in the gastrointestinal tract.
Reflexes can be tested by striking with the edge of the hand just underneath
the kneecap. Normally the leg will give a slight jerk. Absent or very strong jerks may
indicate nervous system diseases and a need to seek professional help. Another test
involves stroking the inside of the sole of the foot (called Babinski’s reflex). In a
normal condition, the toes will contract and draw together. In cases of central
nervous system disease (and in newborn infants), the toes will fan out and be drawn
back.
The thyroid gland is situated on both sides of the lower neck; if it is underactive,
you may feel sluggish and have difficulty losing weight. To see whether your thyroid
is underactive, measure the temperature under your tongue for ten minutes on three
consecutive mornings before getting out of bed. Premenopausal women should do
this on the second, third, and fourth day of the menses. The temperature should be

97.8°F (36.5°C) or higher. If it is consistently below this, your thyroid is likely
underactive. You should then consume foods high in iodine, such as seafood and
kelp, and also take selenium to stimulate your thyroid functions. Dental problems,
such as dead teeth and mercury amalgam fillings, are important causative factors of
thyroid problems, so use metal-free dentistry (see Step 8).
Other tests can be performed according to the skill and specialization of the
examiner. The tongue, skin, hair, eyes, and nails can give valuable health
information. Energy patterns can be assessed from Kirlian photography; measuring
devices for acupuncture energies can reveal the meridian flows as well as the vitality
of specific organs before and after treatment and at consecutive visits.
Self-examination of organs can be difficult. If you are in doubt about what you
have found, consult a professional. Low-cost diagnostic instruments such as a
sphygmomanometer, stethoscope, and eye, ear, nose and throat instruments can
often be obtained from Chinese importers of acupuncture equipment.
Hair Analysis: For an assessment of your long-term mineral status, you can
send a sample of your head hair to a specialized laboratory for analysis. (You can
find an address for a laboratory on the Internet or in the advertisements of health
magazines, or ask a naturo-path.) However, interpretation of the results is difficult,
because mineral levels in hair are not directly related to the mineral levels in blood or
cells. As the mineral content of the hair reflects the long-term mineral distribution
inside the cells, it is often more useful than a serum mineral analysis.
Generally, the ratio between key elements is more important than certain high
or low values taken in isolation. An abnormal ratio indicates problems with the
various systems or organs. Important ideal ratios (and the body systems affected)
are as follows:
• Zinc:copper = 8:1. Needed for the cardiovascular system, female reproductive

system, liver functions.
• Zinc:manganese = 150:1. Muscles and skeletal system, collagen, cholesterol.
• Calcium:zinc = 3:1. Cardiovascular and kidney functions, bones and joints.
• Sodium:potassium = 2:1. Adrenal glands and glandular system.
• Calcium:magnesium = 8:1. Cardiovascular system, bones and joints, dietary
imbalance.
• Iron:copper = 2.5:1. Indicates condition of blood and energy production through
respiration.
• Here are some clinically significant patterns:
• Elevated levels of toxic minerals such as mercury, lead, or cadmium indicate you
need to detoxify.
• Low sodium, potassium, chromium, and manganese indicate glucose
intolerance.

• Elevated calcium and magnesium in the correct ratio indicate nutritionally
induced hyperparathyroidism (overactive parathyroid glands) due to excess
dietary phosphorus (for example, from meat and soft drinks).
• Low levels of most polyvalent elements; including copper, iron, manganese,
chromium, and selenium, indicate malabsorption, with possible lack of gastric
acid.
There is an interesting nutritional pattern connected with criminal behaviour.
Violent, imprisoned criminals generally have one of two mineral-correlated behaviour
patterns. With a high copper-to-zinc ratio, low sodium, potassium, and manganese
but high lead and cadmium levels, they have extreme mood swings, poor ability to
handle stress, and occasional violent behaviour. They tend to feel remorse for their
actions. With the other pattern of iron, calcium, potassium, and sodium high in
addition to high cadmium and lead, with low copper and zinc, such people are often
violent and cruel, fascinated by fire, and exhibit no conscience or remorse. (For
further information, see Diagnostic Usefulness of Trace Elements in Human Hair, by
Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D.)
Face and Tongue: Face diagnosis is widely practiced in Chinese and
Japanese medical traditions. Generally, the forehead corresponds to the nervous
system, the middle part of the face to the circulation, and below the nose to the
digestion. More specifically, the eyes are related to the liver and partly to the spleen;
the nose to the lungs and heart; and the mouth and lips to the digestive functions.
To give a few examples, fluid sacs under the eyes are generally attributed to
poor kidney function, especially if they are dark purple or bluish in colour, while with a
puffy brown appearance they implicate the liver. Heart and lung problems may be
indicated by a red or purple, swollen or bulbous nose. Soft, hanging lower lips show a
weak muscle tone of the intestines. If the mouth is kept open most of the time, this
shows severe metabolic imbalances and weakness.
The tongue is also a diagnostic tool. The tip of the tongue corresponds to the
heart, the edges to the liver and gallbladder, the centre to the stomach and spleen;
between the tip and the centre are the lungs; and at the root or back of the tongue
are the kidneys, intestines, uterus, and bladder. The underside reflects the circulation
in the corresponding areas. A white coating is related to congestion of the intestines;
a red tongue may indicate B-vitamin deficiencies or inflammation; a bluish colour
indicates coldness, underactivity, and poor circulation in the indicated areas. A yellow
or brownish coating may indicate liver problems and cracks may be due to
overacidity, allergies, and deficiencies.
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Step 12
IRIS DIAGNOSIS
Study your eyes to find out more about internal conditions of your body.
The iris is like a map of the body - changes in certain organs are reflected in
specific parts of the iris. The right iris shows the condition of the right side of the
body, while the left iris reflects the left side. The exact relationship between iris and
body parts can be seen from the iris chart below. Iris diagnosis is also known as
iridology.
In health, the iris is composed of densely structured fine, straight lines,
radiating from the pupil to the outer rim. A close grain, similar to that of hardwood,
indicates a strong inherited vitality and good recuperative powers in the case of
temporary illness. If the fibres are loosely spread, as in softwood, the basic health is
weak.
In poor health these lines become separated and distorted, forming various
patterns, called markings. Very weak organs often show elliptically formed grey
markings - so-called closed lesions resembling knots in wood. In poor health many of
these closed lesions may be found in the iris, indicating areas in which the circulation
is stagnating. If these lesions are not 'walled in', but open at one end or both, this
indicates that despite a weakness the circulation in this area is good.
Colour Changes: Start by studying your own eyes in a mirror. Then look at the
eyes of friends and relatives. Use a magnifying glass and a torch held at the side of
the eye. Make a coloured copy of your own eyes or those of a friend, and compare it
with the iris chart. Study the general colour pattern. Markings are much easier to
detect in blue than in brown eyes. Often there will be brownish discolourations in blue
or green eyes extending outward from the pupil. This area belongs to the intestines.
The brown colour change indicates that there is a deterioration of the digestive
system, usually associated with inherited liver and gall bladder weakness.
Frequently, the eyes of babies change from blue to brownish within days or
weeks of the baby's introduction to cows' milk. Often allergy symptoms are present
simultaneously, for example, eczema, respiratory and digestive difficulties. These
colour changes may also occur in breastfed babies if the mother uses cows' milk or
its products. Presumably this change may already occur in the foetus.
The brown colour of genuinely brown eyes comes from melanin pigments,
while pathological brown colour changes originate from oxidised lipoproteins (for
example, lipofuscin) and possibly from the breakdown products of blood colouring
agents (for example, bilirubin). Additional discolouration may result from drug
deposits.
Sometimes there is so much brown it is difficult to detect the original colour.
Organ areas that border the intestinal ring where it shows strong markings are likely
to suffer from reflected weaknesses. White in the iris indicates overactivity, irritation,
acidity, infection, inflammation or catarrh of the corresponding body part. In some
eyes the whole iris shows much white; in others it is concentrated in certain areas
only.

Generally, a brown discolouration means that cows' milk products, saturated
fats (all fats that are solid at room temperature), chemicals and stimulants should be
avoided as much as possible. A very white discolouration indicates mucus
congestion. Therefore, mucus-forming foods should be avoided - gluten, refined
carbohydrates, wheat, lactose, oranges and anything mouldy.
Gradually, an organ may change from an inflamed to a chronically weak
condition. The white in the iris will simultaneously change to grey; the darker the
grey, the weaker the organ. During health improvement you may watch the reverse
process: the grey areas becoming lighter in colour, then white and finally restored to
the original colour - a process that takes many years.
Generally, white markings indicate a need for sedating, anti-inflammatory
treatment of the associated organ, while grey or brown areas show a need for
strengthening and stimulation.
IRIS CHARTS
Abbreviations: ADREN = Adrenal Gland, AP. = Appendix, G.B. = Gall-bladder,
P. = Pineal Gland, PA. =Pancreas, PIT. = Pituitary Gland, S.P. = Solar Plexus.
Common Conditions:
PUPIL REFLEX: If a pupil does not contract when a bright light shines on to it,
this indicates dulled nerve reflexes, weak adrenal glands or an overstimulated
sympathetic nervous system, often from fear as a hidden, chronic condition. Adrenal
stress is indicated if the pupils begin to expand and contract repeatedly when
exposed to bright light for 30 seconds.
NERVE WREATH: A strong, white and almost circular outline of the intestinal
area - the nerve wreath - indicates a good Condition of the autonomic nervous
system. If this outline is weak, jagged, discoloured, or extends far towards the
periphery or the pupil, we may assume the autonomic nervous system is in a poor

condition. The normal position of the nerve wreath is one-third the distance between
the pupil and the periphery; if the nervous system is tense and overactive, the wreath
is closer to the pupil, and if the nervous system is relaxed and under-active it is
closer to the periphery.
NERVE RINGS: White circles or arcs of circles in the outer part of the iris. They
indicate a tense, over-reactive, irritated nervous system. The outermost iris zones
represent the lymphatic and circulation system and, bordering the sclera, the skin.
DISCOLOURED STOMACH AREA: In a normal condition the stomach area is
not visible, but if the stomach is irritated the area bordering the pupil will be whitish
and distinct from the intestinal area. A brownish discolouration of the stomach area
indicates a chronic weakness.
DISCOLOURED INTESTINAL AREA: A whitish intestinal area indicates
inflammation, irritation or ulcers; avoid gluten products, lactose, spices and acid
foods; use mucilaginous supplements (fenugreek, slippery elm, comfrey, linseed),
brown rice, and the outer parts of potatoes. If there is a mucous congestion in the
head, there is a whitish or brownish discolouration in the transverse colon area,
radiating towards ear and brain. If chronically weak, this area will be dark.
RADIAL BLACK LINES: When there is a serious deterioration of the
intestines, strong black lines (radii solaris) will develop, starting from the pupil and
radiating towards the periphery. Organs through which these radii pass will be very
weak as well.
UNUSUAL MARKINGS: Distinct markings may be coloured brown, red or
yellow. Unusual colours indicate deposits of drugs or other chemicals that settle in
weak organs.
WHITE OUTER RING: A heavy white ring near the outer edge of the iris points
to salt (sodium) and calcium deposits. Avoid salt, drink plenty of water, possibly use
potassium and magnesium supplements, and natural vitamin D; improve kidney
activities.
BLUISH-WHITE FILM: A bluish-white film beginning to cover the iris from the
outer rim indicates poor circulation to this area and an anaemic condition. Often this
film appears in the brain area, indicating approaching senility (arcus senilis).
DARK OUTER RING: A dark ring at the outer rim (scurf rim) shows the skin is
inactive with accumulated wastes, and needs frequent stimulation, better circulation
and improved kidney and lung activities.
LYMPHATIC ROSARY: A series of white spots near the outer rim, the
'lymphatic rosary', indicates chronic infection and congestion of the lymphatic system.
Avoid especially lactose and cows' milk products (except butter).
It may require years to become an expert in iridology, but the basic rules given
here will already enable you to form a well-founded judgement about the condition of
your body. You may also be able to help other people if you have this knowledge.
Experiment and you will soon find iridology a valuable and fascinating tool. The most
extensive information in book form on iridology is available from Bernhard Jensen,
mainly his book Iridology Volume 2.

Sclerology: In sclera diagnosis or sclerology, the location and shape of the
blood vessels visible in the sclera, the white of the eye, are interpreted. Generally
only the problem areas are indicated, not the nature of the complaint. Sclerology may
show that the function of an organ is disturbed, but not whether it is overactive or
under-active. It helps if you have good light and a magnifying glass for examination.
To inspect the lower part of the sclera, let the examinee look up while you pull
down the lower eyelid; to look at the upper part, the examinee should look down
while you gently roll up the upper lid; examine the outside while the examinee looks
toward the other eye and the inner part of the sclera while looking away from the
other eye.
Generally a blood vessel pointing towards a certain organ reflex in the iris
indicates that there is something wrong with that organ or part of the body. The
stronger the blood vessel is visible and also the more of them are bunching together,
the worse is the problem. A bluish colour of the sclera indicates under-activity.
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Step 13
MUSCLE TESTING
Test your muscle strength to see whether a food
or remedy is good or bad for you.
Our muscles respond to many external as well as internal influences by

becoming stronger or weaker. In muscle testing, the change in muscle strength is
assessed before and during contact with a test item. This may be, for example, a
food sample, a colour or a piece of material. Internal influences are our thoughts and
feelings, which may either strengthen or weaken us.
The reason for the muscle changes can be explained by the influence the
radiation of a tested sample has on the flow of bio-energies along the acupuncture-
meridians. In the same way, our thoughts and emotions can change the flow of bio-
energy. I have measured differences in muscle strength of up to 50 percent during
testing.
Most suitable methods for food testing are to place a sample in the mouth -
chewing it for about 10 seconds - and also to hold a sample in one hand near the
navel. Most non-food items can be tested near the navel or simply by touching with a
hand.
How to Test: The simplest form of muscle testing requires a tester as well as
the tested person. Almost any muscle can be used for testing, but I use the following
method as the most convenient. The tested person sits with uncrossed legs, one arm
held out to the side, elbow level with shoulder and bent at a right angle, place the
free hand over the navel.
The tester presses just above the elbow to push it down. Press the arm lightly
into the shoulder as well as toward the hip. If the tested person is very strong, the
pressure may be straight down, or the arm may be fully extended and the pressure
applied at the wrist. Increase the pressure gradually and with measured strength; feel
and remember exactly the amount 'of pressure required to force the arm down. If
both arms are too weak, you may test the legs.
During testing, the tester should keep the question in his or her mind 'Is the
tested sample good or bad for the patient?' but should not expect a certain result.
The preferences of the tested person seem to have little influence on the result.
Now the tested person takes a sample and holds it with the free hand just
above the navel. After about 10 seconds, the tester presses the arm down and
carefully notes any difference in resistance. If the result is doubtful, repeat the test
with and without holding the sample. Often a difference is easier to detect if the arm
is pressed down three times in succession.
Sometimes the tested person feels a pain or strain in the shoulder during a
weakening test, even if the tester cannot notice a difference. This should be reported.
Generally the quantity of food held is not critical; it may even remain in a container or
plastic bag; however, avoid a coloured container or one of semi-rigid plastic.

If the patient is difficult to test, you may strengthen the arm immediately before
each test by tracing the acupuncture meridian of the lung or of the glands (triple
warmer); alternatively, test a leg. Another strengthening method is to tap the thymus
gland (underneath the upper end of the breastbone) several times lightly with your
fingers. This strengthens the immune system and in doing so reduces allergic
reactions.
What to Test: In addition to foods, testing can be done on vitamins, herbs,
drugs and even garments. You will find that synthetic fibres (especially nylon), many
drugs, refined foods, chemical additives and incompatible colours are frequently
weakening.
Food combinations may be assessed by holding them jointly during a test.
Individual items may even remain in their separate containers. Samples that are
strengthening individually may test weakening if held together, and vice versa. The
test results may be influenced by what you have eaten beforehand. Also, when you
are tired, fatigued or sick, many foods are weakening that at other times may be
strengthening. Therefore, important items should be retested from time to time under
varying conditions.
Use muscle testing frequently for all your food and supplement requirements.
Supplements will test strengthening as long as they are required. Sometimes, muscle
testing will indicate that an item should be omitted temporarily before it is used again,
or that it should be taken in a lower dosage (for example, vitamin A). For assessing
the amount to be taken per day, gradually increase the number of tablets or capsules
held in the hand until the arm weakens. Take about 10-20 per cent less than this
amount.
You may also try to find out whether your usual sleeping location is safe.
Perform a muscle test while lying in the usual sleeping position on the bed. If the arm
is weaker than with a test in another part of the bed or the room then you may have
to change your sleeping location.
Even thoughts and feelings may be tested. A positive thought and a good
feeling may be strengthening quite generally to all muscles, although the main
strengthening effect may be on one particular muscle. Negative thoughts or
unpleasant feelings, on the other hand, may produce a general weakening and also a
particular muscle to become very weak when tested. Mental testing may be used to
explore your subconscious beliefs, feelings and body reactions.
Instead of testing the safety of your bed while actually lying on it, you may use
mental testing to find out whether your bed is situated over underground radiation
that is detrimental to your health. While your partner tests your muscle strength,
imagine lying or sleeping in the bed. Then imagine an underground stream and
harmful radiation underneath the bed. If the arm is stronger when imagining the usual
sleeping arrangement but weaker with the imagined stream, then your bed is likely to
be in a good spot, otherwise continue the test by imagining sleeping in a different
location until the test becomes strong.
Another possibility is surrogate testing. You may use this for a small child or
anyone who cannot be tested directly. If you want to know whether a certain food is

good for the child, place the food on the child’s abdomen; at the same time touch the
child with one hand and extend the other arm for your partner to test.
Finally, you may develop a method of self-testing. One possibility is as follows:
press the tips of the thumb and one finger of the left or right hand together to form a
loop. With the index finger of the other hand hook behind the joined fingertips, and
with a quick move try to pull it through. Adjust the pressure of the joined fingers and
the force of the pulling index finger so that you cannot pull it through when the
answer is ‘yes’ or ‘good’; but when the answer is ‘no’ or ‘bad’ the joined fingers
become weaker and can more easily be opened. When you can do this successfully
with known answers, you can test food samples in your mouth or on your abdomen,
and also try mental testing.
Vitamin and Mineral Testing: M, Grimm and W. Fishman developed the
following method to assess vitamin or mineral deficiencies by holding certain contact
points on the body. The tested person applies a light pressure on the contact point
with a pad formed by the first three fingers of the free hand, while the other arm is
tested for muscle strength. Start by testing the muscle strength without touching the
body with the free hand, and then repeat the test while touching the specified contact
point.
The contact points for the main vitamins and minerals are as follows.
• Vitamin A: right eyelid
• B vitamins: tip of tongue
• Vitamin C: just below left collarbone, 5 cm from mid-chest
• Vitamin D: midway point of left groin
• Vitamin F: just below right collarbone, 5 cm from mid-chest
• Calcium: just above left collarbone, 5 cm from mid-chest
• Iodine: just below Adam's apple
• lron: midway point of the right groin
• Magnesium: middle of the navel
• Phosphorus: midway between pubic bone and left hipbone
• Potassium: hollow of right cheek
• Zinc: midway between pubic bone and right hipbone
For more information see Muscle Response Test by M. Grimm and W.
Fishman.
Touch for Health: Some influences - nutrients, colours, thoughts and emotions
- affect certain muscles more than others. In addition, organ functions can be tested
with specific muscles. If the muscle is weak, it indicates a weak organ function.
Meridian tracement may be used to strengthen a weak muscle or organ. Some useful
organ and muscle tests, as used in Touch for Health by J. F. Thie and M. Marks, are
given below.

Adrenals: Lie face up, with one leg up and bent so that the foot is over the
other leg just below the knee; the tester presses against the heel and the top of the
knee to straighten the leg.
Brain, Mental Stress: Hold an arm straight, about 15 degrees away from the
body, slightly sideways; the tester presses the forearm towards the groin.
Circulation/Sex: Lie on one side, with the upper leg straight, raised as high as
possible; the tester presses the ankle down.
Gall bladder: Lie face up, holding the arm straight 45 degrees above the leg,
palm downward; the tester presses the forearm down.
Heart: Hold the upper arm to the side, level with the shoulder, with the elbow
bent at 90 degrees and the forearm down; the tester steadies the elbow and pulls
against the wrist to pull the hand forward and upward.
Kidneys: Lie face up, with one leg raised at 45 degrees, slightly towards the
side, with the foot turned out; the tester presses the inside of the ankle down and
inward.
Large Intestine: As for the kidneys, but with the foot turned in; the tester
presses the ankle down and inward.
Liver: Hold the arm straight forward, level with the shoulder, slightly sideways,
with the palm outward (thumb towards feet); the tester presses the forearm upward
and outward.
Lungs: Hold the arm to the side, elbow level with the shoulder and bent at 90
degrees, forearm horizontal; the tester presses the elbow down.
Neck and Sinuses: Lie with the arms above the shoulders, head up, chin
down; the tester presses against the forehead.'
Pancreas: Hold the arm straight down touching the side, with the thumb
towards the body, the tester pulls the forearm away from the side. This is a good test
to perform while shopping, the tested person touching a questionable food item.
Small Intestine: Sit on the floor with closed straight legs, hands on opposite
shoulders, lean back slightly; pressure is against the crossed arms.
Spleen: Lie face up, with the arm straight to the side, palm upward; the tester
pushes the back of the wrist off the ground.
Stomach: Hold the arm as for the liver; the tester presses downward and
outward.
Generally, the tester's free hand is used to stabilise the tested person's body so
that only the tested limb moves, not the whole body. Both arms and legs may be
tested.
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Step 14
THE ENDOCRINE PATTERN
Simple arm and leg measurements can show the conditions.
The body has developed under the guidance of the endocrine glands.
Therefore, glandular disturbances are reflected in abnormal proportions of various
parts of the body. Certain measurements enable us to recognize our glandular
pattern as a basis for corrective treatment.
Our endocrine system is composed of two antagonistic groups of glands. The
anabolic (build-up) glands are the adrenal cortex, the posterior pituitary (in the brain),
the parathyroid, and the pancreas (Islets of Langerhans). The catabolic (breakdown)
glands are the adrenal medulla, the anterior pituitary, and the thyroid gland. The
anabolic glands control the calcium level of the blood, while the catabolic glands
control the phosphorus level.
Ingestion of sugar or sweet foods stimulates the anabolic glands, disturbs the
calcium-phosphorus ratio, and leads to an excess of calcium in the blood and,
consequently, to stone formation. Later, however, it leads to exhaustion of the
anabolic glands.
Table 2-1: Normal Body Measurements
Ratios leg : arm ankle : wrist one-fourth one-half three-fourths knee : elbow
Female 1.770 1.550 1.295 1.425 1.340 1.530
Male 1.740 1.475 1.220 1.350 1.265 1.455
Interpretation:
One-fourth ratio higher than normal: underactive thyroid
One-fourth ratio lower than normal: overactive thyroid
One-half ratio higher than normal: posterior pituitary underactive
One-half ratio lower than normal: posterior pituitary overactive
Three-fourths ratio higher: anterior pituitary underactive
Three-fourths ratio lower: anterior pituitary overactive
Measurements: The following measurements can reveal the basic functional

pattern of the thyroid, pituitary, and sex glands. The results for the thyroid and
pituitary glands are accurate to more than 95 percent; for the sex pattern, to about 80
percent.
• Measure the length of the lower leg from the middle of the kneecap to the
middle of the ankle, and the lower arm from the point of the elbow to the middle
of the wrist bone.

• Divide each measurement by four and mark the quarter-points between knee and
ankle, and between elbow and wrist. (This means one quarter of the distance
from knee to ankle is the one-fourth point, half the distance between knee and
ankle is the one-half point, and three quarters of the distance is the three-
fourths point. In the same way divide the distance from the elbow to the
wrist.)
• Measure the distance between the endpoints (knee to ankle, elbow to wrist) as
well as between the three quarter-points in between.
• Divide all leg measurements by the corresponding arm measurements.
The measuring tape should not be tight for the circumferential measurements;
contact measurement only is wanted. The foot should be at right angles to the leg
during measurement. All measurements are taken for both sides of the body.
Compare your measurements with the normal values shown in Table 2-1.
Table 2-2: Further Signs of Andricity or Gynicity
Signs of Andricity Signs of Gynicity
The back of the hands point forward More of the palms show when
when the arms hang loosely at the sides arms hang loosely at the sides
(person must be unaware of the test)
A low voice if female A high voice if male
Pubic-hair line is triangular with Pubic-hair line is flat on top
apex upward
Aggressiveness, independence, Intuitive instead of critical thinking
critical thinking
Body in general is hairy The other signs are opposite to those listed for
Tendency to become bald andricity
Space between thighs
Tends to have too much gastric acid (ulcers)
“Andric” means more male hormones are produced than is normal for the average male or female.
“Gynic” means more female hormones are produced than is normal for the average male or female.
The anterior pituitary gland mainly produces growth and sex hormones, and it
stimulates the thyroid and adrenal glands. The posterior pituitary regulates the
amount of water lost in the urine; it can raise the blood pressure and stimulates
labour contractions.
Assessing Male-Female Balance: Both sexes produce male as well as
female hormones in a gender-specific ratio. If there are more male hormones
produced than normal, the condition is called “andric”; if more female hormones are
produced, it is “gynic.” To give an example, a woman with a constitutionally high
oestrogen-testosterone ratio is gynic, while with a low ratio she is andric.

If the leg-arm ratio is higher than normal, add the difference between actual
and normal measurement to the normal
ankle-wrist ratio; if the leg-arm ratio is lower
than normal, subtract the difference. If the
actually measured ankle-wrist ratio is higher
than the adjusted normal ratio, the person is
gynic; if the actual ratio is lower, the person
is andric. Gynic females may be more
harmed by oestrogen birth control pills than
andric females. Generally, andrics need
more magnesium and gynics more calcium.
For further signs of andricity or gynicity, see
Table 2-2.
If one or more of the gland
measurements show abnormal functions
(as they usually will), treat the
corresponding glands with diet, ear
acupuncture, acupressure, reflexology, and
guided imagery. Minute amounts of gland
extracts can be prescribed. (For further
information, see Body Chemistry in Health
and Disease, by M. E. Page.)
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Step 15
REFLEXOLOGY
Press reflex points on your hands and feet to diagnose
and treat conditions within your body.
Reflexology is excellent for self-treatment and even for diagnosis. Envisage the
body divided into 10 vertical segments or zones, five on each side. Each finger and
toe belongs to one of these zones. A diseased body part will show up as a sore spot
in the same segment of the foot or hand. From this the alternative name 'zone
therapy' is derived. Usually the feet are more sensitive and, therefore, more suitable
for reflex diagnosis and treatment than the hands. In addition the ears, like the irises,
contain a reflex map of the body. (We may even assume that every organ and every
single cell contains a holistic reflex map of the whole organism.)
In addition, there is a reflex connection between related parts of the legs and
arms. A sore knee, for example, may be relieved by pressure on the corresponding
location on the elbow on the same side of the body. In a similar way, corresponding
locations on the wrist and ankle, and on the hip and shoulder, influence each other.
This is especially useful to know when dealing with broken or otherwise injured limbs
that do not permit direct treatment.
Diagnosis: Press the soles, the toes and the sides of the feet with a knuckle, a
thumb or - if the feet are not very sensitive - with a blunt probe. Overweight people
and those with poor circulation usually need quite strong pressure, which must be
exactly on the correct spot. However, if the lack of sensitivity is due to nerve damage,
then it would be better to try and improve this condition first, as with strong sustained
pressure under the back of the skull on both sides of the spine and providing any
missing nerve vitamins (e.g. B1, B6, B12, folic acid).
Press the selected area in a slow circular motion until you find the exact
location. Generally, the pressure should be straight down, but for the thyroid area it
should be applied from the side, trying to press underneath the ball of the big toe.
Adjust the pressure to the general sensitivity of the foot. If the body is very
sensitive, all foot reflexes will be extremely tender; therefore try with light pressure to
locate only the most painful areas. You may mark the encountered tender spots on
an examination chart, using different markings according to the extent of tenderness
encountered. Concentrate later treatment on the most painful areas. The results will
be better if you have someone other than yourself check your feet.
Methods of Treatment: The easiest and most common form of treatment is to
apply pressure on sore points with the pad of a finger, the thumb, with a knuckle or
with a blunt instrument (for example, the blunt end of a pencil or a pen). If it is quite
sore, press straight down, with only light pressure at first. Gradually increase the
pressure as the pain lessens. Finally, when even strong pressure can be tolerated,
you may apply the pressure in a slow circular motion in order to relax the deeper
muscles and ligaments.

For self-treatment underneath the feet, it will usually be more convenient to
press or roll the sore points on a golf ball, a stone or another suitable object. To
press reflex areas in the palms of the hands, it is usually more convenient to use a
knuckle or a suitable blunt instrument than the pad of the thumb.
Usually, the pain begins to subside after a few minutes of pressing. If this
happens, increase the pressure for a while, but if the pain instead increases, stop the
treatment. The effect on related body parts can be surprisingly quick: pain in the
ears, shoulders or back often disappears within minutes.
If there is a serious or acute problem, use reflexology several times a day.
However, this treatment may stimulate a chronically weak organ to increased activity
and it may become tender for a while together with its reflex areas. Generally, deep,
strong and slow pressure is sedating and pain relieving, while light, quick tapping or
circling is stimulating. Select whichever is appropriate. For some points a so-called
C-clamp is effective: press with the thumb from underneath the foot and with the
index finger from the top. This may be used for the liver, spleen and thymus.
Figure 2-5: Hand Reflexology Chart
Another method of applying pressure to fingers and toes is to put tight rubber
bands around them or to use clothes pegs to clamp the digits. Rubber bands should
never be left on for more than a few minutes at a time. In addition, you may firmly
grasp a metal comb, pressing its teeth into the palm or the fingers. A metal comb or a
brush may also be used to sweep the backs of the hands and lower arms up to the
elbows in quick upward strokes. Five minutes of this will stimulate the circulation and
invigorate the body.
Further effective areas for treatment are the tongue, the inside wall of the
mouth, especially the palate (top), under the tongue and the back of the mouth
(pharynx). You may press with the pad of a finger or thumb or use a suitable
instrument. Pressure on the tongue may be applied by biting or pressing with the

handle of a spoon. This is effective for treating problems in other areas of the body
belonging to the same zone.
In addition, the tongue may be pulled out for several minutes by grasping it with
a cloth and moving it around. Alternatively, you may poke it out as far as possible
and hold it in place with
your teeth. You may also
work around the angles of
the jaw and chin. Because
of the sensitivity of the
mouth, this treatment is
often more effective than
hand and foot reflexology,
especially for all problems
related to the head and
throat.
Important Areas to
Treat: The foot and hand
Figure 2-6: Toe Reflexology Chart charts will give you a good
indication of where to find
suitable points for treating specific complaints. For best results work on all the major
reflex areas: hands, feet, ears and mouth. Always treat in the same zone in which the
problem arises. Your left inner ear, for example is in zone 4. Therefore, to treat it you
will manipulate the left ring finger the third toe including its root on the left side, the
ear points of the left ear and the outer left side of the tongue and palate.
Work frequently around the joints of fingers and toes, especially digging
underneath the lowest joints of the thumbs and big toes. Rubber bands or clothes
pegs may be placed for five to 10 minutes on the tips of the digits, or on or between
the joints, depending on where there is more sensitivity. Lymph drainage can be
improved by press-massaging the area of the upper chest on top of the feet just
below the toes.
Generally, treat a sensitive area for five to 10 minutes at a time. For an acute
problem, you may treat it several times daily, while chronic problems may be treated
once a day. For general health improvement you may select a different area each
day until you return to the same area after one or two weeks. This process may
continue for years, as formerly weak areas become activated and cause increased
sensitivity in their corresponding reflex areas. Walking barefoot on rough ground
provides a natural foot massage - make good use of it.
The Brain: For general health improvement and regeneration work frequently
on the brain, especially the pituitary gland, the pineal gland, the hypothalamus and
the medulla (oblongata). The pituitary reflex often feels like a sharp bone protrusion;
press it in the direction of the tip of the toe. The hypothalamus and medulla are
pressed from the insides of the big toes. For general health improvement it is best to
start with activating these parts of the brain and then continue with the other glands
and organs.
In the system of Body Electronics as developed by Dr John Whitman Ray it is
recommended to work in a certain sequence for regenerating the body. Start with the

so-called STO-point: press into the valley between the muscles from both sides of
the spine and then up under the skull (occiput). This is to improve the nerve
transmission to all parts of the body.
Then start working on points in the following order: pineal gland, hypothalamus,
pituitary, medulla, thyroid, thymus, heart, solar plexus, pancreas, adrenals, spleen,
gonads (uterus, ovaries, prostate, and testicles), liver, kidneys, gall bladder, bladder,
small intestine, large intestine.
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Step 16
EAR ACUPUNCTURE
Try this easy method to improve the function
of any diseased or unbalanced organ.
Ear acupuncture can be a very effective method for relieving acute pains and
chronically stiff joints, sometimes these have been cured within minutes. For some
problems it can be more effective than body acupuncture. Ear acupuncture is easy
and safe for self-treatment and in healing groups. Organ diseases and glandular
disturbances may respond less dramatically, but ear needling will always be very
helpful as a supportive method with other forms of treatment.
The main disadvantage of ear acupuncture is the requirement to find the most
painful spot for it to be fully effective, and this is not pleasant for people who are very
sensitive to pain. The best points are those that feel like an electric shock or like
hitting a raw nerve! However, often the pain will be felt as being beneficial, especially
because it usually decreases with continued needling. This pain may be considered
as 'letting off steam' or congestive energy from a target organ through the 'safety
valve' of an ear point. However, chronically weak organs may also benefit from ear
needling if no pain is felt in the corresponding ear point. Generally, however, you may
follow the rule 'the more sore the point, the more effective the treatment’.
Acupuncture needles are available from some medical-equipment shops,
acupuncturists or from acupuncture supply companies, see the Yellow Pages of
major cities for addresses. For ear acupuncture use short and medium fine needles
(e.g. 25 mm No. 30 gauge or the finer 12mm long 32 gauge. Usually you buy them in
packs of 10. In addition press-needles are very effective and may also be ordered in
packets of 10. Press-needles are like tiny drawing pins with a 2 mm long needle.
They are retained in the ear for one to two weeks, covered with adhesive tape, and
stimulated from time to time by pressing between thumb and a finger pad. If an
acupuncture needle is not available, you may use a bead needle or even a fine
sewing needle.
The Needle Method: Some authorities suggest ear acupuncture does not work
through the acupuncture meridians, but instead, like reflexology, through the press-
point therapy of hands and feet. In any event, Chinese medicine says the ear is the
place where all the channels meet. The ear is relatively safe and easy to use for self-
treatment. The following description of using needles for ear treatment is provided
only to show how it is done in some other countries or by acupuncturists. For legal
reasons, I do not formally recommend using needles on the ear. Instead, you can
use commercially available electro-acupuncture instruments or laser lights to treat
points, or you can use press-point therapy as described below. Exercise care and
caution.
For ear acupuncture, short and medium fine needles are being used in addition
to press-needles. Press-needles are like tiny drawing pins. They are retained in the
ear for one to two weeks, covered with adhesive tape, and stimulated from time to
time by pressing between thumb and a finger pad. If an acupuncture needle is not
available, a bead needle or even a fine sewing needle is sometimes used.

Figure 2-7: Ear Acupuncture Chart.
Helix points may be used to reduce inflammation, fever, and oedema. Sanjiao is used for
circulatory, glandular, chest and abdominal problems. Shenmen is used for sedating, as with
nervous problems, insomnia, mental disorders; it is the main point for pain relief, as in arthritis
or inflammations; also for dry cough, bronchial asthma, epilepsy and hypertension.

Sterilise a suitable needle in methylated spirits and rub the ear with a cotton
bud soaked in methylated spirits (optional). Find the most tender spot in the
appropriate reflex area of the ear by pressing with a toothpick or a similar probe.
Insert the needle to about 2 mm deep. It must not pass through the ear. Gently move
it around to find the correct depth and direction of the sorest spot.
If it is very sore, do not move the needle. When the pain subsides, start to twirl
it gently between thumb and forefinger. The less pain there is, the faster you may
twirl the needle. If it is not sore any more, move the needle to a different angle and
twirl, and in this way gradually work around in a circle. If all or most of the pain is
worked out, withdraw the needle and select another point. If it was sorer in a
particular direction, insert the needle at a point 1-2 mm away from the first point in
that direction and repeat the twirling and probing in different directions.
Often the pain shifts around over a reflex area and you must insert the needle
and work out the pain in several points lying close together. When the ear point is
sore and still in need of treatment, the needle will feel like 'sticking' when it is twirled,
while it will move freely when the tension is worked out. For treating chronically weak
body parts that do not have sore ear points, select the appropriate point or area from
the ear chart and -twirl the needle rapidly.
Press-point Therapy: Each ear contains a complete reflex map of the body,
as shown in figure 2-7. Instead of using needles, you can more safely press the ear
with the head of a dull pin, toothpick, matchstick, or fingernail. Be careful not to
penetrate the inner ear. Treat the indicated organ points or wherever there is a
tender spot; press for a minute or more each day or whenever convenient. In
addition, it will be stimulating to the whole body to massage both ears thoroughly by
rubbing them between thumb and index finger simultaneously. Massage daily. Pulling
the ears at different angles is beneficial as well. You can also buy an electro-
acupuncture appliance, now available (and not too expensive) at many health food
stores.
Each ear contains a complete reflex map of the body as shown in the chart.
Instead of using needles, you may press the ear with the head of a pin, a toothpick, a
matchstick or a fingernail. Treat the indicated organ points or wherever there is a
tender spot; press for a minute or more each day or whenever convenient. In
addition, it will be very stimulating to the whole body to massage both ears
thoroughly by rubbing them between thumb and index finger simultaneously.
Massage daily. Pulling the ears at different angles is also beneficial. You may also
buy an electro-acupuncture appliance. These are now available from many health
food shops and not very expensive.
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Step 17
COLOUR THERAPY
Use colours to balance body conditions and your emotions.
Colour has a powerful influence on our body chemistry. The strongest effect is
through the eyes, but good results are also achieved by treating the skin areas over
certain organs or the spine.
Colour can be used in various ways: as direct coloured light, or indirect light
from the colours of walls, curtains and clothes; in foods, and by treating drinking
water with coloured lights; by visualising colours with closed eyes; or by visualising
that the inhaled breath or directed energy is coloured. For treatment you should be
careful to select bright, clear colours; murky colours usually have unpleasant effects.
Coloured Lights: Light may be coloured by using coloured light bulbs, by
filtering sunlight through coloured glass or cellophane, even by wrapping coloured
cloth around a lamp. Drinking water may be treated by exposing it to sunlight in
coloured-glass containers or in containers covered with coloured cellophane, or
coloured light bulbs may be used. This water is beneficial for drinking, gargling in the
case of throat infections, washing wounds or bathing the eyes.
Preferably, stimulating colours should be used in the morning and sedating
colours in the evening. If a sequence of coloured lights is used, start with stimulating
colours, proceed to blue and finish with green. When treating internal organs, shine
the light at close range on to the skin area covering the organ, possibly also on to the
spinal reflex area. For general treatment and especially to improve eye conditions,
you may look at a brilliant, reflecting surface of the desired colour, exposed to
sunlight or a strong electric light.
To treat specific parts of the body, you may cover them with a single or double
layer of cellophane of the desired colour and expose them to mild sunlight or strong
electric light. If using sunlight you should be careful not to over-expose as cellophane
does not absorb the UV radiation. As a general tonic, you may cover the back with
cellophane in the colours of the rainbow: red at the base, orange over the lower back,
yellow in the middle, green at the shoulder blades, blue at the neck and violet over
the head. These are also the regional chakra energy colours
Green is the general healing colour, representing harmony and balanced body
polarities. In disease, there may be over-stimulation, with too much red in the system
- fever, inflammation, irritability, skin rash, red eyeballs, pink fingernails; or there may
be under-stimulation with too much blue - pale skin, sluggishness, bluish eyeballs,
bluish nails. The over-stimulated condition needs blue colour treatment, while the
under-stimulated condition requires red or orange.
The following list shows the conditions for which the different colours may be
used. You may also use muscle testing or a pendulum for individual colour selection.
Different parts of the body may need different colours. If you are in doubt about which
area to treat, irradiate 'systemically' - over the whole body. When irradiating the back,

lie on one side, not on the stomach. For best effects or professional treatments, use
colour slides with a strong projector in a dark room, and irradiate for one hour or
longer at a time.
The Curative Properties of Colours:
RED (BRIGHT RED): Warm and stimulating. Use in anaemia, or whenever you
are feeling cold and pale, with chilled extremities; also useful for ultraviolet and X-ray
burns and frostbite; red is a liver stimulant and counter-irritant (to bring internal
inflammations to the surface). Nutrients: vitamin B12, acidity.
ORANGE: A respiratory stimulant; useful for weak lungs, asthma, consumption,
emphysema; also for overweight and under-active people with an under-active
thyroid (energises thyroid, sedates parathyroids). Orange relieves spasms and
cramps; increases milk secretion; corrects rickets and soft bones, osteoporosis;
stimulates stomach and digestion, and relieves flatulence and distension; also
stimulates the bladder, kidneys, liver and pancreas, try with epilepsy. It is valuable for
chronic kidney disease and gallstones; arthritis, gout and rheumatism during non-
painful periods. Minerals: boron, calcium, copper, selenium, silicon.
YELLOW: The most luminous colour. A strong stimulant and energiser for
muscles and nerves: use in all cases of paralysis and muscle disorders, for nerve
building, and in nervous exhaustion. Yellow energises the alimentary tract and
stimulates digestion, flow of bile, gastric juices, pancreas activity, lymphatic system,
heart, eyes and ears. It generally activates all bodily functions except those of the
spleen, which is sedated; use for indigestion, constipation, diabetes, depression, for
skin cleansing and to destroy intestinal worms. Minerals: magnesium, molybdenum,
sodium.
LEMON (YELLOW-GREEN): Stimulates brain activity and activates the thymus.
It is a mild laxative and expectorant (expels mucus): use in respiratory problems
involving phlegm, asthma, coughs. Lemon is useful for dry, scaly skin disorders and
bone building. It neutralises overacidity, and is indicated for chronic disorders in
general, including cancer (systemic), diabetes and dwarfism. Minerals: gold, iodine,
iron, phosphorus, silver, sulphur.
GREEN: Stimulates pituitary gland, encourages muscle and tissue building,
and breaks up hardened cell masses and clots. It is anti-congestive, germicidal,
disinfectant, purifying: use for heart problems, ulcers, cancer, wound healing, skin
improvement, burn pains, glaucoma, headaches, neuralgia. Elements: chlorine,
nitrogen.
TURQUOISE (BLUE-GREEN): Normalising for acute disorders. It is calming,
and therefore useful for headaches, for soothing inflammations, sunburn and itching.
It improves, rebuilds and tones the skin: use for moist- or weeping-skin disorders. It is
also valuable for acute childhood diseases and infections, acute venereal diseases,
and hyperactivity. Minerals: chromium, zinc.
BLUE: Cooling, strongly anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, stops bleeding; reduces
fever, pain. Use to treat all conditions marked by redness, swelling and heat, and
acute phases of arthritis, gout and rheumatism. Blue is relaxing and calming, slows
the pulse, can reduce high blood pressure, and is valuable for underweight and
overactive people. Use to treat itching, irritation, irritability, insomnia, throbbing

headaches, speedy brain; sore throat, loss of voice, burns, bruises; diarrhoea,
dysentery, colitis, neuralgia, sciatica, earache, biliousness and jaundice. Also good
for treating tumour areas and red or infected skin disorders. Element: oxygen.
INDIGO (BLUE-VIOLET): Sedative, pain relieving, arrests discharges and
bleeding, astringent. Use for piles and varicose veins. Indigo improves the immune
system during infections: use to irradiate swollen lymph glands; in whooping cough
with fever and other acute lung disorders; for convulsions and nervous irritation. It
stimulates the parathyroids and sedates the thyroid; use locally for goitre.
VIOLET: Relaxing and soothing. It also stimulates the spleen and builds white
blood cells. Violet sedates heart and muscle activity, and calms hyperactive people. It
is useful for overactive kidneys and bladder; bed-wetting; nerve disorders and
overactive mental disorders; epilepsy; insomnia. It also suppresses appetite.
PURPLE (BLUE AND RED): Dilates blood vessels and reduces blood pressure:
slows the pulse as with palpitations (irradiate heart area). Purple lowers body
temperature, and is excellent for high fevers; it stimulates the activity of veins; is a
good sleep inducer for insomnia; decreases sexual desire and pain; is anti-malarial;
sedates the kidneys.
MAGENTA (RED AND VIOLET): Energising; improves and normalises the
emotions, the aura and the sexual system. Magenta energises the adrenal glands
and the heart muscle, normalises the heart and blood pressure, and improves the
circulation. It is diuretic; useful for kidney stones; complementary to green. Mineral:
potassium.
SCARLET (2 PARTS RED AND I PART VIOLET): Narrows the arteries and
raises the blood pressure; energises kidneys (diuretic); use as a sexual stimulant or
for frigidity, and for suppressed menstruation. Scarlet accelerates the birth process
and expels the placenta.
Photochromotherapy: Absent individuals may be treated (with their consent)
by exposing their photographs or even a sample of hair or hand-writing to suitably
coloured lights. Following is an arrangement that reportedly gave especially good
results: line a box with crumpled and partly restraightened aluminium foil. Place the
photo on the bottom, covered with a glass plate to prevent heat damage. Suspend
from the top a small coloured light bulb, as used in Christmas decorations or similar
ways. Cover the top with more aluminium foil treated in the same way.
Another possibility is to cover the aluminium-foil-lined box with cellophane of
the desired colour and expose the box to moderate sunlight. Exposure time may
range from one hour to several hours, depending on the severity of the condition and
the reaction of the patient. A pendulum may possibly be used for assessing colours
and exposure times.
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Step 18
MAGNET THERAPY
Take advantage of the fact that both poles of a magnet
have useful biological effects.
Magnets are effective healing tools. The opposite poles of a magnet have
different effects on the body, so it is essential to identify the poles correctly.
According to physics, if a magnet is suspended on a thread, the pole pointing
towards the north is called the north pole; the other pole is the south pole. So here,
north pole means north-pointing pole. Another way of finding the polarity of a magnet
is to move it slowly towards the north-pointing end of a compass needle. If the needle
turns away, the north pole of the magnet has been used, and vice versa. Test the
polarities of any acquired magnets, as you cannot rely on the pole designations of
the manufacturer.
How to Use Magnets: U-shaped magnets are not suitable for magnet therapy.
Instead, flat ceramic or neodymium magnets are best; otherwise short, cylindrical, or
bar magnets can be used. The north pole generally has strengthening, stimulating
qualities; it gives energy. It can be used to improve weak organs (indicated by dark
markings in the iris). The south pole withdraws energy; it is sedating and relaxing. It
can be used for pain relief, to reduce unwanted growths (tumours) and swellings,
soothe inflammation, and arrest infections (indicated by white iris markings). The
magnet does not have to touch the skin to work but can be kept in a cotton bag
pinned to the clothing, the specified pole facing the body.
Most therapeutic magnets are composed of ferro-ceramic material (usually
called ceramic magnets) and break easily when dropped. The therapeutic strength of
a magnet is a product of its gauss rating and its size. In physics, gauss is the unit of
magnetic strength. The magnetic field of the earth is about 0.5 gauss; a magnet with
a weak rating has several hundred gauss and a strong magnet several thousand
gauss. However, even a magnet with several thousand gauss can have a weak
therapeutic effect if it is small. To give an example of commonly used magnets: A
strong ceramic magnet can measure three by two by one inches, and a weak magnet
two by one by one-half inches, both with 4,000 gauss at the surface.
Very strong magnets are made with neodymium, a rare-earth element, and
have 9,000 gauss or more. Neodymium magnets are relatively small, and their fields
do not reach far into the body. Therefore, neodymium magnets are commonly used
to treat areas near the surface, as in small disk or button magnets for acupuncture
points. Ceramic magnets, on the other hand, can be large and heavy, their effects
reaching far into the body. Therefore, with pain or a tumor deep inside, apply a strong
ceramic magnet, three by two by one inches or bigger, while for near the skin use a
neodymium block magnet of one by one by one-half inch.
As a general rule, apply strong magnetic fields for acute problems and weak
fields for chronic problems. In both cases, you can apply a magnet either
continuously or intermittently during the day until the problem is resolved. For acute
problems, this can be for days and with chronic problems for weeks or months. While

it is more convenient just to leave the magnet in place all day long, the effect seems
to be stronger if you frequently alternate applying and removing the magnet.
If a magnet is used for too long or in the wrong place, you may feel
uncomfortable or drained of energy. If this happens, remove the magnet immediately
and apply the opposite pole for a while. Alternatively, place your hands on a large
zinc plate or take homeopathic zinc 6X as an antidote to magnetic overexposure.
Do not use strong magnets directly on the eyes or heart, or on the abdomen
during pregnancy. Preferably attach or remove strong magnets slowly. Strong
magnetic fields suppress nerve signals and, therefore, either pole of a powerful
magnet can eliminate pain. However, farther away from the magnet, the field
weakens, and then the effects of the opposite biological pole become noticeable.
Therefore, I recommend always using the correct pole.
If there is no contraindication due to pain, inflammation, or congested energies,
then the preferred magnet placement for all individuals, male and female, appears to
be the south pole towards the right front of the body and the north pole towards the
left front. To a lesser degree, the back of the body has the opposite polarity to its
front. This means that the energy of the left back is similar to that of the right front but
not quite so strong. Therefore, if a north magnet is required on the right side of the
body or a south magnet on the left, then it is best placed on the back.
If there is pain or any sign of inflammation in an organ, apply the south pole; if
there is an obvious weakness, use the north pole. In most other cases, experiment
with muscle testing to find the beneficial pole for the condition at hand. If you are in
doubt about which pole to use, try one pole for some time and later the other pole,
then compare results. The length of a testing period, before reversing poles, can be
only a few minutes for acute cases or several days for chronic conditions.
While some people do not feel the magnet’s energy and show little response,
others are hypersensitive to it. In the latter case, use only a weak magnet for a short
exposure or try magnetized water instead. Do not use a magnet in a bed with an
innerspring mattress, steel frame, or steel base. In this case, the steel parts can
become strongly magnetized with the wrong polarity and cause deterioration of the
disease condition when the treated person lies on the bed.
Magnetized water is also beneficial for general use. Place one bottle on a
strong south pole and another on a strong north pole for 24 hours, then drink the
contents of each bottle separately. Alternatively, place a north pole and a south pole
at both sides or at the top and bottom of a non-metallic container filled with water. For
specific conditions, use either north-pole or south-pole treated water on its own, for
drinking or external application (for example, as an eyewash). A strong balancing
effect can also be achieved by drinking north-pole treated water and south-pole
treated water on alternating days. Use muscle testing or a pendulum to decide, or
experiment and observe the results.
For general improvement of your well-being, place strong magnets at the hands
and/or feet; select poles according to the general rules. For problems in the upper
part of the body, place the right palm on one pole and the left palm on the other. For
problems in the lower part of the body, place one pole under the right foot and the
other under the left foot. If mainly one side is affected, the palm can rest on a south
pole and the foot of the same side on a north pole. Finally, a good general placement

is to have the right palm on one pole and the left foot on the other pole, or vice versa.
Start using strong magnets in this way for five minutes and gradually increase to 30
minutes, or for as long as it feels beneficial.
A strong magnetic flow is sometimes beneficial for conditions of mild pain
associated with weakness, such as weak shoulders that are sore when moved.
Magnetic energy is often strengthening to the sex organs and lower pelvis; apply a
north pole slightly to the right on the lower abdomen and a south pole slightly to the
left on the lower back. For these flows, strong magnets can be kept in place for up to
an hour, or for as long as it feels beneficial.
Using the Correct Pole: As pointed out, the south pole is placed towards a
painful, inflamed, or infected part of the body, while the north pole is used if the body
area is weak or underactive. However, there is a possibility that the weakness or
underactivity is caused by a low-grade chronic infection or inflammation, which
means it may still improve with the south pole and deteriorate with the north pole.
Therefore, the south pole is generally safer to use.
Commonly, one side of the body has more pain, inflammation, sensitivity, or
contracted, tight, or tense muscles than the other. When placing magnets under the
palms or feet, place the south pole here and the north pole on the other side. Another
good possibility is to lie down with a strong north pole towards the soles of the feet
and a strong south pole towards the top of the head; put both magnets about four to
12 inches away from the body. You can also experiment with sleeping this way.
With caution, you can also sleep with a magnet placed directly at the crown of
your head. You can move a strong magnet (e.g., 4,000 gauss, three by two by one
inches) progressively closer during successive nights or sleep at first with a weak
magnet (e.g., 4,000 gauss, two by one by one-half inches) and gradually increase its
strength. This may be most beneficial for the elderly or those with neurological
diseases. For this application, the body should lie in a north-south direction with the
head pointing north. When using strong magnets on yourself while in your bed, make
sure that your bed and mattress cannot be magnetized.
William Philpott, M.D., a magnetic re-searcher in Oklahoma, has described
cases of increased beneficial melatonin and growth hormone production in elderly
individuals sleeping with a strong south pole directly at the crown of the head. Also,
symptoms of confusion, psychosis, schizophrenia, and epileptic seizures
disappeared with south poles placed at the temples, Dr. Philpott has reported.
To find which pole to use, use muscle testing (see step 13). Sit down with one
or both magnets placed in the questioned position. Raise a free arm and stretch it out
horizontally in front of you with the palm down. Have a tester or helper gradually
exert increasing pressure on the wrist of the outstretched arm to see whether it locks
in position or gives way. Then reverse the poles of the magnets and test again. Either
the tester or the tested person (or both) may notice that the arm is stronger with a
particular placement of the magnets. This is the correct placement. The same test
can be made while holding a jug with either north-pole or south-pole treated water
pressed lightly against the abdomen.
Removing Congested Energy: When the south pole of a magnet, especially a
strong one, has been applied to a painful or congested area (including one with
unwanted growths), an effective way to remove it is to place your left hand between

the magnet and the body while slowly removing the magnet. Keep the hand close to
the magnet. Then hold the south pole close to a water surface or near running water
for about ten seconds; rinse your hands under running water.
This process of energy removal from a painful area can be repeated several
times. The south pole can be circled over the congested area, starting with a large
circle close to the skin and gradually moving higher in spirals above the body. When
the magnet is four to eight inches away from the skin, place your hand under it and
withdraw the magnet from the body.
Examples of Correct Use of Magnets: Remember the simple rule that the
north pole gives energy while the south pole withdraws it. An inflammation, a tight
muscle, or a swelling are energy congestions and need the south pole; an overly
relaxed muscle needs more energy and consequently requires the north pole. Here
are some practical tips:
Shoulder: Frequently, one shoulder is dropped while the other shoulder is
raised. The lower shoulder needs the strengthening north pole and the higher
shoulder needs the relaxing south pole to balance the forces. The same rule applies
to the middle part of the spine if there is any sideways distortion (as in scoliosis).
Gallbladder: In the case of a gallbladder problem, the left leg is often
shortened, pulled into the hip socket by tight muscles. The south pole applied to the
hip can help correct this condition. After the magnet has been in place for some time,
gently pull the leg at the ankle until both ankles are exactly side by side. The right leg
can be stretched in the same way, if necessary.
Tumor: Use a strong south pole over a tumor; apply for two hours twice daily or
for one hour three times daily. Hold the south pole close to running water after
removal. However, with pain from a tumor or cancer, you may keep the magnet in
place as long as required, even for days on end.
Wounds: Fresh wounds heal better with the south pole applied initially; later, use
both poles in alternation; and in the final stages of healing, use the north pole for
strengthening.
Broken bones: For broken bones, the north pole should be applied above the
fracture (towards the torso), while a south pole should be applied opposite the north
pole and below the fracture. Alternatively, treat the same way as for wounds.
Headaches: For headaches, use the south pole wherever the centre of the pain
appears to be; but for general mental refreshment, attach the south pole to the
forehead and the north pole to the base of the skull. This may also improve your
psychic awareness.
Stomach and duodenal pain: For stomach and duodenal pain, place the south
pole over the pit of the stomach, but to strengthen the digestion after a meal, apply
the north pole.
Weak heart: To strengthen a weak heart, a small magnet may be carried in the
left shirt pocket with the north pole near the breastbone. If there is pain, use the
south pole instead. Check your pulse before and afterwards to see whether it
becomes stronger and more regular. Even if the pulse does not improve, try using it
the magnet for several days (during the daytime only) to see if you feel better.

Sexual energy: To increase sexual energy, sit on the north pole of a strong
magnet. This improves the energy centre at the base of the spine as well as the sex
glands. However, with vaginal candidiasis, sit on a strong south pole.
Lowering blood pressure: To lower the blood pressure, apply the south pole to
the right side of the neck, over the carotid sinus. This gland is located above and to
the side of the Adam’s apple and just below the jawbone where you feel the main
artery into the head. To raise low blood pressure, apply the north pole to this spot.
Overweight: If you are overweight and underactive, apply the north pole to the
thyroid gland for stimulation; if overactive, use the south pole to slow the metabolism.
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Step 19
THE ELECTRONIC ZAPPER & MAGNETIC PULSER
Use electrotherapy to keep your body free of undesirable
microbes and parasites.
Electrotherapies utilize low-voltage electricity to disable a wide range of

microbes, including viruses, fungi, bacteria, and parasites, and have been shown to
be helpful against a wide range of infections. Various patents have been issued for
such devices and scientific papers published with the results. Tests conducted with
the AIDS virus in the laboratory show that the ability of the virus to infect human T
cells is reduced in direct proportion to the product of the magnitude of the current and
the time that the virus is exposed.
An oscillating magnetic field has been used with similar good results to kill
microbes in food samples or living tissue. Numerous papers in the International
Journal of Neuro-science show the positive effects of very weak pulsating magnetic
fields applied directly to the top of the head on neurological diseases, such as
multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.4 Other researchers have used magnetic
pulses on the brain to successfully treat depression.5 Even bites from poisonous
snakes have been neutralized with electrotherapies without any negative after-
effects.
Electronic Zapper and Blood Purifier: There are now many types of electronic
antimicrobial devices available. These originated in the 1990s from the Hulda Clark
“zapper” and the Robert Beck “blood purifier.” Hulda R. Clark, N.D., is a Canadian
microbiologist, and the late Dr. Robert C. Beck (D.Sc.) was an American electro-
engineer. Both devices appear to eliminate parasites, bacteria, fungi, and viruses
from the body with low-voltage, pulsed electric currents. The Clark zapper operates
with 9 V at a very high pulse frequency of 30,000 Hz (Hz is the unit of
electromagnetic wave frequency, equal to one cycle per second). The Beck blood
purifier uses 27 to 36 V and a low frequency of 4 Hz. It appears that microbes are not
killed outright by the mild electric current but are changed in such a way that they are
prevented from replicating.
Evidence suggests that most of us harbor hidden microbes, and electrotherapy
is an easy way to reduce or eliminate these. Therefore, I recommend electrotherapy
as a basic component of a health improvement program, in the same way as I
recommend intestinal sanitation and allergy testing, regardless whether there is an
obvious problem or not. In addition to other measures, I regard electrotherapy as
valuable in treating infections and infectious diseases.
With the Clark zapper, you hold an electrode in each hand through which a
weak current flows. To establish firm contact, rub your palms with saltwater and hold
the electrodes firmly. Alternatively, wrap the electrodes in absorbent paper or cloth
moistened with saltwater. With weak hands, the best contact results from dipping
each hand or foot in a bowl of saltwater along with a partly immersed electrode, but
only if no electronics are in the handle. After the last treatment of the day, rinse your
hands and/or feet under running water to remove static electricity.

If you are treating a local infection or tumor, press one or both electrodes close
to the problem area; for instance, for a sore throat, press an electrode against each
side of the neck. The negative electrode, commonly attached to a black wire, tends to
sting sensitive skin. As with magnets, it is important in which hand you hold a
particular electrode; otherwise you may feel weaker after zapping. Hold the negative
electrode on the side of the body where the tumor, pain, infection, or inflammation is
located, and hold the positive electrode with the red wire in your other hand. Try
muscle testing to find the best electrode placement. Have someone gently press
down your raised, outstretched arm while holding the electrodes one way and then
the other. Use the electrodes indicated by the stronger test.
The normal treatment schedule is seven minutes, three times daily. The second
zapping should follow 20 to 30 minutes after the first one, and the third one after a
similar interval. (For more information, see Hulda Clark’s The Cure for All Diseases;
www.drhuldaclark.org.)
I have found the Clark zapper useful, but the Beck zapper works better in
conditions where the blood is infested with microbes or parasites. It appears that with
the Clark zapper the current travels mostly over the skin due to its high frequency,
while the Beck zapper is specifically designed to electrify and purify the blood;
therefore, it is sometimes called a blood purifier.
With the Beck zapper, the small electrodes are fastened directly over the
arteries, so you feel a pulse on one forearm or near the ankle on each foot. My
recommendation is to use the blood purifier initially for two hours daily for about two
months, and then for one month once a year. I am not aware of any dangers or
contraindications, but if you are unusually electro-sensitive or a problem arises, then
stop treatment. As with all natural therapies, electrotherapy may start a healing crisis;
in that case, interrupt treatment until you feel normal again.
Dr. Beck warned that cells may take up medical drugs and herbal medicines at
a much higher rate during the zapping, due to a process called electroporation; this
may cause drug overdosing. Originally, he recommended not using drugs and other
potentially dangerous remedies, including raw garlic, during the weeks and months of
treatment. However, in later interviews, he softened his stand and advised cautiously
taking needed drugs or potentially dangerous remedies after the daily zapping rather
than beforehand. There is no firm evidence that electroporation occurs with the
electronic zapper, so I believe Dr. Beck may be exercising caution.
Application of the Magnetic Pulser: Dr. Beck also designed a magnetic pulser
to treat swollen lymph glands and other sites of infection and tumours and other parts
of the body with poor blood supply. A strong but very brief magnetic pulse induces a
tiny current in the cells and body fluids. In addition to helping eliminate microbes,
parasites, and cancer cells, it also appears to recharge and rejuvenate weak body
cells. This technology is based on U.S. patents in which laboratory test results were
submitted showing inactivation of HIV and destruction of cancer cells.
The most notable effect that I have observed in using the magnetic pulser is
pain relief, be it from back or hip pain, toothache, or cancer, but it was less effective
with headaches. Often the pain did not come back. Also, weak eyes and weak
muscles often improved. Whether you have a disease or want to improve your
health, I recommend you use the pulser frequently on any body area where you
suspect an inflammation or infection. Use it on swollen lymph glands (tonsils) and

any tooth or jawbone positions that are not completely healthy, e.g., where a tooth
has been extracted or where there is a filling, a root pocket, or receding gums. Pulse
all the lymph glands in the neck, armpits, and groin. Hold the pulser as close as
possible to the treated problem area.
Commonly, a pulse occurs every two to five seconds and treatment time
ranges from ten to 30 minutes. After ten to 20 pulses, you can move to the next area,
treating in turn lymph glands, tumours, tender joints, teeth, organs, or any area with
an infection. However, remain much longer at major problem areas, up to 30 minutes
if required, as for pain relief. A recent development is a magnetic pulser with up to
ten or more pulses per second. It appears to work by creating a pulsing magnetic
field rather than just single short pulses. I found this more effective than the slower
pulsers.
There are other types of weak magnetic pulsers available that may be helpful in
stimulating cellular rejuvenation. For example, fields of 2 to 7 Hz are suitable to treat
neurological disorders, but because of their much lower magnetic pulse intensity,
they do not appear to inhibit microbes or parasites and may stimulate their growth.
To avoid any damage to normal body cells, the Beck pulser is set at the lower end of
magnetic strength to disable microbes and parasites. For this reason pulsing may
have to be continued daily for weeks or months to overcome serious and long-
standing health problems.
Another important aspect is to be aware of the polarity of the coil. One side acts
as a magnetic north pole and the other side as a south pole. It is important to use the
correct pole as explained previously in Magnet Therapy. This may not be noticeable
with strong magnetic pulses, as both sides can suppress nerve signals of pain and
improve general health by recharging damaged electric cell potentials. However,
there are other conditions that can get worse from using the wrong pole, while using
the biologically correct pole can also give better results with pain, microbes, and
general health improvement, especially farther inside the body where the pulse
strength rapidly declines. When holding the back of the magnetic pulse unit, called
the paddle, hold it with the hand that benefits from that particular polarity.
To find out which side of the paddle is north and south, place a small flat
magnet with known polarity on top of one side and watch what happens with the next
pulse. Like poles repulse each other. Therefore, if the magnet jumps off, that side of
the paddle has the same polarity as the side of the magnet placed on it face down. If
you then turn the small magnet around, it should not jump off. Mark the polarities on
the paddle. If you do not have a specific reason to use the other side, then use the
south-pointing side of the paddle facing the body. However, if you do not get results
within an appropriate period, then try the north-pointing pole instead.
For further information on electro and magnetic medicine, including articles by
Dr. Beck and plans to build the zapper and pulser, see www.quantumbalancing.com ;
www.keelynet.com/biology.htm; and www.sotainstruments.com.
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Step 20
SPINAL THERAPY & MASSAGE
Improve the activity of all your organs and glands
by massaging your spine and body.
Massage is an effective and usually enjoyable healing tool. It helps one to

relax, loosens up tight muscles, and removes fluid accumulations and congestions.
Massaging close to the spine is especially effective to stimulate the activity of internal
organs and glands. This is due to the network of nerve connections emanating from
the spine and the multitude of important acupuncture treatment points along the
spine.
There is a reflex connection between every organ system and the spine. The
malfunction of an organ will produce tension in a specific part of the spine, while a
misalignment of the spine will cause tension in a specific organ. Additionally, various
acupuncture points along the inner branch of the Bladder meridian, close to the
spine, are linked to specific organs, and on both sides of each vertebra (less than
one inch from the midline) there are points not usually included in the standard
meridian system diagrams but related to certain regions of the body.
The Benefits of Massage: A spinal massage is best given as part of an overall
body or back massage. For an initial general massage, you may (or may not) use
massage oil. It is helpful to know special massage techniques, but not essential. Rub,
stroke, and knead as it comes naturally. A caring attitude during massage is more
important than technique.
Glide slowly downward with your thumbs on each side of the spine (fingers or
knuckles may be used as well). Press firmly for a moment into the muscle, then glide
to the next vertebra. When you find a sore spot, ease up on the pressure, and press
for several minutes with a slightly circular motion. Increase the pressure when the
pain subsides. Repeat this several times, gliding down the spine, pausing at tender
areas. Do not rub directly on the vertebrae.
Other body points typically in need of special attention are the base of the skull,
the neck and shoulders, the tops and centres of the shoulder blades, the buttocks,
the hips and the sides, and the back of each knee.
Another technique to treat tender muscle points along the spine is to apply
constant but moderate finger pressure on each tender spot for about 90 seconds.
Direct the pressure sideways against the spine, and try to relax the treated muscle to
ease any pain caused by a strong pressure. When treating the upper part of the
spine, lift the shoulder; when treating the lower part, raise the hip. For the neck,
gently move the head against the finger pressure. Experiment to find the position in
which the treated muscle is most relaxed. The patient should remain passive during
the treatment and should not try to help move any body part.
Give your partner a massage and pressure massage once a week; this is best
after a bath or shower. This is an excellent exercise for developing a harmonious

relationship with a friend or partner. When using long strokes during massaging,
follow the flow directions of the acupuncture meridians (see Part 7).
Massage Oils: Topical massage oils are commonly used to let the hands glide
over the skin in long strokes. However, for pressure therapy, deep muscle work, and
for sensing the energies, it is often better not to oil the skin. Massage oils can also be
selected according to the specific needs of the massaged person. The American
psychic Edgar Cayce offered the following recommendations:
• General Tonic Massage: Peanut oil, 6 parts; olive oil, 2 parts; dissolved lanolin,
1 part; rosewater, 2 parts; shake well before use.
• Peanut Oil and Olive Oil Mixture: 2 parts of each and 1 part dissolved lanolin; this
is good for arthritis and rheumatism, the after-effects of anaesthesia, injuries
from accidents, kidney disorders, menopausal complaints, multiple sclerosis,
prostatitis, and toxaemia.
• Peanut Oil Alone: Good for apoplexy, arthritis, gallbladder inflammation,
coronary occlusion, fatigue, glandular disturbances, low vitality, menopause,
multiple sclerosis, palsy, paralysis, Parkinson’s disease, polio, poor circulation,
and ulcerated stomach. Preferably, first heat the body with an infrared lamp or
by exposing it to sunshine during and after the oil rub.
• Castor Oil Alone: Good for arthritis, back pain, contractions and spasms,
rheumatism, and all muscular and joint pains. Rub very warm castor oil into the
affected parts, preferably using an infrared lamp or sunshine to heat the skin so
as to help work it into the skin.
• Removal of Scar Tissue: Combine 1 to 2 parts camphorated oil with 1 part
peanut oil; massage into the scar tissue once daily for several months.
Alternatively (or in addition), use vitamin E oil.
• Cocoa Butter: This stimulates the circulation in massaged areas and
strengthens the nervous system and eliminating functions. It is especially useful
for massaging babies and young children gently along the spine. It helps body
development and guards against head congestion. For increasing the size of
underdeveloped breasts, massage around the glands under the arms and below
the breasts. Direct massage of breasts with cocoa butter combined with alum
water has been recommended by Edgar Cayce to decrease their size. You may
use melted cocoa butter on its own or as part of a massage-oil mixture.
Add various aromatic oils for their fragrance or for any additional healing effect
they offer. The olive oil should be extra-virgin, and the peanut oil cold-pressed; store
both in a cool, dark place. Squeeze some vitamin E oil capsules into the massage oil.
A small amount of massage oil can be lightly warmed before applying it to the body. I
am not in favour of using polyunsaturated oils as massage oils as these easily
become rancid.
Treating Muscle Pain: Muscle pain is commonly due to a contracted or spastic
muscle. This can generate pain from pressure on a nerve or from an inflammatory
condition resulting from overacidity in the tissues. The original cause may be an
injury or overuse of the muscle, but this causes lactic acid accumulation in the
muscle, which prevents calcium from moving out of the muscle fibres to allow them to

relax. The blood and lymph circulation through the contracted muscle is greatly
diminished. Therefore, lactic acid is removed very slowly by the body and oxygen
supply to the muscle is low. Hence the pain.
In this condition, further use of this muscle generates more lactic acid and
keeps it contracted and weak or painful. If this condition becomes permanent, the
area tends gradually to calcify, such that two vertebrae may fuse or a joint may
become immobile. The solution is to use suitable therapies to relax this muscle and
increase the blood and lymph flow through the area, as with the following: Have a
period of rest to allow the lactic acid to disperse. Heat, such as a hot pack, hot bath,
or rubbing, greatly speeds up this process. Adding Epsom salt or magnesium
chloride to the bath aids muscle relaxation by displacing some of the calcium in the
muscle with magnesium. Adding baking soda to a bath or pack helps reduce the
overacidity of the muscle. Magnesium and/or an alkalizer may be used internally;
MSM, for example, taken internally as well as applied externally, generally speeds up
these processes.
A quick but painful way to relax a tense muscle is to press into it for several
minutes. In addition to or instead of this, a deep muscle massage greatly speeds up
lymph and blood flow through the muscle; press, knead, and rub the problem area.
Other supportive measures include color therapy with blue light, the south pole of a
magnet, a pulsed magnetic field, reflexology, and acupuncture and meridian therapy
(see appropriate steps elsewhere in this book).
Aiding Spinal Correction: Frequently, health problems are intensified by a
misalignment of the spine. Hereditary factors, ingesting incompatible food, and
negative or suppressed feelings can cause organ and gland functions to become
overactive or underactive. This in turn weakens or tenses muscles in associated
reflex areas of the back. The same may happen because of one-sided strenuous
muscle activity. This causes an uneven pull of muscles on the spine, and an
individual vertebra can easily become misaligned, causing pressure on nerves
emerging from the spine and consequent pain or malfunction.
Therefore, most people with health problems will benefit from an initial
professional adjustment of the spine. However, if the muscles are not balanced
simultaneously, the correction will not last and you may become a regular visitor to a
chiropractor. This is not necessary. Try to see an osteopath or chiropractor who does
muscle balancing as well as adjustments. Working with a friend, you can easily
balance each other. Here are some tips:
• For backache, first find out, by pressing, which side of the back has more
tenderness.
• Trace the Bladder meridian of the tender side with a south-pole magnet (or the
energized fingers) from toe to head several times. Trace the Bladder meridian
on the other side from head to toe with a north-pole magnet. For neck, shoulder,
and hip problems, trace the Gallbladder meridian in the same way (for charts of
the meridians, see Part 7).
• Apply ear acupuncture, reflexology, or a strong south-pole magnet to the painful
area.

• Press into the tender muscle until the pain eases, then press harder and circle
the thumb, knuckle, or elbow that is applying the pressure.
• Check for other tender points in the same area and work these out in the same
way. Often misaligned vertebrae will then realign themselves during subsequent
back-stretching exercises or with head-and-neck exercises.
As a general rule, neck and shoulders are affected by the organs and
meridians of the gallbladder, upper back by the lungs and heart, the middle by the
stomach and pancreas, the lower end of the rib cage by the kidneys, and the lower
back by the intestines and sexual organs. Liver problems often manifest as a pain
near the lower right shoulder blade.
One of the best methods for back improvement is regularly hanging upside
down, from special inversion equipment or a ladder. Traction on the neck improves
the upper spine.
How to Apply a Spinal Concussion: This is an effective method for
stimulating and strengthening weak organs and body parts. The general principle is
to stimulate the nerves emerging from the spine with rapid soft taps to certain
vertebrae. Use the edge of your hand or the knuckles to tap the selected vertebra
rapidly (but not very hard) for about 30 seconds. Then rest or treat another vertebra
for 30 seconds and return to the first one. Repeat this process for five to eight
minutes.
For general health improvement, go the length of the spine and stimulate each
vertebra in turn with this method. Tap firmly at the lower spine but only lightly at the
neck. Let your patient or partner tell you how hard to tap so that it still feels
invigorating and pleasant. This treatment can be repeated daily, weekly, or when
feasible. If tapping produces pain, seek professional advice. If sedation rather than
stimulation is required, try prolonged gentle pressure, gradually varying in intensity,
on the appropriate vertebrae. Select suitable vertebrae from the following
compilation.
Selecting the Vertebra Based on Its Associated Health Condition: Here are
some general guidelines for this. There are seven cervical vertebrae, 12 dorsal or
thoracic vertebrae, and five lumbar, plus the sacrum and coccyx.
Cervical vertebrae:
1: head, brain, pituitary, sympathetic nervous system
2: eyes, tongue; hearing problems, sinuses, allergies, fainting
2-3: for headaches, prolonged pressure between C2 and C3
3: cheeks, teeth, outer ear; acne, eczema, neuralgia, neuritis
4: nose, lips, mouth, Eustachian tube; catarrh, hayfever
5: vocal cords, neck glands; throat problems, pharynx
6: neck muscles, shoulders; tonsils, upper arm problems
7: thyroid, goitre, shoulders, elbows, contracts inner organs, contracts dilated
heart, normalizes blood pressure; bursitis, nose bleeding, fainting, angina,
palpitation, tachycardia (fast pulse), lung and kidney diseases, diabetes. (C7 is

the most prominent vertebra at the base of the neck. Use it as a landmark for
counting the other vertebrae along the spine.)
Dorsal or thoracic vertebrae:
1: lower arms, hands, oesophagus, trachea; asthma, cough, breathing problems,
thymus
2: heart, coronary arteries, lungs; chest pain
2-3: for hiccough, press between D2 and D3
3: lungs, breasts; increases milk flow, contracts gallbladder, oesophagus, and
pylorus; dilates heart and peripheral vessels, reduces blood pressure
3-4: tap both for developing breasts
4: contracts and empties gallbladder, increases secretions of pancreas; jaundice,
hepatitis, shingles
5: liver, solar plexus, opens pylorus and empties stomach; low blood pressure,
poor circulation, anemia
6: stomach; indigestion, heartburn, dyspepsia
6-7: tapping both dilates the kidneys; nephritis
7: pancreas, duodenum; diabetes, ulcers, gastritis
8: spleen, diaphragm; hiccoughs
9: adrenal glands, dilates gallbladder; allergies, biliary colic
10: kidneys; dilates pancreas and blood vessels, reduces blood pressure;
nephritis, ataxia, anemia
11: kidneys, urethra; dilates heart, stomach, liver, spleen, abdominal arteries,
intestines, in-creases blood supply to lungs; spasms, nervous diarrhea, angina,
skin problems
12: small intestines, Fallopian tubes; contracts kidneys; affects lymph circulation;
associated with enlarged prostate
Lumbar vertebrae:
1: large intestines; constipation, diarrhea, colitis, hernia
2: appendix, abdomen, upper leg; cramps, varicose veins
3: sex organs, ovaries, testicles; bladder, knee, menstrual problems, impotence,
bed wetting/ incontinence
4: prostate, lower back muscles; sciatic nerve, lumbago, and backache; difficult,
painful, or too frequent urination
5: lower legs, feet; contracts bladder; leg cramps, cold feet
Sacrum: hipbones, buttocks; sacroiliac conditions
Coccyx: rectum, anus; haemorrhoids, pruritus
Lymph-Drainage Massage: Danish medical doctor E. Vodder developed a
method of manual lymph-drainage massage in the early 1900’s. It is designed to

improve lymph flow and accelerate the transport of waste products from the tissues
into the bloodstream from which it can be eliminated through the kidneys. A
congested and stagnating lymphatic system is a main cause of infections,
inflammations, and degenerative diseases.
The lymph flows upwards through the legs to the large lymph nodes at the
groin and up the arms to the main lymph nodes at the armpits. From the groin and
abdomen, the lymph collects in the thoracic duct, which flows along the midline of the
body and, together with the lymph from the upper left side of the body, empties into a
large vein under the left collarbone. The lymph from the upper right side of the body
joins a vein under the right collarbone.
Lymph massage should start and end with the chain of glands at the sides of
the neck, running from below the ears to the hollows of the collarbones. For
massaging the limbs, Vodder taught light, slow, circular movements with the four
fingers of the hand, not the thumb. Movement can be clockwise or counter-clockwise
(whichever feels better), but do not change direction during the massage. The skin
should be moved lightly over the underlying tissue. Generally, five circles are made
at any one place, one circle per second. Vary the finger pressure during the circling
to achieve a pumping effect. Then move about two inches along the limb and repeat
the circling. During massage, a limb should be raised, while well supported and
relaxed, to help the backward flow of the lymph.
When massaging an arm, start at the upper arm, near the armpit, and press-
circle ten times. Then do the same at the insides of the elbow, and finally squeeze
each section five times from the palm upward to the armpit. Do the same with each
leg. Squeeze ten times near the groin, then the back of the knee, and finally from the
foot upwards to the groin.
Along the trunk, from the groin upwards, use long, firm upward strokes towards
the left collarbone; do this also along the spine and the sides of the back. However,
the main benefit for the trunk lymph drainage will be derived if the patient lies on his
back and makes bicycling movements in the air. The movements must be either
parallel to the floor or, better still, vertical while in the shoulder-stand position. Do this
exercise for one minute before and after leg-drainage massage to make room in the
trunk for lymph from the legs. Varicose veins, wounds, and tumours should not be
massaged. Individuals with advanced diseases should activate the organs of
elimination before using this method. If in doubt, consult your health professional.
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Step 21
HYDROTHERAPY, PACKS & COLONICS
Use water to relax or alleviate painful conditions.
Hydrotherapy, the use of water to treat disease, involves practices such as

drinking large quantities of water to flush out toxins, taking hot and cold baths,
saunas, packs, and colonics (enemas). Preferably, use non-chlorinated water if
available, as it is less irritating to the skin.
Hot Baths: Hot baths are useful for relieving aches, pains, and stiffness, for
releasing toxins stored under the skin, and for cleansing the skin of fungal infections.
Gradually increase the temperature of the bath water, as far as you can reasonably
endure. Remain submerged, except for the face, for ten to 20 minutes. For conditions
associated with magnesium deficiency, add from one to ten pounds of Epsom salt to
the water; the greater the pain, nervous tension, or stiffness, the larger the amount
you should use.
Become accustomed to hot baths gradually by increasing the duration and
maximum temperature of the bath on successive occasions. Have someone on call,
especially if you have a heart problem. Do not use a hot bath or Epsom salt in the
case of low blood pressure, fatigue, distended veins, or a weak heart, and be
cautious if your blood pressure is high. The body should be completely immersed,
but you can cool the forehead with a cold cloth.
To improve dermatitis, place a sealed muslin bag filled with up to two pounds of
bran in a hot bath; immerse yourself, as above. To relieve itching skin, add a
spoonful of baking soda to the water. For arthritis, if a full hot bath is too severe for
you, have a hot foot or hand bath with Epsom salt to get relief.
After your bath, cover your body with a large towel and, without drying, cover yourself
up in bed to induce sweating; rest for 30 minutes, or overnight. Afterwards, a
massage or a quick rub with olive or peanut oil is recommended.
Overheating Baths: The following method can be used for your general health
improvement and to overcome chronic infections. However, I do not recommend it as
a specific cancer treatment. It appears to work only when the blood sugar level
during the overheating is low (i.e., you haven’t eaten for a while) and the water
temperature is high; otherwise tumor growth can be stimulated. For those without
cancer, it is good occasionally to have an overheating bath followed by sweating - in
other words, a bath that will overheat you. Cancer cells and viruses are weakened
and start dying in environments over 105º F (40-41º C), while normal cells can
withstand higher temperatures. This explains the curative effect of high fever on
cancer and infectious diseases. For home treatment, a therapeutic fever can be
simulated with overheating baths.
Start with a very warm bath and slowly add more hot water until the bath
temperature reaches 108º F (42º C). Initially remain in the tub only up to ten minutes
at the maximum temperature, but gradually extend this to 20 to 30 minutes. If you

want to continue with a regular overheating treatment, then increase the temperature
by 2º F (1º C) each week up to a maximum of 116º F (47º C).
If the weekly temperature increase is too severe, increase it more gradually. If
you cannot reach the maximum temperature, extend the bath duration at your
highest possible temperature to one hour. During and after the bath, drink several
glasses of pure water to make up for fluid losses.
As a safety precaution, keep the bathroom door open and have a helper close
by. You are safe while lying in the water; the danger arises when leaving the bath.
Therefore, strictly observe the following rules:
• If you must leave the bath suddenly, immediately lie down again.
• Remain in the bathtub until all the water has drained. Alternatively, add cold
water until the bathwater feels only warm; stay in the cooler water for 10 to 15
minutes.
• Dry yourself only while sitting, never standing; afterwards, cover with sheets and
blankets and sweat for up to one hour.
• Do not use overheating baths when you do not feel well.
Warm Baths: These are excellent for relaxation; stay in a warm bath for ten to
20 minutes; fragrant oils can be added. Staying in a hot or warm bath for longer than
30 minutes can be exhausting. If stimulation is desired, a warm or hot bath should be
followed by a cold bath, a cold sitz bath, or a cold shower. You can also use hot and
cold alternating showers or cold-water sponge rubs. Cold-water stimulation is
especially important for low blood pressure and distended veins.
Sitz Bath: To improve intestinal elimination and the condition of the sexual
glands and organs, a cold sitz bath is excellent. After warming the body by exercise
or a hot bath or shower, sit for one minute in about eight inches of cold water.
Gradually, the sitting time can be increased to three minutes. Keep your feet out of
the water.
Showers: For general stimulation and improving the circulation, use hot and
cold showers, alternating three times between hot and cold, starting with hot and
ending with cold.
Foot Baths: To increase the circulation in burning or aching feet, mix some
tannic acid or mustard powder into a hot foot bath. To keep your feet warm, some
cayenne pepper can be added instead. Use alternating hot and cold foot baths for leg
problems.
Water Packs: To make a pack, fold a cotton or woollen cloth into several
layers, dip it into hot or cold water, gently press to remove excess water, and place
over the selected area. Hot packs (fomentations) can be used for the relief of muscle
pains but are better in combination with Epsom salt. Cold packs are effective for
insomnia, high temperature, nervous indigestion and wind, headaches, sore throat,
edema, and sprains. For fever, the pack can be changed every five to ten minutes,
while for relaxation, it can be left in place for a long time. For insomnia and nervous
indigestion, place the cold pack on the abdomen.
Castor-Oil Pack: This is excellent for improving intestinal functions and for
stimulating the immune system, as well as in problems with the sexual glands and

the bladder. Castor-oil packs on the abdomen should be used at the beginning of all
serious attempts at health improvement, especially if there are any problems with the
digestion, liver, gallbladder, or pancreas, or if you have arthritis, cancer, or any other
degenerative disease. Hot castor-oil packs can be applied directly to weak, painful, or
swollen parts of the body, for example, on weak eyes or eyes with cataracts or
glaucoma, stiff neck, painful back, swollen knee, and on cysts and tumours.
Persistent use of castor-oil packs frequently gives excellent results when other
methods fail.
To make the pack, carefully warm castor oil (it burns easily); soak a woollen
cloth in the oil and fold it into three or four layers. Cover the abdomen from the pit of
the stomach, and including the lower rib cage, down to the pubic bone. If the cloth is
not big enough, shift it on successive days of treatment so all areas get covered;
favour especially the liver area under the right lower rib cage and any part of the
body that causes pain or problems.
Place a plastic covering over the cloth with a hot-water bottle on top of that;
finally, wrap a long towel around the torso and fasten it securely. If used in bed, place
additional plastic underneath you or use old linen, as the pack might leak. Leave the
pack in place for one to two hours, or overnight. Afterwards, sensitive skin can be
wiped with warm water containing baking soda. Store the pack in a pot or tin for
repeated use, adding more oil as required with each usage.
Use the pack for three to five days, interrupt the cycle for several days, and
repeat the series as often as necessary. During or after a period of applying a pack
on the liver and abdomen, take several tablespoons of olive oil at bedtime to induce
emptying of the gallbladder.
Epsom Salt Pack: This is recommended for arthritis, neuritis, paralysis, back
pain, muscle tension, gastritis, colitis, infections, and kidney problems. Dissolve
Epsom salt in hot water to make a saturated solution; soak a cloth in it and apply it
hot to the skin. Keep the pack warm with a hot-water bottle. Alternatively, Epsom salt
can be spread liberally on a hot wet cloth and applied. Leave the pack on for one or
two hours; repeat as required.
Rock Salt Pack: A pack of hot, coarse rock salt is effective for the relief of
muscle pains, especially backaches. Cover a hot-water bottle with a moist cloth,
sprinkle on a thick layer of coarse rock salt and lie with the painful area on top of this;
or place this (salt-side down) on the painful area if more appropriate. Keep it as hot
as you can stand it for an hour or two. Renew the salt if it is necessary to repeat the
pack.
Honey Pack: The honey pack has an excellent reputation for healing infected
wounds and ulcers, and it is used in alternative cancer therapy to destroy tumours
and relieve pain. It is not only effective for problems close to the skin but can help
problems such as pain as well. The honey must be raw and not previously heated.
Smear a thick layer of honey over the affected area and cover it with linen. With long-
standing problems, continue renewing the honey daily and keep the area covered all
or most of the time for several weeks. It is even more effective if you mix a few drops
of 35 percent hydrogen peroxide with the honey. Try to obtain honey that is not
runny, as adding hydrogen peroxide makes it more liquid; crystallized honey works
well.

Onion Pack: Onion packs are good for asthma, bronchitis, colds, pneumonia,
and for loosening phlegm in the airways. Wrap a large onion in aluminium foil and
bake it until soft. Pulp the onion in its juice and spread it over the upper chest and
throat area. Cover this with a plastic sheet or cloth and keep warm for an hour or two
with a hot-water bottle. Repeat as required. Do not eat the onion, as aluminium
should be avoided in cooking foods to eat.
Potato Pack: Raw potato packs are excellent for irritated and weak eyes, as
well as for blindness and cataracts. Grate a refrigerated potato; preferably, use the
outer parts of old, organically grown potatoes. Cover the eyes for 30 to 60 minutes;
you can put the potato pulp in some gauze if you like.
Cabbage Leaf Pack: The fresh outer leaves of green cabbages have healing
potential when applied over weak or inflamed parts of the body. Hold one or two
leaves in place over your abdomen and liver with a towel wrapped around your waist.
Do this frequently. You can cut out part of the stem and roll the leaf with a bottle to
flatten the ribs, especially if it is to be applied over sensitive skin areas. If no more
outer leaves are available, you can also use the paler green inner leaves; wilted
leaves are useless for this pack. Cabbage leaves are especially good for mastitis.
For serious conditions, apply cabbage leaves 24 hours a day, renewing every four to
six hours. For cancer, apply a leaf over the tumor site as well as over the abdomen
and liver.
Green Leaf Pack: Other edible fresh green leaves can be applied over
problem areas, either whole or as a pulp. To cover a fresh wound, for example,
masticate some fresh wheat or barley grass and apply the juicy pulp.
Blistering Agents: The application of blistering agents and skin irritants
produces the quickest relief for arthritis and related inflammatory conditions. The
principle is to draw out through the skin the toxins and congesting energies from
inside the body. Liniments, compresses, and plasters can be used. Suitable agents
for this are a paste of mustard or cayenne, garlic, oil of wintergreen, or the white sap
of a papaya or fig. Initially, they may cause skin reddening, which can give some
relief, but if applied for a long enough time in a concentrated form, they will produce
blistering, which is a much more effective healing response.
If the skin is non-sensitive, it is more effective to prick it in many places or to
mechanically irritate it before applying the irritant. Cover the area with a cloth or
plastic sheet until blistering has taken place. Large blisters can be drained first.
Cover the blistered area with fresh cabbage leaves. For long-standing conditions, the
blistering pack may have to be repeated several times.
Escharotics: The most effective way to remove skin cancer, melanoma, and
tumours close to the skin, possibly including breast tumours, is to apply an
escharotic. These are caustic remedies, commonly with zinc chloride and the herb
bloodroot as main ingredients. These are available from some health stores and
naturopaths. Skin cancers can become inflamed for a few days, then form dry pus
(an eschar), and then fall out after about ten days.
To reach a tumor under the skin, such as a breast tumor, it may be necessary
to leave the paste in place for two or three days and reapply fresh paste several
times as soon as any developing pus has cleared. Keep covered with a Vaseline-

coated pad that may require frequent changing. Commonly, this procedure causes a
strong local inflammation with swelling of the breast, redness, and pain for several
days. The bigger the breast and the deeper the tumor, the more difficult is it to create
a “hole” deep enough for the escharotic to reach the tumor, so more applications are
required.
While this can be more uncomfortable and drawn-out than surgery, one
advantage is that escharotics have a reputation of not creating secondary tumours in
other organs. You can ease your discomfort during this time with painkillers and anti-
inflammatory measures. For more detailed information on escharotic cancer salves,
see www.altcancer.com and www.cancersalves.com.
Meat Pack: A folk remedy for drawing poisons from the body is to place fresh,
raw, minced meat under the soles of the feet for several hours or overnight. Replace
the meat several times if required. The meat is then poisonous, so do not touch it;
best bury it. You can also try this (in addition to other measures) in the case of
accidental poisoning or bites of poisonous snakes or insects. Raw meat can also be
placed over malignant tumours for drawing; again, do not touch it when removing it
from the skin.
Infrared Heat Lamp: Instead of a hot pack, you can rub a remedy into the skin
and expose the affected area to infrared heat. For arthritic pain in the knee or hip or
for back pain, use peanut oil, castor oil, or a solution of Epsom salt or magnesium
chloride; you can also add other helpful ingredients to the magnesium solution, such
as glucosamine and MSM. Continue with the heat for 15 to 60 minutes, and rub more
of the remedy into the skin whenever it becomes dry.
Bowel Cleansing: Most failures in healing programs occur because bowel
cleansing is neglected. Toxins are reabsorbed from the bowels and accumulate in
the blood, causing or contributing to allergies, boils, cancer, colds, eczema, fatigue,
inflammations, irritability, lack of concentration, menstrual problems, mental
diseases, migraine, swellings, and general toxaemia. Furthermore, constipation is a
main factor in gallstones, liver problems, and probably bowel cancer.
Increasing bowel movements to two or three a day is only a first step. Even
more important than the frequency of bowel movements is the speed (called transit
time) with which food residues move through the intestines. To check this, eat a
highly coloured food (for example, red beets or a cob of sweet corn) with an evening
meal. A healthy intestine should eliminate all colouring matter before lunch the
following day or at least before the next evening. If it takes longer, you are
constipated. Use appropriate mineral and vitamin supplements, laxative foods,
colonics, acupressure, and exercise to improve bowel conditions (see Steps 3 & 4).
Ordinary toilets encourage a sitting rather than a squatting position. However,
this posture is not conducive to the complete emptying of the large intestines. A
squatting position is preferable. If you cannot squat on top of the toilet, support your
feet with a footstool; additionally, bend forward to exert more pressure on the bowels
(for further information, see www.naturesplatform. com). An alternative way of
keeping the bowels empty is by taking laxative foods, such as ground linseed
(flaxseed), and periodically having an isotonic flush (a teaspoon of salt in a quart of
water) or Epsom salt flush (a teaspoon of Epsom salt in a glass of water), preferably
with some crushed garlic added.

Early in the twentieth century, a British surgeon became famous for “curing” all
kinds of incurable diseases by surgically removing the lower part of the large
intestines of his patients. We certainly can do better than that and cure or prevent
many diseases simply by keeping our intestines clean and avoiding surgery. Most
individuals are very particular in keeping clean on the outside, using much soap and
having frequent showers, but they do not seem to mind being stuffed with stinking
waste matter. While this does not apply to everyone, it is a problem for anyone with
constipation and especially for meat eaters and those with fat malabsorption.
Overweight individuals can easily carry more than 20 pounds of putrefying bowel
content as part of their body mass.
If you prefer to be clean on the inside as well as on the outside, develop the
habit of “rinsing” your lower bowel once or twice after each bowel movement and
possibly again before going to bed. You can do this by sitting on the toilet, with
enema bucket or bag hanging from the wall near the toilet. After a bowel movement,
insert a pint of lukewarm water and expel it immediately. To let the water penetrate
more deeply you may for a short time bend forward with your bottom raised, but this
is not essential. Finally, rinse the outside. Preferably use some gel or oil before
inserting the tube or end-piece douche, and use a plastic glove.
Habitual bowel cleansing like this not only prevents the accumulation of
putrefying matter in the lower bowel, it also greatly speeds up the transit time of the
bowel content. Among other benefits, this tends to increase the release of bile and
toxins from the liver and gallbladder and prevents the formation and accumulation of
gallstones. However, if you try it several times and find that the enema water comes
out clean after bowel movements, then you do not need to do it.
Colonics: Colonics - the name is short for colonic irrigation - is an effective
therapy, bringing immediate relief for many health problems. The more serious the
condition, the more often colonics should be used: once a week at first, but daily use
may be required for a while. After several treatments, have a colonic once a month,
and later, once or twice a year. Iris diagnosis (see step 12) can guide you as to the
frequency necessary for your condition. If the intestinal area in your iris shows dark
or brown discoloration, or if it is extended, colonics should be used more often; this is
also true if foul-smelling wind is present, as this indicates putrefactive processes
under way in the bowel pockets.
The aim of colonics is to remove all putrefying matter from the bowels, clean
out the bowel pockets, and remove the hard crust that often coats the walls. To
achieve this, the bowels should be filled repeatedly with as much water as possible. It
is best to have a thorough bowel movement before starting the colonic.
To administer a colonic, add one heaping teaspoon of salt and one level
teaspoon of baking soda to two to three quarts of moderately warm water. Use a
bucket enema or enema bag; place it about two to three feet above the body on a
table, chair, or the rim of the bath, or hang it from the wall. A good position is to kneel
on the floor with your head down. More comfortably, you can lie in a warm bath with
the rectum elevated, or you can lie in bed in a similar position, or on the right side;
have a plastic sheet underneath you.
Lubricate the rectal tube and insert it slowly to a depth of about eight or 12
inches. If there is any pain or discomfort, do not insert it any farther. Expel the first lot

of water from your intestines when increasing pressure is felt. After that, you should
be able to hold much more water. When renewed pressure is felt, stop the inflow of
water and assume different positions, such as lying on your right side for a while so
as to fill the ascending colon. Repeat the expulsion and intake of water until all of it
has been used.
You can introduce a pint of diluted fresh juice of wheat or barley grass if
available or of edible green leaves, and retain that in the intestines for up to 30
minutes. This is the standard procedure for home colonics for people with normal or
acid body conditions. The addition of baking soda neutralizes the often overacid
bowel condition, while salt acts partly as a drawing agent and partly prevents
demineralization of the blood plasma by osmosis, which could cause shock. This is
important for people with low blood pressure and poor blood circulation. Those with
high blood pressure or very weak kidneys should not add salt and baking soda to the
colonic water, but use highly diluted lemon juice instead. If this causes soreness, or if
the body is not too alkaline, use diluted fresh juice of green-vegetable leaves.
If you cannot do a colonic at home, receive a series of professional colonics at
a hydrotherapy centre. Everyone can benefit from some form of bowel cleansing from
time to time. (Instead of a series of colonics, you can use the Basic Cleanse
described in Step 3.)
Coffee Enema: For stimulating and detoxifying the liver in the case of serious
conditions, such as cancer, a series of coffee (preferably organic) enemas can be
helpful, especially if there is pain and discomfort. Boil two tablespoons of ground
coffee (not instant coffee) for three minutes in one quart of water; simmer for 15
minutes and strain; rinse the coffee grounds with more water. Use this as a retention
enema after cleaning the bowels with a normal enema or colonic. If you can hold in
only part of the coffee, use the rest with a second enema. Retention means to hold it
inside for ten to 20 minutes. Do not use this if you are allergic or sensitive to coffee.
Oxygenating Colonic: This can often improve the well-being of patients with
ad-vanced diseases, such as cancer. Oxygenating colonics are available at some
hydrotherapy centres.
As an alternative for home treatment, add food-grade hydrogen peroxide to a
retention enema after the colon has been cleaned with an ordinary colonic. Use one
to two pints of lukewarm liquid in which one teaspoon of salt has been dissolved.
Initially, include one tablespoon of six-percent or two tablespoons of three-percent
hydrogen peroxide. Retain this mixture inside your intestines for about ten minutes. If
this is well tolerated, double the amount of hydrogen peroxide with each successive
treatment until it becomes too uncomfortable and you cannot hold it any more. Then
cut back to the preceding level and continue at that rate.
For cancer patients with a serious condition, under professional supervision
you can start at higher dosage levels and include up to half a pint of three-percent
hydrogen peroxide. This may induce the evacuation of much waste during the
following days, and the patient may temporarily look and feel worse. After this,
however, there should be considerable improvement. If available, lead ozone through
a long tube into the rectum with an additional shorter tube as outlet and safety valve.
For further information on this, see Step 31.

Vomiting Therapy: Induced vomiting, often called an “upward purge,” can be
helpful for a wide range of acute and chronic conditions, such as asthma, bronchial
problems, catarrh, digestive disorders and indigestion, gastritis, hysteria, infections,
liver and gallbladder problems, lumbago, migraine, poisoning including snakebites,
and skin diseases including eczema, gangrene, and psoriasis.
While vomiting clears out mucus and decomposing matter from the stomach,
the main benefit is derived from relaxing the digestive organs and the diaphragm
while stimulating the solar plexus. A need for this therapy is indicated especially by
contracted intestinal reflex areas in the iris, by way of iris diagnosis (see Step 12), but
also if these are whitish or brownish and especially if they have black lines.
To induce vomiting, drink five or six cups of lukewarm water and touch or tickle
the throat far down. Repeat until the water comes back clear. Instead of water, an
emetic herb tea can be used: adder’s tongue, bayberry bark, black root, boneset,
horehound, lobelia (large doses), mustard, ragwort, or vervain. After-wards, drink
peppermint or mint tea to settle the stomach.
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Step 22
URINE & UREA THERAPY
It may not be your "cup of tea", but many swear by this ancient therapy.
The use of urine in the treatment of diseases has a long history. Many cultures
have used urine for medicinal purposes: It was praised in ancient Egyptian papyri
and used in ancient Rome, China, India, America, and European countries. An article
in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that in “primitive medicine”
there is scarcely a disease that has not been treated with the external or internal use
of urine.6. Presently it is most widely used in India and Taiwan where the youthful
appearance of many Buddhist monks is ascribed to their routine urine ingestion.
Thousands of scientific articles have been written about the health benefits of
urine and its ingredients. A good book to get acquainted with some of this research
activity is Your Own Perfect Medicine, by Martha Christy; one of many websites on
urine therapy is: www.uropathy.com.
At the very least, all this past and present interest in the healing benefits of
urine indicates that here is something worthwhile for the adventurous health seeker
to explore. To start urine therapy the main problem we need to overcome is our
social conditioning. You may also want to know how a substance expelled by the
body as waste can possibly be beneficial.
Beneficial Ingredients: Urine is not a waste product full of harmful substances
as is commonly believed, but instead a treasure-trove of the right nutrients that we
need for our health. It is full of hormones, enzymes, vitamins, trace minerals, and
other valuable biochemicals. Basically, urine is just filtered blood, and in its
composition close to blood serum. The main function of the kidneys is to regulate the
concentration of all these biochemicals in our blood. Surplus can be as harmful as
deficiency; however, any hormone or enzyme removed as surplus may be in short
supply a few hours later.
With advancing age, our hormone and enzyme production declines to
suboptimal levels, while the kidneys become less and less efficient in retaining
needed ingredients. Therefore, it greatly helps, especially with chronic degenerative
diseases and advancing age, to recycle these valuable hormones and enzymes. This
is what urine therapy does.
Another important aspect is the presence in urine of antibodies and immune-
stimulating factors against viruses, harmful bacteria, or fungi we may harbour in our
body. Even minute amounts of antibodies, sometimes at levels so low they cannot be
detected with conventional methods, are effective in preventing and treating
diseases. Curative effects of urine therapy have been shown on fungal and viral
infections, such as hepatitis, poliomyelitis, and AIDS, and urine is especially effective
against allergies, autoimmune diseases, and other disorders of the immune system.
When drinking urine routinely, say a cupful every morning, allergic reactions
may not occur at all, thus doing away with the need to identify to which substance
one has been reacting.

Benefits of Urea: Urea is an end product of protein metabolism and the main
ingredient of urine. Only recently has it been discovered that the concentration of
urea in the blood has a key role in regulating at least seven major pathways. Urea
levels are low with cancer and many other diseases; in fact the frequency of cancer
and especially of multiple tumours and metastases increases greatly if urea levels
are low.
The Greek physician Evangelos Danopoulos, M.D., pioneered the use of urea
in cancer treatment. Urea was notably effective in regressing liver tumours, greatly
increasing survival times, and preventing metastases or secondary tumours. Dr.
Danopoulos used 45 g of urea daily in six divided doses for 40 days and then 20 g in
three doses for two years (45 g correspond to six rounded teaspoons, and 20 g is
about three teaspoons). He also experimented with injecting urea close to tumors.7
Urea may not just be a waste product or the final state of protein metabolism as
commonly assumed. Apparently, it can also be used as raw material to synthesize
amino acids and proteins, as has been shown in patients with kidney failure. These
patients deteriorate quickly on a diet containing normal amounts of protein but do
much better if the diet is extremely low in protein. They show progressive clinical
improvement when receiving added urea, which then becomes an important source
of nitrogen for protein synthesis.8
Urea is the best natural diuretic and is far better than synthetic diuretics. This is
important for those with oedema or fluid retention (due to kidney or heart weakness)
and especially for those with fluid pressure on the brain or spinal cord or in the eye,
as with glaucoma. Additional urea is important with brain tumours, stroke, meningitis,
and other inflammations of the brain and spinal cord. In one case of a massive brain
oedema connected with a suspected brain tumour, the patient received 256 ml of
30% urea; after two hours, the oedema and suspected tumour had completely
disappeared.9
When applied externally, urea has a beneficial effect on the healing of wounds,
such as infected wounds, burns, and ulcerating tumours. Urea can be directly packed
into the wound or a strong or saturated solution can be applied. In this way, urea
removes the foul odour often associated with an ulcerating tumour or other dead or
putrefying tissue. You can obtain urea from a pharmacy. Unfortunately, most of the
research into the medical use of whole
CAUTION: Do not ingest large urine and urea took place in the first part
amounts of urine if you take medicinal of the last century, while in recent years
drugs or other toxic substances, as the emphasis has been on researching
these an be re-cycled and cause an individual components.
overdose. While harmful substances
are not necessarily re-absorbed and How to Use Urine: There are various
may just cause diarrhea instead, you ways to use urine, but generally it is
do not know how much is safe. advisable to start with small amounts.
Therefore, either ask your health This is not only to get accustomed to the
professional for advice, or use urine taste of it, but also to slow down any
homeopathically, or in small amounts healing reactions. These occur
up to several spoonfuls daily. commonly with methods that genuinely
improve our health (see Step 10).

Reactions may manifest as diarrhoea, vomiting, nausea, or a temporary flare-up of
old health problems.
Start with a few drops or a spoonful. Swallow immediately; you can wash it
down with some water or juice, or eat a piece of fruit.
With allergies and immune disorders, it is more effective to leave diluted urine
under the tongue for a few minutes. An allergic reaction can best be stopped or
neutralized by collecting the urine when the symptoms are worst; however, in
practice, try to use it as soon as you notice the first symptoms. Some researchers
suggest that the proper dose can be found by slowly putting single drops under the
tongue until the taste and temperature of a drop can no longer be distinguished. This
is then the neutralizing dose for an allergy. Each subsequent day you can double the
previous dose or the number of times you take them per day until you reach your
target amount or the dose with which you are comfortable.
A suggested amount for general health improvement and rejuvenation is two or
three cups daily. More is advisable temporarily to overcome serious diseases,
especially AIDS and other viral, bacterial, or fungal infections, as well as cancer and
kidney diseases. In these cases, ingest about one quart daily, but the more the
better, while for a limited period of several weeks try to drink all or most of your urine,
except in the evening, so that you do not have to get up at night. However, this may
only be suitable during a cleansing period, as drinking urine after a meal may cause
digestive upset.
A good way to flush the kidneys is to drink one to two quarts (litres) of diluted
urine before breakfast; use one or two cups of urine per quart of water. Start drinking
all the urine when you first wake up, ideally at 5 a.m. Then urinate again and drink
another dose 90 minutes later, then 90 minutes later again. Either drink sufficient
liquids in the evening so that the first morning urine is not too concentrated, or dilute
strong urine with sufficient water; about one cup to a quart of urine.
Do not use urine that is cloudy, as it often is during a healing reaction. If the
body is reasonably clean, then the urine will not taste offensive or reflect the aromas
of the last meal. The second morning urine, especially when drinking a fair amount of
liquids after rising, is usually very mild; it is better for getting accustomed to than the
first morning urine. To catch a cleaner sample, collect urine midstream.
The Urine Fast: The most powerful form of urine therapy is urine fasting, a
method routinely used by John Armstrong and described in The Water of Life.
Armstrong had good results with this, and I also have found it very effective,
especially in cases of kidney failure. While it sounds contradictory to drink urine when
one has kidney failure, the idea is to flush the kidneys with a large volume of
stimulating fluid. I see this as the only logical way to rehabilitate failing kidneys;
reducing the flow of fluid through will only make it worse. Diluted or weak urine
appears to be most suitable, at a rate of one gallon or more daily. However, adjust
intake to output; whenever there is increasing fluid retention, reduce the intake. This
intake also helps to increase lymph flow as explained under lymph-drainage
massage in Step 20. A main advantage of urine fasting over water fasting is the
greatly increased amount of energy produced, so that the urine fast can be continued
for a much longer period than a fast consisting only of water.

During the urine fast, drink all of your freshly voided urine (and initially some
added water) to bring the daily intake volume to about five quarts. Gradually increase
the ingested amount to this full intake before starting the fast while gradually reducing
your food intake to just a few pieces of fruit or salad and fresh vegetable juices. End
the fast by taking only a small amount of fresh raw fruit or vegetables for another
week or two, gradually increasing the amount and variety of fresh
As with other fasts or cleanses, it is important to keep your bowels moving
daily. I suggest initially taking a tablespoon of Epsom salt with a crushed clove of
garlic for several mornings or evenings when starting with a greatly restricted food
intake. This will help to avoid or minimize unpleasant cleansing symptoms, such as
weakness, pain, or nausea. However, in many cases the ingested urine will already
be overstimulating the bowels, with liquid discharges, in which case no further action
is needed.
Ingest only your own freshly voided urine. Normally, urine is light yellow, clear,
and sterile, especially if collected midstream, but during healing reactions it may
become offensive and cloudy. In this case, use it only strongly diluted, if at all. When
ingesting a large volume of your urine, check that it is not too acid. The morning urine
normally is slightly acid, but during the day it should be slightly alkaline.
To check your urine, use litmus or pH paper from a drugstore. Litmus paper is
red when dipped into an acidic solution and blue when alkaline; neutral or pH 7 is in
between both colours. With pH paper, you get a colour chart to compare. If the urine
is mostly acid, take a half-teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in water once or several
times daily, but not within three hours after meals; do this until the urine remains
alkaline during the day.
Those with cancer, high blood pressure, or fluid retention should use potassium
bicarbonate (from a pharmacist) instead of sodium bicarbonate. If your body is too
acidic, sometimes the emotions become overly sensitive, along with a physical
tendency to inflammations, mouth ulcers, and strong skin reactions.
The effectiveness of urine therapy with cancer, oedema, and infectious
diseases can be increased by taking daily one to six teaspoons of urea (e.g., mixed
in water or juices) in divided doses. Take three to six teaspoons when only a small
amount of urine is ingested, then progressively less with larger urine intake; stop
completely when nearly half or more of your daily urine is ingested.
Homeopathic Urine: It is possible to use urine ultra-diluted in homeopathic
form. The simplest way to prepare it is as follows: To one teaspoon of unchlorinated
water add one drop of your own fresh urine. Shake it vigorously in a small bottle
about 50 times with a sharp downward stroke. Add one drop of this mixture to
another teaspoon of water, shake again; and then repeat the whole procedure a third
time. Place three drops of the resulting fluid under your tongue several times daily.
When it is used up, wait a few days, then prepare a new homeopathic remedy.
An alternative method is even simpler and recommended as an introduction to
urine therapy or for times when cupfuls of urine are not tolerated or not wanted.
Dilute one or two spoonfuls of morning urine with five to ten times the same amount
of unchlorinated water. Shake 50 times with a sharp downward stroke, and drink

immediately or take a spoonful several times during the day. Keep it in the mouth for
a minute before swallowing.
Homoeopathically energized remedies should not be exposed to strong
magnetic or electromagnetic fields and should be taken with a non-metal spoon.
Keep any homeopathic urine remedy only lightly covered in a cool place but not in an
electric refrigerator; make it up fresh daily.
External Applications: A urine pack, with the addition of some urea, is often
effective with skin problems, such as burns, wounds, gangrene, psoriasis, eczema,
dermatitis, fungal problems, and aging skin. It can also be helpful for internal
tumours, inflammations, and diseased organs. Keep the affected area covered with a
folded cloth that is well moistened with urine or concentrated urea solution. Put
another cloth or plastic sheet on top and renew several times daily.
Urine becomes more alkaline when it stands for a few hours. Armstrong
regarded it as more effective than fresh urine for external applications. However, it
also smells more, and anyway, fresh urine seems to be adequate in my experience.
With gangrene, dead flesh, skin infections, and open cancer and ulcer sores, it is
more effective to saturate the applied urine with urea; this approach also removes
offensive odours. With weeping or suppurating wounds, especially if associated with
foul odour, it is beneficial to cover the area with dry urea.
Urine can be concentrated by leaving it for several hours in a flat dish in the
sun or in a warm place. This has been recommended by Armstrong for application in
friction rubs to rejuvenate aging skin. Armstrong also recommended urine packs
placed over tumour sites or diseased organs in addition to rubbing the body daily for
two hours with small amounts of urine. As you might guess, the primary problem with
urine packs is the offensive odour. You could try to prevent this by sealing the pack
with duct tape; completely seal it and keep the pack moist by injecting fresh urine into
it several times a day with a syringe.
Social Considerations: As noted, the main problem when starting urine
therapy is social conditioning. You can overcome that by reading about and
contemplating the expected health benefits. The taste of fresh urine is not normally
offensive, except if the body is polluted or when fasting or if the urine is strongly
concentrated. Therefore, dilute strong urine, start with a small amount, and gradually
increase it or have a day on fruit before starting to ingest urine. Minimize salt and
strong spices in your diet when on urine therapy. An easy way to drink urine or any
other unpleasant fluid is by breathing only through the mouth; you can pinch the nose
until your mouth has been rinsed with water or juice, or you can eat a piece of fruit.
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Part 3
NUTRIENT & REMEDIES
This chapter provides information about vital nutrients, such as vitamins,

minerals, amino acids, and enzymes, as well as basic remedies including herbs and
homeopathic remedies.
The more we adopt a high-quality diet, the less we need to know about
individual nutrients, and vice versa. Unfortunately, most individuals presently have a
less than ideal diet, and some knowledge about nutrients can help to avoid or correct
imbalances and deficiencies. Furthermore, many nutrients are now used in very high
doses, essentially as remedies, to treat various diseases. When used in this way,
detailed knowledge is important to achieve the desired effect without exposing
yourself to unnecessary danger.
While there are dangers with what I call “self-healing” and health authorities call
“self-medication,” these are infinitely smaller than those posed by prescription drugs.
I believe there is less long-term harm in using a nutrient incorrectly than a
prescription drug correctly. It is rare to encounter serious health damage from using
nutrients, even in very high doses, while medical drugs are stated to be the third
leading cause of death in the United States.
Nevertheless, I do not endorse the use of high-potency nutrients without a
proper understanding of any benefits and dangers, and I do not endorse high-
potency supplements as a substitute for a healthy lifestyle, which is the way that they
are commonly used. The main emphasis of this book is on a healthy lifestyle, which
in most cases will remove the need for high-potency supplements, but if you feel that
you do need some, then you will find suitable information in this part.
Generally, it is best to obtain all your necessary vitamins from natural foods and
the activities of intestinal bacteria. Under present conditions, however, it is rarely
possible to achieve and maintain good health without resorting to special vitamin-rich
foods and nutritional supplements.
In the case of poor health, absorption of vitamins and minerals is impaired,
while your requirements for them are simultaneously raised. This phenomenon
underlies the widespread vitamin and mineral deficiencies in our society, which result
in a multitude of diseases. Well-chosen supplements can correct deficiencies, but in
a good maintenance diet, the daily vitamin intake proposed by government agencies
should be at least doubled.
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Step 23
VITAMINS
Find out what these essential nutrients do and if you have
special requirements for any of them.
Vitamins are water soluble or fat soluble. Water-soluble vitamins are vitamin C
and the B-group vitamins. Except for vitamin B12, they are easily absorbed, and
deficiency is due to a deficient diet or to increased requirements. Due to genetic
factors or diseases, some individuals may require up to a hundred times the usual
amounts to function normally. One common problem is a thickened or hardened cell
membrane, preventing nutrients from entering some organs, especially the eyes.
Being water soluble, a surplus of these vitamins is easily expelled through the
kidneys, and any problem from overdosing is rare.
The fat-soluble vitamins, A, D, E, and K, are more difficult to absorb.
Deficiencies can easily arise even with an adequate diet, although most “balanced”
diets are deficient due to the cooking methods and use of refined foods. The most
difficult problem is fat malabsorption, which is relatively common and mainly due to a
reaction of the intestinal wall to gluten. In this case, even a diet plentiful in fat-soluble
vitamins can still lead to deficiency symptoms and may not be corrected by high-
potency supplements. While symptoms can mirror individual deficiencies, a common
feature of fat malabsorption is dry skin and difficulty gaining weight.
This absorption difficulty can be overcome by using water-soluble vitamin E
tablets, emulsions for vitamin A, and sunshine for vitamin D. In addition, rub vitamin
A and E oil (from opened capsules) into your skin and squeeze the contents of a
halibut oil capsule under the tongue for slow absorption overnight. Do not use
synthetic versions of oil-soluble vitamins. While these are easily absorbed, they are
known to cause side effects, such as liver toxicity or interference with pregnancy.
The bacteria among our intestinal flora supply a considerable part of our B
vitamins. Unfortunately, antibiotics destroy these essential bacteria and can cause
vitamin deficiencies. For this reason, use fermented foods or cultures containing
acidophilus and bifidobacteria and take B-vitamin supplements whenever you take
antibiotics. Other widespread conditions -causing persistent vitamin deficiencies and
dependencies are deprivations during foetal develop-ment and, in later life, acute and
chronic infections, parasites, and inefficient metabolism.
In general, vitamin and mineral supplements may not be required for the
maintenance of health or even the cure of most degenerative diseases provided the
diet consists predominantly of fresh and raw foods, featuring sprouted seeds, grass
and vegetable juices, as well as high-quality nutrients such as bee pollen, spirulina,
and kelp.
Bowel-Tolerance Vitamin C: This means taking enough of the vitamin to
produce a bout of diarrhoea to identify your specific bowel tolerance for vitamin C.
This can be a successful treatment for infectious diseases, including viral infections,
which do not respond to antibiotics. The dose of vitamin C is increased until the
patient develops transient diarrhoea, usually one episode. Then the rate is cut back

slightly until the bowel tolerates the high vitamin C intake. During serious infections,
the bowel tolerance is much greater than it is in a healthy state. In normal health, for
example, the bowel tolerance is about 4-15g per day; with a light cold, it might be 20-
30g; with a serious cold, 60-100g. Typically, mononucleosis or viral hepatitis requires
40-60 g; gastroenteritis 60-150g; and viral pneumonia more than 150g. Other
infections, including herpes simplex and herpes zoster, respond favourably to this
treatment, but fungal infections do not.
When you are taking these massive amounts, it is important to select the
correct form of vitamin C. If mainly unneutralized ascorbic acid is used, the body
becomes too acid, while sodium ascorbate introduces too much sodium, and calcium
ascorbate too much calcium. If your blood pressure is approximately normal, take a
mixture of ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate, and calcium ascorbate. With low blood
pressure, use mainly sodium ascorbate with some calcium ascorbate. With high
blood pressure, potassium and magnesium ascorbate combined with ascorbic acid is
best. You can neutralize some of the ascorbic acid with potassium bicarbonate or
magnesium carbonate at the ratio of three to one, or two parts ascorbic acid to two
parts magnesium oxide. The solution should taste slightly acidic. You can dissolve
the vitamin C in water, herb tea, or juices, if you like.
Depending on the severity of your condition, take vitamin C at one- or two-hour
intervals. Do not continue self-treatment at bowel-tolerance level for more than a few
weeks, and in serious cases you should be under professional medical supervision.
The high vitamin-C intake should be reduced gradually to a daily maintenance dose
of 3-10g. A sudden withdrawal of all vitamin C can cause the return of colds,
allergies, or fatigue, so try to avoid this.
Bowel tolerance as a treatment is not suitable with kidney disease. Initially,
treatment of life-threatening diseases or emergencies can be supported with daily or
weekly injections of sodium ascorbate given intravenously in a three-percent solution.
Many degenerative diseases associated with a weak immune system, for example,
autoimmune diseases, cancer, and multiple sclerosis, can benefit from intermittent
periods of bowel-tolerance vitamin-C treatment. This method should also be used for
accidental poisoning and bites of poisonous snakes and insects.
Now let’s review all the vitamins. In the following compilation, RDA means
recommended daily allowance for males as determined by the Food and Nutrition
Board of the U.S. National Research Council. A second RDA value is for females.
“IU” means international units. Not all of the listed deficiency symptoms are always
manifested. Symptoms appear first in the weakest organs. As for measurements,
1 g = 1000 mg; 1 mg = 1000 mcg.
Fat-Soluble Vitamins: The oil-soluble vitamins are A, D, E, and K. They are
soluble in oils and fats, which is where we get them in our diet.
Vitamin A: The chemical name is retinol; two molecules of retinol can be
formed from one molecule of beta-carotene. The RDA is 5000/4000 IU;
therapeutically 25,000 to 100,000 IU are commonly used, and sometimes up to
1,000,000 IU, especially in cancer treatment and for eye diseases. Long-term
oversupply can lead to bone erosion due to a relative deficiency of vitamin D.
Therefore, supply vitamins A and D together, preferably as cod liver oil, otherwise
halibut liver oil. One halibut-oil capsule provides 4000 to 5000 IU. Vitamin A is toxic in

very high doses over long periods and is destroyed by light and oxygen. Symptoms
of vitamin A toxicity are similar to those of vitamin A deficiency. Do not take very high
doses without professional supervision.
Deficiency Symptoms: Eyes are dry, infected, and sensitive to bright light; night
blindness, poor dark adjustment, colour blindness, and glaucoma are other
symptoms. Skin is dry, rough, horny, and scaly; there are pimples, acne, and
psoriasis. Hair is dry, falling out, or dull. Nails have longitudinal ridges and are
peeling and brittle. Sense of smell and taste are poor or distorted. Respiratory
infections and other lung problems, ear problems, deafness, hearing noises, and
cancer; thyroid is overactive and the person is underweight.
Best Sources: Fish-liver oils, liver, butter, and egg yolk. Yellow-orange
vegetables and green juice are high in beta-carotene, which some individuals can
efficiently convert into vitamin A.
Vitamin D: The common natural form is vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol. Vitamin
D2 or ergocalciferol is synthetic and can be toxic in high doses over long periods; I
do not recommend it. The RDA is 200 IU; therapeutically up to 4000 IU are used.
Deficiency Symptoms: Rickets, teeth and gum problems, muscular weakness,
convulsions, cramps, tetany, nervous instability, underactive thyroid, depression,
multiple sclerosis, overweight, eye problems, and weak, deformed, and porous bones
and other symptoms of calcium deficiency.
Best Sources: Sun exposure, fish-liver oils, and egg yolk.
Vitamin E: The chemical name of this group is tocopherols; mainly d-alpha
tocopherol is used, preferably in addition to mixed tocopherols. The RDA is 15/12 IU
or mg; therapeutically, up to 3000 IU or mg can be used. Patients with heart
problems or high blood pressure should increase the dose slowly. This vitamin is
destroyed by oxygen, chlorinated water, inorganic iron supplements, and estrogen
drugs.
Deficiency Symptoms: These can include disorders of the reproductive and
circulatory systems, stroke, heart disease, leg pains, cramps, poor wound healing,
pronounced scar tissue, muscle weakness, chronic fatigue, tender breasts, arthritis,
cancer, eye and ear problems, gangrene, infections, hot flushes, malabsorption,
multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, phlebitis, skin problems, and varicose veins.
Best Sources: Cold-pressed oils (wheat germ oil), rice polishings, sprouted
seeds, nuts, egg yolk, green leaves, and grass juice.
Vitamin K: The RDA is 80/60 mcg; therapeutically, 5–15 mg are used. It is
destroyed by light, alkaline conditions, and strong acids. This vitamin is essential for
normal blood clotting to prevent haemorrhaging. A deficiency causes frequent,
prolonged, or severe bleeding, easy bruising, and menstrual clots, as well as nausea
and vomiting during pregnancy. It is also needed for bone formation, or to prevent
osteoporosis, tooth decay, calcium deposits, and hardening of tissues and arteries.
Injections of vitamin K derived from plant sources have been effective in the
control of strong pain. This vitamin can be obtained from intestinal bacteria (in other
words, made in the gut), green and especially dark-green vegetables, liver, and egg

yolk. Vitamin K1 from plants is more effective than K2 from intestinal bacteria; the
synthetic form (K3) can have toxic effects.
Water-Soluble Vitamins: These vitamins easily dissolve in water; with this
they are easily absorbed, but also easily lost in cooking and, except vitamin B12, not
stored in the body. Most of the B-group vitamins are essential components of
enzyme systems.
Vitamin B1: The chemical name is thiamine. The RDA is 1.5/1.1 mg; the
therapeutic dose is 50–3000 mg. It is destroyed or used up by heat, sugar, alcohol,
and smoking. Despite vitamin B1 supplements, deficiency can arise from a lack of
gastric acid.
Deficiency Symptoms: These include poor circulation with cold hands and feet,
oedema (fluid retention), furrowed tongue, underactive thyroid, fatigue, depression,
insomnia, anxiety, oversensitivity to pain and noise, nausea, poor memory, apathy,
debility, weight loss, and weak and painful muscles, especially in the legs, starting
with numb, burning feet, later affecting calves and thighs, and sometimes resulting in
paralysis. Other conditions include severe gastrointestinal disturbances, tachycardia
(fast pulse) and dyspnoea (breathlessness) on exertion, brachycardia (slow pulse) at
rest, enlarged and weak heart, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, diabetes,
hypoglycaemia, allergies, and addictions (to drugs, alcohol). A severe deficiency is
known as beriberi.
Best Sources: Food yeast, rice bran, sunflower and sesame seeds, peanuts,
millet, and grains.
Vitamin B2: Vitamin B2 is chemically known as riboflavin. The RDA is 1.7/1.3
mg, the therapeutic dose 50–1500 mg. It is destroyed by light and makes urine bright
yellow.
Deficiency Symptoms: Eyes are sensitive, burning, and bloodshot (blood
vessels become visible in the white of the eye) and there is blurred vision or
cataracts. Skin is oily and itching; there can be eczema (especially around the nose,
forehead, ears, scrotum, and vagina), redness of part of the face (rosacea), acne,
bedsores, and purplish skin parts. Hair is dull and oily, with dandruff. Nails are split
and the tongue is sore, burning, and purplish magenta in color. There are cracks on
the lips and corners of the mouth (cheilosis), as well as allergies, anaemia, arthritis,
cancer, or diabetes.
Best Sources: Food yeast, liver, kidney, almonds, sprouted seeds, and grass
juice.
Niacin and Nicotinamide: Niacin is also called nicotinic acid, and niacinamide
is the same as nicotinamide. As the name suggests, these are closely related to
nicotine and, therefore, useful when trying to give up smoking. The name vitamin B3
is also used. The RDA is 19/15 mg; therapeutically, up to 30 g have been used in
schizophrenia.
The acid form (niacin or nicotinic acid) causes flushing of the face and it is
prescribed to dilate blood vessels, decrease blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, or
increase circulation to the head in cases of acne or migraine. The non-acid
nicotinamide or niacinamide does not have these effects. In contrast to niacin, high

amounts of this vitamin can cause depression. Niacin or nicotinamide improves the
oxidative energy metabolism and can be used to treat many symptoms.
Deficiency Symptoms: Schizophrenia, hyperthyroidism, protruding eyes,
depression, irritability, overactivity, crying spells, suspicion, loss of humour,
delusions, anxiety, insomnia, confusion, and changed sense perceptions. Tongue is
strawberry-tipped or bright red and shiny, with a “raw beef” appearance; the mouth
displays sores, cankers, and ulcerated corners. The skin is rough and red, with
brown, often symmetrical discoloration on the cheeks, neck, and back of hands.
There is dermatitis with ulcerations and pellagra (cracking of skin), which is
aggravated by exposure to sun. Other symptoms and conditions include headache,
backache, fatigue, anaemia, lack of gastric acid, loss of weight and appetite, nausea,
vomiting, diarrhoea, painful and stiff joints, arthritis, and cancer.
Best Sources: Food yeast, peanuts, rice bran, liver.
Pantothenic Acid: This is commonly used as calcium pantothenate, also
called vitamin B5. The RDA is 7/4 mg; the therapeutic amount 50–1500 mg.
Deficiency Symptoms: Tongue is beefy, enlarged, and furrowed; there is
fatigue, depression, insomnia, greying hair, burning feet, arthritis, alcoholism,
asthma, cancer, cataracts, epilepsy, psoriasis, stress, diseases of the digestive and
nervous systems, and adrenal weakness.
Best Sources: Food yeast, rice bran and polishings, liver.
Vitamin B6: The chemical name is pyridoxine. The RDA is 2.0/1.6 mg;
therapeutically, it is used from 50 to 3,000 mg. It works closely with zinc and is easily
oxidized.
Deficiency Symptoms: These include an inability to recall dreams, insomnia,
depression, irritability, tremors, convulsions (epilepsy), migraine, or schizophrenia.
The skin is oily, with eczema and urticaria (nettle rash or hives); there is oedema
(fluid retention), vomiting, halitosis, lack of gastric acid, muscle weakness, anaemia,
and kidney stones. Also possible are pain, stiffness, and swellings of fingers and
joints; fingers and toes become white (Raynaud’s disease); autism; caries (tooth or
bone decay); diabetes; Parkinsonism; and diseases of the digestive and nervous
systems.
Best Sources: Food yeast, molasses, bran, sunflower seeds, rice, liver, egg
yolk, nuts, beans, and bananas.
Biotin: The RDA is 0.3 mg or 300 mcg. Biotin is necessary for protein and fat
metabolism as well as for healthy hair.
Deficiency Symptoms: Digestive, nervous, and skin and hair problems;
anaemia, fatigue, depression, and hallucinations.
Best Sources: Food yeast, rice bran. Usually from intestinal bacteria, except
after antibiotics.
Folic Acid: The RDA is 200/180 mcg, but it is recommended to ingest at least
400 mcg, and 800 mcg when pregnant. The therapeutic dose is 5–20 mg. Folic acid
is easily destroyed by light, heat, storage, oxygen, and the contraceptive pill.

Deficiency Symptoms: These are widespread; most pregnant women are
deficient. Symptoms include anaemia, corners of mouth cracked, red tongue, greying
hair, greyish-brown skin pigmentation, irritability, depression, fatigue, forgetfulness,
lack of con-centration, insomnia, dizziness, depressed reflexes, and headaches. Also
present are muscle weakness, pain, numbness in legs, difficulty in walking, cramps,
digestive problems such as constipation and diarrhea, sexual and circulation
problems, cervical cancer, hypoglycaemia, birth defects, gout, diabetes, and
cardiovascular disease.
Best Sources: Grass juice, yeast, sprouts, dark-green leaves, and liver.
Vitamin B12: The chemical name is cobalamin, the RDA is 2 mcg, and the
therapeutic dose 1000 mcg. It is essential after part of the stomach has been
removed. Most patients with a lack of energy respond extremely well to vitamin B12
injections, even if laboratory tests show a normal vitamin-B12 blood level.
In poor health, vitamin B12 is not well absorbed; calcium and hydrochloric acid
improve absorption. Commonly, B12 tablets are absorbed under the tongue.
However, recent studies show that the best absorption takes place by putting vitamin
B12 into the nostrils as drops, cream, or a crushed tablet combined with a little water
to make a paste.
Deficiency Symptoms: Pernicious anaemia, chronic fatigue, debility, poor
circulation, numbness and stiffness, a very red and sore tongue, emotional
disturbances, mental illness, cancer, liver and nervous system diseases, nerve
inflammations, and paralysis.
Best Sources: Liver, kidney, fish, egg yolk, and spirulina.
Vitamin C: The chemical name is ascorbic acid; it is commonly used as
sodium or calcium ascorbate. The RDA is 60 mg; 500 to 3000 mg are recommended
for good health (and may be supplied by a good diet); the therapeutic daily amount is
up to 100 g (in neutralized form). This vitamin is easily destroyed by air, storage,
smoking, cooking, or stress. It is useful to counteract the bites or stings of poisonous
snakes, insects, spiders, and others.
Deficiency Symptoms: First signs include lassitude, weakness, irritability, and
vague muscle and joint pains. Later symptoms and conditions include scurvy, starting
in the limbs most used, muscle pain (especially during infections), bleeding of gums
and skin, capillary weakness, fatigue, poor wound healing, and acute and chronic
infections. Also possible are liver and kidney problems, senility, aging skin,
thrombosis (strokes, heart infarctions), crib death, eye problems, arthritis, multiple
sclerosis, diabetes, schizophrenia, anaemia, bedsores, stone formation, cancer,
backache, anxiety, and allergies (manifested in reaction to bee stings, headaches,
rashes, asthma, hay fever, and epilepsy).
Best Sources: Fresh fruits and vegetables, sprouted seeds, rosehips, and
grass juice.
Vitamin-like Substances: These are necessary biochemical substances that
have not yet been awarded full vitamin status, partly because some can be
synthesized within the body, and partly because their usefulness is still disputed.

Bioflavonoids: Bioflavonoids are part of the naturally occurring vitamin-C
complex. A deficiency causes capillary fragility with purplish or blue skin marks,
inflammation, gum bleeding, and inner ear pain. Bioflavonoids are necessary for the
proper functioning of vitamin C.
Best sources: Sprouted seeds, fresh (especially colourful) vegetables and
fruits, and the residue of juiced citrus fruits; bioflavonoids are also found in flower
petals. The best known members of this group are quercetin and rutin; rutin is found
in concentrated form in dried buckwheat leaves and flowers.
Choline and Inositol: These two are important for the absorption and
metabolism of fats and cholesterol, for the synthesis of lecithin, for proper liver and
gallbladder function, and for the formation and function of the brain and nerves
(transmission of nerve impulses). They are helpful in the treatment of arteriosclerosis
and atherosclerosis, asthma, diabetes (inositol), glaucoma, hair problems and
baldness, high blood pressure, insomnia (inositol), liver diseases, multiple sclerosis,
muscular dystrophy, neuritis, and tardive dyskinesia (choline especially).
Best sources: Choline is best supplied by lecithin, while other good sources are
egg yolk, liver, brain, and food yeast. Inositol is best supplied by sprouted seeds (in
unsprouted seeds it remains unavailable in the form of phytic acid). Other good
sources are heart, brain, liver, food yeast, cabbage, and citrus fruits.
PABA (para-aminobenzoic acid): It is a growth-promoting factor, and a
deficiency contributes to white skin patches, eczema, greying hair, and fatigue. In
lotion, it is excellent for protecting the skin against ultraviolet radiation. It is obtained
from food yeast, liver, egg yolk, and is also synthesized by intestinal bacteria. As a
supplement, the soluble potassium salt of PABA is preferable to the almost insoluble
acid itself.
Vitamin B15 (Pangamic Acid): This bioflavonoid occurs in seeds, grains, and
nuts, and it protects against oxygen deficiencies in a way similar to vitamin E. It has
been successfully used in the treatment of alcoholism, allergies, arthritis, autism,
breathing problems (asthma and emphysema), diabetes, hypoglycaemia, heart
problems (cardiovascular diseases), and premature aging.
Vitamin B17 (Amygdalin or Nitrilosides): This nutrient contains a cyanide
ingredient that is harmful to cancer cells. It is most effective for preventing cancer if
taken regularly by eating a few bitter seeds of stone fruits (for example, apricot, bitter
almond, apple). Other good sources are sprouted seeds, alfalfa, mung beans, millet,
and lentils. Professionally, a purified product known as laetrile (now illegal in the
U.S.) is used orally or as injections for cancer treatment. To be effective, laetrile must
be used in conjunction with cleansing, supplements, and correct diet.
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Step 24
MINERALS
Find out what minerals do and if you have increased requirements for them.
Minerals are inorganic substances composed of a metal and a non-metal, both

in ionic form. Metals most important for our health are calcium, magnesium,
potassium, and sodium as bulk elements, and boron, chromium, cobalt, copper,
iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, and zinc as trace elements.
Essential non-metals are chloride, phosphorus, and sulphur. Harmful are aluminium
and the heavy metals cadmium, lead, and mercury. While imbalanced intakes of bulk
metals can cause health problems, trace elements easily become toxic in excessive
doses.
Minerals are not well absorbed from grains, seeds, and nuts,10 unless these
are sprouted or fermented. This fact is especially important for vegetarians who may
rely on these foods. The addition of gelatine or chicken or fish broth to cooked grains
improves the absorption of minerals, while cereal fibre (bran) decreases their
availability. When grains and seeds are indicated as good sources of specific
minerals in the following compilation, this applies only to their sprouted form or as
fermented products.
In case of mineral deficiencies, take mineral supplements with meals containing
gelatine (for example, fish or poultry) or, alternatively, with fresh vegetable juice or
vegetables salads. Also make sure that you have sufficient gastric acid. Minerals are
more easily absorbed as chelates or orotates; orotates deliver minerals directly into
the cells.
Calcium (Ca): The RDA is 800 mg, but the recommended intake is 0.6 - 1.2 g
daily. A deficiency is frequently due to overacidity, lack of vitamin D, magnesium, or
boron, underactive thyroid and parathyroids, or an oversupply of phosphorus. The
normal calcium-phosphorus ratio in blood is 10:4; if the calcium level is too high,
calcifications result, such as stone formation, tartar, arthritic deposits, cataracts, and
muscle tension.
Deficiency Symptoms: These include fragile and deformed bones; muscle
cramps, twitching, and weakness; irritability; headaches; depression; menstrual
problems such as excessive and painful menstruation; poor circulation; and tender
breasts. Also likely are undue sensitivity to pain, insomnia, allergies, inflammations,
low blood pressure, varicose veins, piles, distended veins and abdomen, swellings,
slow wound healing, pyorrhoea, gingivitis, and eye problems (nearsightedness).
Best Sources: Bone broth, eggshells, dolomite, sardines, leaf vegetables,
goat’s-milk products, sesame seeds, and kelp.
Chromium (Cr): This mineral is active as trivalent chromium, and its biological
value differs greatly in various foods. Aim for an RDA of 100 mcg of high bio-value
supplements, such as glucose-tolerance factor or chelated chromium.
Deficiency Symptoms: Poor blood sugar regulation (diabetes, hypoglycaemia),
disturbed fat/protein meta-b-olism, alcohol intolerance, impaired growth, high blood

pressure, arteriosclerosis, weight loss, fatigue, and eye problems (opaque cornea,
nearsightedness, glaucoma).
Best Sources: Brewer’s yeast, molasses, mushrooms, seafood, and grains.
Calcium EAP for Healthy Cells

The health of our cells depends to a large degree on their ability to keep toxic materials out.
This includes toxic chemicals, such as endotoxins produced by microbes inside the body,
and also harmful concentrations of otherwise useful biological chemicals. Such toxic matter
tends to weaken and disrupt the energy production within cells and is a major factor in
disease processes such as cancer and chronic degenerative diseases.
Toxic chemicals, together with useful ones, can enter the cells only through special pores in
the cell wall. In healthy cells, these entrance points are protected by special gatekeeper
chemicals, mainly the calcium salt of 2-aminoethanol phosphate, also called colamine
phosphate, or EAP. EAP is heavily concentrated at these entrance points and is attached
to the cell wall where it keeps the calcium in a fixed position.
In addition to keeping unwanted chemicals from entering, EAP is also effective in
transporting essential minerals through the cell wall and into the cell. In addition, it helps to
maintain and restore a normal electric potential between both sides of the membrane.
Because of its vital functions in maintaining the health of cell membranes, EAP has been
called the “membrane integrity factor.” With increasing age and disease-related health
deterioration, we do not produce enough EAP to protect our cells. This leaves them open to
attack by undesirable chemicals and toxins, an event that can cause or contribute to a wide
range of diseases.
EAP salts were developed in the 1960s in Germany by Hans Nieper, M.D. Initially, calcium
EAP was used in the successful treatment of multiple sclerosis, but the damaging after-
effects of viral infections (e.g., chronic fatigue) could also be greatly reduced with EAP.
Other diseases that responded well were ALS, allergies, asthma, blood pressure and
circulation problems, capillary bleeding, cancer, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and
osteoporosis.
Varicose veins stopped deteriorating and aging skin was improved with EAP treatment. Dr.
Nieper mentioned that his patients on long-term EAP therapy hardly aged. He found that a
mixed formulation of calcium, magnesium, and potassium EAP was calming and
harmonizing for the nerves and, with this, suitable for neurological conditions, including
hyperactivity and anxiety disorders.
After evaluating the treatment of several thousand patients with multiple sclerosis over
many years, Dr. Nieper found that hardly any of these patients had developed cancer. Also,
in a six-year study of eight patients with repeated surgery for colon cancer, there were no
further recurrences of cancer after calcium EAP therapy. The usual dose is one to three
tablets three times daily, before meals. For information and orders, contact: Koehler
Company, P.O. Box 11510, Prescott, AZ 86304.
Copper (Cu): The RDA is 1.5 to 3 mg, but the recommended intake is 3 to 5
mg daily. A dietary deficiency of copper is rare; inorganic copper, for example, may
be oversupplied from copper water pipes. Internal copper deficiency can result from
insufficient binding capacity within cells.

Deficiency Symptoms: These include anaemia, especially in infants; bone
disorders; defective spinal cord, multiple sclerosis; hair greying, hair becoming fine
and straight, and losing its curl; infertility; weak connective tissue, as evidenced by
heart problems such as enlarged heart, weak aorta (holes, ruptures), aneurism, and
varicose veins; hernias; cancer; leukaemia; arthritis; inflammations; parasites; and
underactive thyroid.
Signs of Toxicity: Liver cirrhosis, jaundice, and symptoms of zinc deficiency.
Best Sources: Liver, food yeast, nuts, and oily seeds. Use supplements only in
organic form, such as chelated or salicylate complexes. However, colloids and
copper armbands are acceptable.
Iodine (I): The RDA and recommended intake for iodine is 150 mcg daily.
Iodine is needed for the production of thyroid hormones, which regulate metabolism.
Deficiency Symptoms: These include goitre, cretinism, fatigue, overweight,
mental retardation, debility, and cancer.
Best Sources: Kelp, seafood, and iodized salt.
Iron (Fe): The RDA is 10/15 mg, so the recommended intake is the RDA, but it
should be less for the elderly. An iron deficiency causes anaemia and fatigue, while
an oversupply in the inorganic form (tablets, bread additives) is a contributing factor
in degenerative diseases, especially arthritis.
Best Sources: Kelp, liver, yeast, molasses, sesame seeds, and eggs.
Magnesium (Mg): The RDA is 350/280 mg; the recommended intake 500 -
1000 mg daily. This mineral activates many enzymes (see the section on magnesium
chloride to follow).
Deficiency Symptoms: Here you find apathy, confusion, depression,
disorientation, hallucinations, irritability, paranoia, and poor memory. Also typical are
angina, arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, sweating, tachycardia (fast pulse),
strokes, thrombosis, or infarctions. You can also encounter convulsions, cramps,
eclampsia, epilepsy, muscle twitching, numbness, nystagmus (rapid eye
movements), tingling, and tremors. Further deficiency symptoms are physical and
mental rigidity, stiffness, stone formation in kidney and gallbladder (but not renal
failure), tartar, alcoholism, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, acute infections, intestinal
malabsorption, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), prostate
problems, strong body odour, overactive thyroid, colic, and premenstrual tension.
Best Sources: Kelp, dolomite, seafood, sea minerals, grass juice, green leaves,
nuts, oily seeds, molasses, and sprouted grains.
Manganese (Mn): The recommended intake is 5 to 10 mg daily; the
therapeutic dose is 20 - 100 mg.
Deficiency Symptoms: These typically are muscle weakness, myasthenia
gravis, drooping eyelids, poor memory, dark-red skin spots, -diabetes,
hypoglycaemia, atherosclerosis, schizophrenia, epileptic convulsions, bone
deformities, mucus problems, impotence and/or sterility, ataxia (muscle
incoordination), poor equilibrium, abnormal inner ear, and retraction of head.

Best Sources: Grass juice, spinach, parsley, spices (cloves, cardamom,
ginger), nuts, pea-nuts, and sprouted and fermented seeds.
Molybdenum (Mo): Molybdenum is an integral part of several enzymes
involved in cell oxidation and carbohydrate metabolism. Daily requirements are not
known, though we do know it is an antagonist to copper.
Deficiency Symptoms: These can be cancer of the oesophagus, dental decay,
impotence in elderly males, asthma, and sensitivity to sulphites, MSM (see the
section on MSM to follow), and other sulphur-rich foods.
Best Sources: Buckwheat, beans, fermented soy products, liver, and barley.
Potassium (K): The RDA is 2000 mg, but the recommended intake is 3 g daily.
A deficiency may originate from an oversupply of sodium (salt), the use of diuretics,
or adrenal weakness.
Deficiency Symptoms: Typical here are anxiety, nervousness, fatigue, diabetes,
hypoglycaemia, heart strain, high blood pressure, liver problems, lower back pain,
muscle weakness, multiple sclerosis, and overweight.
Best Sources: Kelp, fruits, and vegetables.
Selenium (Se): The RDA is 70/55 mg, while the recommended intake is 100 -
200 mcg daily; the therapeutic dose is up to 500 mcg taken in organic form. Selenium
acts as an antioxidant together with vitamin E. It is lost in cooking and very toxic
when taken at 2000 mcg or more. A deficiency causes viruses to become very
virulent.
Deficiency Symptoms: These include fatigue, cancer, liver damage, pancreatic
fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, weak immune system, reproductive disorders,
cataracts, haemorrhaging, haemolytic anaemia, and underactive thyroid.
Best Sources: Kidney, liver, seafood, brewer’s yeast, and kelp.
Zinc (Zn): The RDA is 15 mg; the recommended intake is 20 to 30 mg daily;
and the therapeutic dose is up to 300 mg. This mineral is best taken together with
vitamin B6. Diets low in protein and high in fibre, phytates, calcium, fat, and copper
can decease the absorption of zinc. Increased zinc is needed with calcium or
magnesium supplements, and during chronic infections, convalescence, and stress.
Deficiency Symptoms: These affect skin (acne, boils, burns, leg ulcers,
parakeratosis [horny red skin], poor wound healing, psoriasis, stretch marks); hair
(brittle, coarse, dandruff, falling out, lacking pigment); nails (white spots and bands);
eyes (keratitis [inflammations or lesions of the cornea], night blindness, retinal
detachment); taste and smell (lost or distorted); sexual function (male sex organs
underdeveloped, prostate enlarged, delayed sexual maturity, sterility, menstruation
retarded or irregular); and maturation (poor growth, dwarfism). Other symptoms and
conditions include body and breath odour, mouth cankers, nausea (pregnancy), poor
circulation, cold extremities, fainting, heart infarction, sickle-cell anaemia, cancer,
diabetes, epilepsy, gastric and duodenal ulcers, inflammation of the intestines
(Crohn’s disease), joint pains (especially knee and hip), liver cirrhosis/alcoholism,
toxaemia, mental problems, increased emotionalism, hyperactivity, learning
disorders, autism, schizo-phrenia, loss of appetite, anorexia nervosa, and multiple
allergies.

Best Sources: Oysters, herrings, sardines, kelp, seafood, oatmeal, liver,
pumpkin seeds, and sprouted seeds.
Now let’s look in depth at two minerals - magnesium chloride and MSM, a form of
organic sulphur.
Magnesium Chloride for Health and Rejuvenation: Magnesium is nothing
short of a miracle mineral in its healing effect on a wide range of diseases as well as
its ability to rejuvenate the aging body. It is essential for many enzyme reactions,
especially in regard to cellular energy production; it is essential too for the health of
the brain and nervous system and for healthy teeth and bones. It may come as a
surprise that in the form of magnesium chloride it is also an effective infection fighter.
On the basis of its numerous beneficial effects, I recommend magnesium chloride as
part of a healthy living program.
The first prominent researcher to investigate and promote the antibiotic effects
of magnesium chloride was French surgeon and professor Pierre Delbet, M.D. In
1915, he was looking for a solution to cleanse the wounds of soldiers; traditionally
used antiseptics actually damaged tissues and encouraged infections instead of
preventing them. In all his tests, magnesium chloride solution was by far the best; not
only was it harmless for tissues, but it also greatly increased white blood cell activity
and phagocytosis (the destruction of harmful microbes).
Dr. Delbet performed experiments on the internal applications of magnesium
chloride and found it to be a powerful immune stimulant. In his experiments,
phagocytosis increased by up to 333 percent. This means that after magnesium
chloride intake the same number of white blood cells destroyed up to three times
more microbes than beforehand. Gradually, Dr. Delbet found magnesium chloride to
be beneficial in a wide range of diseases. These included diseases of the digestive
tract such as colitis and gallbladder problems, Parkinson’s disease, tremors and
muscle cramps, acne, eczema, psoriasis, warts and itching skin, impotence, prostatic
hypertrophy, cerebral and circulatory problems, asthma, hay fever, urticaria, and
anaphylactic reactions.
Hair and nails became stronger and healthier and patients had more energy.
He also found a preventative effect on cancer and used magnesium chloride to
reverse precancerous conditions such as leukoplasia, as well as hyperkeratosis and
chronic mastitis. Epidemio-logical studies confirmed that topographical regions with
magnesium-rich soil had a lower incidence of cancer in their population than regions
with low magnesium levels.
Here is a review of other benefits of magnesium:
Magnesium for Nerves: Magnesium has a calming effect on the nervous
system and is frequently used to promote good sleep. But more importantly, it can be
used to calm irritated and overexcited nerves. This is especially useful with epileptic
seizures, convulsions in pregnant women, and the “shakes” in alcoholism.
Magnesium levels are generally low in alcoholics, contributing to or causing many of
their health problems. If magnesium levels are low, the nerves lose control over
muscle activity, respiration, and mental processes.
Due to its strong relaxing effect, magnesium helps not only with better sleep but
is also useful in overcoming headaches and migraines. Nervous fatigue, tics and

twitches, tremors, irritability, hypersensitivity, muscle spasms, restlessness, anxiety,
confusion, disorientation, and irregular heartbeat - all these conditions respond to
increased magnesium levels. A common phenomenon of magnesium deficiency is a
sharp muscle reaction to an unexpected loud noise.
Many of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease can be overcome with high
magnesium supplementation; shaking, for example, can be prevented, and rigidity
can be eased. With pre-eclampsia, pregnant women can develop convulsions,
nausea, dizziness, and headaches; in hospitals, this is treated with magnesium
infusions.
Magnesium for the Heart: Adequate levels of magnesium are essential for the
heart muscle. Those who die from heart attacks usually have very low magnesium
but high calcium levels in their heart muscles. Patients with coronary heart disease
who had been treated with large amounts of magnesium had a better survival rate
than patients who had received drugs. This might be due to the fact that magnesium
dilates the arteries of the heart and lowers cholesterol and fat levels.
Diabetics who are prone to atherosclerosis, fatty degeneration of the liver, and
heart disease often have low magnesium tissue levels. They often develop eye
problems, such as retinopathy; diabetics with the lowest magnesium levels have the
most severe retinopathy. The lower the magnesium content of their drinking water,
the higher is the death rate of diabetics from cardiovascular disease. In an American
study, the death rate due to coronary heart disease was double and diabetes was
four times higher in areas with low magnesium water levels as compared to areas
with high magnesium levels.11
Magnesium for Healthy Bones and Teeth: Medical authorities claim that the
widespread incidence of osteoporosis and tooth decay in Western countries can be
prevented with a high calcium intake. However, published evidence reveals that the
opposite is true. Asian and African populations with a very low intake (about 300 mg
of calcium daily) have very little osteoporosis; Bantu women with an intake of 200 to
300 mg of calcium daily have the lowest incidence of osteoporosis in the world. In
Western countries with a high intake of dairy products, the average calcium intake is
about 1000 mg. Strangely, the higher the calcium intake, especially in the form of
cow’s milk products (except butter), the higher the incidence of osteoporosis.12
The average concentration of magnesium phosphate in bones is about one
percent; in teeth about 1.5 percent; in elephant tusks two percent; and in the teeth of
carnivorous animals made to crush bones, it is five percent. In regard to the strength
of bones and teeth, think of calcium as chalk and of magnesium as superglue; the
magnesium superglue binds and transforms the chalk into superior bones and teeth.
Magnesium, Cancer, and Aging: Many studies have shown an increased
cancer rate in regions with low magnesium levels in soil and drinking water. In Egypt,
the cancer rate was only about ten percent of that in Europe and America, and in the
rural areas it was practically nonexistent. The main factor at play was an extremely
high magnesium intake of 2.5 to 3 g in these cancer-free populations - ten times
more than in most Western countries.
Let’s see how calcium and magnesium are further linked to aging. We use our
muscles by selectively contracting them; on the biochemical level, muscle contraction

is triggered by calcium ions flowing into muscle cells. To relax the muscle, calcium is
pumped out again. However, as we age, more calcium remains trapped in the
muscles, and these muscles become more or less permanently contracted, leading
to increasing muscle tension and spasms. Together with calcification of the joints,
this is the typical rigidity and inflexibility we see in old age.
The higher our intake of calcium relative to magnesium, the faster we calcify
and age. Further, most of the excess calcium in our diet ends up in our soft tissues
and around joints, leading to calcification and potentially arthritic deformations,
arteriosclerosis, cataracts, kidney stones, and senility. Biochemical stress can lead to
the pathological calcification of almost any organ, which means the more stress, the
more calcification, and the more rapid the aging.
The Rejuvenation Mineral: Magnesium and chloride have other important
functions in keeping us young and healthy. Chloride is required to produce a large
quantity of gastric acid each day, and it is also needed to stimulate starch-digesting
enzymes. Magnesium is the mineral of rejuvenation and prevents the calcification of
our organs and tissues that is characteristic of the aging-related degeneration of the
body.
Using other magnesium salts (other than the chloride one) is less
advantageous because these have to be converted into chlorides in the body
anyway. We can use magnesium as oxide or carbonate, but then we need to
produce additional hydrochloric acid to form chlorides so it can be absorbed. Many
aging individuals, especially those with chronic diseases, who desperately need more
magnesium cannot produce sufficient hydrochloric acid and thus cannot absorb the
oxide or carbonate.
Among the other salts, Epsom salt is magnesium sulphate; it is soluble but not
well absorbed and acts mainly as a laxative. Chelated magnesium is well absorbed
but expensive and lacks the beneficial contribution of the chloride ions. Orotates are
good but expensive for their content of magnesium; and both orotates and chelates
lack the infection-fighting potential of magnesium chloride.
As suggested above, calcium and magnesium are opposites in their effects on
our body structure. As a general rule, young women and children with a soft body
structure need more calcium, while the more rigid and inflexible we become, the less
calcium and the more magnesium we need. Magnesium can reverse the age-related
degenerative calcification of our body structure and rejuvenate us.
How Much Magnesium to Take: Hydrated magnesium chloride contains about
120 mg of magnesium per gram or 600 mg per rounded teaspoon. It has a mild
laxative effect. As a good maintenance intake to remain healthy, you can take up to
one teaspoon daily in divided doses mixed with meals; it is best to use it instead of
table salt as it has a somewhat salty taste. Individuals with very sensitive taste buds
can start using magnesium in tiny amounts mixed with strongly flavoured food, then
gradually increase the doses.
With acute infections, dissolve eight slightly rounded teaspoons in one quart of
water. With children, a small glassful or four ounces can be used effectively every six
hours. Adults can double this dose by drinking this amount every three hours, or

even more frequently until diarrhea develops; then cut back to a maintenance intake
just below the level of diarrhea, until the infection has cleared.
For daily use, it is more convenient to dissolve the magnesium chloride in
water. Fill a bottle or jar halfway with the crystals and then to the top with water. Mix
one teaspoon of this solution with food or drink three times daily for a daily intake of
about 600 mg of magnesium. This or a more concentrated solution can also be used
as a pack over tumours and infected, inflamed, painful, stiff, or calcified joints,
muscles, adhesions, or scar tissue. It is also excellent as a back rub, to relax tense
muscles anywhere on the body, and to rejuvenate aging skin. For sensitive skin, use
it in a very diluted form. On wounds it can be used topically in a four-percent solution,
that is, a level teaspoon in a small glass of water.
Non-hydrated or desiccated magnesium chloride contains twice as much
magnesium as the hydrated product. If using this, use half the amounts indicated
above. Magnesium chloride is produced from seawater. Instead of magnesium
chloride, you can use the brine from the production of sea salt. It has the advantage
of having more trace minerals than the technical magnesium chloride, but due to its
high content of magnesium sulphate it is rather bitter.
MSM - Organic Sulphur As a Versatile
CAUTION: While a higher magnesium Healer: MSM (methyl-sulfonylmethane)
intake is beneficial for most individuals, occurs naturally in many fresh foods but
those with low blood pressure usually
is lost during processing. Its main use in
re-quire more calcium. Normal blood
the body is for collagen synthesis and
pressure is about 120/80, so the lower
yours is the higher your daily intake of
forming skin, blood vessels, hair, and
calcium should be. While those with high nails; it keeps cells, skin, and blood
blood pressure benefit from ingesting vessels elastic, which is the attribute of
twice as much magnesium as calcium, youth. That is why organic sulphur is
those with low blood pressure can take often regarded as the “beauty mineral.”
twice as much calcium as magnesium; Cell walls remain permeable so that
both minerals are taken in relatively high nutrients can freely flow into the cells and
amounts. Those with low blood pressure wastes and toxins can easily be
and a tendency towards inflammations removed.
should also greatly reduce their intake of
phosphorus. A high level of phosphorus in Amino acid chains are usually
the blood tends to cause magnesium as linked with each other through flexible
well as calcium levels to be low. sulphur bridges. Also the oxidative
energy production of cells requires
Magnesium and calcium supplementation
should be avoided by people with severe
reactive sulphur compounds. Thus,
kidney problems (severe renal without sufficient organic sulphur as in
insufficiency); extra magnesium may be the form of MSM, cells and body
weakening to those with myasthenia structures lose their elasticity and
gravis. Too much magnesium can cause flexibility. What results are the well-
muscle weakness or cramps; if this known signs of aging: inelastic skin with
happens stop using magnesium and use increasing wrinkles, scar tissue,
more calcium. hardening arteries, varicose veins, and
“hardened” lungs, causing emphysema.
Sufficient intake of MSM is able to reverse these conditions to a significant degree,
including emphysema. It is believed that the MSM in aloe vera is the active ingredient
responsible for repairing damaged skin, a quality attributed to this plant.

Athletes use MSM to increase stamina and minimize sore muscles. Its use for
this purpose is even more widespread with racehorses and greyhounds. This effect
may be mainly due to the ability of MSM to increase greatly the body’s ability to
eliminate metabolic residues, wastes, and toxins from the cells. In a similar way,
MSM appears to help those with chronic fatigue. And it helps us recuperate from
severe physical and mental exhaustion; further, MSM reduces the effects of stress
and the incidence of stress-related deaths in animals.
MSM tends to reduce or eliminate allergic reactions to foods, chemicals, and
inhaled allergens. It also reduces reactions to the bites of mosquitoes, bees, and
poisonous spiders and snakes. It lessens inflammation, pain, stiffness, and swellings
due to arthritis or from other musculoskeletal system disorders, and it helps to
normalize the blood chemistry in these conditions; it also reduces inflammations of
the skin and mucous membranes. MSM relieves leg and back cramps and muscle
spasms, be it after periods of inactivity (night cramps) or during athletic activities.
Other conditions that often benefit from MSM supplementation are hot flashes
as well as discomfort due to the monthly cycle, acne, asthma, back pain, candidiasis,
constipation, diabetes, diarrhea, diverticulitis, gastrointestinal ulcers, hypertension,
inflammations of all kinds, itching skin, migraines, nausea, pain, stress, sunburn, and
wound healing. It is believed to be helpful with other chronic degenerative or
inflammatory conditions, especially Alzheimer’s, cancer, Crohn’s disease,
myasthenia gravis, and Parkinson’s.
Fingernails and hair have a high sulphur content and their condition generally
improves with MSM supplementation. It also reduces parasite infections in the
intestinal and urogenital tracts. MSM also appears to normalize our mental state.
Individuals on MSM tend to report increased alertness, reduced mood swings, and
less depression. It seems to improve the immune system and the senses of taste and
smell. In addition, it neutralizes the toxicity of anticholinesterase, thereby providing
protection against insecticide exposure or ingestion; it also aids the liver in the
detoxification of chemicals and, because of this, it is useful in easing drug withdrawal
symptoms.
In summary, MSM:
• inhibits pain impulses along nerve fibres (analgesia)
• lessens inflammation
• increases blood supply
• reduces muscle spasm
• softens scar tissue.
How to Use MSM: Unlike the related DMSO, MSM is a natural food ingredient
and is free of unpleasant taste and odour. It is reported to be completely safe even in
very high amounts. Because of its inert composition, it does not cause allergies or
undesirable pharmacological effects; it can even be safely used to dilute blood. The
body will use what it needs and remove any excess through the kidneys. The water-
soluble MSM is easily absorbed and provides a therapeutically important source of
organically bound sulphur.

The daily maintenance intake commonly ranges from 1 to 10 g taken in two or
more divided doses. Adjust the dose according to your well-being or observed
effects; initially I suggest you start with about 1 g and increase the dosage gradually.
You can also use MSM externally to carry
CAUTION: Individuals who are
other nutrients or remedies into the skin. With
sensitive to sulphites, often used
arthritis or connective tissue problems, for
as preservatives, tend also to be
instance, you can dissolve glucosamine, copper
sensitive to MSM due to a
salicylate, and MSM in a small amount of warm
deficiency of molybdenum, which
water and rub it into the affected area.
is required for liver enzymes to
For bulk lots of MSM in the United States, convert sulphur compounds into
see www.bulkmsm.com where you can also find sulphates.
more information on MSM. If your diet is already
In this case, supplement with 200
high in sulphur, as from plenty of onions and
to 1000 mcg of molybdenum and
eggs, then you might not notice any benefit from
avoid a high copper intake.
taking MSM.
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Step 25
AMINO ACIDS
They’re the building blocks of all body proteins.
Adequate levels are essential for good health.
There are eight essential amino acids for adults that must be supplied with the
diet: isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenyl-alanine, threonine, tryptophan,
and valine. Two others, arginine and histidine, are essential in the first year of life.
Some may be useful as supplements to enhance the functions described below, but
commonly this is necessary only in cases of malabsorption of nutrients, with specific
diseases, or with bodybuilding and sports nutrition. The specific amounts to use are
usually not critical and may vary widely with practitioners. If not otherwise
recommended by your health professional, you can use the amounts indicated on the
product container. However, in most instances, instead of taking single amino acids, I
recommend taking spirulina or chlorella instead; these are high in protein (up to 70
percent) and easily digestible.
Amino acids, like many vitamins, exist in two forms that are chemically identical
but differently folded. These are named either D-amino acid or L-amino acid. Amino
acids in our body have the L-form. Therefore, it is not advisable to use the synthetic
D,L-amino acids, but rather the more expensive L-amino acids produced with
enzymes. One exception to this is D,L-phenylalanine if used for pain relief. If the label
of a supplement does not specify that it is the L-form, you can assume that it is the
cheaper D,L-form, and I would not use it. Furthermore, two simple amino acids,
glycine and taurine, exist only in one form and are not marked D or L.
Arginine: Arginine is the precursor of the neurotransmitter nitric oxide, which
helps to relax and dilate blood vessels. It is in an antago-nistic balance with lysine.
Arginine helps to channel nutrients into tissues and promotes regeneration.
• Aids in liver detoxification
• May retard growth of tumours and cancer cells
• Assists in the release of growth hormones
• Helps maintain a healthy immune system
• Important for scar tissue formation and collagen production
• Promotes muscle growth and fat utilization
• Helpful with malaria
• May help with male impotence
Note: avoid supplementation during pregnancy and lactation, and with herpes
infections.
Carnitine: Carnitine is produced in a healthy liver from lysine, vitamins B1 and
B6, and iron. Vegetarian diets can be deficient in carnitine, as it is found mainly in
meat. D--carnitine is harmful. Acetyl-L-carnitine is the form best suited to treat
neurological conditions.

• Aids transport of long-chain fatty acids to mitochondria for energy production
• Helps in weight loss
• Improves athletic ability through increased energy production
• Enhances effectiveness of the antioxidant vitamins E and C
Creatine: It is formed in the liver from the amino acids arginine, glycine, and
methionine, or available from meat. Commonly 5 g are supplemented daily as
creatine-monohydrate, mainly used by athletes and bodybuilders.
• Improves energy production in muscles and heart
• Helpful with muscle diseases, such as motor neurone disease
• Protects against brain injuries, and can improve memory
Cysteine: This is a high sulphur-content amino acid formed in the liver from
methionine; it needs vitamin B6 to work well. It acts as a brain neurotransmitter; high-
dose supplements of cysteine can interfere with brain functions in susceptible
individuals.
• Aids in detoxifying the body
• Precursor to glutathione, a strong antioxidant
• Removes excess heavy metals, helps to burn fat
• Increases muscle growth
• Breaks down mucus in the respiratory tract
• Useful for burn and wound healing
• Assists in the supply of insulin
Glutamic Acid: Glutamic acid is a major neurotransmitter in the brain, so it
must be avoided as a supplement as it can cause imbalances in susceptible people.
Monosodium glutamate or MSG (the sodium salt of glutamic acid) is a main
ingredient of food flavouring added to processed food and is variously labelled as
hydrolyzed vegetable protein, soy protein extract, yeast extract, beef stock,
caseinate, or natural flavouring. Evidence shows that it can kill brain cells in
susceptible individuals.
• Important for neurotransmission
• Metabolism of sugars and fats
• Detoxifies ammonia (when used with glutamine)
• Together with glucose, is the brain’s principal fuel
Glutamine: As mentioned, glutamine is a principle source of energy, especially
for the brain, and helps to regenerate the intestinal wall. With lack of energy and
difficulty gaining weight (as in advanced cancer), 10 g or more can be used daily in
divided doses.
• Provides about 80 percent of the body’s pool of free nitrogen
• Reduces cravings for sugar, alcohol, and other drugs

• Improves absorption of other nutrients, important with inability to gain weight
(cachexia)
• Useful with impotence, allergies, senility, fatigue, and peptic ulcers
• Converted in the brain to glutamic acid and to GABA, both of which act as
neurotransmitters
Glycine: This is the simplest amino acid. It has a sweet taste and acts as a
nitrogen pool for the synthesis of other amino compounds.
• Prevents or slows muscle degeneration
• Needed for a healthy prostate
• Aids central nervous system functions
• Useful in epilepsy and depression
• Important for immune system, building block for nonessential amino acids
Histidine: Histidine dilates blood vessels, lowers blood pressure, and chelates
minerals. It is an amino acid of special importance to the developing infant.
• Helpful for tissue growth and repair
• Important for digestion and ulcer healing
• Controls gastric acidity
• Important for production of red and white blood cells
• Possible benefits in rheumatoid arthritis
Isoleucine: An essential amino acid and one of three branch-chain amino
acids (BCAAs), which form an essential part of muscle tissue protein.
• Needed for haemoglobin production
• Stabilizes blood sugar and energy levels
Note: Use in combination with leucine and valine; deficiency of isoleucine can
produce hypoglycaemia-like symptoms.
Leucine: An essential branch-chain amino acid (BCAA) important in muscle
protein.
• Lowers elevated blood sugar levels
• Promotes healing of bone, skin, and muscle tissue
Note: Use with correct balance of isoleucine and valine; excessive amounts
can produce hypoglycaemia.
Lysine: An essential amino acid that must be derived from the diet.
• Essential building block for all protein
• Needed for proper growth and bone development in children
• Helps calcium absorption
• Maintains nitrogen balance

• Effective against cold sores and herpes viruses, possibly also beneficial with
other viruses
• Increases antibody production
• Needed for collagen production
• Helps to build muscle
• Lowers serum triglycerides
• Deficiency results in loss of energy, inability to concentrate, irritability, retarded
growth, and hair los
Methionine: This is an essential sulphur amino acid that must be obtained
from the diet. Supplementation can be harmful with an existing vitamin B6 deficiency,
so therefore use both at the same time.
• Needed for the metabolism of fat
• Aids in liver detoxification
• Involved in the synthesis of the amino acids cysteine and taurine
• Helps to reduce effects of chemical sensitivities
• Aids digestive processes
• Involved in production of choline
Ornithine: Ornithine is helpful with insomnia, possibly by removing ammonia
from the brain.
• Helps release growth hormone
• Needed for immune system function
• Promotes healing
• Detoxifies ammonia
Phenylalanine: An essential amino acid, D- or D,L-phenylalanine can be used
for long-acting pain relief. Do not use during pregnancy or with anxiety attacks, high
blood pressure, or phenylketonuria (PKU).
• Used in treatment of depression
• Essential for the production of neurotransmitters
• Involved in the formation of the skin pigment melanin
Taurine: Taurine is a sulphur amino acid and a main component of bile salts,
essential for fat absorption.
• Promotes emulsifying and absorbing fats
• Helps regulate rhythm and mineral concentrations in the heart
• An inhibitory (sedating) neurotransmitter, helps with epilepsy
Threonine: This is one of the essential amino acids.
• Maintains protein balance

• Needed for the formation of collagen and elastine
• Aids the liver and fat metabolism
• Helps control epilepsy
Tryptophan: This is another essential amino acid.
• Important for the production of the vitamin niacin or niacinamide
• Helps prevent insomnia and elevates mood
• Controls hyperactivity in children
• Needed for production of serotonin and melatonin
Tyrosine: Tyrosine is the precursor of stimulating neurotransmitters and
hormones, in particular adrenaline, dopamine, and thyroxin.
• Involved in the production of melanin pigment of skin and hair
• Important for adrenal, thyroid, and pituitary gland function
• Helps control appetite and body fat levels; is an antidepressant
• May assist during withdrawal from addictive drugs
• Provides raw material for the synthesis of epinephrine (adrenaline) and
dopamine
Valine: This is an essential amino acid in muscle protein.
• Important for muscle tissue maintenance and muscle coordination
• Stimulates and promotes mental vigor
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Step 26
DIGESTIVE ENZYMES
These vital substances are needed for digestion,
but poor diet and cooking practices can deplete your supply.
Digestive enzymes are released from our digestive organs in order to break
down food into molecules small enough for it to be absorbed. Deficiencies of
digestive enzymes are widespread and are caused mainly by overeating, eating too
much cooked food, food allergies, and incorrect food combining. Virtually all elderly
people and those with chronic degenerative diseases and allergies have digestive
enzyme deficiencies.
The enzymes in raw and fermented foods help in the digestive process but are
destroyed by temperatures over 120° F. Further, many heated proteins become
difficult to digest and you may need more digestive enzymes to handle them. Some
raw seeds, soybeans, broad beans, wheatgerm, and nuts contain enzyme inhibitors,
but sprouting and cooking inactivates these.
In light of this, make a deliberate effort to improve the enzyme content and
digestibility of your food. If you are in a state of chronically lowered health, it will be
very helpful to use enzyme supplements. This is essential in the case of cancer and
other advanced degenerative diseases and also if you have allergies, unless you are
already on a predominantly raw food diet.
Most important are the pancreatic enzymes, known collectively as pancreatin
and available as a supplement under various brand names. For serious diseases,
take 4000 to 5000 mg of pancreatin in divided doses in the course of each meal. One
tablet may contain 1200 or 1600 mg of pancreatin; this is sometimes also described
as pancreatin 4NF and if so take 300 or 400 mg of it. In addition, you can take one or
two tablets of an enzyme combination containing papain, bromelain, pepsin, or bile.
Pepsin is indicated for protein foods if the stomach is weak, while bile is helpful if
there is a problem with fat absorption. Papain and bromelain help protein digestion.
In the case of degenerative diseases and advancing age, gastric acid is often
deficient. If so, you can take hydrochloric acid–pepsin tablets, especially when eating
cooked protein meals. Alternatively, dilute one part commercial diluted hydrochloric
acid (usually 20 percent) with nine parts water. Mix one teaspoon (use plastic) of this
with meals or drink with fluids after a meal. As a rule, additional enzymes are not
needed with uncooked meals.
However, digestive enzyme supplements are not required if protein-digesting
enzymes can be obtained from food, such as bromelain from pineapples or papain
from unheated leaves or flowers or unripe fruit of papaya. Ripe kiwi fruit is a good
source of enzymes. Use any of these with protein meals. You can also predigest
meat, fish, or other protein food by refrigerating it overnight wrapped or mixed with
papaya leaf.
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Step 27
NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
Concentrated nutrients in pill form can shore up nutritional
deficiencies and build optimal health.
Most individuals on conventional diets with much refined and processed foods
have either outright nutrient deficiencies or shortages of various vitamins, minerals,
enzymes, and hormones. Generally, our intake of essential nutrients is less than
optimal, making us susceptible to disease. Deficiencies are even more widespread in
those who already suffer an acute or chronic disease. Sometimes individuals have
had to suffer for years and have had high medical expenses for conventional
treatments when a few nutritional supplements could likely have corrected the
problems.
Supplements are most important for individuals with nutrient malabsorption and
for those who still use processed and refined foods as part of their diet or who cannot
regularly obtain vegetables and fruit grown organically in good soil. The more serious
the disease or health deterioration, the more supplements are likely to be beneficial
and the greater should be the dosages and range of supplements taken.
Calcium supplements are commonly used with conventional diets and yet many
people are apprehensive of obtaining sufficient calcium when abstaining from milk
products. This concern is unfounded. Calcium is not well absorbed from cow’s milk,
as can be seen in the high incidence of osteoporosis developing in people on
conventional Western diets and the fact this is not a problem in milk-free Asian
countries. Vegetables and sprouted and fermented seeds are high in usable calcium;
the calcium content in juice from cereal grasses is higher than in milk as, after all,
cows obtain their calcium from grasses in the first place.
Similar considerations apply to iron, which can easily become harmful as an
inorganic supplement. Much more widespread and detrimental than calcium and iron
deficiencies are deficiencies in chromium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, and
zinc.
Many supplements are actually concentrated health foods, but taking these is
not the same as the “pill-popping” of medical drugs. While I believe that supplements
are unnecessary if one is healthy and lives on a high quality diet in an unpolluted
environment, I know that it is difficult to remain healthy in present times and even
more difficult to heal an “incurable” disease. Carefully selected supplements can
make a great difference in these endeavours, especially for those who are just
starting to improve their diet.
I am not in favour of using multivitamin tablets as they often contain synthetic
forms of vitamins A, D, and E and beta-carotene. Instead, if required, it is better to
use a low-potency B-complex in addition to vitamin C and cod-liver oil or halibut-liver
oil capsules. Mineral supplements are often more important than vitamins and can
contain approximately 15 mg zinc, 5 mg manganese, 100 to 200 mcg selenium, 200
mcg chromium, 500 mg magnesium, and up to twice this amount of calcium if one’s

blood pressure is low. Much higher doses, especially of selected vitamins, can be
used where indicated for therapeutic effects.
In addition, you can use general supplements to increase your overall well-
being and vitality. Of special benefit for those lacking energy are ginseng, coenzyme
Q10, royal jelly, and freeze-dried liver. Bee pollen and spirulina or chlorella are my
favourites.
As mentioned earlier, digestive enzymes and hydrochloric acid supplements
can help those with weak digestion. For those in conditions of debility, amino acid
and nucleic acid supplements can help, the most helpful amino acids being lysine,
tyrosine, methionine, and glutamine.
Many supplements such as royal jelly, vitamin B12, and the freeze-dried animal
glands are much more effective if partly absorbed under the tongue, chewed lightly,
and kept in the mouth for as long as possible.
Lecithin is beneficial for most individuals, and you can mix a teaspoonful with
meals or with ground linseed (flaxseed). Omega-3 essential fatty acids are
universally indicated for which linseed oil or cod-liver oil and other fish oils can be
taken; if malabsorption is a problem, the oil can be rubbed into the skin. These oils
help to reduce inflammation, pain, and allergic swellings. On a diet low in iodized salt
and seafood, we can become iodine deficient; kelp tablets or granules are excellent
for supplying iodine as well as many other minerals. With infections, use high levels
of vitamins C, A, and E, zinc, bee propolis, and echinacea.
Sulphur compounds, as mentioned earlier, detoxify and remove from the body
heavy metals, harmful chemicals, and drugs; MSM is especially good for this.
Sulphur is also a main component of connective tissue, so supplementation is
beneficial with all connective tissue diseases (for example, arthritis). Even simply
taking powdered sulphur has been shown to increase the formation of useful sulphur
compounds. You can take a gelatine capsule filled with sulphur once a day or mix a
pinch of it into each meal. The main sulphur amino acids are taurine, L-cysteine, and
L-methionine; the main sulphur foods are egg and onion.
Generally, gradually increase and decrease high levels of supplements,
especially vitamins, and interrupt or greatly reduce supplement intake during fasting
or cleansing periods. Most vitamin-mineral supplements are best absorbed and
cause less gastrointestinal irritation if mixed with the meal as powders, crushed
tablets, or opened capsules. The next best way is to take tablets near the middle of
the meal and avoid slow-release tablets. However, take amino acids before the meal;
this applies also to calcium as it is not well absorbed and tends to form insoluble
combinations (soaps) with fatty acids during digestion.
Organic or Natural Versus Inorganic or Synthetic: There is some confusion
about the importance and meaning of natural or organic versus synthetic or inorganic
minerals. In food production, “organic” means that food has been grown, produced,
stored, and processed without the use of synthetic chemicals. However, in chemistry
“organic” means that a chemical is based on carbon and has covalent bonds;
“inorganic” means that a chemical is not based on carbon and has ionic bonds.
Some inorganic chemicals, such as sodium chloride, magnesium chloride, and
calcium chloride, are ingredients of natural and organic foods and are also essential

components of our body. Calcium in our blood plasma, for instance, is about half in
ionized form while the other half is bound to proteins. In this way, taking some
minerals in inorganic form can rectify ionic deficiencies of these minerals.
Further, a healthy intestinal flora can transform inorganic into organic minerals,
while inorganic minerals taken with gelatine or fresh green vegetable juice can easily
be incorporated into organic structures. This is of special importance with some of
the trace minerals. Even so, it is safer to use these directly in organic form, best
obtained from fresh, organic vegetable and grass juice, mineral-rich food or plant
concentrates, or, alternatively, safely bound to amino acids or as stable complexes
such as copper and zinc salicylate.
However, there is a downside to routinely adding inorganic minerals, such as
table salt, to our food. We may use concentrations that are too high and irritate the
intestinal wall, and we may also cause mineral imbalances. Therefore, use not only
the right concentrations but the right combinations of ingredients in your
supplements. It is much easier to get this right by using natural foods. Of course, the
main reason we use supplements is because commercial food has inadequate
mineral content; even in much of organically raised food, the mineral content is not
as high as it might be.
Another way of making minerals safer and more effective is by using them in
colloidal form. In this way, even tiny clusters of metal atoms can be safely and
beneficially ingested. Colloidal mineral products are commercially available, made
from ancient decomposed plant material. Also beneficial is the intake of minerals
present in energized water.
After sufficient health improvement, you may feel that you no longer need most
nutritional supplements. With a good maintenance diet, I recommend continuing
indefinitely to use the following health foods, or equivalent ones: several teaspoons
each of bee pollen, ground linseed, and spirulina or chlorella; half a teaspoon of kelp;
and one tablespoon of cod-liver oil (emulsified with lecithin and fresh juice); also
some lecithin and magnesium chloride with meals will be helpful.
Selection of Vitamin Supplements: Commercial growing and processing and
traditional Western cooking methods usually reduce the vitamin and mineral content
of foods to only a fraction of that found in fresh, raw, organically grown foods. As an
example, methyl bromide, a widely used fumigant for grains, destroys all the
pantothenic acid (a B vitamin) in cereal grains.
Unfortunately, these days many vitamins (especially vitamin C and the B
vitamins) are not available in sufficient amounts in foods or natural supplements, and
synthetic supplements are often necessary in order to improve or maintain our
health. Vitamins available as natural concentrates (A, D, and E) should be avoided in
synthetic form. Natural vitamin E is d-alpha tocopherol; the synthetic form is dl-alpha
tocopherol. Highly recommended is vitamin E complex as mixed tocopherols.
Store vitamin supplements in a dry, cool, and dark place. Oil-filled capsules
should be taken during a meal containing oily or fatty foods and lecithin. However,
many individuals most in need of these vitamins have absorption problems and for
them oil-filled capsules are not suitable. Therefore, I generally recommend using
tablets of natural vitamin E rather than oil-filled capsules. If in doubt about your

digestive abilities, take a halibut oil or other fish oil as a capsule at bedtime and keep
it in the mouth to be slowly absorbed overnight. Other-wise, take all supplements
during meals or mixed with food. Small amounts with several meals are better
absorbed than a large amount in a single dose.
Some tablets have beta-carotene substituted for vitamin A. However, many
individuals have difficulty in absorbing beta-carotene and converting it into vitamin A.
Therefore, use tablets that contain real vitamin A and not -vitamin-A equivalents of
beta-carotene.
Chewing vitamin and mineral supplements together with food produces much
better results than just swallowing them. Appreciable amounts of vitamin B12 can be
absorbed by keeping a tablet under the tongue, even if it cannot be absorbed in the
stomach because of a lack of “intrinsic factor” (a substance usually present in the
stomach that is involved in the absorption of vitamin B12).
If there are signs of increased requirements for individual nutrients, use these
together with a B-complex supplement. In most conditions involving lack of energy,
debility, anemia, low blood pressure, and chronic degenerative diseases, initial
injections and later mouth-absorbed tablets of vitamin B12 (1000 mcg daily) are very
helpful.
The acid form of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) can be taken with protein meals,
especially if your system is too alkaline or lacking in gastric acid. If regularly taking
more than 3 to 5 g per day of vitamin C, those with high blood pressure can partly
neutralize the ascorbic acid with an equal amount of milk of magnesia, or with one-
third the amount of potassium bicarbonate or magnesium carbonate. With low blood
pressure and possible overacidity, take calcium ascorbate instead.
Antioxidants are of greatest importance for minimizing oxidative tissue damage
and, with this, for avoiding diseases and delaying aging. In a more recent
development, a high intake of antioxidants has also been found to be crucial in
preventing and overcoming viral infections. The major antioxidants include the
vitamins A, C, and E, the minerals selenium and zinc as components of antioxidant
enzyme systems, the plant pigments beta-carotene, bioflavo-noids, and
anthocyanins, as well as phenols and catechols in grape seed extract, green tea, and
generally in coloured fruit and vegetables. Other powerful antioxidants are alpha-
lipoic acid and negative hydrogen as in Microhydrin or electrolytic reduced water
(ERW) produced with water ionizers. Whether you take antioxidants as supplements
or as part of a high-quality diet, make sure you get plenty.
Are Nutritional Supplements Dangerous?: Generally, health authorities
promote pharmaceutical drugs as beneficial and natural remedies as harmful. They
tend to call natural remedies “drugs,” and the view has been put forward that
synthetic nutrients are the same as natural ones. Research results using synthetic
products, such as vitamins A, D, E, or beta-carotene, with negative or harmful
outcomes are then used as “scientific proof” that natural remedies are either useless
or dangerous.
While numerous trials have shown significant health benefits for individuals with
higher levels of beta-carotene in their blood, clinical trials with synthetic beta-
carotene and synthetic vitamin E have shown increased rates of death due to cancer.

Vitamin A has been portrayed as the most “dangerous” supplement, largely
based on studies with synthetic vitamin A. There are dire warnings that it can cause
death in amounts higher than the RDA (5000 IU). However, many people take 25,000
IU or more daily without problems, and as far as I can ascertain, there has never
been a death recorded due to vitamin A supplements in the U.S. in the 60 years that
these have been in use. There appears to be only one recorded death in all the
scientific literature, that of a chemist in England in the 1950s who ingested two million
IU daily of retinyl acetate for three months and died of liver cirrhosis.13
I am not aware of any pharmaceutical drug having such a good safety record
as that. Even one of the safest drugs, aspirin, has been stated to cause about 100
deaths a year, and many more cases than that of toxicity.14 In comparison the
reported cases of (usually easily reversible) vitamin A toxicity in the U.S. are typically
five per year.15
Similar unfounded attacks have been made against vitamins C and E. For more
detailed information on this subject, see the website of the Life Extension Foundation
(www.lef.org); for articles on megavitamin therapy; also see www.doctoryourself.com.
Imagine the mass media frenzy if there were actually some fatalities due to
vitamin A. Yet there is no concern at all about thousands of patients dying, in my
view unnecessarily, due to prescription drugs. In the public, the perception has been
generated that fatalities due to prescription drugs are a small price to pay for their
overall benefit. This benefit has never been shown in the long term. Drug approval is
based on short-term trials, and only by accident does the truth of long-term harm
occasionally emerge, as in the case of hormone-replacement therapy. I believe that
in the long term all drugs become a burden on the liver or kidneys by increasing our
load of toxic chemicals and may accelerate our health deterioration. Therefore, with
any health problem, inform yourself about all available options.
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Step 28
HERBS
You may benefit from using herbal remedies instead of pharmaceutical drugs.
Herbs are not completely harmless, but damage due to commonly used herbs
is extremely rare, while the benefits are usually genuine and lasting. In contrast to
culinary herbs, medicinal herbs should be used on a long-term basis only if there is a
clinical reason and not just in case they might do some good. (Herbs for a wide range
of health problems are discussed in part 6.) Here I will discuss a few herbs for some
common conditions and show how the application can be particularly important on
your road to better health.
General Herbal Remedies: A good combination to cleanse the gastrointestinal
tract is a mixture of chillies and ginger root. Blend or crush both in lemon juice and
olive oil and refrigerate, then use this as a salad dressing or for flavouring meals. Use
an amount that is hot but not uncomfortable. Gradually increase your intake to just
below your tolerance level for several weeks; then you can continue to use it in
normal amounts for flavouring your food. With serious infections, inflammations, or
cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, you can also add fresh garlic to this until the
problem is overcome.
Peppermint tea is especially good to stimulate the digestion and uplift the spirit,
while slippery elm powder soothes the digestive tract. Sage is highly esteemed.
An ancient saying goes: “Why die [of a disease] when sage grows in your garden?”
It can be prepared by adding two teaspoons of dried sage to one pint of boiling water;
after three minutes, remove it from the heat and let it draw for another ten minutes.
Sage can be combined with other herbs. Fragrant or leaf herbs such as peppermint
or St. John’s Wort can be added while the herbs steep. St. John’s Wort is effective
against depression.
The immune system can be strengthened with echinacea, propolis, European
mistletoe (Viscum album), Easter lily, and reishi and other Asian mushrooms.
Echinacea can be added to all other herb combinations. However, there are some
research findings that echinacea can cause problems if taken uninterruptedly for
several months, so it may be advisable to interrupt its use after a month and then to
take it again a few weeks later.
Wormwood and garlic are excellent against all kinds of parasites as well as the
yeast Candida albicans. A combination of goldenseal, ginger, and slippery elm
powder is good for gastrointestinal inflammations and multiple sclerosis. Ginger is
also good against motion sickness. In addition to being an excellent wound healer,
comfrey is a good detoxifier; you can drink a cupful of comfrey tea two or three times
a week.
To aid digestion, it is generally beneficial to drink half a cup of bitter herb tea
after a large or cooked meal. Suitable herbs here are centaury, dandelion (not
roasted), devil’s claw, and gentian; these also help to restore liver function. With any
lung conditions, including lung cancer, have a daily steam inhalation (with a towel

over the head) of hot chamomile tea, possibly with the addition of eucalyptus or tea
tree oil or crushed onion.
Maca is a root vegetable from the Peruvian Andes, and I regard it as the best
remedy for balancing the endocrine glands and hormone system. It appears to act
directly on the hypothalamus and pituitary systems to regulate the thyroid, adrenals,
and sex glands. It is often effective with underactive thyroid, as an alternative to
hormone replacement therapy and hysterectomy, for age-related decline in the
production of sex hormones, and with general lack of energy. An average daily intake
is about 10 g, but start with less.
Licorice, too, has some effect on sex hormones but is most useful as a
stimulant of adrenal function. With this, it can raise low blood pressure and energy
levels and is useful for chronic fatigue syndrome, peptic ulcers, skin inflammations,
and HIV/AIDS; it also increases pancreatic secretions. However, it causes retention
of sodium and low potassium levels and should not be used with high blood pressure
or kidney disease, or during pregnancy. The normal therapeutic range is from 2 - 6g
daily.
Anticancer Herbs: Many herbs are useful in cancer treatment, mostly in a
supportive role but sometimes as a main therapy. Frequently used are aloe vera (as
juice or gel), chaparral, pau d’arco, red clover, and violet leaves. Wormwood and pau
d’arco in sufficiently large amounts are especially beneficial by eliminating the fungal
forms of the cancer microbe. Vinca rosea, a periwinkle, has an active ingredient that
has been used in chemotherapy against leukaemia.
Milk thistle and bitter herbs, such as burdock, greater celandine, centaury,
dandelion leaves and root, devil’s claw, and gentian, help stimulate the liver and
release bile. Celandine or greater celandine inhibits division of cancer cells and
stimulates the immune system; an extract for injection is available as Ukrain. Also
useful are leaves of the tropical grariola tree, commonly known as soursop.
Root herbs, such as the bitter liver herbs, need to be simmered for about half
an hour, while leaves or flowers need to simmer or steep for only five minutes.
For the after-effects of radiation, wild crane’s bill (Geranium robertianum) is helpful.
With lung cancer use also horehound, lobelia, mullein, and St. John’s Wort.
Pimpernel is used partly to gargle and partly to drink in spoonful amounts for cancer
of the mouth, throat, and neck glands.
Mistletoe is especially good for leukaemia and is often used as the
Anthroposophic medicine Iscador or Plenosol for injection near tumours and swollen
lymph glands. With prostate cancer, use also saw palmetto and/or willow herb
(Epilobium, mainly parviflorum). With leukaemia, especially use herbs to strengthen
the immune system.
Licorice root, taken in typical doses of 500 to 1000 mg, is strongly
recommended instead of Tamoxifen with all estrogen-related cancers, as it blocks
the growth-stimulating properties of estrogen. It also promotes anti-inflammatory
adrenal hormones. However, it tends to keep sodium in the body while potassium is
expelled. Therefore, minimize sodium and maximize potassium intake by consuming
plenty of vegetable juices; do not use licorice root if your blood pressure is
dangerously high or with obvious water retention.

You can select a range of these herbs that are suitable for your condition or
that are locally available and use them as your special herb mixture. Alternatively or
in addition, you can use a commercially available anticancer herb mixture. Best
known are the Jason Winter’s mixture, Hoxsey herbs, and Ojibway Indian Tea or
Essiac (sheep sorrel, burdock root, slippery elm, and rhubarb root).
The Hoxsey mixture must generally be made up individually, but a local
herbalist should be able to do it. The exact quantities are kept secret and may vary,
but an independent analysis revealed the following quantities in 5 ml of the Hoxsey
tonic: potassium iodide (150 mg), Stillingia root (10 mg), burdock root (10 mg), red
clover (20 mg), buckthorn bark (20 mg), berberis root (10 mg), pokeroot (10 mg),
prickly ash bark (5 mg), liquorice (20 mg), and Cascara amarga (5 mg). Cascara
amarga is difficult to obtain, and the mixture can be made without it. It belongs to the
buckthorn family and is also known as Honduras bark or Picramnia antidesma. This
tonic is sold by the Hoxsey Clinic,16 while individual preparations commonly consist
of a dried herb mixture, which is used as a tea.
Aloe Vera: Aloe vera is excellent for all skin conditions and
CAUTION:
Use herbs for cancer beneficial in the treatment of cancer, AIDS, and other
treatment only in infectious diseases. It is also good for gastrointestinal
consultation with a irritation, inflammation, and ulcers. However, not all
credentialed health commercial brands of aloe on the market are effective. If
practitioner.
nothing seems to be happening with the aloe you’re using,
try another brand.
Preferably use fresh aloe vera gel straight from the plant, as much as you can
take without getting diarrhea. Slice off the green skin and ingest just the gel, but you
can also blend a small whole leaf with fruit juice or other flavouring. For wounds, it is
usually better to slice part of a leaf in half and leave the skin on top. Normally avoid
the base of the leaf with its yellow sap, as this is a strong irritant and laxative. Aloe
vera is most beneficial for those with blood group A; for those with other blood
groups, check for compatibility or observe effects.
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Step 29
HOMEOPATHY
Homeopathic remedies are effective, and you can even make them yourself.
Homeopathy is a system of medicine based on the principle that “like cures

like.” A substance that produces disease-like symptoms in healthy people will in
properly diluted and potentized form cure a sick person with similar symptoms. For
example, straight onion juice will cause watering, irritated eyes and sneezing, but in
the highly diluted and potentized homeopathic form of onion (Allium cepa), it is useful
in relieving symptoms of eye and nose irritation, as in hay fever. Clinical trials and the
empirical evidence of two centuries of daily use show that homeopathy is effective,
even though conventional scientists are at a loss to understand how this is possible.
This is because homeopathy cannot be understood as a substance-based
method, such as pharmaceutical medicine or herbalism, in which healing effects
appear to be due to chemical actions and reactions. A simple calculation shows that
in the higher potencies not a single molecule of the original substance is present. But
these high potencies are often more effective than low potencies. Therefore,
homeopathy can only be understood as a system that works with energy remedies.
The explanation is that every natural substance has an etheric or subtle energy
field around its molecular structure. The special shaking action or potentising used in
homeopathy separates the etheric fields from their material substance. The latter is
then discarded and the former concentrated. These concentrated etheric fields are
much more potent in this way than when they were combined with matter. Similar
etheric concentrates can be produced with radionics instruments. The healing effect
of such concentrates depends on their vibrational frequency; due to this the term
“vibrational medicine” has been coined for these methods.
A homeopathic medicine’s sphere of curative action is originally found by
administering it in high doses to healthy human volunteers and recording their
emotional, pathological, and physiological reactions to the medicine. This test is
called a proving, and hundreds of substances have been proved or tested in this
way.
Consequently, homeopathic remedies are effective over the whole range of
mental and physical disorders. Most homeopathic medicines are made from plants,
minerals, animals, or chemicals; remedies from human disease microbes are called
nosodes. Sometimes a product of a disease is used in potentized form for treating
the same disease; this method is called isopathy.
Homeopaths may use the classical approach or practice clinical homeopathy.
The classical approach is to use only one dose of one remedy at a time and another
dose or remedy later only if effects of the previous remedy have worn off. More
commonly used, clinical homeopathy prescribes several remedies in combination to
be taken several times daily.
Use Your Own Body Fluids: While for general treatment of common
symptoms it is more convenient to use established homeopathic remedies, to

overcome obstinate individual problems it is frequently more effective to prepare
remedies from your own body fluids. This a form of isopathy known as auto-therapy.
Urine, for example, contains traces of almost all body chemicals, such as
enzymes and hormones, as well as foreign and toxic substances and viruses. A
properly diluted sample of your urine can initiate the correction of all unbalanced,
unnatural body chemistry. This, then, is an excellent way to improve the balance of
your glandular system, which is difficult to influence directly by any other method.
Other body fluids that can be used are a drop of diluted blood to treat blood
disorders; diluted pus if there is an infected wound or a boil; sputum for mouth and
throat disorders; tears for eye problems; faeces for intestinal diseases; ear discharge
for ear diseases; and so on. Apart from balancing gland activities and general body
chemistry, this method is known to be very effective in stimulating the body’s immune
system, which is essential in combating cancer and other degenerative diseases.
How to Prepare Your Own Remedies: To prepare remedies from your own
body fluids, dilute a small sample of the selected fluid 1:100 with pure water. This
means one part sample and 99 parts water, for instance, one teaspoon of sample
and 99 teaspoons of water. The water should be purified, that is, distilled or filtered.
Shake the mixture vigorously 40 or 50 times in a sealed bottle or jar,
accentuating the downward stroke. Alternatively, strike the mixing bottle (not glass)
40 to 50 times on a resilient surface. This sample is now in the first potency,
described as 1C. Take one part of this, dilute it again with 99 parts water, shake as
previously, and you have a potency of 2C. This process is repeated until the desired
potency is reached.
If dilution proceeds in steps of 1:10 instead of 1:100, the first potency is 1X, the
second 2X, and so on. A potency of 12X corresponds in dilution strength to 6C.
However, the number of potencies as well as the overall dilution are important for the
quality of a remedy. Start using your own diseased body fluids at a potency of 12C. If
this does not bring an improvement after some time, experiment with higher and
lower potencies. However, use urine in 6X potency and start foods to which you may
be allergic at 4X before increasing in steps to 5X and 6X. Important: Use remedies
made of your own body products only for yourself, not for anyone else.
To produce your own remedies from herbs, make a “mother tincture” by
soaking a fresh or dried sample in high-grade alcohol, vodka, or brandy. After a week
or two, dilute part of the mother tincture as previously described, but for the first 1:10
dilution use half alcohol and half water. With this technique, you need to buy a
specific commercial tincture only once. If the bottle is almost empty, dilute its
contents with either 9 parts or 99 parts water-alcohol mixture and shake for some
time.
You might also try a combination of homeopathy and herbalism. Herbs often
seem to be more effective when used as low-potency homeo-pathic remedies. In this
way any undesirable side effects of concentrated herbs are lessened, while specific
healing effects, especially cleansing actions, are greatly strengthened. You can
experiment by potentising one part of an unheated herbal extract or tincture with four
or nine parts water.

If you use a strong mother tincture of a potent herb, start by taking only one or
two drops several times daily; keep them in the mouth for a while, and increase the
dose gradually over time. If the extract is weak or of a harmless herb, then take
spoonfuls or even a cupful at a time. You can make a watery extract of fresh or dried
herbs in a blender, or better, by shaking the powdered or pureed herb in water.
Alternatively, you can make a tincture by keeping the herbs covered with alcohol or
glycerine in a jar for several days.
If the remedy is to be stored for more than a few days, use a mixture of half
vodka or brandy and half water for the last step. This gives the solution an alcohol
content of about 30 percent and will prevent the growth of bacteria and fungi.
Alternatively, keep the remedy cold, but not in an electric refrigerator as the remedy
can lose its effectiveness due to exposure to the strong electromagnetic field of the
refrigerator.
How to Take Your Remedies: Take homeopathic remedies with a clean
mouth, meaning free of food; the best times are before meals (about 30 minutes) and
at bedtime. The usual dose is three to five drops in a little water (about two ounces)
sipped slowly over five minutes. Alternatively, you can place three drops in a little
water under the tongue. Generally, take one dose four times daily; for chronic
conditions, twice daily; for severe or acute conditions, every ten minutes until some
improvement is noted, then reduce the frequency. If the patient cannot swallow,
moisten the inside of the lips and the tongue with the remedy. Try not to have the
remedy come in contact with metal, use a plastic rather than metal spoon, and avoid
strongly scented or aromatic drinks and toothpastes, as these may cancel out the
remedy.
If a reaction to the remedy is noted (sometimes as a temporary aggravation of
symptoms), this is a sign that the correct remedy was selected, but wait until the
reaction has subsided before giving the next dose. Any overdose of homeopathic
remedies is usually harmless, although in sensitive individuals, there is the risk of
proving the remedy—getting the symptoms it is supposed to relieve. Store
homeopathic remedies protected from heat and light, as well as away from magnets
and strong electromagnetic fields. For best results, you should not change remedies
too frequently.
If pellets are used, do not touch them, but shake a tablet into the bottle cap and
from there directly into the mouth; keep it under the tongue until it dissolves.
Generally, however, it is not recommended to use homeopathic remedies in tablet
form (usually as sugar pills) because of the possibility of intolerance to lactose or
sucrose. This is accentuated by keeping the tablets in the mouth, which provokes
stronger allergic reactions than swallowing them does; however, swallowing is not
desirable for homeopathic remedies as they are primarily absorbed in the mouth.
For detailed descriptions of homeopathic remedies and their range of action,
see the Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory by William
Boericke.
Which Potency to Use: The most commonly used potencies are 6X, 12X,
12C, 30C, 200C, l000C (M), l00M (CM), 500M (DM), and 1000M (MM). Sometimes
the letter C is omitted, and 30 and 200 are used instead of 30C and 200C. In Europe,
D is used instead of X. After selecting the correct remedy according to your

symptoms, it is important to choose the correct potency as well. A general rule is that
the lower potencies affect mainly physical symptoms while the high potencies work at
the mental and emotional energy levels. The high-potency remedies can be used
only once a day or once a week or after any reaction has subsided.
For a long-standing problem, you can start using a low-potency remedy, say
12X; after a week or two, use 30C, then 200C, and afterwards M at intervals. If you
wish to use potencies closer in strength, try 12X and 30C. You may also be able to
find the correct potency by using muscle testing or a pendulum. Draw a half-circle on
which the various potencies are marked and see to which one the pendulum points.
The M to MM potencies have been used to remove heavy metals from the body
either after an acute poisoning or from chronic exposure, as in the case of chronic
mercury poisoning from teeth filled with mercury amalgam.
In addition to producing low-potency remedies from allergenic foods, you can
also buy M to MM remedies of foods to which you are allergic. If you have had much
X-ray treatment, buy and use an X-ray remedy (see www.gdr.org/drrita.html); if you
are sensitive to electricity, fluorescent lighting, or house dust, use the corresponding
commercial remedy. However, you can also make these remedies yourself: Expose
pure water to strong electromagnetic fields or prolonged fluorescent lighting and then
potentize it, or potentize the contents of the vacuum cleaner.
Meanwhile, there are commercial remedies for various cancers (for example,
bowel, lung, stomach) and for bacilli and other infectious agents; there are also
extracts of glands, such as adrenals and thymus, which can be used to normalize
glandular functions.
Combinations of remedies are available for the treatment of a wide range of
diseases and common complaints. If someone has been bitten by a poisonous
snake, spider, or other creature, try to obtain some of the poison by crushing the
head of the insect in water or by sucking some of the poison out of the wound; or use
some blood from the wound. Make and use a 30C potency. A healing centre might
establish a collection of potentized remedies of the common poisonous creatures of
the area.
Homeopathic Cell Salts: In the late nineteenth century, the German physician
W. H. Schuessler originated a therapeutic system he called biochemic medicine,
based on 12 essential cell salts or tissue salts. These are homeopathic preparations
of mineral salts usually present in the body and commonly used as 6X tablets. The
main drawback of the tablets is that they are based on lactose, to which many
individuals are allergic or react to weakly in muscle testing. This weakening factor is
accentuated by the common practice of keeping the tablets in the mouth until
dissolved.
However, for those who should best avoid lactose, the benefits of cell salts can
be obtained by using cell salts as normal homeopathic tinctures.
The 12 Schuessler cell salts and their main indications are:
• Calc. flour: over-relaxed abdominal wall, piles, varicose veins
• Calc. phos.: anemia, poor circulation, cramps, rheumatism
• Calc. sulf.: boils, catarrh, yellow pus, and scabs

Your Own Home-Remedies Kit
The following is a list of 15 basic remedies for home use and as a travel kit.
ACONITE 30C: Controls feverish symptoms that come on suddenly. Any acute condition in the early stages.
Aconite is indicated when the patient is frightened and/or worse after dark.
A.G.E. 30C (ARS. IOD., GELSEMIUM, EUPATOR): A combination remedy for colds and influenza. Contains a
mineral remedy and two herbal preparations to cover all stages of a cold from early onset to fully developed
influenza and lingering final stages that will not clear away. One dose fortnightly will reduce the incidence of
simple colds and influenza. This combination remedy is also useful for apprehensive or fearful states. Use also
for stomach and bowel upset as well as aching in the bones and headaches that are better after sweating.
ARNICA 30C: This is the remedy for accidents and shock. It reduces the effects of injury, fatigue, and shock,
both mental and physical. It is indicated for bruising, broken bones, and blood blisters, also for stroke and heart
attack, and in cases where the patient fears being approached or touched.
BELLADONNA 30C: Covers feverish conditions that are more violent than those treated by aconite: red, dry, hot
painful head and throat symptoms; also indicated for angry outbursts, and for patients whose condition is
aggravated by light, noise, or jarring.
CHAMOMILLA 30C: For children during teething or in cases when the patient is irritable. Suitable for stomach
upsets; indicated for children who improve on being carried.
COCCULUS 30C: Useful for nausea, vomiting, travel sickness, morning sickness, stomach upsets, and
exhaustion.
HYPERICUM 30C: For injuries to nerves and any injury that is more painful than would be expected. Good for
blows to the head and coccyx, crushed fingers and toes, injuries to lips, ears, or genitals; intolerable violent
shooting pains along nerves; or lingering pains after injury or surgery.
HYPERICUM/CALENDULA MOTHER TINCTURE (HYPER-CAL): An antiseptic, use topically (five drops in a
cup of tepid water) for all external wounds, cuts, and eruptions. This mixture can be used to rinse out the mouth
after extraction of teeth. Apply to burns and press a pad soaked in this mixture to injuries requiring bandaging;
use one drop in an eyebath of water for eye irritation.
IGNATIA 30C: An herbal stress reliever for the effects of bereavement, grief, tension, worry, and fright. It is
suitable for hypochondria and for real illness when the patient is excessively worried about the condition; it
promotes sleep when the patient is suffering from sadness or worry.
LEDUM 30C: Used for puncture wounds, cuts, and stings of insects. Follows arnica for bad bruising, especially
around the eye; anti-tetanus. Think of ledum for pain of fractures and joints.
NUX VOMICA 3OC: For stomach upsets caused by overeating or indulgence in rich foods, and for the effects of
too much alcoholic drink, tobacco, or drugs. Indicated for irritability and bad temper and for sleeplessness when
the mind is crowded with thoughts. Useful in cases when the patient is easily chilled and cannot be uncovered.
Also for stuffy head colds extending to throat or chest; and sour eructation, sweat, vomit, and bowel movements.
PULSATILLA 30C: For the effects of rich foods, earache from water in the ear, and measles. Useful for the
patient who is changeable and weepy, whose pains shift, or who needs open air when the heat of the room or a
car is unbearable. Indicated for many children’s illnesses when aconite has given limited relief; also for
menstrual problems.
RHUS TOX 30C: For simple rheumatism and for strains, sprains, and the effects of overexertion. Useful when
the patient has been exposed to cold, wet conditions; also when restless and pains are better if the affected part
is kept in motion. Suitable for influenza not covered by A.G.E.
RUTA GRAV 30C: Ruta is the best remedy for twisted ankles and sprained wrists. It is excellent for blows to the
muscles and for injuries to the bones and accidents in which the bone sheath is damaged; it brings relief from
eyestrain, neuralgia, burning eyes, dim vision, and runny eyes.
URTICA URENS 30C: For burns, rashes, stings, allergies, and any condition in which burning, stinging pains
persist. Use for scalds and burns internally when using Hypercal externally. Use urtica for bladder complaints,
bedwetting, hives, and swollen, painful breasts and genitals.

• Ferr. phos.: inflammations, low fever, anemia, circulation, wounds
• Kali. mur.: croup, catarrh, and skin diseases with white discharge
• Kali. phos: high fever, paralysis, sepsis, neuralgia, debility
• Kali. sulf.: catarrh, skin diseases with watery discharge
• Mag. phos.: shooting pains, neuralgia, spasms, itching
• Nat. mur.: constipation or diarrhea, cold hands or feet, drowsiness
• Nat. phos.: gout and rheumatism, overacidity, blackheads
• Nat. sulf.: liver and gallbladder diseases, dropsy, migraine
• Silicea: boils, skin ulcers, nasal catarrh, night sweats, gout
They may be used individually or in combination.
Flower Remedies: Flower remedies represent a combination of herbalism and
homeo-pathy. Their main therapeutic effects are on the emotional level. Best known
are the Bach flower remedies originated in the 1930s by Dr. Edward Bach, an
English physician. In recent times, Australian wildflower remedies and Californian
flower essences have also become available; these are sold mainly in health food
stores and by various practitioners.
Flower remedies are best used together with appropriate affirmations. In clinical
situations, it is recommended to use a standard questionnaire to assess a client’s
emotional problems to allow a more speedy and accurate selection of the appropriate
remedies. This information can then be used for other -emotion-directed therapies.
Of special significance is the Bach Rescue Remedy, which should be part of every
first-aid kit. Individual flower remedies can be combined for treatment according to
symptoms. In selecting Bach flower remedies, it is recommended to combine no
more than six different remedies at one time; however, the composite Rescue
Remedy can be counted as a single remedy.
The usual dosage is two to four drops of the composite preparation in a
teaspoonful (plastic) of water at least four times daily, taken before meals and
especially as the first and last thing daily. Hold this solution in your mouth and under
the tongue for some time; store remedies in a cool place. In some cases, flower
remedies can be taken for long periods for the treatment of chronic illnesses, while
those for acute (short-term) problems are used only when the problem is noticed.
These short-term remedies can be changed frequently, according to changing
moods.
While the flower remedies are usually selected according to the problems you
wish to overcome, you can also look at what you wish to achieve, how you wish to
become.
For this, you can use the opposite to the descriptions given for the various
remedies. The keywords for the positive attributes we wish to acquire (the negative
aspects we wish to overcome are in parentheses) and some of the flower remedies
indicated are as follows:
• Attentiveness (being dreamy): Clematis

Reference Guide for the Selection of Bach Flower Remedies
• Agrimony: suffering or worry hidden by smiling face

• Aspen: apprehension, vague fears of unknown origin
• Beech: intolerance, arrogance, tendency to be overcritical
• Centaury: susceptibility to influence and exploitation, weak will, timidity
• Cerato: lack of confidence, doubt, constant requests for advice
• Cherry Plum: uncontrolled temper, desperation, fear of loss of mind
• Chestnut Bud: slowness to learn, lack of observation, repetition of mistakes
• Chicory: possessiveness, self-love, self-pity, attention seeking
• Clematis: indifference, dreaminess, lack of interest
• Crab Apple: feeling of being unclean, shame, self-dislike; the cleanser
• Elm: occasional feelings of inadequacy, too much responsibility
• Gentian: discouragement, self-doubt, negative attitudes, depression
• Gorse: hopelessness, despair, despondency
• Heather: self-centeredness, love of talking, inability to listen
• Holly: envy, suspicion, revenge, hatred, jealousy
• Honeysuckle: living too much in the past, homesickness
• Hornbeam: mental and physical weariness
• Impatiens: impatience, irritability, mental tension
• Larch: lack of confidence, expectation of failure, feeling of inferiority
• Mimulus: fear of known things, shyness, timidity
• Mustard: deep gloom or depression of unknown cause
• Oak: onward struggle despite despondency/ despair
• Olive: mental and physical exhaustion or weariness
• Pine: self-blame, self-reproach, guilt, false humility
• Red Chestnut: fear and anxiety for others
• Rock Rose: terror, panic, extreme fear
• Rock Water: self-criticism, rigidity, self-denial
• Scleranthus: uncertainty, indecision, hesitation, lack of balance
• Star of Bethlehem: after-effects of shock and trauma
• Sweet Chestnut: extreme anguish, hopeless despair, loss of faith
• Vervain: over-enthusiasm, fanaticism, nervous tension, strain
• Vine: dominance, leadership, craving for power, ambition, inflexibility
• Walnut: helps in changes, link breaking, protects
• Water Violet: aloofness, reserve, pride
• White Chestnut: unwanted persistent thoughts, worry, inner mental arguments
• Wild Oat: dissatisfaction at not having found goal, uncertainty
• Wild Rose: resignation, lack of interest, apathy
• Willow: resentment, bitterness, “not-fair” attitude
• Rescue Remedy (a composite of Cherry Plum, Clematis, Impatiens, Rock Rose,
and Star of Bethlehem): use for shock, terror, upsets, fright, accidents; give
frequently in all emergencies; apply externally on wounds.

• Certainty (indecision): Scleranthus
• Courage (terror): Rock Rose
• Faith (doubt): Gentian
• Humility (pride): Water Violet
• Patience (impatience): Impatiens
• Peace (torment): Agrimony
• Service (self-love): Chicory
• Strength (weakness): Centaury
• Sympathy (fear): Mimulus
• Understanding (fanaticism): Vervain
• Wisdom (foolishness): Cerato
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Step 30
COLLOIDAL SILVER, COPPER, ZINC & GOLD
Use these powerful remedies whenever you have an infection
or inflammation.
In contrast to medical antibiotics that can be used only against specific

microbes, colloidal silver has a wide range of effectiveness, eliminating bacteria as
well as viruses and fungi. Unlike medical antibiotics, colloidal silver is not known to
cause undesirable side effects. Colloidal zinc can be especially effective against
viruses. The colloids of copper and gold, on the other hand, are strong anti-
inflammatory agents; in addition, copper and zinc can be used chelated (bound) with
salicylic acid for similar benefits.
At the start of your health improvement program, you can use colloidal silver to
cleanse your body of undesirable microbes. With chronic or acute inflammatory
conditions, experiment with copper and gold. Most diseases and painful conditions
are associated with inflammations and benefit from anti-inflammatory remedies. A
zinc-boron-salicylate complex is known as the Schweitzer Formula (see page 165)
and is not only an anti-inflammatory, but it also generally supports and speeds up
healing processes.
Colloidal Silver: Colloidal silver has a long history in medicine as a natural
antibiotic. It is very effective in killing bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, and the
cancer microbe, and no serious side effects from overdosing have been reported.
Colloidal silver is commercially available with a common solution strength of
five silver atoms per million molecules of water, or 5 ppm, but it may be up to 50 ppm
in very concentrated remedies. However, the size of the colloids may be more
important than the strength in parts per million.
Colloid particles can have from ten to 5,000 atoms, and each particle is a
fighting unit. Therefore, a colloid with the smallest size of particles is 500 times more
effective than one with the largest size. Further, large colloids are not stable and
easily fall out and settle at the bottom of the container; they are also not well
absorbed by the body and not effective against viruses. Therefore, when choosing a
commercial product or making your own, always aim for
CAUTION:
the smallest particle size.
Do not use colloidal gold,
There is no research yet on proper dosage, but it silver, copper or zinc if
you suspect that you are
will vary according to concentration and particle size.
sensitive to them or if
You can use about one teaspoon three to five times any unfamiliar symptoms
daily; try this with any infectious disease or local arise. If in doubt, seek
infections; continue until symptoms of the infection professional advice.
subside and then continue for a few weeks longer with I recommend using these
one teaspoon a day. It is best to keep it in the mouth remedies only for a
before swallowing. During the height of the infection, specific purpose and a
limited period, generally
you can double or triple the above amounts for a few not more that a few
days. At the beginning of your health improvement months at a time.
efforts and several times each year, you can take a

remedial course of colloidal silver for several weeks to keep down any undesirable
microbes that have arisen in your body. Have a sip or tablespoonful three times daily.
Preferably, store colloidal silver in a dark glass bottle in a dark and cool place.
It is difficult to assess which of the many commercial remedies available work
best or even which ones work and which do not. Therefore I recommend building
your own colloidal silver generator (see sidebar).
Colloids of gold, copper, and zinc are being used experimentally with
apparently good health results. They all have strong anti-inflammatory properties in
addition to varying degrees of antimicrobial effects. Furthermore, zinc and copper
colloids can be expected to help overcome any deficiency symptoms or conditions
with increased nutrient requirements. Gold, on the other hand, has supposedly
beneficial effects on the blood circulation and the glandular system. The medical
psychic Edgar Cayce said that gold and silver, properly used, could almost double
our present life span. It is not clear what he meant by properly used, but I assume it
may involve the safe use of either colloids or vibrational medicines.
If you want to experiment, then you can produce these other colloids in the
same way as described for silver colloids; use electrodes of copper, zinc, or gold
instead of silver. The easiest way will be to use some gold coins or strips of copper or
zinc. No recommendations are available for effective dosages and you will have to
experiment, starting with small amounts and going long intervals without any colloids.
Use careful self-observation and preferably muscle testing to assess your body
reactions; remember you have to take responsibility for these experiments yourself.
How to Make Your Own Colloidal Silver Generator:
Commonly three 9-volt batteries are connected in series (positive to negative pole) and an
insulated wire soldered to each end terminal. To each of the other ends of the wires,
solder an alligator clip. Use ten inches of pure silver wire, preferably .999 fine, about 14
gauge or 1.64 mm; sterling silver is only .9275 fine. Cut the silver wire in half and attach to
the alligator clips.
Immerse the electrodes about four inches deep in a glass of water. Commonly, colloidal
silver is made from normal drinking water, often with the addition of a drop of saline
solution. A white mist can be seen to develop almost immediately. This is mainly
ineffective silver chloride. In this approach, the individual colloidal particles are quite large
and not very effective.
A better way is to use distilled water without the addition of any saline drops, as this
produces a very fine and much more effective colloid, though it takes a long time to start.
A white mist may become visible after about 20 minutes. If you do see this fine mist near
one of the electrodes, continue for five minutes longer. If you cannot see a slight mist after
20 minutes, then next time add a small amount of impure water (such as tap water) to
speed up the colloid formation. The concentration will be about 5 ppm.
After each use, scrub the oxidized positive electrode until it is shiny. When making or
storing the silver water, keep it protected from light, which will otherwise precipitate the
silver and make it ineffective. Make your colloidal silver fresh each day or at least once a
week.
For more information on making and using colloidal silver, see the website:
www.quantumbalancing.com.

Copper - The Inflammation Fighter: Copper is somewhat of a problem
mineral. Sometimes there is too much of the inorganic form of copper in drinking
water, as is produced by acid water flowing through copper pipes. It can then
gradually accumulate in the body and lead to toxicity symptoms with signs of
overstimulation, psychosis, and liver damage. However, copper is excellent for
reducing inflammations, strengthening connective tissue, restoring hair color, fighting
parasites, and preventing cancer. Copper should not be used with existing cancers
(except topically for skin cancers), as it promotes the formation of new blood vessels
in tumours (angiogenesis).
Copper serum levels are elevated with inflammations and many diseases,
apparently because the body mobilizes all tissue stores of copper to fight the
condition. If you give animals a choice between drinking normal water and water in
which a copper pipe has been immersed, reportedly they will prefer the copper water
as this helps keep them free of -parasites.
The most effective anti-inflammatory agents are copper complexes, and
commonly these are relatives of salicylic acid which is present in many fruits and
vegetables. In addition, copper ascorbate has strong antiviral properties while copper
salicylate has a better anti--inflammatory effect than cortisone and without the side
effects. It also has good anticancer, anti-tremor, and anticonvulsive properties,
suitable for treatment in epilepsy and possibly Parkinson’s disease; even certain
brain and liver functions can improve with copper salicylate. It has inhibited tumour
promotion and malignancy with animal tumors,17 and with skin tumours a single
application resulted in a 55-percent tumour reduction in 20 weeks.18 Even short-term
treatment of rheumatoid arthritis resulted in long-term remissions or improvements.19
The therapeutic potency and safety of the copper complexes of aspirin (acetyl-
salicylic acid) and salicylic acid are much better than for aspirin itself or for inorganic
copper. This means that these copper complexes are safer and more effective than
either aspirin or inorganic copper. These complexes are five to eight times more
effective than aspirin but less toxic, and their therapeutic index (the margin between
effectiveness and toxic effects) has been stated to be significantly greater than for
other anti-inflammatory drugs.
While aspirin causes or aggravates peptic ulcers and bleeding, the copper
complexes have a better ulcer-healing effect than commonly used anti-inflammatory
ulcer drugs. Harmful effects of aspirin and similar drugs apparently arise because
they bind copper in the body and cause a localized copper deficiency in the tissues.
Unfortunately, copper salicylate or other effective copper complexes are not
normally available or can be had only in very low doses, presumably because they
cannot be patented. However, they are relatively easy to make for someone who
wants to experiment. Buy salicylic acid at a drug store and dissolve 2 g or about half
a teaspoon in a pint of hot water. Use covered glassware and distilled or deionised
water with several pieces of copper with a large surface area immersed in it. Keep it
warm, between 140º F and 180º F, for about ten hours or sometimes longer. Add
more water as required and adjust the final volume to be one pint. When ready, it
develops a green color; store the solution in a brown bottle in a cool, dark place.
During storage and sometimes near the end of the heating process, a black
copper oxide starts forming and accumulates at the bottom. This is due to copper
being converted from the original one-valence copper (I) salicylate to two-valence

copper (II) salicylate; here the salicylic acid binds only half of the dissolved copper
and the rest becomes copper oxide. The effectiveness of the solution does not seem
to be affected by this and the amount of copper in the complex is not related to its
potency. Either decant the solution from any settled copper oxide or filter it through
tissue paper.
Copper (I) salicylate is a strong antioxidant excellent for external use in packs
or rubs on sites of inflammation, or as rubbed on skin prone to skin cancer. For
internal use with generalized inflammations or other indications, 60 mg of copper
salicylate has been used in clinical trials, taken once or twice a day and up to four
times daily. Try a teaspoonful (approximately 25 mg of copper salicylate) three times
daily in liquids with meals, but preferably under professional medical supervision.
For short-term use, you can also double this amount. When it produces the
desired effect, cut back to a maintenance dose of one teaspoon a day or interrupt the
intake after two weeks to see what happens.
There is a possibility that you may be able to obtain copper (II) salicylate from a
supplier of laboratory or fine chemicals. In this case, divide a rounded teaspoonful
into 100 equal parts; each part will be approximately 50 mg. However, I want to
stress that all this is only experimental and no one but yourself can take any
responsibility for what you are doing, so proceed carefully.
For a potent antiviral remedy, you can produce copper ascorbate. The only
problem is that ascorbic acid may become oxidized in contact with metal. Therefore,
all air must be excluded. Bring some distilled or deionised water to a boil and fill a
small glass or hard plastic container (holding about 4 ounces) to the top with this.
Immerse a piece of copper in it and add about 2 g or half a teaspoon of ascorbic acid
powder. Keep the container tightly closed and immersed in warm water for a day
before you start taking a teaspoonful several times a day; keep refrigerated when not
in use.
Zinc and the Schweitzer Formula: Zinc has strong anti-inflammatory and
antibiotic properties but can become deficient with a high copper intake. Therefore, it
is usually best to increase the intake of both minerals together. With a high copper
intake, use a high zinc supplementation. This can be in the form of the Schweitzer
Formula, a complex formed by zinc (oxide or carbonate), boron (boric acid), and
salicylic acid. This is an excellent antibiotic, disinfectant, fungicide, anti-inflammatory,
and healing remedy.
The Schweitzer Formula20 was developed in 1915 in Germany and has been
sold worldwide since 1920. In addition to treating any kind of infection or
inflammation, it has been used in cancer treatment to improve the immune response
and blood oxygenation. Applied externally, it helps to heal injuries and skin diseases,
including acne, scarring, varicose veins, and varicose ulcers.
You can easily make the Schweitzer Formula yourself. Dissolve 9.2 g of
salicylic acid, 2.1 g of boric acid, and 2.7 g of zinc oxide (or 4 g of zinc carbonate) in
two quarts of hot water. You can get these ingredients from a pharmacist and have
the exact quantities weighed out. However, it is sufficient to use approximate
amounts. Use two level teaspoons of salicylic acid and half a teaspoon each of boric
acid and zinc oxide or one level teaspoon of zinc carbonate.

Use distilled or deionised water and a non-metallic container. Heat the mixture
for about an hour and stir occasionally with a non-metal spoon until no more of the
zinc oxide or zinc carbonate at the bottom of the container seems to dissolve. Then
decant or filter into a glass container and store in a cool, dark place.
Any surplus of zinc oxide or carbonate that remains undissolved shows that all
the boric acid and salicylic acid have been used up. However, any surplus of boric
acid would be beneficial and supply you with additional boron. In commercial
preparations, the resulting solution is very slowly evaporated to let the active
ingredients form crystals; these are then dissolved before use in the appropriate
amount of water.
As with copper salicylate, there are no exact guidelines on how much to take.
In studies, a tablespoonful has been taken three times daily with liquid or meals for
extended periods; for shorter periods, this dose has been doubled. It is also good to
rub onto the skin, especially where there are any problems.
You can take a ratio of one tablespoon of Schweitzer Formula to one teaspoon
of copper salicylate. For long-term use, I suggest one tablespoon of each daily. I
believe that long-term use of copper or zinc should be balanced by taking the other
mineral as well, be it as salicylate complex, colloid, or conventional remedy. My
experience suggests that copper and zinc as complexes or colloids are safer and
more effective than the long-term use of aspirin or other anti-inflammatory drugs.
After a period of use, it is advisable to interrupt using these remedies for a
while and observe any effects. Remember, the use of these remedies over long
periods is experimental and you must be prepared to take responsibility for any
unexpected side effects.
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Step 31
OXYGEN THERAPY
Oxygen, therapeutically applied, helps you quickly overcome any infection.
As an infection fighter, oxygen therapy is mainly used as ozone or hydrogen

peroxide. It is beneficial for general health improvement and also for a wide range of
diseases, mainly involving infectious agents. Ozone infusions are widely used in
German and Mexican cancer clinics but are illegal in the United States, and hydrogen
peroxide infusions have been used instead.
Therefore, most cancer victims try to help themselves with hydrogen peroxide
or so-called stabilized oxygen. The latter is an unstable oxygenated chlorine
compound that easily gives off oxygen. The typical amount used is ten drops in juice
several times daily, but start with much less and increase gradually. You can
combine taking hydrogen peroxide on rising and at bedtime with taking stabilized
oxygen before meals. This is suitable for those who have difficulty digesting much
hydrogen peroxide; otherwise, I regard hydrogen peroxide not only as the least
expensive, but also the most suitable product for home oxygen therapy.
Another possibility is to use an ozone generator. Generators for medical or
internal quality ozone can be expensive. Note that common ozone generators
ozonate room air and produce potentially toxic nitrogen oxides; a suitable water
ozonator (Beck type) is available for internal use. If ozone comes into contact with
water, then it forms hydrogen peroxide. As this formation takes some time (about 20
minutes for all the ozone dissolved in water to be converted to hydrogen peroxide),
you get a mixture of both if you drink it immediately after finishing the process.
Ozone reportedly has the advantage of releasing active oxygen without
requiring enzymes in biological systems, as is required for hydrogen peroxide. Both
ozone and hydrogen peroxide have an unstable single oxygen molecule that tends to
attach to and oxidize or peroxidise any suitable molecule. The beneficial effect
appears to be mainly the peroxidation of unsaturated fatty acids, which can then
destroy microbes and malignant cells, provided these are not protected by
accumulated vitamin E. A healthy immune system routinely produces hydrogen
peroxide to kill microbes. Therefore, I see no advantage in using ozone at home and
would rather use the simpler hydrogen peroxide.
Unheated honey has traditionally been used to treat infected wounds and
chronic skin or leg ulcers. Recent research showed that the most effective honey for
medicinal purposes is honey that is very high in hydrogen peroxide. Therefore, you
can mix a few drops of 35-percent hydrogen peroxide with honey to improve its
healing qualities. For topical packs, it is more convenient to use crystallized honey
rather than honey that is runny.
Preferably, use 35-percent food-grade hydrogen peroxide, available from some
natural therapists and health stores. Otherwise, use any other 35-percent product or
the three-percent (ten volume) or six-percent (20 volume) peroxide from a
supermarket or pharmacy. It is best to dilute the peroxide for daily use to about three

percent; add one part of the 35-percent peroxide to ten parts of water. Start taking a
few drops in a glass of water, then gradually increase to one teaspoon or more four
times daily, before meals and at bedtime. If you develop an aversion to it, decrease
the dose again to a more comfortable level. Swallow quickly instead of sipping
slowly. To disguise the strong aftertaste, add to the mixture aloe vera gel, fruit
flavours, herb tea, or water flavoured with cinnamon.
You can continue this program for many months, and when the specific health
problem is under control, gradually reduce the intake to only once daily before
breakfast. In addition, you can use hydrogen peroxide to rinse your mouth and gargle
morning and evening. It helps to prevent colds, infections, and tooth decay, and it is
arguably better than toothpaste. You can also use 35-percent hydrogen peroxide with
a dropper; a teaspoon of three-percent peroxide is equivalent to about 12 drops of
35-percent peroxide. Be careful handling 35-percent hydrogen peroxide; in the event
of accidental spills on clothes or skin, flush immediately with water or immerse in
water.
It is helpful to bathe the site of an infection or external tumour daily in three-
percent hydrogen peroxide or, better, cover it with a cloth soaked in it. This is
especially good for problems close to the skin, and the hydrogen peroxide is
preferably combined with a honey pack. Renew the pack several times daily. A pack
can remain on the skin for most of the time or until the skin becomes red or sore and
blisters. This will be good, as it draws out toxins. When this happens, cover the skin
with a cabbage leaf instead and wash only with peroxide. You can also have a daily
body rub with three-percent hydrogen peroxide, which is best done after a bath or
shower. With cervical cancer or bowel cancer, douche the cervix or the bowel twice
daily with suitably diluted hydrogen peroxide, retaining it inside for some time.
In the case of cancer it is advisable to use the practice of oxidative tumour
destruction only initially and with a minimum of antioxidants. Activated oxygen
oxidizes and peroxidizes reactive biomolecules, especially alpha- and gamma-
linolenic acids in linseed (flaxseed), evening primrose, and borage oils; these in turn
oxidize and destroy cancer cells. However, as mentioned, this killing effect may be
inhibited by high levels of antioxidants, especially vitamins E and A, which,
paradoxically, accumulate in tumours and protect them. Therefore, avoid vitamin E
and high doses of vitamin A for one or two weeks before your oxygen therapy and
minimize your intake of all antioxidants during the several weeks of intensive oxygen
therapy. Afterwards, return to a long-term intake of high amounts of antioxidants and
anti-inflammatory remedies (see step 46).
Magnesium peroxide has become available as a powder, in capsules, or as a
branded product called Oxy-Mag, a powdered magnesium ozonite. The peroxide
produces highly reactive oxygen radicals that are more aggressive than the oxygen
molecules released by the ozonite, but I cannot say at present if either one of these
is more effective. Use according to instructions on the container or enclosed
literature. Sometimes simple magnesium oxide is recommended to oxidize the colon;
while it may be good as a mild laxative, it does not liberate oxygen for oxygen
therapy.
Of great benefit are peroxide retention enemas. After a normal enema to clean
the bowels, insert into the colon a pint of water containing a teaspoon of salt and one

tablespoon of three-percent hydrogen peroxide; try to hold it inside the large intestine
for ten minutes or longer. The next day add two tablespoons to this mixture; continue
increasing the amount of peroxide on subsequent days until you find the highest
concentration that you can hold for about ten minutes. You can also try to increase
the volume of water that you can retain.
If you have an ozone maker, you can use ozone in a similar way as hydrogen
peroxide. You can lead it with a tube into water to produce hydrogen peroxide; insert
the tube into the rectum (with another shorter tube as outlet); irradiate the skin over
the diseased areas with a funnel; or put the body (but not the head) into a bag into
which you introduce ozone. For information on how to obtain, construct and use a
medical-grade ozone generator that does not oxidize nitrogen, see:
www.quantumbalancing.com. For more information on oxygen therapies, see:
www.oxytherapy.com or the books Oxygen Therapies and Flood Your Body with
Oxygen, by Ed McCabe.
New Ways of Using Hydrogen Peroxide: In 1928, Dr. Richard Simmons
believed to have discovered that colds and flu enter through the ear canal and start
the infection process in the middle ear. More recently, it has been claimed that colds
and flu can be cured within hours by putting hydrogen peroxide into the ears at the
first indication of any infection. You first put a few drops of three-percent hydrogen
peroxide in one ear, and when the bubbling stops, do the same in the other ear.
Repeat this a few times at about two-hour intervals. In addition, gargle frequently with
hydrogen peroxide for infections in the head and chest area.
My understanding is that the cold virus enters through the nose but then
multiplies in mucus accumulated in the head spaces before the outbreak of
symptoms. For this reason, colds can be stopped by introducing hydrogen peroxide
into head spaces, but also simply by removing the mucus congestions.
A three-percent hydrogen peroxide solution can be sprayed directly into the
throat several times a day and inhaled deeply into the lungs with good results.
Besides breathing problems and aching muscles, this has also reportedly relieved
other old-age symptoms. I assume that beneficial results with this method are largely
due to the elimination of fungi and other microbes in the breathing passages.
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Part 4
HEALING FOODS
Nutrition is the main tool I have used to help patients overcome a wide range of
diseases claimed to be medically incurable. Unnatural nutrition is one of the major
causes of most of our diseases, while natural nutrition is an equally powerful agent in
helping to undo these diseases and rejuvenate the body. My training and work
experience as research chemist, biochemist, toxicologist, practicing nutritionist, and
natural therapist have given me insight that would not have been possible if I had
worked only as a conventional scientist or natural therapist. One of these insights is
the importance of nutrition.
There is presently a trend in conventional medicine to acknowledge the
importance of nutrition in causing and treating diseases. Health authorities conduct
public awareness campaigns about nutrition through the mass media. While this
newly found official interest is itself a positive development, the information conveyed
is not likely to reduce the overall rate of chronic diseases.21 The information I
present has grown out of practical experience in the prevention and reversal of most
of our chronic and medically incurable diseases, and it is likely to be more useful.
Most of our commonly eaten foods contribute to our gradual health
deterioration and the development of many chronic diseases. This is a main reason
why there is such a high incidence of chronic degenerative disease in our society. I
will explain in detail why and how our everyday problem foods help cause our
diseases and how potent healthy foods can be used to undo these diseases and
rejuvenate our body.
Depending on your health goals and present health problems, you can either
make some gradual adjustment to your present diet or go all the way and experiment
with powerful health diets designed to reverse incurable diseases and rejuvenate
body and mind. The reward in terms of improved health is generally proportional to
your effort.
Diet rules are designed to guide us towards healthier eating habits. There are
different schools of nutrition, which do not always agree on the same principles and
sometimes even contradict each other. The diet “rules” I present are based on the
principles of the nineteenth-century Nature Cure movement, but modified according
to the findings of modern nutrition research and my clinical experiences in
overcoming diseases.
For the successful elimination of diseases, I have found that the less ideal the
patient’s overall diet is, the more specific the remedies, supplements, or other
therapies need to be. Conversely, on an ideal diet, specific interventions can be kept
to a minimum. I have also observed that the differences in nutritional requirements
between individuals begin to disappear when an ideal natural diet is adopted.
Changing our diet to an ideal natural one requires a considerable shift in eating
habits and a re-education of our taste buds. It often also requires more time for food
preparation. For most of us this is not easy. While some take to it enthusiastically,

others need to be driven by the hope of overcoming a debilitating disease; most
people are content to make minor dietary adjustments or gradual improvements as a
preventive measure or to overcome an existing health problem. Therefore, I use a
graded approach, with a high-quality diet for gradual health improvement and
maintenance of good health and a raw food diet for maximum healing, rejuvenation,
and maintenance of optimal health into old age.
I present each diet in its pure form. Most individuals probably will not be able to
adopt fully one or another diet, but will move gradually towards their dietary goal in
months or even years. You can modify the diet according to your special
requirements, and for this, see the section on Metabolic Types and Blood Groups
(Step 43) in Part 5. Ultimately, it is best to learn to trust your body to tell you what it
needs.
If you are not addicted to a certain food but crave it, then it is probably good for
you. The natural function of our taste buds is to guide us in the choice and quantity of
our food intake. As a general rule, food that is good for us tastes good, but if we have
enough of it, then it does not taste as good toward the end of the meal. If we overeat,
then it may not taste good for several days or weeks. If we had too much heavy or
spicy food, then fruits will taste attractive, but if we had too much fruit, then a spicy
protein-fat meal suddenly tastes good.
If we eat food that the body has difficulty in handling, then it causes a stress
reaction with the release of adrenal-stimulating hormones. For individuals with weak
adrenal glands, this acts as a stimulation of their body functions, and they become
addicted to this food as well as other stimulants. Now the taste buds are no longer a
reliable guide, as other body needs are sacrificed to satisfy this need for adrenal
stimulation.
As some foods frequently cause health problems - “problem” foods - so other
foods generally improve our health - “health” foods. The foods with the greatest
potential for healing and rejuvenation, according to my experience, are bee pollen,
sprouted seeds, purple foods, freshly pressed juices of vegetables (especially of
young grasses), and lactic-acid fermented foods. These form the base of my
recommended diets and will be explained in this chapter.
We need to realize that we can choose to a considerable degree how healthy
we will be and how long we want to live in good health or, alternatively, which
diseases we are willing to accept for the comfort of satisfying our present taste
preferences and maintaining potentially harmful living habits. Of course, other factors
have a strong influence as well, such as our mental and emotional condition, the
environment, and how we use our body (these are covered in later parts).
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Step 32
GENERAL DIETARY RULES
Understand the principles of healthy food selection,
preparation, and combination.
In a nutshell, the most important dietary rule is, as much as possible, to eat
your food when it’s whole, alive, organic, and free of added chemicals. Other
important rules are to chew it well, enjoy what you eat, combine the foods correctly,
and deliberately under-eat rather than overeat.
Whole food means that there has been as little refining of it as possible. To give
an example, natural whole grain brown rice is the preferred whole food. White rice
has the bran and germ removed, together with most of its vitamins and minerals. The
level of vitamin B1, for instance, is about 450 percent higher in brown rice than in
white rice. This means that the body may not use the deficient food efficiently, and
this can lead to overweight or underweight conditions and to poor blood sugar
regulation; the lack of fibre in refined rice also contributes to constipation. In varying
degrees, the effect of refining also applies to other commonly eaten foods.
Over thousands of years, our metabolic and enzyme structures have evolved
based on whole foods and have relied on certain combinations of ingredients being
supplied together. Protective or synergistic (cooperative) factors are present in whole
foods. For example, vitamin C is much better absorbed and retained if taken together
with bioflavonoids. Both nutrients naturally occur in the same foods. The sensitive
polyunsaturated oils are protected from oxidation and structural damage as long as
they remain in the whole seed. They also occur naturally with protective vitamin E.
When extracted and refined, these oils are partly oxidized and harmful trans-fatty
acids are formed.
Carnivorous animals do not eat just the meat but also the bones. They would
quickly become mineral deficient and diseased if they did not eat the bones. The
same applies to us if we eat only flesh high in phosphorus or low-mineral-content
food. We then need to use mineral supplements or become deficient and prone to
diseases. As relates to root vegetables, whole means using the vitamin- and mineral-
rich outer parts, usually discarded as peel, as well as the inner parts, and even the
cooking water. Pouring out the cooking water pours vitamins and minerals down the
drain.
A story, presumably true, has been published about the crew of one of the early
submarines. After a long crossing, they were fatigued and disease-prone; they had
lived on tinned and dried foods. The health authorities were at a loss about the cause
as there had been sufficient amounts of the known vitamins in the foods. A Nature
Cure practitioner offered his advice, which, when taken, quickly corrected the
problem. He told them to peel a lot of potatoes, discard the potatoes, and cook the
peels; strain, discard the peels, and drink the broth. How many of us do it the other
way around?
There is a downside to this with some whole foods and seeds. Seeds contain
reactive proteins, called lectins, which are mainly in the outer hull or bran; individuals

with certain blood types tend to react to specific lectins. Other food allergies develop
mainly to the outer parts of seeds removed in refining. If seeds are not sprouted or
fermented, then minerals tend to remain bound by chemicals in these outer parts and
cannot be absorbed. Therefore, if you have a sensitive digestion and eat food that is
not suited for you, then, ironically, refined foods will tend to cause you less immediate
problems than whole foods.
Live and Organic Foods: Live food is basically the same as raw or uncooked
food. Live means that the food is still high in vitality and naturally occurring enzymes.
These are damaged when food is heated above 104° F and destroyed above 120° F.
While milk can be heated initially in making yogurt, adding lactic-acid bacteria to it
provides a new complement of enzymes to revive the food, although I prefer to make
yogurt from unheated milk.
Food has different stages of “aliveness” or vitality. A dry viable seed is alive but
dormant, the enzymes inactivated by inhibitors. During soaking and sprouting, the
seed awakens to full life with an abundance of enzyme activity. Like an embryo, it is
at the height of its vital and restorative functions.
A young, growing leaf or plant still has a high level of growth hormones and
enzyme activity, but in a mature plant or fully grown leaf there is little growth hormone
and reduced enzyme activity. Whole grain flour that has not been unduly heated
during milling has some residual life, but inhibitors block the enzymes; enzyme
activity will be enhanced and starch pre-digested when the wheat is made into
sourdough. There is a saying in naturopathy: “Eat food that easily spoils, but eat it
before it spoils.”
The term organic is generally understood to mean that such food also has not
been irradiated and is free of genetically engineered components and any added
chemicals that are normally used during growing, storing, or processing. Organically
grown food means that it is certifiably free of toxic agricultural chemicals and has
been grown in healthy soil without the use of water-soluble fertilizers. Very harmful
are nitrogen fertilizers, especially nitrates. In one scientific experiment, hens were fed
blueberries that were either unfertilized or fertilized with nitrate. Hens fed large
amounts of nitrate-fertilized berries died within three days; those that received only
small amounts of fertilized berries laid eggs with defective missing shells. Hens fed
unfertilized berries in any quantity maintained normal health and eggs. What will a
low-dose long-term intake of such fertilized foods do to us?
It is well known to organic growers that their plants and the animals fed these
plants are much more resistant to pests and diseases than chemically fertilized
plants and the animals fed them. It has been shown that cattle on an organic farm
remained disease-free while cattle on surrounding properties were badly affected
with foot-and-mouth disease. Most damaging are pesticide residues on foods or the
interaction between different chemicals. Many natural therapists contend that
organically grown food is an important part in the successful treatment of
degenerative diseases.
Cooking Foods: Food ideally suited for human nutrition does not require
cooking, such as sprouted seeds and fresh shoots, ripening seeds (sweet corn,
green peas), oily seeds and nuts, sweet root vegetables, and fruits. Cooking

damages many proteins; they coagulate and harden and their complement of
digestive enzymes is destroyed, and this makes them more difficult to digest.
However, cooking also makes some foods more easily digestible by breaking
down the cellulose in plant food and connective tissue in meat. This enables our
digestive juices to get more easily to the nutrients and is especially important for
people with weak digestive organs. Further advantages of cooking are the
preservation of food, easier chewing, and enhanced flavours. All this means that
cooked food generally is more convenient and tastes better, and for most of us that is
more important than any long-term health concerns.
In this chapter I show how harmful effects of cooking can be minimized by
combining the least damaging use of cooking with the more acceptable forms of raw
foods consumption.
Steaming is the recommended method of cooking. Add sufficient water to cover
the bottom of the pot, even without special steaming equipment. This way most of the
vegetables will be steamed, and if you use the remaining water, nothing will be lost.
By adding vegetables after the water has started to boil fewer vitamins are destroyed.
However, I do not see a problem with simmering vegetables submersed in water as
long as you also ingest this water, preferably soon after cooking.
Pressure cookers are acceptable, their main disadvantage being that they are
usually made of aluminium. Microwave ovens are suspected of emitting harmful
radiation while in use. In addition, they may contribute to health deterioration by
scrambling the delicate structures of sensitive food molecules in unnatural ways.
Therefore, avoid or minimize microwaved food. It is also safer to discard any outer
part of meat or fish after grilling or broiling.
When cooking grains or legumes, always soak the seeds overnight beforehand
and discard the soaking water. In this way, you will likely ingest fewer potentially
harmful anti-nutrients, such as phytates which make minerals unavailable, protease
inhibitors that interfere with the digestion of proteins, or lectins that cause unpleasant
symptoms with some blood types. If beans cause wind, change the water once or
twice during cooking.
As mentioned, the main disadvantage of all cooking is that it destroys food
enzymes and some vitamins. This significantly contributes to more rapid aging and
the development of degenerative diseases if the diet consists predominantly of
cooked food. Therefore, try to eat only a minimum of cooked food. Most harmed by
cooking are animal products and polyunsaturated oils; least harmed are starches.
Eat your food, especially vegetables, as soon as possible after a short cooking time;
try to minimize steam or fumes escaping from cooking food. Except for baked grains,
avoid food leftover from a previous meal.
A large amount of aluminium dissolves in the water during cooking in
aluminium cookware; the more acid the cooking water, the more this happens. This is
also a problem with stainless steel pots. While steel is more resistant to acids, it can
still release harmful amounts of nickel, and nickel is implicated in weakening the
immune system and promoting cancer. Enamel cookware is generally safe, except
that low-cost Asian imports reportedly may contain high levels of lead; this is also a
problem with ceramic pots. Glass cookware is the safest.

Here are some important cooking rules:
• Avoid baking soda in cooking or baking as it destroys B-vitamins
• Add salt or minerals after cooking to preserve vitamins.
• Save and use the cooking water; it is rich in minerals.
• Cook for the shortest time possible.
• Do not keep food warm for extended periods; cool quickly for storage.
• Avoid aluminium and stainless steel cooking utensils; use enamel or glassware
instead.
• Do not leave acid food in contact with metal surfaces.
• Do not cook what can conveniently be eaten raw.
• Do not fry or heat oils or fats.
• Do not cook with a microwave.
Chewing and Enjoying the Meal: Good chewing is of vital importance. It is
necessary to break down food particles to a fine pulp and at the same time to
insalivate them sufficiently for proper enzyme activity. Trace elements and vitamins
are already partly absorbed through the mouth tissue, while the stomach needs
adequate advance warning of the expected composition and quantity of the food. So,
even if the food is already a liquid (soups, broth), chewing is important. Keep and
move around such liquid food in the mouth for several seconds. Solid food needs
chewing until it is thoroughly liquefied. Teach your children early in their life to chew
thoroughly; possibly check their stools to see if they contain large pieces and whole
seeds, a sign of inadequate chewing.
You should not only chew thoroughly, but also eat slowly and in a leisurely
fashion. This improves digestion and helps prevent overeating. A certain amount of
time is needed for the body to form the message that it has had enough. Therefore, if
you stuff yourself within a short period, your body has no time to prevent you from
overeating. Overeating can also occur if you do not pay attention to the eating itself
but to a conversation, to a book, or the television. Then you cannot “hear” when your
body says “enough.”
It is also important to have a peaceful mind at mealtime. Before the meal,
completely relax for a minute or more with eyes closed; if able to meditate, raise your
awareness to a joyful meditative state. During the meal, pay attention to the process
of chewing and enjoy the various flavours as they develop.
It is beneficial to enjoy what you eat. Unpalatable food is not well digested.
Neither is it good to continue eating poor food just because one has acquired a
preference for it. For many, this is the most difficult problem to overcome during
health improvement. The goal is to acquire a liking for what is nutritionally good.
There is no doubt that taste buds are adaptable and can be re-educated, but
this comes gradually, so introduce unfamiliar foods and supplements to your diet in
very small amounts only, interspersed with familiar foods. Be imaginative and
experiment with new ways to prepare food. Do not eat if you are not hungry, if you

are agitated or emotionally upset, if you are unwell with a fever or comparable
condition, or if you are still full from the previous meal. Always prepare food lovingly.
Food Combining: Many years of experience with patients have shown me the
importance of correct food combining. The fundamental biochemical considerations
with regard to food combining are as follows:
• Typical protein foods (usually containing oil or fat) require strongly acidic
gastric juices.
• Different types of protein foods may need differently composed gastric juices for
digestion.
• Starches need B vitamins, chlorides, calcium, and magnesium for enzyme
activation.
• Sweeteners or sugars as well as acids inhibit the digestion of starches.
Disregarding these facts by mixing foods indiscriminately may contribute to
infections and degenerative diseases, especially allergies, arthritis, cancer, and
autoimmune diseases.
Initially, most people have a reasonably strong digestive system and do not feel
any ill effects, no matter what they eat or combine. This is also true if bodily
responses have become dulled by being ignored for many years. However, sooner or
later, the unpleasant effects and degenerative symptoms will appear.
There are three main groups of food to consider when working out correct food
combinations:
1. Proteins, sweet and acid foods, sweet vegetables, fruits
2. Neutral foods such as fats and oils, non-sweet vegetables, avocados, olives, and
cream cheese
3. Starches such as cereals, potatoes, and dry legumes
The neutral foods can be combined with either one of the other groups while
the two extreme groups (numbers 1 and 3) should be kept apart. Observing this
simple rule may prevent the more serious consequences of incorrect food combining.
In poor health and during a health improvement program, however, it is
advisable to be even more careful. With few exceptions, most foods are best
digested as a moderated mono-diet, which means only closely related foods are
eaten together, for example, different kinds of grains. With severe digestive
problems, one can temporarily adopt a strict mono-diet, eating one kind of food only
at a meal, and observe its effects.
The next best possibility is to eat foods correctly combined, but still separated
during the meal. This is most important with meat, fish, or nuts. These are best eaten
at the beginning of the meal for proteins to receive the strong gastric juices in the pit
of the stomach. The rest of the meal, if not too liquid, will remain in distinct layers on
top of this. Remember this if you have proteins and starches in the same meal.
You can mix a small amount of flavouring vegetables with meat or fish, or eat a
fruit together with some nuts. Generally it is preferable to have either some fresh
vegetable juice or a small amount of raw vegetables before a cooked meal.

For those with a sluggish metabolism, a small amount of sweet food or fruits as
dessert after a protein meal will provide energy for the digestion of slow-burning,
protein-fat combinations. This is not advisable after a starch meal or for those with
blood sugar problems. Glucose and maltose (as in barley sugar) do not contain
fructose and therefore cause less of a problem if combined with starches. If your
digestion is sluggish, a small amount of fruit acids, such as lemon juice sprinkled
over meat or fish, or ascorbic acid with or after protein meals can be beneficial, as
can half a cup of a bitter herb tea afterwards. Cooked subacid fruit that is low in
fructose, such as apples, does not react in the same way as sweet fruit that is high in
fructose. Therefore, most individuals will be fine using this as a flavouring with
cereals or starches, for example, apple puree with rice.
Some factors that make precision food combining less necessary are: a strong
digestive system; being physically active; chewing extremely well; and only eating
small meals. The opposite factors will, of course, increase the need for correct food
combining. Being able to eat just about anything, however, is not a guarantee of
strong digestive powers; your system may be too weak to react to the foods. If you
are in good health, you can forget about food combining and omit just one group of
foods from a mixed meal - the cooked starches; most others combine reasonably
well with each other. However, it is generally acceptable to eat starches at the end of
a meal, separated from the protein part by a vegetable or sprout salad or by some
cooked vegetables. If you are sensitive, then this middle part of the meal can consist
of neutral vegetables rather than sweet ones.
Food yeast with a 50 percent protein content and also the non-oily legumes are
grouped with the starches because their fat-free proteins are relatively easy to digest
and require only slight acidity. For a graphic illustration of the basic food-combining
rules, see Figure 4-1. Foods are classified as hard proteins, soft proteins, or starches
according to the amount of gastric acid and pepsin that is needed for their digestion.
The actual percentage of protein in a food is less important in this respect than the
amount of fat, oil, and fibre surrounding the protein.
Meat, nuts, and cooked soybeans, for instance, are difficult to break down.
They need the full strength of gastric acid and pepsin and, therefore, are called “hard
proteins.” Eggs, uncooked dairy proteins, broth of meat and fish, fermented soy
products, soy milk, and fine nut butters, on the other hand, need less acidity and can
be called “soft proteins.” Proteins in processed cheese, in cow’s milk used as a drink,
but especially in milk added to coffee or tea, are very difficult to digest and thus
become hard proteins. Non-fatty fish, especially if marinated, is easy to digest and is
almost a soft protein, while fatty fish is closer to meat in its gastric requirements.
Intestinal Fermentation: Combining food high in fibre with sweet food is likely
to cause intestinal gas. This perception gave rise to the frequently quoted rule not to
combine vegetables with fruit. In this case some of the sugar from the fruit may not
be absorbed and then may overstimulate bacterial activity in the large intestine,
causing excessive wind, flatulence, or bloating. Some intestinal fermentation is
desirable in order to keep our beneficial bacteria happy, and this is best produced
with a moderate amount of fibre in the diet. It breaks down at a slow rate and greatly
helps to maintain regular soft bowel motion.

Fig. 4-1: Food Combining Chart.
Direct connections between groups indicate good combinations (e.g. starches & neutral
foods). Connections between groups with one interception are fair (e.g. starches & sub-
acid fruits). Connections groups with two interceptions are poor (e.g. starches & sweet
foods).
FOOD GROUPS
“Hard” proteins: meat, fish, nuts, oily seeds, soybeans.
“Soft” proteins: eggs, milk proteins, meat/fish broth, tofu, soy milk, nut butters, fermented
soy or nuts.
Acid fruit: lemon, grapefruit, pineapple, acid berries.
Sub-acid fruits: apricots, peaches, pears, bananas, cooked apples.
Sweet food: sweeteners, foods with added sugar, molasses, honey, dried fruits, oranges,
figs and other sweet fruits and berries, juices of sweet vegetables.
Sweet vegetables: sweet potatoes, pumpkin, onion, carrot, turnip, beetroot, tomatoes,
green peas.
Neutral foods: fats and oils, non-sweet vegetables (mainly greens), sprouted seeds,
avocados, olives.
Starches: grain products, potatoes, dry legumes, food yeast, sago and taro.
Trouble brews if we ingest a large amount of sugar in any form. This is like
adding gasoline to a slow, controlled burn-off of bush land that then gets out of
control and becomes a raging wildfire. It is very similar in our intestines. Fibre
remains in the large intestine for a long time, so excessive fermentation can happen
if we have sweet food several hours after a raw salad. How much sweetness we can
tolerate with fibre is individualized. The more efficiently we absorb our food, the
larger the amount of sweetness we can handle without getting into digestive trouble.
For individuals with a weak sugar metabolism, it is not good to have much
sweetness on an empty stomach, as that drives the blood sugar level too high,
followed by symptoms of hypoglycaemia. In this case it is best to completely
separate food high in fibre from sweet food and have the fibre meal after the sweet
meal.
Therefore, breakfast is safest as a moderately sweet meal, for instance, by
flavouring cooked rice or sago with banana or apple puree. The evening meal is then

safe as a fibre meal, such as combining potatoes and other cooked non-sweet
vegetables with a vegetable salad. Lunch can be a protein food with sweet
vegetables such as pumpkin.
It may also be acceptable to have a piece of fruit or a fresh juice of sweet
vegetables (e.g., carrots) some time before a meal that also has a vegetable salad or
other high-fibre food at the end. Fresh juice does not have much indigestible fibre, so
there should be no fermentation problem in combining vegetable and fruit in the
same juice. However, if fruit high in fructose is combined with vegetables, then the
juice is high in glucose as well as fructose and can cause a strong insulin response
and hypoglycaemia in susceptible individuals.
The main rule in all this is to have the fast-digesting food first and the slow-
digesting fibre afterwards. Experiment to see how strictly you have to apply this rule
to avoid intestinal distress.
When eating cooked beans, you may encounter a similar fermentation problem.
Beans do not need any added sugar to start a strong fermentation. They are high in
long chains of carbohydrates (oligosaccharides) that are not absorbed in the small
intestine, but are easily broken down by the bacteria in the large intestine. To avoid
problems with beans, these can be sprouted or fermented before eating or the water
in which they have been cooked can be renewed and discarded several times.
Planning Meals: Our digestive powers are strongest in the morning and
weakest in the evening. Therefore, it is advisable to eat difficult foods such as meat,
nuts, sweet food, and large vegetable salads during the daytime and have a light,
early evening meal. This will also improve your sleep, while a heavy, late dinner often
results in a restless or “drugged” sleep, with a feeling of tiredness in the morning.
If you are not normally hungry in the morning, just omit the evening meal for
several nights and have 30 minutes of vigorous physical activity before breakfast. If
you do not need to leave home for work, you can also spend an hour in the garden or
engage in other outdoor activity before breakfast. Together with the time required to
drink your juice, herb tea, or water, it will be one to two hours before you finally sit
down for breakfast. It is definitely not advisable, especially with a sluggish digestion,
to eat a heavy breakfast without sufficient stimulation to your circulation beforehand.
With a sluggish thyroid and weak adrenal glands, of course, it is more difficult
to get going in the morning, but it is not too hard if you are determined to make the
effort. Immediately after awakening, start with some positive autosuggestion. Then
mentally look forward to something that you would like to do during the day. If
necessary, promise yourself a treat. Lack of enthusiasm can be a main factor in
suppressing your metabolic rate. Therefore, try to become enthusiastic about
something - anything!
Do some deep breathing, stretching, and muscle-tensing while still in bed. Then
jump out and immediately start some lively activity such as circling the arms or gently
pummelling the body all over. Also stimulating are arousing music, skin brushing with
rapid strokes, and cold-water applications.
Do not rush your breakfast. For many people, it is the most important meal of
the day. Make it a habit to rise sufficiently early so that you have at least two hours

before needing to leave the house. You can also divide the food and use a portion of
your breakfast as a mid-morning snack.
A certain amount of food eaten in the morning can produce weight loss, while
the same food in the evening is more likely to convert to body fat and cause weight
gain. Therefore, if you want to keep your weight down, eat all your high-calorie food
during the day and have only some non-starchy vegetables or a few apples in the
evening. If you want to gain weight, on the other hand, then have a starch meal in the
evening. There will be some, however, for whom these recommendations are not
suited; you must find out under which conditions you feel best and can cope most
efficiently with your daily activities.
Carbohydrates cause a greater weight gain than a protein-fat diet of equal
calories. Also, the higher the amount of roughage (for example, rice bran, linseed
meal, raw vegetables), the greater is the weight loss on any slimming diet. These
factors should be taken into account in your meal planning.
It is desirable to have about 30 minutes of rest or light, relaxing activity after a
meal before starting more heavy manual work or a more stressful activity. I agree
with the advice of Edgar Cayce: “After breakfast work a while, after lunch rest some
time, and after dinner walk a mile.” Try to fit in at least 15 minutes of rest in the
horizontal position after lunch; relax, or try to meditate or contemplate. If you are in
poor health, a sleep after lunch is highly desirable. If you wake up tired from this, next
time give yourself positive autosuggestions before falling asleep. Even after
breakfast, you should not immediately start rushing around. Some kind of steady
physical activity, such as walking or gardening, is advisable after the meal. But what
is harmful is stress - the feeling of being late for school or at the office - so avoid that.
Food Balancing: The concept of food balancing
arises from the fact that the various food groups have Between meat on one end of
different effects on our metabolism and hormonal and the scale and fruits on the
nervous systems, as well as on our emotions. Food other, we can arrange our
balancing is different from what is described as eating basic foods in the following
balanced meals - proteins, carbohydrates, and fats - order according to their
as recommended by conventional dieticians. To give sensitizing effect on body
some examples: Meat stimulates the adrenal glands and emotions:
and the sympathetic nervous system, thus increasing red meat
tension and readiness for action. Fruits have the
fowl and fish
opposite effect. They stimulate the release of insulin,
eggs & dairy products
which counteracts the effect of adrenal hormones.
While vegetables, especially those high in chlorophyll, oily seeds
make us more relaxed, fruits make us physically, legumes
emotionally, and psychically more sensitive. grains
green vegetables
Both fruits and vegetables increase our intuition.
Meat, on the other hand, makes us more insensitive sweet vegetables
and possibly materialistic, and less emotional and sub-acid fruit
intuitive. Red meat especially has a strong “grounding” berries, sweet & acid fruit
effect and is therefore balancing for those who are

oversensitive, overemotional, and open to negative psychic or occult influences. It is,
however, unsuitable for those who are already too tense or insensitive either
physically or emotionally or who are aggressive or overly materialistic.
Acid and acid-sweet fruits have the strongest sensitizing effect, while subacid
fruits are less sensitizing and avocados are neutral. In this way, lemons and
grapefruit are more sensitizing than oranges, while oranges sensitize more strongly
than do mandarins.
Flesh foods are more suitable for those who cannot efficiently use glucose,
such as fast oxidizers or hypoglycemics, while fruit and sweet vegetables are best for
those with a slow metabolism. This means that those with an unbalanced metabolism
generally should not eat a conventionally balanced diet; they become balanced by
selecting foods that are either more slowly or more rapidly digested. However, it is
not necessary for sensitive individuals to eat flesh foods to be in balance. They can
do very well on oily seeds, legumes, grains, green vegetables, and raw sweet
vegetables, but less well on cooked sweet vegetables.
Grains and legumes are neutral in their effects on our metabolism and the
glandular and nervous systems. In this respect, they may be grouped in the middle
between meat and fruits. They are balanced in themselves, and this shows why one
can be balanced on a macrobiotic rice diet with few additions of other foods.
Someone with a normal metabolism can eat in a balanced way by having
mainly the neutral grains and legumes, and balancing eggs and dairy products with
vegetables. However, it is also possible to balance meat, fowl, and fish with sweet
vegetables and fruits, eating very little of the in-between foods. Another possibility is
to eat a greater quantity of a food group that is closer to the neutral position and
replace a smaller amount of a more unbalanced food. For instance, instead of
balancing meat with fruits, you can use an increased amount of sweet vegetables.
However, you do not need to worry about accurately balancing and measuring
quantities. This is not an exact science but more a rule of thumb. Its main importance
is to show you in which direction to move in your food selection if you feel that your
health or emotions are out of balance.
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Step 33
FOOD GROUPS
Learn the health characteristics of the various food groups
and apply them for healing.
Let’s start with carbohydrates. There are three groups of carbohydrates:

starches, dextrines, and sugars. Sugars consist either of simple sugar molecules, the
monosaccharides, or two of these linked together as disaccharides. Household sugar
(sucrose) consists of one molecule each of glucose and fructose, while milk sugar or
lactose contains glucose and galactose. In dextrines, up to 50 glucose molecules are
linked, and in starches, several thousand are.
Starches: Starches are broken down into water-soluble dextrines by cooking,
sprouting, or fermenting. Dextrines occur naturally in sweet vegetables, and in seeds
during germination and ripening; examples are green peas and sweet corn. The
basic starch foods are cereal grains, potatoes, sago, taro, tapioca, and to some
degree the non-oily legumes. On the one hand, starches are excellent slow-digesting
food, but on the other hand, our digestive systems have not yet well adapted to a diet
high in grains, especially in those people with blood group O.
In our society, wheat is predominantly used. However, gluten, the protein in
wheat, often acts like sandpaper on the absorption villi in the small intestine, and this
is a main cause of malabsorption, intestinal inflammation, and allergies. All of us are
to some extent affected by gluten and in this context wholemeal products are no
better and usually worse than refined flour. Therefore, it is generally recommended
that you use only a minimum of wheat products and that you also be careful with the
other gluten grains, mainly rye, oats, and barley. Oats are very high in gluten and in
this way not much better than wheat. Rye crispbread and rye sourdough bread are
usually better tolerated than wheat products.
Rice and millet can be used as staple grains. Maize and potatoes are valuable
additions, especially for those allergic to wheat. Buckwheat is generally good but
causes problems in some gluten-allergic people. Potatoes should not be peeled, or
the skin should be removed only after cooking. Small potatoes and the mineral-rich
outer parts of potatoes are preferable to the acid-forming inner parts.
Legumes are best sprouted, as cooked dried beans often cause wind. This can
be reduced if you discard the soaking water and possibly replace the cooking water
after 20 to 30 minutes of cooking. Sago and tapioca are especially suited for
individuals who are not doing well on grains. They are commonly available as white
starch granules, in some specialty food sections of supermarkets.
Sweet Food: The term “sweet food,” as used in this book, includes sugars,
sweetened food, dried fruit, sweet fresh fruit, and the juices of sweet vegetables. It
does not include the sweet vegetables themselves such as carrot, onion, sweet
pepper, turnip, or red beet, as their sweetness comes mainly from dextrines and they
release sugars slowly. Most commonly used sugars quickly enter the bloodstream
and cause a serious strain on blood sugar regulation. It is important for our well-being
to keep the daily fluctuations in our blood sugar level as small as possible. For

people with a poor sugar metabolism, this means restricting the intake of sweet foods
to the barest minimum.
A poor blood sugar metabolism is not restricted to an inappropriate rise in the
blood sugar level. An equally dangerous component is a high insulin level, especially
after ingesting sucrose and, to a somewhat lesser extent, when combining glucose
with fructose. A high insulin level either leads to a strong fall in the blood sugar level
sometime later (hypoglycaemia) or to conversion of sugar into fat, which leads to
overacidity or overweight.
A third outcome is increasing insensitivity to insulin and the development of
Type II diabetes. However, maltose or barley sugar, made from sprouted barley,
should have a less harmful effect if used to sweeten starches. It consists of two
joined glucose molecules and does not induce a strong insulin response, but it could
still cause a stronger rise in the blood sugar level than unsweetened starches. Some
of the symptoms associated with a poor sugar metabolism are overweight and
underweight, high or low blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and
hypoglycaemia, dental caries, colds, allergies, weak eyes, cold hands and feet, lack
of energy, oversensitivity, and overacidity.
For most individuals, sweet food is harmful because sugar is released into the
system too quickly. Therefore, a sweet dessert or sweetener eaten with protein or
fatty food is less harmful than sweet food such as fruit juice taken on an empty
stomach or as sweetened starches (for example: sweet porridge, bread with honey,
cake). Most affected are individuals with low blood pressure, sensitivity to cold and
skin irritants, or those who are emotionally unstable; sugar-insensitive individuals
usually benefit from naturally sweet foods. I regard artificial sweeteners such as
aspartame as much worse than any natural sweeteners and suggest you avoid them
completely.
One natural sugar that appears to be relatively harmless and possibly even
beneficial if used in small amounts is xylitol. It occurs naturally in fruits such as plums
and strawberries and tastes like normal sugar; it also helps to prevent tooth decay
and possibly ear infections and is acceptable for diabetics. However, it may cause
diarrhea in larger quantities, so you need to experiment to see how much is
acceptable for you.
The Glycemic Index (G.I.): The G.I. lists foods according to the increase in
blood glucose levels caused by their carbohydrate content two to three hours after
eating. A high G.I. means a rapid increase in blood glucose levels and vice versa. It
is preferable to eat mainly low G.I. foods that produce a small or slow rise in blood
sugar. Here are a few key examples, with white bread as the standard with a G.I. of
100: glucose and maltodextrin, 137; sucrose (common or household sugar) and rye
bread, 92; honey, 83; and fructose, 32. Legumes and nuts generally have a low G.I.
From this short list, you can easily see why I have no faith in the G.I.: rye bread and
sugar have the same G.I.! The reason for this is the low G.I. of fructose.
Sucrose consists of one molecule of glucose and one of fructose. Fructose
produces a strong insulin response that keeps the blood sugar level low partly by
converting sugar into fat and partly by channelling glucose rapidly into muscle cells.
Depending on the individual metabolism, the combination of fructose and glucose in

large amounts either produces overweight or overacidity. In addition, it increasingly
leads to insulin resistance and Type II diabetes.
Nevertheless, conventional nutritionists argue that sugar is not harmful
because its G.I. is as low as or even lower than bread. I would not be surprised if it
eventually turned out that the G.I. was developed on the instigation of the sugar
industry. Most foods listed in the G.I. are processed carbohydrates that I do not
advise you to eat anyway. If you select your carbohydrates according to the following
rules, then you do not need to be concerned with the G.I.:
• Eat mainly legumes and vegetables
• Eat (fresh) fruits on their own and not with or after meals
• Minimize sweetened food, grains, and cereals
Proteins: Proteins from animal sources are oversupplied in traditional Western
diets. Initially, this causes stimulation—you feel energetic and even aggressive—but
later in life it leads to enzyme exhaustion, putrefaction of bowel contents, toxaemia,
breakdown of the immune system, gout, and cancer. These problems are not due to
proteins per se, but rather to the cooking of proteins, which destroys their enzymes
and denatures their structure. Protein deficiency, on the other hand, causes slow
growth, fatigue, and debility.
Good sources of protein are grass juice (fresh or dried), pollen, spirulina,
chlorella, almonds, lentils and other legumes, traditionally fermented soy products,
sunflower and sesame seeds (tahini), raw egg yolk, naturally fermented and
unpasteurized goat cheese and yogurt, fish, and (organic) liver and other organ
meats. The less these are heated, the less digestive problems they will cause.
Use red meat from organic or grass-fed sources and avoid predatory species of
fish. Nuts are generally difficult to digest, except if soaked or sprouted. Soybeans and
broad beans should not be eaten raw except if sprouted or fermented. Cooked
soybeans can cause indigestion, except if you discard the soaking and cooking
water; processed soy foods are not recommended because of their high content of
anti-nutrients and the likelihood of genetic engineering in the beans themselves,
although traditionally fermented soy foods are fine.
Individual protein requirements differ, and more is needed during pregnancy, in
childhood, and during convalescence. With advancing age and with degenerative
diseases, use any flesh food in an easily digestible form, such as broth of fish, liver,
or meat. It is good to combine legumes with starches, as, for example, lentils with
brown rice. However, mixing different proteins to obtain improved amino acid
composition is generally not required. Preferably, have your flesh foods no more than
once a day and avoid products from feedlots or that contain growth promoters.
Vegetarianism: Most individuals can remain healthy on a diet with moderate
amounts of flesh food or as vegetarians without eating any flesh food. However, a
strict vegan diet without any animal products is advisable only if there are no obscure
health problems, because some people require certain nutrients to be supplied from
animal sources (such as taurine, carnitine, or vitamin B12).
Generally, sensitive people have weak adrenal glands and feel more energetic
and emotionally balanced by using flesh foods. If these foods are excluded, such

people should have a high intake of legumes and complex carbohydrates (slow-
digesting food) in their diet. People with alkaline and insensitive conditions, on the
other hand, benefit from a partially vegetarian diet, possibly with some seafood and
poultry. A fruitarian diet, based on tree fruits, nuts, and berries, is suitable as a
temporary or extended cleansing diet for alkaline, insensitive individuals.
Many vegetarian diets are not conducive to good health because of their high
intake of sweet foods, milk products, wheat, oats, and inhibitors of protein-digesting
enzymes in a soy-based diet. Further, minerals are better absorbed if the meal
includes flesh food or gelatine. A diet high in nuts, oily seeds, and cereals can cause
a deficiency in lysine (an essential amino acid) and predispose you to herpes and
other viral infections; this usually can be rectified by using more legumes. Individuals
with blood group O are basically meat-eater types and have great difficulty with a
grain-based diet. However, on balance, vegetarians tend to be somewhat healthier
than meat eaters.
Fats and Oils: I recommend using foods with a wide range of fats and oils,
provided that most of them are unheated. Oils are best supplied by eating products in
which they naturally occur. Most recommended is extra-virgin olive oil; otherwise use
cold-pressed oil stored in brown glass bottles. Avoid “lite” oils because they are more
highly refined and also oils sold in plastic bottles, as oils can leach chemicals out of
plastic. Store oils in a cool, dark place and in full containers; refrigerate oil in daily
use, except varieties that easily solidify.
Preferably, use only small amounts of heated saturated fats that are hard at
room temperature, such as fat in hard cheese, beef, and mutton. Unpasteurized
butter, like other unheated fats, is a healthy food. Avoid all chemically hardened
(hydrogenated) fats, including margarine. Use mainly oils high in oleic acid, such as
olive oil, almond oil, and, to a lesser extent, peanut oil. Peanut oil helps against
arthritis but is not suitable for non-sensitive, alkaline people in whom it can contribute
to the formation of fatty deposits in the arteries. Unheated coconut oil is beneficial for
most individuals, despite being saturated and hard at room temperature. Its high
content of short-chain fatty acids enables it to be easily metabolized to energy
without causing undue weight gain.
Use bottled polyunsaturated oils (high in linoleic acid) sparingly; it is preferable
to obtain these oils directly from ingesting oily seeds. Such oils easily oxidize if the
vitamin E intake is low and can contribute to the development of cancer. However, it
is recommended to use more fish oils or linolenic acid, as in linseed (flaxseed),
together with adequate vitamin E.
People who are insensitive and alkaline, with cardiovascular disease, obesity,
or skin and liver diseases, should be especially careful and avoid saturated and
hydrogenated fats. Lecithin and vitamin A and E supplements will be especially good
for them and cod-liver oil rubs are beneficial if you suspect fat malabsorption.
Fruits and Vegetables: While vegetables are good for everyone and the more
the better (except if sprayed with pesticides), fruits must be treated with caution by
those with overacidity and poor blood sugar regulation. Use mainly fruits and
vegetables in season that are grown in your region. Include plenty of green leafy
vegetables and gradually increase your intake of fresh raw vegetables as in salads.

Cook or grate root vegetables with their skins left on and use the cooking
water. Among the root vegetables, red beets are highly recommended for their
positive effect on cell respiration and energy production. Fruits, especially acid fruits
and berries, are excellent for those with alkaline and insensitive body conditions,
including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes.
On the other hand, those who are overacid (usually with low blood pressure,
allergy problems, lack of energy, and tendency to colds) easily become even more
acidic on fruit. They should minimize their fruit intake and mainly use subacid
varieties or, better still, neutralize acid fruit (as explained in Step 6 under “Alkalizing
with Calcium and Magnesium”). Also they may better tolerate fruits that are not fully
ripe; oily fruit such as avocados are usually well tolerated.
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Step 34
HEALTH DIETS
Adopt a health diet suited to the specific requirements of your body.
Diets for health improvement are different from slimming diets that do not
always improve the health of the dieter. However, on a health diet, weight loss can
be expected if you are overweight, in addition to an improvement in health. As a
general rule, the more you follow a diet that is ideally suited for you, the better will be
your health. The diets recommended in this chapter have been shown to be effective,
but you may need to experiment to find individual variations that best suit your
constitution and health problems. Your long-term diet together with your mental
attitude and lifestyle will decide your health in future years; therefore, choose wisely.
If you are on a conventional diet at present, you can change gradually to the
high-quality diet (see below), a process that could take years, especially if you have
to take along a reluctant family. Others can rapidly adopt a raw food diet, especially if
confronted with an advanced degenerative disease. Nearly anyone can live
temporarily on raw food as a cleansing measure.
If you are unusually sensitive to raw food diets and develop digestive problems,
you can eat cooked brown rice exclusively for several days or weeks as a mild
cleansing diet. If even brown rice causes problems, try basmati or white rice. Use
only olive oil and possibly a small amount of salt, herbs, spices, or vegetables for
flavouring. Strictly observe how you feel as you reintroduce other foods.
You need not be afraid that you can never eat your favourite foods again. The
long-term impact on our health comes from what we eat daily, not from occasional
transgressions. When you eat out, you can eat what is available; if it does not agree
with you, you will know better the next time. Often our body becomes temporarily
hypersensitive to foods that we have habitually eaten before. Then our reflexes were
dulled, but now the body lets us know what is good or bad for us. Try to listen to it
and become friends with your body.
The High-Quality Diet: This is a low-allergy, semi-vegetarian diet based on
freshly pressed vegetable juices, sprouted seeds, fermented and purple food,
legumes, non-gluten grains, and a high intake of raw food. In this diet, cooked food is
used more as a flavouring or to put on weight; the main part of a typical meal is a
vegetable salad mixed with sprouted seeds. Use mainly grated, coloured root
vegetables. If you cannot chew well, grate them finely or puree them. Examples of
suitable roots are red beet, carrot, turnip, sweet potato, and pumpkin; tomato,
cucumber, and celery can be added as flavouring.
As a salad dressing, you can use olive oil, lemon juice, herbs, and spices. For
example, shake equal parts of olive oil and lemon juice in a jar; then add one
teaspoon of lecithin, a pinch of cayenne, and some marjoram or mixed herbs. You
can also blend in some unsprayed lemon or orange skin or a whole lemon. Keep
refrigerated and shake before using. A small amount of cider vinegar can be used if
lemon juice is not available.

Use only a minimum of commercially grown leafy vegetables and cabbage as
they may have a high exposure to toxic sprays. Instead of greens, you can use
sunflower and buckwheat lettuce grown in seed boxes; you might also try a small
amount of very young wheat grass cut finely into a salad. If you have chewing
difficulties or vegetable salads do not agree with you, have plenty of fresh vegetable
juices produced with a non-centrifugal juicer.
Before cooking legumes or whole grains, soak them overnight or even longer to
start the germination process. Then the enzyme phytase can start converting
phytates into inositol and liberate minerals that are otherwise not available when you
cook these without prior soaking. Soaking and vigorously rinsing the seeds before
cooking also reduce levels of any pesticide residues and mycotoxins from fungal
contamination. Use mainly non-gluten grains, such as rice, millet, and buckwheat,
also sago and tapioca. Corn is fine if you’ve passed allergy testing for it. For
individuals with blood group O, I recommend that you use mainly vegetables rather
than grains as the cooked part of the diet.
Presoaked legumes need cooking only for a few minutes as they are already
soft; the exception is soybeans, which are better if cooked for two hours. If cooked
legumes cause wind, next time replace the water used for soaking as well as the
cooking water. The cooking water for soybeans can be changed several times during
cooking to avoid or reduce wind.
Lentils are recommended as a cooked addition to a meal and can be combined
with rice. For sugar-sensitive individuals, it is good to have legumes with breakfast to
slow the absorption of glucose from the same and even from the following meal.
Fenugreek is even more effective in this regard; preferably, also use the water in
which it has been soaked. It is not necessary to cook legumes in order to slow the
absorption of glucose, and even more effective are partly sprouted legumes.
A breakfast based on ground linseed, yogurt, and bananas is suitable for most
individuals; for details, see “Linseed Yogurt” under the recipes in step 37. For
individuals with blood sugar problems it is preferable to eat sweet vegetables (e.g.,
carrot, pumpkin, turnip, and sweet potato) raw instead of cooked. If you cook them,
do so cautiously, together with legumes or flesh food.
Flesh foods should be eaten with restriction. The best flesh foods are (organic)
liver and deep-sea fish of non-predatory species or seafood from uncontaminated
coastal regions. Farmed fish commonly have high levels of pollution and low levels of
beneficial omega-3 fatty acids, so are not generally recommended. (For fish species
with acceptable mercury levels, check: www.ewg.org). Chicken or other fowl should
preferably be organically raised or otherwise free of chemicals.
Eggs in your diet should be genuinely free-range or organic and not from
chickens fed any commercial pellets. Fresh, raw egg yolk is a health food that
improves vitality and immune function; it can be used as part of a salad dressing. It
does not increase but helps prevent the risk of heart disease. Alternatively, eat eggs
soft-boiled or coddled. In view of the high incidence of egg allergy, if you are a
regular egg eater, I recommend that you test yourself for egg allergy once a year
after a period of one or more weeks of abstention from eggs.

The best milk products are yogurt, cottage cheese, and cheese made from
goat’s milk. Raw goat’s milk can also be used as sour milk or clabber milk. If you are
not sensitive to cow’s milk, these products can be acceptable if made from fresh,
raw, organic cow’s milk. However, avoid milk products if you have catarrh or other
mucus problems.
Almonds are excellent, but nuts in general are more difficult to digest than other
foods and should be used with caution. All oily seeds are easier to digest if soaked
overnight; peanuts should be vigorously washed and rinsed to reduce any fungal
contamination. Nuts and other oily seeds can be used as pastes or nut butters; tahini
or sesame seed paste is good, and tahini can be diluted with olive oil for food
flavouring. Unfortunately, the seeds are commonly roasted before grinding, and this
also applies to commercial peanut butter. Highly heating fats or oils, as is done in
frying or roasting, tends to oxidize oils, making them rancid, and this contributes to
clogging of arteries and so-called free radical damage. However, sesame oil is more
resistant to oxidation damage than other oils.
I regard extra virgin olive oil as the best oil or fat for everyday use. Sesame and
almond oils are also good, but generally expensive. Select oils with a dark color and
strong flavour. “Fine, lite” oil has usually been heated during refining and lacks
valuable cofactors; even cold-pressed oils may have been heated during refining, the
more so the lighter they are. High-quality linseed oil is beneficial for many conditions,
but as it needs extra care to keep it from getting rancid, you can store it in the
freezer.
Coconut oil, on the other hand, is least prone to rancidity and appears to
provide good energy and body heat without causing undue weight gain. If you have
access to fresh coconuts, you may find that ingesting the flesh often causes stinking
wind, with or without additional indigestion. Pieces of coconut flesh are difficult to
digest and are then fermented in the large intestines; this releases smelly short-chain
fatty acids. You can avoid this by blending the coconut flesh for a minute or two with
a cupful of hot water and then pressing it through a strainer. Refrigerate the liquid
and residue and add them in small to moderate amounts to meals, use with other
foods, or use on their own.
Fruits need to be used with care. Conventionally grown fruits and tomatoes are
exposed to more toxic sprays than most other foods, and their high sugar and acid
contents often cause digestive problems for sensitive individuals. Minimize the use of
sprayed fruit that is eaten with its skin, such as berries. You can reduce spray
residues somewhat by soaking fruit in warm soapy water and by scrubbing hard-
skinned fruit such as apples; afterwards, rinse well. Fruit such as apples or pears can
also be peeled. Note that the core of sprayed apples and pears tends to have a
higher pesticide content than the flesh.
Individuals with sensitive skin or low blood pressure are better off using only a
minimum of fruit or, alternatively, neutralizing any fruit acids ingested. Some types of
fruit, such as bananas, papayas, or pears, are best eaten when they just start to
ripen and are less sweet. Overripe fruit is usually not well tolerated, though apples
generally cause less problems and avocados are usually fine.
Individuals with insensitive skin and raised blood pressure, on the other hand,
do well with fruit and may often have fruit alone instead of a regular meal, especially

for breakfast. Most beneficial for them are acid fruits, such as acid berries, grapefruit,
acidic oranges, and pineapples.
Individuals in a very weak or debilitated condition may not be able to eat raw
vegetables. In such instances, use mainly cooked rice or other non-gluten grains with
steamed vegetables and as much freshly pressed vegetable juice as can comfortably
be consumed. This diet can also be used for those who temporarily become
oversensitive to a wide range of food items or who want to maintain a stable basic
diet while testing for food allergies or other negative reactions. If brown rice causes
reactions, then try white rice or sago.
Restricted Foods: Restrict foods that have a negative influence on your health
and especially if you are already in poor health. You must decide for yourself how
strict you want to be and how much willpower you can muster to remain on the high-
quality diet.
If you have cravings for a restricted food, it is better to give yourself a reward
from time to time and eat some of it at set and well-spaced occasions rather than to
snack on it daily or give up the whole diet because it is too difficult. Generally, the
more severe your condition, the more strict you should try to be. Some restricted food
may be harmless or even beneficial after you have sufficiently recovered.
Intake of the following foods should be initially avoided and later minimized:
• Wheat products and gluten-enriched items, commercial breakfast cereals
• Cow’s milk products (except butter and non-pasteurized cheese) and foods with
added lactose
• Margarine, shortenings, and polyunsaturated oils, especially canola oil
• Sugar and other sweeteners; all artificial sweeteners, as in “diet foods”
• Pickled and smoked food and generally highly processed food with added ‘
chemicals
• Food that has been irradiated or genetically engineered
• Food cooked in a microwave oven or otherwise heated to higher than boiling
temperature
However, even in this strongly restricted group, items can vary greatly in their
effect on your health. Wheat grass does not in this sense count as a wheat product,
and wheat-germ oil is generally beneficial except to those who are allergic to wheat.
Wheat germ itself has some positive aspects, but its disadvantages are its high
gluten content, strong enzyme inhibition, and the frequent rancidity of commercial
products stored without refrigeration.
Sprouted wheat is a more beneficial product than cooked whole wheat, and
flour products are less beneficial than whole wheat. Whole-meal sourdough bread
can be beneficial for those not allergic to wheat, while white bread and cakes are
devoid of vitamins and minerals and commonly contain added chemicals. However,
whole grain products sometimes can cause sensitivity reactions, while the
corresponding refined foods may be tolerated.

The least harmful cow’s milk products are sour cream, cottage cheese, and
cheese made by natural fermentation; clabber milk or sour milk made from fresh raw
milk; acidophilus milk and unflavoured yogurt made from whole milk only; and butter,
especially if made from sour cream. These should all remain unheated after
production and before ingestion and be made from organic or otherwise
unchemicalised milk.
Some of these products have various beneficial aspects while their negative
aspects include the tendency to create cow’s milk allergy; their contents of lactose,
casein, and saturated fat are also problematic. However, even butter is better than
processed cheese, pasteurized milk, and the many low-fat products with their high
content of mucus-forming lactose. The most harmful milk products are generally
skim-milk powder and long-life milk. Another potentially harmful aspect of fatty milk
products is their high estrogen content, which can act as a growth promoter for some
female cancers.
Cautionary Foods
In regard to fat, butter is preferable to
hydrogenated and chemicalised margarine and
In general the following foods
vegetable shortening. Avoid canola oil as it may
should be used with caution:
have potentially harmful ingredients. Cold-pressed
oils are preferable to conventional polyunsaturated • non-wheat gluten grains
(barley, oats & rye)
oils, and those in plastic bottles should be avoided.
Sensitive oils such as food-grade linseed oil should • peanut products
be extracted under nitrogen and kept in cold • yeast products
storage without exposure to light, for otherwise they • flesh foods
are likely to be harmful. The only healthy way of • salted food
obtaining polyunsaturated oils is by eating oil-
• frozen vegetables
containing seeds.
• dried fruit & fruit juices
The least harmful sweeteners are barley • soy products, except if they
sugar or maltose, raw honey, and soaked and have been traditionally
ground dates. In terms of health there is not much fermented.
difference between white, brown, or raw sugar, and
even honey can cause health problems. Therefore,
use sweeteners only on rare, special occasions and in small amounts. Avoid artificial
sweeteners, especially aspartame (Nutrasweet).
With children or adults with cravings for sweets, a compromise agreement can
be reached to abstain from sweets on all but one day of the week, when they can eat
as many sweets as they like. Then they can gradually be steered away from
commercial sweets to eat unsulfured dried fruit, and later fresh fruit.
The only acceptable breakfast cereals, from a health viewpoint, are those
without added sugar and preferably low in gluten. Bran can have some benefit as a
laxative but it reduces the absorption of minerals and I do not recommend it. Ground
linseed (flaxseed) is preferable.
Pickled and smoked foods contain protein breakdown products that can trigger
migraines, allergies, and neurological problems. Smoked food also contains
carcinogens. Read the labels and avoid food with added chemicals unless these are
vitamins, minerals, or carotenes. Beware, for some products, such as bread, are not
required to have all chemical ingredients listed. Canned food is unhealthy because it

is precooked and may also contain lead from the soldering and other metals from the
container, especially if the contents are slightly acidic.
Excitotoxins are taste or flavour enhancers that release glutamate and other
brain-active amino acids such as aspartate and cysteine. The best known example is
MSG (monosodium glutamate). High blood levels can cross the normally protective
blood-brain barrier and can cause brain cells to die. Excitatory amino acids cause
problems, mainly when they are used either in high concentrations or in free form. In
most natural foods, they are slowly released and therefore harmless. Most processed
foods contain excitotoxins, notably any kind of commercial taste or flavour
enhancers, such as caseinate, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, soy protein extract,
yeast extract, or beef stock. These may be labelled as natural flavouring and are
especially prevalent in soups, sauces, and gravies.
There are many anti-nutrients in soy products, especially inhibitors of protein-
digesting enzymes, phytates, and substances that agglutinate or clump the blood.
Commercial soy milk either has been highly heated to produce soy-protein extract
with denatured proteins or it is made of whole soybeans and then is full of these anti-
nutrients. Increasingly, the soybeans may also have been genetically modified, with
unknown consequences.
The non-wheat gluten grains (especially oats with a high gluten content) can
cause problems to those allergic to wheat or gluten. Rye sourdough bread is
generally good, however, but many varieties of rye bread have added wheat
disguised as bread-making flour. Yeasted products, such as bread, wine, and beer,
can aggravate fungal problems, such as Candida infestations, which are frequently
chronic with degenerative diseases. Yeast-baked bread has a lower availability of
minerals than sourdough bread, while modern fast-baking processes are even worse
and keep the minerals tightly bound to phytic acid and unavailable for absorption.
Peanuts contain a long-chain fatty acid that is beneficial for arthritis but can
contribute to the development of atherosclerosis. Poorly stored peanuts can develop
a toxic mould that may also infest peanut butter. Any such mould is generally
eliminated by removing the skin and thoroughly washing or soaking the peanuts
before eating. Roasted peanuts contain harmful oxidized oil, which is also present in
peanut butter; therefore minimize your use. Peanut butter without oil on top is worse
and usually hydrogenated - avoid it. Some health stores can make a healthy peanut
butter from raw peanuts.
Flesh foods should be used sparingly. Eating meat requires that an individual
have strong digestive powers, good muscle activity to properly metabolize it, healthy
kidneys to discharge the high level of residues, and good bowel activity to avoid
harmful putrefaction. It is often difficult to obtain chemical-free meat, depending on
where you live, and it is not good to eat meat from unhealthy animals. Animals raised
in feedlots and battery hens are in this category.
Processed meat is even more chemically contaminated and best avoided as is
meat with a deep red color due to added nitrates and nitrites. However, you may be
able to remove most of the nitrates and nitrites by soaking the meat, including diced
or minced meat, in warm water for a short time and then discarding the water.
Individuals with blood group O are best suited to include some meat in their diet;
those with blood group A are often better on a vegetarian diet.

Predatory fish such as tuna and shellfish are often high in accumulated
pesticides and mercury and are not recommended for habitual eating. While sardines
are safer, they have the disadvantage of being tinned. The best choice is fresh or
frozen non-predatory deep-sea fish or other seafood from unpolluted coastal areas.
For more advice on pollutants in fish of different species and from various locations,
see the website of the Environmental Working Group: www.ewg.org.
For most degenerative diseases and especially cancer and raised blood
pressure, a high-potassium and low-sodium diet is required; therefore, food should
not be salted. The absence of iodized salt in the diet may cause thyroid problems,
which can be avoided by using additional kelp. However, in some conditions, when
the adrenal glands are near exhaustion, such as with cystic fibrosis, glaucoma, and
low blood pressure, additional salt is advisable; this is also true for individuals with
dehydration, diarrhea, or excessive sweating.
By far the best source of salt is seawater. You can evaporate seawater in flat
trays exposed to sunlight to make sea salt. This typically has about ten times more
magnesium and trace minerals than commercial sea salt. Commercial unrefined sea
salt is salt that has been crystallized in fractions, and it contains very little of the trace
minerals originally in seawater. Highest in magnesium and trace minerals is the brine
out of which the sea salt has been crystallized. It is sometimes available in liquid form
as “sea-minerals” and is highly recommended as a mineral supplement. However,
magnesium chloride, commonly derived from seawater, can be used instead.
Commercially frozen vegetables are precooked and contain sulphites or other
preservatives, as do most fruit juices and dried fruit, which also tend to upset the
blood sugar regulation. Dried fruit without added preservatives tends to have moulds.
Preferably soak dried fruit or frozen vegetables and discard the water to minimize
preservatives or moulds. Potatoes contain the toxic alkaloid solanine in any green
parts, and arthritis often improves when avoiding nightshade vegetables including
potatoes. Healthiest are non-greened potato peels and fresh, raw potato juice. Also
avoid any green tomato pulp or skin, and preferably use red instead of green
capsicum (although the latter is not as harmful as green potatoes or tomatoes).
Tea and coffee have some benefits but become a problem if used in an
addictive way. The same applies to alcohol. It can be beneficial as red wine, except
for wines that contain the commonly added sulphur preservatives, which can trigger
breathing problems in susceptible individuals. In this case, try to obtain wine without
preservatives. Some traditionally brewed beers as well as some herbal liquors can be
beneficial to stimulate the digestion. However, in general it is better to minimize
alcohol intake and to test yourself against any preferred brands for food sensitivity.
An allergy is commonly to a raw material or additive rather than to the alcohol itself.
Raw Food Diet: From my experiences of healing as well as from reading many
published reports, it is clear that a raw food diet is not only the most natural but also
the most effective nutritional measure for healing and rejuvenation. While only few
will be strong enough to adopt a complete raw food diet for life, it will be good for
everyone to have occasional periods on raw foods only.
Here are the main biochemical and nutritional advantages of raw food as
compared to cooked food:

• higher vitamin and mineral content
• minerals are largely present as biologically active colloids
• an abundance of helpful enzymes and bioenergy or life force
• proteins remain in their natural condition instead of being denatured
• there is no increase in white blood cells in the digestive tract (digestive
leukocytosis) as after eating cooked foods; leukocytosis is an immune response
against toxic or microbial invaders
• their polyunsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol do not become oxidized and
carcinogenic nor contribute to heart disease, unlike cooked food
• glucose is absorbed slowly, protecting the blood sugar regulation
• no overweight or obesity produced
• much less food is required as counted in calories
• cleansing, rejuvenating, and anticancer properties
However, there are some risks to a raw food diet. Some raw food contains
enzyme inhibitors, goitrogens (causing goitre), vitamin inhibitors, toxic substances (in
some exotic plants), parasites, and bacteria (in raw meat). In addition, some people
starting on a raw food diet will have strong initial reactions due to the cleansing
process the foods stimulate.
There have been cases reported of severe digestive disturbances from eating
large quantities of raw soybeans, broad beans, nuts, and wheat germ over long
periods. This problem is due to the high content of inhibitors of protein-digesting
enzymes that protect these seeds from self-destruction. Basically, all seeds have
inhibitors of enzymes for the ingredients of which they are composed, but most do
not have such a surplus of inhibitors as to cause digestive problems. Potatoes, sweet
potatoes, and egg white also contain enzyme inhibitors.
To obtain the maximum benefit from a raw food diet, it is necessary to free
most of the enzymes from their inhibitors. Cooking destroys the inhibitors, but also
the enzymes. The better solution is to sprout the seeds or at least soak them to
initiate the germination process; discard the water used for soaking.
Trypsin, the main protein-digesting enzyme of the pancreas, occurs in seeds. In
one reported scientific experiment, the trypsin activity during germination of seeds
increased from 7.5 units to 60 units after 24 hours, to 257 units after two days, and to
333 units after three days. The inhibitor activity decreased from 100 percent in dry
seeds to zero percent after 24 hours of germination.
Fermentation with lactic acid bacteria also enhances the enzyme activity in
seeds. This process is similar to making yogurt or sourdough. Even soaking nuts for
a day before eating will greatly help. Their digestive enzymes are freed from their
inhibitors to a certain degree when their tissue is damaged, and we see this when
grated potatoes turn brown or mashed raw plants or fruit deteriorate within hours
unless refrigerated. Similarly, raw egg white is easier to digest when it is well beaten.
Goitrogens, which are in some raw foods, interfere with the body’s use of iodine
and therefore may contribute to the formation of goitre or to an underactive thyroid.

Goitro-gens are mainly found in the cabbage family, also in soybeans and the skins
of red-skinned peanuts. Cooking these or adding kelp to the diet can overcome this
problem. Nevertheless, with an underactive thyroid, it is better not to eat much
goitrogenic food in its raw state.
Thiaminase is an enzyme in raw fish that destroys vitamin B1, but that is not a
problem if food is correctly combined. Avidin in raw egg white makes biotin
unavailable; this leads to a deficiency only if a large percentage of the daily diet
consists of raw egg white. Furthermore, egg yolk is very high in biotin, so using whole
eggs may not diminish your biotin intake.
Those who have lived all their lives on conventional food are likely to have a
fair amount of metabolic wastes and toxins stored in the body. These will be released
by a raw food diet and can temporarily overload the organs of elimination and cause
skin problems, headaches, weakness, and other discomfort. Therefore, it is advisable
to move only very gradually towards a raw food diet or to have short cleansing
periods on raw foods while also stimulating the organs of elimination.
The basis of the recommended raw food diet is fresh vegetable juice as well as
sprouted and fermented foods. Sprouted seeds can serve as the main part of a
vegetable salad. Red beet is excellent and can be finely grated into the salad
together with carrot, turnip, sweet potato, or pumpkin. Tomato and grated cucumber
can be used for flavouring, with a salad dressing of extra-virgin olive oil, lemon juice,
herbs, and spices. Instead of lemon juice, you can use cider vinegar, ascorbic acid,
or rose-hip powder. Add lecithin as an emulsifier; shake well in a jar and keep
refrigerated.
Almonds, nuts, and sunflower seeds improve through starting the sprouting
process; otherwise, eat them soaked and possibly blended or, better still, fermented
as nut and seed cheese (see Step 37).
While I do not recommend eating commercial eggs from hens in battery cages,
even if well cooked (to kill salmonella, which is common in factory farming), eggs
should only be ingested raw if they are free-range or organic. Swallowing an egg with
yolk and white intact can cause indigestion in individuals with a weak digestive
system. A raw egg is much easier to digest if it is well mixed with other food or drink.
Alternatively, you can beat the white and then mix the yolk back into it. You can
easily detect how fresh an egg is by immersing it in water. If it lies flat on the bottom,
it is fresh. The older it is, the more the blunt end will rise. If it stands on its tip, it is
rather old and may be better cooked; if it floats up, then it is rotten.
If you eat flesh food, you can marinate fish or other seafood and even liver and
other meat, which are best minced (see the recipes). This destroys parasites and
makes raw flesh food safe to eat. You can also use raw minced meat, suitably
flavoured with grated or chopped onion, tomato, or radish, and with lime or lemon
juice.
Use only organic or otherwise safe meat from a reliable source. Never use
meat from a feedlot; also, pork is generally not safe. The safest conventional red
meat appears to be lamb. (For genuinely free-range, grass-fed beef, bison, and
ostrich, see: www.mercola.com). As a further precaution, periodically use an herbal
anti-parasite program (see Step 44) and possibly an electronic blood purifier (Step

19). With these precautions, raw meat should be safe and healthy, while I regard all
cooked meat as more or less unhealthy, partly because of its lack of enzymes, and
also because of the formation of carcinogenic chemicals when heated above the
boiling point.
(For further ideas on eating meat raw and links to related sites, see:
www.rawpaleodiet.org ) You can also mix a free-range egg yolk with the salad; if you
eat the egg white raw, it is best beaten or blended.
If you have no problems with mucus, such as occasional colds, a blocked or
running nose, or respiratory problems, you can use fermented goat’s milk or raw
cow’s milk as yogurt, sour milk, cheese, or cottage cheese. However, be careful with
commercial fermented foods, such as yogurt, sauerkraut, or marinated fish. Rice
bread or flat bread, preferably made from sprouted rice or otherwise made by
soaking and blending the grains and possibly adding a sourdough starter, is suitable
as a staple food. It solidifies to crunchy flat bread at low oven temperatures or by
exposure to the sun. Sprouted rice can be blended with water, fermented milk, and
possibly banana as the basis of a meal.
The most problematic food group is fruit, as I’ve suggested throughout this
section. While meat is grounding, fruit is sensitizing. For insensitive individuals,
especially with raised blood pressure, it is beneficial to have plenty of fruit, often as a
meal. Especially good are acidic fruits, such as oranges or pineapple. Sensitive
individuals, however, feel best with either neutralized fruit or only a small amount of
subacid fruit between meals. Insensitive individuals can use fruit as their main source
of energy, while those more sensitive can use rice baked at a low temperature and
sprouted seeds.
Bananas are a good bulk food for most individuals on a raw food diet. Sensitive
individuals can eat them in the early stages of ripening or use mainly small or non-
sweet varieties. They do well in breakfast as part of the Linseed Yogurt recipe (see
Step 37).
On this raw food diet there is no need to be concerned with variety or trying to
have different foods for successive meals. A sprout salad contains all the required
nutrients for health and healing; most individuals are happy to have the same basic
salad for all meals with only minor variations depending on what is available. The
only precondition seems to be that you overcome the addiction to cooked food by
learning to make tasty raw salads. In cold weather, you can flavour a fresh vegetable
juice with spices; carefully heat it to just below 120º F and drink as a broth.
Most raw foodists will be content to have about 90 percent of their food raw and
be free to have some cooked food when eating out and at parties. Even tahini
(ground, roasted sesame seed paste) and kelp powder (commonly used with raw
food diets) are in fact cooked or heated. Except for food to which you may have been
addicted, try to let your body or intuition decide your food selection and meal
composition.
Slimming: The high-quality diet and even more so the raw food diet will
normally ensure gradual weight loss for overweight individuals, while at the same
time maximizing health improvement. I always put the main emphasis on the health
aspects of the diet rather than its slimming potential. As we become healthier, we

automatically find the right weight for our constitution. However, no diet will help if
your eating problems are emotionally based, so you have to heal your emotions first.
Generally, the most important dietary aspect of slimming is to avoid all cereal or
grain products, as well as sweetened food. Try experimenting with these possibilities:
• Have an appetite-reducing protein drink 30 minutes before meals with any
combination of the following ingredients and in any amount that suits you:
green barley juice powder, spirulina powder, food yeast, ground linseed, linseed
(flaxseed) oil, or olive oil. Use this as a warm or cold drink to keep hunger away
for hours.
• About 30 minutes before meals, stir one teaspoon of psyllium hulls in a glass of
water and drink immediately. If necessary double the amount to two teaspoons
in a large glass of water. Psyllium swells up 40-fold to fill the stomach with a soft
gel, so don’t overuse.
• Eat only lentils or other legumes, green vegetables, and sprouted seeds in
addition to the above.
• For cooking, use mainly legumes, non-sweet, non-starchy vegetables and flesh
foods; for starches choose high-fibre varieties (e.g., brown rice, rolled oats) and
add ground linseed.
• Adopt a mono-diet: one day eat protein foods only, the next day fruits, and the
third day sprouted seeds, vegetable salads, and vegetable juices. Repeat as
often as required.
• Adopt a cleansing raw food diet with mainly vegetables and green juice, sprouts
and fruits, nuts and oily seeds, possibly raw beaten egg, and marinated fish.
Sensitive individuals should neutralize fruit acids (see Step 6).
• For two weeks, eat only protein and fat foods and green vegetables with less
than 40 g of carbohydrates per day; ground linseed is the best protein/fat food.
• Repeat times when you rely on vegetable and grass juices in addition to
vegetable salads.
• Avoid all sweet food, as it stimulates the appetite and the synthesis of fat. In
particular, do not eat fructose-containing foods with starches and eat fresh fruit
on its own.
• Avoid all grain products; especially helpful for people with blood group O.
• Avoid all fats and oils except fresh, unheated linseed oil, which will not put
weight on you; experiment with coconut oil in your diet.
• Preferably skip the evening meal or have only a small salad or apple.
• Get some light daily exercise, such as a brisk 15-minute walk or jogging; use a
rebounder or do some other aerobic exercise. The metabolic rate is speeded up
for a long time after exercise. Take 1 or 2 g of carnitine before exercising to
burn up more fat.
• Use a low-allergy diet combined with the correct foods for your blood group
(see Step 43).

• Use mind therapy, such as guided imagery and affirmations; look at your belief
systems; release negative emotions; and express your emotional needs.
• Eat very slowly; peacefully chew every mouthful until it is liquefied; savour the
flavours as they develop during chewing; make every mouthful last about two
minutes.
Hypoglycaemia Diet: Most people who are sensitive, are overacid, have
allergies, or have a low energy level are usually hypoglycaemic to some extent and
will benefit from this diet. Hypoglycaemia means low blood sugar: when a
hypoglycaemic person eats sweet foods, the blood sugar level often soars too high at
first, but later falls to below normal. During this fall and while the level is below
normal, a variety of distressing symptoms can affect the breathing, circulation,
digestion, or the emotional and mental condition.
When the blood sugar level rises after sweet food intake, the pancreas reacts
by releasing insulin, a hormone that regulates the blood sugar level. In a
hypoglycaemic person, the pancreas releases too much insulin, especially in
response to ingesting sucrose or a combination of glucose and fructose. The excess
of insulin causes glucose to enter the cells too quickly. This then creates oxygen
deficiency within the cells and instead of energy, lactic acid is produced in an
anaerobic process. All this makes the body tissues overly acidic and deprives them
of minerals and energy.
The mainstays of the hypoglycaemia diet are:
• Gluten-free grains: rice, millet, maize, buckwheat, sago, tapioca
• High-protein seeds: chickpeas, lentils, fenugreek, peas, beans, almonds,
sunflower seeds
• Animal protein: white, red, and organ meat, fish (especially sardines and
salmon), eggs, goat cheese
• Sprouted seeds and vegetables: cooked, raw, and juiced; avocados, coconut oil,
and extra virgin olive oil
Eat grains whole in preference to flour or meal products. However, coarsely
ground grains can be beneficial if eaten raw: Immerse them in water or seed milk and
let soak overnight. Rye sourdough bread and rye crispbread can be eaten after
allergy testing (see Step 5). Raw egg yolk from eggs from free-range chickens can
be used as a salad dressing. Other important additions are spirulina, bee pollen,
ground linseed, kelp, lecithin, gelatine with vegetables, and fresh green-vegetable
juices, especially grass juice or dried grass juice powder and possibly food yeast. Try
coconut oil and freeze-dried liver to increase your energy level.
Most of the vitamins and minerals are just under the skin of the produce, so do
not discard the peel of suitable fruits and root vegetables. Nuts should be used
sparingly, except if sprouted or made into seed cheese (see Step 37). Eat cooked
sweet vegetables only with a protein meal; raw carrots, on the other hand, are good
any time.
Reintroduce fruits to your diet cautiously and with self-observation. Use sweet
fruits only in the early stages of ripening, before they become too sweet. This applies,
for example, to bananas and papaya, but do not use fruits that are sour before

ripening. Subacid fruits, such as apples, cause less problems than sweet-acid fruits,
such as oranges. Preferably eat fruits only sparingly and as a snack between meals,
and neutralize any fruit acids (see Step 6). However, under-ripe or non-sweet
varieties of bananas may also be suitable.
As a general rule, try to avoid:
• Sweet food, initially including all sweet and acid fruits and sweet vegetable
juices
• Food containing lactose, especially milk products, though butter can be used
• Vinegar or other fruit acids, unless they are neutralized
• Initially no wheat, later only sparingly after allergy testing
• Tobacco, alcohol, drugs, artificial sweeteners, highly processed foods or those
with added chemicals
Coffee and tea can be used in moderation, but only if you are not allergic or
addicted to them. Lightly salted food may be beneficial. If possible, eat a protein
breakfast and a light evening meal, and take a rest after lunch. The best protein is
sprouted legumes as the main part of a salad. According to the severity of the
symptoms, this diet may be followed strictly or in a more relaxed form and generally
as part of the high quality diet.
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Step 35
SPECIAL FOODS
Take advantage of the health-giving properties of bee pollen,
sprouted seeds, fermented foods, and purple foods.
Bee Pollen and Special Foods: Various foods have general healing qualities
or help to overcome specific health problems. For example, foods high in enzymes
and growth hormones improve our overall health. Sprouted seeds, bee pollen,
spirulina, grass juice, and unheated lactic-acid fermented foods are in this category,
as are fresh edible flowers such as nasturtium, impatiens, and pumpkin. While the
stamen of pumpkin flowers that bears the pollen is somewhat bitter, flower petals
from the male plants are especially high in bioflavonoids, which help fight against and
prevent allergies and inflammations.
Bee pollen is one of the best foods or supplements available. It is a raw food
rich in enzymes, hormones, vitamins, and minerals. You can take one to three
teaspoons of bee pollen several times daily or use it to flavour your freshly pressed
vegetable or grass juice. To make it easier to digest, soak the pollen in liquid for
some time before ingestion. It is also a good addition to yogurt or other food to be
fermented.
A highly recommended protein combination is bee pollen with spirulina and
ground linseed. Taking one or more teaspoons of each three times daily mixed in a
juice or other suitable liquid before meals can provide up to half of your daily protein
needs. The average protein content of spirulina is 65 percent; pollen has 25 percent,
and linseed (flaxseed) 22 percent. Spirulina provides a link between animal and
vegetable protein, and it is high enough in vitamin B12 that vegans (vegetarians who
do not ingest any animal products) can live on it.
The protein in this combination (bee pollen, spirulina, and linseed) is uncooked,
so it is easily digested and good as replacement for a part of the usually eaten animal
protein. Another advantage is a favourable calcium-to-phosphorus ratio and a high
mineral content, making it alkalizing rather than acid-forming in the body. Add to this
a handful of sprouted seeds once or twice a day, and you have the basis of a healthy
diet, which you can supplement with meat rather than using meat as a staple.
Foods high in sulphur can be increased to improve detoxification. Such foods
include raw egg yolk, onion, horseradish, watercress, turnip, and other raw foods of
the cabbage family. Most of these are also helpful in treating digestive ulcers;
horseradish can be used to help treat mucous complaints. A supplement high in
organic sulphur is called MSM, available in many health food stores.
Bananas are good energy providers for those with a weak digestion. However,
overripe Cavendish bananas (this is the most common variety) often cause digestive
discomfort or allergies in sensitive individuals. This problem is commonly caused by
over gassing the green bananas with ethylene gas shortly before sale to make them
ripen quickly. Ladyfinger bananas or other small varieties do not normally cause
digestive problems. Sensitive individuals generally should avoid overripe fruit. Acid

citrus fruits are excellent for improving liver functions and lowering high blood
pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and fat levels in insensitive individuals.
Jerusalem artichokes consumed in frequent small quantities are beneficial for kidney
function and for diabetes. Eat one the size of an egg every other day, and store
Jerusalem artichokes in soil, not in the refrigerator. Also eating (organic) liver often
helps those with diabetes, as does eating avocados and green beans.
Sprouted Seeds: Sprouted seeds and young shoots such as wheat grass
provide a higher degree of vitality and rejuvenation than other foods. I recommend
sprouted seeds as a mainstay of a good diet. Most commonly used for sprouting are
legumes such as lentils, peas, mung beans, fenugreek, and chickpeas, but almonds,
peanuts, and sunflower kernels can also be sprouted. Sunflower and buckwheat
seeds make a tasty salad when grown in seed boxes and cut close to the soil when
the sprouts are two to four inches high.
Alfalfa sprouts are high in a detergent-like saponin that can damage the
intestinal wall in sensitive individuals. They have been shown to aggravate
autoimmune diseases and possibly cancer. For others, they may be a good food to
eat after allergy testing has confirmed you do not have allergies to them. Alfalfa
sprouts should be exposed to light after the leaves emerge, while other sprouts
usually taste better before their leaves develop. Alfalfa seeds easily rot in wet
conditions and are best sprouted in an upturned jar covered with muslin held in place
with a rubber band.
It is important to use seeds with a high germination rate. Buy a small quantity
for testing, and if they sprout well, buy a larger quantity from the same source and
keep them in an airtight container. Lentils and mung beans are easy to sprout. Soak
the seeds overnight and then rinse several times a day, drain well, spread out lightly,
and keep covered. Wash well again just before eating to remove any bacteria and
fungi. If seeds are of poor quality and start rotting easily, use them when the sprouts
just start to appear, otherwise wait until they are up to one inch long, which is usually
within three days.
Mung beans may retain hard shell pieces after soaking that can damage your
teeth. This can be avoided by pouring some boiling water over the seeds initially and
letting them soak in the cooling water. Peas and lentils, on the other hand, like it cool
and sprouts easily deteriorate in hot conditions. Sprouted seeds can be refrigerated
in a closed container after they have reached the desired length. Individuals sensitive
to fungi and microbes can wash sprouted seeds in diluted hydrogen peroxide shortly
before use. If you have difficulty chewing or if sprouted seeds cause much wind, try
using them as part of your fresh juice.
If seeds do not sprout well, the cause may be as follows:
• Seeds may not be viable, may be too old, or have been stored incorrectly.
• Temperature during sprouting is too high or too low.
• Seeds were kept too dry or too wet during sprouting; experiment and adjust
conditions.

Fermented Foods: The use of fermented foods was widespread in former
centuries. Well-known examples are yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese, beer, cider and
cider vinegar, pickles, miso, sauerkraut, and sourdough bread.
The advantages of fermenting foods are several:
• Makes minerals more easily available for the body to absorb
• Eliminates enzyme inhibitors and other anti-nutrients
• Increases the amount of vitamins in the food and creates an abundance of
enzymes
• Preserves the food and introduces delicious flavours
• Makes food much more easily digestible, making it essentially predigested and
suitable for those with a debilitating condition and weak digestive system
Today most of these traditional fermented foods such as vinegar, pickles,
cheese, cottage cheese, and baking products are commercially made by chemical
means. This disuse of the fermentation process in preparing our staple foods may
well be a major contributing factor in chronic diseases.
It is most important in the fermentation process that a desirable strain of
bacteria develop. This depends on the bacteria already present or introduced, as well
as on the temperature during fermentation. Basically, we want lactic acid bacteria
that convert glucose into lactic acid. In order to ensure the development of pure
bacterial cultures, the food is often heat-treated and then inoculated with the desired
strain. However, I contend the product is nutritionally superior if it has not been heat-
treated. Grains such as rye, oats, millet, wheat, and brown rice and vegetables such
as cabbage are best fermented at a warm room temperature, while cultures
containing yogurt or acidophilus bacteria do better between 85° and 105° F.
There is a distinction between the fermentation of yeast and that of lactic acid
bacteria. Yeast fermentation is used in traditionally made beer, wine, and bread. Due
to the overuse of antibiotics in recent decades, many individuals are now allergic or
sensitive to yeast. Therefore it is advisable for sensitive individuals to restrict intake
of yeast products and for others to abstain periodically or after antibiotic treatment
and to test for incompatibility.
When fermentation is uncontrolled, as it is when making sauerkraut or with
water in which grains have been soaked for several days, a mixture of lactic-acid
bacteria and yeast usually develops. This mixture is not a problem for many, but
sensitive individuals need to watch out and may have to avoid this.
In making yogurt, sour milk, sour cream, and cheeses, lactic-acid fermentation
is the preferred natural method and still widely used in cottage industries. However,
due to the mucus-forming potential of lactose, these products should be used with
caution, especially if made from cow’s milk. The curd causes less of a problem than
the whey (the whey contains most of the lactose), and goat’s milk less than cow’s
milk. Most commercial fermented milk products are heat-treated and often very high
in lactose, and it is best to avoid them.
A health food seed cheese or seed yogurt can be used. This is commonly
made from oily seeds such as nuts, almonds, or sunflower kernels by adding

acidophilus culture to the soaked and blended seeds. Contamination of the seed
cheese with yeast can be minimized by washing the seeds in diluted hydrogen
peroxide before blending, adding a large amount of starter, and letting it ferment for
only a short period. The same applies to sourdough bread, which is also
recommended.
Do not use strongly fermenting products that have become very sour. You can
discard the whey and wash the curd to make it acceptable. Nevertheless, do not use
any fermented food that has a foul smell or taste. The water used for fermentation
should be free of chlorine and fluoride, as these will poison the enzymes released in
the fermenting process.
Fermenting or fermented products should not be kept in metal containers nor
should a metal spoon be left immersed in the food as this increases your exposure to
toxic metals. Plastic containers are not so good either; use ceramic or glass
containers instead. Fermented foods can be refrigerated for a week or two; part of
the former batch can be used as a starter for a new lot, but beware of contamination
with yeast. It is especially important to eat fermented foods during and after a course
of antibiotics and if you have cancer or another degenerative disease.
Purple Foods: The term purple foods as used here includes all foods that yield
purple juice when cooked or pressed with their skin. The color pigment in purple
foods belongs to the large group of bioactive natural chemicals called bioflavo-noids.
We find them as red, blue, and purple pigments in a wide range of flowers, fruits, and
vegetables, but also in the pulp of citrus fruit. Two well-known bioflavonoids are rutin
and quercetin.
Another important nutrient group is the carotenoids that form the yellow,
orange, and red colours in flowers and fruits. Best known among these is beta-
carotene. Even more important for healthy eyes and especially to protect the retina to
prevent blindness from macular degeneration are lutein and zeaxanthin. These two
are found in spinach, lettuce, broccoli, peas, and corn. Lycopene appears to protect
the health of the prostate gland; studies have found it protective against exercise-
induced asthma. You can find it in red-hued fruits and vegetables, such as tomatoes,
pink grapefruit, guavas, papaya, and watermelon.
If you have the opportunity, frequently snack on flower petals or put them
through the juicer. Suitable are the big petals of male pumpkin flowers or the whole
flowers of impatiens or nasturtium; nearly all flowers of edible vegetables can be
used. However, if you do not know whether a flower is edible, avoid using it in this
way.
The pigments of purple foods are highly unsaturated and therefore are strong
antioxidants. One important group of purple pigments is the proanthocyanidins
(PAC’s); when many individual anthocyanin molecules are linked together they are
also called oligo-proanthocyanins (OPC’s). One such compound that is commercially
extracted from pine bark is sold as pycnogenol; a variant with similar qualities is sold
as grape seed extract. The OPC’s have lost their purple color, but this may be
restored when they are broken down in the body into their individual components. In
nature, anthocyanidins are bound to different sugars, and during digestion, the
sugars are split off to release them for absorption.

The color of black, purple, or red grapes, blackberries, blueberries, red wine,
and red cabbage consists of anthocyanins, the individual molecules and active form
of PAC’s. The pigment of red beet belongs to a subgroup of anthocyanins, the
betacyanins. Both groups have strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties
and improve the elasticity of blood vessels and skin. PAC’s, anthocyanins, and
betacyanins also help to restore normal oxidative metabolism or cell respiration.
They are important not only for normalizing cancer cells, but also for conditions
of chronic fatigue and general lack of energy, as they assume the role of oxygen as
electron acceptors. Purple foods ingested in sufficient amounts can improve the
elasticity of skin and blood vessels. In combination with other bioflavonoids, they are
beneficial with various diseases such as allergies, inflammation, infections, parasites,
cancer, liver disease, vascular diseases, thrombosis (blood clotting), chemical
toxicity, and coronary artery disease.
Purple foods should generally be eaten with the skin on as this is usually the
most strongly coloured part of the plant. However, with purple onions the outer skins
are not edible, but you can utilize them as a tea. Grapes should be well rinsed before
eating to remove fungi or moulds. Sensitive individuals and especially those with
Candida may find it preferable to soak the grapes for a while in hydrogen peroxide.
When fresh grapes are not in season, the juice of black grapes has reportedly been
used with good success in the treatment of cancer. For this, a 24-ounce bottle of dark
grape juice can be sipped at intervals during the morning, taking no other food before
lunch. See “The Grape Cancer Cure” on website: www.quantumbalancing/grape.htm.
Red beet is the best purple vegetable. The purple pigment in beets has been
shown to increase and normalize cell respiration, the oxygen-based energy
production within cells. Red beet is one of the key foods in preventing as well as
curing cancer; it is equally important in the treatment of other degenerative diseases,
such as chronic fatigue syndrome, characterized by reduced cell respiration.
When cellular energy is produced through the oxidation of nutrients, electrons
and hydrogen ions are transferred onto the inhaled oxygen to produce water and
energy. In cancer cells and in conditions of chronic fatigue, the respiratory enzymes
that accomplish this transfer have been diminished or destroyed. The color pigment
in beet root (and other purple food) strongly binds electrons and hydrogen and can
reactivate the production of cellular oxidative energy. Researchers have shown that
the energy production of cancer cells can be normalized by a combination of red
beet, raw fermented food, and vitamin C.22 The multiplication of cancer cells will thus
stop, and tumours become non-virulent. Clinical tests using red beet with cancer
patients revealed that often tumours regressed and disappeared. In the cancer
therapy with red beet, two pounds were used daily. However, if used together with
other purple foods, much less beet may be needed. For instance, combine one
pound of red beet with one pound of dark grapes or one pint of dark grape juice.
Use plenty of red beets grated in salads, juiced, and cooked, and remember,
the residue from the juicing can be cooked. Occasionally, a small beet may leave an
acrid aftertaste. Taste suspect beets before making salads or juice; cooking them is
fine, and beet tops can also be cooked. Tinned beet has lost most of its pigment and
is of little nutritional value.

A Checklist of Laxative Foods
For the improvement or maintenance of good health, it is desirable to have two or three
bowel movements daily. A general lifestyle improvement will do much to achieve this
goal, but initially it may be necessary to include some laxative foods as well. Here are
some practical suggestions:
Bran: A mild laxative, however, it accentuates mineral deficiencies and weight loss.
Wheat bran is not suitable for anyone who is sensitive to wheat. I do not recommend
wheat bran, but you can experiment with rice bran, provided you take trace mineral
supplements with bran-free meals.
Freshly fermented foods: These often have a strong laxative action.
Isotonic flush: Add 9g of salt (approx. one heaped teaspoon) to one litre of water, or
use one cup of seawater diluted with 3 cups of fresh water. Drink this within a few
minutes on an empty stomach and take no other food or drink for the following 30
minutes. This is excellent for cleaning the whole of the gastro-intestinal tract, but it
should not be used if a severely restricted intake of sodium is indicated for other
conditions.
Linseed (flaxseed): Mildly laxative and soothing for irritated bowels. Preferably use
ground linseed, otherwise one tablespoon of dry seeds with water some time before
meals and at bedtime; swallow whole. If the intestines are irritated, use fenugreek or
slippery elm powder with the linseed.
Magnesium salts: Take one tablespoon of Epsom Salts with water; milk of magnesia is
excellent if neutralised with ascorbic acid; alternatively, try increasing amounts of
magnesium chloride.
Molasses: Use on its own or with yeast in warm water.
Mustard seeds: Take half a teaspoon of whole dry seeds with water twice daily, some
time before a meal; do not chew. This helps to strengthen bowel function and overcome
gas formation. Continue for two months or as required. Do not use mustard seeds if the
intestines are irritated.
Prunes: May be eaten raw, soaked or cooked.
Psyllium hulls: These are preferable to bran. Stir a teaspoonful in a large glass of water
and drink immediately about 30 minutes before meals as often as required for either
laxative action or weight reduction.
Senna: Pods, powder, or leaves can be added to herb teas.
Urine: drinking a cupful of your diluted morning urine has a good laxative effect.
Water: Drinking a large quantity of pure water within a short period will cause part of it to
rinse the bowels. Take two pints or more of warm water before breakfast (see Step 36).
Red beet may be available only seasonally, but you can store a large quantity
in moist sand. Keep the tops exposed in a cool, shaded place with just enough
moisture to prevent drying out. After a good root system has developed, you can also
let them continue to grow in a sandy and well-drained soil, neither too wet nor too dry
to avoid rotting or mould development, but check them frequently.

Raw Egg: Fresh raw eggs, genuinely free-range from hens fed on greens and
grains, have health-giving and healing properties. However, egg allergy is
widespread so if you habitually consume them, test yourself for egg allergies. Raw
egg yolk does not raise the cholesterol level, and it is high in sulphur compounds that
strengthen connective tissue and detoxify the liver. Fresh raw egg yolk has long been
known to enhance or rejuvenate sexual energies required for having sex, but more
importantly for creative activity in general and for physical fitness. Very fresh raw,
beaten egg white has germicidal properties.
The cell walls of lymphocytes (white blood cells) become more rigid with aging,
AIDS, and viral infections, mainly due to increased cholesterol levels in cell walls.
Lipids extracted from raw egg yolk have been reported to normalize rigid cell walls
and fully restore immune functions. This has led to great improvements in AIDS
patients treated with egg-yolk lipids.
Linseed and Sulphur-Rich Foods: Together with fish oils, linseed or flaxseed
oil is our best source of the omega-3 essential fatty acids. These polyunsaturated
fatty acids are important for brain and nerve functions, for the fluidity of cell
membranes, and for oxidative cellular energy production. Of great importance for this
energy production are lipoproteins formed from essential fatty acids and sulphur-
proteins (cysteine, methionine). These are concentrated in active tissue such as
glands, liver, brain, muscles, and skin and are needed for oxidative energy
production or cellular respiration.
Key enzymes formed from cysteine and essential fatty acids are typically
deficient in individuals with degenerative diseases such as cancer, chronic fatigue
syndrome, diabetes, and many skin diseases as well as heart, liver, and kidney
degeneration. These and other diseases have reportedly been reversed with high
intakes of high-quality linseed oil and sulphur-rich foods.
Linseed oil is very sensitive to oxidation (spoilage) and special precautions are
needed to obtain and retain a non-rancid product. The linseed or flaxseed oil must be
fresh when purchased, not more than a few months old and produced below 120° F
without light and oxygen; store it in a cool, dark place and refrigerate before and after
opening. It should never be heated.
As high-quality linseed oil is expensive, usually it will be sufficient to use freshly
ground whole linseed instead of or in addition to the oil. Linseed contains 35 percent
linseed oil and you can use several tablespoonfuls of ground linseed a day. This also
has a mildly laxative effect. Grind it fresh in a coffee grinder or, alternatively, use a
blender, screen it through a strainer, and add the coarse residue to the blender again
with the next lot.
Ground linseed can be refrigerated for a few days but is better stored in the
freezer. For individuals with malabsorption problems and for those wanting to
improve their skin, linseed oil can also be rubbed on skin normally protected from the
sun. In addition, I recommend unheated extra-virgin olive oil internally as well as on
the skin. This is a good source of squalene, a strong antioxidant that is also important
for energy production; it is also a key ingredient in the healing properties of shark
liver oil.

Regarding the sulphur foods, the main sulphur amino acids are L-cysteine and
L-methionine. Eggs are a good source of these, but they can easily be produced from
other sulphur-rich foods such as onions. As mentioned, the best supplement form of
organic sulphur is MSM. In her cancer therapy, Dr. Johanna Budwig, a fats
researcher, recommends cottage cheese (“quark” in German) made from raw
fermented skim milk as the main source of sulphur amino acids. However, according
to the blood group diet theory (explained later in the book), this may only be suitable
for individuals in blood groups B or AB, and not with hormone-related cancer.
Do not use D,L-cysteine or methionine, but use only the natural L-forms. While
cysteine is very important for detoxification and energy production, new research
shows that it may also act as a neurotransmitter in the brain and that high doses can
create an imbalance in the brain of susceptible individuals. Therefore, it is generally
best to obtain it or synthesize it from sulphur-rich foods. High doses of methionine, on
the other hand, can cause a problem in individuals who are deficient in vitamin B6;
problems can be avoided by supplementing it together with vitamin B6.
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Step 36
WATER AND JUICES
Heal yourself with fresh vegetable and grass juices.
Let’s start by the discussing water in your diet. It is important that we take in
sufficient water for the smooth functioning of our metabolic processes, and especially
to flush away their end products. In normal health and on a diet that includes fresh
fruits and vegetables, an additional fluid intake of about a quart daily is usually
adequate. However, in the following conditions, drinking close to two quarts of fluids
daily is desirable, and more than that if you are overweight:
• If mainly concentrated foods are used in the diet
• If you’re on a diet high in protein
• If the urine is cloudy, has a strong smell, or is dark in color
• In hot conditions
• While breast-feeding
• During the initial stages of health improvement and in cleansing periods
The Benefits of Water: Your fluid intake can consist of water, diluted juices,
and herb teas. Concentrated drinks such as coffee, milk, and strong tea do not count,
as their water content is needed to wash out their own residues. Occasionally check
that you produce about three quarts of inoffensive (in terms of odour) urine per day.
In hot climates, there is a high incidence of kidney disease because many people do
not drink enough water. For instance, a high incidence of oxalate kidney stones
among British troops in India during World War II has been blamed on excessive tea
drinking
If using large amounts of fluids, you must ingest adequate amounts of water-
soluble vitamins and minerals; otherwise deficiency symptoms can develop as you’re
likely to flush these nutrients out of your system. The time of drinking, too, is very
important. One should be careful not to dilute the digestive juices during and after
meals, although some liquid, such as in the form of herb teas, can be used after dry
meals. Generally, however, it is better to drink before meals and to have the bulk of
the fluid intake before breakfast. This is especially important if the digestive system is
weak. I regard it as highly beneficial for the kidneys to flush them regularly with a
high-volume fluid intake, such as a quart of water or diluted juice before breakfast.
After drinking water, wait for about 20 minutes before starting a meal, and after
drinking juices, wait for 30 to 60 minutes, depending on the quantity. It is good to
drink a glass of warm water or herb tea first thing in the morning to wash down
mucus and debris.
Chlorine and added fluoride in drinking water are always harmful. However, if
the water is high in calcium, then fluoride is less harmful, because calcium fluoride is
nearly insoluble and not well absorbed. On the other hand, if the water is soft or rich

in magnesium, iron, or sulphur, then fluoride can be harmful. Avoid chlorinated or
fluoridated water for drinking or cooking; however, most of the chlorine can be
removed by bringing the water to a boil and letting it cool before drinking.
As a strong enzyme poison, fluoride is especially harmful for individuals with
chronic degenerative diseases. In countries where water fluoridation is common, we
can suspect that all commercial liquids with added water contain fluorides.
Commonly, these include all soft drinks, soy milk, and even 100 percent fruit juice,
which is usually reconstituted by adding water to concentrates. However, municipal
tap water also contains other added chemicals and a good water filter is
recommended.
Our magnesium intake has greatly declined since the 1940s because calcium
fertilizers have been overused. The death rate from arteriosclerotic and degenerative
heart disease is highest in countries with the lowest levels of magnesium in the
drinking water; this is notably the case in Australia. Within Australia, the death rate is
lowest in Perth, which has the highest magnesium-to-calcium ratio in drinking water,
while the death rate is highest in Sydney, which has the lowest magnesium-to-
calcium water ratio of Australian capital cities.23 In the U.S., in six Missouri counties
with low magnesium levels in the water, the death rate from diabetes was more than
four times higher than in six other counties with high magnesium levels in the water.
Water high in calcium is acceptable if it is also high in magnesium; otherwise, you
can use magnesium supplements.
Rainwater can be used in unpolluted rural areas. Unfortunately, galvanized iron
now commonly has added aluminium with its zinc coating, and this may increase the
aluminium level of water collected from modern galvanized roofs and water stored in
galvanized tanks. I do not know whether the amounts of aluminium that might be
dissolved are significant, but it’s best to be prudent. Public water supplies are
routinely purified with aluminium compounds; a study in England found that when
aluminium levels in public drinking water were high, there was a correspondingly high
incidence of Alzheimer’s disease.
Water rich in inorganic iron, which leaves brownish residues, is harmful if used
over long periods. Lead and sometimes copper accumulating in the body contributes
to chronic diseases. Therefore, if you are in poor health, avoid drinking the water
from lead plumbing systems and be careful with new copper pipes. Older copper
pipes are coated with more resistant copper oxide. Plastic pipes can give off toxic
substances as well. The best metal for drinking water systems is zinc, as in
galvanized iron pipes; otherwise, ceramic can be used.
Public water supplies are usually heavily contaminated with chemicals, and I do
not recommend them as a direct source for drinking or cooking. Tap water is
commonly low in energy or life force. Instead use one of the great variety of filters
and distillation units on the market.
Bore or spring water in densely populated or farming areas can be used safely
only if a chemical analysis shows it to be uncontaminated. It should not have high
amounts of calcium, copper, or iron; otherwise, a filter may have to be used or the
water boiled to remove excess calcium. The very best water is fresh from a clear,

uncontaminated, sunlit, shallow, and cascading stream. Preferably try to energize your
drinking water by exposing it to sunlight or other sources of bioenergy (see Step 7).
I do not recommend drinking much fruit juice, except dark grape juice (as
explained earlier) or neutralized acidic juices. The basic disadvantage of drinking fruit
juices is the rapid assimilation of sugars, which stresses the blood sugar regulation.
However, some fruit juice can be used to flavour drinking water, if so desired.
I do not recommend drinking milk, except possibly fresh raw goat’s milk or
cow’s milk when it is still warm after milking. Use coffee and tea in moderation. While
they have some benefits, they can cause problems if one becomes addicted to them.
Alcohol too is best used only occasionally in small amounts. Beer drinking
encourages the formation of mucus. Dry red wine is generally the least harmful and
most beneficial alcoholic beverage. It can assist in the digestive process and give
some protection against heart disease; grape juice offers similar protection, but has a
lower concentration of protective antioxidants; the deeper the color, the better the
protection. Avoid any kind of soft drinks.
Vegetable and Grass Juices: Fresh, raw vegetables are high in life force,
enzymes, and other ingredients that keep us healthy. Therefore, use plenty—two
pounds or more a day if possible. For many, especially the elderly, it will be difficult
eating raw vegetables in -sufficient quantities or chewing well enough to extract all
the nutrient goodness. That is where juicing comes to the rescue. In this way,
everyone, including children and those with dentures, can have a high intake of raw
vegetables.
If possible, include some fresh young grasses, leaves, and shoots grown
organically in mineral-rich soil, as they are especially high in life force and enzymes. I
highly recommend drinking a glass of freshly pressed vegetable juice before most
meals or whenever conveniently possible.
Try using a mixed juice including grasses or leaves as well as root vegetables,
such as carrot and red beet, and possibly an apple for flavouring. The chlorophyll and
proteins of the leaves, while beneficial in their own right, slow down the absorption of
sugars from the sweet vegetables and help to stabilize the blood sugar level. You
can also include sprouted seeds, edible (vegetable) flowers, the rind of watermelons,
the tops of beet root, and other unusual items in your mixed juice. Be imaginative and
experiment to find out what is acceptable to your taste buds.
If unsprayed vegetables are not available, avoid sprayed green-leaf vegetables
and use the less contaminated sweet vegetables. Squashes and watermelons are
not normally sprayed. For individuals with a weak sugar metabolism (diabetes,
hypoglycaemia, or a tendency to these conditions), it is preferable to use mainly
green juice of leaves and grasses and only a smaller amount of sweet juice for
flavouring. Alterna-tively, slow down the absorption of sugars from the juice of sweet
vegetables by adding some olive oil and lecithin or ground linseed; then drink slowly
and at intervals.
Often children and some adults can be persuaded to drink the juice only if it is
flavoured with apple or pineapple. I recommend adding ginger to the juice: either use
fresh ginger or ginger juice already frozen in ice cube trays. For flavouring, it is

excellent to stir a few spoonfuls of bee pollen into the juice.
Start drinking the juice immediately after you have made it, but slowly, and in sips. If
your stomach is sensitive to juice, drink it with some food. If you make several juices
during the day, you may need to thoroughly clean the juicer only after the last juicing,
but keep the extraction unit detached and cool in the refrigerator between juicing.
Alternatively, you can freeze surplus juice for later use.
If you are unhealthy when beginning such a regimen, nausea or skin reactions
may temporarily occur from the release of stored toxins. In such cases, reduce the
amount of juice for a while and drink lots of water and take laxative foods. Start with
small amounts of grass and weed juice, possibly diluted and blended with other
juices. When you get used to it, the green juice may taste fine on its own, but avoid
or minimize strongly flavoured leaves such as from radish. Gradually increase to a
glassful one to three times daily before meals - the more the better. While fresh juice
is best, if you do not have the time to make several juices daily, you can refrigerate or
freeze some of the juice for later drinking; also cool it and take it to work in a
thermos.
If you have a problem absorbing fats, add some lecithin to the juice to improve
absorption of beta-carotene. Sometimes, when juicing sprouted seeds, the centre of
a squash, or some mucilaginous leaves, the residue seems to retain much of the
goodness even after putting it repeatedly through the juicer. In this case, just add
water to the residue to make it sloppy before pressing it through again. As an
alternative, you can get more nutrients out of the residue by making a hot broth:
Cover the residue with water, simmer for ten minutes, strain, and add some herbs
and spices or other flavouring.
What Types of Juicers Are Most Suitable?: Centrifugal juicers, which are
commonly available, are not suitable for grass or leaves, and even for other
vegetables they are inferior. Static electricity builds up on the outside wall and
discharges or inactivates enzymes and colloidal suspensions of proteins and
minerals. Non-centrifugal juicers reportedly give much better healing results.
A blender can be used, and grass and other leaf vegetables liquefied with
water and then pressed by hand through a strainer. Unfortunately, air beaten into the
liquid leads to oxidation. You can minimize this by adding some ascorbic acid. Blend
handfuls of grass repeatedly in the same water to concentrate the juice; alternatively,
run the grass once or twice through a mincer or a grain mill and then press the pulp
by hand through a strainer or cheesecloth.
Grass juicers, either manual or electric, are commercially available and may be
sold as fruit and vegetable presses. (You can easily find information and retailers on
the Internet.) This type of unit commonly has a slow-turning spiral press. Manual
wheat-grass juicers are efficient and good for training the biceps, but not so good for
people who do not have the energy to use them daily. Also, I do not like the juice to
be in contact with so much metal; cast-iron juicers are much cheaper than the
stainless-steel types.
As a general rule, the slower the speed, expressed as revolutions per minute
(rpm), the better the quality of the juice. Slow-turning juicers are available as single
auger or twin-gear machines. Both handle grasses and leaves very well with an rpm

commonly between 70 and 120 ppm. In comparison, a medium-fast juicer has about
2,000 rpm and the common centrifugal juicers 8,000 rpm. While low-rpm juicers
produce the highest quality of juice, they are also slowest in pressing a given
quantity; bigger twin-gear juicers may be twice as fast as smaller single-auger
juicers. (For a comparison of different brands, see www.buyjuicers.com.)
When using a juicer that easily processes grasses and leaves, there are
considerable savings in having to buy fewer vegetables. You can use lots of grasses,
green weeds, parsley, tops of carrots, and other leaves that cannot be easily used
with other juicers. This can not only bring considerable savings, but it also provides
juice of much higher quality than can be obtained from commercial vegetables.
However, there is also a drawback with low-rpm juicers and growing your own wheat
or barley grass: It is very time-consuming.
Juice from Grasses and Weeds: While not so pleasant to the taste buds,
fresh young grasses and green edible weeds have a much greater healing potential
than the vegetables commonly used for juicing. In particular, they are very much
higher in their content of life force and enzymes. Instead of working hard to maintain
a big vegetable garden, I believe it to be easier and healthier to let a large part of the
garden overgrow with suitable grasses and edible weeds. An additional advantage of
young grasses is the short time and minimal care required to grow them as
compared to growing vegetables. You can harvest grasses in two to three weeks
compared to several months for vegetables.
To find out which weeds are edible, ask a knowledgeable friend or neighbour,
or observe what goats or poultry are eating, or chew a bit of a leaf yourself. If it is not
bitter, it is not likely to be poisonous, and anyway, there are no poisonous grasses.
For a very healthy juice, use grasses, green weeds, and the petals of squash flowers;
flavour it with an apple, beet root, and carrot.
Juice made from young and fresh blades of cereal grass is most beneficial.
These young blades have the highest vitality and are rich in enzymes and growth
hormones that are missing or at low levels in mature leaves or plants, as well as in
elderly humans. Kirlian photography reveals that the vitality of leaves starts to
diminish soon after cutting and that most of it is lost within hours, though if
refrigerated in a closed plastic bag it may keep for a day. Most nutrients will still be
available from commercially dried and powdered grass, such as green barley grass
(commercially available), but young fresh grass juice has a much higher vitality.
Best known is wheat grass, but I contend that all fresh, young grass grown in
good soil has similar healing and rejuvenating qualities, though the flavour and
toughness may differ greatly. Barley grass grows more vigorously than wheat grass
and tastes good. Young ryegrass (not the cereal rye grain), grown by farmers as
pasture, has a pleasant flavour and can give you several months of repeated cutting
from one planting.
Experiment with different varieties of grasses to see which grow best in your
climate and soil conditions, and find one you like. When using lawn grass, the main
requirement is that it be grown in good soil without the use of pesticides or chemical
fertilizers; preferably fence off part of the lawn for this purpose. Often there is some

foam on top of the juice, especially with grass juice. This foam is high in chlorophyll
and beneficial, so ingest it or rub it into your skin.
I find wheat grass juice somewhat too sweet on its own and prefer it blended
with other grass. As barley grass does not taste sweet, it may be better than wheat
grass for individuals with blood sugar problems. Normally, however, it is good to mix
the seeds of wheat and barley and grow them together in the same garden bed or
tray.
In cool climates, it may be
How to Grow Grasses Indoors difficult growing grass outside in
1. Soak the wheat or barley for planting overnight winter, while in the tropics it is
and sow very densely. sometimes difficult in summer
2. Cover lightly with a sandy soil or just with wet because it is either too hot or
newspaper. too wet and cereal grasses
3. Keep moist and expose to light after leaves easily start rotting at the stem. In
emerge. the city, it may not be possible
4. When the grass is about two inches high, you
anyway. In these circumstances,
can start using it for cutting into a salad or you can wheat grass or barley grass can
chew the grass and spit out the pulp. You can begin be grown indoors behind a
to juice the grass when it is about four inches high. window or on a balcony or
Sometimes you can get a good regrowth after the veranda in seed boxes (see
first cutting. sidebar)
5. The maximum yield of juice is available when the Wheat produces about
grass is between six and eight inches tall. four times its weight as wheat
6. The higher you intend to let it grow, the less grass and this in turn yields up
dense you should sow the seeds. to 80 percent juice. Tougher
7. Compost the stubble and other organic matter for perennial grasses yield about 60
reuse in seed boxes or outside planting. percent juice. The vitamin and
8. Add rock dust, kelp, or seaweed to mineralize the mineral content of grasses and
soil. their juices differs greatly
Exposure of the trays to moderate sunshine is
between different varieties, but
preferable but not essential. Protect the trays from especially with diverse soil
prolonged strong sun exposure and from conditions. Table 4-1, compiled
overheating behind a window. If the trays are on a from various publications, gives
balcony, you can move them inside during cold an estimate of the average
nights or cover them with newspaper. The best nutrient content of the juice from
growing condition is at room temperature. grass grown in good, mineral-
When the shoots are about an inch high, it is rich soil.
preferable to stop watering, or water along the sides The protein content of
but keep the centre dry to minimize problems with
young annual grasses is usually
moulds and rotting.
around four percent and of
established perennial grasses about two percent. Vitamin and mineral concentrations
can vary greatly and are highest in young grasses grown in soils rich in minerals and
organic matter.
While grass juice provides a high amount of easily digestible protein, as well as
vitamins and minerals of superior quality, even more important are the enzymes,

growth hormones, and
other vital factors, Table 4-1: Nutrients in Grass Juice
including coenzyme Q10 Protein 2–5% Fibre 3–6%
and superoxide
Lipids 0.5–1% Kilojoules 250/100 ml
dismutase (SOD). In
animal experiments, old Carbohydrates 6–11%
rats were rejuvenated Vitamins/100 ml Minerals/100 ml
and chickens grew 15 carotene 10,000 IU calcium 70-200 mg
percent faster with fresh
vitamin C 60 mg magnesium 50 mg
grass, but not with other
supplements. Many vitamin E 6 mg phosphorous 50-100 mg
patients attribute their vitamin B1 0.2 mg potassium 400-1,600 mg
cure from “incurable” vitamin B2 0.4 mg sodium 40-150 mg
diseases to the generous vitamin B6 0.2 mg iron 3 mg
intake of grass juice.
vitamin B12 1 mcg zinc 0.5-2.5 mg
Grass juice has also
been successfully used pantothenic acid 0.4 mg manganese 1-10 mg
as a retention enema with nicotinamide 1.5 mg copper 0.3-1 mg
cancer and other folic acid 150 mcg molybdenum 0.03 mg
debilitating conditions, as biotin 15 mcg sulphur 100 mg
a vaginal douche, or
topical rub for the skin.
Juicy grass pulp is excellent on wounds and speeds up healing.
Grass juice has been shown to inhibit mutagenic and carcinogenic activity. This
inhibition was stronger with wheat grass juice than with carrot or parsley juice; it has
also been reported with barley grass juice. We need growth hormones not only for
growing taller, but also for cell division, skin and tissue replacement, and wound
healing. In growing older, we become deficient in growth hormones, and those found
in grass juice can help us rejuvenate.
Most animals live on grass either directly or indirectly. It is the perfect food, not
only for grazing animals, but also for humans. The juicer replaces the complicated
cellulose digestion of grass-eating animals. I regard grass juice as the food with the
greatest healing and rejuvenating potential; it could even sustain us during a famine.
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Step 37
HEALING RECIPES
Transform healthy foods into enjoyable meals.
I am not fond of using recipes. Most recipes seem to be designed to tickle our
palate by harming the nutrients in the food. The healthiest recipe for carrots, for
instance, is to pull one out of the ground, clean it, and chew it well. Any additional
processing renders it less nutritious. Also, I favour experimenting, mixing this and
that within the framework of the food-combining rules, and seeing how it turns out. In
this spirit I offer the following recipes and cooking tips as starting points for finding
ways to make healthy food tasty.
If you are willing, you can gradually change your taste preferences and come to
like this new diet of healthier meals. If your life is in no immediate danger from an
advanced disease, change slowly, making a gradual transition over a period of years
from your present diet to the high-quality diet, and possibly to the raw food diet after
that.
Baking Breads: The best method for baking is one in which enzymes in the
food remain alive. This means heating bread dough to less than 120° F. It is
preferable to start with whole, soaked, or sprouted seeds that are rich in enzymes
rather than with commercial flours that may have had their enzymes destroyed during
the milling process and may be contaminated with mycotoxins. The only practical
solution I have found so far is baking with rice. After blending soaked or sprouted
rice, the dough continues to absorb water and so becomes firm almost without any
heat. I have not found this property in any other grain. You may have to experiment
with different varieties of rice to find a good sprouting one.
Soak brown rice overnight, then rinse for two or three days until sprouts
appear; otherwise use after soaking. If you are sensitive to fungi, keep for several
minutes in water with added hydrogen peroxide, then wash well and blend with a
minimum of water. If the blended rice does not have the consistency of a paste, add
rice flour or strain off excess water. Lightly cover a tray with some rice flour or baking
paper and spread the paste out flat. Preferably leave in the sun or a warm place,
such as a warm oven with the heat turned off, until the dough has solidified, usually
after a few hours.
You can experiment with additions, such as kelp powder, occasionally carob
powder and dried fruit for children, and acidophilus culture or a sourdough starter if
you want to try baking a more conventionally shaped loaf. The addition of any other
kind of soaked or sprouted seed will make it more difficult for the dough to harden.
You can bake flat bread in an oven at low temperatures from a mixture of various
flours or meals, such as from peas, lentils, chickpeas, rice, and rye. You may add
buckwheat flour to any baking mix to improve its binding qualities.
If you use sprouted seeds, it is not necessary to add acidophilus or sourdough
starter to improve the nutritional quality, but only to lighten the bake. However, if you
only soak the seeds and, more important still, if your main ingredient is flour, then

lactic-acid fermentation will greatly improve the nutritional value as well as lighten the
texture.
Any other soaked, sprouted, and blended seeds can be used for making flat
bread by baking at 160° to 180° F with or without a starter. Again, it is advisable to
spread the dough over a layer of flour to absorb excess moisture. You can also add
other flavouring ingredients, such as banana or carrot pulp. It may take five hours or
more of baking for the bread to solidify. At this temperature, the enzymes are
destroyed and, unlike sun-baked rice, it is not a raw food any more. However, the
protein structures generally are not damaged and there is no digestive leukocytosis
(increased white blood cells in the intestinal wall) when eating this bread. You can
refrigerate part of the sourdough as starter for the next bake, but if you are yeast-
sensitive, it is preferable to use fresh acidophilus culture each time.
For more conventional bread, I recommend rye sourdough; the more
acidophilus you add and the slower the dough solidifies, the more acid it becomes,
and vice versa. Mix 1 cup of acidophilus starter with rye flour, water, flavourings (for
example, caraway seeds), and 1 tablespoon of honey or molasses as food for the
bacteria. Leave covered overnight in a warm place. Before adding salt, reserve and
refrigerate 1 cup of this as a starter for the next baking. Add more flour, knead,
shape, and cover the loaves and let them rise in a lightly warmed oven for several
more hours. Then bake at a moderate heat for 90 minutes; place a pan with hot
water on the bottom rack to develop steam.
Bone Broth: Use the soft bones of fowl or the bones and heads of fish. Add 1
or several tablespoons of vinegar, depending on the amount of bones you have.
Simmer with sufficient water in a covered, non-metal container for at least 3 hours, or
until the bones become brittle and the liquid is nearly neutral. With larger quantities
and longer cooking time, you can repeatedly add more water and vinegar.
Alternatively, use a pressure cooker for 30 minutes, but without adding vinegar.
When the bones have become soft, blend it all, strain (optional), and freeze in ice
cube trays. Use some of the broth frequently with meals; add it to vegetable salads,
as it is an excellent source of gelatine, calcium, and other minerals.
Beef Juice, Liver Broth, Liver Juice: To make liver broth, simmer pieces of
(organic) liver for 2 hours; strain and mix with sweet vegetables, cooked or raw. To
make beef juice, dice a pound of lean beef. Put in a jar without water, cover well, and
set the jar on a piece of cloth in a pot filled with water. Boil for 3 hours. Press juice
accumulated in the jar through a strainer and refrigerate or freeze it. Sip a
teaspoonful 5 to 10 times daily and keep it in the mouth for some time. Make this
juice fresh weekly. Occasionally, the juice can be made of liver instead of beef. Beef
juice is indicated in cases of serious muscle weakness.
Butter Spread: In order to cut down on your butter consumption, lightly warm
some butter and mix it with an equal amount of extra-virgin olive oil. Add lecithin,
chopped onion, kelp, herbs, and spices to taste. Alternatively, or in addition to using
oil, butter can be mixed with an equal amount of hot gelatine; flavour to taste and
keep the butter spread refrigerated.
Marinated Fish: Dice the fish and cover with lemon juice or diluted cider
vinegar or a mixture of both. Refrigerate overnight; add cooked or raw onion or herbs
and spices, and possibly some juice, leaf, or green skin of papaya. Eat with

vegetables or sprout salad. You can also marinate liver, minced meat, or soft cuts of
meat.
Fruit Balls: These are for festive occasions. Mince any of the following: nuts,
sesame, sunflower, or pumpkin seeds, fresh coconut, dried fruits such as apricots,
dates, mixed peel, papaya, and pineapple. Mix well, add lemon juice to taste and
also lecithin; bind with oil. Make into small balls and roll in desiccated coconut. For
different flavours, add carob powder or spices to the mixture.
Hommus: This can be used as bread spread or as an addition to meals. Soak
chickpeas (garbanzo beans) overnight. If seeds are viable, sprout them; otherwise,
use them soaked raw or soaked and cooked for a few minutes only. Discard the
soaking water to reduce intestinal gas. Puree the prepared chickpeas in a blender
and mix with any combination of the following: olive oil, tahini, lecithin, cayenne, kelp,
herbs, and spices. Keep refrigerated.
Hot Vegetable Juice: Normally, you drink fresh vegetable juice cold. However,
in cold weather you may enjoy drinking it hot, flavoured like a broth. Use a handful of
fresh green leaves, add cabbage, celery, tomato, cucumber, whatever is available,
and some sliced carrot, pumpkin, or beet root. Mix this in an electric blender, together
with a suitable hot liquid, for instance, herb tea, bone broth, or water. Strain and
press the residue. Try to keep the temperature of the broth below 120° F.
A juice extractor can be used instead of the blender or you can mix the hot
liquid with some freshly pressed juice. Flavour the drink to taste; you can use herbs,
spices, miso, kelp, oil, lecithin, egg yolk, food yeast, or molasses in any combination
you like. Drink the juice immediately, taking sips. Another possibility is to simmer the
residue left over from juicing in water for ten minutes, strain, add some flavouring,
and drink hot.
Jellies: Dissolve 4 teaspoons of white, unflavoured gelatine in 1 pint of hot
water. Pour it over diced fruits or over sprouted seeds and diced or grated vegetables
(for example, cucumber, tomato, carrot, or chopped onion). You can add herbs,
spices, kelp, and salt. Alternatively, the gelatine can be dissolved in a smaller amount
of hot water and mixed with an appropriate amount of fruit juice or fresh vegetable
juice. Refrigerate for setting. Instead of commercial gelatine, a gelatinous bone or
fish broth is preferable. Gelatine aids in the absorption of vitamins and minerals.
Linseed Yogurt: The following combination can be used as a snack before or
between meals or instead of any meal. It is especially good as a breakfast. Mix half a
cup of ground linseed with 1 or 2 tablespoons of linseed oil or olive oil or melted
coconut oil, 1 tablespoon of bee pollen, 1 teaspoon of spirulina, sliced or blended
bananas, lecithin granules, and enough yogurt, seed cheese, or seed milk for a
smooth consistency. You can also add some chopped fruit or berries. As a liquid
component, try fresh vegetable juice, grape juice, apple juice, or any other liquid.
Papaya (Pawpaw) Smoothie: This can be used as a special health food to aid
the digestion, as well as in dissolving tumours or other unwanted growths. In a
blender, mix mature green papaya (when it just starts turning yellow and the seeds
are already black) with skin, seeds, and flesh, banana and any other fruit in season,
and a sufficient amount of a suitable liquid such as a juice or yogurt. Eat on its own or
as part of a meal.

Grated Potatoes: Bring 1 cup of water to a boil, keep the heat on high, add
coarsely grated potato, and stir for 2 to 3 minutes. This leaves the potato semi-raw
with a quite distinct flavour; add kelp, oil, and so on, and eat with vegetables or
sprouts.
Protein Drink: This is good as a general energy booster, especially if you have
blood sugar problems or lack of energy, and it is also excellent when consumed 30
minutes before a meal to reduce appetite if you want to lose weight. Mix in a blender
1 or more spoonfuls each of bee pollen, green barley powder, ground linseed,
spirulina, and chlorella, or any combination of these in a suitable liquid. This can be
seed milk or any other kind of milk or juice such as grape or apple juice.
Rejuvelac (fermented seed drink): Wash 1 cup of whole grain (preferably
organically grown) and cover with 2 cups of warm water. Suitable are rice, millet, rye,
and other grains. Keep in a glass or porcelain container in a warm place. Pour off the
liquid the next day or when it tastes slightly sour. Use as a refreshing drink on its
own, but not with or after meals. The grains can then be cooked or sprouted. Use the
grain ferment only if it has a pleasant taste and smell, otherwise discard it. Rejuvelac
may not be suitable for sensitive and yeast-allergic individuals.
Rice Dishes: Cook the rice until almost soft and most of the water has
evaporated. Add a small quantity of apples, cover, cook until the apples are soft, and
then mash them. Add cinnamon, oil, lecithin, and kelp. Eat cold as a dessert. As an
alternative, add apple puree to the cooked rice. You can also try rice with a sauce
based on blended raw carrots and other sweet vegetables or bananas.
Healthier than cooked rice is sprouted and blended rice. Wash and soak
overnight a sprouting variety of brown rice. After sprouting, blend the rice and add
other flavouring ingredients, such as banana, olive oil, kelp, carob, lecithin, or pitted
dates, for a sweet meal. Blend again and eat this instead of a breakfast cereal. If too
gritty, strain the rice puree after the first blending or cook it.
Sauerkraut: Use a wooden barrel or earthenware pot of any size. Place a layer
of shredded cabbage 4 to 6 inches deep in the container. Sprinkle over it a small
amount of salt and some herb seeds, such as caraway, fennel, or cumin; other
shredded vegetables can be added for flavouring. Press the first layer down, then
add another layer of cabbage and herbs, and so on. The cabbage must be
completely saturated with its juice and no air pockets left. Cover the contents with
cheesecloth, place a wooden cover over it, and weight it down with a heavy stone.
Leave at room temperature.
From time to time, after several days, lift the cover and remove foam and
mildew from the top of the mash; wash the cheesecloth, board, and stone with warm
water and then put them back in place. After about 2 weeks the sauerkraut should be
ready for eating. Store the container in a cool place, or put the sauerkraut in jars and
refrigerate. Eat it raw and drink the juice. Raw sauerkraut may not be suitable for
sensitive individuals, but it should be fine if cooked.
This recipe may occasionally fail if the barrel is contaminated. To avoid this,
thoroughly clean the barrel with steam or boiling water before use. To make it easier
for beneficial bacteria to develop, sprinkle organic cider vinegar into the different
layers or add acidophilus culture.

Seed Cheese/Seed Yogurt: Soak oily seeds (almonds, nuts, sesame,
pumpkin, or sunflower) for 8 to 12 hours. Puree in an electric blender and add
acidophilus culture. If you are not yeast sensitive, experiment with adding Rejuvelac
instead. Keep in a warm place for several hours until the desired degree of sourness
develops. Refrigerate and use within 3 days. If it is too sour or if curd and whey have
separated, strain and discard the whey; rinse the curd if necessary. Use seed yogurt
as part of a salad dressing, for flavouring meals, or as a bread spread. The more
sensitive you are, the less sour it should be when you use it. If it smells or tastes bad,
discard it.
Seed Milk: Soak almonds, rice, or sunflower kernels overnight or for about 12
hours. The simplest way to make this milk is to change the water, blend the soaked
seeds in an electric blender, and press them through a strainer. You can either drink
the liquid immediately or refrigerate. You can cook the residue of the rice and add the
residue of the oily seeds to any breakfast mix (possibly remove almond skins before
blending). However, a much better way is to wait until the seeds start sprouting. This
removes any enzyme inhibitors and provides natural sweetness and enzymes to the
milk. Alternatively, use unhulled sunflower or pumpkin seeds for making milk.
Sprout Salad: Mix a variety of freshly rinsed sprouted seeds with a
combination of fresh, raw vegetables, basically using whatever is available. Most
suitable are sprouts of mung beans, lentils, sunflower seeds, and fenugreek, together
with finely grated beet root, carrot, and turnip or radish. Tomato and cucumber (try it
grated) are good for flavouring. If you have difficulty chewing, you can put all of it
through a mincer, or if very weak and debilitated, you could liquefy and drink it.
The key to enjoying a sprout salad is to find a delicious dressing. Experiment. I
recommend extra-virgin olive oil, lemon juice, whole blended lemon, cider vinegar, or
rose-hip powder, any fresh or dried herbs or spices, and a dash of cayenne. These
may be added individually or mixed beforehand and refrigerated in a jar. Flavour
olive oil by mixing in a jar 1 part tahini with 3 to 10 parts oil, lemon juice, and lecithin.
For a health enhancer, add ground linseed and kelp to the salad. Start by
adding very small amounts of kelp until you come to like it. Raw egg yolk is a good
addition to the dressing, as is seed cheese or sour milk; you can also flavour this
salad with tofu or yogurt.
Sweet Vegetables: Use any combination of the following: sliced pumpkin or
squash, sweet potato, onion, turnip, beet, carrot, and tomato. Add only a minimum of
water so that finally most of it has evaporated. Vegetables with short cooking times
(tomato, pumpkin) can be added later to preserve their flavour. Salt, kelp, oil, curry,
cayenne, herbs, and spices are best stirred in at the end of cooking.
Yogurt, Clabber Milk, Cottage Cheese: It is essential to repopulate your
intestines with beneficial lactobacilli, especially L. acidophilus in the small intestines
and bifidobacteria in the large intestines. Instead of or in addition to using high-
potency acidophilus/bifido capsules or powders, you can use a self-made fermented
product or yogurt. This can be made from fresh unpasteurized cow’s milk, goat’s
milk, rice milk, homemade soy milk, or a mixture of ingredients based on bee pollen
and honey. Commercial cow’s milk acidophilus/ bifido yogurt (preferably organic or
biodynamic) can be used as a starter.

The commonly used yogurt based on cow’s milk has some problems in that
many individuals are allergic or sensitive to some ingredients of cow’s milk. It often is
mucus-forming and is also high in estrogen, which is not good for various female
cancers. According to the blood group diet, cow’s milk is acceptable only for those
with blood group B and possibly AB. However, if you are not sensitive to it, then
yogurt made from fresh raw cow’s milk can be beneficial, used in moderation.
You can use rice as a base for making yogurt. Cook soaked (organic) brown
rice in plenty of water. After cooling, blend and strain; add starter culture and 2
teaspoons of raw honey to the strained rice water. Rice yogurt does not set, so drink
it when it turns slightly sour or smells slightly fermented. You can make rice milk by
blending and straining sprouted brown rice. This is sweet enough by itself, so that no
added sweetener is required.
A fermented drink can be made based on bee pollen and honey. Add to 1 quart
of water and starter 5 to 10 teaspoons of pollen, 2 or 3 teaspoons of raw honey, 1 or
2 teaspoons of kelp powder, and, if you like, several teaspoons of spirulina, chlorella,
or cereal grass powder. Experiment and use more or less of the indicated amounts
and also different ingredients. As with rice milk, this does not set and is best used
when it starts frothing and tastes somewhat acid.
As an initial starter, use 1 teaspoon each of powdered acidophilus and bifido
cultures, a mixed culture of these, high-potency capsules, or a commercial yogurt
containing these. Do not use commercial yogurt or starter with only bulgaricus and
thermophilus bacteria. Subsequently, use up to 1 cup of the previous batch as
starter. Preferably, use the liquid or whey as the starter because it contains the most
bacteria. The more of the starter you use and the warmer it is, the sooner the yogurt
will be ready.
If you do not have a yogurt maker, mix 2 to 3 cups of any type of milk or pollen-
honey liquid with 1 cup of starter and keep it in a jar standing in a container with hot
tap water. It usually takes only a few hours to set, though with powdered cultures it
may take 6 to 10 hours. In cold weather, renew the hot water every hour or keep the
jar in a warm place. Alternatively, the milk can be kept warm by putting it in a box or
some other small, enclosed space, together with an electric bulb or other source of
heat. Refrigerate the yogurt when it just starts setting, as it continues to become
firmer and more acid during storage. If it becomes too sour, use less of the whey as
starter and eat only the strained curd or neutralize the acid.
To make sour milk (clabber milk), leave raw, unheated milk in a flat bowl in a
warm place for 1 to 2 days until the milk sours and coagulates, then add a yogurt or
acidophilus starter. For making cottage cheese or quark, wait until curd and whey
have separated and strain or press the curdled milk through cheesecloth.
Veggie Burgers: Soak overnight 1 cup of chickpeas or lentils; next morning
replace the water and put them in a blender. Soak 2 cups of rice overnight and cook.
Combine the blended legumes with the cooked rice and add some buckwheat flour or
an egg to bind the mixture. Flavour with any combination of the following: miso, soy
sauce, fresh parsley, coriander, cumin, fresh ginger, onion, and any other herbs or
spices. Form flat burgers and bake crisp in a grill or a non-stick pan.
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Part 5
PROBLEM FOODS & FOOD PROBLEMS
This part explains in more detail the reasons for the dietary recommendations
in Part 4. Most problem foods are widely used basic foods that lead to health
problems in many people. So-called junk foods and heavily processed and
chemicalised foods belong in this category; many foods treasured by natural health
enthusiasts, such as honey, dried fruits, yogurt, and whole-meal bread, also belong
to this list of problem foods.
What chiefly makes a particular food a problem is the presence of one or
several components that can cause metabolic or digestive problems if used
indiscriminately. We use and have used problem foods in excess, so our metabolism
has been weakened to such an extent that it cannot safely process even small
amounts of certain foods without becoming distressed. This can be demonstrated
with food muscle-testing.
However, for individuals with a suitable metabolism, most problem foods can
be acceptable and sometimes even beneficial in moderation; this does not apply to
heavily chemicalised food. It is advisable for nearly everyone to minimize their intake
of problem foods. It is also best to more strictly avoid the problem foods described in
this chapter and that you know from personal experience are a cause of your health
problems.
The main problem foods are: Some problem foods frequently cause food
allergies and can be the primary allergens or
Lactose and cow’s milk products
causative agents that sensitize us to a range
Gluten and wheat products of other allergens. This applies especially to
Sugar and sweet foods the gluten in wheat and to proteins in cow’s
Red meat and fats milk. When the body is still young or overacid
and sensitive, it tends to respond strongly to
Chemicalised food, stimulants, and
yeast or moulds these foods. However, problem foods cause
even more serious problems when the body is
older, alkaline, and insensitive, but then there are no alarm reactions such as food
allergies to warn us. This leads to the development of chronic degenerative diseases
such as autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer.
In addition to specific health problems being caused by specific foods, the
overall impact on the adrenal glands of habitually consuming problem foods can raise
our basic stress level to such a high degree that a relatively small additional stress
from emotional or social problems can trigger severe reactions. These can include
asthma, epilepsy, migraine, depression, irritability, hyperactivity, phobias, nervous
breakdown, and mental disease. In addition, the fact that we cook too many of our
foods and hence have insufficient enzymes in our diet greatly contributes to the
development of chronic degenerative diseases and premature aging.
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Step 38
COW’S MILK PRODUCTS & LACTOSE
Have a closer look at cow’s milk products and lactose.
In some forms they can be beneficial, but as commonly
used they tend to create a lot of health problems.
The three problematic ingredients in dairy products are lactose (milk sugar),
butterfat, and casein (and other proteins). While lactose can be a problem in all
animal milk, including goat’s milk, difficulties with protein and butterfat are specific to
cow’s milk.
Bottle-feeding infants with cow’s milk has far-reaching effects. The earlier it is
substituted for human breast milk, the more damage is usually caused. The baby’s
digestive system is still immature and relies on enzymes provided in mother’s milk. It
cannot properly digest cow’s milk, especially if the milk has been pasteurized and is
without enzymes. In addition, in the first few weeks or months of life, the wall of the
infant’s small intestine is not yet fully developed and allows only partly digested
proteins to pass through; this causes allergies.
In a clinical study, all infants and most older children evaluated had antibodies
against cow’s milk in their blood.24 This means they were allergic to it, even in the
absence of obvious symptoms. However, usually “unspecific” symptoms were
present, such as restlessness and crying at night, dermatitis, tender abdomen,
tantrums, weak eyes, low energy, hyperactivity, indigestion, and a high incidence of
colds and ear and respiratory infections. A contributing factor that makes many
babies prone to infections is the absence of immuno-protective agents in bottled milk
that are present in human breast milk, especially in the colostrum.
Formula-fed babies usually suffer from zinc deficiency. Zinc is essential for
activating the immune system. The zinc content in cow’s milk is actually higher than
that in mother’s milk, but in cow’s milk zinc is bound to a protein from which the
baby’s immature digestive system cannot release it. Other trace minerals are also
difficult for the baby to absorb from cow’s milk; iron is especially problematic.
A resulting iron deficiency in babies contributes to the development of anemia, a
weakening of the immune system, and retarded mental and cognitive development.
An allergy to cow’s milk and subsequent mucus congestion of the lungs,
combined with zinc and iron deficiencies of the immune system, cause frequent colds
and respiratory infections in babies. This, in turn, depletes babies of vitamin C.
The effect of all this is a high incidence of crib deaths in bottle-fed babies, which
sometimes occur shortly after immunizations. Vaccinations can further drain the
already dangerously low levels of vitamin C. Archie Kalokerinos, M.D., in Every
Second Child, relates that in some Aboriginal communities of Australia every second
child given a vaccination died of crib death, but when fed high doses of vitamin C
before and after vaccinations, not a single child died. Is it a coincidence that New
Zealand has the highest rates of asthma and crib deaths in the world, but also the
highest consumption of cow’s milk?

Crib deaths are uncommon in breast-fed babies. However, even breast-fed
babies can develop allergies if the mother has a high intake of cow’s milk products or
is allergic to it herself. Full-term babies in the first two weeks and premature babies in
the first one or two months can become allergic to almost any substitute for mother’s
milk. If breast-feeding by the mother is not possible during this time and a wet nurse
is not available, then fresh raw goat’s or sheep’s milk is the least harmful alternative.
Problems Associated with Lactose: Most adults, except for Caucasians,
cannot split lactose into its two components, glucose and galactose. After the age of
three, a deficiency in the lactose-splitting enzyme lactase develops, and this can
cause severe indigestion and diarrhea if the diet contains appreciable amounts of
lactose. This condition is known as lactose intolerance.
Lactose-intolerant people can tolerate lactose better if fermented milk is used,
as in the form of yogurt or kefir, where the lactose is partially pre-split by lactic-acid
bacteria. Alterna-tively, lactose-splitting enzymes are now commercially available and
can be added to milk. However, lactose intolerance is only a minor problem
compared to the much more serious health problems caused by galactose. Lactose
intolerance appears to be a wise precaution of nature rather than a regrettable
accident because it protects us from the great danger of galactose overload.
We both need and don’t need galactose. Most European adults and older
children who can digest lactose are unable to use galactose efficiently. Babies need
galactose as an important building component of the brain, the central nervous
system, and of many proteins. Thus, mother’s milk is even higher in galactose than
animal milk to ensure that the baby obtains sufficient galactose. In later life, very little
galactose is needed and this can easily be synthesized from other sugars. Therefore,
most of the ingested galactose is converted in the liver to glucose and used as body
fuel, but the amount that can be converted is rather limited, even with a healthy liver.
This conversion is a slow and complex process requiring four different
enzymes. One of these is sometimes missing from birth, giving rise to a condition
known as galactosaemia. Continued milk-feeding leads to a buildup of galactose in
the baby and can cause cataracts, cirrhosis of the liver and spleen, and mental
retardation. If the liver is not healthy, it becomes less able to convert galactose. This
fact is sometimes used as a criterion for a clinical liver-function test. If galactose is
injected into someone with a defective liver, most of the galactose will later appear in
the urine, confirming the diagnosis of liver dysfunction.
Mucic Acid and Mucus: Under normal conditions, only part of the galactose is
expelled with the urine. If there is a deficiency of protective antioxidants, then the rest
is mainly oxidized to galactaric acid, commonly known as mucic acid. The great
health danger of mucic acid is that it is insoluble. The body cannot let it pile up in vital
areas and block organ functions or blood circulation. Therefore, it forms the mucic
acid into a sticky suspension in water called mucus. Thus, mucic acid is a main
component of pathogenic -(disease-producing) mucus.
It is the function of the lymphatic system to remove dangerous substances,
such as mucus, from areas of vital importance and transport them to the organs of
elimination. Mucus is too dangerous to dispose of through the kidneys or (with bile)
through the liver, but it has a special affinity to the mucous membranes that line the
insides of our body openings. Of prime importance here are the lungs, the respiratory

tract, the hollow head spaces, the sinuses, and the Eustachian tube (a passage
between the mouth and the inner ear).
The mucus accumulates in these hollow spaces until external factors help to
sensitize the mucous membranes sufficiently to allow the mucus to pass through.
This is relatively easy in young individuals and those with a poor sugar metabolism,
as they have high levels of histamine and inflammatory adrenal hormones. Even
minor irritations of the mucous membranes, be they from cold air, dust, air pollution,
pollen, or germs, will sensitize these to let some of the mucus flow out, such as
through sneezing.
Such mucus cleansing may be experienced periodically as a cold, hay fever,
wet cough, or running nose. In others, the accumulation of mucus, which provides a
favourable breeding ground for germs, causes chronic infections in specific areas
such as the sinuses, the middle ear, the respiratory tract, and the lungs. This may
allow a permanent trickle of mucus through the affected mucous membrane. In
addition, a dead (commonly root-canalled) front tooth may be responsible for chronic
sinus problems.
With a high lactose intake, the lymph channels and lymph glands are usually
congested with mucus as well. This allows influenza and other infections to spread
from the sensitized mucous membranes through the mucus-filled hollow spaces into
the lymphatic system, causing lymph gland swellings and inflammations. I have
found that in many people the number of influenza bouts, colds, and other respiratory
infections can be varied at will from none to several per year just by varying the
lactose intake. Mucus congestion is also the main cause of ear infections and
hearing problems, especially in children.
In most cases it is not a lactose allergy, but a galactose overload that is
responsible for this excessive mucus. While in the case of those suffering from cow’s
milk allergy, somewhat more lactose may be tolerated when it comes from goat’s
milk, in most individuals the lactose in goat’s milk or in tablets will be as mucus-
forming as that from cow’s milk.
Milk Products and Asthma: When more mucus accumulates in the lungs than
can be expelled, asthma is likely to develop. Often lung congestion is combined with
a strong subconscious fear element that can, for instance, result from insecurity or
lack of love in early childhood. Another contributing factor is hypoglycaemia coupled
with weak adrenal glands.
Many cases seem to be predominantly mucus-induced. I treated a patient who
was fond of yogurt and, for health reasons, prepared it from skim-milk powder. This
produces yogurt with a much higher lactose content than yogurt from full-fat milk (see
table 5-1). When I persuaded her to use somewhat less yogurt and prepare it only
from whole milk without additional skim-milk powder, her asthma disappeared for
good. The asthma-causing skim-milk yogurt provided approximately 50 g of lactose
per day, while she was asthma-free on whole-milk yogurt with about 5 g of lactose
daily.
The lung irritation caused by accumulated mucus also means that the lungs are
more prone to be affected by food allergies and chemicals. This could result in
inflammatory swellings of the bronchial tubes. Mucus accumulating in the lungs

allows bacteria to infiltrate. Some strains of these bacteria convert sugars into alginic
acid, another sticky mucus. Often there is Candida albicans or fungal infestation as
well, which sensitizes the mucous membranes to airborne moulds. Mucus--releasing
colds in this setting can be a blessing in disguise, provided they are not treated with
antibiotics. Also dead teeth can induce copious mucus due to chronic root and
jawbone infections, as explained in step 8.
The mucous membranes of asthmatics, which are highly sensitized by mucic
acid, react strongly to air pollutants such as smoke, pollen, and sulphur dioxide. The
adrenal glands are typically weak and histamine levels are high because of a sweet
diet and allergies. To overcome asthma, we need to reverse these negative
conditions by using a low-allergy diet with a minimum of sweet or mucus-forming
food, while the respiratory tract should periodically be cleared of mucus. Breathing
exercises also help this condition.
Milk Products and Chronic Degenera-tive Diseases: A serious consequence
of a congested lymphatic system full of mucus is the development of leukaemia. This
happens when the immune system has been sufficiently damaged by frequent
mucus-related infections combined with other factors such as toxic chemicals, a
sweet diet, allergies, and -vitamin--mineral deficiencies.
It may not be a coincidence that Nathan
Table 5-1: Lactose Content
Pritikin, famous for his much-publicized diet to
of Dairy Products
cure cardiovascular diseases, developed
leukaemia. The original Pritikin diet is high in butter 0.5%
skim-milk products and, therefore, imposes a cheese, cottage cheese 2-4%
severe galactose overload on the body. goat’s milk 4.3%
Leukaemia or another galactose-related cow’s milk 4.9%
degenerative disease is more likely to develop
yogurt and ice cream
as a long-term effect of a high intake of skim-
(with skim milk powder) 5-25%
milk products. It is important to note that
cardiovascular diseases can be prevented or skim-milk powder 52%
cured nutritionally without causing other health whey powder 70%
problems such as leukaemia.
Leukaemia stands in between the acute mucus-related infections of childhood
and the usual chronic degenerative diseases that develop with advancing age. When
our metabolism slows down as we become older or if we are on an unsuitably heavy
meat diet, the body gradually becomes too alkaline and the mucous membranes
become more insensitive. In this condition, the release of mucus through colds and
other respiratory infections becomes rare and most of the mucic acid is stored in the
body.
A lactose intolerance, and thus an enforced avoidance of foods containing
lactose, can also protect us from another disease: cataracts of the eyes. Even infants
can develop cataracts when they cannot convert galactose to glucose, and galactose
overload is an important cause of cataracts in adults. In addition, high blood glucose
and fructose levels may contribute. These simple sugars are reduced to sugar
alcohols that cause cloudiness in the lens. Another form of cataract is mainly caused
by a chronic deficiency of vitamins A, B2, C, D, and E, and the minerals chromium
and selenium. Radiation exposure or drugs can also cause cataracts.

Besides cataracts, there are other diseases that are usually considered to be
typical for the aging body, but that occur in infants with galactosaemia. These include
liver degeneration, oedema, and reduced memory or senility (the latter being
equivalent to mental retardation in infants with galactosaemia).
Cancer (carcinoma) reportedly can result from galactosaemia. A clinical study
shows that women who consumed yogurt had a higher rate of ovarian cancer than
controls who consumed the same amount of lactose from other milk products.25
Because of the activity of the lactic-acid bacteria, yogurt contains more readily
available galactose than other milk products.
A frequent complaint is increasing deafness with subsequent infection and
inflammation because of mucus congestion of the Eustachian tube and the middle
ear. In children, this condition is sometimes called “glue ear.” This is especially a
problem with children of non-European background because they can still absorb
lactose, but cannot easily convert galactose, especially from cow’s milk, into energy.
One Scandinavian study showed that no purely breast-fed baby developed
early middle ear infection and that such babies were protected against it in later life.
In contrast, early introduction of cow’s milk predisposed children to this and it was
exclusively found in children who received cow’s milk before the age of six months.26
With lactose-induced mucus congestion, degenerative lung diseases such as
emphysema can also develop. While smoking is generally considered to be the
greatest hazard for lung cancer, it may actually rank equal with galactose overload;
most at risk are heavy smokers with mucus-congested lungs. Sometimes the lungs
fill up with mucus. A patient I know died because his lungs and breathing passage
were filled with sticky mucus. He literally drowned in it. With each of his breaths, I
could hear the air bubbling up through the mucus.
A combination of mucus accumulation in the lungs and the digestive system is
seen in cystic fibrosis. This disease is mainly due to an overproduction of an
abnormal mucopolysaccharide, a long-chain carbohydrate that normally supplies the
mucus physiologically required by the body. Cystic fibrosis sufferers also may be
unable to convert galactose and, as they are usually deficient in protective
antioxidants, they may also produce large amounts of mucic acid. Like galactose
overload, cystic fibrosis is typically a disease of Caucasians.
In part, excessive mucus formation stems from an infestation of the lungs with
bacteria, which produces an abnormal amount of sticky alginic acid. The important
point here is that alginic acid is synthesized from a simple sugar (mannose) that
these bacteria can convert from an excess of any other sugar, such as galactose,
fructose, or glucose. Therefore, mucus-forming as well as sweet foods must be
avoided.
Lactose in Food: Preventing excessive mucus accumulation in the body is
much easier than trying to remove it afterwards. If you are concerned about your
future well-being, it is a wise precaution to reduce your intake of lactose to a
minimum, starting today. Review table 5-1 for the lactose content of some common
dairy products, and see which ones you can avoid.
With skim-milk powder having a lactose content of 52 percent, you may now
realize how dangerous is the current fad for using low-fat ice cream, yogurt, cottage

cheese, and so forth, instead of full-fat products. Such low-fat foods are made from
skim-milk powder and contain three to five times as much lactose as the equivalent
full-fat foods. Sometimes skim-milk powder is even added to butter. Therefore, read
the product labels and avoid butter that lists “non-fat milk solids” as one of the
ingredients.
Skim-milk powder is also a favourite additive to many other commercial foods,
such as bread and other baked products, sausages, and margarine. The health-food
industry is fond of adding lactose to many products such as soy milk and dandelion
coffee. Lactose is often used as filler in white tablets; cell salts are almost pure
lactose. Try to avoid white tablets if the label does not state that they are free of
lactose or are low-allergy tablets.
I suspect that the average daily amount of lactose that healthy adults can
handle without the danger of long-term galactose overload is less than 10 g, the
equivalent of one glass of milk. However, those who have occasional mucus
problems or are afflicted with a -galactose-related disease do well to have a much
lower lactose intake than 10 g per day. With a lactose allergy, it is often necessary to
avoid lactose completely for several months or years.
Casein, Milk Protein, and Fat: Casein is the main protein in cow’s milk and
constitutes about three percent of it. Mother’s milk, on the other hand, has only 0.5
percent casein content. The high casein content of cow’s milk causes it to form a
very tough, rubbery curd in the stomach; the casein then binds the calcium in milk as
an insoluble salt. Thus it is extremely difficult to digest and is a frequent source of
indigestion. Mother’s milk and goat’s milk, on the other hand, form finely dispersed
soft curds that infants can easily digest.
Thus the protein in cow’s milk frequently is only partly digested and becomes a
major source of intestinal putrefaction and toxaemia. Incompletely digested protein
can pass through the wall of the small intestine and cause allergies. Symptoms of
worms in children are often due to intestinal putrefaction from undigested cow’s milk.
Breast milk, which contains high levels of fat-digesting lipase and other enzymes, is
nearly self-digesting in the baby’s gut in contrast with pasteurized cow’s milk, which
is very difficult to digest.
In a double-blind study, 24 out of 27 babies with colic became free of
symptoms when put on a diet free of cow’s milk protein. The babies, when given
cow’s milk protein, cried on average 3.2 hours daily and when taken off cow’s milk,
cried for only one hour.27 However, I believe that breast-fed babies who have all their
needs met hardly cry at all. Allergy-prone mothers pass allergens to their babies with
their breast milk. This allergenicity is often caused by beta-lactoglobulin, which is in
the cow’s milk. When such mothers avoided cow’s milk (and thus its proteins), the
babies’ colic disappeared.
Colic is due to an inflammation of the intestinal wall, which in turn is triggered
by an allergic reaction against the protein in cow’s milk. This chronic inflammation
erodes the intestines’ microvilli through which the food is absorbed, thus resulting in
malabsorption. Incompletely digested proteins can also pass through the damaged
intestinal wall into the bloodstream and produce various allergic reactions, such as
dermatitis or brain irritation.

A general consequence of such cow’s milk allergy is a weakening of the
immune system, which in babies is further aggravated by a lack of protective immune
factors that are normally transmitted through breast milk. This is why infants on cow’s
milk have frequent colds and respiratory infections; this immune weakening can also
lead to sudden infant death or immune deficiency diseases in later life.
Cow’s milk appears to disturb calcium metabolism. Calcium becomes trapped
in undigested casein, while the long-chain saturated fatty acids form insoluble soaps
with calcium. In addition, cow’s milk has an unfavourable ratio of phosphorus to
calcium as compared to breast milk.
Several studies show that cancer patients tend to consume more cow’s milk
than do matched controls. Professor Jane Plant, author of Your Life in Your Hands,
may have discovered the connection between cow’s milk and cancer. Her breast
cancer had spread throughout her body and she had been given up to die. At that
stage, she found out that the rate of death from breast cancer in China is one in
10,000 compared to about one in ten in most Western countries, and also that
Chinese do not use animal milk or related products. Putting the two together, she
avoided all milk products; her tumours eventually disappeared, and for 13 years now
she has been free of cancer.
As Chinese have “normal” rates of other cancers, there must be a special factor
that causes their low breast cancer rates. Also the largely milk-free Japanese have
low breast cancer rates, but when Chinese or Japanese women adopt a Western
lifestyle, their breast cancer rates start to climb, approaching the level in Western
countries. Studies now link milk consumption to breast and prostate cancer.
The problem appears to be a special protein called insulin-like growth factor,
IGF-1. This stimulates hormone-related division of cells and especially stimulates
breast tissue to grow during puberty and pregnancy; it also affects the prostate gland.
Clinical studies showed that higher levels of circulating IGF-1 in the blood were not
only a strong risk factor for women to develop breast cancer, but also for men to
develop prostate cancer. However, IGF-1 levels were not elevated with benign
conditions.28 The crucial factor is that cow’s milk is very high in IGF-1, and it is also
present in the meat of dairy cows. High-yield milk production, as commonly induced
with synthetic hormones, increases the IGF-1 levels in the milk.
Another protein or protein fragment is connected with juvenile diabetes (Type
I). It appears that this is only a problem with milk from Frisian cows (called A1 milk),
but not with milk from other, lower-yielding breeds that produce A2 milk. Most of
presently consumed milk is A1 milk.
Juvenile diabetes is much higher in those who have been bottle-fed rather than
breast-fed and it is lower in communities that consume less cow’s milk products.
Studies of newly diagnosed diabetic children revealed an immune response to this
protein fragment of cow’s milk protein in all of them, and found that it has the same
composition as one called P69 on the beta cells. P69 is usually protected inside the
pancreatic beta cells and comes to the surface only during microbial and viral
infections. At those times, the immune system can mistake it for cow’s milk protein
and attack it and destroy the beta cells in the process. Bottle-fed infants are very
susceptible to colds and respiratory and gastrointestinal infections; it is regarded as

“normal” for them to have six and more infections a year, even though these are rare
with breast-fed infants.
Therefore, bottle-fed infants frequently receive antibiotics that then encourage
overgrowth of the intestines with undesirable microbes and a tendency towards
chronic pancreatitis. One type of E. coli bacteria, though harmless in the large
intestine, has the potential for causing great damage in the small intestine. That is
because it produces a molecule very similar to insulin. When the immune system
becomes activated against this molecule, it can then also direct its attack against
related features at the beta cells.
This shows that a combination of two factors can trigger an attack on the insulin
producing beta cells: one factor that brings P69 to the surface of the beta cells, and
another that activates the immune system to attack them. From the first factor we
have the frequent colds of bottle-fed babies, and if antibiotics are used, then this also
promotes overgrowth of the small intestines with pathogenic microbes, including E.
coli, as the second factor. This is reinforced with feeding cow’s milk, which intensifies
the attack on the beta cells and eventually leads to juvenile diabetes.
Fermented cow’s milk products in the form of natural yogurt, kefir, and natural
cheeses produce a fine curd and cause fewer health problems than unfermented
milk. However, even these should be used with care and only if they do not cause
allergies or mucus problems. Generally, the corresponding goat’s or sheep’s milk
products are far more preferable. The least harmful milk product is cottage cheese
made from fermented goat’s or sheep’s milk.
The most damaging aspect of commercial milk products, apart from
oversupplying the body with growth promoters, lactose, and casein, is the destruction
of natural enzymes by pasteurizing the milk. Raw butter, for instance, was formerly
used to cure psoriasis, but pasteurized butter causes or aggravates it. The healing
effect of raw butter is due to its high content of the fat-digesting enzyme lipase. The
same is true for heart and liver problems, which are caused in part or aggravated by
processed cheese and butter fat.
Such health problems did not occur to the inhabitants of the Caucasus and
Bulgaria with their high intake of raw milk products. Cholesterol did not harm anyone
in former times when mainly unheated milk products were used; cardiovascular
diseases were almost unknown. Raw milk was formerly used to cure tuberculosis,
but pasteurized milk is more likely to cause it. In general, raw butter and cream are
far healthier foods than refined polyunsaturated oils or margarine.
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Step 39
WHEAT & GLUTEN
Wheat may be the staff of life, but in many people
it is actually unfavourable to health.
Gluten is a mixture of two groups of proteins, gliadins and glutelins. Wheat has
the highest content of gluten, especially hard wheat, which makes it possible to bake
leavened bread and cakes. Under the conditions of baking, gluten forms a network of
molecules, similar to a wire mesh. This molecule mesh traps small bubbles of carbon
dioxide gas and prevents them from escaping. This makes the baked product light
and easy to chew. However, in this way we create a problem for our digestion
because the gluten network is more difficult to break down. The gluten network is
only partly digested, especially if the food is not very well chewed; this is a main
cause of intestinal inflammation and wheat allergy.
Malabsorption Problems with Wheat: Gluten seriously weakens the intestinal
wall. Its effect on the tiny absorption villi in the small intestine can be compared to the
action of sandpaper on wood. Animal experiments have shown that the intestinal
absorption villi are long and slender before they come into repeated contact with
wheat protein. Afterwards, they become blunt and broad, with a much-reduced ability
to absorb nutrients.
Therefore, people on wheat diets absorb nutrients less well than those reared
on wheat-free diets. The former greatly contributes to the widespread incidence of
malabsorption and nutrient deficiencies. In such people, not only are the absorption
villi blunted, but the irritation caused by the sandpaper effect of gluten produces a
protective mucous coating over the intestinal wall. This makes it still more difficult for
nutrients to pass through the intestinal wall to be absorbed.
Thus we find gluten, and especially wheat gluten, implicated as a cause of
typical malabsorption diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, celiac disease, and sprue, but
frequently also associated with autoimmune diseases, diabetes, arthritis, multiple
sclerosis, and schizophrenia. The irritation caused by gluten is a main factor in
causing appendicitis, colitis, and inflammation of the small intestines (e.g., Crohn’s
disease) as well as gastric and duodenal ulcers.
It has been estimated that about 90 million Americans suffer from gluten
sensitivity, while celiac disease, a severe form of malabsorption caused by gluten,
has been found to be 50 times more prevalent than previously suspected and about
1.5 million Americans are thought to suffer from it. Celiac disease occurs frequently
not only in patients with gastrointestinal symptoms, but also in relatives and others
with numerous common disorders even in the absence of gastrointestinal
symptoms.29 For further information, contact University of Maryland Centre for Celiac
Research: see websites: www.celiaccenter.org and www.celiac.com.
The degree of damage to the intestinal wall is proportional to the amount of
gluten consumed. But even so-called normal and healthy volunteers on high-gluten
test diets showed a deterioration of their intestinal walls and that their ability to
absorb nutrients had been reduced.

Nutrient malabsorption is even more of a problem if white bread is used
because it has lost about 80 percent of its vitamin and mineral content compared to
that of whole-meal bread. What makes it even worse is the modern fast-baking
method; instead of fermenting the bread for four to seven hours, it is now whipped
with chemicals for two minutes. Thus the few remaining minerals stay tightly bound to
phytic acid and cannot be absorbed by the body.
Gluten Allergy: When the intestinal wall deteriorates, it becomes permeable
and molecules larger than normal can pass through. This allows partly digested
proteins and bacterial toxins to enter the bloodstream, causing allergies and a
deterioration of the immune system. Thus, gluten is actually the main agent causing
allergies. Without a weakening of the intestinal wall, other potential food allergens
would be prevented from reaching the bloodstream, except in the case of babies with
intestinal walls that are still immature.
Young babies are also unable to digest starches. Feeding them wheat
products, which is very common, almost automatically leads to the development of a
wheat allergy. Therefore, cow’s milk and wheat are two of the primary food allergies
in our society. Not only do they precede the development of other allergies, but their
initial appearance makes it much easier for secondary allergies to develop.
All these problems caused by gluten are greatly intensified by the tough
network of gluten molecules formed in baking with gluten-rich flour. In former
centuries only low-gluten wheat was available; high-gluten wheat is a modern
innovation. In addition, the amount of wheat-baking, especially with high-gluten
wheat, has greatly increased in our society compared to former centuries, while at
the same time our digestive powers have declined.
As this trend has existed already for several generations, most of us are by
now sensitized to some degree against wheat gluten, and baked wheat products
have become problem foods for most individuals. This includes whole-meal wheat
bread and not just the white variety. Our ancestors used mainly millet, rye, and oats
as staple grains in addition to low-gluten wheat and spelt; they also used grains more
in the form of porridge or wafers than as leavened bread. However, when leavened
bread was used, it was mainly as sourdough bread, except in the cities where yeast-
baking gradually dominated.
Rye and barley contain less gluten than wheat, and the protein composition is
slightly different in these grains; thus, even if you have a wheat allergy, you may still
be able to eat these grains. However, this is often not the case, and it is preferable
that you avoid these for an extended period if you have a wheat allergy, and instead
use gluten-free grains such as rice, millet, and maize. Buckwheat is not a cereal
grain - it belongs to the rhubarb family - but it contains a gluten-like protein that
requires allergy testing before being used by individuals allergic to gluten.
Processed food, including tablets and soy sauce, often contain added wheat
starch or gluten. If you have a wheat allergy and use processed food, then read the
labels carefully. Wheat grass, however, is safe to use, but wheat-germ oil needs to
be tested for possible allergic reactions.
Iris Diagnosis to Detect Wheat Susceptibility: Blue-eyed individuals with
wheat or gluten intolerance usually have a whitish color in the area of the iris

denoting the intestines (refer to Step 12). This reflex zone that surrounds the pupil
indicates the irritation and mucus covering of the intestinal wall. Frequently, the white
fans out to other parts of the iris, but especially to the head and brain reflex areas
that are in the upper part of the iris (between the ten and two o’clock positions). This
indicates gluten-induced mucus congestion of the head and irritation of the brain
tissues.
Such people are vulnerable to emotional irritability, bursts of temper, and, in the
case of brain allergy, to epilepsy and mental disease. They cannot relax easily, and
attending emotional workshops or seeking psychiatric help will do little permanent
good if the nutritional cause of the problem is not corrected. These individuals often
have oversensitive sense organs and tend towards farsightedness. As long as there
is no serious mucus congestion in the head, the sharpened senses provide good
eyesight and excellent hearing. The disadvantages are oversensitive taste buds, an
oversensitive sense of smell, and distress caused by loud noise.
Magnesium supplements will help but will not remove the basic cause. In later
life, mucus congestion may lead to deafness and eye diseases. If, in addition to
wheat or gluten intolerance, there is difficulty in digesting fats, the white iris areas will
become increasingly yellow.
Baked wheat products, especially in combination with sugars, are the most
fattening foods for susceptible individuals. The metabolism of such individuals
becomes inefficient and the wheat starch is mainly converted into body fat instead of
energy. Frequently, individuals allergic to wheat, gluten, and beer have a distended
abdomen (potbelly).
For many individuals, gluten products, especially wheat and beer, are strongly
mucus forming. Generally, the whiter the iris, the more mucus-forming is the gluten
consumed. Wheat and gluten are often a problem for those with asthma and hay
fever. If you have a problem with mucus, avoid all gluten products and all foods
containing lactose. After sufficient improvement, you can reintroduce small amounts
of rye and oats into your diet and explore how much of these your body tolerates.
Most commercial health breads contain added gluten, skim-milk powder, or
dried whole grain and are worse than plain whole-meal bread. I recommend rye
sourdough bread and rye crispbread; however, rye sourdough bread often contains
added wheat described as whole-meal or bread-making flour, so be careful.
Oats are high in proteins and nucleic acids, while the fibre (oat bran) is useful
for binding and expelling surplus cholesterol from the intestines. Barley has an even
higher cholesterol-reducing effect, and both oats and barley are superior to wheat.
However, oats are also high in gluten and easily cause the same problems as wheat
in gluten-sensitive individuals. It may be no coincidence that Scotland has the highest
rate of multiple sclerosis, with a diet traditionally high in oats and low in vitamin D due
to a lack of sunshine.
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Step 40
SWEET FOODS
Your sweet tooth may be your undoing, so consider
reducing your intake of sugars.
The main problem with sweet foods is that sugars are absorbed too quickly.
The body tries to maintain a fairly constant blood sugar level close to 100 mg of
glucose per 100 ml of blood, but this becomes difficult with the habitual consumption
of sweet foods.
When we have a starch meal, it takes several hours until all the starch is
converted into glucose. The absorption through the intestinal wall is gradual and the
liver can easily regulate the blood glucose level by forming glycogen or fat from
surplus glucose. It is equally safe to eat raw cabbage or raw carrots, which can
naturally contain amounts of sugar equal to a spoonful of honey. Again, it takes hours
for the glucose from raw vegetables to enter the bloodstream, while with that from
honey or fruit juices, it can take less than 30 minutes.
However, when sweet food is eaten during or after a protein meal, the sugar is
absorbed considerably more slowly. The same applies when sweet food is combined
with fat. On the other hand, sweetened starches, such as sweet porridge, cookies, or
cakes, cause digestive and metabolic problems and are not recommended for
habitual use. This means, in effect, that chocolate may be safer to eat occasionally
than chocolate cake.
In former centuries, only limited amounts of sweet foods were commonly
available in middle and northern Europe. More sweet food was used in
Mediterranean countries, and descendents from these populations generally have a
stronger sugar metabolism. In addition, formerly it was much more common to work
hard physically and in this way burn up the glucose as quickly as it entered the
bloodstream after a sweet snack. Food was largely unprocessed and rich in those
vitamins and minerals that are needed to maintain the blood sugar regulation and
sugar metabolism.
Three minerals required for metabolizing sugars are zinc (a component of
insulin and of several enzymes), chromium (part of the glucose tolerance factor that
allows glucose to enter the cells), and manganese (an important enzyme factor). In
addition to these trace minerals, we need sufficient potassium and magnesium to
produce energy from sugar. The vitamins most important for producing this energy
from glucose are B1 and B2.
In contrast to former centuries, many people now suffer from vitamin and
mineral deficiencies that make good blood sugar regulation nearly impossible and
severely weaken the energy metabolism. On top of this, large amounts of sweet food
are consumed almost daily, and the only “work” that many modern people do after a
sweet snack is to raise a cup or stare at the television. The combined effect of all
these negative factors is an erratic blood sugar level. It rises higher and higher after
the ingestion of sweet food and falls more steeply and lower shortly afterwards.

Depending on one’s metabolic constitution, this has different effects on different
people.
Table 5-2: Symptoms of Allergy and Blood Sugar Problems
Allergies and blood sugar problems reinforce each other and can cause the same
symptoms or contribute to the same chronic diseases.
abdominal pains diabetes irritability

addictions diarrhea joint pains
adrenal exhaustion digestive problems low blood pressure
aggressiveness distended veins migraine
alcoholism dizziness mouth ulcers
anemia eczema mucus congestion
angina edema muscle cramps
anxiety emotional instability muscle pains
arthritis epilepsy myopia
asthma exhaustion nervousness
autoimmune disease eye weakness neuralgia
backache fainting neuroses
bloating fatigue nose bleeding
blurred vision forgetfulness numbness
burning eyes gallbladder pain obesity
cancer gastric pain/ulcer palpitations
caries glaucoma phobia
chest pain hay fever poor circulation
chronic coughs headache rashes
chronic indigestion heart attacks respiratory problems
cold hands and feet heartburn schizophrenia
colds haemorrhoids sinusitis
colitis hyperactivity skin problems
confusion hypertension sweating
conjunctivitis immune deficiency tachycardia
constipation indigestion underweight
convulsions infections varicose veins
crying spells inflammations vomiting
depression insomnia weakness
If you look at Table 5-2, you may be surprised at the variety of symptoms that
can occur and the number of chronic diseases to which a weak sugar metabolism
contributes. The reason that sugar can cause such a range of problems is that
glucose has a central position in producing our daily energy requirement. If our cells
cannot efficiently produce energy, all our organs and body functions are affected.
How Diabetes Comes into the Picture: The disease most widely associated
with a breakdown of blood sugar regulation is diabetes. When diabetes develops
during childhood or in young adults (Type I), the main problem is usually a deficiency
of the hormone insulin. Produced in the pancreas, insulin is required to channel the

blood glucose into the cells. Therefore, a deficiency of insulin leads to a rise in the
blood glucose level.
Currently, accepted medical opinion does not see a connection between the
overconsumption of sweet food and the development of diabetes. However,
experiments have shown that the insulin sensitivity decreases with frequent use of
sweet food. Starting with a raw food diet that excluded all sweet food as well as other
problem foods, I have been able to help diabetics of both types to improve their blood
sugar regulation so that insulin injections or drugs were no longer needed.
In adult-onset diabetes (Type II), there is usually sufficient insulin available, but
its effectiveness is greatly reduced. The main reason for this is the “disaccharide
effect” as well as a deficiency in chromium, which is part of the glucose tolerance
factor. Insulin and the glucose tolerance factor work together like key and keyhole to
let glucose into the cells, but a deficiency of chromium prevents glucose from
entering the cells.
The reason for a chromium deficiency is the habitual consumption of refined
and sweet foods. Refined food is deficient in chromium, while eating sweet food
raises not only the blood sugar level, but also the blood chromium level; this causes
more chromium to be excreted with the urine. Another effect of chromium deficiency
in diabetics and others is the excessive formation of cholesterol after eating sweet
food and the subsequent development of arteriosclerosis.
These same factors also lead to the formation of cataracts. A diet high in
fructose is especially implicated in causing eye diseases in diabetics. Fructose and
glucose are the two components of sucrose - the normal household sugar - and also
of honey. Fructose (best if obtained from fruits only) can enter the cells without
requiring insulin and thereby can help to normalize the diabetic metabolism, but this
is risky if mineral deficiencies are not corrected at the same time, especially
deficiencies in magnesium, zinc, and chromium.
In animal experiments, an excessive intake of sugar resulted in a greatly
enlarged pancreas and pituitary glands, both of which are involved in blood sugar
regulation. A group of Aboriginal diabetics in Australia who lived for several weeks on
“bush food” all quickly returned to a normal blood sugar regulation. Similarly, Indians
living in Natal (South Africa) have a high sugar consumption and high levels of
diabetes and heart disease compared to Indians living in India who use very little
sugar and have very low rates of these diseases.
Type II diabetics are generally treated with tablets to lower blood glucose
levels. As with insulin, these hypoglycaemic drugs do not protect the patients against
the various harmful complications of long-term diabetes, such as degenerative eye
changes, especially involving the retina, degeneration of the peripheral nervous
system, and atherosclerosis, especially affecting the legs and heart. On the contrary,
studies seem to indicate that these drugs accelerate such degenerative changes.
Doctors W. H. Philpott and D. K. Kalita point out in Victory over Diabetes that
the overwhelming evidence of recent studies shows a shortened life expectancy and
more serious complications from using diabetic drugs. In fact, the death rate actually
doubled in those taking oral diabetic drugs. Most of these same drugs are still in use
today. From a biochemical point of view, this is only logical and to be expected

because if sugar levels are lowered without converting them into energy, then they
have to be converted into fat and cholesterol (collectively called lipids) that then
cause many of these problems.
When the liver and bloodstream are already loaded with lipids, it is difficult to
convert excess glucose into more lipids. Therefore, obese or overweight individuals
have greatly decreased insulin sensitivity, but insulin becomes much more effective if
they lose weight. Other studies show that blood sugar regulation is best maintained
with a diet high in vegetable fibre, especially from legumes, and that a high intake of
simple carbohydrates or sugars tends to make insulin less sensitive (active).
Sugar added to the diet of research animals or increased in the diet of healthy
volunteers has been reported to disturb the glucose metabolism and cause diseases
of the eyes, kidneys, and blood vessels. Even if combined with a high-fibre, low-fat
diet, added sugar still adversely affects the glucose tolerance. However, short-term
studies may not show the harmful long-term effects of sugar in the development of
Type II diabetes. This is because household sugar or sucrose consists of one
molecule of glucose and fructose. Only glucose elevates the sugar level in the
normal way, while fructose affects it only slightly. Therefore, in the glycaemic index,
discussed earlier, which measures the immediate effect of different foods on the
blood glucose level, sucrose is listed as a good food.
Instead, the danger of fructose is in causing an exaggerated insulin response,
mainly when it is together with glucose in the same meal, be it from sucrose, honey,
or even starches; to some degree, this happens even when ingested on its own as a
sweetener. However, fructose in whole fruits is generally fine, provided it is not
ingested close to a meal containing starches.
Let’s look now at the common habit of eating sweetened starches, as in bread
with jam, marmalade, or honey, cakes, cookies, muesli, or breakfast cereals. The
fructose contained in the meal causes a strong rise in the blood insulin level. At the
same time, a large amount of glucose from the breakdown of starches enters the
bloodstream. The excess of insulin quickly channels the glucose inside muscle cells,
which are now overloaded with glucose. Only a small amount is needed for energy
production; the rest can be converted to lactic acid, causing overacidity, or to body
fat. Gradually, cells learn to protect themselves by becoming less responsive to
insulin and making it harder for glucose to enter.
Until 1980, the rate of obesity and Type II diabetes was fairly stable. However,
when the health authorities in the U.S. started vilifying foods containing fats and
cholesterol and recommended eating carbohydrates instead, obesity increased from
13 to 14 percent of the adult U.S. population to 25 percent within one decade and
continues to rise. Type II diabetes became an epidemic as well. In addition, for the
first time in history, a large number of obese children developed Type II diabetes. As
a result, it is now not usually called adult-onset diabetes.30
While exaggerated insulin response and resulting loss of insulin sensitivity are
most pronounced in obese individuals, they gradually develop also in others after
prolonged use of sucrose. The damage is greater the more sucrose is eaten in a
gorging pattern instead of in small meals at intervals.

Surprisingly, sucrose has a worse effect than eating its two components,
glucose and fructose, at the same meal. This is called the disaccharide effect and
applies also to other sugars with two components, such as maltose with two glucose
molecules. A hormone in the duodenum releases more insulin after ingestion of
disaccharides than after monosaccharides such as glucose or fructose.
While increased insulin levels are desirable for Type I diabetics, with Type II
diabetes it just means that more glucose is being converted into fat and cholesterol.
However, there is a way to increase the insulin sensitivity of muscle cells naturally,
such as with regular aerobic exercise. This allows glucose to enter muscle cells
without the aid of insulin. In addition, the five-carbon sugar alcohol xylitol can be used
by both types of diabetics without increasing blood glucose levels, although large
amounts may cause diarrhea.
Hyperactivity and ADD: Much more widespread than diabetes or
hyperglycaemia is the opposite condition of low blood sugar or hypoglycaemia. The
most common milder form is reactive hypoglycaemia, in which the blood sugar
response after eating non-sweet foods is normal. However, when sweet food is
eaten, including sweet fruits, too much insulin is released and glucose floods the
cells.
Glucose cannot be stored in cells and has to be metabolized. How this
happens depends on the condition of your metabolism. The first stages are easy and
result in the glucose molecule being split in half; this process is anaerobic and does
not require oxygen. However, oxidizing enzymes are necessary for the next stage
and these are usually deficient in adults with this condition. Children, on the other
hand, often still have a reasonable supply of enzymes and are able to convert most
of the glucose to energy.
This creates an energy burst, whether it is needed or not, that has to be used.
The result is extreme restlessness: The muscles must move to use the surplus
energy, and the brain races as well. When the “straw fire” of excess energy is used
up, insufficient glucose remains to sustain normal activity and attention. Mental and
physical exhaustion follows, until a sweet snack lights another straw fire of
hyperactivity.
This temporary speeding up of the energy cycle is exaggerated, and in other
cases triggered, by various factors that cause stress on the nervous and hormonal
systems. The most frequent cause of such stress is a hidden allergy to food additives
and to common foods such as wheat and cow’s milk products. Usually a child’s
favourite foods are also to blame. Additional triggers can be fluorescent lighting,
television viewing, strong electromagnetic radiation, petrochemical fumes, tobacco
smoke, Candida albicans, and emotional stress.
In adolescents and adults such energy bursts, especially when combined with
exposure to dietary allergens or stimulants, can lead to periods of uncontrolled
violence. Many studies, involving thousands of institutionalized male juvenile
delinquents, have shown a large drop in the incidence of antisocial behaviour in
those on diets low in sugar and allergens. While the average improvement rate was
almost 50 percent, repeat offenders improved by more than 80 percent, and their
suicide rate fell 100 percent.

Females, because of their lower adrenaline levels, tend less towards violent
behaviour. Instead, the effects of the strong blood sugar fluctuations after ingesting
sweet food are more internalized. In sensitive individuals, emotions closely follow the
blood sugar levels, often going up and down in quick succession, alternating between
elation and depression.
Problems of Hypoglycaemia: The speedy metabolism that results in
hyperactivity and violent behaviour explains why the term “fast oxidizer” has been
coined for those who burn sugar too quickly. “Fast oxidizer” and “hypoglycaemic”
mean basically the same thing: someone who has a speeded-up glycolysis (the
breakdown of glucose inside the cells), which results in a lower than normal blood
sugar level.
As opposed to hyperactive children, most adult hypoglycemics have a shortage
of oxidizing enzymes, and this interrupts the energy produced at the end of
glycolysis. Instead of energy, lactic acid is produced in a final anaerobic stage. Thus,
only 20 percent of the total energy that would be available if glucose were completely
oxidized to carbon dioxide and water is produced.
This results in overacidity and a chronic lack of energy, which is typical of
hypoglycemics who are on sweet diets. Additional energy is required to remove the
lactic acid via the kidneys. Lactic acid must be partly neutralized and this depletes
the body of positive ions, especially calcium. A further result of overacidity is a high
histamine level, which makes us susceptible to strong allergic reactions and frequent
inflammations, while the skin becomes oversensitive to stings and all forms of
irritation.
High histamine levels together with a calcium deficiency cause low blood
pressure, which contributes further to a lack of energy and poor circulation, typified
by cold hands and feet. Calcium is withdrawn from the blood vessels, resulting in
varicose veins. Calcium deficiency also creates menstrual problems and weakens
the eyes, making us nearsighted.
Nearsightedness or myopia actually results from a deficiency of two minerals,
calcium and chromium, and both are induced mainly by a high consumption of sugar.
Chromium deficiency arises from eating too much refined food that lacks this mineral
(which means we never get to absorb it) and also from increased excretion of
chromium in the urine, which occurs after eating sweet food when the blood levels
are raised in response to high levels of insulin.
The ciliary muscles in the eyes need chromium to focus the lens for near vision.
If the ciliary muscles become fatigued from a combination of chromium deficiency
and prolonged close-focus activity, then the eye relieves this muscle strain by
increasing the intraocular pressure; this pressure in turn leads to an elongation of the
eyeball and thus to myopia.
Increased intraocular pressure, however, leads to an elongation of the eyeball
only in those of younger years, when the body has a high requirement for calcium.
With increasing age, the tissues become more calcified and rigid. In this situation, the
eyeball cannot expand with increased intraocular pressure and glaucoma may result.
Scientific studies have shown that the excretion of calcium in urine increases
up to fourfold in those with a strong insulin response when given large amounts of

sugar; this is because plasma calcium levels are increased after eating sugar. The
most common sources of the calcium excreted are the bones and teeth; this
contributes to osteoporosis and dental caries. In elderly individuals, high plasma
calcium levels also accelerate irreversible bonding with collagen and elastic protein
structures, leading to increased rigidity and bone deformations, as evidenced in
arteriosclerosis and arthritis. A high calcium concentration in the urine leads to an
increased risk of kidney stones as well as kidney damage from the calcification of the
filtration mechanism.
Lactic-acid formation that occurs after eating sugar contributes to strong
inflammations such as in rheumatoid arthritis and gingivitis (inflammation of the
gums). Normally, the saliva is nearly neutral in pH, which is less favourable for the
growth of plaque bacteria than the acidic saliva of hypoglycemics. Sugars are the
only energy source for these bacteria. When we are strictly on non-sweet diets,
plaque bacteria are denied energy and they cannot multiply, and this effectively
prevents caries.
Giving up sweet food, however, is extremely difficult for children and many
adults because they are addicted to it. This addiction is in principle the same as later
addictions to stimulants and drugs. Another effect of general overacidity is an inability
to alkalize the gastric content when it enters the duodenum. This makes the
pancreatic enzymes, which require an alkaline medium, inefficient and in time can lead
to deficiencies and digestive problems (refer to acid-alkaline problems in Step 6).
Fructose and the Disaccharide Effect: It has been estimated that about half
of all carbohydrates ingested in the U.S. are in the form of sucrose, common
household sugar, which typically supplies about 15 to 20 percent of the total calories
of the diet. One half of the sucrose molecule consists of fructose and the other half of
glucose. Fructose is metabolized more slowly than glucose and also induces a much
stronger insulin response in susceptible people, especially in the presence of
glucose. This means that reactive hypoglycaemia occurs mainly when fructose is part
of a meal.
Another effect of habitually high insulin levels is a gradual decrease in the
sensitivity of blood glucose levels to insulin. Higher insulin levels also cause an
increased loss of chromium in the urine. The result is the gradual onset of Type II
diabetes. The higher the insulin levels, the more are sugars converted into fat and
cholesterol. Biopsy samples of the human liver showed that fructose was converted
into fatty acids at rates three to 24 times faster than glucose. Fat levels after fructose
consumption rise especially high in those who have a tendency towards
atherosclerosis; this can lead to diabetic complications and cardiovascular diseases.
These negative effects of a high fructose intake also occur after eating sucrose.
Other health problems arising from the fructose component in sucrose are raised
blood pressure, caries, elevated uric-acid levels, and obesity.
Regarding sugar in general, controlled experiments with various species of
animals as well as with human volunteers revealed significant rises in blood pressure
not only after long-term ingestion of sugar, but even after a single dose. If taken on
an empty stomach, the blood pressure rose 9 to 10 mm Hg for one to two hours.
After sucrose ingestion, there is also an increase in uric acid levels. Uric acid is
produced in the liver from breakdown products of fructose. A raised uric acid level in

the blood is a feature of gout, some forms of arthritis, and heart disease. Men
generally produce more uric acid after eating than women do.
Experimental studies on animals and humans have shown that sucrose is
possibly the most caries-producing substance in our diet. Plaque bacteria convert
sucrose to polymers that stick to the teeth. Some individuals have inherited fructose
intolerance and must avoid all fructose and sucrose; it’s interesting that they have
been found to have substantially less tooth decay than the general population does.
Various animal and human studies have also shown that a diet high in sucrose
can lead to a greater accumulation of fat deposits in susceptible individuals, generally
those with a strong insulin response. Monkeys fed a diet high in sucrose produced
three times as much deposited fat than those fed an equal amount of glucose.
Surprisingly, eating a certain amount of sucrose produces a stronger insulin
response than eating the same amount of mixed fructose and glucose. The same is
true for maltose, which consists of two molecules of glucose and other disaccharides
(disaccharides are composed of two simple sugars). The increased insulin effect of
disaccharides compared to that of their component simple sugars is called the
disaccharide effect, as noted previously. The reason for this effect seems to be that
disaccharides liberate about twice the amount of a gastric hormone called GIP
(gastric inhibitory polypeptide) that simple sugars do.
In practical terms, this means that it is harmful for most of us to have fructose
and glucose at the same meal. Examples of this combination are: muesli or honey,
dried fruit, or fresh fruit to sweeten cereals or starches; dessert or sweetened coffee
or tea after meals. Most harmful are the sweetened starches, such as cakes, sweet
cookies, or crackers, and sweetened breakfast cereals. Beware especially of mixing
fructose with starches if you want to lose weight.
Problems with Natural Sweet Foods: Unfortunately, natural sweet foods such
as honey, dried fruits, or fruit juices are no better for diabetics or hypoglycemics than
food sweetened with white sugar. What seems to matter is how much sweet food is
used and how quickly it enters the bloodstream. Fruits that are acidic as well as
sweet may be even worse, especially for hypoglycemics, than plain sugar because
the fruit acids reinforce the existing overacidity. However, by neutralizing fruit acids
they can become beneficial, and eating the whole fruit is better than drinking the fruit
juice only. Raw honey has a high concentration of the beneficial starch-digesting
enzyme amylase, which is lacking in heated commercial honey; sun-dried fruit is
healthier than commercial heat-dried fruit.
While fructose from fruits can be helpful for Type I diabetics, with
hypoglycemics it only increases the lactic acid overload. Lactic acid overproduction
from the combined effect of strong muscle activity and sweet food ingestion is also
responsible for reported cases of allergic reactions after jogging. The resulting
overacidity simply brings already existing hidden allergies into the open. Apart from
the loss of calcium, another side effect of lactic-acid buildup is a tendency to anxiety
neuroses, phobias, and panic attacks.
From a health viewpoint, it is preferable to have sweet food only occasionally
and with a protein snack or meal. Removing the sweet taste from the tongue as
quickly as possible helps minimize the insulin overreaction. Alternative sweeteners

such as the sugar alcohols manitol, sorbitol, and xylitol should only be used in small
amounts. In larger amounts, they can cause diarrhea or keep the craving for
sweetness alive, which in time leads to another binge on sweet food.
The leaves of the herb stevia have long been used in traditional cultures as a
sweetener. They are 15 to 30 times as sweet as sugar and an extract can be 300
times as sweet. It is not known if large amounts of stevia ingested over long periods
of time cause unacceptable side effects, but I regard it as safer than aspartame or
other artificial sweeteners. It is acceptable to use in small amounts but do not use it
instead of sugar in an addictive way. Other sweeteners, such as saccharine and
aspartame (Nutrasweet), may cause allergies or worse. Fructose is the sweetest
sugar, followed by sucrose. Glucose and maltose are less sweet but somewhat safer
for most people, especially combined with starches. Maltose is available as barley
sugar. Preferably, use maltose instead of sucrose for sweetening starches.
As a general rule, for most individuals it is best to reserve sweet food as a rare
treat for special occasions rather than to use it as an everyday food. However, if you
do not have a craving for sweet food, then it is not likely to be a problem for you.
Those who have a low fasting blood sugar level (feeling weak or dizzy on an empty
stomach) must be more strict than reactive hypoglycemics and are advised to avoid
all sweet food for several years so that the sugar metabolism has time to recover.
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Step 41
MEAT & FAT
Overconsumption of meat and fats can create serious health problems.
Try cutting back on your intake.
Those who eat a lot of red meat tend to develop the opposite characteristics
and health problems to those on a sweet diet. Red meat has a stimulating effect on
the sympathetic nervous system and adrenal hormones. This improves the ability to
“push through” and provides “drive” such that heavy meat eaters may become
powerfully assertive and even aggressive. Another important effect of eating red
meat is a tendency for the blood pressure to rise because of meat’s effects on the
adrenal hormones and the nervous system. Among the meats, beef has the
strongest influence on blood pressure.
All this can be beneficial for hypoglycemics with low blood pressure, lack of
drive, and weak adrenaline glands, but for others, especially stressed males, it may
mean hypertension and kidney problems. Health problems associated with eating
meat fall into three categories: those common to all meat, those associated with
cooked meat, and those with meat produced by factory farming.
Common to all meat is a high phosphorus content with an unfavourable
phosphorus-to-calcium ratio. The high phosphorus content of meat stimulates the
parathyroid glands (associated with the thyroid in the neck) and raises the calcium
blood level, in some cases by activating and freeing calcium from the bones. In
combination with a prevailing over-alkalinity, this leads to stone formation (such as
kidney stones), kidney damage, arteriosclerosis, stiff joints, ankylosis, and arthritic
bone deformations.
Heavy meat eaters have been found to excrete in the urine up to four times
more calcium than normal; this is a cause of kidney stones and other kidney damage.
It is even worse when high meat consumption is combined with a high sugar intake.
This can increase the loss of calcium and corresponding kidney damage up to tenfold
above normal, while at the same time greatly accelerating osteoporosis and tissue
calcifications, such as arteriosclerosis.31 Carnivorous animals in the wild do not have
this problem caused by an excessive intake of phosphorus because they also eat the
calcium-rich bones. We, too, can avoid this problem by using bone broth or other
foods and supplements high in calcium.
Meat, because of its high phosphoric acid content, is regarded as an acid-
forming food. However, in habitual heavy meat eaters or in those with a weak
digestive system, the metabolic and hormonal stimulation resulting from red meat
consumption gradually declines and eventually leads to a sluggish metabolism.
These individuals are called “slow oxidizers.” With a slow metabolism, a deficiency in
metabolic acids develops and this makes the whole body too alkaline. With over-
alkalinity, histamine remains tightly bound to tissue proteins and the skin. In such
people, even the emotions are sluggish and they often appear unresponsive, with
little outward expression.

With low histamine levels, inflammatory responses, which are required for
many self-healing actions of the body, are suppressed. Allergens entering the
bloodstream will not cause a warning allergic reaction; instead, autoimmune diseases
may develop from a continued invasion of allergens. Histamine dilates the blood
vessels, causing the blood pressure to drop, a problem of hypoglycemics. However,
lack of histamine in slow oxidizers greatly contributes to the development of high
blood pressure.
A diet high in meat, together with weak kidneys, often leads to the
accumulation of uric acid in the muscles, causing gout and rheumatism. General
over-alkalinity leads to a lack of gastric acid in later life, resulting in poor absorption
of minerals and an incomplete digestion of proteins. Intestinal putrefaction and
eventually cancer may follow, aided by chronic constipation and a depletion of
pancreatic enzymes.
One problem of a diet high in meat and actually of all high-protein diets is the
accumulation of protein fragments in the spaces between tissue cells. This causes or
contributes to water retention or oedema. In addition, capillaries become clogged,
preventing efficient nutrient supply to the tissues; lymph glands congested with
protein fragments are breeding grounds for bacteria and weaken the immune system.
All these complications aid the development of degenerative diseases and cancer.
The indicated problems, metabolic sluggishness resulting in over-alkalinity, and
accumulation of uric acid and protein fragments can happen with any diet that is too
high in protein and are more prevalent with a sedentary rather than an active lifestyle.
They can be eased or prevented with an increased intake of fruit acids and digestive
enzyme supplements, in addition to fasting or cleansing periods with a high intake of
fluids.
However, in large measure these problems are not due to eating meat, but to
eating cooked meat. Raw meat contains a high level of protein-digesting enzymes
(cathepsin). Left to its own devices, meat tends to digest itself. Eskimos and other
traditional cultures remained healthy on a diet high in flesh foods as long as they ate
it mainly uncooked.
On a diet of cooked food generally, and especially with meat eating, the weight
of the pancreas has been shown to increase. The pancreas of animals on cooked
diets is about 300 percent heavier than it is for those on a raw-meat diet. I take this to
mean that the pancreas becomes enlarged because on a cooked diet it needs to
produce 300 percent more digestive enzymes than on a raw diet. Cooked meat is
difficult to digest and needs particularly strong digestive juices. An aging body or one
in poor health will not be able to keep up with this excessive enzyme production and
enzyme depletion and deteriorating health will be the expected consequences.
While animals on raw meat remain healthy, those on cooked diets tend to
develop a variety of degenerative diseases typical of human conditions. To remain
healthy, dogs and cats need a raw-meat diet that includes offal and bones. Free-
living carnivores not only eat their meat raw, they also eat bones and offal, have a
very active lifestyle, and efficiently eliminate metabolic residues. If we want to remain
healthy on a diet high in meat, then we have to adopt similar practices.

Health problems caused by cooking and enzyme depletion are aggravated by
an accumulation of toxic chemicals and hormones. This is due to the common
practice of factory farming. Chemical contamination is much worse in grain-fed beef
from feedlots than in grazing animals. There are numerous studies showing the
harmful effects of residues from pesticides, antibiotics, and growth promoters.
If we cannot obtain the meat of healthy, chemical-free animals and eat it
predominantly raw (for instance minced or marinated), or use digestive enzymes and
appropriate cleansing periods, then it is better for our health to eat meat only
sparingly.
Fats and Oils: Fat is an important source of energy and some of its
components, the polyunsaturated fatty acids and lipotrophic factors, are essential for
our health. Fats and oils are composed of fatty acids, chemically linked with glycerol
(a three-carbon sugar alcohol). While in a sense all fats and oils are often grouped
together as fats or lipids, commonly we speak of fats when they are solid at room
temperature and of oils when they are liquid at room temperature.
Fatty acids are long carbon chains (containing from four to 26 carbon atoms)
with hydrogen attached to each carbon and an organic acid group at the end. In
saturated fatty acids, every carbon position is filled with hydrogen, while unsaturated
fatty acids have a reactive double bond between two carbon atoms. If there are two
or three such double bonds, then we call it polyunsaturated.
Naturally occurring polyunsaturated fatty acids are folded in a specific way and
called cis-fatty acids; during heating their structure changes to the more stable trans-
fatty acids. Cis-fatty acids are important as structural ingredients of cell membrane
and to facilitate oxidative energy production, but trans-fatty acids can interfere with
these functions.
Animal fats consist mainly of long-chain saturated fatty acids with a high
melting point. Beef and mutton have the hardest animal fats with the highest melting
points; butter is marginally softer, due to its lower melting point.
A high consumption of these hard fats poses two problems. If no attempt is
made to use sufficient polyunsaturated oils that provide the necessary essential fatty
acids (EFA) and lipotrophic factors (e.g., lecithin and vitamin E), then a deficiency of
these is likely to develop. The other problem is that the liver may not be able to
metabolize an excess of long-chain saturated fatty acids.
The EFA’s and lipotrophic factors are important in forming cell walls, for the
immune system, and for platelet aggregation in blood clotting to prevent bleeding and
unnecessary clotting. They also form tissue hormones called prostaglandins and
other important biochemicals. Deficiencies in these nutrients can cause the following:
a weak immune system; blood vessel and cardiovascular diseases; blood clots
causing heart infarctions, paralysis, and strokes; skin problems, often starting with
scaliness and including eczema, acne, and psoriasis; poor growth; impaired
reproduction; and bronchial diseases.
Many degenerative diseases have been linked to an excess of saturated fats
and a subsequent deficiency in EFA’s; these include atherosclerosis, nerve and brain
disorders, schizophrenia, psychoses and neuroses, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple
sclerosis. However, an oversupply of polyunsaturated oils can have its dangers as

well, especially if you are deficient in vitamin E. Polyunsaturated oils easily oxidize in
contact with air to form oxides and peroxides that have a high potential for causing
cancer and liver damage. This danger is greatest when these oils are refined and
heated, as in frying.
The Problems with Saturated Fats: The liver has only a limited potential for
handling fats. When the liver is flooded with a consistently high supply of saturated
fats, it cannot metabolize them. Fats, by the way, do not come only from fatty foods;
a surplus of carbohydrates can be converted into saturated fat. Only a small amount
of carbohydrate can be stored as glycogen, so all the surplus energy from a
carbohydrate meal is stored as fat.
Normally, fats are broken down into keto acids in the liver and transported by
the bloodstream to other cells where they combine with products from sugar
metabolism to create energy. When fats are oversupplied, there may not be enough
glucose to produce energy efficiently, either because the carbohydrate intake is
insufficient or because the effectiveness of insulin is reduced. A surplus of keto acids
can then be resynthesised to saturated fatty acids and cholesterol (see Figure 5-2 in
Step 43).
Another difficulty is that not all the fat is convertible into keto acids, and a high
percentage of fatty acids and fat molecules are thus released directly into the
bloodstream. The body may reduce these surplus fats by storing them in adipose
tissue, forming fat deposits; this happens especially with heavy meat eaters who
have become slow oxidizers, as explained earlier. Some portion of the fatty acids and
cholesterol may then react with the usually elevated calcium levels of slow oxidizers
to form fatty plaques, also called sludge, in the blood vessels.
Fatty deposits are called atheromas and consist mainly of smooth muscle cells
filled with sludge, similar to fatty tumours. Such deposits can help cause
arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. Not only animal fats, but also peanuts
and peanut oil have properties that cause atherosclerosis: peanut oil contains some
saturated fatty acids with unusually long chains, namely arachidic and behemic acid.
However, these fatty acids seem to be beneficial for arthritic joints.
In those with sensitive skin, or especially during adolescence, the body tries to
cleanse itself by removing fatty sludge through the sebaceous glands, causing acne
and an unclean skin. Eating sweet food is as much to blame for this as is fat intake.
Fats in the feet, for instance, have a melting point of 33° F, while fats of the inner
organs melt at 114° F. If the diet contains too much saturated fat and sweet food,
then the melting point of the outer fats will be raised. In cold parts of the skin, those
that are exposed or with poor blood circulation, the fats will harden within the
sebaceous glands and block the outflow of sludge or normal skin oils. This causes
inflammation of these glands, as in acne and other skin problems.
Even worse than natural hard fats are those that are chemically hardened, such
as margarine. During the hydrogenation process, non-biological fatty acids are
formed called trans-fatty acids, which the body cannot properly metabolize and which
interfere with the utilization of essential fatty acids.
Cardiovascular diseases and an increased incidence of cancer can be a
frequent outcome of a diet habitually high in red meat and saturated fats, but so is

fatty degeneration of the liver. The blood becomes more viscous or sluggish after a
fatty meal. This causes a reduction in tissue oxygenation and an increased
susceptibility to arthritic pain, heart pain, or shortness of breath; blood flow to the
brain is reduced, producing tiredness and decreased mental alertness.
Some of the adverse effects of fatty foods result from a deficiency of lecithin in
the diet. Lecithin is a natural emulsifier of fats; it can be synthesized in the liver but
often a deficiency develops because naturally occurring lecithin or choline is lacking
in refined food. This is a main cause of fatty degeneration of the liver, which can be
reversed, however, with organ cleansing practices, lemon juice, and lecithin
supplements.
Another problem with a high-fat diet is the destruction of naturally occurring
lipase in cooked food. Lipase is important as our main fat-digesting enzyme, and we
rely to a significant degree on lipase in natural foods to supplement our pancreatic
lipase. With the destruction of food lipase by heating, on a high-fat diet we gradually
develop a lipase deficiency, and this leads to the development of fat-related
diseases. Formerly, inhabitants of Bulgaria and the Caucasus lived on high-fat diets
without developing fat-related diseases. They even consumed an abundance of full-
fat milk products, yet were famous for their health and longevity. They generally used
unheated fats, which seems to make the difference.
Here is another example of the significance of natural lipase in our diet. The
skin disease psoriasis is generally aggravated by fatty foods, and fats must be
avoided to cure it. However, in the early twentieth century, an American doctor
reportedly cured psoriasis routinely with an intake of two pounds of raw butter per
week for six weeks and with reduced amounts afterwards. Modern pasteurized butter
definitely aggravates psoriasis but raw butter cures it - what is the difference? Raw
butter from free-ranging cows is very high in lipase and pasteurized butter is devoid
of it, so the difference may be lipase.
The healthiest saturated fat may actually be unheated coconut oil. This is due
to its high content of short-chain fatty acids that can easily move into cells to be
converted to energy. The long fatty acids of other fats, in contrast, require L-carnitine
for this process. Individuals who have added coconut oil to their diet generally seem
to have more energy without putting on extra weight.
Cholesterol: Cholesterol is now portrayed as the great medical villain causing
cardiovascular disease and heart attacks by clogging the arteries, especially the
coronary arteries of the heart muscle, with fatty sludge. However, cholesterol is an
extremely valuable biochemical. It forms the base of steroid hormones and vitamin D
and it is highly concentrated in the brain, liver, adrenal glands, and nerves.
Hypo-glycemics or fast oxidizers usually have low levels of this important nutrient,
and recent studies link low cholesterol levels with an increased risk of cancer.
Excess cholesterol is normally excreted with the bile but may form gallstones if
there is a lack of lecithin and the amino acid taurine needed to form bile salts. The
cholesterol content of food is not normally a problem in itself. Most cholesterol in the
body is formed in the liver from breakdown products of saturated fats, and the more
cholesterol that is ingested with food, the less is synthesized. Thus the body’s overall
cholesterol level normally remains stable.

You may read about HDL and LDL in connection with cholesterol and heart
disease. HDL is short for high-density lipoproteins and LDL for low-density
lipoproteins. Lipoproteins are biomolecules composed of proteins and lipids; they can
be used to transport cholesterol between the liver and tissue cells. Those that carry
cholesterol from the cells to the liver are the high-density lipoproteins, regarded as
beneficial. Their cholesterol is called HDL cholesterol. Low-density lipoproteins carry
LDL cholesterol from the liver to tissue cells; a low level of these is preferable.
The aim of medical intervention is to increase the level of HDL cholesterol and
lower the level of LDL cholesterol in the blood. However, I am not convinced of the
value of the medical strategies being used in reducing or curing cardiovascular
disease. Therefore, I tend to disregard measurements of HDL, LDL, and cholesterol
and specific interventions to normalize levels; instead, I focus on a natural lifestyle to
improve health.
Cholesterol overproduction arises mainly from an excess of saturated fats and
a deficiency of chromium. The body tries desperately to lower the keto acid and fatty
levels in blood and liver, and cholesterol overproduction provides a temporary
solution. Even elevated glucose and fructose levels can be reduced by their
conversion into cholesterol. In this way, sweet foods contribute to the development of
cardiovascular diseases. Sugar ingestion raises the insulin level, and a key enzyme
that synthesizes cholesterol is actually regulated by insulin. The higher the sugar
intake, the higher the insulin level, and thus the more cholesterol synthesized in the
liver.
A higher intake of polyunsaturated oils in males can lead to some decrease in
cholesterol levels. However, in women it has led to an increased risk of
cardiovascular disease. In animal experiments, it was found that high-sugar diets
were less damaging in the presence of saturated fats such as beef tallow or coconut
oil. Despite huge efforts, medical research so far has not conclusively shown that a
high cholesterol diet or high cholesterol blood levels cause heart disease. As we can
see from the published scientific facts, it is often the contrary:
• Medically supervised trials with low-cholesterol diets were unsuccessful in
significantly lowering blood cholesterol levels or reducing the risk of heart
disease.
• Low blood cholesterol does not mean freedom from heart disease. Some drug
treatments to lower cholesterol have resulted in increased rates of heart disease.
• About 50 percent of men under the age of 55 who die of heart attack do not
have elevated cholesterol levels or any of the other risk factors such as
hypertension, smoking, obesity, or diabetes.
• Some cultural groups have a low risk of heart disease despite a high intake of
cholesterol; Western populations also had this before the compulsory
pasteurization of milk products and the chlorination of water supplies.
Recently an evaluation was published of six major trials that lowered
cholesterol in the blood in tens of thousands of individuals over many years. There
was on average a cholesterol reduction of about ten percent and only a small
reduction of 14 percent from death of coronary heart disease. However, the total
number of deaths was significantly higher among those patients who had their

cholesterol lowered compared to the control group. This included not only higher
mortality from cancer but on average a 67 percent higher mortality rate from violent
death, such as accidents, homicides, and suicides. This high rate of death from
violent causes was found in every one of these trials.
In looking for an explanation for this increased violence, in another study
researchers found that monkeys on a diet low in cholesterol and saturated fat
became more aggressive. Studies on humans found lower cholesterol levels among
criminals and individuals with aggressive or violent behaviour or limited self-control.
This is probably due to a more erratic sugar metabolism that results if cholesterol and
fats are curtailed in an inappropriate way. Erratic blood sugar fluctuations tend to
induce uncontrollable mood swings, including aggressive behaviour. Criminal and
aggressive individuals have been frequently shown to have an erratic or
hypoglycaemic-type sugar metabolism.
After decades of habitual sugar and meat consumption, the insulin level rises
permanently because of a reduced efficiency in controlling glucose levels. Then
cholesterol levels also remain chronically high. Reducing cholesterol in this situation
with drugs means that less sugar is converted into cholesterol. Therefore, blood
sugar levels become more erratic and behaviour is more aggressive. Thus, low
cholesterol diets are appropriate only if the diet is also low in sweet food.
There is a connection between cholesterol intake and atherosclerosis and heart
disease. If cholesterol in food is heated in the presence of oxygen, then cholesterol is
oxidized to oxy-cholesterol and this damages the blood vessels and causes
atherosclerotic lesions. Once such lesions exist, normal cholesterol in combination
with high calcium levels can also contribute to a further buildup of plaque. In
experiments using animals, it was found that with high intakes of either cholesterol or
oxy-cholesterol, atherosclerotic degeneration occurred only with oxy-cholesterol, not
with cholesterol.
Oxy-cholesterol is carcinogenic. The high incidence of cardiovascular disease
and atherosclerotic aging processes may be traced in part to the heating (especially
frying) of meat, eggs, and milk products, which liberates oxy-cholesterol. Avoiding
this and chlorinated water and using high levels of antioxidants could also ensure
that cholesterol does not become oxidized inside the body.
In conclusion, to avoid cholesterol-related health problems:
• Minimize the use of sweetened food, heated fats and oils, and chlorinated
water.
• Maximize the intake of unheated fats and oils, antioxidants, and fresh raw
foods.
• Lower your high cholesterol levels with cleansing periods and plenty of lemon
juice.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids: There are two groups of essential fatty acids, or EFA’s.
The common oils from warm climate seeds (sunflower, safflower) contain mainly the
omega-6 series of EFA’s, based on linoleic acid with two unsaturated or double
bonds. Cold climate plants and fish oils, on the other hand, contain mainly omega-3
fatty acids. Linolenic acid in linseed (flaxseed) with three double bonds has the

shortest carbon chain in this group. In fish oils, DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and
EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) predominate.
The omega-3 fatty acids have generally been neglected in modern nutrition.
This has led to widespread deficiency symptoms and chronic disease. Their
fundamental importance can be seen in the fact that DHA is the main unsaturated
fatty acid in the retina and the brain and is exceptionally high in the thymus and
reproductive glands, especially the testes. DHA is obviously most needed during
pregnancy and early infancy for brain and gland development. It is up to 30 times
higher in breast milk than in cow’s milk or formula. This may bear some relation to
epilepsy and eye weakness in infants, and its deficiency has also been linked to
colic; inflammation of the lungs, digestive tract, joints, and kidneys; crib death (SIDS);
skin diseases; and a predisposition to frequent infections. A recent scientific study
reported an eight-point higher intelligence quotient in preterm babies fed breast milk
as compared to those on cow’s milk formula. As explanation, the deficiency of DHA
in cow’s milk was cited.
Fish oils are now commonly used to prevent heart disease, while linseed oil
with its 45 percent alpha-linolenic acid has been successfully used to help treat
various mental diseases. Even severe cases of schizophrenia and manic-depressive
illness have reportedly been overcome or even controlled with ingestion of linseed
oil. One or two tablespoons of linseed oil daily can help overcome depression, but
twice that amount can cause a manic episode with racing thoughts, so too much has
its downside.
Generally, however, this dosage can be increased about tenfold before
negative symptoms develop. Mood swings, irritability, and anxiety can be relieved,
and premenstrual tension and other menstrual problems and vaginal dryness after
menopause are improved; prostate enlargement, arthritis, eye problems, immune
deficiency, hair loss (alopecia areata), obesity, and skin problems are also often
relieved.
EFA’s and especially the omega-3 fatty acids (such as DHA and EPA) regulate
the fluidity or softness of the cell membranes. A deficiency is noticeable as a
hardening of the skin, as with dry, scaling, and flaking skin, patchy eczema, acne,
and skin sensitive to the sun. Most common is phrynoderma, with rough, hard skin on
the buttocks, thighs, and arms. The colder the climate, the more omega-3 fatty acids
are needed for membrane fluidity.
The omega-6 series predominantly form prostaglandins that increase
inflammation and with this the pain experienced in many diseases. The omega-3
series form anti--inflammatory prostaglandins. Thus, omega-6 fatty acids aggravate
allergic reactions, including asthma and rheumatoid arthritis, while omega-3 fatty
acids reduce these. Another important function of both groups of EFA’s is in the
production of oxidative energy. Also, the “brown fat” that produces and regulates our
body heat is mainly stimulated by omega-3 fatty acids. This is especially important for
overweight individuals who want to convert body fat into body heat and for those who
habitually have cold hands and feet.
While individuals with deficiency symptoms related to omega-3 EFA's require a
higher intake for some time, it is generally estimated that a normal diet should
provide two to three percent of calories from omega-3 and five to ten percent from

omega-6 fatty acids. In contrast, the average modern diet provides about 0.4 percent
of calories from omega-3 and ten percent from omega-6 fatty acids. You can clearly
see the imbalance.
While using polyunsaturated oils instead of saturated fats has been found to
reduce the cholesterol level and incidence of cardiovascular diseases, the rate of
cancer has risen, presumably due to the combination of an inflammatory effect,
antioxidant deficiency, and rancidity of refined oils. Biological damage can result from
the peroxides and free radicals (highly reactive molecule fragments) formed from
polyunsaturated fatty acids, and the common seed oils also have a strong
inflammatory influence as they tend to form pro-inflammatory tissue hormones. This
not only increases allergic reactions and arthritic inflammations, but also supports the
growth of tumors.32 In addition, it has been reported that melanoma sufferers had a
higher rate of polyunsaturated fatty acids in their skin than non-affected individuals.
A high intake of polyunsaturated oils also requires a greatly increased intake of
antioxidants, especially of vitamin E. However, refined oils as well as our normal diet
are usually very low in vitamin E. This, in addition to a low intake of bioflavonoids and
carotenoids, is probably a main factor in the present high incidence of skin cancer.
Health problems are further caused by the improper production of
polyunsaturated oils. These oils are very delicate substances that should be
produced and stored at cool temperatures and in conditions that exclude oxygen and
strong light. Instead, they are typically extracted with chemical solvents or cooked
and pressed hot and then refined with bleaching and deodorizing at very high
temperatures. Even many cold-pressed oils are refined in this way. This causes
oxidative damage to the oils and a structural change by which a high percentage of
the natural cis-fatty acids form unnatural trans-fatty acids. Packaging oils in clear
plastic bottles instead of brown glass bottles means they are exposed to light and
can dissolve chemicals from out of the plastic, thereby contaminating the oil.
One oil, though reasonably high in omega-3 fatty acids, should be avoided.
This is canola or rapeseed oil. There are medical warnings that an ingredient called
erucic acid apparently can agglutinate (clump together) red blood cells and reportedly
contribute to loss of vision or blindness, emphysema and other respiratory problems,
anemia, and problems with the central and peripheral nervous system.
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Step 42
CHEMICALS IN YOUR FOOS
Minimize your exposure to toxic chemicals, water additives, and
yeasts and moulds - your body will thank you for it.
Almost all our foods contain non-biological chemicals to some degree. It starts
with water-soluble fertilizers that are overused in agriculture and cause mineral
imbalances and trace mineral deficiencies in our crop plants; it continues with the
liberal use of herbicides, pesticides, and fumigants. Many of these leave residues on
foods we ingest. Growing our food crops using common water-soluble fertilizers
causes a similar disturbance to the plant metabolism as a high-sugar diet does to a
human hypoglycaemic metabolism. The cells are flooded with some nutrients, while
others go lacking.
While there are now high amounts of non-biological chemicals in our food,
essential nutrients in these foods are becoming rare. John D. Hamaker in The
Survival of Civilization gives the following example of trace mineral deficiency
induced by using fertilizers. In 1948, the highest iron concentration in cabbage was
found to be 94 ppm (parts per million) and the lowest was 20 ppm. By 1963, the
average value had dropped to four ppm. The story was similar for other vegetables.
The general conclusion is that the average trace mineral content of vegetables in
1963 was close to or even lower than the lowest concentrations in 1948.
The latest results show that vitamin and mineral concentrations are much lower
now. The food tables of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the year 2000 show
that the typical vitamin C content of broccoli, cauliflower, and spinach is only about
half of what it was in 1963. Also vitamins A, B1, and B2 have declined sharply since
then, and the calcium in corn has decreased by 78 percent.
The content of trace minerals can vary in the same type of vegetable by more
than 100 times, depending on the quality of the soil in which it is grown. The
selenium content in wheat was found to vary from 0.6 mcg/100 g in parts of New
Zealand to 130 mcg/100 g in parts of Canada. The vitamin content can fluctuate to a
similar degree. The vitamin and trace mineral values listed in food tables are
therefore often completely meaningless, especially when the original values are
decades old. The trace mineral content of our arable land is now extremely low and
rapidly declining even further because of heavy cropping without replacing what has
been taken out.
Trace minerals in the soil originate from disintegrating rocks. In order to
remineralise the soil, crushed rock would need to be distributed over our cropland.
Improved agricultural conditions must be maintained by returning to the soil whatever
has been taken out, using composting and organic farming methods.
Heavy use of water-soluble fertilizers allows cropping in poor soils, but plants
become deficient and offer little resistance to disease and insect attacks. This then
justifies the liberal use of highly toxic agricultural chemicals, part of which remain in
the plants and fruits and are eventually ingested by us. The most commonly affected

are commercially produced fruits. Agricultural chemicals can then accumulate in the
body, especially in fat tissue, and they can also damage the liver. Organo-phosphate
insecticides, for instance, can cause weakness, muscular trembling, cold sweats (an
early sign of liver damage), irritability, tightness of the chest (asthma), nausea, and
abdominal pain. Organo-chlorine insecticides, which include DDT, lindane, 2.4-D and
2.4.5-T, are even more toxic to humans. They affect mainly the nervous system and
can cause a wide variety of symptoms including convulsions, numbness of
extremities, uncontrollable excitement, apprehensions, allergies, and birth defects.
More recently, pesticides and herbicides used on farms and in households
have been increasingly linked to neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and
Parkinson’s. Develop-ment of symptoms due to low-level chronic exposure is
gradual, but it has been suggested by researchers that long-term exposure to sub
toxic levels of chemicals is much more likely to lead to neurological disorders than to
physically based diseases. In animal experiments, chronic systemic pesticide
exposure reproduced the features of Parkinson’s disease.
People who use pesticides in their homes are twice as likely to develop
Parkinson’s disease as people not exposed to domestic pesticides. Also, a
combination of different pesticides is more likely to cause greater toxicity problems
than exposure to individual chemicals.
Paraquat, a common herbicide, and maneb, a common fungicide, did not affect
mice that were exposed to either one of them. However, when the chemicals were
used together, dopamine neurons (brain cells needed to regulate voluntary muscle
movements) began to die at low exposure levels or at only a fraction of what is
normally regarded as toxic. Ongoing exposure leads to progressive neurotoxicity.
There are many combinations of low-level toxic residues in our food and water,
and no one knows what health effects they can produce. However, one can
speculate. Only 100 years ago, cancer and Parkinson’s disease were relatively rare
and affected only old people. Now they are epidemic and even children and juveniles
develop these degenerative diseases. Cancer and especially breast cancer have
been strongly linked to pesticide accumulations in the body.
Some widely used fumigants can pose an additional hazard to our health.
Organic bromides, especially methyl-bromide, destroy the pantothenic acid (an
important B-vitamin) in fumigated grain and can cause serious deficiency disorders.
Later on, the fumigant may not be detectable in the grain, which is then regarded as
completely “safe.” However, the germination power of such grains can be very poor,
which shows they have been damaged.
Our unsound farming, refining, processing, and cooking methods ensure that
we receive only a fraction of the vitamins and trace minerals that we would get from
unprocessed raw food grown in good soil. However, these extremely low values are
now regarded as “normal” by health authorities because the classical acute
symptoms of serious deficiencies are still absent in most people. Apparently, no
thought is given to the long-term effects of multiple subclinical deficiencies.
Meat, poultry, and eggs can contain residues of antibiotics, pesticides, and
synthetic hormones acting as growth promoters. Hormones are supposed to be
destroyed during digestion and therefore are regarded as harmless. However, this

may not be so with synthetic hormones or when the digestive system is weak. In
addition, a surprising number of nutrients can be absorbed through the mouth tissue,
including giant molecules such as vitamin B12; this type of absorption may also
include hormones otherwise not absorbed. For example, secondary sex changes
have been reported due to the habitual consumption of hormone-treated chicken.
Besides liver degeneration, various forms of allergies, and leukaemia, chemical
overload has been linked to chronic fatigue syndrome, ME (myalgic
encephalomyelitis), and motor-neuron disease. Individuals with these diseases seem
to have a liver that is less able to detoxify non-biological chemicals.
Chemicals Added to Foods: An even greater health hazard is the multitude of
chemicals directly added to food products. These include preservatives, colours,
flavours, emulsifiers, stabilizers, and so forth. Such chemicals need to be detoxified
in the liver, but the volume typically ingested can contribute to liver damage. Many of
these chemicals are fat-soluble and get stored in our fatty tissues. During prolonged
fasting or disease resulting in weight loss, these chemicals may be released into the
bloodstream in excessive amounts and cause distressing symptoms.
Nitrates and nitrites are added to most processed meat products. They can
damage the blood and the thyroid gland, and in pregnant women, the foetus; they
can also cause severe vitamin-mineral deficiencies and may be transformed into
cancer-causing nitrosamines in the intestines. Sulphites (e.g., sulphur dioxide and
metabisulphite) are widely used in processed foods, such as frozen foods, dried
fruits, fruit juices, wine, beer, and prepared restaurant foods. In susceptible
individuals, they can cause a swelling of hands, feet, and larynx, dermatitis,
abdominal distress, and respiratory problems that especially affect asthmatics.
Food chemicals frequently cause allergies and trigger hyperactivity. This
applies especially to synthetic colours. Artificial sweeteners, and especially
aspartame, have been linked to a high rate of brain tumours, serious metabolic and
neurological complication in diabetics, epilepsy, toxicity in the thyroid, and emotional
disorders. While most of these chemicals are added only for the manufacturer’s
convenience, the food industry could easily use vitamins C and E as well as lecithin
and other biological chemicals as antioxidants, preservatives, and emulsifiers.
Another group of food additives called excitotoxins act like neurotransmitters
(brain chemicals that transmit nerve signals) and overstimulate the brain in
susceptible people. Excitotoxins are taste or flavour enhancers that release glutamic
acid or glutamate. Aspartic acid and cysteine are also brain-active amino acids or
excitotoxins. The best known example of an excitotoxins is MSG or monosodium
glutamate, a salt of glutamic acid. High blood levels of this can cross the normally
protective blood-brain barrier.
Glutamate is a neurotransmitter that is present in the extracellular fluid only in
very low concentration. If levels are inappropriately raised through food ingestion
then neurons fire abnormally, and at higher levels of contamination brain cells begin
to die. Oxygen deficiency and lack of fuel (hypoglycaemia) interfere with the energy
production of brain cells and make them susceptible to damage by excitotoxins. This
may be an important factor in the development of neurological diseases.

Excitatory amino acids cause problems mainly when they are used either in
high concentrations or in free form; while bound, as they are in most natural foods,
they are only slowly released and therefore harmless. Most processed foods,
however, contain excitotoxins, especially if any kind of commercial taste or flavour
enhancer has been added, such as hydrolyzed vegetable protein, soy protein extract,
yeast extract, beef stock, or caseinate; commercial soups, sauces, and gravies are
usually most implicated. Beware, because on the label any of these products may be
called “natural flavouring.” Aged proteins, processed meat, cheeses, and tomato
purees have higher levels of free glutamate as well, but fresh tomatoes are fine. All of
these products containing excitotoxins should be avoided by sensitive individuals and
their use minimized by others.
Water Chlorination: Chlorination of our drinking water is yet another instance
of an added substance (chlorine) that is detrimental to our health. Besides
microorganisms in the water, all other organic matter present will be chlorinated. This
produces a wide range of chlorinated chemicals with carcinogenic and other disease-
causing properties.
Reluctantly, even health authorities now admit that there is a health problem,
but they play it down by focusing only on trihalomethanes (THM’s). These are very
small compounds, consisting of one carbon atom with several attached chlorine or
bromine atoms. The most prevalent of these is chloroform (trichloromethane), a THM
that is carcinogenic to rats and mice. You cannot protect yourself against THM’s, as
they are absorbed through the skin if you swim in a chlorinated swimming pool or
have a hot bath or shower with chlorinated water. A hot shower can raise the level of
THM’s in the blood ten times higher than drinking a quart of chlorinated water.
While a large number of studies found an association between chlorinated
water and secondary chlorination products with an increased risk of cancer,
especially cancer of the bladder, I regard this only as the tip of the iceberg. The
association of THM’s with bladder cancer shows that they are relatively harmless,
because they are being excreted. I contend that the main health damage is caused
by long-chain chlorination products that remain in the body.
The level of chlorine in treated water is about 100 times higher than the level of
THM’s. There is no doubt that chlorine reacts with all organic matter, but especially
with sensitive biochemicals, such as unsaturated oils, cholesterol, and vitamins. This
reaction occurs when food is washed or cooked, when bread is baked, and when
commercial fruit juices or soy milk are made, and it occurs within your body if you
drink chlorinated water. These chlorination products have long carbon chains and
remain stored in the body, just like chlorinated insecticides (e.g., DDT), to which they
are closely related. In the same way that health authorities did not believe that
ingesting pesticides would cause health problems, so they now believe that these
long-chain chlorination products do not cause health problems. I regard this as being
complacent and incompetent in protecting public health.
All or most chlorinated organic compounds that have been tested have been
found to damage our health. It is also a fact that our liver is not equipped to detoxify
chlorinated chemicals. Putting all of these facts together leads to the inescapable
conclusion that chlorinated water damages our health to a considerable, although

unknown, degree. In the next chapter, I provide more information on the connection
between chlorinated water and cardiovascular disease.
Focusing only on THM’s, health authorities maintain that the antimicrobial
benefits of water chlorination outweigh its health dangers, and that there is no
reasonable alternative to keep water supplies safe. I strongly disagree. I do not
regard as “safe” water that causes cancer and very likely contributes to most other
chronic and age-related diseases. There are thousands of water treatment plants in
Europe that provide safe water without chlorine, using ozone, ultraviolet light,
membrane filters, and slow sand filters instead. While this may be initially somewhat
more expensive than using chlorine, in terms of preventing chronic diseases it will be
immeasurably cheaper for individuals as well as the public purse.
In the meantime, you need to protect yourself from the dangers of chlorinated
water. If you live in the country, you may have access to rainwater or bore water;
otherwise use filters or reverse osmosis to purify water used for drinking and cooking,
and install a shower filter. Distilled water needs an additional carbon filter to remove
chlorine and THM’s. For temporary use, when these are not available, you can
remove most of the chlorine and THM’s by briefly boiling the water and using it after it
has cooled. Also, a bath can be filled with hot water and the room ventilated before
getting into the bath. Skin contact with chlorinated water not only allows the
absorption of THM’s, it also ages the skin. You can counteract this by rubbing the
skin afterwards with reduced ionized water or with a diluted vitamin C solution.
Water Fluoridation: Equally short-sighted is the official campaign to fluoridate
our water supply. Modern dentistry tries to retard the growth of plaque bacteria that
causes cavities by mechanical means and by poisoning the bacteria with fluoride.
Fluoride is a strong enzyme poison. When present in sufficient concentration during
development of the teeth, it is incorporated mainly as insoluble calcium fluoride. The
lactic acid produced by plaque bacteria after the ingestion of sweet food dissolves
traces of calcium fluoride from the teeth and this poisons their enzyme systems,
retarding the development of caries.
However, the fluoridation of our water supply and the liberal use of fluoride
toothpaste introduce dangerously high concentrations of fluoride in a very active and
toxic form. This endangers our enzyme systems and greatly -contributes to a
weakened metabolism in many people, and thus to the development of allergies,
arthritis, cancer, and hypoglycaemia. Excessive fluoride exposure has also been
linked to hip fractures, hypothyroidism, Alzheimer’s disease, and reduced IQ. The
bulk of scientific research shows that added fluoride does not protect the teeth of
adults or children.
In natural groundwater, such as bore or spring water, fluoride sufficient for tooth
protection (up to one ppm) occurs mainly in the form of calcium fluoride. While this is
insoluble in high concentrations, it is sufficiently soluble in the minute amounts
required for tooth protection. In this form, and also when the blood level of calcium is
high, fluoride is less toxic. Fluoride causes the most damage in calcium-deficient
bodies, usually children and hypoglycemics or fast oxidizers.
Seafood and especially kelp are high in a safe form of fluoride. However, using
these in addition to fluoridated water and toothpaste might exceed safe fluoride

intake levels. Caries, and the health problems due to artificial fluoridation, can be
avoided by using kelp and restricting the use of sweet foods.
The United States is one of a very few countries that still promote water
fluoridation. Most of Western Europe has outlawed it; even most of U.S.
communities, when allowed to vote, have rejected fluoridation; this has happened in
more than 50 communities since 1999. (For further information on the health dangers
of fluoride and a good bibliography of the scientific literature on fluoride, see:
www.fluoridealert.org.)
Aluminium: Another mineral harmful to our health that is added to our drinking
water to precipitate impurities is aluminium. This is not a so-called heavy metal, but it
causes health problems nevertheless. We can also ingest it with some brands of
baking powder, free-flowing salt, or aluminium hydroxide antacids, but most
commonly we absorb it through using aluminium cookware and utensils. Most
dangerous to our health are acidic foods that are left in contact with aluminium
surfaces. Aluminium easily dissolves in weak acids, which are present in fruits,
tomatoes, cucumber, rhubarb, and beets. Even heating tap water in an aluminium pot
was shown to add 1600 mcg of aluminium per litre of water, which is 3200 percent
over the recommendation of the World Health Organization, which sets a limit of 50
mcg per liter.33
In the body, aluminium acts as a neurotoxin, causing brain disorders, though
symptoms develop slowly. They may include senile dementia (Alzheimer’s disease),
Parkinson’s disease, reduced memory, slow learning, motor neuron disease,
overactive parathyroid glands, and fatigue. Aluminium lowers the permeability of the
blood-brain barrier to other harmful chemicals and increases the incidence of
epileptic seizures. You can protect yourself from aluminium ingestion by using filtered
water and glass, ceramic, or enamelled cookware. I do not recommend stainless
steel, as nickel can leach out during cooking, especially with acidic water or food, and
nickel is known to be carcinogenic.
Mercury: Chronic mercury poisoning can originate from certain pesticides and
fungicides, calomel laxatives, predatory fish, and especially amalgam tooth fillings.
Such fillings release mercury from broken-off pieces that dissolve in the stomach and
also from evaporation in the mouth that is caused by pressure on the fillings during
chewing. Old fillings are thus much lighter than new fillings because they have lost
most of their mercury. Acidic foods increase the rate at which mercury fillings
disintegrate. The mercury loss from several amalgam fillings over ten years has been
calculated at about 560 mg, or 150 mcg per day, and almost all of this is absorbed
and stored in body fat, especially in the brain.
Symptoms of mercury poisoning include: fatigue, lethargy, depression,
irritability, shyness, loss of short-term memory, allergies, respiratory infections,
decreased immune response, increased salivation, gingivitis, loose teeth, mouth
ulcers, nervous heart problems, digestive problems, and dermatitis, as well as
changes in hearing, vision, speech, and writing. Most prominent are nervous system
disorders with serious mental disturbances. Many symptoms are actually the same
as in multiple sclerosis. The present epidemic of autism has been linked by some
researchers to a high level of organic mercury compounds used as preservatives in
some childhood vaccines.

Case reports for patients after removal of all their amalgam fillings include cure
of leukaemia and Hodgkin’s disease, regaining vision after 23 years of blindness,
cure of moderate to severe headaches that had persisted for 50 years, cure of
arthritis, and a reversal of general malaise with fatigue and depression. Minimize
amalgam-related health problems by refusing any new fillings containing mercury,
and contemplate replacing any old amalgam fillings; for this, see a holistic dentist.34
For more details on dental health, review Step 8. For practical advice and support,
contact: www.amalgam.org; for wide-ranging scientific information on the negative
health effects of amalgam fillings and heavy metals: www.melisa.org. An
independent researcher, Bernie Windham, has assembled hundreds of clinical
studies on the problems caused by amalgam fillings and harmful metals at:
www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/.
Mercury exposure from eating fish has greatly increased in recent decades.
Even health authorities acknowledge that there is now a problem and advise avoiding
large predatory fish, especially for pregnant women. Some studies show that on
average more mercury is accumulated from fish than from amalgam fillings. The
same health problems caused by dental mercury are caused by mercury from fish.
Only non-predatory fish or small predatory fish are reasonably safe to eat on a
regular basis. You can check the safety of commonly used fish species at:
www.ewg.org.
The Pros and Cons of Cooking: Cooked food has been a hallmark of
civilization. Cooking breaks down cellulose in vegetables and connective tissue in
meat and thus makes these foods easier to chew and more palatable. Bacteria are
destroyed at the same time, making these foods safer to eat, but only if eaten
immediately after cooking. During storage, raw food remains much more resistant to
microbial contamination than cooked food.
The price we pay for this convenience is a loss of vitamins and minerals, the
destruction of enzymes and plant hormones, denaturing of proteins, oxidation of
lipids, loss of vitality or life force, and formation of harmful chemicals at temperatures
above the boiling point. Vitamins are destroyed by the combined action of oxygen
and heat; minerals react to heat in ways that make them less easily absorbed; and
both vitamins and minerals are lost if cooking water is discarded.
When food is heated above 180° F, protein becomes denatured or unbiological;
it changes its internal structure (the way it is folded), and the immune system reacts
as if it were attacked by foreign invaders. The digestive system is flooded with white
blood cells after eating this food. This is called digestive leukocytosis: The white
blood cells or leukocytes try to prevent food toxins from reaching the bloodstream.
The higher the food is heated or the more refined it is, the stronger is the resulting
leukocytosis. This defence reaction against toxic food does not take place after
eating raw food. Leukocytosis is a continued strain on our immune system and is an
aggravating factor in leukaemia and immune deficiency. Animals and humans
evolved on raw food only; cooked food is a recent invention in evolutionary terms.
When food is heated above the boiling point, chemical reactions take place that
create toxic chemicals in the food. For a long time it has been known that
carcinogenic substances are produced in highly heated meat, but the more recent
discovery of similar chemicals in heated cereal or grain products has come as a

shock to the food industry. When foods are heated to above the boiling point,
advanced glycation end products (AGE’s) are formed, some known as acrylamides.
These toxic products result from a reaction of carbohydrates with proteins. They are
produced at a slow rate at low temperatures, but in high amounts when food is highly
heated, as in frying and baking. Acrylamides are known to be cancer-causing in
animals and to cause DNA damage with gene mutations.
Another scientific finding is that acrylamides are pro-inflammatory and the more
these chemicals are in the diet, the more inflammation they cause. Almost all
diseases are associated with inflammation, including arthritis, cancer, diabetes, and
heart disease. The more inflammation, the worse are the disease and associated
pain. This may be a main reason why most diseases greatly improve and chronic
pain tends to disappear on raw food diets.
AGE’s are yellow-brown, like another group of chemicals related to heat and
oxidation, the lipofuscins, which are composed of oxidized fats and proteins.
Together, these chemicals accumulate as waste material in nerve and skin cells and
impede their functions. Sometimes they can be seen as age spots or liver spots.
Equally damaging is the total destruction of all the enzymes in cooked food.
Raw food contains a complement of enzymes specifically designed to digest it.
Starchy foods contain large amounts of the starch-digesting enzyme amylase; fatty
and oily foods are provided with the fat-digesting enzyme lipase, while protein foods
contain the protein-digesting enzyme cathepsin. According to the food composition,
there may be mixtures of these and other enzymes.
If food enzymes are destroyed, we must produce considerably more digestive
enzymes, and our overall enzyme capacity declines much more rapidly with
advancing years than it would on raw food. Thus we age much sooner and develop
degenerative diseases that can otherwise be avoided. Food enzymes and digestive
enzymes not only break down and absorb food, but also keep the body free of
inappropriate accumulations of fats and proteins and help us avoid or reverse
atherosclerosis and cancer. High-dose supplements of protein-digesting enzymes
are frequently used in natural cancer therapy to break down tumours.
Animal experiments show the profuse development of degenerative diseases
from a diet of cooked foods and that good health and longer life result with a raw diet.
There are also numerous reports of human cures from all kinds of degenerative
diseases - including advanced cancer - on a raw diet of organically grown food. My
own successes in healing patients in advanced and difficult conditions have often
been due to raw food diets.
Modern processed foods generally combine the negative health effects of
cooked, refined, and chemicalised food. Tinned food, for instance, causes even more
leukocytosis than normal cooked food, indicating that it is more toxic. Equally harmful
is microwaved food, as this process violently shakes and twists the delicate
molecular structures. In studies, abnormal changes in the blood and immune system
were noticed after ingesting microwaved food.
Fortunately, it is easy to protect yourself from the dangers associated with
cooking: avoid or minimize the use of processed food; heat food only to the boiling
point; and maximize your intake of raw, fresh, and organic food. Shortly before eating

heated food, have some fresh, raw food, and more with the cooked meal. In this way,
digestive leukocytosis can be reduced or even eliminated.
I have noticed that for many people cereals are especially difficult to give up.
These cause problems for many individuals, contributing to overweight, diabetes, and
hypoglycaemia. How-ever, some individuals and therapists report that raw grains do
not seem to cause these problems. Therefore, if you are so inclined, you can
experiment with soaked non-gluten grains as an addition to breakfast or a salad.
Harmful Eating Habits: The way we eat our food can also negatively affect
our health. Commonly, food is not sufficiently chewed as our mind is busy with other
matters. Thus, the food is not properly broken down and mixed with the starch-
digesting amylase in the saliva. This adds to the burden of an already overworked
pancreas. The composition of the required digestive juices is already signalled to the
pancreas from the mouth, but if food is eaten too fast, especially cooked food, the
signals are inaccurate, and we also do not receive the signal when we have had
enough, so we tend to overeat.
Overeating is unhealthy because we become overweight, but also excessive
amounts of metabolic waste products are formed that stress the enzyme systems
and the organs of elimination. In addition, food remains partly undigested in the
intestines, which encourages putrefaction and an overgrowth of harmful microbes.
The overall effect can be not only a shortened life span but also early onset of
degenerative disease. Many animal experiments have confirmed that life span as
well as health can be greatly enhanced if the quantity of food consumed is restricted.
Rats, for instance, doubled their life span on half their normal diet and earthworms
lived 16 times longer on a starvation diet, according to studies.
A famous example of a long and healthy life through restricted eating is the
Italian nobleman Luigi Cornaro, who lived about 400 years ago. He was born with
fragile health and by the time he was 40, he had severe arthritis and many other
afflictions and was close to dying. He cured himself within one year by restricting his
food intake to about 12 ounces daily, consisting of bread, meat, egg yolk, and soup.
He continued with this in good health until his 78th year when he gave in to the
persuasions of his family and increased his food intake by two ounces. Within days,
he became very sick. Again he escaped death by returning to his frugal eating habits.
From then on he lived in good health, with excellent mental faculties and without
fatigue until his 99th year. In his last years, he wrote a comedy and treatises on
longevity and health.
Eating meat or a large meal in the evening is especially unhealthy because
then our digestive powers are much weaker than in the morning. What we eat during
the daytime is usually converted into energy for the activities at hand, but the evening
meal is mainly converted into fat deposits and an increase in the accumulation of
wastes.
Equally harmful is indiscriminate food combining. High-protein foods such as
meat require different digestive juices from those needed to process a starch meal.
The digestion of starch initiated by the salivary amylase is prematurely stopped if the
starch is mixed with meat in a meal. Amylase is also inhibited when starches are
mixed with acids and the release of salivary amylase is suppressed when eating

sweetened starches. Mixing incompatible foods overloads the pancreas and our
health suffers.
The Mixed Benefits and Deficits of Stimulants: Stimulants such as coffee,
tea, cocoa, tobacco, alcohol, and various recreational drugs are widely used and
often overused. I do not suggest that stimulants should be completely avoided but,
similar to sweet foods, I contend it is much better for our health if we restrict their
use.
Whether stimulants are harmful to you and to what extent depends greatly on
your state of health and how frequently you use them. Someone who habitually takes
a specific stimulant several times daily will be most affected by it and is likely even to
be allergic and addicted to it. This applies to coffee and tea as much as to alcohol,
tobacco, and other stimulating drugs. While the health dangers of alcohol and
tobacco are well publicized and generally appreciated, the prevalence of allergies to
coffee and tea is often underestimated. The most common symptoms are
headaches, migraines, irritability, and menstrual problems.
However, coffee and tea can also make positive contributions to our health,
provided that we are not addicted and/or allergic to them. Tea, especially green tea,
is high in antioxidants and useful in the prevention of cancer. Black and green teas
stimulate the respiratory system and are helpful with breathing problems, such as
asthma. Coffee, on the other hand, acts mainly on the brain, not only to keep us
awake, but it can also prevent a threatening migraine attack. Coffee drinkers appear
to have a lower incidence of Parkinson’s disease. A dry red wine taken with a meal
can be beneficial, and beer in moderation is fine (provided you have no gluten or
yeast sensitivity). Unfortunately, modern beer and many wines are chemicalised and
not beneficial.
Marijuana is probably no worse than other recreational drugs and has some
useful medicinal properties along with its strongly relaxing and pain-relieving effect
on the body and its stimulation of specific parts of the brain. Habitual use is most
harmful for those who are already too relaxed and without much drive or enthusiasm.
Generally such people have weak blood sugar regulation, lack of energy, and low
blood pressure. Prolonged use of marijuana can cause genetic changes and infertility
in offspring.
Signs of addiction to stimulants are a craving during periods of abstention or
bingeing when a tempting opportunity arises. In order to improve your health, avoid
the addictive stimulant for a very long time, preferably for several years. People in
poor health, especially if their system is acid and they have a disturbed sugar
metabolism, easily become addicted and allergic to any stimulant that is used for a
prolonged period.
If your health is reasonably good, it will not be too damaging to use stimulants
in moderation. Someone in good health rarely becomes addicted. The main thing to
watch out for is that it not become a habit or a craving, and also that alcohol not be
used to excess. However, smoking is almost always an addiction and has no
redeeming health features at all.
If you use a stimulant regularly, more than once or twice a week, I recommend
that you stop using it for one week every few months and carefully observe yourself

during abstention and when it is reintroduced for signs of craving, discomfort, or
allergy. This advice to interrupt stimulant use occasionally does not apply, however,
to regular smoking, hard drugs, or binge drinking. For these, permanent abstention is
the only solution. Pregnant and nursing women are best advised to abstain
completely from alcohol, tobacco, and drugs.
Yeasts and Moulds: Yeasts, moulds, and mushrooms are all fungi. Yeasts are
widely used in baking and brewing and also as concentrated yeast extracts and food
yeasts. Moulds are used in some cheeses and to produce antibiotics. We all have
some yeast cells resident in our intestines. Normally, these are harmless, as the
intestinal bacteria keep them subdued. However, in many people the fungi have
taken over, and the overuse of prescription drugs and improper dietary changes have
contributed to this condition.
Yeast proliferation is stimulated by birth-control pills and consumption of sweet
food, as sugars are the only energy source for yeasts, but the main reason that it has
become a widespread health problem at present is the general use of antibiotics and
prescription drugs that suppress the immune system. Antibiotics decimate the normal
intestinal bacteria but leave the yeast cells unaffected, allowing them to proliferate
and take over the space normally occupied by intestinal bacteria. From the intestinal
tract, the yeast cells can invade other mucous membranes, especially those of the
vagina, mouth, and lungs; they can also penetrate the intestinal wall and enter the
bloodstream.
The most common form of intestinal yeast is Candida albicans, an overgrowth
of which can cause gastritis, colitis, cystitis, bloating, oral (thrush) or vaginal
infestation, menstrual problems, and asthma. Allergies with a wide variety of
symptoms result when this yeast penetrates the intestinal wall. In addition to skin and
breathing problems, severe mental and emotional reactions, especially depression,
are common. Autism, neuroses, and mental diseases, including schizophrenia, have
reportedly been cured with antifungal therapy. Usually in such cases, the patient has
a history of Candida problems and antibiotic use. The toxicity of Candida to the
nervous system is largely due to an excessive production of acetaldehyde. This
substance is formed when yeast cells metabolize sugars and there is a deficiency of
oxygen.
Another important aspect of systemic fungal infestation is severe damage to
the immune system, leading to autoimmune diseases and immune deficiency states,
including lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and, most likely, AIDS. After the
immune system has been severely damaged by this fungus, it is easy for bacteria
and viruses to invade the body and cause serious and even lethal diseases.
Dietary yeasts and moulds greatly increase the difficulties of susceptible
individuals, frequently causing allergic reactions and flare-ups of Candida infections.
Some moulds can damage the liver, such as aflatoxins, from a mould that frequently
grows on peanuts and is present in peanut butter. Moulds commonly grow on dried
fruits, on poorly stored grains and nuts, on the outer leaves of cabbage, and on the
skins of various fresh fruits.
A study in the U.K. in 1977 found that moulds and their poisonous mycotoxins
(fungal toxins) were present in all 318 samples of flour tested. This mould
contamination was believed due to insufficient drying in the process of combine-

harvesting of grain. Whole-meal flour, bran, and wheat germ are even more affected
by mould than is white flour; rice is also frequently contaminated.
Even if the fungi are killed during cooking, the products of their decomposition
can still cause allergies. Washing whole grains, nuts, and susceptible fruits and
vegetables before cooking or eating helps to remove moulds; drying them in the sun
destroys fungi and prevents their development. Preferably also remove
environmental moulds, such as those on walls and bathroom tiles, because they can
be inhaled and cause lung and breathing problems in susceptible individuals
(asthmatics).
Frequently, antibiotics are routinely added to animal feed for meat production;
this applies especially to poultry and pigs. Antibiotic residues can impair the intestinal
flora of the consumer of such products and thereby encourage the spread of
Candida. In addition, the meat itself can be infested with Candida or other fungi
because of the prolonged use of antibiotics in the animals; resistant strains of harmful
bacteria may also be present. I do not recommend habitually eating such meat. As a
general rule, I recommend you avoid meat from commercial animal feedlots.
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Step 43
METABOLIC TYPES, PATHWAYS, & DIETS
Know your individual metabolic type and
your specific dietary requirements.
Some foods, such as meat or sweet and acidic foods, are good for certain
people, and for these people they are not problem foods, while with other people
their effects are adverse. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon and
insight into the food-related causes of diseases, let’s look at metabolism.
Our metabolism is the total of all the millions of biochemical and enzymatic
reactions that take place in our body at any given time. Some reactions use energy to
build (anabolism) more complex structures from assimilated nutrients, while others
release energy by breaking down (catabolism) more complex molecules.
While there are additional factors and overlapping influences, we can say
generally that our metabolic pathways are most strongly influenced by our nutrition,
that our glandular system is mainly affected by our emotions, and that our nervous
system responds primarily to brain and mental activity. All three factors together -
nutrition, glandular system, and nervous system - regulate our metabolism.
Inherited or acquired variations of these regulating factors produce a unique
blend for each individual and call for different specific requirements for optimal
health. However, there are some common key factors and we can distinguish several
groups with similar characteristics: Each group represents a metabolic type, which I
explain below. But first, two concepts must be explained: the autonomic nervous
system and the tension-relaxation cycle.
The Autonomic Nervous System: The autonomic nervous system (ANS) has
a great influence on our metabolism. It regulates those body processes that usually
function automatically without our conscious control, such as heartbeat, digestive
processes, nerve reflexes, and so forth. It has two branches with opposite
characteristics: the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic
nervous system (PNS).
The main function of the SNS is to prepare the body for action: epinephrine
pours into the bloodstream; the muscles tense; blood pressure, pulse, and breathing
rate increase as well as the rate of catabolic processes in general. The digestion,
however, is slowed or interrupted. The SNS is activated by emotions such as anger
and fear, by the intention to take some action, but also by certain foods, and most
strongly by red meat.
The PNS relaxes the muscles, improves the digestion, and lowers blood
pressure, pulse, and breathing. The PNS is dominant during sleep and with relaxed
body and mind conditions. The endings of the PNS nerves release acetylcholine
when stimulated, while SNS nerves release norepinephrine, an epinephrine-like
hormone with opposite effects to those of acetylcholine. SNS dominance leads to
elevated blood levels of glucose and fatty acids (diabetes, coronary heart disease),
while with PNS dominance these levels are lowered (hypoglycaemia).

The Tension-Relaxation Cycle: Overall, each body function should be in
balance between the opposite forces of the SNS and PNS. However, at any given
moment, one force will usually prevail; during action the SNS dominates and during
rest the PNS. A healthy body is not static but in a dynamic balance, like a swinging
pendulum.
Problems arise when the tension-relaxation cycle is not balanced but is one-
sided. During work there may be too much tension, while the following rest period
does not result in complete relaxation. If this condition becomes chronic, other
tension-related symptoms can develop, such as high blood pressure or restlessness.
To bring the body back into balance, remedies with a PNS influence can be applied,
such as relaxation exercises, a vegetarian diet, or magnesium supplements. On the
other hand, if the body generally is too relaxed, too weak, and too soft for the daily
tasks, and mind and emotions cannot be aroused, then tension-producing SNS
influences can be applied, such as consuming flesh foods or calcium supplements.
Basic Metabolic Types: From these considerations about our ANS, we can
describe three metabolic types: the P-type in which the PNS dominates; the S-type
with a dominating SNS; and a balanced type. Population groups over thousands of
years developed predominantly into one of these types, depending on climate and
available food. These inherited ancestral metabolic characteristics remain fairly
stable during our lifetime and form our basic metabolic blueprint on which acquired
metabolic traits are superimposed.
The fundamental difference between the P-type and the S-type can be
illustrated if we compare the mental picture or stereotype we have of the Native
American with that of a desert Arab.
The Native American is deliberate and measured in movement and speech,
stoic, and rarely displays emotions. He or she has a powerful body and a broad face,
is a hunter, and eats relatively few carbohydrates. This is a typical representation of
the positive aspects of the P-type. We find the same characterization, only adjusted
to a colder climate, in the Eskimo. The typical desert Arab, on the other hand, is
agile, lively, energetic, and quick to act on feelings and emotions. He or she is lean,
with a narrow face, and can (or reportedly could in former times) exist for long
periods on nothing but dates and still maintain remarkable endurance. This portrait
shows the positive aspects of the metabolic S-type.
The apparently unbalanced ANS of each type is actually balanced through the
opposite influence of the traditional diet. Thus, the high-meat diet of the Native
American stimulates the SNS and epinephrine production, while the predominantly
vegetarian diet of the Arab sedates the SNS and epinephrine response. If the Native
American and the desert Arab were to interchange their diets, they would become
unbalanced, their energy metabolism would eventually become inefficient, and their
health would decline. They would then display the negative characteristics of their
metabolic types.
Other races and nations that are predominantly of the P-type are the North
Europeans, Dutch, Russians, Polynesians, and New Zealand Maoris, the latter being
a traditional hunter society in a warm climate. The S-type, on the other hand, is
mainly grouped around the Mediterranean and the tropical and subtropical regions of
Asia. Generally, the P-type originated in cold climates that offered a continuous

supply of animal products but a lack of plant food in winter, while the S-type evolved
with a continuous, plentiful supply of plant food. There are, however, no original
populations that live entirely on animal or plant food.
Most of those with middle-European ancestors are of the balanced metabolic
type, readily utilizing all three metabolic pathways: carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
However, sweet foods were relatively rare and reserved for special occasions in
those metabolically formative societies.
Table 5-3: Characteristics of Metabolic Types
S-Type P-Type
tendency to raised blood pressure, fast tendency to low blood pressure, slow
pulse and breathing pulse and breathing
slender, slight body frame, narrow face, strong bone structure, broad face, rounded
flat chest chest
dry mouth; ears and gums pale; skin dry, much saliva, ears and gums pink, ruddy
yellowish complexion, flushes
weak dreaming activity much dreaming activity
sprinter type, not much endurance, fitness long-distance runner, steady worker, good
fanatic endurance
appetite diminished, digestion slow and appetite above normal, digestion fast and
weak strong
enjoys fruits and vegetables, dislikes fatty likes meat, starches, and fatty food
food
emotionally unstable, freely shows emotionally stable,
emotions
quick to make decisions slow to make decisions, cautious
seldom sad, depressed, melancholic, or tendency to being sad, depressed,
withdrawn withdrawn, melancholic
extroverted, easily angered or irritated introverted, rarely angered or irritated
tense, lively, overactive, jumpy relaxed, quiet, slow or sluggish
strongly assertive, aggressive non-assertive, nonaggressive
hate, envy, verbal abuse resentment, guilt, worry, doubt
Slow Oxidizers Fast Oxidizers
blood pressure raised or high blood pressure low
often heavy body and hard manual worker often overweight or underweight and low
in energy
often too alkaline, insensitive to cold and overacid, cold hands and feet, skin very
skin irritants sensitive
enjoys meat and heavy food but also fruit craves sweet food but feels better craves
and sour food sweet food but feels better after protein
and salty food
emotionally unresponsive, emotionally unstable, irritable, outbursts,

undemonstrative shy, resentful
rarely has colds, infections, allergies, or susceptible to colds, allergies,
inflammations, susceptible to chronic inflammations, acute infections,
infections, liver and kidney problems, rheumatoid arthritis, anemia, lymph gland
cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke diseases, mucus problems, leukaemia

Table 5-3 lists the characteristics of the P-type and S-type. Those of balanced type
are generally between these opposites. The positive characteristics of the P-type are
described as being relaxed, dependable, quiet, cautious, and emotionally stable, with
good skin circulation, a ruddy complexion, and good endurance. Pulse, breathing rate,
and blood pressure tend towards the low side. The basic traits of the S-type are that
individuals have plenty of drive, freely show their emotions, and are lively, assertive, and
quick to make decisions. The body tends to be lean; pulse, breathing rate, and blood
pressure may be elevated.
Converted Metabolic Types: Inherited weaknesses and deteriorating health can
cause far-reaching changes in our metabolic characteristics, sometimes requiring a diet
that is similar to that of our opposite basic type. The actual cause of such changes can
be an overstimulation or weakening of the SNS or the endocrine glands; it can also be a
partial blockage of a metabolic pathway because of vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
Most frequently, however, our metabolism has deteriorated because we overuse
problem foods.
Slow Oxidizers: Few individuals in our society still display all the positive
characteristics of their basic metabolic type. Many of us live in a stimulating social
environment and use stimulating foods at the same time, such as red meat, spices,
alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco, or drugs. All these factors stimulate the SNS and our
endocrine glands. We become nervous, restless, sleepless, quick-tempered, and
overaggressive, with raised blood pressure and permanent muscle tension. Such
individuals are now negatively SNS-dominant and can be classified as negative S-types,
even if they originally had a balanced or even PNS-dominated metabolism.
Other negative characteristics can develop, such as being underweight, having a
dry mouth or yellowish skin, poor appetite with a weak, slow digestion, emotional
instability, or an uncontrolled temper. Deteriorating liver and kidney function in
combination with a high-meat diet can lead to a buildup of uric acid and cause gout and
rheumatism. Irritation or ulcers of the digestive tract may be present, and sometimes
migraines can develop as well. If such overstimulation persists for a long time, especially
in combination with a diet high in red meat and fat, then the liver and glandular system
gradually become weak and the metabolism slows down. This is the condition of a slow
oxidizer.
The main characteristics of slow oxidizers are raised blood pressure and alkaline
body fluids. Together with a raised calcium blood level, this frequently leads to kidney
stone formations. Often, slow oxidizers originate from the P-type and are manual
workers, such as farmers and builders, people with a heavy body and bone structure
and who usually eat large amounts of meat.
The skin of slow oxidizers is usually insensitive to cold and irritants. Emotionally
they are stable and even unresponsive and undemonstrative; they do not show or
experience much in the way of strong feelings and emotions. They are slow,
dependable, and reliable. If they originate from the basic S-type, they are lean and show
more emotional response. Common health problems are hypertension and
cardiovascular diseases, chronic infections, degenerative liver and kidney diseases,
stroke, and cancer.

Figure 5-1: Relationships between Metabolic Types
Fast Oxidizers: The opposite metabolic path is exhibited by those of the balanced
type and the P-type who live on a low-protein vegetarian diet or who are protein deficient
because of malabsorption or liver problems. They become negative P-types, displaying
the traits of negative PNS dominance. They lose their normal aggressiveness,
enthusiasm, and self-assertiveness, and they become sluggish, listless, and
underpowered. They may become unemotional and lose interest in the happenings
around them; marijuana use makes this condition worse.
This metabolic type is widespread in many underdeveloped countries, but also in
alternative lifestyle groups in Western society. Women are more prone to this condition
than men as they naturally have lower epinephrine levels. Other negative features that
can develop are low blood pressure with a lack of energy; the weight becomes too low or
too high; the individual easily becomes sad, melancholic, or depressed and has
difficulties making decisions. Anemia may be present.
While S-type individuals can become diabetic on a diet high in sweet foods,
P-type individuals tend to become hypoglycaemic. Glycolysis (the breakdown of glucose
inside the cells) is sped up and this is why an individual is called a fast oxidizer.

Fast oxidizers usually have low blood pressure with low energy levels, especially
after eating sweet foods and fruits. Often there is a craving for sweet food though they
feel much better after eating proteins. Allergies, addictions, and overacidity are common,
as well as susceptibility to acute infections and inflammations. The circulation tends to
be poor with cold hands and feet. Respiratory tract infections and other mucous
diseases are common, as are rheumatoid arthritis and a tendency to leukaemia. The
fluctuating blood sugar level in combination with allergies causes emotional instability.
Individuals may be irritable with occasional bouts of temper and even violence, but more
often they are resentful and shy, and frequently worry or feel guilty.
Sub-Oxidizers: With advancing age or deteriorating health, both branches of the
ANS tend to become weak and all aspects of the metabolism become inefficient. This is
the condition of a sub-oxidizer, and is common to all metabolic types whose health has
degenerated.
It appears to be rare for our health to degenerate in a straight line from a positive
balanced type to the negative balance of the sub-oxidizer. It usually includes the
condition of the fast or slow oxidizer and sometimes conditions of both, first as fast
oxidizer and then as slow oxidizer.
Sub-oxidizers represent the typical condition of old age in our society. The
endocrine system is nearly exhausted, the immune system is weak, and digestion is
inefficient, with malabsorption and lack of gastric acid and digestive enzymes. The
metabolism is inefficient, so the body usually is too alkaline. The blood pressure may be
too high or too low. The circulation is extremely poor and there is a pronounced lack of
energy and even debility. There are many chronic health problems and frequently a
serious degenerative disease, such as the deformative stage of arthritis, senility, or
cancer.
See figure 5-1 for a diagram of the relationship between the various metabolic
types. The opposite directions to those indicated in the diagram are typically travelled
during a program of health improvement. For the purpose of selecting your metabolic
type, you can regard a blood pressure of 120/80 and a pulse of about 70 per minute
while sitting as normal for an adult; children usually have a lower blood pressure and a
higher pulse rate.
Biochemistry and nutrition are commonly taught as if the basic metabolic pathways
for energy production are used in the same way by all people, except perhaps for some
uncommon hormone and enzyme deficiencies. This, however, is an oversimplification
that leaves the health practitioner as well as the patient without clear guidance as to how
to use nutrition to overcome disease and maintain health.
A more relevant study of our energy metabolism (the way in which our cells
produce energy from food) provides some fascinating insights into the reasons why
certain diets and nutrients are beneficial or harmful for various diseases and for different
metabolic types. While part of this study may seem technical and difficult to understand,
it is worth the effort because here we have the basis of all the disease-producing and
healing effects of nutrition.
Glycolysis and Citric Acid Cycle: The main energy-generating mechanism in our
cells is the Krebs cycle or citric acid cycle. This is a series of enzymatic steps through
which a two-carbon molecule (acetyl or acetate) is oxidized to yield carbon

dioxide and water. All three main food components - glucose, amino acids, and fatty
acids - can be utilized in this way.
Glucose is normally the most important fuel molecule. Through several reactions
along the glycolytic pathway, it is split in half to form pyruvic acid. Niacinamide and
vitamin B1, as coenzymes, are the necessary vitamins at this stage; magnesium is also
required. Glycolysis proceeds anaerobically, that is, without oxygen. See figure 5-2 for a
diagram of cellular energy metabolism. The next step may be in one of two directions,
and it is here that most intracellular energy problems develop. Pyruvic acid can combine
with carbon dioxide and become oxaloacetic acid, or it can lose carbon dioxide and form
acetyl coenzyme A. Combining with carbon dioxide requires a high amount of energy as
well as biotin, nicotinamide, and manganese. The step in the other direction needs
oxygen and magnesium, as well as the vitamins B1, niacinamide, and pantothenic acid.
If the metabolism is in good condition, then both reactions take place in such
proportions that there are always equal amounts of oxaloacetic acid and acetyl
coenzyme A available. Both molecules will then combine to form citric acid as the first
step in the citric acid cycle. During several more steps in this cycle, together with
reactions that follow up the cycle, the acetyl component is completely oxidized into two
molecules of carbon dioxide and water, while the oxaloacetate is reformed, ready for a
fresh turn of the cycle.
However, in practice, usually a deficit of oxaloacetic acid will develop, because this
is a very useful molecule that is required for many other reactions, such as to form
amino acids or nucleic acids. The body covers this deficit by converting an appropriate
amount of pyruvic acid into oxaloacetic acid. Important for the operation of this cycle are
the vitamins B1, B2, and niacinamide, in addition to magnesium and oxygen.
In this way, someone of the S-type (“desert Arab”) can obtain all his energy by
burning carbohydrates. The P-type (“Native American”), on the other hand, will create
very little of her energy in this way. She produces energy mainly by forming acetyl
coenzyme A directly from fats (requiring vitamin B2, niacinamide, and biotin) and from
amino acids (requiring vitamin B6). Most of the small intake of carbohydrates will be
converted to oxaloacetate.
The balanced type is able to use both main pathways efficiently and best gains
energy from a mixture of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. The third path, the
conversion of pyruvic acid into lactic acid, is an emergency measure that can be used by
all metabolic types. This is an anaerobic step, which in most instances is triggered by a
shortfall of oxygenating enzymes, either because of strenuous muscle activity or
resulting from an allergic reaction. In fast oxidizers, the buildup of lactic acid can also be
caused by an accumulation of metabolic acids (e.g., citric acid or malic acid) in the cells.
Lactic acid is partly neutralized and expelled with the urine and partly reconverted in the
liver to pyruvic acid in the presence of sufficient nicotinamide.
Abnormal Glucose Metabolism: The P-type and the balanced type tend to become
fast oxidizers and hypoglycemics on a diet high in sugars and low in proteins and fat.
Most of the dietary protein is used as building blocks and little is available for energy
production. The ability to convert pyruvic acid into acetyl coenzyme A is poorly developed
in P-type individuals. Therefore, oxaloacetic acid is produced in excess, while lack of
acetyl coenzyme A prevents the citric acid cycle from fully operating. The blockage of

the citric acid cycle leads to a lack of energy and overacidity from accumulating
metabolic acids and lactic acid.
Figure 5-2: Cellular Energy Metabolism
Consuming more proteins and fats (best here is olive oil) is the solution, as fats are
the most efficient source of acetyl coenzyme A. However, this will be problematic if there
is malabsorption of fat. Polyunsaturated oils, on the other hand, require additional

metabolic steps and are not well suited for energy production. In addition, linoleic acid
may contribute to the frequent oversensitivity of fast oxidizers by forming certain
prostaglandins that increase inflammatory activity.
In the negative S-type where the diet is high in meat and fat, we have the opposite
problem. Initially, this provides useful additional fuel, and in combination with a raised
epinephrine level makes the personality energetic. However, there is an inverse
relationship between the epinephrine level and the effectiveness of insulin such that
when the epinephrine level is high in response to this diet, the effectiveness of insulin is
reduced.
Diabetes: Insulin regulates the speed with which glucose enters the cells. With a
low insulin level, cells can be starved of glucose. The insufficient oxaloacetic acid is
formed to combine with an abundance of acetyl coenzyme A, which is produced
internally or by a high-fat diet. In those who are strongly SNS-dominant, this can lead to
the development of diabetes. Glucose builds up in the bloodstream, raising the blood
sugar level, and is spilled into the urine.
Figure 5-2 shows the nutritional solution to this problem. We must provide more
oxaloacetic acid to the citric acid cycle. As a first step, we reduce all stimulating
influences from the environment or from red meat, alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco, or
drugs. This will help reduce the epinephrine level and increase the effectiveness of
insulin. Then we supply an abundance of zinc, which is needed to manufacture insulin,
and chromium, which is part of the glucose tolerance factor that helps insulin to channel
glucose through the cell wall.
Oxaloacetic acid is an unstable compound that cannot be ingested as such, but we
can supply malic acid (the acid present in tart apples), which is easily converted into
oxaloacetic acid. We can also supply citric acid from acid citrus fruits. This, too, can be
converted into oxaloacetic acid through the citric acid cycle and it provides valuable
energy.
Another food group that readily converts into oxaloacetic acid is the proteins. Most
amino acids can either be transformed via pyruvic acid or directly enter the citric acid
cycle. Most easily converted is aspartic acid. Only few amino acids are ketogenic
(related to the fat metabolism) and yield acetyl coenzyme A: leucine, isoleucine, lysine,
phenylalanine, tryptophan, and tyrosine. Incidentally, an excellent energy protein for
diabetics, with almost 90 percent useful amino acids, is gelatine.
Fructose from fruits can enter muscle cells without insulin to form pyruvic acid.
However, it must enter the bloodstream slowly (such as from raw food and small meals);
otherwise fatty acids, cholesterol, and cataract-forming sugar alcohols may be produced.
However, Type II diabetics have to be careful not to mix fructose with glucose, as
pointed out in step 40 in regard to the disaccharide effect.
Sometimes glucose cannot be used and builds up in the bloodstream because the
conversion of pyruvic acid into oxaloacetic acid is blocked or too slow. This conversion
requires manganese, biotin, and nicotinamide. These and other vitamins and minerals
required for the energy metabolism should be supplied in generous amounts as
supplements.
The large buildup of acetyl coenzyme A is reduced in the liver by conversion into
saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, both of which contribute to the development of

atherosclerosis. In uncontrolled diabetes, a surplus of fat leads to the production of
ketones and keto acids from acetyl coenzyme A (ketones are organic chemicals with an
oxygen atom attached with two bonds to a carbon atom; keto acids have, in addition, an
organic acid group). Ketones, such as acetone, can to some degree be used by the
muscles to form oxaloacetic acid via pyruvic acid and thus keep the citric acid cycle
going. However, this conversion is slow and a large amount of the acetoacetic acid
accumulates and makes uncontrolled diabetics extremely acidic. The liver can
metabolize glucose without the help of insulin, and high levels of glucose flooding the
liver can cause a large buildup of lactic acid. Thus, an intake of sweet food contributes to
general overacidity.
Intestinal sanitation, avoidance of sucrose, allergy testing, and/or a low-allergy diet
are the main features in normalizing insulin production in insulin-dependent diabetes. A
proper nutritional program is a second line of defence and can give good results even in
resistant cases such as tumour of the pancreas.
Abnormal Fat Metabolism: The metabolic problems of slow oxidizers are similar
to those described for diabetics. However, the glucose deficiency inside the cells is far
less severe and, therefore, we do not have the overacidity resulting from an
overproduction of keto acids. Instead, the surplus of acetyl coenzyme A is mainly
converted into saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, causing atherosclerosis,
cardiovascular disease, fatty degeneration of the liver, and overweight. In the slow
oxidizers, overweight is mainly a result of eating too much fat, while in the fast oxidizer,
overweight results mainly from eating sweet food and wheat. In both cases, the thyroid
gland tends to be underactive.
The answer to these problems is to speed up glycolysis and produce more
oxaloacetic acid. This can be done by supplying plenty of fruit acids as well as all the
vitamins and minerals required for their sugar metabolism. Minimizing intake of fats and
sugars will stop the oversupply of acetyl coenzyme A, while epinephrine levels will fall
and insulin activity will rise in the absence of meat consumption and stress. This is also
the key to cleaning out atherosclerotic arteries.
Sub-Oxidizers and Cancer: The sub--oxidizer has an inefficient metabolism and,
in a way, combines the problems of the fast and the slow oxidizer. Many sub-oxidizers
have cancer or precancerous conditions. In cancer the metabolism of all nutrients is
greatly impaired. The main energy production of cancer cells is similar to that present in
uncontrolled hypoglycemics: Both produce mainly lactic acid instead of energy. While
this makes the tumour itself overacid, the rest of the body may be too alkaline due to a
very sluggish metabolism.
Figure 5-2 on the citric acid cycle also reveals how we can starve a tumour: We
must reduce all nutrients except fruit acids to the bare minimum. In this way the tumor is
completely deprived of energy, while normal body cells can still derive energy from
metabolizing acids together with fatty acids from the fat deposits of the body.
The time-tested method used in natural medicine for those with sufficient fat
reserves is a fast, lasting several weeks, on fruits only, mainly tart varieties. The “grape
cure” has become famous in this regard; tart apples and acid citrus fruits can also be
used. During this time it is essential to flush the intestines daily (using Epsom salt and
colonics, for example); otherwise the poisons generated by a large, disintegrating tumor
can cause great distress and even death. At other times, use plenty of red beets, raw,

juiced, or cooked. The red beet pigments greatly increase the oxygenating ability of the
cells and normalize metabolism.
Diet Types: Understanding how your body produces energy, and how to
overcome some common nutritional problems, can guide you in selecting an appropriate
diet for your individual requirements. Slow oxidizers have similar dietary requirements to
those of the metabolic S-type, that is, a vegetarian or semi-vegetarian diet. Fast
oxidizers and P-type individuals, on the other hand, do best on a non-vegetarian diet or
a high legume vegetarian diet, which at the same time should be low in sugars. The
balanced type can use a mixed diet that is neither high in protein and fat nor in sweet
food. Here are some dietary guidelines:
Diet for S-Type and Slow Oxidizers: Proteins should be supplied mainly from
legumes, spirulina, almonds, and other oily seeds, ideally as seed cheese (as explained
earlier), but the consumption of peanuts should be restricted. Fish and other seafood,
eggs (not hard-boiled or fried), and some poultry and raw milk products are usually
acceptable. Have plenty of fruits, especially tart varieties, frequent fruit meals, and all-
fruit days. Sweet varieties of vegetables are beneficial, particularly red beets, as are
sprouted seeds.
Polyunsaturated oils are mainly supplied from seafood, fermented soybeans,
sunflower kernels, and freshly ground linseed. Meats, fats, and processed oils should be
eaten sparingly. The evening meal should be light. Helpful supplements are lecithin,
digestive enzymes, cod-liver oil or other fish oils, kelp, B vitamins, vitamin E, ascorbic
acid, magnesium, potassium, chromium, copper, selenium, and zinc. The idea is to eat
fast-digesting food.
Diet for P-Type and Fast Oxidizers: This diet, high in legumes, is often combined
with brown rice and other grains such as millet and buckwheat (also sago, taro,
arrowroot, and tapioca if available from a health food store). Have a hearty breakfast.
Flesh foods are generally well tolerated. This metabolic type should use whole grains -
sprouted, cooked, or baked, in preference to flour products; also use plenty of sprouted
seeds. Starchy and green vegetables are best for cooking; use sweet varieties, mainly
raw, with plenty of red beets, raw, cooked, or juiced. Use salted food if your blood
pressure is low.
Oils low in linoleic acid should be used. Best here are olive and almond oils, but
also try coconut oil. The intake of sweet food, sweet and acid fruits, and lactose products
should be minimized. Neutralize fruit acids with dolomite. Useful supplements are
spirulina, halibut-liver oil capsules, calcium ascorbate, low-level B vitamins, MSM,
chromium, copper, selenium, and zinc. The idea is to eat slow-digesting food.
Diet for Sub-Oxidizers: People of this metabolic type may use a mixed diet of
easily digestible food. Thus meat may be used as broth or stew, not fried or roasted.
Nuts and oily seeds should be soaked, sprouted, or used as seed cheese. Sub-oxidizers
can consume sprouted seeds and plenty of grass juice; they can also eat beef juice,
freeze-dried liver, and plenty of spirulina and bee pollen. Use digestive enzymes, a
hydrochloric acid supplement, or ascorbic acid with protein meals. All vitamins and
minerals, especially trace minerals, should be supplemented; mix lecithin with all meals;
rubbing the skin with cod-liver oil may be helpful. The idea is to eat easily digested food.
Diet for Sensitivity Regulation: Certain nutrients make the skin and sometimes
the brain more sensitive and should be minimized if the skin easily reacts to irritants and

Table 5-4: Food List for Blood Type Groups
Type Type Type Type Type Type Type Type

A AB B O A AB B O
Almond OK OK OK OK Millet OK OK OK OK
Apple OK OK OK OK Mung beans OK Avoid Avoid OK
Avocado OK Avoid Avoid Avoid Mussels Avoid OK Avoid OK
Bacon/ham/pork Avoid Avoid Avoid Avoid Navy beans Avoid OK OK Avoid
Banana Avoid Avoid OK OK Oats OK OK OK OK
Barley OK OK Avoid OK Octopus Avoid Avoid Avoid Avoid
Beef Avoid Avoid OK OK Olive oil OK OK OK OK
Beer Avoid OK OK OK Onion OK OK OK OK
Beet root/ Orange Avoid Avoid OK Avoid
red beet OK OK OK OK Oyster Avoid Avoid Avoid OK
Brazil nut Avoid OK OK Avoid Papaw Avoid OK OK OK
Broccoli OK OK OK OK Pea OK OK OK OK
Brussels sprouts OK OK OK Avoid Peach/pear OK OK OK OK
Buckwheat OK Avoid Avoid OK Peanut OK OK Avoid Avoid
Cabbage Avoid OK OK Avoid Pineapple OK OK OK OK
Carrot OK OK OK OK Plum OK OK OK OK
Cashew Avoid OK Avoid Avoid Potato, sweet Avoid OK OK OK
Cauliflower OK OK OK Avoid Potato, white, red Avoid OK. OK Avoid
Celery OK OK OK OK Pumpkin OK OK Avoid OK
Cheese (most Rabbit Avoid OK OK OK
types) Avoid OK OK Avoid Rice OK OK OK OK
Corn/maize OK Avoid Avoid Avoid Rye OK OK Avoid OK
Cottage cheese Avoid OK OK Avoid Salmon OK Avoid Avoid OK
Cucumber OK OK OK OK Sardine OK OK OK OK
Duck Avoid Avoid Avoid OK Sesame seed/tahini OK Avoid Avoid OK
Egg Avoid OK OK OK Soybean OK OK OK OK.
Flaxseed OK OK OK OK Spelt OK OK OK OK
Garbanzo beans Spinach OK. OK OK OK
or chickpeas Avoid Avoid Avoid OK Strawberry OK OK OK Avoid
Grapes OK OK OK OK String bean OK OK OK OK
Herring (fresh) Avoid OK OK OK Sunflower seed OK Avoid Avoid OK
Kidney beans Avoid Avoid OK Avoid Tapioca OK Avoid Avoid OK
Lamb/mutton Avoid OK OK OK Tofu/tempeh OK OK Avoid OK
Lemon OK OK OK OK Tuna OK OK OK OK
Lentils OK OK Avoid Avoid Turkey OK OK. OK. OK
Lima beans Avoid Avoid OK OK Turnip OK OK OK OK
Liver (calf) Avoid OK OK OK Walnut, English OK OK OK OK
Lobster Avoid Avoid Avoid OK
Wheat Avoid OK Avoid Avoid
Mackerel OK OK OK OK
Yam Avoid OK OK OK
Milk, cow Avoid Avoid OK Avoid
Yogurt OK OK OK Avoid
Milk, goat OK OK OK Avoid
Zucchini OK OK OK OK

if there is emotional and mental instability. Sensitizing nutrients and factors
include: acidic and sweet foods and fruits, allergens, and a diet high in phosphorus
and low in calcium and magnesium. Proteins, fats, and oils, complex carbohydrates,
calcium, and magnesium help to protect susceptible individuals from undue
sensitivity. Insensitive individuals, on the other hand, benefit from a high intake of
acidic foods and fruits, lecithin, folic acid, and a diet low in -calcium but high in
magnesium. Common polyunsaturated oils and lecithin (high in phosphorus) increase
sensitivity; linolenic acid (linseed), and fish oils normalize it.
Metabolic Types and Blood Groups: The naturopathic physician Peter
D’Adamo, N.D., has written a series of popular books about the relationship between
diet, health, and blood type, notably Eat Right for Your Type, Live Right 4 Your Type,
and “The Eat Right for Your Type Complete Blood Type Encyclopaedia”. He shows
that individuals of different blood groups have different optimal food requirements.
Special proteins called lectins found in foods not traditionally eaten frequently cause
immune reactions in the intestinal wall and may eventually lead to a wide variety of
diseases, he says.
The relationship between the three basic metabolic types and blood groups is
straightforward. Blood group O is the oldest blood group. It originated in the hunter-
gatherer area and corresponds to the P-type or non-vegetarian type. Group A
resembles most closely the S-type or grain-eating vegetarian type, while B is the
lacto-vegetarian type and closest to the balanced metabolic type. Blood group AB
has the characteristics of A as well as B.
It is my clinical opinion that it is beneficial to know which foods are supposedly
good or bad for your blood type, but it is not necessary to stick strictly to the
corresponding rules. Some of the foods listed to be avoided do not actually damage
our blood and have been selected for other reasons that may not apply to everyone.
On the other hand, anyone not in good health should take food allergy tests and then
combine the recommendations of the blood type diet with the results of the allergy
testing.
If symptoms of food sensitivity show up, then I would not use a food that is
supposed to be beneficial for your blood group. However, if you are in reasonably
good health, allergy tests show no negative effect, and muscle testing gives a strong
reaction, then you can cautiously use an “avoid” food, especially if there are other
good reasons for using it. An example of this is coconut and its products, which Dr.
D’Adamo advises all blood groups to avoid. However, I find coconut milk and oil
beneficial for myself, and many others find it beneficial as well.
While we can expect most allergies to occur with food that is wrong for our
blood type, this is not always so. What happens in our body depends mainly on the
quality of our digestive system and on the quantity and digestibility of the
questionable food and its interaction with other food ingredients.
It may be that we react differently to cooked foods and raw foods. Sprouted
seeds appear to be more acceptable and possibly beneficial even if the same seeds
should be avoided in cooked form. If all is well, then the potentially harmful lectins are
broken down to amino acids and are harmless; if not, then we must improve
conditions or avoid these foods. Try to develop your inner food sense and learn to

listen to your body. It will then let you know by your inner urgings and taste
preferences which foods to eat.
Table 5-4 is a list of some common foods in relationships to the blood groups.
Basically, there are only two food classifications: foods that give a reaction and
should be avoided and those that do not and may be eaten. Dr. D’Adamo also
classified the “allowed” foods as either neutral/avoid, neutral, neutral/beneficial, or
beneficial. Neutral means that the food does not cause any blood group related
problems, but it has no other specific advantages to recommend it.
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Part 6
SPECIFIC HEALTH PROBLEMS
This chapter offers guidelines for overcoming some specific health problems.
However, it is essential to incorporate these specific recommendations into a holistic
program for improving your overall well-being. Start with the basics: Do the earlier
steps in chapter 1 as thoroughly as possible. Your disease or health problem may
disappear without any further therapies being required. In some cases, where one of
these basic steps is especially important, it may be mentioned for a specific disease,
but all other steps need to be done as well.
In addition to any supplements specifically mentioned for your problem in this
chapter, take antioxidants, spirulina, bee pollen, cod-liver oil, lecithin, kelp, or
colloidal minerals, and other helpful nutrients. Also use other methods described
throughout this book, even if not specifically mentioned, such as reflexology,
meridian therapy, magnet therapy, color therapy, and guided imagery. The more
effort you make to apply as many supportive methods as possible, the better will be
the health result.
An important concept, especially with inflammatory conditions (which are
present in most diseases), is chronic stress. This may be due to several individual
factors, such as food allergies and chemical sensitivities, chronic infection from a
dead tooth, electro-pollution, and emotional stress. Each of these factors stimulates
the adrenal glands to release inflammatory hormones. Removing one or several of
these inflammation promoters sometimes does not help much; when all of them are
removed, you may suddenly see great improvement. If your condition is not
specifically mentioned, or is rather severe, in addition to any of the recommended
measures, adopt a temporary raw food diet, combined with suitable mind therapy.
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Step 44
SELF-CARE HELP FOR HEALTH PROBLEMS
Practical Tips for Relief
If you have a specific disease, this summary of typical treatment
protocols can show you what to do.
I am not a doctor licensed to prescribe medications or ensure cures, but a

nutritionist and natural therapist well versed in natural healing methods. This
information is derived from sound nutritional and clinical research. Readers should
always consult a qualified health practitioner when dealing with serious illness. I do
not promise or guarantee any cures, and the reader should regard the following as
general guidelines that have been shown to help improve some people with these
conditions. For updates and further information, see my websites: www.health-
science-spirit.com, www.healing-yourself.com and www.heal-yourself.com.au. For
disease treatment protocols using nutritional therapies, see: www.lef.org and
www.doctoryourself.com.
Addictions: Use Basic Cleanse (Step 4) followed by food allergy testing, and
practice a diet based on grass and vegetable juice with added water for a total fluid
intake of about a gallon daily. Prepare a homeopathic remedy made of the addictive
substance. Use intestinal sanitation; alkalize the body; take high-potency vitamin B
complex and glutamine; practice guided imagery and affirmations; have outdoor
activity and group support. Do detoxification using frequent saunas or hot baths.
AIDS: Helpful is a predominantly raw food diet with plenty of sprouted seeds
and fresh vegetable juices, mainly from cereal grasses and purple foods. Also try
oxygen therapies alternating with high antioxidant intake, intestinal sanitation, and
herbal parasite cure, and continue longer with wormwood. Colloidal silver, copper
salicylate or colloidal copper, echinacea, MSM, propolis, and other natural antibiotics
can be beneficial, along with a Beck-type electronic zapper and magnetic pulser,
Basic Cleanse, and emotional and mind therapies. (See Infections and Inflammations
and Candidiasis below.)
Allergies: Test yourself against individual foods and chemicals with an
elimination diet after a five-day water fast, or after Basic Cleanse or a rice diet with
only salt and olive oil for flavouring. Possibly use a rotation diet and use the same
food only once every five days; eat small meals and chew well. Use digestive
enzymes, hydrochloric acid, vitamin B complex, bio-flavo-noids and carotenoids, high
vitamin C, glutamine, and MSM. Alkalize the body with sodium and potassium
bicarbonate; neutralize fruit acids with dolomite. Avoid or minimize intake of sweet
and acid food and food additives. Make a homeopathic remedy from the offending
allergens.
Anemia: Consume juice or powder of cereal grasses, organic liver (underdone
or freeze-dried), and sprouted seeds. Take hydrochloric acid and ascorbic acid with
proteins and cooked food; minimize intake of sweet food. Vitamins B6, B12, folic
acid, E, and bioflavonoids are helpful as are chelated or organic forms of iron,

copper, zinc, manganese, chromium, and selenium. Do a parasite cure with
wormwood, cloves, and tincture of walnut, and electronic zapper. Practice red color
therapy (Step 17); get mild sun exposure and outdoor activity. Treat any excessive
menstrual bleeding and avoid long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs, especially
aspirin.
Arthritis: DIET: Use the Basic Cleanse followed by allergy testing and follow a
predominantly raw food diet. Use ground linseed, fish oils, cold-pressed peanut oil,
olive oil, and plenty of grass juice and sprouted seeds. If your fingernails are soft,
take hydrochloric acid with meals, then sodium bicarbonate three hours after
hydrochloric acid. Avoid or minimize sweet and acid food intake as well as wheat
products, gluten, milk, cheese, commercial cooking oils, citrus fruit, processed food,
and food of the nightshade family (potato, tomato, capsicum, and eggplant).
SUPPLEMENTS: Take vitamin B6 (especially with problems of the hands) and
nicotinamide in addition to multivitamins. Take 500 mg or more of magnesium, boron,
zinc, and MSM; try copper salicylate for pain and inflammation, or, alternatively,
copper colloids or copper bracelet. Also recommended are acidophilus, digestive
enzymes, celery seeds, and yucca. Most helpful are glucosamine, chondroitin,
mussel extract, or liquid bovine or shark cartilage, and broth of fish heads. (See
“Alkalizing with Calcium and Magnesium” and “The Calcium-Phosphorus Ratio” in
Step 6.)
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Use warm peanut oil rubs on affected joints; also try
blistering agents, or hot Epsom salt packs and baths, or use magnesium chloride
instead, followed by sweating wrapped in blankets. Dissolve MSM and glucosamine
in a solution of copper salicylate and rub it into affected joints. Try blue light therapy
over painful areas and orange light on stiff, calcified joints (Step 17). Try deep muscle
massage; remove dead teeth and mercury amalgam fillings; do the herbal parasite
cure with the electronic zapper.
Asthma: Avoid or minimize sweet and acid food, wheat, gluten, and lactose as
in milk products (except butter); also avoid vaccinations, aspirin, processed foods,
and the sulphites used in many foods and medications as preservatives. Practice
intestinal sanitation and allergy testing. Use ground linseed, fish oils, and olive oil,
and avoid other commercial oils. Halibut-oil capsules or other source of vitamin A
(not beta-carotene instead), vitamins E, C, B1, B6, L-lysine, molybdenum,
magnesium, manganese, MSM, selenium, and zinc are helpful. (See Alkalizing with
Calcium and Magnesium and The Calcium-Phosphorus Ratio in Step 6.) Take
hydrochloric acid with protein meals if your fingernails are weak, then sodium
bicarbonate three hours later. Use foods high in antioxidants, bioflavonoids, and
carotenoids, including green tea, grape seed extract, and purple foods.
Practice breathing exercises: inhale into the abdomen and exhale as slowly as
possible; do this routinely during sedentary activities. After normal exhalation, hold
your breath for as long as possible; inflate balloons as a further exercise; have a
spinal adjustment. Preferably live in a dry, warm climate or higher elevation; avoid
damp places, moulds, and fungi in air and food. Use natural fibre mattresses or wrap
foam mattresses in polyethylene sheeting with only a small opening at the bottom.
Eliminate systemic parasites and microbes with wormwood, cloves, black
walnut tincture, and use of the electronic zapper; try colloidal silver, copper, or

copper salicylate. Vomiting therapy can help: Try to cough up mucus after placing hot
onion packs on the chest. Make children emotionally secure; try emotional release
therapy for adults with asthma. Use the Emotional Freedom Technique (see Step
63).
Some asthmatics claim to have been cured by regularly inhaling three-percent
hydrogen peroxide sprayed directly into the mouth from a spray bottle, while others
had success with inhaling high concentrations of negative ions from a medical-type
air ionizer or with spray-inhaling a ten-percent sodium ascorbate solution. Hydrogen
peroxide is probably best against fungal infestations, and antioxidant spray against
inflammations and oxidative damage. Try both but generally use antioxidants as the
main approach.
Autoimmune Diseases: In autoimmune diseases, the immune system attacks
faulty body cells, probably due to infestation with microbes or their toxins. Common
causes are dead teeth and resulting jawbone infections, overgrowth of the intestinal
tract with pathogenic microbes, and some researchers suspect vaccines.
Autoimmune diseases include Type I diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis,
myasthenia gravis, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and thyroiditis. The main
aspects of treating autoimmune diseases are to avoid gluten products and
substances to which you are allergic or sensitive, sweetened food, genetically
modified or microwaved food, and processed food in general. By far, the best option
is to adopt temporarily a raw food diet.
Use high amounts of antioxidants, in particular vitamin C, L-lysine, zinc, and
other nutrients listed under viral infections in the section on Infections and
Inflammations below; also use the electronic zapper and other measures listed in that
section under Addi-tional Therapies. See any entries for your specific autoimmune
disease.
Back Problems: Practice a low allergy diet; take vitamins C, E, and B
complex, and high doses of manganese, zinc, and magnesium. Reflexology is very
effective, as are Epsom salt packs. For shrunken disks, stretch the spine and have it
rubbed with hypericum oil; get deep muscle massage or pressure applied at tight
muscles; have a spinal adjustment. Hang upside down (inversion swing) for problems
in the lower back. Try stretching exercises; sleep on a firm bed, and women should
avoid wearing high heels. Improve digestive system function and any diseased
organ, as back pain often results from problems in inner organs. Try other
recommendations in Arthritis and see Step 20: Spinal Therapy and Massage.
Broken Bones: Fresh vegetable juices, broth of fish heads, and bone meal
can be helpful as well as vitamin C, halibut-oil capsules, manganese, boron, zinc,
magnesium, and comfrey root. Place the north pole of a magnet above the fracture
(towards the trunk) and the south pole opposite and below the fracture (towards
fingers or toes); also try a pulsating magnetic field at the site of the injury. See
Osteoporosis below.
Cancer: The main aspects of a holistic cancer therapy are strengthening the
immune system, controlling the cancer microbe, removing accumulated toxins and
waste products, and dissolving tumours.

DIET: Start with the Basic Cleanse followed by a juice diet, grape cure, or low-
protein diet; use additional spirulina and bee pollen for high-quality protein. Maximize
purple foods (red beets or their juice, black or purple grapes, dark grape juice,
blueberries, blackberries) with any diet. Eat at intervals during the morning one or
two pounds of purple foods, or sip one bottle of dark grape juice or red beet juice;
take no other food until noon. If the body is sensitive, keep the urine slightly alkaline
(see Step 6). If the body is insensitive or has soft fingernails, take hydrochloric acid
with meals. Structure the diet according to your metabolic type and blood group (see
Step 43). Cancer-related pain tends to disappear on a raw food diet.
SUPPLEMENTS: The most important vitamins are C, 10 g or more, mainly
neutralized and in five divided doses; A, best as shark-liver oil and cod-liver oil (if you
have malabsorption, use A-emulsion); niacinamide, folic acid, B2, and B6; with
generalized weakness, inject B12 or dissolve it under the tongue.
The most important minerals are magnesium, selenium, and zinc. Use high
amounts of all antioxidants, including alpha-lipoic acid and grape seed extract. You
can alternate short periods of several weeks of oxygen therapies with several months
on high antioxidant supplements.
With tumours, use high amounts of the following to inhibit their formation of new
blood vessels: shark or bovine cartilage (both best as liquid), zinc (30 mg, three times
daily), vitamin B2, turmeric, and green tea; minimize any copper intake.
Other useful remedies are proteolytic enzymes, MSM or sulphur-amino acids
(L-cysteine and L-methionine), propolis, ground linseed, aloe vera, kelp, Lactoferrin,
lecithin, and freeze-dried liver. Some effective herbs are the Hoxsey herb mixture,
Essiac, pau d’arco, papaw leaves, echinacea, greater celandine, red clover
blossoms, and wormwood and other herbal parasite remedies. Urea helps to prevent
metastases; hydrazine sulphate helps you regain weight and strength.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Minimize electromagnetic pollution, and sanitize your
teeth (see Step 8). Experiment with ways to increase your life force as shown in
Part 7. Use an electronic blood purifier, and directly over the tumor place a magnetic
pulser, strong south pole magnet, and blue light therapy for pain and tumor control.
Try various types of packs over the tumor area, such as pulped grass or dark grapes,
cabbage leaf, or honey (see Step 21). Avoid surgery near the full moon (increased
chance of haemorrhage); premenopausal females may have a reduced rate of
metastasis after surgery near ovulation time (mid-cycle) as compared to surgery near
the start of the period.
Improve your mind with several hours of daily relaxation, affirmation, prayer,
guided imagery, and meditation. Practice positive thinking and develop faith and a
joyful mind. Nothing will cure you if you do not believe in it. Learn to feel and express
your needs as well as negative emotions and become assertive. Resolve any
emotional conflict - see: “Emotional-Mental Shocks” later in this part. Do not focus on
fighting cancer, but rather on improving your health and enjoyment of life. Choose to
live life to the fullest, have a goal for the future, and become enthusiastic about your
life. Your attitude is the key to your success.
Candidiasis: This is a fungal infection caused by Candida albicans. The most
common symptoms are thrush (oral) and vaginal and skin infections. However,
Candida often invades the body itself, starting with the digestive tract and then

entering the bloodstream, overwhelming the immune system. In this way, Candida
has been found to cause or aggravate food allergies, chronic fatigue, digestive-tract
diseases, all kinds of autoimmune diseases, lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis,
myasthenia gravis, but also schizophrenia, mental depression and anxiety, impaired
memory, hyperactivity, menstrual problems, and miscarriage. Basically, any part of
the body can become impaired.
Antifungal remedies include garlic, golden-seal, pau d’arco, propolis,
wormwood, and the oils of tea tree, cinnamon, clove, eucalyptus, mustard, and
thyme. Use Intestinal Sanitation (see Step 3) combined with the hypoglycaemia diet,
and avoid sweet foods, yeast, moulds, and initially fruit. For severe fungal infestation
of inner organs, an internal iodine solution, commonly called Lugol’s solution, can be
taken for three weeks. Also try oxygen therapy, colloidal silver and copper, and an
electronic blood purifier, also anti-inflammatory remedies as required.
LUGOL’S SOLUTION: This is an iodine solution taken internally, designed to
eliminate Candida and other microbes, viruses, and mycoplasmas from the
bloodstream. Obtain Lugol’s solution, also labelled Aqueous Iodine Oral Solution,
from a pharmacist. Take a test drop in juice. If no allergic reaction results, continue to
take six drops four times daily in liquid or mixed with food. Iodine is an oxidant, so do
not take it with antioxidants. Continue Lugol’s for three weeks, but interrupt if you
have a strong reaction. Be careful, for high amounts of iodine taken for more than
three weeks may depress thyroid functions. You may make Lugol’s solution yourself
by dissolving 44 g (1.5 ounces) of iodine and 88 g (3 ounces) of potassium iodide in
one quart (litre) of water. First dissolve the potassium iodide in a pint of water, then
add the iodine and fill up to one quart. Shake from time to time until dissolved after
about a day.
Cardiovascular Disease: Recommended is the Basic Cleanse followed by
periods on fruits only, or the grape cure or juice diet. Avoid or minimize sweeteners
and especially sucrose, salt, chlorinated water, smoking, peanut products, red meat,
caffeine, and all commercial fats and oils except extra-virgin olive oil. Do not heat any
flesh food or eggs above boiling temperature. Separate fruit and other fructose-
containing foods from starches or foods releasing glucose. Use only cow’s milk
products that have not been pasteurized or otherwise heated.
Use plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables; seafood (if not vegetarian); some
(organic) poultry; one to two tablespoons of freshly ground or frozen linseed
(flaxseed) and one to three capsules or teaspoons of lecithin with most meals; fish oil
capsules; oily seeds and nuts (not roasted or rancid), best as seed cheese. Papaya
and pineapple are good. If your blood pressure is high, acidify your body with
ascorbic acid and take hydrochloric acid supplements with meals. With acid body
conditions, more histamine is released, which in turn dilates blood vessels.
SUPPLEMENTS: Take high doses of natural vitamin E (tablets), vitamin C (5 to
10g daily, in three to five divided doses, mostly as ascorbic acid), vitamin B6, folic
acid, and niacin before meals to induce flushing. Take close to 1000 mg of
magnesium daily as magnesium chloride or with neutralized ascorbic acid. Other
helpful minerals are zinc, selenium, chromium, manganese, and copper salicylate;
but males should minimize calcium. Seriously ill patients can take 5 to 6 g of lysine
and 2 g of carnitine daily in four divided doses. For herbs, consider bromelain, ginger

(with most meals), ginkgo biloba, and green tea; also helpful are digestive enzymes
high in lipase.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Remove any dead teeth and make sure there is no
chronic jawbone infection in the wisdom tooth positions. Get regular exercise; have
alternating hot and cold showers; and do skin brushing. Frequently press into the
fleshy pad below the left thumb; pressing strongly here during a heart attack can
allegedly stop the attack. A small magnet with the south pole placed over the heart
can ease pain or slow the heartbeat, while the north pole placement strengthens the
beat (do not use with a pacemaker). Also try the herbal parasite cure, electronic
zapper, and colloidal silver. Practice the Love Cure (Step 61).
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: In this condition, the cellular oxidative energy
production is blocked by non-biological chemicals or endotoxins from a chronic
microbial infection, often due to Candida present in the blood after antibiotic therapy.
Techniques to try include allergy testing and a low allergy diet; consuming plenty of
purple foods (beet root, red cabbage, purple onions, black/purple grapes, black
currants, blackberries, blueberries, or juices of any of these), and green juice or,
alternatively, barley green powder, spirulina, or chlorella. With low blood pressure,
eat salty and spicy food; select foods with a favourable calcium/phosphorus ratio;
and alkalize fruit acids with dolomite.
SUPPLEMENTS: Use high levels of antioxidants with 10 g or more of sodium
ascorbate in divided doses, vitamin A emulsion, natural vitamin E complex as tablets,
alpha-lipoic acid, grape seed extract, and Microhydrin or strong electrolytic reduced
water (ERW). Also useful are vitamin B-complex, calcium orotate, magnesium,
selenium, zinc, coenzyme Q10, L--glutamine, L-lysine, aged garlic, freeze-dried liver,
propolis, echinacea, maca, and either L--cysteine and L-methionine or MSM. Initially
try weekly vitamin B12 injections or daily vitamin B12 tablets dissolved under the
tongue.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Try Candida treatment, herbal parasite cure, electronic
blood purifier, magnetic pulser, colloidal silver, and copper salicylate. Minimize
electro-stress and sanitize the teeth (see Step 8).
Colds: Colds are beneficial clean-outs of mucus congestion, so to avoid colds,
avoid mucus congestions and foods that produce them. These are mainly lactose
and cow’s milk products (except butter), sweet foods, moulds and mouldy foods, and
any foods or chemicals to which one is allergic or sensitive. Other factors are
mercury amalgam fillings, root canals, and other foci of chronic infections, as well as
Candida overgrowth and intestinal dysbiosis (pathogenic bacteria).
Try to correct these conditions, and see Mucus Problems below for ways to
ease mucus congestions. I have seen severe colds aborted within hours by using the
Sugar Cure (see Mucus Problems). Other useful remedies are echinacea, fresh raw
garlic, and very high doses, up to bowel tolerance, of vitamin C (sodium ascorbate).
In addition, frequently dissolve a tablet with a small amount of zinc sulphate in the
mouth. Another useful method is to dissolve one-third of a teaspoon of sodium
ascorbate in two tablespoons of water and from time to time place 20 drops in each
nostril.
Colds can also be stopped if, at the first sign of a coming cold, a few drops of 3
percent hydrogen peroxide are placed in each ear. Lie on one side while putting the

drops into the opposite ear, wait a few minutes, then change sides and put the drops
in the other ear. In addition, gargle frequently with diluted hydrogen peroxide and
also swallow some. See Infections and Inflammations below.
Depression: Use a high-quality low-allergy diet. With sensitive skin and
emotional instability, use mainly slow-digesting foods, and with insensitive conditions
consume plenty of fruit. Avoid foods to which you may be addicted or on which you
might binge, such as chocolate, coffee, tea, and alcohol. Give yourself a special treat
from time to time, but without using sweet or junk food. Very important are fish oils
(best as cod-liver oil) and linseed oil from ground linseed.
The most important vitamins are B6, B12, C, niacin or nicotinamide, and folic
acid, and the most important minerals are zinc, magnesium, calcium, and
manganese. Initially take a high-potency B-complex and mineral tablet with most
meals and additional amounts of vitamin B6 and zinc (up to 500 mg daily of vitamin
B6). Try hypericum or St. John’s Wort and the Bach Flower Remedies Aspen,
Gentian, Gorse, and Mustard. Correct constipation; take cultures of acidophilus and
bifidobacteria. Have any dead teeth removed and preferably mercury amalgam
fillings replaced. Avoid lead pollution. Kyolic (aged garlic), cooked garlic, and raw
garlic assist in detoxification. Candida can go into the bloodstream and cause
depression and other psychiatric symptoms. For treatment, see Candidiasis above.
Try amino acids: up to 2 g of L- (or D,L) phenylalanine and tyrosine, each
before meals, or alternatively, up to 2 g of tryptophan. You can also try taking
phenylalanine and tyrosine before breakfast only and tryptophan at bedtime only.
Glutamine can be used as an additional brain fuel. Epinephrine and dopamine in the
brain are formed from phenylalanine and tyrosine, while serotonin is made from
tryptophan.
Depression often results from low thyroid and adrenal functions. To assess
thyroid status, check your temperature under the armpit before rising in the morning;
women check this in the first ten days of the menses or before ovulation. If it is below
97.8º F (36.5º C), try thyroid extract (absorb under the tongue) and iodine from kelp.
In addition, selenium is required to activate thyroid hormone; take 200 mcg per day.
Seasonal affective disorder is due to insufficient sunlight exposure. Expose
yourself to one or two hours of very bright full-spectrum electric light each day,
preferably in the morning; if possible, be outside in sunlight and without sunglasses.
In addition, use yellow or orange color therapy for all forms of depression; also look
into the light source (see Step 17). Wear bright-coloured clothing. Use deep-
breathing exercises; dance to lively music and shake the whole body for a minute
during fast breathing.
Use prayer, affirmations, meditation, and guided imagery to uplift your feelings
and solve your problems. Learn to trust in your inner or higher guidance and ask it to
take care of your problems. Socialize and find a group with similar interests. Forgive
yourself and others for any mistakes or misdeeds.
Diabetes: Under professional medical supervision only, go for one week on a
diet of only apples, mainly tart varieties (e.g. Granny Smith) with no or only a
minimum of insulin or drugs. Undertake intestinal sanitation (Epsom salt - garlic flush
followed by plenty of dairy-free acidophilus cultures). Then gradually introduce non-
sweet raw foods, especially sprouted seeds, lentils and other legumes, seafood,

onion, and cooked vegetables. Keep a diary of the blood sugar level after each test
food (a food that you ingest to see how your blood sugar reacts to it). Continue using
only low-response food (a food that does not strongly elevate the blood sugar level).
Before each meal have plenty of fresh grass juice, spirulina, or chlorella, one
tablespoon of freshly ground linseed, and one tablespoon of fenugreek seeds
(soaked overnight; use the soaking water). Avoid all cow’s milk products, wheat and
gluten, saturated and especially hydrogenated fats, processed foods, and food
additives. Avoid all sweet or sweetened foods, including fruit juices, and in particular
all sucrose; avoid fructose and glucose at the same meal, such as having fruit after a
meal, although it is generally safe to have fruit an hour before a meal. You may,
however, use xylitol, sorbitol, or the herb stevia as a sweetener.
With Type I diabetes, avoid all glucose--producing foods, such as starches,
grains, or cereals, sweet vegetables, and even legumes during a trial period. Use
instead meat, fish, egg, goat’s milk products, cod-liver oil, spirulina (one to two
ounces), lettuce, cabbage, and other leafy greens, in addition to green/tart apples,
lemons, and limes. If you need more carbohydrate, add fructose to the lemon juice;
try fenugreek and ground linseed.
SUPPLEMENTS: Take vitamins C, E, B-group, especially B1, B6, and B12;
glucose tolerance factor or chromium; manganese and zinc (chelated); 500 mg or
more daily of magnesium; vanadium, if available; also MSM, fish oils, lecithin, and
freeze-dried liver; continue with dairy-free acidophilus. The herb Gymnema Sylvestre
is effective with both types of diabetes; take either 200 mg of extract or 1 to 2 g of
dried leaves shortly before meals that are likely to elevate blood glucose levels. Also
useful are aloe vera, bilberry, ginseng, goat’s rue (may help to regenerate pancreatic
beta cells), and various spices such as cinnamon (one teaspoon daily in divided
doses), cloves, tarragon, and turmeric. Calcium arginate (calcium salt of the amino
acid arginine) is effective with Type II diabetes. Also try castor-oil packs on the liver
and abdomen; magnetic pulser on liver and pancreas; do the reflexology for these
points on feet and hands; herbal parasite cure and colloidal silver.
Digestive Disorders: Do allergy testing and have a low-allergy diet with small
meals; chew slowly and well; practice correct food combining; follow a diet
appropriate for your metabolic type and blood group; consider a rice or arrowroot
mono-diet for a while, with only salt and olive oil for flavouring, or alternatively a
water fast (purified water only). Use the Basic Cleanse and intestinal sanitation with
acidophilus and bifido cultures. If you have soft fingernails, add hydrochloric acid to
your meals, taking sodium bicarbonate three hours later.
Take digestive enzymes or a papaya (pawpaw) Smoothie with meals (see the
recipes in Part 4). Place castor-oil packs on the liver and abdomen; do reflexology or
have acupuncture. Herbs to stimulate digestion are aniseed, caraway, fennel,
fenugreek, mint, or peppermint; try half a cup of a bitter liver herb tea after the meal.
With acute indigestion, induce vomiting; with diarrhea, try an alimentary canal flush
with crushed garlic and a tablespoonful of Epsom salt.
With ulcers and irritable bowel (Crohn’s disease), try slippery elm powder
before meals; meals with arrowroot can be soothing; and use ginger root often with
meals. Goldenseal and chamomile are useful as they are anti-inflammatory. Try
glutamine and zinc sulphate with meals (200 mg/day); also copper salicylate, herbal

parasite cure, oxygen therapy, and colloidal silver. Magnesium is best taken as
magnesium chloride; take also high-quality aloe vera juice.
Use the magnetic pulser and south pole of a strong magnet on sites of
inflammation or discomfort. Include raw potato in the vegetable juice for stomach
ulcers and cabbage juice with duodenal ulcer; stomach ulcers usually cause pain
after a meal, duodenal ulcers between or before meals. Very effective are six drops
of tea tree oil diluted in a glassful of liquid, then taken orally before breakfast for three
days; initially take a test drop to see that you are not oversensitive to it.
With constipation, use sufficient magnesium (as chloride or sulphate) to
produce bowel movements and take one or more tablespoons of ground linseed with
meals. Take long walks; have large vegetable salads; squat for bowel movements
(see Step 21). For bloating or excess wind avoid any sweet food with or after
vegetables or fibre-rich food; use correct food-combining with a low-allergy diet; use
magnesium chloride and practice intestinal sanitation.
With hiatal hernia (with symptoms of belching, heartburn, and indigestion), sit at
one end of a massage table (or something similar), your legs outstretched on the
table. A helper lies across your legs or holds them down while you lean back over the
edge as far as possible. Tighten your abdominal muscles to pull yourself slowly back
up to the sitting position. A second helper may assist. In most instances, this will pull
the stomach back to its normal position.
Epilepsy: A low-allergy diet is advisable. Initially avoid and later minimize
consumption of sweet food, wheat, milk, cheese, and food additives, especially
excitotoxins. Avoid contamination from copper (new water pipes), aluminium
(cooking), mercury (amalgam fillings), and lead. Take vitamin B6, vitamin E tablets,
and magnesium in high doses; alkalize your system with calcium and magnesium;
frequently suck on a tablet of magnesium orotate; take lecithin, glutamine, MSM,
taurine, black cohosh, and copper salicylate; try raw egg yolk, mussel, or oyster
extract.
Have a chiropractic neck adjustment; do head and neck exercises; do the
herbal parasite cure; sanitize your bedroom. Minimize emotional stress; reduce your
exposure to fluorescent or flickering lights, television, and computer games. Try
south-pole magnets placed at the temples.
Eye Problems: Helpful here is a low-allergy diet with plenty of fresh grass and
vegetable juices. Avoid or minimize intake of dairy products, hydrogenated fats,
commercial oils, and sweet foods. For all eye conditions, high-dose vitamins B2 and
A (halibut-oil capsules; with suspected fat malabsorption, use vitamin A emulsion) in
addition to B complex, C, and grape seed extract are advised; these also help with
cataracts and macular degeneration. You need periods with no additional vitamin E
intake as this can depress blood levels of vitamin A; however, with wet macular
degeneration, try high-dose vitamin E tablets.
Carotenoids, especially lutein and zeaxanthin, are important for the macula;
they are found in deep-green, yellow, orange, and red fruits and vegetables, as in
tomatoes, squash, corn, and spinach. Have a high intake of a wide range of
bioflavonoids; use the herbs eyebright and bilberry internally and as topical eye rinse.
Important minerals are magnesium, chromium, manganese, selenium, and zinc.

Chromium, calcium, and a diet low in sweet food are important with myopia
(near-sightedness), while magnesium is good for farsightedness. A salty diet is
beneficial with glaucoma, as is sodium ascorbate up to 30 g daily (in five divided
doses), to drain excess fluid from the eyes. Intensive cleansing combined with
energizing or stimulating the eyes in order to unblock congested drainage channels is
recommended. For red eyes or conjunctivitis, rinse the eyes with a weak solution of
boric acid, possibly combined with strained eyebright and chamomile herbs as tea.
For viral infections of the eyes, make up a solution of 2500 IU of vitamin A
emulsion and 250 mg of sodium ascorbate per ml of water. Use one or two drops in
each eye every three to four hours. If it stings too much, then dilute as needed. Keep
refrigerated and make a fresh remedy every week. Combined with sufficient vitamin
B2 (up to 100 mg three times daily); this also helps with allergy-induced eye
problems. For clogged arteries in the back of the eyes, try potassium iodide as
explained in Cardio-vascular Disease.
Use a raw grated potato pack in gauze for irritated eyes and warm castor-oil
packs for weak eyes. You can also put a drop of castor oil in each eye at bedtime for
gradual strengthening. Be outside as much as possible without glasses or
sunglasses; look at the blue sky, but avoid eyestrain. Minimize watching television,
staring at computer screens, and reading by electric light. While reading, frequently
interrupt your vision, look around, and cover eyes with palms. Preferably use natural
daylight or full-spectrum bulbs; minimize use of fluorescent lights except if they are
special daylight types. Press tender muscles in the back of the neck.
Do eye exercises: look up, down, sideways, diagonally in quick succession,
circle, alternate looking at a near and a far object. Do head and neck exercises,
reflexology, or rapidly blink at the sun when it is low in the sky. Frequently alternate
looking at an orange or red light bulb of 25 watts and a blue light of 40 watts in a
darkened room; then look for several minutes at a green 40-watt light.
Gynaecological Problems: Important here is a diet low in sweet food, fat, and
salt, a vegetarian cleansing diet, especially in the case of heavy periods and difficult
menopause. Also advisable are sprouted seeds, vegetable salads, grass juice, and a
diet high in bioflavonoids and carotenoids as from coloured foods, especially yellow,
orange, red, and purple. For heavy bleeding, black cherries are best; if not available,
try black or purple grapes, juice of dark grapes or red beets, blackberries, and
blueberries.
SUPPLEMENTS: Take B-complex vitamins, especially B6 and folic acid, rutin and
bioflavonoids, vitamin E tablets (1000 to 2000 IU daily), and selenium-methionine,
especially if breasts are tender and for menopausal hot flushes. Neutralize fruit acids
with dolomite for a high calcium and magnesium intake. Take additional calcium if
there is excessive bleeding and fatigue; take more magnesium for tension and
irritability. Also helpful are zinc, manganese, MSM, Royal Jelly, bee pollen, evening
primrose oil, vitamins A and C, and organic iron. With menstrual clotting, more
vitamin K is needed; use plenty of dark-green vegetables, possibly injections of 15
mg of vitamin K1 (derived from plants). Fibrocystic breast disease and ovarian cysts
often disappear with six to eight drops of saturated solution of potassium iodide
(SSKI) taken daily in some water for two to three months. Prolonged use can inhibit
thyroid functions, so use with professional supervision; see Thyroid Problems.

HERBS:For menopause: chamomile, hawthorn, red clover, and sage. Excessive
bleeding: bayberry bark, red raspberry, shepherd’s purse, and witch hazel.
Suppressed menstruation: chamomile, catnip, fennel, pennyroyal, and peppermint.
Generally try motherwort, dong quai, raspberry shoots, and chasteberry (Vitex
agnus-castus); St John’s Wort for depression; and black cohosh for period pain.
Maca is most helpful for all conditions, helps after hysterectomy, is safer than
hormonal replacement therapy, and is also recommended for age-related decline of
sexual function.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Take a hot sitz bath or sit on the north pole of a strong
magnet for general strengthening. Press foot reflex areas on heels; use blue lighting
to reduce bleeding, orange lighting to increase it. Place castor-oil packs on the lower
abdomen and lower back, or Epsom-salt packs; apply pressure therapy and
manipulation and adjustment of lower back; do spinal tapping of lumbar vertebrae or
colonics.
VAGINAL YEAST INFECTION: This is caused by the yeast Candida albicans.
Douche with either diluted hydrogen peroxide or garlic water to which may be added
several drops of tea tree oil (shake well before use), tea of sage, and juniper berry, or
pau d’arco. After douching, apply acidophilus in the vagina and around it; repeat as
often as required and have intestinal fungicidal treatment (see Candidiasis).
Headaches and Migraines: Do the Basic Cleanse followed by allergy testing
and maintaining a low-allergy diet. Minimize intake of sweet food, dairy products,
wheat and other gluten products, egg, oranges, tomatoes, food additives, fatty food,
chocolate, Brazil nuts, dried coconut, aged cheese, mushrooms, pickled herrings,
pork, excitotoxins such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), and tobacco smoke. Avoid
environmental chemical and electromagnetic pollution; sanitize your teeth (see Step
8).
Try taking magnesium if your blood pressure is elevated, or calcium and salty
foods if it is low. Have a strong coffee at the onset of symptoms (if you’re not
addicted to it). The herb feverfew may help. Correct any constipation or intestinal
inflammation. Do head and neck exercises; pressure massage the neck and shoulder
muscles and around the base of the big toes; have a neck adjustment and exercise
your scalp muscles. Avoid stress; rest; get fresh air; walk; and do deep breathing.
During a migraine attack, imagine your arms becoming warm, possibly soak them in
warm water. Riboflavin (vitamin B2), up to 100 mg four times daily, has been found to
prevent most migraines; use together with B-complex.
High Blood Pressure: Most important are low-allergy diet or allergy testing,
low sodium intake, and high intake of potassium and magnesium; for females also
calcium. This also helps to prevent strokes. Improve kidney functions; follow tips for
Cardiovascular Disease.
Hyperactivity (ADD and ADHD): Allergy testing and a low-allergy diet are
advisable. Minimize or avoid sweet food, especially chocolate, cow’s milk, cheese,
egg, pork, citrus, soft drinks, artificial food colouring, flavouring, excitotoxins,
preservatives, chemical sprays, petrochemical fumes, detergents, strong perfumes,
smoke, stimulants, and aspirin. Avoid fluorescent and flickering lights and games,
television, and stressful situations. Minimize electromagnetic pollution (see step 8). In

regard to sweeteners, avoid sucrose or fructose in combination with glucose; see
“Fructose and the Disaccharide Effect” under Step 40.
In several clinical trials, avoiding food and chemical allergens resulted in a 100
percent cure rate among test subjects. Frequently, Candida overgrowth in the
intestines (commonly following a course of antibiotics) is the original cause of
multiple allergies, so treat for Candida. Zinc and magnesium supplements are
helpful, as are vitamins C, B6, pantothenic acid, nicotinamide, folic acid, and B12.
For attention deficit, try ginkgo biloba.
Infections and Inflammations: Infections can be localized, for example, in the
liver or throat, or generalized, as infectious diseases (including venereal diseases).
They can be acute with sudden strong inflammations and fever, or they can be
chronic and long lasting. Colds occur only if there is mucus congestion, and they are
usually beneficial for removing excess mucus. Accelerate recovery by actively
expelling mucus from your lungs and head spaces, including the sinuses. Colds can
be avoided by using a diet that does not cause mucus congestion or by deliberately
expelling mucus from the body (see Mucus Problems).
DIET: During acute conditions, semi-fast with only fresh vegetable and grass
juice, spirulina and bee pollen, vegetable broth, strained rice water, and fruits
(neutralize acids if the body is sensitive). Later, also consume easily digestible, high-
quality food, such as sprouts, raw egg yolk, vegetable salads and cooked vegetables,
rice, and bananas. Select foods with a favourable calcium-phosphorus ratio (see
Step 6). Avoid gluten products, sweetened, processed, microwaved, and genetically
modified food, and any food to which you are allergic or sensitive. With inflammations
maximize omega-3 fatty acids (fish oils and ground linseed), and minimize omega-6
fatty acids (polyunsaturated seed oils).
SUPPLEMENTS: In acute conditions, try bowel-tolerance doses of vitamin C with
sodium ascorbate; otherwise use 1 to 10 g of vitamin C daily, magnesium chloride if
available, propolis, copper salicylate, and Lactoferrin. Vitamin A is especially good
with respiratory infections; zinc is best as zinc sulphate lozenges. Improve the
immune system with pantothenic acid, folic acid, vitamin B6, manganese, selenium,
chromium, acidophilus culture, and freeze-dried thymus.
With viral infections, use a high intake of antioxidants in addition to selenium
and zinc. Take 2 g five times daily or bowel-tolerance level of sodium ascorbate; 15
to 20 mg of zinc three times daily; 200 mcg of selenium; up to 2 g of L-lysine three
times daily; and up to 200 mg of alpha-lipoic acid three times daily (alpha-lipoic acid
is also called thioctic acid; prolonged intake over 100 mg may require extra biotin). In
addition, take one tablespoon of cod-liver oil, other antioxidants such as grape seed
extract, and Microhydrin or strong electrolytic reduced water; with hepatitis, also take
the herb silymarin. A saturated solution of potassium iodide (SSKI from a pharmacist)
is an all-round antimicrobial. As a precaution when travelling, take about ten drops
in a small glass of water, and more, temporarily, with an acute infection.
Caution: High amounts for more than a few weeks can suppress thyroid function.
With chest infections, in addition to the above, temporarily take 50,000 IU or
more of vitamin A (under professional supervision). Try coughing up mucus after
using a hot onion pack on the chest (see Step 21).

HERBS: These include echinacea, goldenseal, marigold, olive leaves, pau
d’arco, prickly ash, and wormwood; also chamomile, elder flowers, and peppermint.
With respiratory infections, try chamomile steam inhalation; gargle with diluted tea
tree oil. Do the herbal parasite cure with wormwood, clove, and green hulls of black
walnut. Use aromatic oils for infections: borneol, lemon, clove, eucalyptus, lavender,
mint, or thyme.
ANTIBIOTICS: The main reason for a destructive fungal infection is antibiotic
therapy. Candida albicans is commonly present in almost everyone, but is usually
kept under control by friendly bacteria. If these bacteria are killed by antibiotics, fungi
have the opportunity to spread and will seriously weaken the immune system,
thereby contributing greatly to the development of the various immune-deficiency
diseases, including cancer.
Other disadvantages of sustained antibiotic therapy are B-vitamin and vitamin-
K deficiencies and malabsorption, caused by the destruction of intestinal flora. In
addition, allergic reactions to the antibiotics can occur or boils may develop as a
cleansing reaction even weeks or months later. For these reasons, if possible,
antibiotics should be used only when serious infections cannot be controlled by
natural therapies. With any antibiotic therapy, use vitamin and mineral
supplementation, a diet high in raw food, probiotic bacterial cultures, and a natural
fungicide such as fresh garlic.
FEVER: Fever is a great tool in fighting infections by killing heat intolerant germs
and strengthening the immune response. Keep your body temperature up with hot
baths, hot teas, and sweating. Body temperatures above 105º F can be reduced with
cold packs placed around the calves, and white willow bark (aspirin).
PROPOLIS: This is an excellent natural antibiotic from the beehive. For best
results, it should be applied directly to the site of the infection whenever possible. For
a sore throat, keep some propolis powder constantly in the mouth (between the gum
and cheek) and gargle with a propolis solution; or make it into a paste and apply it to
a sore tooth. For sinus problems, sniff it up the nose; for earache, put it in the ear; for
skin infections, apply it directly to the skin; for internal infections, of course, you have
to swallow it. Note your reaction, as some people are allergic to propolis. You can
make your own propolis tincture: Freeze-dry raw propolis (from a beehive), pulverize,
and keep it in alcohol for one to two weeks exposed to the sun; shake frequently.
THYMUS: Located in the chest, the thymus is the key gland of our immune
system. Most strengthening for the thymus gland are propolis, manganese, and
freeze-dried thymus extract. To strengthen the thymus, frequently tap with the fingers
at the upper end of the breastbone; maintain a good posture and walk with long
strides and swinging arms. Apply lemon (yellow-green) color therapy on the upper
breastbone (see Step 17).
COPPER SULFATE (BLUESTONE): Available from gardening supply outfits, this has
strong antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. Collect any discharge from an
infected or inflamed organ or wound in a medium-strong solution of bluestone and
keep it there for several days. This may be phlegm, pus, bloodstained bandage,
vaginal or nasal discharge, or urine (in bladder or kidney infections). This can
promote healing by way of secondary contact and can also be used with an extracted
tooth or any severed part of the body. This method works on the same principle as

radionics and telepathy with a two-way exchange of information energy between the
body and any separated part.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Use colloidal silver or copper, oxygen therapy, and an
electronic zapper, and possibly a magnetic pulser (see Step 19). You can also use a
hot bath (with Epsom salt) followed by sweating; a hot foot bath with mustard powder
or cayenne; cold packs placed on the abdomen and around the calves. For colds or
flu, immerse hands and lower arms in hot water for 30 minutes; keep the water hot; in
addition, you can chill the underside of the big toes with ice dipped in salt. Generally,
blue light focused on the site of infection is helpful, as is blue-radiated water taken
internally. Try also Epsom-salt purges, sweating, induced vomiting, colonics; packs of
cabbage leaves or Epsom salt placed on localized infected or inflamed areas;
autosuggestion and visualization or right-brain exercises: tell your immune system to
produce plenty of efficient B cells and T cells.
Insomnia: DIET: Have early, light evening meals, using animal protein only
sparingly; minimize sweet foods, salt, alcohol, caffeine, and other stimulants taken in
the afternoon or evening; test for food allergies.
SUPPLEMENTS: Advisable are vitamins B6 and C; nicotinamide (1 g at bedtime),
especially if experiencing difficulty returning to sleep after awakening; inositol;
lecithin; one teaspoon of milk of magnesia or magnesium chloride at bedtime. Keep a
tablet of magnesium orotate in the mouth when sleepless, take L-tryptophan (an
amino acid, 500 mg) or melatonin (1 to 3 mg) at bedtime. Vitamin B12 can help to
establish a normal circadian rhythm. Try the herbs passiflora, valerian, or thyme, or
hops in a muslin bag placed on the chest or pillow; it is not recommended to use
valerian on a long-term basis.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Try a hot relaxing bath, possibly with Epsom salt, before
bedtime or a cold pack on the abdomen when trying to fall asleep. The body
temperature needs to drop during sleep, therefore use relatively light covers and
keep the bedroom cool (but not cold). Sleep with the head in a north or north-easterly
direction; use blue sheets, bed covers, curtains, and pyjamas; blue, violet, or purple
lighting at bedtime; sleep in complete darkness on a natural-fibre mattress; remove
drugs and chemicals from the bedroom.; and minimize electro--pollutants (Step 8).
Expose yourself to bright light soon after rising (best is sunshine), but minimize bright
light (including bright TV and computer screens) exposure in the evening.
To facilitate sleep, use autosuggestions when going to bed and/or relaxation
exercises or visualize a peaceful scene. Do eight-two breathing (Step 9) or inhale
through the nose, exhale through the mouth. Repeatedly take three deep breaths,
then hold the breath as long as possible; finally continue with slow, shallow breathing
to retain more carbon dioxide.
Most effective is plenty of outdoor activity, ideally done without wearing
prescription glasses. Try a long slow walk in the late afternoon or early evening;
alternatively, undertake other restful activities, such as listening to soft music or
meditating. Do not read anything interesting; engage in no other absorbing mental
activity or exciting movies; clear up any worries. Ask your lower self (the
subconscious level) for cooperation: Tell it to stop thinking of a particular problem
and that you will deal with it during the daytime, and then do that. Keep pen and
paper beside the bed to write down any important thoughts to deal with the next day.

If you like to experiment, try the Eeman screens: Place metal wire screens
(approximately 16 inches by 10 inches, from a hardware store) under your head and
the base of the spine. The screens can be enclosed in a pillowcase. With an electric
wire, connect the head screen to a piece of metal pipe held in the left hand, and the
buttock screen in the same way to the right hand. Use the screens for ten to 30
minutes at bedtime, lying on your back with the ankles crossed.
This balances our internal bioelectric potentials and is conducive to increased
tranquillity, meditation, and sleep. Basically, you can balance without screens by
placing the right hand under the base of the spine with the palm facing up, and the
left palm under the top of the spine. Because the arm muscles are partly contracted
in this position, it is not as relaxing as with the screens.
Kidney Problems: You need a diet low in protein, salt, food additives, and
drugs, along with allergy testing and a low-allergy and blood group diet. Use
predominantly raw foods with plenty of sprouted seeds and fresh (mainly green)
vegetable juices, ground linseed, and fish oils; try a watermelon fast. Helpful are
antioxidants, spirulina, and coenzyme Q10. For kidney stones, use lemon juice and
grapefruit, ascorbic acid, vitamin B6, magnesium, and zinc, but restrict your calcium
intake. Useful herbs are buchu, cornsilk, dandelion, and uva ursi; as diuretics, try
juniper berries, elderberries, or peach leaves. Colonics with water low in minerals
delay the need for dialysis. You need sufficiently high fluid intake to produce about
one gallon of urine daily. Most effective in serious conditions is urine therapy (see
Step 22).
My favourite way to reactivate kidney function is drinking, slowly and at
intervals, about three quarts (litres) of high-quality pure water (no chlorine or fluoride)
before breakfast. To each quart, add up to a cup of fresh urine and, if available, the
content of one capsule of Microhydrin or Microhydrin Plus. If already on dialysis, then
use distilled or de-ionized water, but only with these additions, and increase the
volume of drinking water gradually over successive days to match the output of urine.
Instead of Microhydrin, you can also use strongly electrolytic reduced water (ERW).
While the addition of Microhydrin or ERW is not essential, they provide strong
antioxidant activity that helps to regenerate kidney function.
Liver and Gallbladder Problems: Detoxify with the Basic Cleanse, then from
time to time, possibly once a month, repeat the first part of it (see Step 4). Have three
days on apples only; in the evening activate the liver with a castor-oil pack; at
bedtime take half a cup of olive oil with lecithin and possibly orange juice, and next
morning a glass of warm water with a tablespoon of Epsom salt. This helps remove
gallstones and cholesterol deposits from the liver and gallbladder.
Minimize your exposure to chemicals and drugs and sanitize your intestines.
Helpful nutrients are lecithin, milk thistle or silymarin, antioxidants, B-vitamins,
especially B6, B12 if you’re low in energy, magnesium, selenium, and zinc. MSM or
L-cysteine and L-methionine help to detoxify. Stimulate the liver with bitter teas; use
half a cup after meals; or take capsules of centaury, dandelion, devil’s claw, gentian,
goldenseal, or rosemary. Also do the herbal parasite cure. With hepatitis, use the
therapy for viral infection in Infections and Inflammations above.
With persistent problems, continue with the castor-oil liver packs. Also effective
are reflexology, ear acupuncture, and acupuncture meridian therapy. Jaundice can

be caused by drugs and chemicals, liver infection, gall-duct blockage, and increased
destruction of red blood cells (protect with high amounts of vitamin E), so try to
discover the cause of the jaundice. Treat systemically with blue color therapy (see
Step 17).
Malabsorption: Malabsorption of food is frequently associated with chronic
degenerative diseases, debility, and underweight or difficulty in gaining weight. This
can result in floating, bulky, pale, and smelly stools and excessive wind. Common
causes and solutions are as follows:
• Gluten allergy: Avoid gluten.
• Deficiency of gastric acid, pancreatin, bile, or sodium bicarbonate: Take
appropriate supplements, reduce fats, use extra-virgin olive oil instead, and
improve the corresponding organs.
• Inflammation of the intestinal tract: Individuals commonly have whitish inner irises
as with gluten allergy; do intestinal sanitation (see Digestive Disorders).
• Overgrowth of bacteria or fungi in the small intestine: Use isotonic garlic flush
followed by acidophilus and bifido cultures.
• High-fibre diet: Use white instead of brown rice.
• Worms or other parasites: Do a three-day raw food diet; take teas of chamomile,
sage, or vervain, pumpkinseeds, or pumpkinseed oil. Most effective is an herbal
parasite cure with wormwood, cloves, and walnut.
• Tapeworm: Use the herbal parasite cure; in addition, try a three-day water fast
followed by castor oil.
GENERAL RULES: Eat small meals of easily digestible foods, for example, bone
broth, meat broth or juice, vegetable and grass juices, rye sourdough bread instead
of yeast-baked bread. Add pollen, spirulina, or chlorella, and possibly amino acid and
nucleic acid supplements if you are debilitated. Add lecithin to all meals. The amino
acid glutamine helps to improve the intestinal wall. Chew all your food extremely
carefully and keep it in the mouth as long as possible, paying attention to the
developing flavours of each mouthful. Frequently rub the body with cod-liver or
halibut-liver oil, extra-virgin olive oil, and vitamin E oil. Emulsify oils for intended use
(especially extra-virgin olive oil and cod-liver oil) by shaking in a jar with lecithin and
juice.
Chew all suitable supplements and keep them under the tongue, such as
freeze-dried liver, Royal Jelly, and halibut-liver oil; keep a hali-but-liver oil capsule in
the mouth at bedtime. In this way, B12 can be absorbed in therapeutic quantities
even if the usually necessary intrinsic factor is missing in the stomach. Most tablets
can also be crushed, and capsules opened and mixed with meals. Use vitamin E in
natural form as tablets, not as oil-filled capsules. In difficult situations, nutrients can
be absorbed from grass juice enemas through the large intestine.
Mucus Problems: These include most respiratory diseases, recurring colds,
hay fever, coughs, sinusitis, running nose, throat infections, and many ear problems.
However, there may also be a mucus covering in the small intestine, causing
malabsorption and, the worst mucus-related disease, cystic fibrosis. Generally,
pathological mucus results either from a -lactose/galactose overload or from irritated

mucous membranes. Such irritation may be due to food, such as gluten, or to food
allergy or chemical sensitivity; it can result from persistent inhalation of irritants or
from chronic microbial or parasitic infestations. Try to find and eliminate the cause.
DIET:
Fenugreek is good; minimize sweet and fatty food; fruit can be used
according to your sensitivity; however, oranges frequently aggravate respiratory
problems. The main mucus-forming foods are lactose (skim milk or whey powder);
milk products in general according to their lactose content; beer; mainly wheat gluten,
to a lesser extent also gluten in rye, oats, and barley; egg white; and moulds and
fungi or any food to which you are allergic. Neutralize fruit acids with dolomite.
Initially avoid all mucus-forming foods. After your mucus has cleared, introduce
and observe the effect on your body of each of the mucus-forming foods or food
groups separately for several weeks. Some foods are mucus forming even in small
amounts while others can be tolerated up to a certain level. However, the mucus-
forming potential of different foods may be cumulative.
HERBS: For inflamed or infected mucous membranes, use goldenseal,
marshmallow, sarsaparilla, slippery elm powder, thyme, and yarrow (strengthening).
To expel mucus, use coltsfoot, horehound, lungwort, mullein, nettles, vervain, and
violet; most recommended is horseradish.
AROMATIC OILS: Inhale these for sinusitis: cinnamon, lemon, eucalyptus,
lavender, pine, rosemary, or thyme. For inflammatory sinus and breathing problems:
Inhale vapour of eucalyptus oil during the night (keep some in a flat container close
to the bed). For sore throat, gargle with lemon, geranium, hyssop, sage, and thyme.
As an internal antiseptic, use diluted tea tree oil. Add a few drops to a small jar or
bottle half filled with water, shake vigorously for a few seconds, and then try a drop
on the tongue. If this is not irritating or unpleasant, you can ingest the rest. Do not
use other aromatic oils internally without competent advice that it is appropriate to do
so.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: For nose and sinus problems or hay fever, frequently
draw seawater, diluted with about three parts warm water, through the nostrils, one at
a time, and spit the water out. If seawater is not available, dissolve a level teaspoon
of sea salt in a pint of water; you can also add a small amount of Epsom salt. For
acute conditions, sniff up a tea of the indicated herbs, preferably adding propolis
solution; place castor-oil packs over the sinuses. Do head and neck exercises such
as this one for clearing mucus from head spaces (e.g., sinuses): Kneel with the head
to the floor and make loud snoring and snorting noises at the back of the nose. Spit
out mucus; continue for ten minutes. Have any mercury amalgam fillings or dead
teeth removed.
For throat problems, gargle with the indicated herb teas, adding propolis in the
case of infections; place castor-oil packs and blue lighting on throat; for chronic
conditions, have plenty of singing and vocal therapy. Generally, strengthen the
intestines, and do colonics. Edgar Cayce recommended wearing a piece of carbon
steel, preferably in the groin pocket, to improve the mucous membranes of the nose
and throat and to resist colds and congestion. Use systemic lemon (yellow-green)
color therapy to loosen and expel phlegm, and concentrate it on the chest and upper
back.

THE SUGAR CURE: Keep a teaspoon of fine (Caster) sugar in the mouth until it is
dissolved, then spit it out and take another teaspoonful. Continue with this at intervals
for one or two hours and repeat on subsequent days or weeks as required. The
sugar draws mucus dissolved in lymph fluid from the lymph glands and so gradually
clears the head spaces. It can stop a cold within hours.
NETI: This is a yoga method to rinse the sinuses. Use a coffee or teapot with a
fine snout, a neti pot, or an enema bag filled with mildly warm and salty water. Bend
over a sink with the head turned to the side, insert the enema hose or the snout of
the pot into the upper nostril and let the water flow out. It will rinse out the sinuses
and flow out from the lower nostril. After half the water is used up, turn the head and
let the water flow into the other nostril. Finally, close one nostril at a time and strongly
blow out air to expel any water remaining in the sinuses. Note: You can easily obtain
neti pots from yoga and meditation supply sources in the U.S.; check the Internet.
Multiple Sclerosis: DIET: Recommended are plenty of low-mercury seafood,
broth of fish heads and bone broth, and possibly raw egg yolk (after allergy testing);
sunflower kernels, almonds, and other oily seeds (best sprouted or as seed cheese);
freshly ground linseed and possibly linseed oil; plenty of grass and vegetable juices
as well as sprouted seeds (but no gluten grains). Try sprouted broad beans. Eat
more vegetables that grow below than above the ground; eat raw vegetables often
with added gelatine (broth of fish heads or bones). Sprout or soak lentils and beans
before cooking; eat tomatoes, fresh fruits, cold-pressed sunflower oil, and cayenne.
Test for allergies and follow your blood group diet. Try to obtain organically
grown food and eat small meals. Sago, tapioca, taro, and arrowroot are fine, but
minimize your intake of rice, millet, and maize and avoid saturated, hydrogenated,
and animal fats; cow’s milk products; gluten products; egg white; smoked, cured, and
processed meat; peanuts; sweet foods; tinned or frozen fruits and vegetables; salt;
and food chemicals, especially colourings and aspartame. Use a strict low-fat diet.
SUPPLEMENTS: High doses of all vitamins are good, especially C (10 to 20 g
daily), E (2000 IU, daily, as tablets), B1, B6, nicotinamide, pantothenic acid, biotin,
choline and inositol, and B12 (injections or sublingual), as well as grape seed extract.
Take magnesium (best as chloride and orotate), zinc, copper salicylate, manganese,
chromium, iodine, and selenium. Most important may be vitamin D from sunlight and
fish oils, especially cod-liver oil; also try Calcium EAP 3 x 3 tablets. Take hydrochloric
acid and digestive enzymes with proteins or a main meal; also take lecithin, kelp,
MSM, freeze-dried liver, pollen, spirulina or chlorella, and evening primrose or borage
oil (chew the capsules). The amino acid glycine (10 g four times daily) is useful, but
not needed if you use a gelatinous broth of fish heads.
HERBS: Especially strong with anti-inflammatory properties are goldenseal,
slippery elm powder, and ginger, also devil’s claw, ginseng, gotu kola, pau d’arco,
and sage. Try suitable Bach Flower Remedies; do the herbal parasite therapy and
follow protocols in Intestinal Sanitation (see Step 3).
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Try a strong antimicrobial therapy with electronic
zapper, magnetic pulser, colloidal silver, and oxygen therapy. Also useful are spinal
massage, tapping, and adjustment; deep muscle massage; frequent castor-oil packs
on abdomen and lower back. Improve the liver, gallbladder, kidneys, and endocrine
glands; press the foot reflex for the pineal gland.

Get frequent rest periods, avoid stress, have frequent mild sunshine on your
skin. Remove any dead teeth; replace mercury amalgam fillings; guard against
inorganic copper and lead intake (for example, canned food, water pipes, and car-
exhaust fumes). Have frequent muscle tensing with deep breathing; do mind-body
exercises; do lemon color therapy, visualization, and autosuggestion; release
resentments; meditate on the feeling of love and being forceful (see Step 61).
Myasthenia Gravis: DIET: Try a low-allergy diet, select food according to your
blood group diet, and include some beef as stew, broth, or juice, or liver. Follow a
diet low in sweet foods, fats, and polyunsaturated oils; use mainly extra-virgin olive
oil; mainly below-ground vegetables, especially red beets, and salads with gelatine
(broth of fish heads). Have allergy testing for foods; use no egg white; raw egg yolk,
sprouted seeds, and grass juice are acceptable.
SUPPLEMENTS: Recommended are high doses of all vitamins, with 2000 IU
vitamin E tablets, folic acid, rutin, and vitamin B12 injections. Most important is
manganese; initially take 20 mg of chelated manganese with each meal, then reduce
after improvement. Also take zinc, selenium, calcium ascorbate (5 to 10 g), and
calcium orotate (800 mg); magnesium supplements may be weakening. Also helpful
are thymus extract, octacosanol, lecithin, digestive enzymes (pancreatin) or green
papaya, glycine or gelatine, and acidophilus and bifido cultures.
HERBS:
For muscle strengthening, use Agrimony, juniper berries, and rosemary;
also use devil’s claw and tonifying herbs such as ginseng; do the herbal parasite
cure.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Concentrate on the thymus gland, try cabbage leaf and
castor-oil packs; tap the top of the breastbone with your fingers (see thymus under
Infections and Inflammations). Tape a tablet of chelated manganese in the hollow at
the top of the breastbone. Do spinal tapping, especially at the base of the neck (C7
and D1). Remove dead teeth and replace mercury amalgam fillings.
Place castor-oil packs over the liver and abdomen, and over the eyes (from ear
to ear) in cases of eye weakness. Practice intestinal sanitation, massage, frequent
muscle tensing with deep breathing, mind-body exercises, and autosuggestion and
visualization methods; meditate on being calm but forceful. Have frequent rest
periods, avoid stress, keep cool, take no hot baths or hot showers, and eat no hot
foods. Practice yellow color therapy systemically; use the electronic zapper, colloidal
silver, and oxygen therapy.
Obesity and Overweight: The main cause of excessive weight is a diet low in
fat and high in processed carbohydrates, particular sweeteners, and cereal or grain
products. Avoid these and experiment with the following approaches.
• Have an appetite-reducing protein drink, cold or warm, 30 minutes before meals,
with any combination of the following ingredients and in any amount that suits
you: spirulina or chlorella powder, green barley or wheat grass powder, food
yeast, ground linseed, linseed oil or olive oil. You can also drink this repeatedly
during the day to keep hunger away for hours.
• Thirty minutes before meals stir one teaspoon of psyllium hulls in a glass of
water, drink immediately. If still too hungry at mealtime, double the amount to two

teaspoons in a large glass of water. Drink some more water afterwards. Psyllium
swells up to 40 times its dry bulk to fill the stomach with a soft gel.
• Eat only lentils, green vegetables, and sprouted seeds. Vegetarians can also
experiment with combinations of different non-gluten whole grains and legumes.
• Adopt a mono-diet: One day eat protein foods only, the next day fruits, and the
third day sprouted seeds and vegetable salads. Repeat this as often as required.
• Temporarily adopt a raw food diet (see Step 34).
• For two weeks, eat only protein/fat foods and green vegetables; ground linseed is
a good protein/fat food.
• Repeat periods of consuming vegetable and grass juices and vegetable salads.
• Avoid all sweet food, as it stimulates the appetite and the synthesis of fat. In
particular, keep fructose-containing foods away from starchy foods, and eat fresh
fruits separately. The alternative sweeteners stevia and xylitol are acceptable;
however if you have cravings for sweetness, it is preferable to overcome this by
avoiding all sweeteners for some time.
• Avoid all cereal or grain products, especially if your blood group is O.
• Use a diet high in unheated fats and cold-pressed oils such as extra-virgin olive
oil, linseed oil (or ground linseed), fish oils, and coconut oil; these do not normally
cause weight gain. Avoid all heated fats and oils.
• Preferably skip the evening meal or have only a small salad or an apple.
• Get light daily exercise, such as a brisk 15-minute walk or jogging, or use a
rebounder or other aerobic exercise. The metabolic rate is speeded up for a long
time after exercise.
• Use a low-allergy diet combined with your blood group diet.
• Use mind therapy such as guided imagery and affirmation; look at your belief
systems, release negative emotions, and express your emotional needs. Use the
Emotional Freedom Technique in Step 63 to overcome food cravings.
• Eat very slowly and peacefully; chew every mouthful for about two minutes, until
the food is liquefied; savour the food flavours as they develop during chewing.
Osteoporosis: Use allergy testing and a diet low in sucrose, acidity and
phosphorus. Select foods with a high calcium-to-phosphorus ratio. Alkalize the body
if overacid and neutralize fruit acids or vinegar with dolomite. Take a hydrochloric
acid supplement if your fingernails are soft or if you have other indications of gastric
acid deficiency. Frequently add broth of bones or fish heads to your meals; regularly
drink grass and vegetable juices. The most important vitamins and minerals are
vitamins C and D (cod-liver oil or halibut-oil capsules), manganese, zinc, calcium,
magnesium, and boron. It’s helpful to know that 50 mg of borax contain 6 mg of
boron; to measure this amount, dissolve one level teaspoon of borax in one quart
(litre) of water and take a teaspoon twice daily with meals. Frequently expose your
skin to mild sunlight without using sunscreen. Also, vitamin K is important and
available from dark-green vegetables.

Pain: Pain is a warning signal indicating that something is wrong. Therefore it
is most important to search for and correct the basic cause. The following measures
are secondary to this. (See Arthritis or Infections and Inflammations if the pain is due
to these conditions.)
DIET: Use a low-allergy or hypoglycaemia diet with light meals, plenty of raw
vegetables and their juices, and omega-3 fatty acids, and have cleansing periods.
Avoid sweet foods and dairy products (lactose); avoid or neutralize acids; do allergy
testing. Pain tends to lessen or disappear while on a raw food diet; introduction of
some cooked foods may increase pain again
SUPPLEMENTS: Generally, a high calcium-magnesium level and increased blood
alkalinity raise the pain threshold (the level at which pain is felt; this means you feel
less pain), while acids, phosphorus, and potassium lower it. Therefore, alkalize the
body. You can add some additional baking soda to acids neutralized with dolomite to
bring the pH of the solution to 7. Vitamins A, B1, B6, C, and E can be helpful. Vitamin
B12 injections work for nerve pains, as do manganese, MSM, and zinc.
D,L-phenylalanine slows the breakdown of natural pain-relieving opiates in the brain
and improves other pain-relieving measures. It is slow acting and used for long-term
pain control. Topically apply propolis, cayenne ointment, and oils of clove or
wintergreen. Take white willow bark, cloves, wintergreen, pansy, or feverfew for
headaches.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: With cancer, migraines, and other diseases, pain and
discomfort are often the result of liver congestion. This is usually relieved by a coffee
enema and other measures to cleanse the liver. Improve the lymph circulation in a
painful area; see Part 1 for details.
Topically place the south pole of a magnet on the pain site and/or apply blue
lighting on the painful area, along with cold or ice packs. Also make a pack of honey,
cabbage leaves, or Epsom salt; add a handful of sodium bicarbonate to the bath
water to alkalize the body. Practice rhythmic breathing, meditation and relaxation
exercises, visualizing blue energy extinguishing the “red fireball” of pain. Concentrate
on feeling the pain, its strength, extent, rhythm, and other characteristics. If you pay
enough attention to your pain for a long period, it may simply disappear. Also ask the
pain what message it has for you. Try to sense its message.
Try this form of energy healing: Firmly but without pressure touch the flesh in
the indicated places with the tips of the thumb and the first two fingers of the right
hand. Hold for about three minutes or until the patient (or you) feels tingling in the
fingertips. Concentrate your mind on the painful body area with the intention of
relieving the condition. Here are a few variations:
• For pain in head or neck, hold fingertips just behind and beneath the left ear on a
line with the mouth.
• For pains in chest, arms, or upper back, hold fingertips to the base of the neck on
the left side of the spine.
• For pain in abdomen, back, sides, or hips, put fingertips to the left side of the
spine between shoulder blades.
• For pain in legs or feet, hold the left side near the centre of the spine.

Parasites: Parasite infestations combine with fungi, such as Candida, to
greatly undermine your long-term health. Examples of common parasites are
intestinal worms and protozoa (malaria and Giardia). Most of these parasites can be
eliminated with wormwood (Artemesia absinthium), which is best combined with
other herbs; wormwood also appears to be effective against Candida.
Here’s how: For several weeks take up to one teaspoon of powdered
wormwood once daily in juice before a meal. You may combine this with up to a
quarter-teaspoon of ground cloves and chopped garlic. If any of these ingredients is
too unpleasant to take, you can put it into one or more large gelatine capsules. Take
a course of acidophilus and bifido cultures after finishing the course of parasite
remedies. As a precaution, you can repeat a course of parasite remedies once or
twice a year.
In animal husbandry, high copper levels are successful in eliminating parasites
and keeping animals free of parasites. While animals seem to be able to handle
copper sulphate as part of a mineral supplement, this is not suitable for humans, and
I recommend using either copper salicylate or colloidal copper. During any parasite
or Candida cure, maintain a high intake of liquids to flush out toxic residues. In
addition to copper and herbal remedies, use an electronic blood purifier and possibly
a magnetic pulser on any swollen or infected lymph glands and organs.
Parkinson’s Disease: DIET: Useful here are seafood, raw egg yolk, lactic-acid-
fermented food, purple food, sprouted seeds, raw vegetables (finely grated, often
with gelatine) such as green beans, carrots, beet root and beet tops, cabbage, green
peas (fresh, not canned or frozen), and spinach. If vegetables are cooked, use the
cooking water. Preferably take fresh vegetable and grass juices before meals; have
frequent interior cleanses on such juice, possibly also on fruits. Use food appropriate
for your blood group and metabolic type.
Sprouted broad beans are very high in levodopa, the precursor of the
neurotransmitter dopamine, lacking in people with Parkinson’s. Try five to 15
sprouted beans with breakfast, and use raw or blended in juice; if cooked, also ingest
the cooking water. Black currants also contain levodopa. Do allergy testing and
intestinal cleansing; use organically grown foods if possible; avoid food additives,
including preservatives, flavouring (excitotoxins), colouring, and aspartame. Avoid
exposure to aluminium and heavy metals, especially lead, mercury, and iron.
SUPPLEMENTS: Take high doses of all vitamins, especially antioxidants and B1,
B6 (but not with levodopa or sprouted broad beans), B12 injections, and natural E
(1000 IU daily as tablets), and the minerals selenium, zinc, and chromium; also try
copper salicylate. Take vitamin C as 5 to 10 g of ascorbic acid per day, partly
neutralized with magnesium oxide or carbonate; take sufficient additional magnesium
as chloride and orotate to stop any shaking and help relax muscles. Take digestive
enzymes, pycnogenol or grape seed extract, lecithin, fish oil and ground linseed,
evening primrose oil, kelp, MSM, royal jelly, and glutamine. Try tyrosine before
breakfast and tryptophan before the evening meal. For herbs, try a combination of
foti-tieng, gotu kola, licorice (but not with high blood pressure), pau d’arco, sage, and
skullcap.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES:Cleansing and strengthening of all organs and glands
with all the methods described in this book are advised. Spinal tapping, spinal

corrections, rejuvenation exercises, tensing and breathing exercises, and body-mind
exercises are also helpful. Try regression to discover and release hidden fear.
Imagine reacting appropriately in situations of panic; use emotional-release and
mind-control methods. Improve and balance energy flows in acupuncture meridians,
especially those of the stomach, gallbladder, and bladder and the governing
meridian, by having an acupuncture treatment. Do intentional exaggerated shaking
exercises with vigorous breathing. Remove dead teeth and replace mercury
amalgam fillings.
Before breakfast have strong coffee and tyrosine; with breakfast have bee
pollen, spirulina or chlorella, ground linseed, sprouted broad beans, ginkgo biloba,
ginseng, and other stimulating measures; reintroduce levodopa drugs as late as
possible in the day. If levodopa has become ineffective, have a “drug holiday” - stop
using it for one or more weeks. Try breathing additional oxygen during this time (e.g.,
from an oxygen concentrator); however, additional oxygen is harmful while you’re on
levodopa. See the Love Cure (Step 61) and learn to meditate and energize the brain.
Prostate Problems: DIET: Advisable here is a mainly raw food diet based on
sprouted legumes, vegetable salads, fresh fruit, and plenty of fresh vegetable and
grass juice. Also good are raw egg yolk, tomatoes, seeds of sunflower and pumpkin
(best as seed cheese), foods high in bioflavonoids and carotenoids, and purple
foods. Have allergy testing and practice intestinal sanitation. Avoid gluten and milk
proteins.
SUPPLEMENTS: Take Vitamins A (halibut-liver oil capsules and cod-liver oil), E
(preferably including gamma tocopherol), C, and B6; magnesium (1000 mg daily)
best as magnesium chloride and magnesium ascorbate, selenium, zinc (30 to 50 mg
in divided doses), bioflavo-noids, quercetin, kelp, protein-digesting enzymes,
spirulina, and bee pollen. Try Epilobium parviflorum (small-leafed willow), saw
palmetto, Pygeum africanum, and stinging -nettle/nettle extract.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Useful are yoga exercises; frequent long walks, and
mild sun exposure; sitting on south pole of a strong magnet. Try also: reflexology of
prostate points on hands and feet, tapping of lower spine, and -castor-oil and Epsom
salt packs on the lower abdomen and lower spine. Have satisfying sexual activity or
be satisfied with having no activity; see also Step 56: Healthy Sexuality.
Schizophrenia: Many people classified as having a mental disease are
actually emotionally unstable and open to psychic influences (extrasensory
perception) and, most of all, need guidance and grounding. Sometimes
schizophrenic symptoms disappear during water fasts. For all types of schizophrenia,
follow a fast with allergy testing, a low-allergy diet, and intestinal sanitation. If allergy
testing is not possible, adopt a low-allergy diet that excludes all gluten and cow’s milk
protein.
From a biochemical point of view, we can distinguish between three different
types of schizophrenics: The low-histamine type are slow oxidizers, also called
histapenics; the high-histamine type are fast oxidizers, also called histadelics; and
there are balanced oxidizers with normal histamine levels. In addition, each of these
may at times display symptoms of overactivity or underactivity. If in doubt about the
histamine status, under supervision of a qualified health practitioner, take (or give) 50
mg of niacin with water on an empty stomach. If a strong facial flush develops,

histamine levels are high; if there is no or only a weak flush, levels are probably
normal or low. Then try 250 mg of niacin in the same way; if there is still no or only a
weak flush, histamine levels are low.
The Low-Histamine Type: The low-histamine type is the “typical”
schizophrenic, insensitive to pain and outside influences; infections and skin
reactions are rare; calcium levels are high; pH tends towards the alkaline side.
Sometimes a cerebral allergy is present, causing a rapid pulse (90-100); thought
processes are often overactive.
DIET: Adopt mainly a vegetarian raw food diet reasonably high in protein.
Frequently use seed cheese and protein drink as described in the recipes in Part 4;
use seafood, fish oils, linseed oil, ground linseed, and acid fruit, but avoid gluten and
milk products. Take a long, supervised fast on fresh grass and vegetable juices.
SUPPLEMENTS: Try high-potency B-complex vitamins, high dose folic acid with
each meal, inositol, and vitamin B12 (as injections or absorbed under the tongue).
Also take up to several grams of niacin and niacinamide daily; up to 10 g daily of
ascorbic acid, partly neutralized with magnesium in divided doses; additional
magnesium chloride, manganese, and zinc; high-dosage evening primrose oil and
lecithin, glutamine, histidine, and tryptophan; hydrochloric acid and digestive
enzymes (pancreatin) with main meals; Bach Flower Remedies per your emotional
conditions.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Use blue lighting during overactive periods; at other
times try orange or red. Induce the inflammation response: for example, blistering
agents and overheating baths followed by sweating. Use plenty of acid fruit, such as
citrus fruit.
The High-Histamine Type: The high--histamine schizophrenic exhibits a
hypoglycaemic personality and is very susceptible to allergic reactions. The main
symptoms include suicidal depression, obsessive rumination, blank-mindedness,
periods of over-arousal and thought disorders, frequent headaches, and dizziness;
blood pressure tends to be low and the pH too acid; skin is sensitive and may show
dilated blood vessels (rosy cheeks).
Recommended is a strict hypoglycaemia diet that minimizes sweet and acid
food intake. Have high doses of all vitamins and minerals; acid-neutralized dolomite
or additional calcium, and calcium ascorbate. Copper may be beneficial, but best
taken as salicylate. Also helpful are vitamin-B12 injections, nicotinamide (up to 10 g
daily, no niacin), L-methionine, glutamine, folic acid, and lecithin. Alkalize the body
(see Step 6). For chronic depression, use tryptophan or tyrosine; if one supplement
does not help, try the other.
Stress-Induced Schizophrenia: People with stress-induced schizophrenia
tend to have a better insight into their condition and a better response to treatment. In
addition to the classic symptoms of schizophrenia, in this form there are signs of zinc
and vitamin-B6 deficiency; also white spots on fingernails, loss of dream memory,
sweetish breath odour, stretch marks, inability to tan and sensitivity to sunlight,
sometimes pain in the upper left abdomen, possibly tremors, spasms, amnesia,
impotence, menstrual irregularity, and anemia.

Usually a hypoglycaemia diet is helpful, along with vitamin B6 (up to 3 g daily in
divided doses), zinc (10 mg) with each meal, vitamin-B12 injections, high intake of
neutralized dolomite, additional magnesium, other vitamins and minerals as for the
high--histamine type, and Bach Flower Remedies, as appropriate.
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ALL TYPES: Live with a caring group in a
peaceful, natural environment; try regression therapy and emotional release therapy
(see Step 63). Avoid heavy-metal contamination; sanitize your teeth; apply violet
color therapy systemically; treat for parasites and Candida; use St. John’s Wort as an
herbal tincture during depression.
Scleroderma: Antimicrobial therapy including colloidal silver and oxygen
therapy are recommended, as is the herbal parasite cure with use of the electronic
zapper and magnetic pulser. Make external applications to affected skin areas as
rubs, packs, or immersions using tea tree oil, aloe vera gel, magnesium chloride, a
solution of copper salicylate with MSM, and blue light. To eliminate the microbes
causing the condition, keep the affected part in contact with tea tree oil until the skin
becomes red, inflamed, and painful; then stop tea tree oil and expose it to blue light,
copper salicylate, and other sedating or anti-inflammatory measures. Internal
remedies include all antioxidants, bioflavonoids, copper salicylate, echinacea,
magnesium chloride, pau d’arco, propolis, wormwood, and zinc. Also advised are the
Basic Cleanse, allergy testing, and intestinal sanitation.
Skin Problems: The three main causes of skin problems are accumulation of
wastes and toxins, unrelieved allergies, and a deficiency of essential nutrients.
DIET:
Use the hypoglycaemia diet, with freshly ground linseed, fish oils, apricot
oil, almond oil, almonds, sunflower kernels, raw egg yolk (sulphur), raw cabbage,
horseradish, sprouted seeds, grass and vegetable juice, raw onions, and broth of fish
heads. Avoid saturated fats, margarine, peanut butter, all hydrogenated and fried
foods, dairy products, gluten, and sweet foods. Do the Basic Cleanse, have allergy
testing, and maintain intestinal sanitation.
SUPPLEMENTS: Take vitamins A, C, and E (up to 2000 mg daily, as tablets), also
B2, B6, B12, PABA, bioflavonoids, biotin, glucosamine, hydrochloric acid (if
fingernails are soft), and one spoonful of lecithin with meals. Tyrosine and kelp or
iodine help as skin activators: They are cleansing, but may cause temporary
aggravation of symptoms, especially with acne. Take increased dosages of
magnesium, evening primrose oil (especially in the case of psoriasis), zinc,
manganese, sulphur (best as MSM), selenium, silicon as in horsetail, digestive
enzymes, and gelatine (broth of fish heads), especially for psoriasis.
HERBS: For internal and external use: aloe vera, burdock (for psoriasis),
calendula, chaparral, echinacea, goldenseal, horsetail, pau d’arco, sarsaparilla,
sassafras, St. John’s Wort, and vervain.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES:If B-vitamin deficiencies are suspected, use a paste of
food yeast or bran on affected skin parts; concentrated B vitamins, especially B2 and
B6, can be added to this as well. Have frequent cleansing periods; regulate bowel
movements; use colonics. Drink plenty of water and green vegetable juices; use hot
and cold showers; do skin brushing to activate the skin, but not on the affected areas.
Include sweating after hot Epsom salt bath.

Stimulate the kidneys, lungs, circulation, small intestine (especially for
psoriasis), liver, gallbladder, and endocrine glands, especially the thyroid; do lymph-
drainage massage. Use only a minimum (infrequently) of an old-fashioned brand of
soap, based on olive or almond oil, preferably neutralized (most soaps are too
alkaline). Avoid detergents and cosmetics. Apply yellow light and measured amounts
of sunshine on affected skin parts; this is especially helpful for acne. Have frequent
skin massage with peanut oil, almond oil, apricot oil, and cod-liver oil (in case of
malabsorption), preferably with added vitamin E. Cod-liver oil rubs (with vitamin E)
are especially helpful with dry, damaged, or inflamed skin, malabsorption, moles,
warts, skin cancer, sunburn, and psoriasis.
Rashes are usually caused by allergies, so use allergy testing. Chronic skin
diseases, for example psoriasis, are often improved by inducing vomiting, which
relaxes the digestive organs and stimulates the solar plexus. Accept your skin
problems as a beneficial cleansing, removing harmful energies and impurities from
inside. Send love to your skin blemishes and they are more likely to go away.
Rejuvenate your skin by frequently bathing it in imaginary rose-colored energy.
Dry skin: Especially if you have difficulty gaining weight, check for fat
malabsorption, which is often due to gluten allergy; stools may be pale or clay-
coloured. For dry skin, frequently rub it with extra-virgin olive oil and added vitamin E
and A. Take linseed oil or fish oils internally; with malabsorption, also apply it
externally.
Oily skin: Use a pack of brewer’s yeast (also called nutritional yeast) and bran,
applied to the skin.
Acne: A mixture of equal parts of camphorated oil, witch hazel, and vitamin E
oil can be rubbed into pustular areas. For severe conditions, a 0.05 percent solution
of vitamin A acid (retinoic acid) can be applied for about six weeks under professional
supervision. It frequently causes redness and irritation at the beginning of the
treatment.
Ulcers and skin infections: Wash the area with warm diluted magnesium
chloride or an Epsom salt solution and apply any of the following, alone or mixed with
others: propolis as cream or solution, copper salicylate, garlic, or fresh cabbage-leaf
or fresh green-vegetable juice. Aloe vera gel is excellent for sealing a wound; cover
with unheated honey, mix with a few drops of hydrogen peroxide, and renew twice
daily. When there is dead, proud flesh (granulation) and gangrene, apply protein-
digesting enzymes (trypsin, pancreatin), but especially the inside of green papaya
skin, white sap, juice of raw leaves, or urea (see also Step 22: Urine and Urea
Therapy).
Boils: To draw, cover with a mixture of honey and cod-liver oil; once they are
broken, treat as for ulcers. Internal cleansing is the main therapy for this problem.
Wet eczema: This is best kept dry, either exposed to air and sunshine or
covered with a powder of slippery elm. For healing, after infections have cleared,
apply vitamin E, fresh green juice or fresh leaves, especially cabbage.
Scar tissue: To remove, frequently rub with camphorated oil, MSM solution,
and vitamin E. In addition, scars can be treated with neural therapy. An anaesthetic
(Xylocain) is injected into scar tissues that are thought to induce electrical

interference fields in other areas of the body. Sometimes a health problem of long
standing disappears instantaneously after an injection. Alternatively, you can prick
the scar with a fine needle to release the tissue tension in the area. Prick long scars
in several places and leave a needle inserted for ten to 20 minutes about 2 mm deep
at each end of the scar. Before and after any needling, apply a suitable antiseptic to
the skin, such as tea tree oil.
Fungal infections of the skin: Use a concentrated magnesium chloride or
propolis solution, tea tree oil, or other fungicidal herbs and oils. Most effective is a
long-lasting pack of any of these fungicides; if one does not work, try another. With
any skin-fungus problem, also use internal Candida therapy.
Itchy skin: Apply a solution of baking soda or, alternatively, extracts of borage,
buckthorn bark, juniper berries, chickweed, marjoram, pennyroyal, plantain, poke
root, or witch hazel; also bathe the skin with oatmeal (cooked or soaked) or baking
soda. Use blue color therapy; treat the liver and gallbladder if skin is jaundiced. Take
a hot Epsom salt bath; rub skin with tea tree oil or witch hazel; alkalize the body;
consume no sweets or acids; test for allergies.
Warts and moles: To remove, gently rub on cod-liver oil or castor oil mornings
and evenings. For stronger action, apply baking soda moistened with castor oil to the
consistency of putty; leave overnight; repeat until it becomes sore. Then apply
vitamin E oil, green juice, or honey for several days before continuing with castor oil.
Be careful and gentle with moles. If a mole appears to turn malignant, cover with raw,
crushed garlic, changing two or three times per day. When it becomes sore after
several days, cover with honey instead for five days. Alternate between garlic and
honey periods as long as required.
Basically, moles indicate that the systems of elimination are not functioning
well. A protruding mole may also be removed by tying a hair tightly around it, then
every two or three days adding another hair tying it a fraction tighter. Active moles
can also be removed with an escharotics cream.
Skin cancer: If skin cancer is suspected, apply the milky juice from the stem of
radiation weed, radium-weed, or milkweed (spurge, euphorbia, petty spurge). Repeat
application as required; a strong skin reaction may result, followed by healing. Use
this approach also for warts, moles, blemishes, and so on. For serious conditions,
including melanoma and tumours close to the skin, escharotic creams based on zinc
chloride and the herb bloodroot are available (see: www.altcancer.com or
www.cancersalves.com ). On inflamed areas and skin cancer, you can also use the
south pole of a magnet and blue lighting.
Skin rejuvenation: Frequently and vigorously rub the skin with some or all of
the following ingredients, dissolved in aloe vera gel or energized water: vitamin C
powder, magnesium chloride, glucosamine, copper salicylate, Microhydrin, and
MSM. The amounts of individual ingredients are not critical. Afterwards you can
cover the area lightly with natural vitamin E oil, possibly with added vitamin A. At
other times, you can make a facial mask with fresh residue from juicing vegetables or
grass; moisten with some juice as required to make it stick.
GENERAL RULES FOR COLOR THERAPY FOR SKIN PROBLEMS: Initial treatment is
with green; subsequent treatments for dry or scaly skin problems with lemon; for
obstinate cases, use also yellow or orange. When scales drop and inner skin surface

appears, treat with turquoise, as for moist or weeping skin disorders. For red, angry
skin problems, use blue or indigo; for abscesses, boils, carbuncles, and furuncles,
use systemic lemon and locally orange. When suppuration and throbbing begin, use
yellow until the problem bursts open; then green until pus drains and a red cavity is
left; finally, use turquoise and indigo. For acne and especially psoriasis, cover the
area with blue cellophane (double layer) and expose to sunlight or ultraviolet light.
Thyroid Problems: For an indication of your thyroid function, measure your
temperature before getting up in the morning. Measure it in the armpit or under the
tongue for three consecutive mornings. For women before menopause, measure in
the first half of the cycle before ovulation in the first week after the start of a new
period. The temperature should be 97.8º F (36.5º C) or higher; otherwise, the thyroid
is likely to be underactive. However, be sure that you do not have a raised
temperature due to an infection.
If the thyroid is underactive, try the following measures: Take a supplement of
the amino acid tyrosine, 500 mg three times daily before meals. Best take it together
with a kelp or seaweed tablet as a source of iodine. Also helpful are freeze-dried
thyroid and vitamin B complex. Selenium is needed to activate the thyroid hormone.
The most helpful remedy for normalizing thyroid functions is maca, a Peruvian
tuberous root, similar to wild yam but more effective. For sources, check the Internet.
Other useful measures are pressing the thyroid foot reflexes (see Step 15),
using the magnetic pulser on the thyroid gland (see Step 19), and sanitizing your
teeth (see Step 8). The main causes of thyroid problems, except for iodine
deficiency, are dead teeth (e.g., root-canalled teeth), jawbone infections, and
mercury from amalgam fillings; these can also cause overactive or toxic thyroid
conditions and need to be corrected. For autoimmune disease of the thyroid, see
Autoimmune Diseases.
Vaccination Damage: Despite the refusal of the conventional health
establishment to investigate the long-term effects of childhood vaccinations,
independent research reports have increasingly been made public. These link
vaccination rates to the epidemic of childhood asthma, as well as to crib death,
shaken baby syndrome, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, autism, and juvenile
diabetes. Since the 1990’s, there has been a tenfold or 1000 percent increase in
autism, an increase which has been linked by some researchers to the organic
mercury preservative commonly found in baby-vaccines.
A greatly increased incidence of juvenile diabetes has been correlated to
specific vaccination sequences and to the number of vaccines given. In some
Australian Aboriginal communities, every second child died shortly after vaccination.
Also, the original explosive spread of AIDS across Africa correlates with a smallpox
vaccination campaign there. Basically, most components of most vaccines are highly
toxic, and these are introduced by an unbiological route directly into the bloodstream
of babies, whose immune systems are immature.
While the dangers of vaccinations are greatly understated by most health
authorities, the advertised benefits are greatly exaggerated. For instance, incidence
of the four leading childhood killer diseases - diphtheria, pertussis, scarlet fever, and
measles - had already declined 90 to 97 percent before the introduction of vaccines,
due to improved sanitation and hygiene.35

Another controversy concerns the “shaken baby syndrome.” Independent
researchers claim that vaccinations can cause spot bleeding in the brain and retina
that resembles the injury caused by violently shaking a baby.36 Paralleling the
increase in vaccinations, there is now an epidemic in shaken baby syndrome. A
recent article in New Scientist cites a member of the U.S. child protection service as
saying that there are three million abused children each year,37 and if it becomes
known that other conditions cause shaken baby syndrome (including the rare blood
disease hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis), then some child abusers might remain
unpunished. I believe that for thousands of years most parents have on occasion
lightly shaken their children without causing any harm, and only now does it cause
serious brain damage. There may be countless innocent parents in jail, and it would
be appropriate for health authorities to investigate the possibility that some vaccines
may cause capillary fragility in some babies.
The only complete protection against vaccination damage is strict avoidance of
this procedure. Every state in the U.S. has a religious exemption clause; you can
write a letter to exempt your child; for more details, see www.mercola.com, and go to
the article page on vaccinations. If you cannot avoid vaccinations for your child, then
give high doses of protective nutrients for several days before and several weeks
after the event, in particular vitamin C and MSM, to aid in rapid detoxification.
Wounds and Burns: DIET: Have a diet high in easily digestible proteins (such
as a protein drink - see the recipes in Part 4), fresh green-vegetable juices, foods
high in arginine (such as almonds and sunflower seeds, best as seed cheese), and
lentils.
SUPPLEMENTS: Take high doses of vitamins C, A, B1, and E, bioflavonoids,
manganese, MSM, zinc, glucosamine, copper salicylate, -protein-digesting enzymes,
and comfrey root. Use homeopathic Arnica and/or Bach Rescue Remedy, internally
and topically; also burdock, chamomile, comfrey, echinacea, and yarrow, as teas and
topically.
ADDITIONAL THERAPIES: Cool burns with ice; spray wounds and burns with a
one-percent ascorbic acid and propolis solution; alternatively, apply weak tannic acid.
After drying the site, apply vitamin E oil and cover with aloe vera gel, honey of a
heavy consistency, or ointments containing propolis, vitamin E, and zinc oxide. The
principle is to seal the wound or burn airtight with an antiseptic preparation until it is
healed. Therefore, reapply the gel or ointment to maintain an airtight seal; renew the
honey twice daily; mix a few drops of hydrogen peroxide with the honey. If the wound
needs washing or cleaning, a magnesium chloride solution is best. Later, apply
camphorated oil and vitamin E oil to prevent scarring. As an alternative, wounds can
be covered with crushed fresh green leaves (cabbage, juicy grass pulp). Place the
south pole of a magnet on fresh wounds; later, opposite poles on both sides; and
finally, north pole. Use green color therapy topically; turquoise if there are signs of
infection or inflammation; later lemon or yellow.
PRESSURE THERAPY: Immediately after the injury, exert strong pressure with the
thumb on any cut for at least seven minutes. Partially severed parts can be pressed
and held together with hand pressure or firm bandages; this usually stops bleeding
and accelerates healing.
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Step 45
DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS
Check out this list of deficiency symptoms to see if you are
lacking in key nutrients - and start replacing them.
Eye, hair, nail, mouth, and skin symptoms are among the early outward
warning signs of vitamin and mineral deficiencies. The following compilations can
help you in diagnosing and treating these deficiencies. However, increased metabolic
requirements for indicated deficiencies may persist for a long time after the outward
symptoms have disappeared. Many listed symptoms can also be caused or
aggravated by allergies and problems with the blood sugar and fat metabolism. Study
tables 6-1 to 6-4.
The right-hand column gives the primary deficiencies first; additional treatment
or the cause is given in parentheses. For each condition, only the more prominent
nutrients are mentioned. However, all the typical nutrients should be supplied in
increased amounts in the treatment of all conditions. Most skin conditions benefit
from external as well as internal application of the indicated nutrients. EFA means
essential fatty acids, mainly linoleic and linolenic acid; recommended are ground
linseed (flaxseed), fish oils, and evening primrose oil. Mouth problems are often due
to mercury amalgam fillings, allergies, or Candida (thrush) overgrowth.
* * * * * * * * * *
Table 6-1: Eye Deficiency Symptoms
Symptom Deficiency/Treatment/Cause
Bitot’s spots (foamy patches on conjunctiva) vitamin A

Bloodshot eyes boric acid for fungus infection, blue light
Blurred vision vitamins B2, B6, pantothenic acid
Bulging eyes vitamin E, nicotinamide, iodine
Cataracts (lens becomes opaque) vitamins B2, C, E, antioxidants (avoid lactose)
Color blindness vitamin A
Conjunctivitis vitamins A, B2, C (B6, zinc)
Cross-eyed vitamins E, C, B1 (allergy testing)
Dark spots in front of the eyes vitamins B2, B6, C, zinc (liver problems)
Dim vision (amblyopia) vitamins B1, C, B12 (allergy testing)
Dry, hard eyeballs (xerophthalmia) vitamin A
Farsightedness (hyperopia) magnesium, potassium
Glaucoma salt, high vitamin C (cleansing)
Haemorrhaging in the back of the eye vitamins B6, E, C, B2, zinc, copper, magnesium,
(retinitis, also macular degeneration) bioflavonoids, glucosamine, cartilage
Infected, ulcerating eyes (keratomalacia) vitamin A (vitamins C, B2, B6, zinc, blue light)
Itching, burning, watery, sandy eyes vitamin B2 (continued)

Nearsightedness (myopia) vitamins C, E, D, calcium, proteins, chromium

Night blindness (nyctalopia) vitamins A, (B2, B6, zinc)
Red blood vessels in the sclera vitamin B2
Retinal detachment zinc, vitamins B6, B2, C, E, A
Sensitive eyes, fear of strong light vitamins B2, A
(photophobia)
Tics of eyelids vitamins B2, B6, zinc, magnesium
Table 6-2: Skin Deficiency Symptoms
Acne vitamins A, B2, B6, C, niacin, biotin, zinc, cod-liver oil

Addison’s disease (adrenal exhaustion): all B vitamins, especially pantothenic acid; vitamin C; all
increased tanning, especially on skin- minerals, digestive enzymes (allergy testing, avoid stress)
folds, scars, elbows, knees; black freckles
Arterial spiders (fine, branching arteries on antioxidants, glucosamine, cartilage, purple food,
face, neck, chest) bioflavonoids, copper, zinc (alkalize), cod-liver oil
Bedsores vitamins C, E
Blisters vitamin E
Brown discoloration around small joints vitamin B12
Brown skin spots vitamins C, E, antioxidants (liver problems)
Dry skin vitamins A, C, EFA (fat malabsorption)
Eczema, infantile EFA, zinc, vitamin B6
Eczema, skin ulcers vitamins C, B2, B6, niacin, PABA, EFA, zinc, magnesium
Edema vitamins B6, B1, magnesium (less salt/protein)
Fingers white, numb, stiff, swellings vitamin B6, zinc, cod-liver oil (also vitamin C, magnesium,
(Raynaud’s disease) calcium, alkalize)
Fungal infections B vitamins (tea tree oil pack, intestinal sanitation)
(e.g., athlete’s foot, ringworm)
Gangrene vitamins C, E, B1, magnesium chloride
Greasy dermatitis around eyes, nose vitamin B6, zinc
Greasy skin eruptions (seborrhoea) vitamin B2
Horny, goose-pimple-like skin vitamin A (possibly fat malabsorption)
Horny red skin on pressure areas zinc (B6)
(e.g., knees, elbows)
Hot flushes vitamin E, boron, maca, pollen (wild yam cream)
Ichthyosis (fish-like scales) vitamin A, retinoic acid topically
Infant dermatitis with inflamed pustules vitamin B6, zinc (allergy testing)
around body openings
Infections of the skin (boils, cold sores, vitamins C, A, B6, zinc, magnesium (hot Epsom salt and
impetigo, and so on) tea tree oil packs, propolis)
Itching vitamins B, C, EFA, alkalizers (allergy testing)
Jaundice vitamins C, E, B6, B12, A, lecithin, magnesium, zinc (blue
light therapy, liver cleansing) (continued)

Lemon-yellow skin vitamin B12

Oily skin, whiteheads vitamin B2
Oversensitivity to sunlight vitamin B6, zinc, PABA, carotenes, bioflavonoids,
antioxidants, alkalizers, purple food
Pale skin biotin, folic acid, vitamin B6, B12 (anemia)
Prickly-heat rash vitamin C
Psoriasis see acne; also vitamin E, lecithin, blue light, sunlight
(allergy testing, avoid gluten)
Purplish or blue-black skin areas vitamin C, vitamin B2, bioflavonoids
Rash allergy testing, alkalizers, vitamin C, calcium
Red-brown, often symmetrical discoloration niacin or nicotinamide (folic acid)
of skin exposed to the sun, later ulceration
Red-brown or dark-red spots manganese
Rosacea (redness of part of face) vitamin B2
Scaly dermatitis biotin
Scaly eczema around nose, ears, vitamin B2, B6, zinc
scrotum, vulva
Scar tissue vitamin E, MSM, camphorated oil
Scleroderma (hardening and swelling of skin) vitamins E, C, A, PABA, magnesium, MSM (zapper,
parasite herbs, tea tree oil packs)
Sensitivity to insect bites vitamin C, calcium, alkalizers, vitamin B1
Shingles B vitamins, vitamins B12, C, A, E, lysine
Skin cancer vitamins A, C, E, B6, propolis, zinc, chlorophyll,
bioflavonoids, blue light, escharotics)
Skin-folds red, infected niacin
Stretch marks vitamins E, B6, zinc
Subcutaneous bleeding (red or purplish vitamin C, bioflavonoids and rutin, grape seed extract,
spots under the skin, bruises easily) glucosamine, cartilage, alkalizer
Swellings (e.g., face) zinc, magnesium, vitamins B6, B12
Vaginal itching vitamins B2, E, C (Candida treatment, avoid synthetic
underwear)
Warts, moles vitamins C, A, E, bioflavonoids, antioxidants
Weals on the skin (urticaria) vitamin B6, zinc, vitamin C (alkalizer, allergy)
White skin patches (vitiligo) PABA, pantothenic acid, vitamin B6, zinc
Wrinkles or aging skin vitamins C, E, A, EFA , MSM (too much sun)
Table 6-3: Hair and Nail Deficiency Symptoms
Coarse, brittle hair zinc

Dandruff vitamins B2, B6, zinc, magnesium, biotin
Dry hair vitamin A, zinc
Greying hair folic acid, pantothenic acid, biotin, minerals/copper
(weak circulation/adrenals, avoid sweet food, food
allergies) (continued)

Hair loss zinc, vitamin B6, sulphur/MSM, selenium, biotin

Hangnails vitamin C, folic acid, proteins
Nails opaque, white spots/bands zinc, vitamin B6
Oily hair vitamin B2
Peeling nails vitamins A, C, calcium
Ridges on nails, longitudinal vitamin A, protein (anemia, poor circulation, glandular
imbalance)
Ridges on nails, transverse fever, infection, menstrual problems, period of protein
-deficiency
Scaling of cuticle or lips biotin, vitamin B2
Table 6-4: Tongue and Mouth Deficiency Symptoms
Beefy, enlarged tongue pantothenic acid

Burning, sore tongue vitamins B2, B6, B12, niacin
Cracked lips and corners of the vitamins B2, B6, folic acid
mouth (cheilosis)
Distended, purplish-blue veins under vitamin B2 (circulation poor, congested)
the tongue
Edema or tooth-marks on tongue niacin/nicotinamide
Furrowed tongue vitamin B1, pantothenic acid
Gums receding, bleeding (gingivitis) vitamin C, bioflavonoids, calcium, alkalizers
Halitosis (bad breath) vitamin B6, zinc, magnesium, propolis (cleansing, intestinal
sanitation)
Mouth ulcers, canker folic acid, vitamin B6, zinc (overacidity, allergy)
Papillae prominent or erased niacin/nicotinamide
Purplish or magenta tongue or lips vitamin B2
Tongue red at tip or edges; with severe niacin (vitamin B6)
deficiency whole tongue scarlet red, sore
Tongue shiny, smooth, beefy; early sign: vitamin B12, folic acid
strawberry-red tip/sides
Tongue too small or too large niacin, pantothenic acid
White-coated tongue intestinal putrefaction
White patches on tongue vitamin B12 and other B vitamins (allergy)
Yellowish-brown-coated tongue liver or gallbladder problems
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Step 46
CANCER
If you have cancer, here are some useful suggestions.
You may gain a better appreciation of natural cancer treatment if I first share
with you some little-known facts about orthodox cancer treatment. In cancer
research, success (expressed as a five-year survival rate) is established by
comparing other forms and combinations of treatment with the results from surgery
alone. However, the success rate of surgery has rarely been compared with the
survival rates of untreated patients. Therefore, orthodox cancer treatment is basically
unscientific because it doesn’t deal with all the data. The overall supposed “cure rate”
is not higher than can be accounted for by removing precancerous conditions,
dormant or calcified tumours, spontaneous remissions, and the placebo effect. In
support of my position, I have assembled some key statements and conclusions from
medical and scientific publications.
Studies appear to show that early intervention is helpful, because pre-
cancerous lesions are included in early removals that frequently would not become
cancerous if left untouched. It does not matter how much or how little of a breast is
removed; the outcome is always the same.38
Researchers say it is complacent to continue subjecting at least 70 percent of
women with breast cancer to surgery, a futile mutilating procedure.39 There is no
evidence that early mastectomy affects survival; if patients knew this, they would
most likely refuse surgery.40 The editor of the Lancet pointed out that despite various
modifications of breast cancer treatment, death rates remained unchanged. He
acknowledged that despite the almost weekly releases of “miracle breakthroughs,”
the medical profession with its extraordinary capacity for self-delusion (his words, not
mine) in all truth has lost its way. At the same time, he rejects the view of those who
now believe that salvation will come from increasing chemotherapy after surgery to
just below the rate where it kills the patient. Instead, he continues, “would it not be
more scientific to ask why our approach has failed?” Not too soon to ask this
question, after a century of mutilating women, I would say. The title of this editorial,
appropriately, is “Breast cancer: have we lost our way?”41
Basically, all types and combinations of conventional breast cancer treatment
appear to result in the same low long-term survival rates. The only conclusion that
can be drawn from this is that conventional treatment does not improve long-term
survival rates. Even worse, Michael Baum, M.D., a leading British breast cancer
surgeon, found that breast cancer surgery tends to increase the risk of relapse or
death within three years. He also linked surgery to the accelerated spread of cancer,
which it does by forming metastases in other parts of the body.42
This conclusion confirms an earlier finding by Ernst Krokowski, a German
professor of radiology. He demonstrated conclusively that metastasis is commonly
triggered by medical intervention, including sometimes even by a biopsy or surgery
unrelated to the cancer.43 Disturbance of a tumor causes a greatly increased number
of cancer cells to enter the bloodstream, while most medical intervention, especially

chemotherapy, suppresses the immune system. This combination is a recipe for
disaster. It is metastases that kill, while primary tumours in general and those in the
breast in particular are sometimes relatively harmless.
This follows earlier reports that radical surgery for prostate cancer also tends to
spread the disease. Actually, prostate cancer was investigated in the first randomized
clinical trials for any type of cancer. After 23 years, there was no difference in the
survival rates of those who had surgery and controls who did not; those with surgery
suffered more problems such as impotence or incontinence.44 A recent
epidemiological study confirmed the questionable value of conventional therapy by
concluding that “medical interventions for cancer have had a negligible or no effect
on survival.”45 Even the conservative New England Journal of Medicine had an article
with the headline “Cancer Undefeated.”46
Common ways to make medical statistics look more favourable are as follows.
Patients who die during prolonged treatment with chemo-therapy or radiotherapy are
not counted in the statistics, because they did not receive the full treatment, while in
the control group everyone who dies is counted. Further, success is judged by the
percentage of shrinking tumours, regardless of survival time. If survival is measured,
then it is only in terms of those dying from the treated disease. It is not normally
shown how many of the patients die due to the treatment itself.
The current trend is to pick up precancerous conditions very early and treat
them as cancer. While this statistically increases the number of people with cancer, it
also artificially prolongs survival times and lowers death rates, thereby making
medical treatments appear to be more successful. However, there may also be a
genuine component of improved survival, as increasing numbers of cancer patients
opt for additional natural therapies.
An investigation of the records of 1.2 million cancer patients revealed that the
death rate attributed to non-cancer death shortly after treatment was 200 percent
higher than would normally be expected. Two years after diagnosis and treatment,
this excess death rate had fallen to 50 percent. The most common cause for the
excess death was listed as heart and respiratory failure. This means instead of dying
several years later of cancer, these patients died from the effects of the treatment
and thereby helped greatly improve the cancer statistics because they did not die
strictly of cancer.47 This misleading reporting of cancer deaths has led to demands for
more honest statistics.48
After an analysis of several large -mammogram-screening studies found that it
leads to more aggressive treatment with no survival benefits,49 even the editor of the
Lancet had to admit that there is no reliable evidence from large randomized trials to
support mammography screening programs.50 The significance of this statement
goes far beyond the use of mammograms. It is openly acknowledged by the
proponents of conventional medicine that they have no effective way of helping
patients with advanced cancer. Until now the catch-cry always was “detect it early,
then it can be cured.” These mammogram evaluation studies demonstrate that it
does not matter when cancer is detected; they suggest to me that the conventional
methods and the whole multibillion dollar cancer industry are useless.
Here’s more supportive evidence: A 13-year Canadian study of 40,000
women compared physical breast examinations with examinations plus

mammograms. The mammogram group had many more lumpectomies and
surgeries, and the death rate was 107 deaths in the mammography group and 105 in
the physical examination group.51 Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a common non-
invasive form of breast cancer. Most cases of DCIS are detected through the use of
mammography; in younger women, 92 percent of all cancers detected by
mammography are of this type. Nevertheless, on average, 44 percent, and in some
states 60 percent, of these are treated by mastectomy. As most of these tumours are
harmless, this greatly improves the survival statistics.52
In contrast, while conventional diagnosis is invasive and may help to spread the
cancer, a kind of electro-dermal screening, called the Biofield test, was developed by
a team from eight European hospitals and universities. The Lancet reported it as
being 99.1 percent accurate in diagnosing malignancy in breast tumors.53
A large meta-analysis of radiotherapy results for lung cancer showed that after
two years there were 21 percent more deaths in the group that had radiotherapy in
addition to surgery as compared to those who had surgery alone. Researchers
contend the rationale is to kill any cancer cells remaining after surgery, but it is a
shame that the facts do not agree with this theory.54
Chemotherapy for children with leukaemia and Hodgkin’s disease is the proud
showpiece of the only apparent success of orthodox cancer therapy. Now a long-
term follow-up study shows that such children develop 18 times more secondary
malignant tumours later in life and that girls face a 75 times (7500 percent) higher
risk of breast cancer by the time they are 40.55 A main problem appears to be the
development of deep or systemic Candida albicans infections shortly after starting
chemotherapy.56 If this is not appropriately treated (see entries on Candida in Step
48), then relapses or future health problems are likely to occur.
Chemotherapy showed a clear dose dependency whereby the incidence of
triggered leukaemia doubled between low-dose and -moderate-dose groups and then
quadrupled between the moderate-dose and the high-dose groups. A study of
ovarian cancer found that the risk of developing leukaemia after treatment with
chemotherapy increased 21-fold, or 2100 percent. Other tumours commonly develop
after treating malignancies with chemotherapy.57 In a trial for multiple myeloma, no
advantage was found by using chemotherapy as compared to no treatment.58 Ralph
W. Moss, Ph.D., in Questioning Chemotherapy, provides a detailed analysis of this
subject; his overall conclusion is that there is no evidence that chemotherapy extends
patient life with the majority of cancers.
However, even if chemotherapy extends life by a few months, what about the
quality of this life? Tom Nesi, a former director of public affairs at the pharmaceutical
giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, wrote in the New York Times about the successful
treatment of his wife, which extended her life for three months.59 Two weeks after the
treatment, she scribbled on a notepad: “depressed - no more - please.” I am not
surprised by reports that most oncologists would not use these treatments for their
own families.
Why are they doing this? By “they” I am referring to what is commonly called
the cancer establishment. I believe the answer was given by the eminent medical
commentator and former editor of New Scientist, Dr. Donald Gould, in his article
“Cancer: A Conspiracy of Silence.” The subtitle summarizes his position: “The

commonest cancers are as resistant to treatment today as they were 40 or 50 years
ago. Nothing is to be gained by pretending that the battle against cancer is slowly but
surely being won.”60
This truth has been deliberately concealed from the general public. According
to Dr. Gould, the reason for this conspiracy of silence is money. The public must
continue to see the cancer establishment as a winner to continue providing money.
One of the quoted scientists said that, with tens of thousands of radiologists and
millions of dollars in equipment, one still gives radiation treatment even if study after
study shows that it does more harm than good. Dr. Gould says patients who could be
comfortable without medical treatment until their inevitable death are made miserable
with medical treatment in a pointless attempt to postpone death for a few unhappy
weeks. Of course, that is when most of the money is being made. Dr. Gould says
doctors poison their patients with drugs and rays and mutilate them with unnecessary
surgery in a desperate attempt to treat the untreatable.
Since the early 1970’s when President Nixon declared the War on Cancer, two
trillion dollars have been spent on conventional cancer treatment and research, with
the result that more Americans are dying of cancer than ever before.61 While there
have been many studies to evaluate the effects of various nutrients on different
cancers, none of this two trillion dollars has been available for natural therapists to
test holistic cancer therapies, and natural therapists have had to face a century of
denigration and persecution in the U.S.
All alternative cancer clinics eventually had to relocate to Mexico. (For a list of
such clinics worldwide, see: www.cancure.org) A holistic cancer approach includes
superior nutrition, electro-medicine and vibrational or energy medicine, emotional
healing, and mind therapy.
One of the few studies that investigate a holistic approach involved the Gerson
therapy in an evaluation of five-year survival rates of 153 melanoma patients. Here,
100 percent of Gerson therapy patients with Stage I and II cancers survived, but only
79 percent did so with conventional therapy. With Stage III (regional metastases), the
figures, respectively, were 70 percent and 41 percent; with Stage IVa (distant
metastases), 39 percent with Gerson and 6 percent with conventional therapy.62
Now there is actually proof that cancer surgery is the main cause of metastasis
or secondary organ tumours. About 90% of patients die from metastases while
primary tumours actively suppress metastasis. Stress as from fear or most medical
procedures tends to promote metastasis and this is the reason that untreated
patients generally live longer than medically treated ones. Regard a tumour as a
mistreated part of your body, surround it with loving care and it will thank you by
preventing metastasis and gradually melt away. For more information and references
see www.health-science-spirit.com/cancersurgery.htm and www.health-science-
spirit.com/cancersolution.htm.
People claim to have been cured of cancer by a variety of methods and
remedies. Belief or faith in the chosen method may often have been more important
than the method itself. However, fundamental factors that should be addressed for a
more uniform successful outcome are:
1. Alkalize the body

2. Controlling the cancer microbe
3. Normalizing metabolism
4. Cleansing the body
5. Improving the mind and emotions
When these are corrected, any type of tumor can disappear on its own or
become dormant. Natural cancer therapy has a fundamentally different view of what
cancer is from that of orthodox medicine. The latter believes that the tumor is the
cancer and only attacks the tumours. Natural therapy approaches address cancer as
a condition of the whole body and person and treat the whole person.
Alkalizing the body: If the body is sufficiently alkaline tumours do not grow.
Use alkalizers, including sodium bicarbonate and potassium citrate, as shown in Step
6 to keep your urine above pH 7 most of the time.
Controlling the Cancer Microbe: The cancer microbe is the key to successful
natural cancer therapy. Various researchers such as Guenther Enderlein, Wilhelm
Reich, Royal Ray Rife, Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, Alan Cant-well, and Gaston
Naessens have found the same phenomenon in all cancers: a microbe that changes
its shape and is thus pleomorphic, “of many shapes.” It is normally present as tiny
protein units, but in various disease conditions, including all autoimmune diseases, it
grows into a coccus and higher bacterial forms and then mycoplasmas and fungus-
like forms.
This microbe does most of the cancer damage by devastating the immune
system, releasing toxins that poison the energy-producing cellular enzymes; it also
produces growth hormones that result in unchecked cell divisions. If the cancer
microbe in its advanced stages is cultured and injected into animals, it causes tumor
growth and the wasting and sickening odour that is characteristic of terminal cancer.
All this makes it understandable that antimicrobial and especially fungicidal
treatments have often been credited with having cured or reversed cancer.
Kerosene, for instance, taken internally, is said to be widely used in Russia and other
Eastern countries as a cancer cure, and it was even used in America a hundred
years ago. A hospital in Brazil reported cancer cures with the fungicidal herb pau
d’arco. The electronic zapper and the Rife machine have been used to destroy the
cancer microbe electronically. Presently MMS and Lugol's iodine solution are widely
used.
Normalizing Metabolism: The main reason that body cells become cancerous
is the destruction of the enzymes in their energy-producing respiratory chain. These
enzymes can be poisoned either by accumulated toxic chemicals, especially
pesticides, or by endotoxins produced by the cancer microbe. The German cancer
researcher P. G. Seeger, M.D., D.Sc.,63 demonstrated that the virulence of cancer
cells is proportional to their inability to use oxygen for energy production and that
cancer cells can be transformed back into normal cells by restoring cellular
respiration. This can be achieved with certain enzyme supplements and especially
with the purple pigment of red beets and dark grapes.
Furthermore, Dr J. Budwig, a German fat researcher, found that flaxseed oil
and sulphur compounds, especially food high in cysteine (e.g. quark, a fermented

cottage cheese) were most effective in restoring a normal energy metabolism. The
importance of a good diet can also be seen from a study of 535 breast cancer
patients. After ten years, those with the highest insulin levels were eight times more
likely to die than were patients with the lowest levels. Insulin levels are strongly
elevated when ingesting common household sugar and to a lesser degree when
combining glucose, as for instance from eating starches with fructose from fruit.
Cleansing the Body: Eliminating the cancer microbe and restoring cellular
energy production is not always sufficient in an advanced condition because of the
large amount of toxic waste produced by disintegrating tumours. Think of a dead
tumor as a dead rat in your body. Patients have died after “successful” cancer cures
because of congestion in their organs of elimination, especially the liver and kidneys.
Cleansing is needed to remove metabolic wastes, pesticides and endotoxins that
helped to cause the cancer in the first place.
Improving the Mind and Emotions: Our mind and emotions are an additional
factor that makes it much easier for cancer researchers to cure mice rather than
people. The orthodox cancer approach generally causes patients to be fearful, but
this paralyses the immune system and makes all other body systems inefficient.
Cancer treatment is likely to fail and cancer tends to return after successful initial
therapy if we live in fear, especially if this fear is subconscious. Enthusiasm, joy,
positive expectations, and supportive relationships have the opposite effect, and
clinical trials of mind and emotional therapies have shown superior results compared
to orthodox cancer therapies.
Putting It All Together: There are hundreds of supplements and remedies that
might be beneficial to overcome cancer. The more effort you put into the basics, the
less additional remedies you need. For some suggestions of additional supplements
and remedies, see the entry on Cancer in Step 44. All the basic information that you
need to reverse your cancer is in this book, for more detailed instructions see
Overcoming Cancer at http://www.the-heal-yourself-series.com.
• From Step 34 use the low protein High-Quality Diet with its strong emphasis on
purple foods, raw foods, and fresh vegetable and grass juices.
• Keep your urine above pH 7 as shown in Step 6.
• Do the Intestinal Sanitation and Antimicrobial Therapy as shown in Step 3.
• Do periodic fasting and cleansing as explained in Step 4, including the Basic
Cleanse and if appropriate a Long Cleanse.
• Use a Beck-type electronic zapper and Reflexology as explained in Part 2.
• Release any resentment or other negative emotions and replace them with
positive emotions (see Part 8).
• Practice the Love Cure (see Part 8).
• Make appropriate changes to your belief systems. Use the mind tools in Part 9,
especially guided imagery..
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Step 47
EMOTIONAL – MENTAL SHOCKS
The secret to preventing illness is to undo shocks that unbalance the body.
The following information is controversial and not verified by independent

scientific research, but I believe it is important for you to know. You can then make
up your own mind about it.
Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, M.D. (born 1935), a German medical researcher, has
developed an emotion-based cancer therapy. His claimed success rate of about 95
percent is by far the highest of any cancer therapist. During one of his many trials,
the public prosecutor (in Wiener Neustadt, Austria) had to admit that after four to five
years, 6,000 out of 6,500 patients with mostly advanced cancer who had been
treated by this approach were still alive.
Dr. Hamer started his cancer research when he developed testicular cancer
after the death of his son, who had been shot by the Prince of Savoy, son of the last
King of Italy. He wondered if the shock caused by his son’s death was the cause of
his cancer. Subse-quently, he investigated and documented more than 15,000 cases
of cancer and always found the following characteristics to be present, which he
termed “The Iron Rules of Cancer”:
1. Every cancer and related disease starts as a DHS or Dirk Hamer Syndrome
(named after his son). This is a serious, acute-dramatic, and isolating conflict-
shock experience for which we are emotionally unprepared. It manifests
simultaneously on three levels: psyche, brain, and organ.
2. The theme of the psychic conflict determines the location of the focus, or Hamer
Herd, in the brain and the location of the cancer in the organ.
3. The course of the psychic conflict correlates with the development of the Hamer
Herd in the brain, and the course of the cancer in the organ.
At the moment of the conflict-shock, a short circuit occurs in a predetermined
place in the brain. This can be demonstrated with a computed tomography (CT) scan
and looks like concentric rings on a shooting target. Later on, if the conflict becomes
resolved, the CT image changes to reflect the development of an oedema and finally
of scar tissue.
The following incident shows how specific and precisely located these brain
lesions are. After a professional lecture, a doctor handed Dr. Hamer the CT brain
scan of a patient and asked him to explain it. From this, Dr. Hamer correctly
diagnosed the patient as having a bleeding bladder carcinoma in the healing phase,
an old prostate carcinoma, diabetes, an old lung carcinoma, and sensory paralysis in
a specific area, in addition to the corresponding emotional conflicts.
Dr. Hamer demonstrated that at the same time as the concentric brain lesion
appears, the target organ CT scan may also show such a concentric lesion.
According to Dr. Hamer, this happens instantly when the psychic shock hits the
subconscious level, and this same second is the start of cancer. Also, other diseases
can be caused by the same mechanism. How severe a disease becomes depends

on the duration and severity of the conflict-shock, while its nature and location are
determined by the emotional content of the shock.
Dr. Hamer believes that the correlation between key emotional shock events,
the target brain areas, and the related organs has developed as an adaptation from
similar programs in the animal world. When we unexpectedly experience emotional
distress, an emergency repair program is set in motion, a biological conflict program
with the aim of returning the individual to normal.
Dr. Hamer gives the following example. A mother sees her child in a bad
accident. As small children recover faster when they receive extra milk, the biological
conflict program tries to stimulate milk production by increasing the number of breast
cells. If the mother is right-handed, that will instantly cause the appearance of a
Hamer Herd in a specific part of her right brain, which in turn relates to the left breast.
When the child is well again, conflict resolution begins and extra milk is no longer
needed. The mother gets a benign form of tuberculosis in the affected breast that
breaks up the excess breast cells. However, if the mycobacteria required for this
function are lacking, then the area may just calcify and remain as a dormant tumor.
The same process also applies to animals. A sheep that loses its lamb to a wolf
is prone to develop teat cancer; the side depends on whether it is right- or left-footed.
Commonly, the sheep resolves this conflict by bearing another lamb.
The next example illustrates the original survival value of this mechanism. Let’s
assume a lion chases an antelope. The antelope must immediately mobilize all its
resources to survive. The sympathetic nervous system takes over and, in addition, a
specific brain centre that stimulates lung activity becomes active. After the successful
escape, the animal rests, and the parasympathetic nervous system becomes
dominant to normalize brain and body functions.
If a human gets a cancer diagnosis, even if the diagnosis is wrong, the same
biological program is set in motion by the same fear of death that helped the animal
to escape. The stress level jumps and activates the brain-lung connection, but now
there is nowhere to run. Until the conflict is resolved, which may take years, there will
be constant stress and brain-induced stimulation to increase lung capacity by the
incessant division of cells.
This process can only be stopped by switching off the trigger in the brain
through defusing the original conflict shock. This happens when the patient
subsequently has surgery or natural therapy, which he or she fully believes will lead
to a cure. However, the same procedure in a patient who has doubts about its
effectiveness will leave the conflict unresolved and the disease to progress. Thanks
to Dr. Hamer’s work, it is now possible to verify this hypothesis with a CT brain scan.
The selection of the conflict focus occurs by subconscious association. For instance,
biological conflicts involving water or other fluids, such as milk or oil, lead to kidney
cancer; fear of death to lung cancer; and psychologically swallowing a bigger chunk
than we can digest to stomach or intestinal cancer.
In the animal world, it is literally a big chunk of food, but for us it may be a
financial over-commitment or any other obligation that we are unable to fulfil. The
target focus is not determined by the event itself, but rather by the psychological
significance that it has for us at the time of the event. Dr. Hamer illustrates this with
another example, a woman who finds her husband in bed with another female. As a

sexual frustration conflict, it can cause uterine cancer. If she instead experiences it
as a partner conflict, then in a right-handed woman it leads to cancer of the right
breast. If the conflict feeling is fear and revulsion, then it causes hypoglycaemia, and
with lack of self-worth, cancer may develop in the pubic bone.
If the lack of self-worth had been due to a failure in sportsmanship, then the
problem would have arisen in an arm or leg instead, or possibly in the fingers or
shoulder required for the sporting activity. Other typical situations that can lead to
biological conflicts are loss situations, of a loved one, a job, a valued possession, or
a territory.
Dr. Hamer believes that most metastases or secondary tumours are caused by
the cancer-fear or death-fear resulting from the patient being given the cancer
diagnosis or a negative prognosis. In this case, the resulting conflict shock may not
be fear of death, but anger, resentment, or a separation conflict (from partner or
children), and then tumours would appear in different places. A diagnosis of colon
cancer commonly leads to liver metastases because of a subconscious fear of
starvation.
In regard to animal experiments, Dr. Hamer regards increased cancer rates
due to exposure of carcinogens as being emotionally based. This happens when the
skin is irritated with a toxic substance. He also cites early research with tobacco
smoke that showed that hamsters exposed to it lived longer than non-exposed
hamsters. He believes that hamsters, as burrowing animals, are not afraid of smoke
and therefore are protected from its harmful effects. Mice, on the other hand, living in
houses, are very fearful of smoke, which causes them to develop lung cancer when
exposed to tobacco smoke.
Generally, hopelessness, despair, and meaninglessness create chronic stress
and hinder the healing of cancer and other diseases, but they are not the cause.
According to Dr. Hamer, the real cause of cancer and other diseases is an
unexpected traumatic shock for which we are emotionally unprepared.
The emotional connections with some other diseases are as follows, according
to Dr. Hamer:
Angina Pectoris: Caused by fight for territory or its contents in the active phase,
followed by heart infarction in the healing phase.
Diabetes and Hypoglycaemia: A right-handed female develops hypoglycaemia
from anxiety and revulsion; if left-handed, she develops insulin-dependent diabetes.
A right-handed male develops insulin-dependent diabetes from a conflict of resisting
or struggling against something; if left-handed, he develops hypoglycaemia.
Facial Paralysis: Fear of losing face, having been made a laughingstock.
Haemorrhoids: A right-handed woman with an identity conflict and a left-handed
man with territorial anger in the healing phase may get haemorrhoids.
Multiple Sclerosis and Paralysis: Inability to escape or continue on, or to hold on
to, or not knowing what to do.
Psoriasis: Separation conflict concerning mother, father, family, home, friends, or
pets.

Relationships between Conflicted Emotions and Psychoses: One or more
Target Organs active Hamer Herds in each
Adrenal cortex: Wrong direction, gone astray of the two parts of the brain.
Bladder: Ugly conflict, dirty tricks Rheumatism: A brutal and
Bone: Lack of self-worth, inferiority feeling painful separation conflict.
Breast, left (right-handed): Conflict concerning child, home, or
Vitiligo, Leukoderma: Ugly
mother
or brutal separation conflict.
Breast, right (right-handed): Conflict with partner or others
In regard to AIDS, Dr.
Breast milk duct: Separation conflict
Hamer observes that no one
Breast milk gland: Involving care or disharmony
dies of AIDS without having
Bronchials: Territorial conflict
previously been told that
Cervix: Severe frustration
they are HIV-positive or
Colon: Ugly indigestible conflict
believe that they are. The
Gallbladder: Rivalry conflict
implication is that it is mainly
Heart: Perpetual conflict
the negative perception
Intestines: Indigestible chunk of anger
associated with AIDS that
Kidneys: Not wanting to live, water or fluid conflict
causes its devastating
Larynx: Conflict of fear and fright
effect.
Liver: Fear of starvation
Lung: Fear of dying or suffocation, including fear for someone Left-handed individuals
else develop problems on
Lymph glands: Loss of self-worth associated with the location opposite sides to genuine
Melanoma: feeling dirty, soiled, defiled right-handed individuals.
Middle ear: Not being able to get some vital information Observing which hand is on
Mouth: Cannot chew or hold it top when clapping reveals
Oesophagus: Cannot have it or swallow it handedness; right-handed
Pancreas: Anxiety-anger conflict with family members, individuals usually have the
inheritance right hand on top. With right-
Prostate: Ugly conflict with sexual connections or handedness, all muscles on
connotations the right side of the body are
Rectum: Fear of being useless involved with partners and
Skin: Loss of integrity other individuals, and all left-
Spleen: Shock of being physically or emotionally wounded sided muscles, with children
Stomach: Indigestible anger, swallowed too much or one’s mother. These
Testes and Ovaries: Loss conflict conditions may change with
Thyroid: Feeling powerless hormonal changes, the birth
Uterus: Sexual conflict control pill, or menopause.
The Healing Phase: The
start of Dirk Hamer Syndrome or conflict-shock experience is different from other
conflicts that we experience in our daily lives, says Dr. Hamer. It causes a continuous
stress, resulting in a tendency to develop cold hands and feet, lack of appetite and
weight loss, sleeplessness, and a dwelling all the time on the conflict content. If the
conflict is not resolved soon, it leads to specific disease symptoms.
When the conflict resolves, the patient is no longer occupied with the conflict
content, the appetite returns, hands are warm again, and also normal sleep returns,
but there may be weakness, fatigue, and a need to rest. These effects show that the
parasympathetic nervous system is now in control and the healing phase has started.

During the first part of the healing phase there is water retention and inflammations,
and the tumor stops growing. This eventually leads to a healing crisis, which Dr.
Hamer calls an epileptic or epileptoid crisis, because it is caused by an oedema in
the Hamer Herd brain lesion. It shows unique symptoms for each illness.
After this, the body starts to expel the accumulated water, the patient gradually
regains strength, and body functions become normal. Now the connective tissue in
the brain, the neuroglia or glia, starts repairing the Hamer Herd. This may be
interpreted by conventional radiologists as a fast-growing brain tumor and treated
accordingly. Dr. Hamer estimates that 99 percent of brain events, such as strokes,
bleeding into the brain, cysts, and tumours are due to healing events of Hamer Herds
and are temporary and self-limiting, unless there is inappropriate medical
intervention. The most important support in these situations is the reduction of any
brain oedema.
During the healing crisis, the patient may for a short time re-experience the
original psychological conflict with cold hands and cold sweat. This serves to
suppress and eliminate the oedema in the brain lesion, which then allows other body
conditions to normalize. The main danger point is just before the end of the healing
crisis when it will become apparent if the body is strong enough to eliminate the
disease. In difficult cases, with long-standing or strong conflict, massive brain
oedema can develop, for which Dr. Hamer uses cortisone injections. In natural
therapy, we use diuretics, such as urea, and anti-inflammatory therapies instead.
The epilepsy crisis may be experienced as a heart attack, lung embolism,
hepatitis, or lung infection. Generally, during the healing phase, the patient will have
more discomfort than when the tumor was actively growing. In the first part of the
healing phase, most problems are due to water retention, inflammations, and
swelling of tissues that cause a lot of pain. Nevertheless, Dr. Hamer regards
oedema, whether in the brain or body, as a positive sign of healing.
Tissue Repair: After the healing crisis, carcinomas are removed by fungi and
mycobacteria, while the hepatitis virus may in addition help to regenerate the liver.
Bacteria, viruses, and fungi that help to break down the tumours and repair damaged
tissues also cause inflammation, pain, and fever.
If you find it odd that Dr. Hamer regards microbes as essential friends and
helpers in the healing of cancer, he has developed an even more surprising
hypothesis. In his system of tumours and cancer-equivalent diseases, he
distinguishes between two opposite processes during the active conflict phase.
Depending on the location of the Hamer Herd in the brain, there may be either cell
proliferation or cell destruction.
The first group has cell proliferation and tumor growth during the conflict phase
and then removes excess cells with the help of microbes during the healing phase.
The other group shows cell destruction during the conflict phase, resulting in ulcers,
necroses (dead tissues), and tissue holes, affecting, for instance, bones
(osteoporosis), kidneys, spleen, or ovaries.
During the healing phase, this second group tries to fill in the created holes
through cell proliferation. Bacteria repair tissue necroses and osteolyses (dissolved
bone) by first forming abscesses, which are then filled in with scar tissue and later
with granulating tissue to form osteosarcoma, lymphoma, fibroma, and healing cysts.

Leukaemia occurs during the healing phase after bone marrow damage from
radiation, chemicals, or bone cancer.
According to Dr. Hamer, these conditions are generally self-limiting and only
get out of control when additional conflict shocks occur, or the body is too old or
weak, or through the methods of conventional medicine. In contrast, natural healing
methods aim to support body and mind during this trying time. Most healings proceed
without major problems, but about ten percent need the full support of an
experienced therapist, especially at the time of the healing crisis.
Healing the Psychic Conflict: The main task in every case of cancer is to find
the original emotional shock experience and make sure that it has been healed or is
being healed. In many cases it will have corrected itself, and the patient suffers from
an effect of the healing phase.
For instance, someone may have lost a farm or business, but has now started
another satisfying venture or hobby. As an after-effect, there may now be a tumor
that gradually becomes dormant or eventually disintegrates. Dr. Hamer regards
about 40 percent of tumours discovered during routine medical investigations as old
and harmless, dormant and calcified. However, complications can still arise if medical
intervention now causes a conflict shock, such as one involving fear of death; this
induces the same or another tumor to grow.
Nevertheless, in other cases the original conflict may still be active, or there
may be a second active conflict. As we do not know, we have to probe in every case
to find the original and any other conflicts. We need to think back, especially one to
two years before our problem started, and analyse our emotional history during this
time as well as before and after. Meditation or regression therapy may be useful to
discover conflict-shocks.
If we still have a strong emotional response when we discover the content of
the conflict, then we can be sure that it is still unresolved. If at all possible, it is best to
solve it in a natural way. For instance, if it was caused by losing a partner, find
someone new; if you lost a child, become pregnant again, or adopt a child, or buy a
pet; with a lost job, find a new one or a hobby. However, it is not the fact of having a
new partner, child, hobby, or pet that solves the conflict, but rather that it allows us to
dissolve the inner conflict and emotionally get on with our life if we so choose.
If a natural solution is not possible, then use guided imagery, either on your
own or with the help of a partner or a suitable therapist. In a relaxed and meditative
state recreate and re-experience the conflict as intensely as you can, but then
substitute a desirable or acceptable outcome. Create and experience this new
outcome as vividly and in as much detail as possible; see it, feel it, and possibly even
hear and smell it. The original experience may also have imprinted you with the
memories of unrelated details of your ordeal (tracks) to which you may now react
with allergies. You can overcome these in the same way with guided imagery
If neither of these methods is possible because you feel that you have to
continue your present duties or ordeal for whatever reason, then only increased
spiritual understanding and acceptance may be able to help. In either case, be aware
of your vulnerabilities and avoid any further conflict-shocks, but if one does happen,
get it out of your system is soon as possible.

I firmly believe that all active conflicts will be terminated and the healing phase
begin when we are able to strongly feel love and forgiveness within ourselves and
then radiate it to all others, but especially to anyone who we feel might have wronged
us. We can further ease the healing phase by expecting it to be short and mild and
lead to full recovery.
According to Dr. Hamer, animals in the wild get cancer from the same shock
programs as we do. However, 80 to 90 percent survive and do not notice it much,
because the healing phase can take its natural course. Those that die are mainly old
animals that cannot resolve a conflict, such as regaining their territory from a rival or
replacing a lost cub.
It is different in our society, as the natural healing process is routinely interfered
with. It starts with getting tranquilizers or antidepressants during the active conflict
phase, which prevent us from fighting back and regaining our territory. This may then
lead to a cancer diagnosis that causes an additional active conflict and ends with
morphine, which totally disables our healing responses.
While Dr. Hamer does not believe that health foods, remedies, cleansing, or
healthy living in general can cure cancer, he says these are important to surviving the
ordeals of the healing phase. Actually, Dr. Hamer regards all diseases as consisting
of two phases: initially an active conflict, followed (if possible) by a healing phase that
reverses the conflict program. He does not call them “diseases” but “special
biological programs.” He says he has worked with more than 31,000 patients and
found his theories confirmed in every single case without exception. Dr. Hamer
claims that overall this approach has a 95-percent success rate with cancer.
Persecution for Therapeutic Success: Siemens, the manufacturer of CT
equipment, has independently verified the existence of the Hamer Herds in the brain,
which radiologists had claimed to be artefacts. Furthermore, their diagnostic
significance was confirmed in 1998 at the University of Trnava in Slovakia.
Nevertheless, Dr Hamer faced exceptional persecution. This included withdrawing
his right to practice in Germany for not retracting his theories and swearing
allegiance to the principles of orthodox medicine; assassination attempts; efforts to
put him in a mental asylum; and numerous court appearances and even putting him
in jail.
While many individual doctors, including professors of medicine, are alleged to
have verified the principles of Dr. Hamer’s “New Medicine,” so far no German
university has agreed to test them. Doctors and natural therapists in Europe who
practice according to the principles of the New Medicine now face persecution. Only
Spanish courts took the enlightened position that it is not their role to decide between
conflicting medical theories and therapies. Dr. Hamer now lives and practices in
Spain.
In 2001, a prominent neurologist, Dr. Therese von Schwarzenberg openly
defended Dr. Hamer by publishing a book about the New Medicine, in which she
demanded that his theories be officially tested. She declared that Dr. Hamer is right
and deserves a Nobel Prize. Nevertheless, the response of prominent oncologists is
still that it is absurd to assume emotions could be important in the cause and cure of
cancer and, therefore, Dr. Hamer’s claims must not be tested. (For more information
on Dr. Hamer and the New Medicine, see: www.newmedicine.ca.64)

Reflections on the New Medicine: My own understanding and experience
leave no doubt about the primary importance of our emotions and beliefs in the
cause and cure of our diseases. The writings of Dr. Hamer give the impression of a
serious and meticulous researcher whose findings apparently have been confirmed
by various scientific institutions and medical practitioners, including professors of
medicine.
Therefore, I have no doubt about the validity of his basic premise that diseases,
and in particular cancers, are associated with visible lesions in specific locations of
the brain and also with specific psychological experiences. His postulated two-part
disease process, in which the healing phase is a reversal of the original disease
condition, is a basic concept of natural therapies.
However, Dr. Hamer appears reluctant to extend or modify his theory and take
other factors into account. Basically, Dr. Hamer postulates a one-way communication
from psyche to organ via the brain. I suggest instead a two-way communication from
psyche to organ, as well as from organ back to brain and psyche. Assuming that an
organ is chronically stressed, be it from pesticide accumulations, inappropriate
growth factors, or endotoxins due to microbes, then this causes constant low-level
tissue irritation of the organ and its related brain area. There are now two
possibilities:
• The sensitized brain area causes us to react more strongly to any emotional
conflict; therefore it is easier to develop a Hamer Herd and the related disease.
• An existing subacute conflict, combined with chronic tissue stress, may cause the
gradual development of a Hamer Herd or, alternatively, its sudden appearance
when a certain threshold is reached.
In this way, any environmental factors can be taken into account for creating
Hamer Herds in combination with psychological conflicts. Conversely, appropriate
therapy directed to a diseased organ may give a message to the associated brain
area to heal the Hamer Herd and lead to a resolution of the emotional conflict.
A confirmation of the suggested interconnectedness between emotions,
nutrients, brain, and organs can be found in kinesiology. Research with muscle
testing has revealed a relationship between different nutrients and emotions with
specific muscles and organs, transmitted through the system of acupuncture
meridians. A direct involvement of the brain has been shown by placing a labelled
nutrient in the back of the mouth: Within seconds, the isotope was also detected in
the brain. Recently another piece of evidence in support of the New Medicine has
emerged: researchers found a tumor growth promoter (GDNF) that is produced by
the glial cells in the brain.
The theories of Dr. Hamer have not yet been tested by mainstream science,
but neither have key components of conventional and natural medicine. If you find
Dr. Hamer’s theories reasonable and do not want to wait another 10 or 20 years for
them to be accepted, then I suggest that you incorporate them into your holistic
healing program.
What to Do: Be aware of your vulnerabilities and avoid any further conflict-
shocks, but if one does happen, get it out of your system as soon as possible. For

example, if you just got a big shock, minimize or undo its potential to create an illness
by using any or all of the following methods:
• Take appropriate remedies, such as Rescue Remedy or homeopathic arnica.
• Develop an inner reconciliation through prayer and meditation.
• Apply the Emotional Freedom Technique (see Step 63).
• Use guided imagery to recreate the shock experience with an acceptable
outcome.
• Try to find a natural solution for your shock experience; for example, after nearly
drowning, swim again as soon as possible
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Step 48
CANDIDA INFECTIONS
The secret to preventing illness is to undo shocks that unbalance the body.
Lack of energy, digestive disturbances, arthritic joint pains, skin disease,

menstrual problems, emotional instability, and depression are all symptoms of what I
call the antibiotic syndrome. This is a condition that has greatly increased in
incidence in recent years and, on further examination, more symptoms of this
syndrome may be discovered. In this condition, most of the gastrointestinal tract is
tender when pressed on the body’s surface, especially the small intestine, liver, and
gallbladder. There may have been a gallbladder operation that failed to improve the
condition, sometimes worsening the symptoms. As part of this syndrome, there could
be a history of thrush or oral, anal, or vaginal itching. When these are present, the
diagnosis of Candida overgrowth is obvious, but it may also be present in the
absence of these manifestations, and that can be confusing.
The fungus Candida albicans thrives during antibiotic treatment and I regard it
as reckless negligence to prescribe antibiotics without simultaneous fungicides and
replacement therapy with lactobacilli afterwards. I believe that this practice has
greatly added to the numbers in our chronically sick population. However, the
antibiotic syndrome is not just due to Candida. I regard it more generally as a
dysbiosis in which the wrong kind of microbes inhabit the intestinal tract; it’s not just
Candida and other fungi, but many types of pathogenic bacteria including E. coli
bacteria, which are normal in the colon but become disease-forming when they move
into the small intestine.
If the problem has existed for years, there is usually a lack of gastric acid,
which then allows the stomach to be colonized by microbes, causing inflammation
with pain and, later, ulcers. The toxins released by the microbial overpopulation
cause chronic inflammation of the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and intestines. This
can have other health repercussions. I regard it as likely that a chronic inflammation
of the pancreas is a major contributing factor in the development of insulin-dependent
diabetes.
Bacterial Attack: Specific types of pathogenic bacteria appear to cause or
contribute to specific autoimmune diseases. One variety of coliform bacteria, for
instance, produces a molecule very similar to insulin. When the immune system
becomes activated against this molecule, it may then also attack related features at
the beta cells of the pancreas. Another type of bacteria, Yersinia enterocolitica,
induces an immune response that attacks the thyroid gland and leads to Grave’s
disease with a serious overproduction of thyroid hormones.
Ulcerative colitis is linked to overgrowth of pathogenic microbes, as are Crohn’s
disease and ankylosing spondylitis. In ankylosing spondylitis, the vertebrae of the
spine fuse together, causing stiffness and pain. Other joints may in time become
affected. Klebsiella, another type of pathogenic bacteria, produces a molecule that is
similar to a tissue type found in people with this disease. When Klebsiella numbers in
the gut decrease, related antibodies in the blood decrease and the condition
improves.

Rheumatoid arthritis is linked to a bacteria called Proteus. Proteus is also a
common cause of urinary tract infections. Women suffer urinary tract infections as
well as rheumatoid arthritis twice as often as men, while men usually have higher
levels of Klebsiella and three times more ankylosing spondylitis than women have.
In addition, microbial overgrowth damages the intestinal wall so that only partly
digested food particles can pass into the bloodstream, causing allergies. In this way,
it appears that all autoimmune diseases can be linked to dysfunctional intestines and
food allergies.
Other autoimmune diseases that have so far been linked to intestinal dysbiosis
are psoriasis, lupus erythematosus, and pancreatitis. When remedies are given that
bind bacterial endotoxins, these conditions usually improve. A further consequence
of dysbiosis is susceptibility to food poisoning, as with Salmonella bacteria; in
contrast, a healthy intestinal flora prevents these from multiplying and causing
trouble.
Staphylococcus aureus causes serious infections in hospital patients. It has
been found that not only S. aureus but other infections are greatly potentized when
they occur with a Candida overgrowth. As Candida overgrowth is a natural outcome
of the standard hospital treatment, it is easy to see why staph is so deadly in
hospitals.
A similar picture emerges with AIDS. People do not die from the AIDS virus, but
from bacterial infections potentized by Candida and related mycoplasmas.
I regard the antibiotic-induced dysbiosis in babies and infants as the main
cause of their frequent infections called glue ear, and as greatly contributing to crib
death. While it used to be uncommon for children to have more than one or two
infections a year, now more than six is the norm.
In summary, in the 1940’s, Candida overgrowth was found in only three percent
of bodies autopsied, but now the figure is nearer 30 percent. There are, of course,
other factors that can cause dysbiosis - the contraceptive pill, steroids and other
drugs, radiation treatment, chemotherapy - but the main culprit is without doubt
antibiotics.
Debilitations Caused by Candida: In an Alabama hospital in 1953, Orian
Truss, M.D., discovered the devastating effects of antibiotics. During a hospital
round, Dr. Truss was intrigued by a gaunt, old-looking man who was obviously dying.
However, he was only in his 40’s and though he had been in the hospital for four
months no specialist had been able to make a diagnosis. Out of curiosity, Truss
asked the patient when he was last completely well.
The man answered that he had been well until six months ago when he had cut
his finger. He had received antibiotics for that. Shortly afterwards, he developed
diarrhea and his health deteriorated. Dr. Truss had seen before how antibiotics cause
diarrhea. It was known that Candida was opportunistic and thrived in debilitated
patients, but now Dr. Truss wondered if it might not be the other way around, that
Candida actually caused the debilitated condition. He had read that potassium iodide
solution could be used to treat Candida infestation of the blood so he put the patient
on six to eight drops of Lugol’s solution four times a day and soon the patient was
again completely well.

Not long afterwards, Dr. Truss had a female patient with a stuffy nose, a
throbbing headache, vaginitis, and severe depression. To his amazement, all her
problems immediately cleared with Candida treatment. Some time later, he saw a
female patient who had been schizophrenic for six years with hundreds of
electroshock treatments and massive drug dosages. He started treating the woman
for sinus allergies with a Candida vaccine. Soon she had recovered mentally and
physically and remained well.
From then on, Dr. Truss treated his patients against Candida at the slightest
indication of its presence. Many of his patients made remarkable recoveries from
most unusual conditions, including menstrual problems, hyperactivity, learning
disabilities, autism, multiple sclerosis, and autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s
disease and lupus erythematosus.
Every experienced naturopath can relate similar success stories. Ironically,
antibiotics are usually not necessary in the first place. In the few percent of cases in
which they are necessary, their serious after-effects could easily be avoided by using
fungicides and lactobacilli. Many people doubt the effectiveness of natural therapies
against apparently serious infections, but my clinical experience leads me to believe
that, frequently, natural therapies are more effective, and without causing the
repeated and chronic infections seen after antibiotics. I have seen patients whose
long-term antibiotic treatment was unsuccessful recover within days or weeks with
natural therapies.
Overcoming the Antibiotic Syndrome: The main treatment for the antibiotic
syndrome is sanitation of the gastrointestinal tract combined with a low-allergy diet.
In this way, most acute problems can be overcome within weeks, while degenerated
joints or organs can start a slower road to recovery.
One unpleasant side effect of most methods used to reduce the pathogenic
microbial overgrowth of the intestines is the Herxheimer effect, a sudden but
transient worsening of symptoms due to toxins released by the dead or dying
microbes. This is sometimes used as a diagnostic tool, especially for Candida: If you
get the reaction, it means you had the infestation.
I recommend intestinal flushes (orally taken) combined with antimicrobial
remedies to avoid or minimize unpleasant side effects. An oral isotonic flush consists
of nine grams or one heaping teaspoon of salt in one quart of water, and is suitable
for sensitive individuals and generally for those with low to normal blood pressure.
A solution is said to be isotonic if it contains a similar amount of salt as the blood. An
Epsom salt flush can contain one tablespoon of Epsom salt, more or less according
to need, in a large glass of water and is useful in cases of constipation and raised
blood pressure.
A crushed clove of garlic is added to the flush to reduce the microbial
overgrowth. If garlic cannot be used, then up to two teaspoons of three-percent
hydrogen peroxide (food-grade) or six drops of tea tree oil can be added instead. You
can take another glass of water after the Epsom salt to wash down the bitter
aftertaste, but not after the isotonic flush, as it would no longer be isotonic.
The flush will carry most of the dead microbes and their toxins out of the body
and minimize any unpleasant reactions. However, if the flush should not be sufficient
to produce a strong bowel movement within two to three hours, then another flush,

preferably with Epsom salt, should immediately follow or unpleasant reactions may
occur.
As a precaution after antibiotic therapy, for general body cleansing, or if there
are only mild symptoms of microbial overgrowth, it will be sufficient to continue this
for about three days. In severe and long-standing cases, the flush can be used for
several weeks. If Candida overgrowth is suspected, any sexual partner should have
at least a short flush period. If it is inconvenient to continue with a flush, as for
instance with work commitments, then it may work to have a flush just once or twice
and then continue for a long time with a high intake of acidophilus and bifido cultures.
Acidophilus and Bifido Cultures: This leads us to the next step: replacing the
decimated pathogenic microbes with desirable lactobacilli or “friendly” bacteria. This
must be done in a massive dose 30 to 60 minutes after each flush, otherwise the
unwanted microbes may grow back to full strength after your next meal. Acidophilus
culture is used to repopulate the freed-up spaces in the walls of the small intestines,
while bifidobacteria are the protective inhabitants of the large intestines.
These bacterial cultures are available from health foods stores as high-potency
capsules or powders in brown glass bottles that should be refrigerated before and
after sale. You can buy a mixed culture and take several capsules or two teaspoons
in water or vegetable juice or one teaspoon each of the separate cultures. If you
suspect a cow’s milk allergy, which is frequent in this condition, then use milk-free
cultures.
After several months on the shelf of a store, cultures may have very few live
bacteria present. Therefore, it is best to take powdered cultures in addition to fresh
cultures found in good quality yogurt. You can test the quality of any powdered
culture by using it as a starter to make your own yogurt (see Step 37). If it is of high
quality, the yogurt will develop quickly. Alternatives to cow’s milk yogurt do not set
creamy because of their lower protein content, but that does not matter, as the
beneficial bacteria are in the liquid whey.
Eat a cup of this yogurt in addition to the powdered culture after each flush,
using more before or with other meals. Continue taking either the cultures or yogurt
for several months after you have stopped taking a flush. Women should apply
yogurt or acidophilus powder to the vagina for a few days or weeks. It is preferable
initially for a few days to douche beforehand with a few drops of tea tree oil or diluted
hydrogen peroxide solution at a strength of one teaspoon of three-percent peroxide
to a glass of water, or more or less according to your sensitivity.
For those who do not ingest acidophilus/ bifido products regularly, take a
course of “friendly” bacteria once a year as a precaution, but especially with or after
taking any drugs, medical or recreational, or if you’re leading a stressful life. The diet
during this therapy should be free of sweeteners, sweet foods, yeast, alcohol, and
initially also of fruits. Various supplements, such as caprylic acid, can be useful but
are not necessary with this flush method.
If the Candida problem is severe or has existed already for a long time,
chances are that the fungus has already invaded the bloodstream and internal
organs. In this case, it is best to take an herbal parasite cure and at another time a
course of Lugol’s solution as explained under Candida and Parasites in Step 44.

If your blood is contaminated, then you may initially experience a die-off
reaction of the Candida, causing weakness and possibly headache or nausea. If this
happens, cut back temporarily on the amount of Lugol’s solution and drink plenty of
water and diluted teas or juices.
Finally, as an addition or an alternative to Lugol’s solution, you can use a Beck-
type blood purifier or zapper to eliminate Candida and other fungi and infectious
agents from the blood (see Step 19). The magnetic pulser can be used to sanitize
pockets of Candida infestations inside the mouth, vagina, or underneath the skin.
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Step 49
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Managing cholesterol and improving your heart health - some practical tips.
For many years, we have been inundated with anti-cholesterol campaigns and
suddenly now we hear or read of one scientific study after another telling us that
cholesterol, after all, may be good for us.
The first major shock for the cholesterol - heart disease theory came in 1990
with an article in the British Medical Journal.65 It was an analysis of six major
intervention trials involving tens of thousands of people over several years. The result
was unexpected. There was indeed a small reduction of about ten percent in
cholesterol levels and a reduction of 14 percent in the rate of death from heart
disease in the groups treated medically with drugs and low cholesterol diets.
However, the total death rate of patients with medically lowered cholesterol was
significantly higher as compared to controls. This included not only higher mortality
from cancer, but surprisingly, on average, a 67 percent higher mortality from violent
death, such as accidents, homicides, and suicides. This high rate of death from
violent causes was found in every single one of these trials, so it was unlikely to be a
coincidence.
In looking for an explanation, researchers discovered that monkeys became
more aggressive on a diet low in cholesterol and saturated fat, and human studies
further found that criminals, on average, had lower cholesterol levels. This applied
generally to individuals with aggressive or violent behaviour or limited self-control and
also those involved in homicide and suicide.
Another scientific publication voiced concern over evidence that about half of
the men who die of sudden heart attack do not have any of the risk factors commonly
associated with heart disease, such as elevated cholesterol or blood pressure,
diabetes, obesity, or smoking. This would suggest that the main cause of heart
attacks is still unknown to medicine.
A Finnish study followed 1,222 Helsinki businessmen considered at high risk of
heart attack for 15 years. Half were put on an intensive program of dietary regulation
and other treatment while the other half served as controls. After 15 years, the low-
cholesterol group had 67 deaths overall with 34 from heart disease. The control
group had only half the overall death rate with 14 cardiac deaths. In light of this
result, the medical director of the British Heart Foundation admitted that the existing
advice to cut cholesterol was not based on “definitive research.” What, then, is it
based on?
Another recent medical study confirms the general harmlessness of elevated
blood cholesterol levels. Of a large group of elderly patients with high blood pressure
and high cholesterol, those with the highest cholesterol levels lived longest while
those with less elevated levels had the highest mortality rate. Cholesterol news that
hit the headlines in 2001 showed that for old men it is best to have a “normal” blood
cholesterol level because both high as well as low levels lead to an increased rate of
heart attacks.

Why We Need Cholesterol: The cholesterol saga started several decades ago
when researchers found that those dying from heart disease also frequently had
elevated blood cholesterol levels as well as fatty plaque, called atheromas, which
clog up the arteries of the heart muscle. These atheromas consist of wildly
proliferating smooth muscle cells filled and surrounded by a fatty sludge containing a
high level of cholesterol.
Medical authorities believed that cutting down on our cholesterol intake would
lower our cholesterol blood levels and thus reduce the risk of heart disease.
Biochemists, however, were generally sceptical of this idea. After all, the liver itself
produces most of our cholesterol requirements. Approximately one gram daily is
synthesized from the breakdown products of saturated fats and sugars and less than
half a gram is absorbed from our food. The more cholesterol we absorb, the less is
produced in the liver. With this, our overall cholesterol level remains fairly stable and
any surplus cholesterol is normally excreted with the bile.
Cholesterol is a very valuable and useful substance. It provides the basic
structure for the synthesis of steroid hormones and vitamin D and it is a major
component of cell membranes; it is especially high in the brain and nervous system.
In the liver it is converted into bile acids and bile salts needed for the digestion and
absorption of all lipids (fats and fat-related substances). However, if we are deficient
in the emulsifier lecithin or in sulphur amino acids, cholesterol can accumulate as
gallstones.
So you can see that it is very important for us to have enough cholesterol. In
fact, some wasting diseases, such as cancer, are associated with a cholesterol
deficiency, and hypoglycemics are commonly found to have low cholesterol levels.
How We Overproduce Cholesterol: Why then do some people get raised
blood cholesterol levels when the liver is supposed to keep cholesterol levels stable?
Obviously, something must interfere with the regulating mechanism in the liver.
One of these causes is a high intake of saturated fats. These are broken down
in the liver to keto acids that are normally used for energy production in the muscle
cells. For this, the keto acids need the breakdown products of the sugar metabolism
(glycolysis). If you have a habitually raised insulin level or insensitivity to insulin (e.g.,
diabetes), these sugar metabolites are in short supply and this can cause keto acids
to accumulate. In addition, a deficiency of chromium will also interfere with the fat
metabolism. The liver now attempts to get rid of the keto acids by converting them
into surplus cholesterol.
There is another mechanism responsible for cholesterol overproduction
involving sugar. When you ingest sugar, your blood insulin level is raised. A key
enzyme of cholesterol synthesis is actually regulated by insulin and this means a
higher sugar intake generates higher insulin levels and with this higher fat and
cholesterol levels.
The word sugar, however, does not simply mean sucrose, our common
household sugar. There are different forms of sugar. Sucrose is a combination of
glucose and fructose. In susceptible individuals, fructose has a much greater
influence on insulin levels than glucose. Enzymes still present in human liver biopsy
samples converted fructose into fatty acids and cholesterol at rates three to 24 times

faster than glucose, with the highest rates occurring in those with a disposition to
atherosclerosis.
An even stronger insulin effect (stronger, that is, than by ingesting equal
amounts of glucose and fructose) occurs when eating these simple sugars
chemically combined as sucrose. This is called the disaccharide effect. In a study,
monkeys produced three times more deposited lipids on a diet high in sucrose than
with glucose.
Oxidized Cholesterol: We can now see that a diet high in sugar and fat is the
main cause of a raised cholesterol level, while the cholesterol content of our diet has
been repeatedly shown to have little impact. Yet this still does not prove that there is
a causal relationship between elevated cholesterol levels and heart disease.
However, such a direct connection has been shown to exist with oxy-
cholesterol. If cholesterol in food is heated, especially with access of air, then it is
oxidized to oxy-cholesterol. Animal experiments with high intakes of either pure
cholesterol or oxy-cholesterol have shown atherogenic degeneration only with the
latter, not with cholesterol itself.
This would imply that a main contributing factor to our high rate of heart
disease is our habit of overly heating and frying meat, eggs, and milk products.
However, once the arteries are damaged, then high cholesterol levels may or may
not contribute to the deposits of fatty sludge.
Further clues can be found in the history of heart disease. Heart attacks were
extremely rare in earlier centuries and even at the beginning of the twentieth century.
A medical textbook published in 1912 describes angina pectoris, a mild form of heart
attack, as being very rare, and a famous American heart specialist did not see his
first heart attack patient until 1920. Yet beginning in 1920, the explosive rise in the
incidence of heart disease in Western countries was on.
As China and other less developed countries remained free of heart disease,
then we may ask: What fundamentally changed the lifestyle of Western populations
at that time? Two important changes took place: the pasteurization of milk products
and the chlorination of public water supplies.
Pasteurization of Milk Products: Before pasteurization, some doctors
recommended milk as a cure for many illnesses. Raw milk cures were famous at the
beginning of the twentieth century. Formerly, people consumed plenty of cream and
butter and rich meals prepared with them, and in Bulgaria and the Caucasus they set
records in good health and longevity on full-fat milk products. An American doctor
reportedly cured psoriasis by having his patients eat two pounds of butter a week.
Despite all this fatty food, heart attacks were virtually unknown.
Now milk is no longer a cure for any disease. On the contrary, natural
therapists generally regard milk as disease-forming, butter is known to aggravate
psoriasis, and heart disease is rampant. What is the difference? Enzymes plentiful in
raw milk are destroyed by pasteurization.
Some diseases that were formerly improved with raw milk can now be
successfully treated with high-level enzyme supplements. Specifically, it is the fat-
digesting enzyme lipase that works most of the healing miracles. With cardiovascular
disease, there is a deficiency of lipase in the bloodstream. Lipase released by the

pancreas helps to digest fats, while lipase in the bloodstream and cells helps to break
down unwanted fatty deposits.
There are, however, fats and oils that arguably are much worse than
pasteurized butter. These are the oils with a high content of unnatural trans-fatty
acids, such as margarine, shortenings, and hydrogenated oils and fats and, to some
degree, even our common salad and cooking oils. Trans-fatty acids are produced not
only by hydrogenation, but also by the heating of oils. Fats and cholesterol are
transported in the blood in the form of lipoproteins, and trans-fatty acids produce a
more unfavourable lipoprotein profile than any other fat.
Recently I heard a cheese producer say that he submitted some of his self-
produced unpasteurized cheeses for testing. They were completely free of
pathogenic bacteria, unlike pasteurized products that commonly contain disease-
causing microbes up to a legal limit. The reason for this superior safety of raw
cheeses is their high content of lactobacilli. These kill harmful microbes, while in
pasteurized products, any survivors or contaminants can multiply unchallenged.
Therefore, milk products correctly fermented with lactic acid are not only healthy but
also safe, unlike their pasteurized counterparts.
Chlorination of Public Water Supplies: Experimental use of chlorine to kill
bacteria in public water supplies began around 1900 and was generally accepted in
Western countries by the l920’s. Part of the chlorine reacts with organic impurities to
form organochlorines (DDT is an organochlorine), while the rest remains as residual-
free chlorine in the water. It can then react with food chemicals or with parts of our
digestive tract.
From 1920 onwards, the explosive increase in the incidence of cardiovascular
disease and fatal heart attacks began, but only in countries that chlorinated their
water supplies. These diseases remained unknown, for instance, in China, Japan,
Africa, and Asia. However, Japanese citizens who emigrated to Hawaii where water
was chlorinated suffered the same rate of heart attacks as the Americans, and the
African-American population in the U.S. has the average U.S. rate of heart attacks,
but not that of their counterparts in Africa.
In 1967 an American researcher, J. Price, M.D., performed a decisive
experiment. With one group of 50 three-month-old chickens, he added one-third of a
teaspoon of chlorine bleach to about one quart of water in their feed, while another
group of 50 chicken served as controls. Seven months later, more than 95 percent of
the chlorinated group had advanced atherosclerosis, yet none of the control group
showed any such evidence. In the following years, Dr. Price repeated his experiment
many times, always with the same results. Recently, researchers funded by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency confirmed atherosclerotic-type changes in other
animals, including monkeys, when exposed to chlorinated water.
Public health officials claim wrongly that water chlorination is essential to
prevent microbial contamination. Public water supplies can be made safe with ozone
or exposure to ultraviolet light at no greater expense than with chlorine. Even sunlight
is very effective, with 99.9 percent of coliforms (pathogenic bacteria) killed within 90
minutes in one experiment. For sterilizing our individual water supply, we can simply
add a teaspoon of three-percent hydrogen peroxide (food-grade) to a gallon of

drinking water or expose it to sunlight in a shallow container or a clear glass bottle for
several hours.
Practical Recommendations: Other contributing factors in cardiovascular
disease are vitamin B6 and magnesium deficiency, high ferritin or iron levels, and a
low intake of omega-3 essential fatty acids. Kilmer S. McCully, M.D.,66 discovered in
the 1960s that with vitamin B6 deficiency a toxic breakdown product of the amino
acid methionine occurs. This chemical, homocysteine, causes free-radical damage to
the arteries. Even young children with vitamin B6 deficiency were found to die of
rapidly developing atherosclerosis. As a result of this discovery, Dr. McCully lost his
professorship at Harvard Medical School in 1979 and was turned down in 51 job
applications in the following two years. Now he has been vindicated and his
discovery is mainstream medical theory.
Moses M. Suzman, M.D., a neurologist in Johannesburg, South Africa,
specialized in treating heart patients with 200 mg of vitamin B6 daily and B-complex
tablets. He had remarkable success and extremely low re-infarction rates.
Researchers have found that folic acid lowers homocysteine levels, especially in
combination with vitamin B12; high iron levels have been strongly linked to free-
radical damage in the arteries and subsequent plaque formation.
Chronic inflammation has been shown to be strongly involved with the
development of arterial plaques. Often this inflammation is due to chronic bacterial
infections. A high intake of antioxidants, including the various bioflavo-noids and
carotenoids, as well as omega-3 essential fatty acids in linseed oil (or ground
linseed) and fish oils, protects the artery walls with their anti-inflammatory and
anticoagulant properties. A good anti-inflammatory herb for everyday food flavouring
is ginger root.
For good heart health, avoid highly heated fatty and oily foods, especially if
heated with access to air, as in frying. Not only are heated animal fats harmful when
they form oxy--cholesterol, but so are oxidized and peroxidised polyunsaturated oils.
Use vegetable oils that have not been heated to more than 120º F. Generally, I trust
only high-quality linseed oil and extra-virgin olive oil to have retained their lipase. In
addition, there are some good specialty oils, the labels of which state that the oils
have been produced below 120º F. The cold-pressed oils in health food stores may
or may not be completely trustworthy but are better than conventional supermarket
oils.
Cut down on sweet food, in particular on sucrose, and minimize the
combination of starches with anything sweet, as that causes an exaggerated insulin
response and all its harmful effects. Basically, this means eat fruits on their own
before or instead of any meals.
Fish oils and linseed oil are high in omega-3 essential fatty acids that are anti-
inflammatory and protect our arteries from clogging. Various specific nutrients have a
protective effect, such as ginger, green tea, grape seed extract, vitamins C and B6,
natural vitamin E, and magnesium, preferably as magnesium chloride. All foods with
color are good and especially purple foods, including red wine. In addition to an
anti-inflammatory effect, these nutrients have an anticoagulant effect and discourage
the formation of damaging blood clots. With seriously ill patients, the “Pauling
therapy” is helpful: In addition to other recommended nutrients, use 5 to 10 g of

vitamin C, 5 to 6 g of the amino acid L-lysine, and 2 g of L-carnitine daily, all in four
divided doses daily.
Reflexology describes a connection between the heart and the soft pad at the
base of the left thumb. If there is a heart problem, this part will be sensitive when
pressed. Heart diseases and especially acute conditions often can be improved by
repeatedly and for long periods pressing strongly into the base of the left thumb.
Heart attacks reportedly have been stopped by doing this. In an emergency, press as
hard as you can; at other times, only as much as you reasonably can stand the pain.
Gradually, as the condition improves, the tenderness at the base of the left thumb will
diminish. See also the entry on Cardiovascular Disease in Step 44.
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Part 7
ENERGIES
Dealing with Harmful & Helpful Ones
This chapter deals mainly with the nonphysical energies, variously called life
force, bioenergy, prana, chi, od, orgone energy,67 and many other names. It is this
energy level that we most easily see as the innermost aura around living objects or
that we sometimes feel as various sensations such as heat or tingling in our body,
especially when transferring energy, as with “laying on of hands” or Reiki. It is also
the energy that fuels our sexuality and that we feel most strongly during orgasm.
This energy circulates in our acupuncture system and its vortexes form our
chakra system (non-physical energy centres). It is not only at the root of most
paranormal or psychic phenomena, but is the healing agent of many natural
therapies. Homeopathy can only be understood as a bioenergetic phenomenon; that
is why it is so fiercely rejected by conventional science, in spite of scientific evidence
that it works. While bioenergy is still unknown to orthodox science, it is an everyday
experience of many healers and sensitive individuals. Just as electromagnetic
energies have a wide range of wavelengths or frequencies, so also have the
bioenergies. On one side of their spectrum, the bioenergies border on the
electromagnetic spectrum while on the other side they merge into the emotional
energies.
In addition to food, water, and air, we need a balanced intake of
electromagnetic energies. These include sunlight, color, the Earth’s magnetic field,
and the electric field between the ionosphere and the ground. Sunlight actually is a
combination of electromagnetic energy and bioenergy, and in this way we receive
most of our bioenergy from the sun.
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Step 50
ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGIES
Protect yourself from the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation
and make sunlight your friend.
Strong electric fields of about 50 cycles per second (hertz, or Hz) are harmful to
us. These fields exist around power lines, power tools, electric stoves, heaters,
boilers, freezers, and television sets when in use and extend several feet or yards
around the appliance. Stay away from them if possible. Using an electric iron or an
electric keyboard or working with handheld power tools can easily drain your
energies. We can reduce harmful effects of electricity on our body by holding our
hands under running water from time to time when working with electrical equipment
and also by having a shower in the evening. For a detailed discussion of this, review
Step 8.
The DC Field of the Earth: We live in a natural DC (direct current) field. The
surface of the Earth has a negative electric charge and the ionosphere high above it
a positive charge of about 50,000 volts. However, the electric currents involved there
are extremely small. Near the surface of the Earth, the voltage differs greatly; it is
highest on mountains and in dry conditions where it can reach 1,000 volts per meter,
while in low-lying and moist conditions it falls to below 50 volts. This means that the
voltage difference between a point close to the ground and one meter above it can
be between 50 and 1,000 volts, but the current is so low that we do not feel it.
Nevertheless, it has a noticeable effect on our well-being. Populations with
exceptionally long life spans always seem to live in the mountains, such as in the
Andes, Himalayas, and Caucasus.
In buildings with roofs of metal, aluminium-coated insulation material, or steel
reinforced concrete, the electrical field is near zero. It has been shown that this
lowers our concentration span and well-being. There may even be counter-fields
caused by the static electricity of plastic materials and synthetic carpets. Even worse
are houses that have metal walls, whether they are of corrugated iron, coating or
insulation material with aluminium, wire mesh, or reinforced concrete. Getting fresh
air through open windows will improve the condition to some extent.
In a high DC field, our well-being and mental abilities are increased, while in a
low field we easily become fatigued and our concentration suffers. Electrodes that
produce a field of 1,000 to 2,000 volts inside offices and houses have been used with
good results in Germany. If you live in a conventional modern house, have at least
the bedroom or sleeping place free of shielding metals, or sleep on the veranda in
summer. This is especially important for someone with a serious chronic disease.
Because as a species we lived so long in this natural DC field, the natural ion
distribution and electrical fields in our bodies have adjusted to it. We feel better when
we are exposed to this field. This is one of the reasons why walking on fresh grass
feels refreshing, while habitually wearing shoes with rubber or plastic soles is more
tiring.
The magnetic field of the Earth is about 0.5 gauss, though it has been much
higher in the past and is presently decreasing. Generally, life forms are bigger, more

vital, and longer living in a stronger magnetic field. Most people will find it best to
sleep with the head in a northerly direction, while an easterly direction is sometimes
beneficial; facing towards the west, however, is often weakening. In the Southern
Hemisphere, you can also try sleeping with the head to the south. Experiment to find
your best direction.
Sunlight: On the level of energies, sunlight is our primary source of life. Light
to moderate sun exposure is beneficial. Except in winter, do not sunbathe during the
hours around midday. Preferably expose your whole body as often as possible for a
few minutes in the early morning or late afternoon sun. This may be in the garden,
the veranda, or even inside a room with an open window. In addition, it is beneficial
to sit lightly clothed in the half-shade, as for instance under a tree, as we can absorb
the bioenergies of the sunlight through our clothing.
While brief exposure to the sun is invigorating, long sunbathing, especially at
the beach, is exhausting and ages the skin and can cause skin cancer. It can also
cause an overactivity of the parathyroid glands. Vitamin supplements can protect us
from these dangers: In addition to PABA and other B vitamins, we need plenty of
antioxidants, bioflavonoids, and carotenoids for sun protection. Except for zinc cream
or a solution of PABA, I am not in favour of using sunscreen lotions; instead, use
suitable clothing for protection. Sunscreens contain unbiological chemicals, and it
has been reported that most commercial sunscreens kill skin cells and so may inflict
long-term skin damage.
Research shows that there is a strong negative correlation between available
sunlight and breast cancer death rates, that is, living in a sunny area is associated
with lower cancer rates. Even skin cancer is inhibited by regular low-level sun
exposure; only sunburn, or high-level sun exposure, is a strong skin cancer promoter.
It has been stated that trends in the epidemiological literature suggest that
approximately 30,000 U.S. cancer deaths could be averted yearly by the widespread
public use of regular mild sun exposure. A study on electricity workers showed that
those with the most sun exposure had the lowest rates of skin cancer and melanoma.
Other studies show a strong link between long-term exposure to fluorescent lighting
and melanoma; melanoma often occurs on areas of the skin that have not been
exposed to sunlight.
Sensitive individuals, especially with low blood pressure, lack of energy, and a
tendency to have food allergies and chemical sensitivities, should expose themselves
to the full sunlight for only very short periods; preferable is semi-shade, as under a
tree. Insensitive individuals, on the other hand, with insensitive skin and often high
blood pressure, benefit from a longer exposure that tends to sensitize them.
The eyes are important entrance points for sun energy. John N. Ott, in his
Health and Light, demonstrated with his research how important it is for us to get the
full spectrum of the sunlight into our eyes. This does not happen if we sit behind
windows or wear glasses; these filter out essential frequencies of the ultraviolet part
of the spectrum. Deficiency of this ultraviolet radiation caused by our living behind
glass is a contributing factor in the development of degenerative diseases such as
arthritis, cancer and leukaemia, eye diseases, hyperactivity, and sexual problems.
These harmful effects are reinforced if the glass is inappropriately tinted, in this way
blocking out a part of the visible spectrum as well.

Ott demonstrated that the primary effect of light entering our eyes is on the
endocrine glands of the brain. He also showed that coloured lights have a strong
influence on the ratio of male to female offspring when breeding animals. Especially
unhealthy are most kinds of fluorescent lighting, more so if they have a pink hue.
Even more harmful is light from the color screens of television sets and computer
monitors; this effect is due to the artificial composition of these colours.
However, if one has sensitive eyes, one should continue to wear sunglasses if
the light is very strong and glaring and only gradually reduce their use when the eyes
improve. The best sunglasses, if required, are of a special composition of gray so
that they reduce the intensity of all colours to the same degree. Most plastics, by the
way, do not screen out ultraviolet rays, so in this way one obtains full sunlight by
living behind clear plastic windows. However, a disadvantage of this is that one can
get sunburned behind these plastic windows.
Lack of sunlight in winter or if one is bedridden makes us susceptible to
depression. You can cure this seasonal affective disorder by looking into a bright light
in the morning, preferably sunlight or lights with the full daylight spectrum.
Sunlight is also required to convert cholesterol into vitamin D. Multiple
sclerosis, for example, is inversely related to the amount of sunshine in the region, so
that the closer to the equator, the lower the incidence of it. This is similar to the rate
of cancer that also declines the closer we get to the equator. Another important
aspect of sunlight is our indirect intake of it in the form of sun-drenched fruits and
vegetables. Such foods absorb bioenergy as well as light frequencies from the sun,
but these beneficial energies are gradually lost if these foods are stored in the dark.
In this case, it is beneficial to expose them again to sunshine for a short period
before eating.
Coloured Light: Exposing ourselves to light of a certain colour has a definite
effect on our emotions and body. The most balanced colour is green, and looking out
over green meadows and at the green of trees has a balancing effect on body and
mind. Blue and red, on the other hand, are the main opposites that help to adjust the
body if it is out of balance. Red and especially orange are used for stimulation when
we are fatigued and need strength. Too much of it, however, will make us nervous
and irritable. Blue, of course, is sedating, even more so than green, not only for the
mind, but also for the body if there is pain, fever, or inflammation.
There are many different ways in which we can treat ourselves with colours.
The most natural way is to look at distinctive colours in our surroundings. In addition
to looking at meadows and trees for their balancing green, we can look for long
periods at the blue sky to gain peace and quiet. For stimulation, on the other hand,
we can focus on a red rose or any other red flower bathed in the sunshine.
Another possibility is to paint or wallpaper a room in appropriate colours and to
pay attention to the colours of our carpets and curtains. Then we can select suitable
colours for our clothing. Usually we express through the colours of our dress our
inner feeling at the time, for instance, dressing in black or gray if we are depressed,
thereby reinforcing the negative mood. However, if we want to improve our emotional
condition, select the opposite colour to our negative feeling. To ward off depression,
for instance, wear pink or another bright and stimulating colour.

We can use differently coloured light bulbs, coloured lampshades, or coloured
cellophane. However, most one-sided colour exposure should be only temporary, for
as long as it has a beneficial effect on our condition. Too much blue, for instance, can
push a susceptible individual from being peaceful to becoming depressed, or blue.
Generally, it is best to use a mixture of colours inside the house and for our clothing,
with possibly one dominant colour that balances our basic condition. For further
information, see Colour Therapy in Part 2.
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Step 51
BIOENERGY
Bioenergy is the true energy of healing, so for optimal health
learn as much about it as you can.
Bioenergy is the basis of all biological manifestations. It is also called prana, ki

or chi, od, orgone, ether, bioplasma, or simply life force. Our main intake of this life
energy is during deep sleep, through the chakra system, breathing, from raw food, as
well as sunshine and energy transfer from other people. In the air, it is commonly
called prana, while within our body we usually refer to it as bioenergy; for the
Chinese, it is the chi that circulates in the acupuncture meridians throughout the
body. Bioenergy generally appears as a bluish-gray haze; its movement is slow and
wavelike; it can be accumulated and conducted by organic material and water; and it
can be separated into two opposites with a bluish and a red-yellow color. The air is
low in bioenergy on rainy days and at night. The planet is enveloped in a field of
orgone energy and on most days this field can be observed moving from west to
east.
Our physical body is permeated with bioenergy. Part of this energy circulates
through the acupuncture meridians while the surplus radiates out, forming an etheric
field, or the inner aura, and protects us from harmful environmental radiation or
microbes. For the body, bioenergy holds the blueprint that guides the growth and
maintenance of all body structure; it is the “glue” that holds the cells together, the
energy of organization.
Acupuncture points are like transformers or inflow points of bioenergy from the
meridians into the tissue structure. If this flow along a meridian and into the muscles
is blocked, a limb becomes lifeless and paralysed, even if the blood circulation and
nerve impulses are intact. We can direct and modify this stream of bioenergy with our
mind to heal ourselves. Generally, we can increase our inner reservoir of bioenergy
by living in an area with a high environmental potential of bioenergy. We can find this
where there is plenty of sunshine, abundant vegetation, especially trees, and an
elevated position - ideally a tree-clad hilltop or mountain plateau in the subtropics.
Bioenergy in Healing: In 1973, researchers at the University of California at
Los Angeles succeeded in replicating a Russian experiment in which part of a fresh
leaf was cut off and Kirlian (high-frequency) photography revealed the faint outline of
the whole leaf, including the missing part. This can be regarded as the first visible
scientific proof of the existence of an aura around living objects. Before that,
Professor Harold Saxton Burr of Yale University had made extensive measurements
of the electric fields around living things and shown that these “L-fields” (Life-Fields)
pre-exist as in a fertilized egg and guide the development of the related entity.
I contend that prana, bioenergy, or life energy is a major factor in healing
despite the denial of its existence by orthodox medicine. Chances of recovery are
greatly increased by being regularly exposed to high concentrations of prana.
For example, Wilhelm Reich in The Cancer Biopathy described his research
into the effect of prana on cancer development and treatment. With a powerful

microscope (4,000-times magnification), he could observe how cancer cells
originated from body cells deficient in prana and how cancer cells were destroyed by
red blood cells highly charged with prana. Healthy red blood cells have a strong,
blue, and pulsating field, he said. His research led him to believe that cancer is
basically due to chronic sexual starvation or, more precisely, to blockage of sexual
energies due to emotionally induced muscle tension or armouring. This is just
another way of saying that cancer is primarily caused by a lack of bioenergy or a
blockage in the circulation of bioenergy in the body.
Prana is high in green surroundings and especially tree-clad hilltops and
mountains. It is high in the air on sunny days, but low on dull days or at night. It is
exceptionally concentrated in rainwater collected after a heavy shower on a sunny
day. Use such highly charged rainwater for washing and drinking. In polluted areas,
purify it with a jug-type carbon filter before ingestion. In addition, fresh rainwater, and
especially rain that fell during thunderstorms, has a beneficial negative electrical
charge, but this is discharged and lost if the rainwater comes in contact with a metal.
Prana is much enriched in cascading sunlit streams and even in artificial sunlit
cascades. Water can also be improved by exposing it to sunlight before use. Fresh
fruit and vegetables stored in the dark and especially in a refrigerator have a
healthier benefit for us if they are exposed to sunlight before eating.
Revitalizing may be the most important task with chronic diseases (and
especially with cancer). As Reich suggested, healthy blood charged with bioenergy
readily destroys cancer cells and disease germs. To vitalize, use fresh raw juices,
walk barefoot on dewy grass, do deep breathing exercises, meditation, energy
healing, and energy cultivation, and use devices such as magnets, cones, and
pyramids.
Freshly cut grass emits a strong radiation of bioenergy. In a similar way, a “hay
cure” was formerly used with good results as a folk remedy for many diseases. The
patient was immersed for hours in freshly cut hay or sometimes in fresh leaves.
Kirlian photography shows that cut leaves and grasses lose most of their prana within
a few hours. This outpouring energy can be used to radiate a tumor or a weak organ
with a strong charge of prana by keeping a pack of freshly cut grass over the area in
contact with the skin. The pack should be renewed every few hours.
Morning dew on fresh grass is another source of highly concentrated prana.
Walk on it barefoot for ten to 20 minutes; with your hands, rub the dew onto your
bare skin all over the body; if it’s warm enough, roll with bare skin in the dewy grass.
Psychics can see our aura expanding when we walk or stand on fresh grass.
It is equally important to conserve our bioenergy by living in or visiting
surroundings high in bioenergy. Generally, these are sunny locations with luxurious
plant growth, but also mountains and the seashore. Some individuals claim to have
lived on prana in the mountains but were not able to do this in the lowlands or a city.
Males can lose much bioenergy through ejaculation and should minimize such loss
when low in energy, as with cancer, AIDS, and other debilitating diseases. Instead,
they can try Karezza-type (caressing with slow movements) lovemaking or other
forms of spiritual sex as explained later in Part 7.

Basically, we get bioenergy from:
• Recharging our etheric body during deep sleep
• Ingesting fresh raw food, juices, and charged water
• Breathing prana-rich air
• Meditation and guided imagery
• Stepped-down energy entering directly through the chakra system
A high body charge of prana, visible to psychics as a strong and clear aura, is a
main requirement for remaining healthy and overcoming chronic diseases. Therefore,
protect and improve your health by exposing yourself to high concentrations of prana
in any or several of these indicated ways. If you have the opportunity, visit known
natural power spots or high-energy areas.
There is also negative and potentially dangerous bioenergy. This is associated
with diseased and polluted conditions and also with radioactivity. It appears that
healthy bioenergy moves or spins at certain frequencies. When it stagnates, as with
energy blocks in our body, it becomes more dense with a slower vibration. This
negative energy not only acts to maintain a diseased state, it can also be absorbed
by an unsuspecting healer and can then cause health problems in her body. Flowing
water is a great cleanser for this and can be used in different ways to remove
negative energy.
Vivaxis Energies: Vivaxis is a term coined by Canadian researcher Frances
Nixon in the 1960s for etheric energy beams that link us to specific locations. The
most important one of these is our birth vivaxis, linking us to key energy points near
the place of our birth in a two-way circuit. Perhaps migrating birds and insects find
their distant destinations by being able to sense and follow these vivaxis beams. This
would also explain how dogs sometimes cover hundreds of miles of unknown
territory to turn up unexpectedly at their owner’s house or how turtles can return to
their beach of birth after several decades to lay their eggs. In addition, there are
Earth beams circling our planet, said Nixon. These contain the frequencies of all the
elements necessary for life and are related to our individual energy fields by our
vivaxis energies.
Health problems may arise if our energy absorption from these essential
energy beams is disturbed, Nixon proposed. This may happen as a general planetary
condition after nuclear testing or, on a more individual scale, if we live in dwellings
encased by metal (aluminium coating or insulation, steel-reinforced concrete, wire
mesh). Further, our internal energy receptors may become disturbed after exposure
to X-rays or other strong electromagnetic radiation, by wrongly applied strong
magnets, prolonged mental stress, marijuana, vibrating tools, infrasonic waves,
environmental imbalances, and pesticides as well as toxic chemicals in various
drugs, foods, and cosmetics.
Foreign vivaxes to which we may become linked can be created by hypnotism,
strong magnets, electrical acupuncture treatment and pulse-wave machines,
accidentally received electric shocks, and even contact healing, reflexology, and
acupressure, especially if a therapist exerts strong pressure on bilateral points. Some
of these foreign vivaxes can disturb our natural-force flows before they gradually

disappear. On a certain energy level, we seem to remain linked to everyone we ever
touched.
You can reduce the possibility of health problems arising from disturbed or
blocked flows of these subtle energies by living as naturally as possible. Especially
minimize pollution from non-biological chemicals and strong electromagnetic fields;
frequently cleanse and recharge yourself in natural surroundings, by walking barefoot
on grass or swimming in the ocean or an unpolluted lake or river. Preferably sleep in
a part of the house with a minimum of metal shielding (as from insulation material) in
the walls and roof. For more information, see Judy Jacka’s “The Vivaxis Connection”
(Hampton Roads, 2000).
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Step 52
CULTIVATING THE ENERGIES
Learn to sense subtle bioenergies and use them to energize your body.
For increasing or maintaining our health and vitality, it is advisable to work

directly with our life force, cultivating it, as the Chinese masters say. There are two
main aspects to this energy cultivation. First we learn to accumulate bioenergy or
prana and then use it by directing its flow.
Intake through the Chakra
System: Our main bioenergy
intake and distribution
system is the chakra
network, subtle energy
centres along the spine from
groin to head. The seven
main chakras are
comparable to central power
stations, while the
acupuncture meridians can
be seen as power
transmission lines. Chakras
are vortex-like energy
centres. Commonly, seven
major chakras are
mentioned, six of which are
rooted along the spine and
one at the top of the head, as
shown in figure 7-1. The
chakra vortexes suck in
energy from the universal
energy field that is all around
us.
Each chakra modifies
the vibration rate of the energy and that gives it a certain color. Further, each chakra
energizes a specific region of the body and is related to a major nerve centre and
endocrine gland. The energy then flows along a multitude of lines (called nadis) to
form the etheric body. Major energy flows are along the acupuncture meridians that,
in turn, nourish the internal organs and muscles.
A health problem in a certain area of the body is usually associated with a
disturbed function of the chakra governing this region. Normalizing and harmonizing
our chakra functions is important for the healing of specific aspects as well as for
increasing our available energy in general and for becoming whole and balanced.
The characteristics of the seven main chakras can be seen in table 7-1. In
addition, there are many more secondary chakras. Those in the palms of the hands

are commonly used for energy transfer. Each of the higher or finer energy bodies,
such as the emotional, astral, and mental body, has its own chakra system; different
energy bodies have different chakra colours. The corresponding chakras in the
different bodies are interconnected. The more we spiritually develop, the greater
becomes the exchange of energy between the different bodies, with the energy
generally flowing from the finer to the denser bodies. Excellent books on energy
healing, energy bodies, and the chakra systems are “Hands of Light” and “Light
Emerging”, by Barbara Ann Brennan.
You can experiment with two complementary methods of increasing your
energy reservoir. In one, imagine energy entering through the crown chakra; in the
other, imagine you retain the prana inhaled with the air. With some practice, you can
combine both exercises and do them at the same time. The main rule in all of this is
that energy flow follows our awareness and intentions.
Table 7-1: The Main Energy Centres or Chakras
Location Sanskrit name Gland Color Vertebra Function
Root/Base Muladhara Adrenals Red Sacral 4 Will to live, vitality,

grounding
Pubic Svadisthana Gonads Orange Lumbar 1 Sexual energy, physical
creativity
Solar plexus Manipura Pancreas Gold-yellow Dorsal 8 Emotional energy, feeling
safe, protected, connected
Heart Anahata Thymus Green Dorsal 1 Spiritual feelings, love,
compassion
Throat Vishudda Thyroid Blue Cervical 3 Communication, creating
with words and sounds
Brow Ajna Pituitary Indigo none Higher mentality and
creativity, intuition,
visualization
Crown Sahasrara Pineal Violet/white none Spirituality,
connection to Higher Self
and divinity
Chakra Exercises: Sit or lie in a relaxed position and focus on one chakra at
each session. Start with the crown chakra. Keep your awareness centred at the top
of your head until you feel a light pressure, warmth, tingling, or other sensation
developing in that area. Whatever you can feel, intensify it. However, it is preferable
to replace any feeling of pressure with a feeling of warmth as soon as that can be
done, in order to avoid an uncomfortable pressure from building up.
You can also imagine a stream of white light entering the top of the head or
visualize an energy vortex in this position. Let it spin clockwise in the Northern
Hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Alternatively,
imagine feeling it as a pulsating energy field. You can combine all or several of these
imaginations and use whatever is most suitable for developing a feeling awareness
of this chakra.

Figure 7-2: The Stations of the Microcosmic Orbit, from “Bone Marrow Nei Kung”, by
Mantak Chia.
Repeat, focusing on the same chakra in subsequent sessions until you can
easily feel its presence. Then move to the forehead chakra. In addition to trying to
feel a light pressure or warmth, it is helpful to close your eyes and focus them as if
looking at the inside of the centre between your brows. You can also imagine the
white light flowing into the top of your head becoming violet in the crown centre, then
continuing to flow into the forehead centre and illuminating it with an indigo colour.
With the throat chakra, you can use similar imagery but make it a blue colour.
Feel the warmth of your outgoing breath first in your nose and then transfer this
feeling to the throat. Intensify the warmth and combine it with the blue in a pulsating
rhythm.
For the heart chakra, imagine that your breath moves in and out of the chest
through the middle of your chest bone. Also try this imaginary breathing through skin
and bone with any of the other chakras, but it is easiest to learn it at the heart centre.
In this way, learn to sense the lower chakras - the solar plexus, pubic, and base
chakras. Imagine the base chakra as an energy vortex that points to the base of the

spine. With this, the crown vortex and the base vortex are like an hourglass
separated by the length of the spine, while all the other chakra vortexes are
perpendicular to the spine.
Storing Prana: To accumulate prana from the air and store it, imagine that the
inhaled breath consists of two parts: physical air molecules and prana. During
inhalation, the lungs automatically separate the prana from the air molecules. You
exhale only the “empty” air while the prana flows to where you lead it with your
conscious attention. The body uses the abdomen with its high water content as a
storage reservoir of excess bioenergy.
To energize the abdomen, feel the breath energy moving directly into the
abdomen during inhalation. When exhaling, imagine pressing the energy down so
that it becomes compressed at the bottom of the abdomen. With each successive
breath, more compressed energy accumulates until the target area feels sufficiently
energized. You may feel this as warmth, tingling, pressure, or any other sensation.
If you can visualize colours, see energy being stored as a golden-yellow fluid
that gradually fills the whole abdomen. Initially, you may also see it filling the whole
abdomen like a gas with a very faint color that becomes more intense with each
breath. However, it is not enough just to visualize it; it is essential also to feel the
energy.
Another important consideration is the actual prana content of the air you
breathe. You gain the most energy when the air is high in prana, such as outdoors in
natural surroundings on a sunny day. However, most of the time, you will be doing
this exercise in far less than ideal conditions. Neverthe-less, persevere with it while
trying to maximize the prana in your inhaled air by opening windows, exercising on a
sunny day, and minimizing negative elements, such as electromagnetic forces and
synthetics in your room.
In contrast to accumulating prana through breathing, there is no such restriction
when taking in energy through the top of the head, as this comes from another
dimensional level. But as both energies have different frequencies and complement
each other, it is beneficial to work with both methods.
Circulating the Energy: A Chinese exercise to increase our energy and well-
being involves circulating life-force energy in what is called the “microcosmic orbit.”
Start by accumulating energy either through the crown centre or by condensing
breath energy and lead it into the abdomen.
When you have a good feeling sensation of the energy in the abdomen,
imagine this sensation flowing into the pubic centre. Intensify the sensation until you
can feel the pubic chakra, then let the energy flow into the perineum and the base of
the spine. Feel the energy there in any way you can; you may envision it having a red
color in this area.
Now imagine a valve opening at the tailbone and, with each inhalation, lift part
of the energy to a point in the spine behind the pubic centre. When you can feel it
well, be it as pressure, warmth, tingling, or any other sensations, lift the energy with
your breath to a point behind the solar plexus centre. If you find that you can lift the
energy better during exhalations or by paying no attention to the breath at all, that is
fine as well; experiment and use the method that works best for you.

Chi travels up to the Down to the middle Up outside of the Descends to the tongue
mid-point of the scapulae of the palm. forearms, reaching the and to the navel.
and divides into the arms shoulder.
Figure 7-3: The large heavenly cycle – the arm routes, from Awakening Healing Energy Through
the Tao by Mantak Chia.
However, if you experience unusual heat or any discomfort while trying to lift
the energy up the spine, then stop immediately or imagine that a cool energy flows
downwards. The idea is to increase the flow of energies gradually, but not to open
the floodgate of the Kundalini energy at the base of the spine. That might be likened
to feeding high-voltage power into a system wired for low voltage.
As you continue to lift the energy to the back of the heart centre and then to the
back of the neck, imagine that your spine is a straight hollow tube through which the
energy flows following your intentions. Next concentrate the energy at the back of the
head and finally at the top of the head. Reinforce it with the energy entering the top of
the head and then lead it down into the forehead centre. It helps during the whole
exercise, but especially at this time, to touch the roof of the mouth with the tip of the
tongue. This makes it easier for the energy to flow farther down into the blue throat
centre and then into the heart centre.
To complete the exercise, lead the energy farther down into the natural storage
area for excess energy behind the navel. Imagine that it flows towards the centre of a
spiral where it is condensed and stored as a ball of energy in the abdomen, ready for
future use. When needed, this energy can be reactivated with your intention and
used for healing yourself or others by directing it with your mind where you want it to
go. It can also be used for tasks with high-energy requirements and is the same
energy that masters of the martial arts aim to cultivate and use.

In addition to circulating the energy in this “microcosmic orbit,” you can
sometimes include the extremities in a “macrocosmic orbit” or “the large heavenly
cycle.” After circulating several times in the microcosmic orbit, stop at the perineum
and divert the energy down the back of the legs. Pause at the back of the knees and
try to feel the two smaller energy vortexes there. Then continue guiding the energy
down the back of the calves and around the outer ankles. Feel another set of minor
chakras in the centre of the soles of your feet, and finally lead the energy up again
along the insides of the legs. Circle around the knees and back to the perineum to
continue the microcosmic orbit.
At the top of the back, between the shoulder blades, divide the energy again
and lead it under the armpits and down the inside of the arms. Focus for a moment
on the inside of the elbows, then go to the middle of the palms and feel another pair
of minor chakras there. Let some of the energy flow out the tips of the fingers and
then move up the outside of the arms to reconnect with the microcosmic orbit where
you left it.
When you can readily feel the circulating energy and the various centres on its
path, you can sometimes use a short form to energize and centre yourself quickly.
Imagine the energy entering the top of the head and rapidly jumping down from one
centre to the next to the base of the spine. Then with one inhalation lift the energy to
the top of the head and with the next exhalation drop it again down the front to the
base.
Continue to circulate it in this way until you feel energized. You can, of course,
switch the breathing cycle and lift the energy up the spine during exhalation if that
suits you better. In a similar way, you can sometimes lead the energy very rapidly
around the macrocosmic orbit with one long exhalation down the legs or arms and
with the following slow inhalation back up again. In all this energy work. imagine and
feel the energy moving below the surface of the skin. (For detailed instructions on
exercises to accumulate prana and use it for healing, see: www.universal-tao.com
and also books by Mantak Chia, such as “Awaken Healing Light of the Tao”.)
Energizing the Body: In another method, imagine your spine to be a hollow
tube. While inhaling, imagine the prana flowing up the tube to the top, and during the
subsequent exhalation, let the energy again drop down the spinal tube to the base.
Until you are well advanced in energy work, do not do more than ten such breathing
cycles at any one time.
With all energy exercises involving the spine, try to keep it straight, either sitting
up straight (but relaxed) or lying stretched out on the back. However, you can
practice these and other energy exercises anywhere, anytime, such as when driving,
waiting somewhere, walking, or doing housework.
Another recommended way of cultivating the inner energies is through slow
movements while focusing on the sensations that the awakened energy flows may
produce. This is done with exercises such as Tai Chi. However, you may not need to
learn the structured Tai Chi sequence and can experiment with your own slow,
improvised movements. Widespread, especially in China, is the practice of qigong.
You draw energy into the body with a combination of breathing, movements, and
guided imagery. This is especially effective if done in an energized outside area,

such as standing barefoot on grass, in a park, at the beach, or in the mountains.
There are many books and websites giving instructions in qigong
A relatively easy way of learning to feel bioenergy is to shake your body,
especially the arms and hands, rapidly for about a minute. At the same time, breathe
deep and fast and then suddenly stop. Remain completely still with the arms slightly
raised in front of your abdomen or chest as if holding a large beach ball. Concentrate
on the sensation in your hands and arms. Then start slowly moving your arms and
your body. Try to intensify whatever energy sensation you feel. When you can feel
the energy strongly, you can mentally lead it to an area of the body where you have a
particular health problem. Alternatively, you can radiate the energy out of the palms
of your hands to where you want to energize yourself. It is good to do this as a
regular daily exercise.
Finally, you can directly energize a weak or diseased organ or part of the body
by feeling or breathing into it. If you keep your attention focused on a particular area
of your body, then you can feel it becoming warm and possibly tingling after some
time. You can then use imagery to intensify the warmth or tingling. Also, imagine that
your breath or the prana from your breath flows into this area and accelerates its
healing. Even without a specific problem, you can focus on one organ after another
and in this way energize the whole body. Once you can easily feel the warmth in a
chosen target area, you can develop a sequence by energizing first the chakras,
starting with the crown chakra, then circulate the energy a few times, and finally
energize individual organs or areas of the body. Also, during your daily activities try
to remain aware of the energies in various parts of your body.
For further information on chakras and energy work, see the Love Cure (Step
61). The best and safest way to develop the chakra system is by living appropriately
in all life situations with a strong flow of a variety of positive feelings. Most healthy
individuals have their three lower chakras reasonably well developed. Therefore we
need to concentrate mainly on developing the four higher chakras.
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Step 53
ENERGY ACCUMULATORS
Use orgone accumulators, pyramids, cones, or water to concentrate bioenergy.
Various shapes such as pyramids and cones have been shown to concentrate
bioenergy or prana. Some healers have patients sit inside small-scale pyramids with
good results. I have experimented clinically with Reichian orgone accumulators,
small pyramids, and cones.
Bioenergy can be generated not only by certain shapes, such as pyramids and
cones, and materials such as crystals and precious metals, but also by metals and
non-metals arranged in alternating layers. This is the principle of the orgone
accumulator invented by Wilhelm Reich, M.D., in the 1940’s. He built large boxes for
patients to sit in or smaller boxes, called shooters, from which the energy was
directed through a flexible hollow pipe to the body of the patient.
In one instance, I connected a wire screen placed over the tumor area of a
patient to the top of a two-foot-high pyramid. After only one treatment, the patient
developed a high fever during the night, which is excellent for destroying tumours. In
another experiment, the energy radiated from a cone over a short distance produced
a strong reddening of the skin as from sunburn, showing that these energies are real.
Even water can be effective. On tumours and areas of infection and
inflammation, you can use an energy suction tube to draw off excess energy. Place
one end of a metal tube, about two to five feet long, in a bucket of cold water or
another large volume of water. Lightly press the upper end against the area of
overactivity and keep it in this position for ten to 30 minutes, without holding the tube
with the hands. Do this daily until the condition is normalized.
My understanding of the principle of energy accumulation is as follows. Our
planet is enveloped in a deep layer of prana (bioenergy) generated by the sun. This
prana envelope has been observed to move from west to east most of the time.
When this prana flow encounters a suitable material shape, it forms a vortex around
and within this obstruction, similar to flowing water or air forming vortexes under
similar conditions. This increases the prana concentration within the structure. In
Reichian orgone accumulators, the prana flow is being condensed by the specific
arrangement of the materials.
The Orgone Accumulator: Orgone is the term for bioenergy coined by Dr.
Reich, and the accumulator he designed consists of alternating layers of metal and
non-metal (e.g. natural fibre). Commonly, three alternating layers each of metal and
non-metal are used; originally, sheet iron and plywood were used, but now more
commonly, steel wool and sheep wool or other fibre are used. The outermost layer
must be a non-metal and the innermost one a metal. The basic principle is that the
organic or non-metal layer tends to attract and hold the bioenergy, while the metal
layer radiates or reflects it. This causes the energy to drift from the outside of the box
towards the centre, which is where you sit.

As an objective measurement of the higher energy charge inside the
accumulator, there is a measurably higher temperature inside the box as compared
to the outside. But it does not even have to be a box. You can wrap alternating layers
of a metal and a non-metal in what is called a “power pack.” The easiest and least
expensive way is to wrap alternating layers of aluminium foil with paper or plastic foil.
However, various healers came to the conclusion over time that the energy
generated with aluminium is not beneficial for our health and that it is best to use iron
as a metal, either as galvanized iron or steel wool.
If a person is to sit inside, the inside wall
CAUTION: Orgone accumulators can should be reasonably close to the body, but
be “poisoned” by radioactivity. Do not not touching it. A window and air vent can be
use if radioactive clouds from atomic put in the door. Treatment can last 30 to 60
tests are suspected. Do not take a minutes daily. Dr. Reich reported good
wristwatch inside. Ground the success using this box with cancer patients.
accumulator with a steel pipe connected As with pyramids, the energy can be
to a stream, underground water, or a conducted out of the accumulator and used
bucket of water that can be renewed externally on a person or for experimenting.
from time to time. Disconnect the The charge within the accumulator varies
grounding when using the accumulator. according to the bioenergy content of the
According to some orgone research surroundings; it is high on sunny days and
sources, presently, the orgone energy in low at night and on rainy or cloudy days.
cities is so polluted that it is not safe or
You can also place large crystals or
advisable to use orgone accumulators in
precious stones inside the accumulator and
these locations. Preferably use it outside
try to sense if that improves the quality of the
city areas in a less polluted and natural
energy coming out of a shooter. For more
environment.
information and interesting articles on orgone
energy, see the writings of Wilhelm Reich or
the Public Orgonomic Research Exchange (PORE) at http://orgone.org.
Bion Packs: Dr. Reich experimented with other ways of generating orgone
energy that are not susceptible to poisoning. He found that strong orgone energy
could be liberated from beach sand. After heating sand to incandescence in a
Bunsen burner, he plunged it into water. Within minutes, he could observe under the
microscope the blue orgone “bions” (individualized units of bioenergy). When bion-
water was kept in a culture medium for several weeks, the water and the darkroom
became highly charged and filled with the characteristic bluish glow of orgone
energy.
While working in this room in winter and without being exposed to the sun, Dr.
Reich developed a deep tan all over his body and felt “extremely vigorous,” as he
commented. He also used bion solutions experimentally to treat various disease
symptoms; when bion solutions were injected into experimental animals, they killed
or immobilized pathogenic bacteria and cancer cells, he reported.
Dr. Reich also made bion packs by boiling beach sand or clay for 15 minutes
several times and then freezing it. Here’s how to do that: Fill some heavy fabric, such
as a sock, with sand like a sausage, tie the open end, and boil it for 15 minutes (no
microwave). Then wrap the “sausage” in additional waxed paper or plastic and freeze
it solid. When using a pack for the first time, alternate the boiling and freezing several

times. Before placing it over a diseased part of the body, let it sufficiently cool and
drain off excess water.
Use the pack when it is as warm as you can tolerate; use additional cloth
insulation, which can gradually be removed as the pack cools. It continues radiating
to some degree after cooling off. Therefore, there is no time limit for how long you
can keep it on, although I assume that it is more beneficial when it is warm or hot.
The pack can be reactivated on subsequent days simply by boiling it again. Let the
pack dry out when not in use and preferably expose it to the sun for several hours
between each application.
Orgonite: This is a new and promising concept for generating bioenergy. It is a
mixture of equal parts of metal particles and an organic component, such as
polyester resin or beeswax. It is a development of Dr. Reich’s methods, which
accumulates and regenerates orgone energy. Tests have shown that orgonite does
not become poisoned, but has the ability to convert the “deadly orgone” or “Dor” as
Reich called it, which is produced by radioactivity and nuclear plants, into healthy
bluish orgone energy.
While aluminium embedded in polyester or epoxy resin is more convenient to
use for outdoor applications, for inside the house and bodywork I recommend other
metals, such as copper and brass, with the metal particles preferably embedded in
beeswax. It is also possible to make ceramic orgonite by mixing clay, especially
polymer clay, with metal particles before firing. Crystals, precious stones, magnets,
and various spirals are often added to enhance the power or healing vibrations of the
orgonite. Copper pipes, crystals, magnets, spirals, and specific shapes, such as
cones and pyramids, are used to point the outflow of the orgone energy in a specific
direction.
You can easily build an orgone generator yourself by following the instructions
on www.cloud-busters.com. You can use different versions of it to improve the life-
force energy inside your house, to charge your water with life force, or to treat the
body directly.
There are a variety of commercial Reichian-style energy devices available.
Research the Internet using key words such as chi generators, purple plates, tachyon
or tachion products, energy pyramids, and coils.
Pyramid Energy: The pyramid shape concentrates bioenergy which can be
used for healing or recharging by sitting or lying inside a pyramid. The strongest force
is one-third up from the base. There appears to be an energy vortex spiralling
upwards to the top (apex) and another from the apex downwards, but spiralling in the
opposite direction. Both energy streams seem to have stimulating properties, but on
different levels. A sedating energy field is created in an imaginary, inverted pyramid
below the base of the physical pyramid.
In the pyramid shape, the energy moves as a vortex, entering at the base and
flowing out at the apex. Therefore, apex energy is used to charge and stimulate while
an area below a pyramid (shaped as a mirror pyramid) sedates. Inside, the effect
appears to be slightly sedating at the base and stimulating higher up.
Therapeutic pyramids are commonly small-scale replicas of the Great Pyramid
of Giza in Egypt. One of the four sides of the therapeutic pyramid should face

magnetic north. The measurements are 1 unit (height), 1.5708 units (base), and
1.4945 units (sides), measured along the midline, not along the edges. The sides
form an angle of 51º 51’ to the base. However, research indicates that many different
pyramid-like and cone-like shapes such as a three-sided pyramid have the potential
to accumulate energies.
Avoid metal in the pyramid’s construction, especially sheet metal or wire mesh
(except for copper or precious metal sheeting, especially at the apex). The walls do
not appear to be essential, which means you need only construct a wooden or plastic
frame. However, a pyramid-shaped capstone at the apex and a bottom plate will
considerably increase the energy generation. The capstone can be in the form of
copper sheeting of the top ten percent of the pyramid or a small copper pyramid as
the apex. Keep unnecessary metal (e.g., watches) out of the pyramid when using it
and place the pyramid away from strong electrical fields. One side of the pyramid
should point towards magnetic north.
For easy shifting and storage, you can build two sides of an open frame and
hook them together at the base with two base-length pieces of timber, or you can
build one or two small cardboard pyramids. You can then place one -pyramid under
your bed or (wooden) chair, the apex pointing to the base of the spine or any part of
the body that you want to strengthen. Then suspend the other pyramid from the
ceiling with the base over a diseased area or over the head.
The most effective way to use a pyramid shape therapeutically may be to have
a pyramid outside in a dry, sunny location and to lead the energy inside the house
through an insulated electric wire coming through the apex. At the end of this, attach
a wire screen covered with a pillowcase and sit on it or keep your feet on it or place it
where the body needs healing. The energy generated by the pyramid varies
according to the strength of the prana field in the local environment. It is generally
high in sunshine, elevated positions, and amidst green surroundings, and low at
night, when it rains, and inside modern well-sealed houses.
Generally, therapeutic work with pyramid energies is still in the experimental
stage and you should approach these energies carefully and with self-observation.
Start experimenting with small pyramids before building a big one. For treatment
inside the pyramid, the direction in which the head points when lying down seems to
be important, and the best position may differ for each person, time, and condition.
Become sensitive, and experiment.
Energy Cones: Cones seem to have properties similar to those of pyramids.
You can experiment with a metal cone or a cardboard cone covered on both sides
with aluminium foil. The cone can be one to two feet high, and the wide end is best
sealed. The most important requirement is a right angle formed by the sides at the
apex. If the angle is wider, the energy of the cone will be focused, as with a lens,
while a more acute angle seems to disperse it. A beam of energy with apparently
stimulating properties comes out of the tip of the cone and can be projected over a
long distance. The energy can be led off the apex by a wire (as described above for
the pyramid). A stronger force is generated if the cone is more than three feet above
the ground.
Covering the head with an open cone or a pyramid-shaped hat can be done to
use the sedating force below these forms during meditation or to increase psychic

awareness. Perhaps this is the reason why sorcerers and magicians are often
depicted with cone-shaped hats. However, when trying to use cones for health
improvement, it is preferable to use galvanized iron rather than aluminium, due to a
possibly detrimental health effect of aluminium-conducted energies, as noted above.
You can, for instance, just spray a cardboard cone with copper paint.
Crystals, Gems, and Metals: Crystals and precious stones can be worn for
their beneficial radiation. Crystals should be naturally grown, not manufactured, and
their best effects are achieved if worn directly on the skin. To regenerate the healing
power of a gem, keep it in a silk bag when it is not worn. Use muscle testing, a
pendulum, or other psychic means to assess which crystal, stone, or metal suits you,
where to wear it, and for how long. Alternatively, make your selection according to
the rules of color therapy.
Some helpful recommendations by Edgar Cayce are as follows:
• For attunement to healing: amethyst, bloodstone, chrysolite, or pearl
• Attunement to infinity: diamond, lapis lazuli, or ruby
• Greater stamina: agate and amethyst
• Meditation and psychic abilities: lapis linguis
• Strengthening mucous membranes: carbon steel worn close to groin
• Strengthening the body: lapis lazuli, bloodstone, moonstone, pearl, and topaz
Gems have also been used for healing in the form of powders and irradiated
solutions. Gem therapy, as this healing method is known, is still very much at an
experimental stage. For experimentation with solutions, you can use the following
guidelines.
Select a suitable gem or precious metal by muscle testing while holding the
investigated item or use psychic testing. Write the name of the gem to be tested on a
slip of paper and hold it near your navel while simultaneously concentrating mentally
on this name; then do a muscle test. Alternatively, if you can work reliably with a
pendulum, use that.
Try to obtain the gem or metal that is most strengthening. Immerse it in a
shallow bowl of unpolluted water, cover with light, fine gauze as an insect and dust
screen, and expose this to sun and moonlight for several days; then pour the solution
into a bottle.
Take a sip once a day for up to six months. Use close self-observation and/or
muscle testing and stop if any unwanted symptoms arise. If in doubt, it may be safer
to take a 3x or 6x homeopathic dilution of the irradiated water, especially in the case
of precious metals. If you lack energy, experiment with a ruby. Edgar Cayce
recommended alternating the radiation of gold and silver because gold improves the
circulation and silver the nervous system. According to Cayce, they may together
almost double the present life span. Use pure gold and silver (preferably at least 99
percent pure).
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Step 54
ENERGY HEALING
Give energy or remove excess energy to facilitate healing yourself and others.
The term “energy healing” refers to the transfer of energy from a healer to a
patient and to the removal of negative unhealthy energies from the patient. I imagine
negative energy to be dense and stagnating, somewhat like cold, damp air. Its effect
on an unprotected healer can be noticeable; she may develop the pains or other
disease symptoms that have just been removed from the patient. Energy healing is
also called pranic healing, magnetic healing, or laying on of hands; yet another form,
using special symbols, is called Reiki. While almost anyone can practice energy
healing from a distance, its use when actually touching the patient should be
restricted to those practitioners who already feel in good health and have an
abundant supply of energy. Here’s a technique:
Slowly move your more sensitive hand, usually the left hand in right-handed
individuals, a few inches from and over the patient’s body to try sensing unusual
energy spots. This can be done on a fully-clothed person. Over a diseased area, your
hand might suddenly feel warm or tingling. After completing the check, you can return
to the area over which you felt the strongest sensation. Now you can either give
energy to strengthen an organ or the whole person, or you can draw out energy from
the body as in the case of pain and inflammation (described below).
With all energy work where you touch a patient or remove energy, try to protect
yourself with your intention or expectation of being immune. In addition, use guided
imagery, such as visualizing a protective white light or shield around you, or with your
imagination allow the patient’s energy to flow through your body and out again
through your feet or through one of your hands.
Giving Energy: Before and after any contact healing, such as just described,
practice energy accumulation (with breathing exercises, meditation, or guided
imagery) and preferably use a prayer or affirmation. Then direct the energy into your
hands and feel them becoming warm and tingling. Place your hands on or over the
patient where the body requires healing, especially strengthening, and feel the
energy streaming out; or hold in your mind the intention of being a channel for giving
healing energy, or focus your attention on your crown chakra on the top of your head.
Continue for five to ten minutes and repeat as required. After each session,
rinse your hands in cold water and do some deep breathing. If you feel drained the
following day, do more energy-accumulation exercises and less energy-giving in
future sessions, and especially avoid or minimize touching patients.
For general strengthening, it is often beneficial to place the right hand on the
patient’s navel and the left one on their forehead. For most people, the right hand has
more energy-giving qualities and the left one has predominantly energy-withdrawing
qualities. However some people, especially left-handed individuals and sometimes
women, have the opposite polarity. You can practice energy-giving in a group
situation such that each one in turn is the “patient.”

Another method is to place the positive or energy-giving hand over the weak
body area and hold the left hand over the person’s head with your palm facing
upwards, the fingers lightly curved and the heel of the hand preferably pointing
towards the north.
You can be healer and patient at the same time by radiating energy from your
hands into your own body. You can do this wherever you have a weakness or want
to improve conditions; this is explained below under Beaming. Move your energized
hands slowly from the top of your head over your face and down the sides and front
of your body; smile inwardly while doing this.
Removing Excess Energy: Excess energy can be associated with an
overactive organ or a painful area of the body, but also with unreleased and densified
emotions in the form of stagnating, depressed energy. This depressed energy is
often stored around the shoulders, neck, and head. Commonly, drawing out excess
energy is more helpful than giving energy. The reason for this is that energy needs to
flow to be useful and drawing it out improves the energy circulation in a way that’s
similar to walking barefoot on fresh moist grass.
Energy can be directly removed from painful or overactive areas with cupped
hands and then flicked into a corner. Afterwards, seal the person’s aura with
smoothing, sweeping strokes downward along the body area from which the energy
has been removed. At the arms or legs, make the sweeps towards the fingers or
toes.
For a general energy cleansing, the patient can be seated while the healer
moves his cupped hands slowly upwards close to the person’s body, starting just
below the level of the seat. This should be done from all sides, lifting the excess
energy off the top of the person’s head and flicking it off into a corner, out of a
window, or into a sink. At the end of the cleansing, seal the person’s aura.
The healer must have the intention and expectation of removing excess
energy. With enough sensitivity, you can actually feel depressed energy as a
heaviness in your cupped hands. Try rapid or deep breathing during this work with
the patient. These whole-body cleansings are especially effective if done by a group
of healers at the same time, on one person.
Another drawing-out method is as follows: Place your receptive or sensitive
hand with the palm down a few inches above the painful or diseased area. Hold your
positive or energy-giving hand, also with the palm down, over a bucket of fresh water.
Treat for five to ten minutes, or less if pain disappears sooner. Then move to another
part of the body if required and treat again for five to ten minutes. You may be able to
increase the effectiveness of this procedure by having the fingers of the positive hand
point south.
Instead of using your hands, you can draw out excess energy with a suction
tube: Solder approximately five feet of an insulated wire to one end of a one-to-two-
foot iron tube. Remove the insulation from the free end of the wire and spread the
strands of wire in a large container of cold water. With the free end of the tube, trace
a meridian for sedation, or place it over a painful area.
This implement produces a powerful suction for removing excess energy. Use it
repeatedly for five to 15 minutes. However, avoid draining energy from the hand by

holding the tube when in operation. Preferably fasten it to a stand in the desired
position, otherwise wrap it well with a dry cloth before holding. An even stronger
suction is achieved by using a three foot long galvanized-iron or stainless-steel pipe
in a fixed position without attached wire; one end reaches into a water container,
while the free end is directed against a treated area.
Healing at a Distance: As a possibility for distant healing in which you do not
touch the patient, start by audibly or silently saying a prayer in which you ask that
your patient be healed. Then have the patient lie down or sit in a relaxed position with
closed eyes while you enter a meditative state. It will be helpful to use eight-two
breathing or a similar slow-breathing technique (see Step 9). Then mentally radiate
love and healing energy to the patient, or visualize the patient as being healed.
Very effective is feeling a strong flow of energy entering the top of your head
and moving down your arms and out of your palms. Hold your palms a foot or two
away from the patient. Alternatively, you can beam the energy out of your forehead
or heart. Another possibility is to evaluate in which part of the body the source of the
problem is located. Then energize your own chakra related to this part of the body
and let this energy radiate into the corresponding chakra of the patient. Finish with a
thanksgiving prayer and a blessing for the patient. Distant healing is much safer for
the healer than that done through direct touch.
With distant healing, the patient is in the same room, while with absent healing
the patient can be anywhere in the world. For absent healing, use a similar
procedure: Visualize the face of the patient or concentrate your healing energy on a
photo of the patient. You can also pray together at a prearranged time.
Beaming: Beaming is an excellent cooperative method for improving our
health and speeding up our spiritual development. It helps us to release negative
mental, emotional, and etheric energies while activating our energy centres and
circuits at the same time. Beaming can be done alone but is more effective with a
friend or partner or in a group setting.
Before starting, ask your God Presence or Higher Self to make you a channel
for the healing light. (In the channelled information revealed in the book I Will Arise,
by Paola Hugh, it is suggested to “ask in the name of Jesus Christ to become a
channel for the healing Light of the Father’s Love.”) Then imagine a spiritual white
light entering the top of your head and flowing down your arms. You can use the
chakras in the palms of your hands like lenses to focus this healing light in
concentrated form onto areas of the body in need of healing and cleansing. Have the
mental attitude that this light originates from a higher source.
Generally, hold your hands eight to 12 inches from the body and point the
palms towards the organ to be healed. If you feel warmth or tingling in your palms,
this means that there is an obstruction in the person’s body; continue beaming until
these disappear, then move to another area. Initially beam for ten to 20 minutes, but
with growing experience go longer. The farther away from the body you hold your
palms, the deeper the beamed light energy penetrates.
For overall health improvement and spiritual cleansing, start with the person’s
head. Beam from all sides, but mostly with one hand over the top and the other
towards the base of the brain from the back. After several sessions of beaming the

head, move to the kidneys and the intestines, one palm directed towards each
kidney.
At another session, treat the spleen with one hand and the liver with the other.
Jointly, spleen and liver are responsible for the purification of the blood. Do the same
with the heart and the throat or the thyroid. If helping others, beam their kidneys,
spleen, liver, and heart from the back. On yourself, you can treat your front or back
depending on your ability to beam your own back.
To establish inner energy circuits, beam simultaneously on the heart and the
back of the head, on both adrenal glands (located on top of the kidneys), on one
adrenal and the thyroid, then on the other adrenal and the thyroid.
Another practice is beaming light of different colours from the thumb pads into
the open eyes. Use a distance of two inches and about one minute for each
imaginary colour. Start by visualizing the cosmic violet colour of transmutation. See it
streaming out of the thumb tips and through the eyes into the centre of intellect at the
base of the brain. Then visualize other colours and body areas. Beam emerald green
into the eyes for the adrenals, grass green for the heart, pale blue for the
reproductive organs and for the thyroid, light electric-blue for the liver, indigo for the
spleen, deep indigo-blue for the ears, and orange for the lymphatic system. Violet is
for the teeth and gums, and you beam this into the open mouth.
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Step 55
MERIDIAN & ACUPRESSURE THERAPY
Balance the flow of energies along your acupuncture
meridians by tracing their circuits.
The human body has a bioenergy circulation system similar to the blood
circulation system, as shown in figure 7-4. The bioenergy flows along 12 main
meridians, or channels. These are on each side of the body, each pair being related
to a specific organ and its processes. In addition, there are two single meridians
following the midline of the body, one at the front and the other along the spine. Many
points are distributed along these 14 meridians. These points are essentially
transformer stations through which bioenergy flows into the muscle structure to allow
organized activity to take place; they are treatment points for acupuncture. In
disease, energy imbalances develop in these channels, causing some of the points
to become irritated or congested. This results in pain or weakness in the surrounding
muscles.
Try to find tender points by pressing with a thumb or finger in a circular motion
around the area indicated for each point on the charts of the meridians (see figure
7-4). You do not need to know and find the exact location of a point. If there is a
problem, all of a small muscle and much of a large muscle will be tender around the
point so that it is easy to find. Press into the general area of the selected point and
gradually work your way toward the centre of the pain. For treatment, concentrate on
the most painful spots, pressing them frequently as explained for reflexology in Part
2. Generally, the pain decreases after some time of pressing, but should it increase
instead, then interrupt the treatment for several days.
Tender pressure points may stem from either a local condition or a problem in
the main organ associated with that particular meridian; also, the pain may be
referred from a more distant body part connected to the same meridian. There is, of
course, an interaction between these different areas.
When the main organ is inflamed, most points along its meridian will be tender.
The points especially useful for diagnosing and treating the organ directly are located
around the ankles and wrists. They are called source-points; further source-points
are situated along the Bladder meridian close to the spine, and also as local-points
on various meridians near the target organ.
Rules for Selecting Treatment Points: The following general rules are useful
for selecting points for treatment.
1. Points above the knees or elbows reflect mainly local conditions, while those
below these joints reflect local as well as distant conditions at other parts of the
meridian.
2. Generally, the closer the points are to the fingertips or toes, the closer to the
other end of the meridian will be the related sphere of influence.
3. For painful, acute conditions, treat mainly -distant-points; for chronic conditions,
add local-points.

Figure 7-4: Chart of Acupuncture Meridians. Begin tracing the points marked “start”. Dots
indicate acupuncture or pressure points. Apply finger pressure when tender. The Governing Meridian
(not shown) starts at the tailbone and follows the spine in a straight line over the top of the head down
the nose and ends between nose and upper lip.
This means, for example, that if you wish to treat an acute eye or ear pain,
select points near the toes and fingers, while to treat shoulders and hips, move close
to the elbows or knees. For a more chronic condition, you press in addition the tender
spots around the ears and eyes, and hips and shoulders. You can also add points of
other meridians that have a direct relationship to the problem. Eye problems, for
example, are often associated with poor kidney and liver function. Therefore, some
points on the meridian associated with these organs can be treated as well. Further,
the points at the shoulders, the shoulder blades, and the base of the neck control the

circulation to the arms and hands, while the points at the hips, the buttocks, and
around the base of the spine control the circulation to the legs and feet. Therefore,
treat poor circulation, numbness, and pain in the extremities by pressing the points in
the indicated control areas.
Frequently, the pressure points of a pair of meridians will be more sensitive on
one side of the body than on the other side. This indicates an imbalance in the
energy flows. The meridian with the more tender points requires sedation, relaxation,
and withdrawal of energy, while its counterpart on the other side needs stimulation.
Instead of pressing acupuncture points, you can place the north pole of a small
magnet on a point for stimulation or the south pole for sedation.
Meridian Therapy: A main problem in healing is the balancing of the energy
flows. Usually, this balancing occurs unrecognized as a by-product of other
successful treatments. However, healing can be initiated and accelerated by
deliberately treating the meridians with the express purpose of balancing.
A useful method for this is to follow the outline of a meridian with one finger or
with several fingers held closely together. Following a meridian in the normal
direction of flow is strengthening, while tracing in the opposite direction will weaken
and sedate the meridian. The results of these tracings can be checked with muscle
testing. Preferably energize your hands before a series of meridian tracements. Do
this by vigorously shaking your hands for a few seconds or imagining energy
streaming out of your fingers, or both.
In order to perform a tracement, pause with your fingers for a moment at the
starting point; then follow the meridian in a fluid motion. The fingers should be close
to the body but do not need to touch the skin. It is enough to remain within about two
inches of the actual course of the meridian. Related meridians on both sides of the
body can be traced simultaneously. In repeated tracements, move the hands back to
the starting point in a wide sweep to avoid following the meridian in the reverse
direction.
You can trace all the main meridians once or several times daily, or
concentrate on the meridians most in need of improvement. Important meridians can
be traced repeatedly during the day for 20 times or more. The strengthening effect
may be increased if, after several tracements, you do a muscle-tensing exercise.
Take a deep breath while tensing your whole body and then relax it during
exhalation.
The meridian system allows us to understand why many disease symptoms
appear in certain body parts when the originating cause is a weak or inflamed organ
in another location. The diagrams (see figure 7-4) show only the surface courses of
the meridians; inside the body, each one is connected to its associated organ. In this
way, the deranged energy pattern of an organ is easily transmitted to other body
parts along the course of the meridian.
Diseases of the ear, migraine, and hip problems can now be seen in terms of
energy associated with the gallbladder. Arthritis of the hip, therefore, is often a
gallbladder problem, while arthritis of the shoulders may have its cause in the
intestines. Gout, affecting the big toes, stems from the liver, while swollen ankles are
related to the kidneys. See table 7-2 for the relationship of different diseases or
health problems to the meridian system.

Table 7-2: Pathological Symptoms of the Meridians per 24-hour Cycle
Meridian with time of maximum daily activity Associated symptoms
Liver, 1-3 a.m. liver problems, lumbago, vomiting, hernia, urination

problems, pain in the lower abdomen and along the
course of the meridian
Lung, 3-5 a.m. respiratory diseases, sore throat, cough, common cold,
pain in the shoulder and along the meridian
Large Intestine, 5-7 a.m. abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, sore throat,
toothache in the lower gum, nasal discharge and
bleeding, pain along the meridian
Stomach, 7-9 a.m. stomach problems, abdominal pain and distension,

edema, vomiting, facial paralysis, sore throat, toothache
in the upper gum, nose bleeding, pain along the
meridian
Spleen, 9-11 a.m. problems of the spleen and pancreas, abdominal

distension, jaundice, general weakness and
sluggishness, tongue problems, vomiting, pain and
swellings along the course of the meridian
Heart, 11 am-1 p.m. -heart problems, dryness of the throat, jaundice, pain
along the meridian
Small Intestine, 13 p.m. pain in the lower abdomen, sore throat, swelling or
paralysis of face, deafness, pain along the meridian
Bladder, 3-5 p.m. bladder, neck, and back problems, headache, eye
diseases, pain along the back of the leg
Kidney, 5-7 p.m. kidney problems, lung problems, dry tongue, lumbago,
edema, diarrhea, constipation, pain and weakness along
the course of the meridian
Circulation, 7-9 p.m. poor circulation, angina, palpitation, diseases of the

sexual glands and organs, irritability, pain along the
course of the meridian
Gland Meridian (Triple Warmer), diseases of the thyroid and adrenal glands, ear
9-11p.m. problems, sore throat, abdominal distension, edema,
swelling of cheek, pain along the meridian
Conception Meridian diseases of the urogenital system, hernia, cough,

breathing difficulties, breast problems
Gallbladder, 11 p.m.-1 a.m. gallbladder problems, ear diseases, migraine, hip

problems, dizziness, pain along the meridian
Governing Meridian spinal problems, mental disorders, fever, nose problems,

headaches

Each organ-meridian system, except for the conception and governing
meridians, has a two-hour period of maximum activity and a period of minimum
activity 12 hours later over the course of the day. An inflamed organ is often more
painful during its active period, while a weak system should not be stressed during
low periods.
While pulse diagnosis (read at the wrist) is the expert way of determining the
energy balance of the meridians, you often can judge this by the kind of diseases or
symptoms present. Generally, overacidity, pain, and inflammation along the course of
a meridian or in its target organ require sedation, while coldness and weakness call
for stimulation.
According to Chinese medicine, some interesting characteristics are associated
with the meridians of the kidneys and liver. Weak kidneys are associated with a lack
of will and sexual impulse, and with negativity, unease, timidity, and impatience. In
the case of overactive kidneys, the energy level is abnormally high and you cannot
stop working. It is similar with the liver. Weakness shows itself in dizziness, a clumsy
walk, easily tired eyes, and a short temper, while an overactive liver causes
excessive excitability, crying moods, and a compulsion to continue working.
Chinese medicine says that the main organs and their meridians are also
associated with different emotions. An excessive amount of these emotions can
damage the associated organs, while a disease of these organs may, in time, lead to
excessive displays of these emotions. Accordingly, anger is associated with the liver;
excessive laughter and gayness, but also fright, with the heart; worry and emotional
tension with the spleen and pancreas; grief, sorrow, and negativity with the lungs;
and fear and timidity with the kidneys.
Magnet Meridian Therapy: Magnets can be used for tracing meridians. Move
the appropriate pole of a magnet close to the skin along a meridian. This can have a
much stronger balancing effect than using the fingers. For strengthening use the
north pole, for sedating the south pole.
With muscle testing, you can often detect a strong preference of a meridian for
one of the magnetic poles. This can be used to diagnose the condition of the
associated organ (if weak or inflamed). If muscle testing is not possible or successful,
use the south pole on the body side that shows more inflammation or more tender
acupressure points; trace the opposite meridian with the north pole.
Some individuals feel immediately which pole and direction of tracing is
beneficial, while the opposite pole and direction may feel unpleasant. For a sedating
and pain-relieving effect, it can be very effective to trace the south pole of a strong
magnet against the meridian flow. Use a round magnet, one or more combined
button magnets, or a small elongated ceramic magnet.
If muscle testing shows that tracing the opposite flow direction of a meridian
with the south pole towards the skin is strengthening, there may be an infection or
inflammation somewhere along the course of the meridian or at its associated organ.
Weak meridians or their related organs, on the other hand, test stronger when tracing
is done with the north pole in the correct flow direction. If the tracing is stronger with
the south pole in the correct flow direction, but weak when traced in the opposite
direction, there is only a moderate amount of overactivity in the meridian or its related
organ.

The tracing of meridians associated with painful conditions 20 to 50 times with
a strong magnet has sometimes provided almost immediate relief from pain, while
similarly quick results have sometimes been achieved using the north pole for
improving the mobility of impaired limbs.
Instead of using magnets, meridian tracement can be done with energies from
a small pyramid or orgone accumulator. Use a metal tube, preferably galvanized iron
or stainless steel wrapped in dry cloth, for the actual tracement; this can be
connected to a pyramid by an insulated wire. For sedation, try a metal tube (copper,
galvanized iron, or steel) from which an insulated wire leads into a container of water.
Mental Tracing of Energy Channels: Often, effective meridian therapy can be
achieved simply by tracing a meridian mentally, moving your awareness along it. Try
to feel a warm or orange energy stream moving in the normal flow direction for
stimulation; for sedation, feel a cool or blue stream moving either in the normal
direction or against it. If in doubt, move in the normal direction and imagine the
meridian being traced with the correct pole of a strong magnet. You may not actually
need to know which pole it is.
Meridian therapy is especially important where scars cross a meridian line.
Untreated scars tend to restrict the energy flow. With meridian therapy, I have seen
on some occasions pain, persisting for days or weeks after an operation, disappear
within minutes and stiff or painful shoulders became normal. Even scoliosis
(sideways curvature of the spine) has been corrected in a short time in this way with
the addition of dietary improvement and pressure applied to tense muscles. Scoliosis
can also be successfully treated with color therapy and magnet therapy using
stimulation (orange color or north pole) on the weak side of the back and sedation
therapy (blue and south pole) on the tense side towards which the spine is being
pulled.
While prolonged pressure applied to a tense muscle is usually the quickest way
to disperse pain or stiffness, it is also painful, so it helps greatly to trace the nearest
meridian for several minutes with a magnetic south pole beforehand, possibly against
the meridian flow. Refer to table 7-2, which shows the health problems that can be
associated with the different organ meridians. Problems due to overactivity, such as
inflammation, are commonly most pronounced during the time of maximum activity,
while underactivity or weakness may become more normal at that time.
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Step 56
SEXUALITY
Channel your sexual energies into pleasure rather than frustration.
Strong emotions and energy flows are an integral part of sex, which is why sex
has the potential to cause enormous problems if these emotions and energies are
blocked or misdirected. Due to our social conditions, unimpeded sexuality is rare and
sexual repression is the norm, so much so that most of us do not even realize that
something is wrong. We do not know what natural, free-flowing sexuality is. I see two
main factors that led to this situation in our society. One is our competitive, ego-
centred, and male-dominated social structure and value system; the other is the
cumulative result of our restrictive religious teachings and social traditions.
The Natural Development of Sexuality: Sexuality is much more than having
sex. It involves a wide range of feelings and emotions at all ages. In the foetus,
sexuality is experienced as total security, the reassuring heartbeat of the mother, the
gentle rocking motion of its fluid bed, and the sucking of its thumb. For the baby,
sexuality means lying against a warm, soft body, feeling its love and auric energies,
gently touching and suckling at a nourishing nipple. The growing infant retains this
need for loving touch and gentle body contact. Later, exploring one’s own genitals
and using them to generate pleasurable feelings is as natural and important as
exploring aspects of the environment. Of special importance is an intimate
relationship, involving bodily contact with the parent of the opposite sex or with his or
her substitute.
With puberty, sexuality bursts into the open and produces powerful longings.
The awakening sexual feelings need an outlet. This is provided for the girl through
romantic ideals, hero adoration, and in a practical way involving religious and
charitable service. Sports and nature activities provide an outlet for both sexes.
Teenage boys long for adventure and need to develop and test their abilities by
following or imitating a chosen hero or role model. These romanticized adventure
activities channel the sexual energies into safe outlets conducive to inner and outer
growth and social development without suppressing sexual feelings or activities.
Ideally, the relationship of children and teenagers with their parents should be such
that all sex-related subjects can be freely discussed and possibly even practical
instructions given by the parent of the same sex.
Romantic relationships with the opposite sex remain for many years just that,
romantic. This is the flowering time of erotic love with ever-increasing levels of
intimacy, but with penetrative sex ideally happening only in the later teens within the
context of a loving relationship. The challenge now is to transform the straw fire of
erotic love into mature lasting love for the partner. Erotic love is based on sexual
attraction, while mature love is a communion in spirit. This transformation of love will
allow the sexual relationship to mature more fully.
To recapitulate, we can say that during pregnancy and birth the most important
aspect for the foetus is being wanted. During babyhood, breastfeeding and body

contact are central. The growing child needs to be immersed in a loving and
harmonious relationship with the whole family unit with much touching and
experiencing of feelings. Then comes the time of romantic idealism for the teenager
and finally the challenge to transform Eros into mature love and sex. This is the ideal
of our normal and natural sexual evolution.
The sexual reality for most of us is so different from this ideal that it has left an
important part of our sex-related emotional development greatly impaired. Instead of
this gradual, guided growth into a sexual relationship, we are expected to be asexual,
with severe repression of sex-related feelings and impulses, until we are grown up
and then overnight, without a suitable role model, become responsible and
accomplished sexual partners. That is just not possible.
When Things Go Wrong: The importance of several of these factors for
normal sexual development has been demonstrated in an interesting experiment with
monkeys. Immedi-ately after birth they were separated from their mothers and raised
with two substitute “mothers.” One “mother” was a wire structure containing a food
bottle with nipple and the other had terry cloth over the wire and was heated by an
electric bulb inside. The young monkeys adopted the cloth-covered structure as their
mother substitute and were distressed when it was temporarily removed. The bottle
structure was just a feeding machine to them. All these monkeys became disturbed
emotionally as well as in their behaviour when growing up, and they were unable to
perform the sexual act successfully on maturity. Touch was emotionally more
important to them than food.
Most of us became blocked in our sexual-emotional development at several
stages of our upbringing. One of the worst aspects for a baby is the feeling of not
being wanted and especially if it experiences hostility from one or both parents.
Regression shows that a baby or even a foetus knows the attitude of its parents and
that this remains a lifelong part of the subconscious programming of that individual.
A difficult birth, especially with forceps and glaring lights, is traumatic for the
infant; so is surgery and a negative attitude by those present at the birth. Even worse
is the prolonged separation of the baby from the mother as practiced in most
hospitals. More than anything else, babies need persistent contact with the mother or
a suitable substitute for emotional security.
It is so sad that many parents take great pride in a fanciful nursery room when
the baby only longs for contact with its mother. This is perceived by the baby as a
rejection, being left alone with feelings of insecurity for the rest of its life. Such
insecurities surface again later, in a sexual relationship. The more secure infants feel,
the sooner they will venture off on their own to explore the world around them and
the more secure adults they will become.
Further problems frequently arise in the “anal” phase of development, as Freud
called it, with too early or too severe toilet training. Instead of acquiring voluntary
control of the sphincter muscle, children permanently contract the gluteal muscles
and those of the pelvic floor. In later life, this can lessen their sexual energies and
feelings.
Another conflict often arises between the ages of two and six, when parents
typically suppress any manifestations of infantile sexuality. These can be in the form
of touching, masturbating, or displaying the genitals, or erotic contact with the parent

of the opposite sex. Such body contact is pleasurable for the child and necessary for
identification with its body and development of pleasurable erotic feelings for the
opposite sex. Problems arise when the parent either rejects close body contact or
manipulates the child for his or her own sexual desires.
Psychologists speak of an Oedipal situation at the age of five or six, when the
child must choose between its sexual feelings and retaining the love of the parents
by being a “good” child. Most children choose to be good and suppress their
sexuality. This then leads to frustration with the opposite sex in later life. Sexual
feelings, like other feelings, are suppressed by tensing the muscles, especially in the
pelvic area, making the body rigid.
During our school years, examination anxieties greatly contribute to our general
insecurities and make us more nervous and neurotic. As teenagers, we often lack
suitable outlets for our creative energies and romantic ideals. If our overflowing
sexual energy is not transformed into creative energy in the form of sports, art, or
adventure, then masturbation remains as the only outlet, aside from erotic and wet
dreams. This may lead to premature penetrative sex as an experiment or because of
peer pressure, without feelings of love and sharing, so necessary for maturing sex.
Sexual Neurosis: The emotional problems of our parents led to most of us
facing severe emotional stresses in our childhood, and now as adults we are neurotic
to varying degrees. I use “neurotic” to mean that we have emotional disturbances
and inhibitions that prevent us from finding fulfilment in life and specifically in our
sexual relationships. Neurosis manifests in all aspects of our personality, feelings,
emotions, character structure, body structure, and body functions. If we have sexual
problems, we also have problems in our other social relationships. Our childhood
experiences guide us in our choice of sexual and marriage partner, in the kind of sex
that we like or dislike, and in what we feel and how satisfied we are in life.
Symptoms of sexual neurosis are manifold, including shyness, stuttering,
difficulty urinating if someone looks, fear of nudity, premature ejaculation, impotence,
frigidity or generally failure to achieve full orgasm, lack of fulfilment, nymphomania,
and a tendency to rape. Neurosis also contributes to many diseases and especially
to those of the female sexual organs.
As adults we usually are completely unaware that the emotional scars from our
childhood are still subconsciously active and even dominating our behaviour and
decision-making. Our lower self, however, remembers fully because that is what it is
made of, for memories are the basis of our inner life. If we felt deprived of something
important as an infant, we will continue to feel deprived as an adult. If we felt fearful
of or hostile towards our mother or father, we later feel subconsciously hostile
towards all men or women or are afraid of them. How can we have a normal, fulfilling
sexual relationship or any other close relationship with someone we fear or hate
subconsciously?
It is said that we can only fully love a man or a woman if we basically love all
men or women. If we are subconsciously fearful of the opposite sex, then we develop
a fear of penetration, become impotent, or become susceptible to homosexuality.
Strong hostility towards the mother can later lead to an inability for a man to have sex
with a woman unless he humiliates her, possibly in the form of violent rape.

Pornography is a fantasy outlet for many forms of sexual neurosis, but it is only a
poor substitute for uninhibited sexual functions.
Sexual Types: Body-oriented psychologists such as Alexander Lowen, John
Pierrakos, and Barbara Brennan have devised various systems linking our childhood
experiences with our sexual problems as adults. They distinguish the following
sexual types: schizoid, oral, psychopathic, masochistic, and rigid. A normal type does
not seem to be part of their experience.
The schizoid type: This type experienced emotional trauma already around
birth and, therefore, did not fully connect with the body. When things become difficult,
schizoids just withdraw from reality and live in fantasy. The resulting lack of body
feeling and identification with the “self” also leads to confused sexual identification,
and schizoids easily become homosexuals or prostitutes. Many passive lesbians are
of the schizoid type as, like deprived children, they crave warmth and human comfort;
their orgasmic potency (the ability to reach a full orgasm) is usually rather low.
The oral type: This kind is widespread because of the general abandonment of
breast-feeding in our society. The baby felt abandoned and sex is sought mainly for
closeness and contact, similar to the schizoid type. The breast is worshipped and
oral sex enjoyed. Sexual relations as well as sexual functions remain immature. Anal
sex is also related to the oral phase. Sensuality, superficial feelings that make us feel
good, are used as a substitute for orgasmic sexuality, but cannot achieve a deep
emotional energy release.
The psychopathic type: This kind evolved from a child that felt it had to
manipulate the parent of the opposite sex to get what it wanted. In later life, the need
to be taken care of is achieved either through bullying or seduction. Sex is often
hostile with much fantasy. Feelings of contempt for the partner cover suppressed
feelings of inferiority. Sexuality is used to control, conquer, and dominate, while
pleasure is secondary. Often the behaviour in a relationship is irresponsible.
The masochistic type: This type evolved from domineering parents who
crushed the child’s creativity and self-respect. This lack of self-worth is expressed in
a sexual relationship as a need to be humiliated. Sexual excitement can be gained
from inflicted pain. The masochistic male may have difficulties with ejaculation.
The rigid type: While most neurotic individuals have various rigidities, these are
especially prevalent in the rigid type. The child suppressed sexual and other tender
feelings in response to a perceived rejection by the parent of the opposite sex. This
was typically an emotionally cold parent who did not tenderly touch or cuddle the
child. The child learned not to cry or show emotions. The rigid adult chooses sex over
love and is a sex performer without deep feelings and with greatly decreased
orgasmic potency. Sexual activity is compulsive and mechanical; performance
provides ego satisfaction; emotional warmth and physical closeness are avoided.
Commonly, we combine features of several types in our sexual makeup, but
with one type being dominant. However we resolved the Oedipus complex as a child
(the relationship with the parent of the opposite sex), we assume corresponding
sexual roles as an adult. We may either act as a son or daughter, as a sister or
brother, as hero, sweetheart, or romantic ideal, as a father or mother figure.
However, if we resolved the problem in a natural way, we act as a mature adult,
encompassing all roles and playing each one as appropriate.

If the relationship of a girl with her father remains emotionally unresolved, then
as an adult she tends to act mainly on the daughter level, looking for a father figure
and easily becoming just a sex object in danger of drifting into prostitution. If the girl
channelled her sexual feelings into sympathy for the father, she may play the role of
sister and see herself as companion and helpmate of her man, wanting to share
everything, but sexual contact remains relatively unimportant and unexciting.
If the sexual feelings for the father have not been suppressed as with the sister
type, but just held back, the romantic type emerges, emotionally the eternal virgin,
teasing but not wanting to be possessed by a man. She likes flirting, as she needs
romantic excitement, but has a problem combining love with sex. Because of
resulting emotional conflicts, this type is psychologically also called the “hysterical
type.”
The girl who matures too early by replacing sexual feelings for her father with
motherly instincts later becomes a mother type with little sexual interest. She
becomes attracted to immature males of the son type whom she can mother.
Each type has an unresolved conflict: the daughter type between accepting and
rejecting herself; the sister type between passivity and aggression; the romantic type
between surrender and resistance; and the mother type between submission and
dominance.
In the male, the conflict of the son type is between accepting and rejecting
himself; he is the playboy type, immature and irresponsible. The brother type
assumes the role of protector. Here the conflict is between his aggression to protect
the woman and passivity or inability to satisfy his own needs. The conflict of the
Casanova-like hero or knight type is between emotional surrender and resistance to
the female, while the authoritative father type is torn between dominance and
submission.
Orgasm: There is a popular misconception that if a man ejaculates or a woman
has pleasurable feelings at the height of the sexual act, that this is an orgasm. It is
not necessarily so, at least in the view of bioenergetic psychology. Usually there is
just a climax with more or less of an orgasmic component.
A full orgasm can be described as follows: With climax approaching, the
formerly voluntary body movements suddenly become involuntary with a strong
increase in genital sensations. Just before the discharge, melting sensations are felt
in the pelvis. Orgasm starts with a strong contraction around the base of the penis
and the opening of the vagina. A flood of feelings rushes downwards while the whole
body convulses in unison with each involuntary forward swing of the pelvis. Now the
whole body is engulfed in melting and streaming sensations. Ejaculation takes place
in pulsating squirts. There may be a sensation of flying or spinning or something
similar at the height of the orgasm. Afterwards there is a full relaxation, with an inner
glowing and a feeling of utter satisfaction and contentment.
In order to achieve such a full orgasm, there must be a sufficient buildup of
sexual energy beforehand. If the body is generally low in energy, if the energy flow is
blocked through armouring, or if there is insufficient foreplay or feeling awareness,
then there will be only a low charge of sexual energy in the pelvis and consequently a
weak discharge of energy and feelings.

A strong field of sexual energy in one partner will help the other to achieve a
greater charge; if both are fully charged, they will greatly increase each other’s
orgasm. Con-versely, with a weakly charged partner or with masturbation, our
orgasmic feelings will be diminished, usually also with oral sex, as close contact of
the fully charged genital areas is required for maximal potential.
A strong sexual charge consists not only of sexual energies, but also of feeling
energies. Normally, tender, loving feelings towards each other greatly help to
increase our sexual charge. As an emergency measure when such tender feelings
are blocked, some can achieve the necessary emotional excitement with sadistic or
masochistic visual measures. Also various forms of pornography are used as a
substitute, usually an inadequate one, for tender, loving feelings.
With strong, loving feelings, on the other hand, an almost irresistible desire to
melt into each other can build up. The sexual charge and physical union then follow
as a natural consequence. This automatically leads to a true and full orgasm. For a
woman who has difficulty coming to an orgasm, it may be made easier if her partner
positions himself on top somewhat higher than usual so that their navels meet. With
this, the shaft of the penis will rub or press on the clitoris during movement inside the
vagina.
A full orgasm is possible after overcoming bodily rigidities and emotional
inhibitions, and it is a natural occurrence in societies living without sexual inhibitions.
The most common and obvious signs of only a partial orgasm are:
• A clitoral rather than a deep vaginal climax
• Feelings confined to the sexual organs rather than full body feelings of melting
• Inhibition of movements, especially of the involuntary convulsive movements
• Inhibition of spontaneous sound expressions
• Ejaculation without pulsating squirts
• Premature ejaculation or continuing sexual activity after ejaculation
• Lack of complete relaxation and satisfaction after the climax
As a general rule, we can say that the less the climax is associated with
pleasurable streamings and whole body feelings and the more it is confined to the
sexual area only, the less it is a real orgasm but rather just a low-energy mechanical
discharge. Wilhelm Reich, M.D., was the first to describe the negative consequences
of blocked sexual energies and the true nature and purpose of the orgasm as a
discharge of excess bioenergy with the additional liberation of feeling energy.
Sexual Healing Exercises: Healing our sexuality means freeing up our
blocked energy flows and overcoming subconscious negative conditioning by
replacing it with positive feelings and attitudes about our sexuality. In order to remove
the energy blockages, we need to relax our permanently tensed or contracted
muscles, especially in the thighs and the pelvic area, but also in the neck and jaw.
Bioenergetic exercises are excellent for this purpose. These include shaking
and vibrating the legs, the pelvis, and the whole body; stretching exercises, circling
the hips, pelvic thrusts, kicking and bicycling exercises, the teachings in the book
Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth, and other yoga exercises (see Step 9).

With moving exercises, such as circling, bicycling, and pelvic thrusts, the aim is
not to train and strengthen these muscles, but rather to move them to the point of
exhaustion, which will induce relaxation when stopping the exercise. During the
exercise, we try to break through the pain threshold and may then be rewarded with
previously unknown pleasurable sensations in the pelvic area.
Exhale through the mouth during these exercises and express any
spontaneously forming sounds, such as moaning, crying, or shouting. Other
important measures are deep tissue massage and pressing into tense muscles; also
reflexology and tracing acupuncture meridians can help. For some approaches, such
as pressing into tight muscles, deep muscle massage, and emotional therapies, the
cooperation of a friend may be required; alternatively, professional help can be used.
A good exercise that can be done anytime, sitting, standing, or lying down, is
rhythmically squeezing the buttocks. At other times, just squeeze the pelvic floor
between anus and penis or vagina ever so lightly while concentrating your
awareness on the developing pleasurable feeling. You can also do this during slow
walking or while driving a car.
Improving Your Feelings: Feelings are what a sexual relationship is all about.
The more we are able to feel and express our feelings, the more vigorous is our
sexual activity and our life in general. If we are fearful or shy about some aspects of
sex, we will be fearful or shy in other aspects of our life as well. Our sexual feelings
reflect our emotional health in general, and vice versa.
Often our most basic subconscious feeling related to sex is fear. Out of this can
arise anger, hate, and hostility. All of these negative feelings normally remain
suppressed and subconscious. After all, it was not acceptable to feel this way as a
child towards a parent and it is not acceptable now with a sexual partner.
It would have been easy to have open feelings of fear or hostility towards a
parent if we had been obviously mistreated. However, what is a young boy to do if his
mother is loving and sacrificing, and he has sexual feelings for her? He wants to be
cuddled and touched, but his mother is always too busy caring for the family. He has
to suppress his longing for caressing tenderness. He may then come to fear these
sexual feelings for his mother because they remain unfulfilled and make him
unhappy. This can later translate into a subconscious fear of close emotional contact
in a relationship.
On the conscious level, we are kind and loving to our partner, as we were to
our mother or father. However, subconsciously we may feel the opposite because a
man’s lower self now equates the sexual memories concerning his mother with his
feeling for all sexually attractive women. In the same way, a woman may equate the
memory of the sexual feelings for her father with her feelings for all sexually attractive
men.
This deep emotional split between our conscious and our subconscious mind
will result in an emotional or organic dysfunction. We can thus develop frigidity or fear
of penetration, premature ejaculation, impotence, and any other form of sexual
disorder. This split explains the observation that “nice men” are often poor lovers.
In order to heal our split emotions and sexual feelings, we must break through
the superficial layer of being “nice” and contact our suppressed core feelings. This is

not easy but can be done with methods such as emotional release therapies
involving intentional kicking, hitting, screaming, crying, or shouting. Even just
pressing into tense muscles can produce strong emotional reactions. In addition,
regression therapy or rebirthing can be helpful, as well as the services of an
experienced psychic healer or bioenergetic therapist or attending body-mind
workshops. However, the best way to heal our sexual self may be within a healing
group as part of our overall healing and spiritual growth.
After most of the suppressed emotional pain has been contacted and released,
positive attitudes and feelings can be generated with guided imagery, meditation,
creative refocusing, and other methods to heal the emotional wound. An
understanding partner will greatly speed up this process. If, on the other hand, we
use meditation and other methods to generate positive feelings without releasing the
suppressed core, then we will just reinforce the superficial layer of “niceness.” This,
in turn, can then intensify our inner emotional split and, along with that, our organic
disabilities and sexual dysfunction.
To raise our children without this emotional split we must be loving, honest, and
open with our sexual feelings and fulfil the child’s emotional needs appropriate to its
age. The baby needs plenty of body contact, including sleeping in contact with the
mother. Breast-feeding should be extended more than six months and may continue
more sporadically for a long time afterwards.
Why not let infants watch the sexual act? That is how they learn. The growing
child continues to need a lot of cuddling and touching. Teach the child that there is
nothing dirty or shameful about a naked body or about sexual organs. However, we
also need to let the child know the difference between what is appropriate in public
and in private.
Food for Sex: We cannot have a good sex life if we are malnourished. Certain
nutrients improve our sexual well-being in general, while others are lost to the male in
the seminal fluid. Therefore, good nutrition for good sex is usually more important for
the male than for the female.
High-quality proteins are part of the seminal fluid and a high-protein diet is
sexually stimulating. In our culture meat is preferred, while in Asia chickpeas are
used to improve sexual performance. Free-range raw egg yolk, especially fertilized
and very fresh, supplies sulphur compounds needed for the semen. More of a short-
term effect is achieved with cooked onion, which is rich in sulphur compounds as
well; alternatively, use MSM supplements. Bee pollen, spirulina, and chlorella are
excellent strengthening foods for both sexes.
Histamine is produced from histidine, an amino acid. Individuals with insensitive
skin are low in histamine and may have difficulty achieving ejaculation (male) or
orgasm (female), as the sexual organs are less sensitive than normal. High histamine
levels have the opposite effect. They sensitize not only the skin, but also the sexual
organs and may lead to sexual overstimulation, premature ejaculation, and vaginitis.
Histamine levels can be elevated by making the body more acid, as well as by
supplementation with folic acid and niacin, both B-group vitamins. Histamine levels
can be reduced by making the body more alkaline, and also by avoiding foods and
chemicals to which you are allergic. Therefore, you can acidify or alkalize your body
according to your sexual requirements.

The semenal fluid is also high in zinc and requires much vitamin B6 and
omega-3 fatty acids which are found in fish oils and linseed oil. Deficiency of these is
widespread, especially in teenage boys who typically have frequent loss of seminal
fluid. Zinc deficiency leads to underdeveloped male sexual organs and, later in life, to
enlargement of the prostate gland. By pointing out this connection, I do not condemn
masturbation, but rather seek only to improve teenage nutritional awareness.
In recent years, it has been discovered that the body forms nitric acid from the
amino acid arginine as a signal for the blood vessels of the penis to relax. This is
necessary so that the penis can fill with blood and have an erection. Also,
magnesium supplements help us to relax. Stress, on the other hand, or being
emotionally uptight, prevents this necessary relaxation.
Dietary Aids for Female Sexuality: Women have their share of trouble with
their sexual organs. Foremost of these are menstrual problems and pelvic infections.
Both problems have much to do with food and especially constipation. The
constipated colon and in particular the rectum are a cesspool of toxic
de-com-position products with a high content of harmful microbes. Toxins and
microbes can penetrate the wall of a weakened colon and because of the close
proximity to the uterus and ovaries, these are in greatest danger of being
contaminated. The main effect of toxic contamination is heavy menstrual bleeding
with pain and other discomfort. Microbial contamination leads to infection and
inflammation of the pelvic organs. Both conditions are not conducive to a healthy sex
life.
Meat consumption, combined with constipation, can produce toxic bowel
conditions and heavy periods. The obvious solution is a clean colon, achieved by
three easy methods. First have plenty of dietary fibre from whole grains and fresh,
raw fruits and vegetables. Add sufficient ground linseed to meals or drink with fluid to
achieve ideally one bowel movement for each meal. Second, take a course of
cultures of acidophilus and bifidus bacteria as part of an intestinal sanitation; and
third, squat or have a high footstool in front of the toilet in order to achieve an easier
and more complete bowel evacuation.
As I suggested earlier in the book, the typical menstrual bleeding can be
caused by an impure bloodstream, which delays healing of the wound caused by
discarding the lining of the uterus. The higher mammals do not have such obvious
periodic bleeding nor do women who live habitually on a mainly raw food vegetarian
diet; they just reabsorb the shed uterus lining. Typically, these women do not have
any menstrual or menopausal discomfort, but ovulate and conceive normally.
A clinical study found that consuming plenty of ground linseed, linseed oil, or
fish oils helps postmenopausal women have better vaginal lubrication. Folic acid, in
combination with antioxidants, is most important for preventing and reversing
precancerous and cancerous conditions of the cervix and uterus.
Selenium, the amino acid methionine (e.g., as selenium yeast), and vitamin E,
taken in combination, are effective against periodic breast pain and swelling. Vitamin
B6, zinc, and magnesium together are good against premenstrual tension, especially
if salt, sugar, and fatty foods are also minimized or avoided and hidden food allergies
corrected. Boron raises the estrogen level in postmenopausal women. Taking good
care of our bodies will increase the pleasure that we derive from our sexuality.

Another common problem is vaginal Candida infections, resulting in thrush and
potentially painful intercourse. In this case, the woman as well as her partner need to
go on a strict anti-Candida program (see Part 6). When making love while there is
still some Candida problem in and around the vagina, lubricate liberally with oil, and if
not using a condom, squirt some acidophilus yogurt into the vagina beforehand.
Minimize strong movements and focus instead on feeling the energies with only
gentle movements and pressure changes.
Making Love: “Making love” is commonly just a polite expression for having
sex without feeling love. One can have a loving sexual relationship for just one night
or a lifelong sexual relationship without love. For maximal emotional satisfaction, try
to feel and express love with each sexual encounter. It is said that the most important
sexual organ of a woman is her brain, but I believe that the heart may be even more
important.
Loving foreplay is part of the romance, stimulating the heart as well as the right
side of the brain. This is not only important for women, but increasingly also for men
once they are no longer filled with youthful vigor. Not only women, but also many
men enjoy and need to be played with to “get into the mood.” Increasingly, they come
to resent the perception that they are expected to “perform.” They feel that they have
to do all the work, first enticing a woman into bed, excitedly undressing her, then
stimulating her to get her ready, then “hopping on,” and finally helping her climax.
Women, on the other hand, resent being made to feel like sexual objects.
There is often much hidden fear and misunderstanding on both sides.
Therefore, take it easy, there is no need to hurry or perform. Talk to each other about
what you like and how you like it. Make each other comfortable and dispel any notion
that he has to perform or she has to have an orgasm. This is important even if you
are already in a long-term relationship together.
Not every time you have sexual play do you need to penetrate, and not every
time you have penetrative sex do you need to aim for an orgasm. If you do want an
orgasm, there is nothing wrong with having a clitoral orgasm, but at other times also
try to aim for a vaginal orgasm.
To increase the flow of energies and feelings, do not suppress pelvic
movements but rather enhance them. If you are normally quiet, then intentionally
make expressive sounds wherever this can be done in private. When approaching
ejaculation, it helps for the male to be “grounded” by pressing the feet against a
board or wall or pressing them into the mattress.
While different positions can offer different experiences, they are less important
than achieving a union of feelings. Do not try to increase your pleasure with
fantasies, go for the real thing instead. Focus your full attention on your own feelings
and on feeling united with your partner. To fantasize having sex with someone else is
just another form of masturbation.
For some men, it may be preferable to delay ejaculation to either extend the
pleasure or give their partner time to build up towards the climax. This may be done
by playful interruptions, by slowing the breath, or temporarily even holding the breath,
by concentrating the feeling awareness on the heart or, with the penis fully inserted,
keeping the pubic areas in close contact, increasing and decreasing pressure in
unison while not moving the penis.

A somewhat drastic but nevertheless very effective method of preventing
ejaculation is to tense the whole body while also holding the breath. Alternatively, or
in addition, strong finger pressure on the perineum just before ejaculation will keep
the ejaculate inside the body. This may be advisable at times to avoid the generally
weakening effect of ejaculation, especially on the elderly male, but it will require
some practice, as will all of these techniques. However, if the climax is definitely
approaching, do not try to suppress it but start moving vigorously for a full orgasm.
Basically, I am not in favour of tensing the body, as this suppresses feelings and
leads to increased muscle tension.
The frequency of intercourse is, of course, a highly individual matter. Normally,
I see no reason to restrict sexual play if it does not involve either ejaculation or
suppression of sexual impulses. However, the orgasmic potential is usually much
stronger after a period of total abstention or separation.
From a bioenergetic point of view, females are much better able to have
several lovers than males who would either have to neglect one or become worn out.
However, I believe that even for females moderation leads to greater well-being. The
difficulty of many women to achieve vaginal orgasm may have something to do with
our habit of mating all year round just for pleasure. Female animals have days when
they are in heat and strongly attract males for mating. The same may be natural for
human
Around ovulation time, a healthy woman who abstained for a month will have a
strong orgasmic potential and her biochemistry and the whole body are geared to
receive a male. If there are no strong emotional blockages, she may find it easier to
have a vaginal orgasm, even after only short but vigorous penetration.
Frequent intercourse can cause even more problems for men. While an
occasional full orgasm can be strongly invigorating, frequent ejaculation is decidedly
weakening. If a man is sexually overstimulated, he should better remove the
nutritional and biochemical causes and find other creative outlets for his energy. It is
possible that gluten allergy, often associated with a whitish inner iris, can sometimes
cause overstimulation of the sex centre in the brain; synthetic food colourings and
possibly other chemicals may do the same.
Generally, it is much healthier to have fewer ejaculations with strong orgasms
than frequent ejaculations with weak orgasms. In teenagers, frequent ejaculation
may impair their mental and physical development, while in later life sexual
overactivity makes us susceptible to diseases and premature aging. What is frequent
depends on the individual’s constitution and commitments. What is normal or
beneficial for a healthy and strong young man might be too much for someone older
or with a weak constitution. Wilhelm Reich saw the proper function of the orgasm as
the release of excess energy that might otherwise lead to irritability, tension, and
energy blockages. Therefore, if you have excess energy, go for it, but if you lack in
energy, be careful.
In a long-term relationship, the ideal may be in having mainly sensuous and
spiritual sex for most of the month and orgasmic intercourse close to ovulation, as
often as desired. A female in touch with her body will feel when the time is right and
let her partner know. However, the best time is always when both partners feel like it.

Alternatives to Sex: Those without a permanent partner may find an
occasional short-term partner or pay for sex. If all goes well, there is no problem with
this. For those without even a temporary sexual partner, the obvious choices are
masturbation or abstinence, although there are some less obvious alternatives, as
shown below. For masturbation, the same principles apply as for making love. That is
to aim for fewer climaxes but with stronger orgasmic releases. For both sexes, this
means waiting with masturbation until one feels a strong charge of sexual energy and
using pelvic movements, sound, and feeling awareness to ensure a strong orgasmic
discharge.
For celibates, an easy solution is a low-protein diet with few spices and
condiments. This may be suitable if there is sexual overstimulation due to too much
histamine from overacidity or food allergy, but otherwise I am not in favour of this low
energy approach. Rather, I believe in making ourselves as energetic as possible,
including having plenty of sexual energy, but then to learn to channel this sexual
energy into creative outlets, such as sports, charity work, or the arts.
An alternative is the following rejuvenation rite, which is from a Tibetan
monastery in which, reportedly, rejuvenation of the body was successfully practiced
(see Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth by Peter Kelder). This rite was used in
combination with several other rites as shown in Step 9. Also a daily raw egg yolk is
recommended for those of us who are no longer youthful in order to increase our
sexual energies.
When sexually excited, bend over with your hands on your knees and push all
the air out of your lungs. Then straighten up and with the hands on the hips push up
the shoulders. Pull the stomach in and up and hold this position for as long as
possible. Then forcefully inhale through the nose and exhale immediately through the
mouth. The arms may now hang to the sides while you take further deep breaths
through the nose or the mouth. If you are still sexually excited, repeat this procedure
as often as required.
What many single people and especially women miss even more than sex is
touching and hugging. Some try to satisfy this need with regular massage therapy.
However, there may be a simple solution. If you feel deprived of touching and
hugging, just form a local “hug club.” Either discreetly spread the word around or put
a notice in a suitable place asking for interested individuals to contact you. You can
then arrange a weekly meeting where you just hug for an hour or two. As a follow-up
step, you might also give each other massages. You may be surprised by the amount
of interest there is out there in hugging. Alternatively, you can form or join a healing
group where hugging can be practiced together with massage, reflexology, and the
multitude of other self-healing techniques available.
Eventually, you may also want to experiment with some meditative forms of
hugging as described later in this chapter. Sexual energy can be used in spiritual sex
to energize the higher energy centres with guided imagery or meditation exercises,
possibly leading to what is called “whole body orgasm” or “brain orgasm.”
Getting to Know Your Partner: Sensitive individuals are often apprehensive
about the first sexual encounter with a new partner. The man may have anxieties
about erection, premature ejaculation, and satisfying his partner, while the woman

may fear penetration, getting emotionally hurt, or not coming to an orgasm. This can
make the encounter tense and inner fears may become self-fulfilling.
Why not proceed slowly and be intimate without intercourse until you are fully
relaxed with each other? This initial period of a relationship is precious, as it is
commonly the most exciting and romantic time. Enjoy it as long as you can. Let your
partner know that you feel this way. In a situation that might normally lead straight to
sex, tell your partner beforehand that you enjoy becoming intimate gradually and do
not intend having intercourse that night. You might be surprised by how relieved and
agreeable your partner is to this. A whole mountain of tension is suddenly removed.
A good way to start the intimate part of your relationship is to have a shower or
bath together and then give each other a sensual massage. Continue exploring each
other’s likes and dislikes and responses to touching and cuddling. You might even
spend the night cuddled into each other. If, contrary to your original intentions, you
should be comfortable enough with each other to proceed to full intercourse, nothing
is lost, and it will probably be a better experience than it might have been in a tense
atmosphere.
Such intimacy together without penetrative sex can be quite satisfying for a
considerable length of time, especially in special situations, such as with elderly
couples or with physical or emotional handicaps or religious, spiritual, and adolescent
celibates. A sexual relationship does not need to be an all-or--nothing proposition.
The “macho” encounters commonly portrayed on TV and in the movies are not an
everyday reality. A loving sexual encounter without expectations cannot result in
dissatisfaction. It does not matter whether there was penetration or orgasm; it is the
loving feelings that matter most.
Sex Therapy: It is not generally realized that many health and emotional
problems can result from unsatisfactory sexual relationships. These include migraine
and tension head-aches, premenstrual tension and menopausal problems,
depression, irritability, discontent, violence, anxiety, disturbances of digestive and
sexual functions, psychotic symptoms, and high blood pressure, and even cancer
has been linked to blocked sexual energies and tensions. All of these may, of course,
have other causes and contributing factors as well.
Problems arise mainly when sexual energies are stimulated without being
appropriately used or released. This is the same as with other emotional energies.
Commonly, this happens if the male ejaculates before his partner reaches orgasm,
but it also happens if the orgasmic release is weak or the encounter too short. The
signs of a full orgasm are strong involuntary movements, a blissful discharge
followed by complete relaxation, and an afterglow of satisfaction and contentment.
Ejaculation in itself or clitoral orgasm do not indicate a full release of sexual
tension. There may then be the desire either for repeated or frequent sexual activity
or avoidance of sexual activity in order to avoid the resulting tension and
dissatisfaction. However, orgasm is only part of a successful sexual union; another
important part is the exchange of bioenergy and emotional energy between the
partners.
Accumulation of sexual tension with its resulting health and emotional problems
can be prevented even without orgasm, while orgasm alone may not always be
sufficient. The key to a successful sexual union is the duration, because it takes time,

usually about half an hour, for these energies to be exchanged by the partners. This
kind of “sex therapy” is not only effective, but also highly pleasurable, especially for
sensitive individuals.
Sex therapy requires two willing partners. Preferably there should be an
atmosphere of affection already well before the planned union. This should start with
an extended foreplay of caressing with full skin contact, possibly including a sensual
massage, but without any clitoral stimulation. However, if this kind of union is
routinely practiced as a love meditation, then such elaborate preparation may not be
required
When both feel ready, they place themselves in such a position that the woman
lies on her back with knees drawn to the chest, while the male lies on his left side
crosswise to her, so that his penis touches the entrance of the vagina. She now
drops her legs and he places his right leg between her legs. With this, her left leg is
between his legs while her right calf rests on his torso. In this way, both can remain
completely relaxed with freedom of movement which is essential for success. Sides
can be reversed.
Initially, and also if there is a problem with erection, natural lubrication, or
premature ejaculation, both partners remain more or less motionless in this position
for about half an hour. During this time, the tip of the penis, whether soft or hard,
remains outside, just touching the inner entrance of the vagina. Both concentrate all
their attention on the contact areas between them, but especially on the sensation in
their sexual organs and the exchange of subtle energies between them.
Often, after half an hour there is an increase in sexual arousal and the penis
may now penetrate. However, this is not essential. If there should be no erection or
the vagina still dry, just remain in this position for another half-hour while gently
caressing each other with full attention on your feelings and exchanging energies. If
penetration is desired, but an erection does not come on its own, then start gently
rubbing the head of the penis between the lubricated entrance and the clitoris.
If this is not sufficient, it is relatively easy in this position to insert a soft penis.
This may be a solution for men with erection problems. If you firmly hold or squeeze
the shaft of the soft penis, then any blood is pressed towards the head of the penis
and insertion will be easier. Once inside, gentle movements by both partners
increase the chance of a partial or full erection.
Even without an erection, focusing the awareness on the contact within the
vagina combined with slight pressure changes at the pubic areas can be sufficiently
satisfying and may eventually lead to more. However, gently liberating and feeling
your sexual energies and feeling at one with your partner does more for your well-
being than chasing an elusive erection or orgasm. The main precondition for a
successful outcome in resolving any difficulties is a freedom from any kind of
expectations on both sides.
Even after penetration, continue to move slowly and concentrate on the
sensations in the sexual organs and the flow of energy and feelings between your
bodies. If both partners are sufficiently aroused after a prolonged foreplay, the vagina
is well lubricated, and the male able to delay ejaculation, then the half-hour waiting
time outside the vagina is not necessary and immediate penetration is acceptable.

Should ejaculation occur early, then just remain close together with the soft penis
inside the vagina until about half an hour has passed from the time of penetration.
With such a complete exchange of male and female energies, combined with a
full orgasm, there is usually no desire for another sexual union for several days, and
it is actually best to wait for about five days until the full potential of sexual energies is
restored. The following union will be more pleasant and satisfying than with more
frequent encounters. It is, however, relaxing to sleep together with bodily contact.
The alternative to orgasm is a deliberate choice to use this union as a love
meditation, also called spiritual sex or Karezza, from the Italian word carezza,
signifying its caressing aspect. You can just continue moving slowly while caressing
each other for hours, while concentrating on feeling the energies and radiating
feelings of love onto each other. If this Karezza type of union is practiced routinely,
then an elaborate foreplay to build up a strong sexual charge is not necessary, but
may be used if so desired. Condoms inhibit the exchange of sexual energy, while
lubricating oils or jellies may slow it down, but this is not a problem when remaining
connected for a long time.
It may take some time and require several attempts to master this method and
achieve a maximum of enjoyment, but it is well worth the effort in terms of improved
health and personal relationships.
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Part 8
HEALING YOUR EMOTIONS
We all would like to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilled life, yet few seem to be
able to do that. Why must we have so much suffering, failure, and disappointment?
We want to be secure in a loving relationship and a satisfying job with a good income
and enjoy ourselves. Instead, our relationships turn sour, we have a job that we do
not like or we do not have one at all, there is never enough money, and generally
there is not much joy to be found anywhere. As a result we feel resentment,
hopelessness, and depression, perhaps also anger and hatred. Why did it go wrong?
I believe that there is a way out of this depressing jungle of negativity and
disappointments and that we can make a decision to have a happy, fulfilled life, and
then do it. What I cannot promise is that it will be easy. It needs willpower and
determination and the help of good friends. But you have nothing to lose by trying,
and each step in the right direction is likely to bring you some reward.
We can be happy, or at least accepting, in adversity, and unhappy when we
seem to have it all. What determines how we react and feel? It is no secret to
psychologists that we are programmed since earliest childhood by everything that
went on around us, but especially by the way our parents talked to us and to each
other, by the way they felt and reacted, and by our interactions with our siblings. We
became programmed by obeying, observing, and imitating our role models.
If we were lucky and grew up in a happy and loving family, we probably have
an inner program that makes it easy for us to lead a happy life in a loving
relationship. If, on the other hand, there was much worry, anger, resentment, and
negativity in our childhood, chances are we have a hard time being happy and loving
as adults. That probably applies to most of us, the products of negative programming
during childhood.
If we want to change, there is only one thing to do: change our subconscious
programming from a negative outlook on life to a positive one. Unfortunately, we
cannot simply decide that from now on we will be happy and loving. On their own,
such conscious decisions have little influence on our subconscious programming. In
fact, if there is a conflict between our subconscious programming and our conscious
mind, the subconscious will always win.
Therefore, we must be clever and beat the subconscious at its own game. We
must throw the old program out and devise a new one that allows us to be as we
want to be now. However, it is not sufficient just to work with our feelings and
emotions because these do not arise out of a vacuum. Our emotions are conditioned
by our beliefs. We react more to our beliefs than to facts or anything else, so we must
adopt an appropriate belief system.
Where do we find the beliefs we want? It is not sufficient to try to believe that
we will be happy ever after. Our proposed new beliefs must be plausible to be
acceptable to our conscious and subconscious minds. They must give meaning to
our life and make sense of it all. Meaning is the opposite of the inner emptiness that

many of us try to fill with pleasure seeking and power games, causing so much
emotional trouble in the end and depression if we fail. My proposed solution is a
spiritual philosophy of life that turns emptiness into meaning.
There is also a strong influence of physical factors on our emotional life, such
as nutrition and tense muscle structures. Therefore, in order to heal our emotions
properly, we must work on all four levels of our being: the biological, emotional,
mental, and spiritual.
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Step 57
UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS AND DISEASE
Learn how you came to be so out of touch with your feelings, what emotional
problems and diseases this causes, and how this is expressed in your body.
We experience ourselves in the world with our feelings and emotions. They are
the driving force, the power, and the motor of our life. Without feelings and emotions,
we would be like robots, computers operating bodies with the help of electric signals.
It is the feelings and emotions, our likes and dislikes, that give our life meaning, that
make us fulfilled or dissatisfied, and to a large degree decide our course of action
and health. Diseases make us feel unwell and negative, and suppressed emotions
are a major contributing factor to these diseases. When we are young, we are full of
feelings, experience them strongly, and are sensitive and react immediately and
directly to our social and physical environment. When we are old, our emotions tend
to be a distant memory and diminished, and pain is often the only feeling left.
Many scientists at present are so divorced from their feelings that they believe
these originate in the brain, like thoughts. They come to this conclusion because they
do not feel the energy of anger in their body or the love in their heart. They just think
anger or think love in the brain and act accordingly without feeling anything, or their
feelings are only weak and diffuse. Of course, feelings are registered in the brain, but
the feeling doesn’t originate there.
Feelings provide us with the greatest pleasures in life, but also with the greatest
suffering. Suffering is the key word to describe our loss of feeling with advancing age.
We do not want to suffer, so we intentionally diminish our feelings in order to diminish
the amount of emotional pain we feel. As an unintended side effect, this reduces the
amount of pleasure we can feel. Hand in hand with our reduced overall feelings go a
reduced enjoyment of life, reduced vitality, and an increased susceptibility to chronic
degenerative diseases. This is a high price to pay for reducing the suffering that we
might feel. In fact, we have exchanged bouts of intense short-term suffering for more
low-key long-term suffering.
Helpful Definitions of Emotions: You may be unsure about the difference
between feelings and emotions, so I will define the terms commonly associated with
the world of feelings as they are used in this book.
I distinguish between three groups: sensations, emotions, and feelings. Sensations
are body reactions due to physical or energetic causes: our awareness of hot and
cold, touch or pain; during meditation or bodywork, we may feel warmth or tingling or
a streaming sensation.
Emotions are inner states of experience due to nonphysical causes such as
expectations, beliefs, and memories; they affect the body through brain and
hormonal changes. Emotions commonly have a positive or negative connotation
about someone or something: we are angry with someone, afraid of something, in
love with someone.

Feelings in a wider sense are what we register as sensations or emotions. We
say “I feel pain” or “I feel anger.” With this, we focus on the subjective inner
experience regardless of the cause. We use the term “feelings” in a more specific
way to describe inner states not caused by sensations or emotions, such as a feeling
of well-being or a feeling of unconditional love during meditation. These feelings are
emotionally neutral and not about someone or something. Another possibility is a
dispassionate feeling about something as in an impartial judgment. At a crossroads,
for instance, we may feel a preference for one road over the other. In most instances,
however, this is not a proper feeling, but an intuition or hunch.
Moods are generalized feelings usually beyond our conscious control, and
often with a somewhat negative connotation. Sentiments are more tender feelings,
but usually about something and can be grouped with the emotions; desires are
about something and are emotions. Passions are generally regarded as strongly felt
and expressed emotions.
How We Lost Our Feelings: The widespread emotional misery in our society
has much to do with our diminished capacity for feelings, especially for tender, loving
feelings. If at all, we seem to experience these only for a short period in our life when
we fall in love, and then yearn for them ever after.
The repression of our feelings seems to come largely from the male-inspired
cultural priority placed on the intellect in our society, with a corresponding contempt
for soft and tender feelings that are regarded as feminine. It is easier to gain power,
to dominate, and to build an empire if one is not hindered by sentimental feelings.
With their present bid for equal power, even many women cannot afford any more to
be vulnerable and they steel themselves against feminine softness.
Self-control is highly valued, especially in the Anglo-Saxon cultures. We are not
supposed to show anger or even displeasure, but rather be outwardly polite, though
we may be boiling inside. Only in recent years has it become more acceptable to
show tenderness in public, but even so, cuddling and touching, except in a
ceremonial way, are still largely constricted to those who identify with the New Age
movement. Conventional members of our society are as rigid and inhibited as ever.
We can say that our emotional dilemma arises from two sources. One is the
suppression of our feelings enforced by the standards of our society, and the other is
the lack of role models for the development of tender feelings in our childhood.
Suppression of our feeling starts as infants when we are trained not to cry when we
are unhappy. We may be just left to cry without response until we realize it is useless
to express our frustration. Especially suppressed are any expressions of childhood
sexuality, such as playing with the genitals and even cuddling the parent of the
opposite sex or generally adults of the opposite sex.
Such contact is important to us later for developing mature emotional
relationships and adult sexuality. Unfortunately, there is now a perception to regard
such sexually open adults as potential child molesters; fearing this, they intentionally
hold back, depriving themselves and the children of this essential expression of
affection.
Also at an early age, we are trained in the use of social lies and social
conventions and are discouraged to express our true feelings. It is even worse at
school and university where we are overwhelmed by intellectual activity, usually of an

unimaginative kind. This inhibits our creativity and intuitive abilities. Many great
inventors and innovative scientists did not make their discoveries by thinking but
through intuition. For the rest of his life, Einstein reportedly tried to understand on the
mental level what he had perceived in an intuitive flash.
Creativity is the active outlet for the meaning we give our life, and intuition is an
important link between both. This combination gives satisfaction, perpetual joy, and
happiness to our life, but it is crushed by our educational system in order to prepare
us for the later institutionalized conformity in our workplace. A more suitable
alternative would be an educational system based on the model of Steiner, Waldorf,
or Montessori schools.
Emotional Role Models: The presence of positive role models for our
emotional development is most important during infancy because then we are most
impressionable and learn the fastest. At that age, we learn to feel by absorbing
feelings from our surroundings like a sponge. This activates our feeling centres. If we
are radiated with love, our capacity to feel love develops; if we are exposed to anger,
then that is what we learn. I believe that because of their own love-deficient
upbringings, most parents act lovingly towards their children from a mental level
without actually feeling it. The most common exceptions are non-intellectual, soft,
and “feminine” mothers, especially as personified by the typical Polynesian woman.
In many third-world countries, it is common for whole families to sleep in the
same room, where children may be aware of the sexual activity of their parents. This
is natural, as it is in the animal kingdom, and provides role models for subconscious
programming. But it is essential that the sexual interaction, like any other interaction
of the parents, be a loving one. This imprinting is most important for infants and does
not need to interfere with our more inhibited Western morals for older children who,
unlike infants, prefer their own rooms anyway.
The lack of tender feelings combined with an exposure to negative emotions
from the parents in early life has much to do with the present culture of violence in
our society. This is constantly reinforced by the bombardment of violence on
television and movie screens. With their tender feelings undeveloped, many do not
feel the suffering of others; they simply cannot feel compassion. That may start in
children with cruelty to animals and lead to individualized or institutionalized cruelty
and torture when adult.
A national football coach is quoted as saying that to be successful in a contact
sport you must build up hate for the opponent before the game. He is right in that
hate releases stored negative energy and it may even be good that it does. Even the
many onlookers can release some of their negative energy. But is this the kind of
society we want, where our role models require hatred to perform? There must be a
better way!
Emotions and Disease: There are many reports that demonstrate the strong
influence of our feelings and emotions on health and disease. One example is a
study of the survival rate of women with breast cancer. After ten years, 70 percent of
those who reacted to the diagnosis with a fighting spirit were still alive; those who
reacted with denial had a 50 percent survival rate; those with stoic acceptance had a
25 percent survival rate; and of those who felt hopeless and helpless only 20 percent
survived.

Other findings show that cancer frequently is diagnosed about a year after a
traumatic event, such as losing a spouse. The negative effect of mental depression
on our immune system is well known, while we feel and to some degree are
invincible when we are in love. When we are upset or stressed, our digestive juices
are inhibited, and fear or apprehension can even trigger asthma attacks.
Another problem is with suppressed negative emotions. There is always the
possibility that under provocation these may be released explosively in an act of
violence. This pattern is now very common in our society. On the other side of the
fence are those sensitive souls who are full of bottled-up feelings and emotions, but
unable to release and express them. This drains their vitality and they suffer from
poor circulation with low blood pressure, cold hands and feet, and lack of energy.
Generally, we can distinguish between acute or immediate influences of strong
emotions and the long-term or chronic effects of unexpressed emotions. The
immediate reaction is due to the direct influence of our feelings on the hormone-
producing endocrine glands and on the nervous system. More insidious, however,
are the long-term effects of muscle tension caused by suppressed emotions.
At the physical or body level, this leads to poor blood circulation and a reduced
supply of nutrients to the affected area, while metabolic wastes and toxins tend to
accumulate, similar to sediment in a slow-flowing part of a river. In addition,
permanently contracted muscles generate a great strain on associated joints. A
combination of these factors makes us susceptible to the development of arthritis.
Constriction of the chest and diaphragm commonly leads to respiratory diseases.
Muscle Armouring: Muscle armouring is a concept described by Wilhelm
Reich, M.D., an eminent American psychiatrist and at one time the apparent
intellectual heir to Sigmund Freud. Dr. Reich found that the emotional disorders of his
patients were to a strong degree reflected in their body structure. In particular,
patients with repressed feelings commonly had hard, rigid, and permanently
contracted muscles in certain areas of the body. Different kinds of negative emotions
seemed to be associated with specific muscles. Reich compared these rigid muscle
structures to the armour of a medieval knight and called the process of their
formation “armouring.” While the steel armour of the knight had the purpose of
protecting him against physical aggression, the muscle armour protects us against
emotional aggression.
It may sound far-fetched that contracted muscles should have anything to do
with how we feel. But we can easily observe that we become tense when we are
apprehensive and that our muscles relax when we are at ease. When we expect
someone to cause us pain, such as sticking a needle into us or hitting us, we tense
our muscles and we may hold our breath by contracting the diaphragm.
These are automatic body reflexes designed to diminish the expected feeling of
pain. However, we can use the same mechanism if we want to diminish feelings for
other reasons. As an infant, we may have been afraid of being separated from our
mother, of being left alone in a strange surrounding, so we tensed up and held our
breath. Eventually, we had to continue breathing, but we did it in a shallow way, with
contracted diaphragm and chest muscles.

What Body Language Tells Us About Our Emotions
This summary is a condensation of ideas from Body-Mind, by Ken Dychtwald.
Legs: How we move through life. Wide, expanded: feeling of superiority, power,
Weak, underdeveloped: not well grounded, no expressive – learn to experience tender
firm stand in life feelings within, especially in pelvis, learn from
others, abdominal breathing
Massive, overdeveloped: rigidly grounded,
needs to explore, let go Shoulders: How we carry our burdens in life
Fat, sluggish: to move through life needs Bowed, rounded: feel overburdened – develop
enthusiasm, jogging power, chest breathing, have faith
Thin, tight: moves energetically through life, but Raised: chronic fear – anxiety-releasing
often erratically, not gracefully, needs to therapy, chest breathing
develop tranquillity Square: carries responsibility – relax
Pelvis: The condition of our sexuality Forward hunched: fear of being hurt, self
Front tipped downward causing hollow back protection – develop power, chest breathing
(lordosis): usually string sexual energy, but full Pulled back, retracted: forceful control or
flow is blocked through constant self-control, suppression of unwanted emotions, especially
not able to ‘let go’ – develop faith in higher anger – let go, express yourself in a suitable
guidance. way
Front tipped upward causing flat low back: Narrow: cannot shoulder responsibilities –
lessening of sexual focus, lack of tender become more powerful
feelings in the lower part of the body – learn to Right side lower: interacts in a predominantly
lower attention from chest to lower abdomen, masculine way
develop tender emotions
Left side lower: interacts in a predominantly
Belly: The centre of emotions as they relate to feminine way
oneself
Arms: How we express ourselves in physical
Enlarged in upper half: rugged, outgoing, actions
masculine – develop more tender feelings
Weak, underdeveloped: lack of initiative and
Enlarged in lower half: blocked energy flow to physical expression – learn to communicate
pelvis and legs especially if the abdominal wall with your arms
is hard – let go
Massive, over muscled: insensitive, forceful
Moderately enlarged: if belly is soft and back interactions, lack of grace – learn to be gentle
not very hollow, good contact with body vitality,
Thin, tight: inability to hold on to anything –
possibly emotionally too soft
become more peaceful, settled
Overall enlarged and obese: usually poor
Fat, underdeveloped: sluggishness in
contact with vital energies
expressing yourself – become stimulated,
Overall flat: too much mental control, no “gut animated
feelings”, strong emotional blocks (fear,
Upper back: A channel for the expression of
anxiety) – develop tender emotions, have faith,
forceful or violent emotions
let go
Soreness, hump: repressed anger or hitting
Chest: Modifies our emotions as they relate to
reflex – let go; hit a pillow or sandbag
our intentions in reference to ourselves
Neck: Reflects tension between body emotions
Narrow, contracted: feeling of inferiority, lack of
and mental control (continued)
power, unexpressive – learn to communicate,
to give, chest breathing

Bent forward: explores the world first in a Face: An outside mirror of our emotions
rational way, emotional exhaustion – develop Changing expressions: show how we wish to
your ‘gut feeling’ appear to the world
Bent to the right: arrogance, defiance – Chronically tense muscles: show conflict
become centred between what we show and how we really feel
Bent to the left: playful attitude Eyes: The “windows of the soul,” reflecting
Long, graceful: proud attitude health and emotions
Heavy, short: forceful attitude Large, round: warm, loving personality
Throat: A channel for vocal expression of Protruding: reaching out forcefully (thyroid
emotions problems)
Tight, sore, weak: blocked verbal expressions Deep-set: critically observing, withholding
of emotions and tears – let go, speak out, weep expression
Jaw and Chin: A channel for verbal Wide-open baby eyes: tries to hold, to draw
expression, biting close, not fully matured
Receding: frozen, suppressed verbal emotions Nearsightedness: frozen fear (early childhood),
– learn to speak out focus on immediate problems, introspective,
rational - release fear, look into the future
Protruding: determined
Farsightedness: suppressed anger; focused
Strongly protruding: defiance, arrogance –
outward, extrovert - release anger, develop
relax
your inner self.
Clenched: forceful, self-control, suppressed
anger – let go, relax
With repeated fear responses, these muscle contractions can gradually

become permanent. The child can grow to develop a narrow chest with weak lung
functions, or if only the diaphragm remains contracted, a barrel chest can result. In
both instances, breathing remains permanently shallow and the child is susceptible to
lung infections and asthma. In babies, this may be a contributing factor in crib death
or SIDS. The advantage of the armoured chest or permanently contracted diaphragm
is that we now do not feel our fear anymore, as it remains subconscious. However,
we gradually may develop substitute outlets for our fear, such as being afraid of
heights or of public speaking, and so forth.
Another example is the suppression of anger because we are told that it is not
socially acceptable to show it openly. We may initially feel an angry emotion rushing
upwards from the abdomen to the shoulder with the impulse to hit or to the throat
with the impulse to shout. When we suppress these impulses, the emotional energy
of the anger becomes stuck in the shoulder or in the throat and tenses the muscles
there. If this tension is not released by other means, it may become permanent, and
if we continue our suppressive behaviour pattern, these muscles become
permanently contracted. In joints surrounded by contracted muscles, we easily
develop arthritis, while contracted throat muscles give us a weak voice and possibly
stuttering and other speech and throat problems.
The muscle armouring becomes ever stronger with advancing age because we
tend to repeat our set behaviour patterns. This then forms our distinctive facial
features, body structures, and our increasing rigidity. There are, of course, other

factors that contribute to shaping our body and making it more inflexible, such as
heredity, nutrition, and occupational muscle use.
Dr. Reich found that his cancer patients had severely inhibited sexual energies
caused by strong armouring in the pelvic and abdominal areas. Those patients who
could most successfully free their sexual energies had the best chances of
recovering. He regarded cancer as a “shrinking biopathy” of the total energy field of
the patient. This shrinking was seen as a forerunner and not as a consequence of the
disease. Tumours are only the final stage of the shrinking process, Dr. Reich said.
When he succeeded in shrinking the tumor or making it disappear without revitalizing
the general energy flow, the patient would die anyway. Spontaneous remissions, on
the other hand, were in some instances due to a revitalized energy flow, Dr. Reich
said.
Another aspect of armouring is the generation of pain. The resistance of a
contracted muscle to the flow of energy produces pain similar to the heat produced
by the resistance of a thin wire to the flow of electricity. Short-term muscle
contraction uses energy; therefore, it causes no pain and can be used as a defence
against expected emotional or physical pain.
However, if a muscle remains permanently contracted, the reduced blood and
energy flows cause pain from accumulating toxins, oxygen deficiency, pressure on
nerves, energy congestion, and overactive acupuncture points. Such pain may be
present all the time or felt only as tenderness when the muscle is pressed. It can be
stopped immediately by pressing into tense muscles or relaxing them with other
methods. In a permanently contracted muscle that has become like a rope or sheet,
the energy flow to the area is so diminished that there is no pain, even when
pressed. Repeated deep muscle massage can eventually restore energy flow and
temporary pain to the muscle. Some individuals can clairvoyantly perceive these
energy flows.
Body Language: Our emotions have a strong influence not only on our glands
and inner organs, but also on our body structure. Certain emotions are traditionally
linked with problems in certain organ functions, as noted in part 7. Anger, for
example, damages the liver and, conversely, irritability and quick temper are partly
caused by liver problems. In a similar way, grief, negativity, and anxiety are linked to
the lungs; fear to the kidneys and intestines; excessive laughter or lack of joy to the
heart; and worry to the spleen.
Emotions, if not released in outward action, “solidify” by causing muscle
contractions. The stronger the energetic charge of the emotion, the stronger the
muscle contraction. Other parts of the body may be more or less blocked off from the
flow of emotional energies, and these parts will become weak and start degenerating.
By examining our body, we can get a reasonably good idea of the kind of emotional
problems that have helped to shape it and of the corrective measures to be taken in
order to improve ourselves (see Table 7-3 above).
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Step 58
HEALING RELATIONSHIPS
Try out these tools to heal your personal, family, and social relationships.
We live in three different forms of relationships - our higher relationships with

God and the spiritual dimension; our relationships with our planet and its life forms;
and our interpersonal relationships in society.
In holistic living, we move towards greater harmony on all three levels.
Meditation and following a spiritual path are our attempt to heal our relationship with
our spiritual source, while an attitude of loving care towards our planet and its
creatures will heal our relationship with our biological roots.
Our social relationships, in a way, are the most difficult to heal, for they are the
testing ground for what we have learned and how far we have spiritually advanced.
With much effort and by using emotional release, reprogramming, and meditation, we
may feel that we have made much progress in healing ourselves. But have we? We
can only find out in our social interactions.
Are we upset if someone makes a mistake? Do we suppress our annoyance, or
do we speak out, and, if so, in a suitable way? Do we instead feel like pointing out
what has been done wrong and how to correct it, or do we prefer to let the other
discover this for himself? These are all different possibilities for responding to the
same problem, and the way we respond can show us how much we are already
healed and what we still have to do.
To make it more complicated, there is no correct response that suits every
situation. Sometimes one response is the best for a given situation and at other times
another response would be more suitable. This means we need to become flexible
and respond to each situation with an open mind and open heart, rather than rely on
past patterns of responding. Further, no matter how well we fare in these tests of
everyday life, can we be fully happy and satisfied if we encounter on the streets or on
television the suffering of our underprivileged brothers and sisters? I do not think so.
With our increasing sensitivity and compassion, this causes us to suffer ourselves
and we feel drawn to help others. Again, there are different ways in which we can
respond to ease our common suffering. Foremost may be to give hope and healing
by our living example.
We can also donate money, goods, and services to the needy. We can single
out an individual for special support or we can work through an organization; we can
use the political system or in other ways try to change our whole structure of social
injustice. What will it be? Increasingly, we will be drawn to do something because we
feel and know that we are all one. Whatever our choice, it is not a question of right or
wrong, but of trying to live according to our highest ideals, using the opportunities as
they arise.
Intimate Relationships: Our intimate relationships, more than anything else,
are a testing ground for our feelings and emotions. They can make us feel on top of
the world or in the depths of depression. How do we cope with these strong feelings

and emotions? Our intimate relationships are a mirror of our general level of
consciousness; they show us how well we are able to manifest our ideals in everyday
life.
There are different kinds of intimate relationships. In the best sense, they all will
be love relationships, lovingly relating to a partner, be it in marriage or without a legal
status, short-term or long-term. Preferably, we try to find a partner with similar or
compatible ideals or we try to improve our existing relationship by finding and
harmonizing our ideals. Our common ideals, more than anything else, can help to
ensure a happy and fulfilled long-term love relationship. A relationship based mainly
on sexual attraction or a need for material or emotional security, on the other hand,
does not have a solid foundation and is likely to fail.
In our society, it is fashionable to make romantic love the deciding factor for
marriage. However, this is the kind of love of which it is rightly said that love makes
blind. With this, it combines the two worst factors for marriage: It does not last and it
blinds us to the shortcomings of our partner.
After a few years, the erotic appeal has been swept away and the relationship
faces the test of reality. In many instances, the couple stays together only for the
sake of the children; in others, it is the need for emotional and material security.
A new romance is now sought outside of marriage. Sometimes this leads to a string
of marriages and divorces based on erotic straw fires.
The only hope for such a marriage to provide a happy and satisfying
relationship is the transformation of erotic love into mature love. Sometimes this just
happens on its own with compatible individuals, others have consciously to work
towards this goal. While it is said that one cannot make oneself love someone, one
can work, nevertheless, on diminishing one’s ego, which is the greatest obstacle to
loving the other as a person.
I see the greatest chance of successful transformation into mature love when
both partners become interested in inner growth and self-responsibility and start
walking the spiritual path hand in hand, healing themselves and each other. You
could also join with other couples who have similar interests.
Making a Relationship Work: One of the most destructive elements in many
present relationships is the demanding of rights. Traditionally, males have had most
of the rights, and a relationship can develop in this way today without any effort on
anyone’s part. This commonly leads to the emotional deprivation of and increasing
resentment by the female partner. The other side of the coin is the growing trend of
Western and especially American females to be assertive and demanding in a
relationship. This tends to push the male partner away and results in the male
emotionally withdrawing; or the relationship becomes an arena for competition and
fighting. The solution depends on a cooperative approach.
This may start by one of the partners realizing that the competitive approach
does not lead to happiness and makes the relationship unpleasant. The main thing
that this individual needs to realize is that he cannot change his partner by
demanding or expecting change; each can only change themselves. Depending on
the nature of the relationship, the partners may talk over how to change track or the
partner who realizes this may take the first steps alone.

An example of this is the current movement in the U.S. of “surrendered wives,”
which started as a counterbalance to the demanding of rights by “liberated”
females.68 This certainly is a recipe for creating happier relationships, as long as it
does not lead to resentment on the woman’s part. With this unconditional first step,
many women will transform their partner; he will become much more considerate and
pleasant to live with. However, it may not work in every case and occasionally leads
to increased abuse and separation. Nevertheless, this is a spiritual solution to turning
a difficult relationship around and trying to make it more rewarding for both partners.
In most instances, females want a partner who embodies their ideal of
masculinity, while males want their ideal of femininity. I am not referring here to
physical appearance, but to emotional qualities. Therefore, try to find within yourself
and offer to your partner the best male or female qualities that you are capable of. Do
this with a loving heart and without demanding or expecting an instant reciprocal
change from your partner. In most cases, your partner will begin to change for the
better of your relationship.
Things that your partner did not do or did only with resentment when you
demanded them may now be offered as gifts. Instead of nagging or demanding what
you want your partner to do, the right attitude is to think of what you can do to make
your partner happy. However, if your partner is unwilling or unable to change in
return, and repeated discussions do not lead to a satisfactory result, then separation
appears to be the best solution. It is not a sign of spirituality to let yourself be
emotionally abused and suffer in silence. If you believe that circumstances force you
to remain with an uncooperative or abusive partner, then use this opportunity to learn
and practice unconditional love and forgiveness.
The keys to making a relationship work are goodwill and communication. We
must learn to share our inner life with our partner. It is also important how we share.
We let our partner know that we feel hurt by something he or she did or did not do,
but we do not accuse. We speak of our own feelings and may say, “I feel hurt by
what you did,” but we do not say in an accusing voice: “You did this to me.”
Initially, it may be good to agree on set times for sharing. Ask your partner if
something annoyed him or her and then let your partner speak without interruption. If
this direct approach is too difficult in the beginning, keep diaries about your hurts and
suggestions and exchange them from time to time for discussion. However, the same
basic rules apply: Do not accuse or verbally attack your partner and give each other
uninterrupted time to speak.
Infidelity: Infidelity is possibly the most common cause of severe relationship
problems. From a spiritual (not a religious) point of view, the real problem is not that
our partner shared love or sex with an outsider, but that he or she broke the stated
(or unstated) trust in the sexual exclusivity of our relationship. One partner then feels
resentful and the other guilty. This is not a recipe for a happy relationship, and how
soon and well it can be mended depends mainly on the spiritual quality of
forgiveness on the part of the hurt partner.
Looking at this from a spiritual point of view, it is quite natural for a sexual
attraction between males and females to develop in suitable conditions, while on the
other hand it is not good for our spiritual and emotional well-being to suppress strong
longings or desires. This leads to a typical dilemma: We have a choice either to harm

ourselves through emotional suppression or through feelings of guilt with a possible
deterioration of our relationship.
A spiritual way out of this is to learn to transmute our sexual feelings for an
outsider into unconditional love and to beam this back onto this person. Another
possibility is instead of sharing sex to restrict an intimate encounter to a (fully
clothed) meditative cuddle.
If your relationship is sufficiently open, you might also discuss if and under what
conditions a sexual encounter with an outsider is acceptable. You may realize that
the demand for exclusive mating rights is due mainly to a combination of our social
conditioning and fear of losing our partner. This is not a solid foundation for a spiritual
relationship. Instead, if sexual fidelity is important for your relationship, then it should
be freely agreed to by both partners because that is how you feel about each other
and that is what both really want.
However, emotionally mature partners will not make this a relationship law
because they realize that we are not perfect. If one partner is not able to keep this
agreement, then the spiritual solution is to ask the other partner for forgiveness and
to obtain it without any damage to the relationship. If both are secure in their love for
and commitment to each other, then they may not even wish to emotionally restrict or
deprive their partner. However you work it out in your relationship, try to find solutions
that are based on openness, understanding, and forgiveness.
An Example of a Caring Tribal Society: We may sometimes wonder what it
would be like to live in a genuinely loving and caring society. Surprisingly, such
societies have existed, even in modern times. In 1929, the anthropologist Bronislaw
Malinowski published an account of his two-year stay with the Trobriand Islanders
near the east coast of New Guinea.
All the people there were happy and caring, he reported. They shared with
each other and liked to work. Children were always good-natured and conformed
effortlessly to the rules of their society; and they had one freedom that appears
unbelievable to us: There was not the slightest restriction on their sexual activities.
There was no emotional suppression.
Children watched their parents and others making love and when growing up
started imitating them. Younger children would just tenderly play with each other,
while teenagers had unrestricted penetrative sex. However, there was one important
social convention: Pregnancies must only occur in marriage. These islanders actually
did not know that sex had anything to do with getting babies. Everyone believed that
babies were a gift of the gods given about nine months after the wedding, because it
always happened that way. Without any other precautions or protection than this
belief, babies out of wedlock were unknown.
After loving experiences with many different partners, the youngsters eventually
found their marriage partners. Marriage was desirable because it gave babies and
status. The marriage lasted as long as the couple loved each other, usually for many
years or a lifetime. While married, there was never any unfaithfulness or even a
desire for it; they did not even have a word for it.
Marriage breakup was no disaster for the children. The father always remained
a good friend of the mother and the children. Furthermore, as they did not have the

concept of a biological father, the maternal uncle always played the role of the father.
This was a matriarchal society and all property rights went through the mother to the
children.
As these people could observe all varieties of loving sexual activity, they had
no unhealthy fascination or obsession for them, as do many people in our society.
Consequently, abuse of children, sexual perversion, rape, or other forms of violence
were unknown to them. Sexual activity to them was as natural and open as eating is
to us. No doubt, if eating were regarded as “dirty” and restricted in the same way as
sexuality is, and children and others were not allowed to see us eat, most of us would
have neuroses associated with eating disorders. This association of sexual freedom
with a peaceful society can also be observed in the animal kingdom with the
bonobos, smaller relatives of chimpanzees.
Another Example - the Continuum Concept: In the 1970’s, the American
Jean Liedloff lived for several years with the Yequana Indians in the jungles of
Venezuela. She discovered that these Indians lived in a continuum of unbroken
traditions in close harmony with their inner and outer nature. This appeared to be the
reason for their unusually positive qualities.
There was no trace of aggressiveness towards each other amongst the
Yequana, Liedloff found, even if they were all drunk at an occasional party, and they
never blamed anyone for anything. Even in difficult circumstances, they remained in
a composed and happy state of mind. There was no competition in their interactions,
only cooperation.
They were completely fearless, surefooted, agile, and enduring. At rest, they
were totally relaxed, but could be fully alert in an instant. To illustrate this in a funny
way, Liedloff related that sometimes one of the men would wake in the middle of the
night, remember a joke, and start telling it. Instantly, all the others were wide-awake,
roared with laughter, then seconds later were sound asleep again.
They loved to work, and for them it was a pleasure to use their bodies. They did
not even have a word for work; they just did cheerfully whatever needed to be done.
The children were always well behaved, obeyed happily and instantly, never fought
among themselves, and were never punished. How they raised their children was, of
course, the secret to their success as human beings and as a society.
Until the babies indicated on their own that they wanted to start crawling, they
were always carried, usually by the mother. During sleep, the baby remained in body
contact with the mother. There was no danger of injuring the baby when rolling over,
as subconsciously, the mother always remained aware of the position of the baby.
After the baby started crawling and later creeping, the mother was always
available when the baby desired body contact. However, the mother would not tell
the baby what to do or not to do. There were sharp knives lying around, which the
baby might pick up by the wrong end to play with. There were deep pits or dangerous
drops near which it might play without an anxious glance from the mother. It might
even pick up a burning branch from a fire and stumble around the thatched huts.
There were no warning calls and no accidents.
Neither were the children told when or what to eat or when to sleep or which
role models to follow. Boys quite naturally picked up bows and arrows from other

boys and started shooting with sharp arrows without being shown where or what to
shoot or any safety precautions. They might start doing this at the age of 18 months.
Girls at that age, on the other hand, might join a group of women and girls and
practice grating roots. At the age of three or four, a girl might be in charge of an
infant; play and work are the same to them. An adult might need something, give a
short command or request, and the child would instantly comply.
The parents trusted the innate protective instincts of their children. A baby
might appear to be oblivious to danger when playing at the edge of a cliff, but its
subconscious or body self protected the baby much more effectively than the mind
could, just as it does a sleepwalker. If we warn an infant of a danger, its mind starts
interfering with the body self and it loses its instinctive protection. If, on top of this, the
parent is afraid that the child will fall, then it will try to fulfil this expectation and fall.
Small children are psychic and always try to meet the expectations of their
parents, especially of the mother. The Yequana children never fail because their
parents have unwaveringly positive expectations. Children are neither blamed nor
praised for anything, just confidently expected to do the right thing.
Further, babies in that society are deliberately exposed to the widest possible
range of sensory stimulation. From this and by observing adults and older children,
they learn to judge unfailingly their ability to cope with each situation, and their
parents completely trust their judgments. They know that if the child is not confident
to judge a situation, it will ask a parent for help.
While these men were much tougher than men in our society, if one genuinely
felt strong pain, such as when cleaning out a deep wound, he would not hesitate to
cry out loud, comforted without words by physical contact with his wife or mother. If
either a child or an adult lost their natural family, they were adopted into another
family. This was important even for adults for emotional and social support. To show
that the amazing abilities and behaviour of these children were not inherited, but the
result of their upbringing, Liedloff reported there was one problem child. This child
belonged to a Yequana couple who had lived in contact with our Western civilization
for some time; but this child also learned (belatedly) to fit in.69
Emotional Security in Children: We all are likely to benefit from increased
levels of emotional security. Emotional security is a nebulous concept that includes
how we feel about ourselves, how good we feel in relationships with other people
who are important to us (e.g., family), and how confident we are that things will turn
out well for us.
Probably all of us feel some doubt in some of these areas, and especially
children, if they are able to think in these terms. One of the main functions of a family
unit is to foster feelings of emotional security in children, and often much of the
irritating or negative behaviour seen in children can be removed through actively
raising the child’s levels of emotional security.
This is an easy claim to make but often a harder thing to achieve. Here are
some techniques that I recommend to try to raise the level of emotional security in
children:
1. Set aside three to five minutes every night for the child. After the child has gone
to bed, Mom or Dad (take turns) goes in, turns off the light, and sits on the side

of the child’s bed in the dark. The child is in the security of its own bed, with a
little body contact with the parent, and no eye contact, because it is dark. Then
the parent should just talk about their own day, share some of the things that
happened; no questions asked nor asking the child to talk. When the child
learns that this is a regular occurrence, he will initiate things and feel free to
share, and topics involving emotional stress are likely to come out.
2. When the child makes a statement to you (e.g., “I hate school”), try not to block
it or answer the comment; extend it instead. The child may not realize the
feeling behind this statement, and you may never find out unless you can get the
child to clarify it. Hand it back to the child in a questioning way: “You hate
school?” To which the reply may be, “No, just the teachers.” So you say, “You
hate all the teachers?” “Well, not all, mainly Mr. Jones.”
3. The question “Why?” rarely achieves anything when asked of little children.
Seldom can they provide an adequate answer to such a question, and so,
effectively, they are cornered. Try to avoid asking “why.”
4. Avoid the words “no” or “wrong,” especially when the child is attempting to do
something (e.g., reading). “Almost right” or “not quite but getting better” are likely
to keep the child interested and keen to try. The words “no” and “wrong” are
likely to make a child give up as a failure.
5. Let your children know that they are good at things, that they are nice people,
and that you like them. Generally, we tell our children when they fail, when they
annoy us, or when we feel let down by them, but we don’t let them know the
good things. Many children thus get the impression that they are failures and
develop a poor self-image.
6. Right-handed children like to sleep on the right side or on the stomach with the
head to the left shoulder. Left-handed children generally sleep facing the other
way. Try to place your child’s bed so that in the natural sleeping position
(according to handedness) she sleeps facing the wall. This tends to give the
child added security and often has the effect of eliminating problems with light
sleepers as well as nightmares and bed-wetting. Placing a child’s bed at right
angles to a wall, extending out into the room, should be avoided with children
who are light or restless sleepers, as it provides little or no security to the
sleeping child.
7. If a child needs a night light, try a blue or green bulb rather than a normal white
or red one. Blue and green are pacifying colours, whereas red is stimulating.
Also position it so that the child’s face remains shaded, so as not to interfere with
melatonin production during sleep.
8. Accept your child’s reality. If the child is upset or scared about something,
irrespective of how irrelevant or trivial it may seem, accept that this is the real
feeling of the child. Rather than dismissing the complaint or saying that it does
not matter or not to be silly, ask what the child is feeling; then go through these
feelings so that the child can either accept or work around the worrisome
feeling.

9. Set aside a short amount of time on a regular basis in which your children can
have your undivided attention; this could be perhaps ten minutes in the evening,
or while doing the dishes. This can help avoid the repetitious “in a minute”
response that we constantly find ourselves giving to our children.
10. Read to your children. Younger children (two to six years old) enjoy and benefit
from favourite books being read to them numerous times; they can learn the
whole story by heart and can “read” it back to themselves just by looking at the
book. Older children (seven to ten) benefit from having something interesting
read to them by a parent, so that they feel they are sharing a common interest
with the parent; suitable may be historic stories or children’s encyclopaedia
stories.
11. Fool around with your children. Let them see that adults can laugh, play, and be
silly.
12. Be consistent. Consistency on the part of adults is of prime importance. If you
act consistently, the child will know where he stands. If not, the child will be
confused and become unpredictable as well. Always do as you say. Do not
threaten punishment unless you are willing to carry it out, otherwise you lose
credibility. The same applies to offering rewards.
Redoing Our Social Relationships: As compared to the Yequana, we live in
a primitive society when it comes to our social relationships. I believe that future
generations will see our society as severely unbalanced, as an overdeveloped
technocracy built on a socially sick base. We can learn from the Yequana how to
heal our society: It starts with our relationships with our children. For a long time to
come, we will not be able to rely on authorities and experts in this endeavour;
instead, idealistic individuals and groups must take the initiative.
Parents, preferably within the framework of a support group, must start
experimenting on how to raise their children according to continuum principles as
explained above. This is not easy in our situation. It involves not only a child’s
constant close body contact with the mother or other carers for the first six months
and a trusting attitude with positive expectations, but also the presence of other
children in a wide range of ages as positive role models. Two-year-olds learn best
from three-year-olds and they in turn from four-year-old children.
It can be done. I have known mothers who kept body contact with their babies
until they wanted to start crawling. I have seen a three-year-old boy without close
supervision or need for safety concerns use a sheath knife, hatchet, electric drill, and
a blowtorch, then he immediately and happily ran home when his parents called. I
believe that children, if they feel secure and loved during their early childhood, if they
have a wide range of relevant sensory stimulation and positive role models, can be
trusted even in our modern technological society.
Obvious dangers, such as knives, staircases, or pools, should not be a
problem. Babies easily learn to float. I see less of a chance of a secure child
drowning in an unfenced pool than an insecure one drowning in a fenced pool. Make
hidden dangers known to your children through your own behaviour. Children imitate;
therefore, do not do in their presence what you do not want them to do.

Antisocial behaviour is a sign of emotional deprivation, especially in early
childhood. Give your existing children and especially those with antisocial or neurotic
tendencies the opportunity to experience the missed phases of their emotional
development. Explain to them in simple terms what you intend to do and why; invite
your children, possibly one at a time, to sleep in your bed whenever they feel like it.
Get them to do it even if they are initially reluctant; cuddle them a lot and possibly
massage them, or bathe or shower together.
For infants, all this will be natural and enjoyable, but with older children
emotional barriers may need to be broken down gradually. While loving sexual
activity in the presence of infants is desirable to provide a role model, for older
children it might be upsetting to be exposed to it unprepared. Use your own
judgment. Include the children in the tender relating of the whole family, but in a way
that does not intentionally cause sexual stimulation.
Healing Relationships to Produce Social Change: Emotionally deprived
children grow into adults who have antisocial or asocial tendencies. On one side of
the scale, this manifests as criminal and destructive behaviour and, on the other, as
shyness, lack of confidence, and depression. A further result is the ego-centred
individualism so prevalent in Western societies. It brings forth political, business, and
community leaders who are more interested in personal power and wealth than in the
overall good for society.
In contrast to our present system, which I would describe as one of adversarial
competition, a society of emotionally mature individuals would be based on
benevolent cooperation. Elected representatives, for instance, would fully cooperate
to find the best solutions for the common good, and the most suitable citizens would
be chosen to be these representatives.
Business ventures would operate according to cooperative principles, both in
matters between different ventures and within each, and without a sharp division
between capital and labour. This was the social structure of the Yequana Indians and
the Trobriand Islanders. However, to be successful in modern society, such a system
must be based on spiritually and emotionally mature individuals.
A first step towards reforming the present business climate would be a legal
and community expectation that the main duty of care for corporations is to the whole
of society rather than to their shareholders. The reason for the existence of
companies would be seen as service to society; a company would appreciate its duty
of care to its employees, shareholders, and the environment. A further step could
involve government incentives to form cooperative ventures.
The judicial system would be based on conciliation and rehabilitation. The more
emotionally mature the society, the less would conflict arise. The health care system
would largely become redundant as people learned to live in harmony with their
biological, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs. Any necessary therapy would be a
combination of the best in modern and natural medicine.
Agriculture, food processing, and energy production would be sustainable and
in harmony with planetary requirements. A society of self-responsible citizens would
be based on a maximum of individual freedom and a minimum of bureaucratic
interference.

No system of laws and law enforcement will keep a society of deprived and
ego-centred individuals operating harmoniously, yet emotionally satisfied and
responsible individuals will function well in any system with a minimum of rules. The
main problem, therefore, is not to devise better political and social systems and
improve our laws and wealth distribution, but to provide the opportunity for everyone
to heal their emotions and start on the road to self-responsibility. A harmonious
society will then evolve from this.
Cooperative Solutions Based on Emotional Fulfilment: Here I offer a few
examples to show how a caring society based on emotional fulfilment, as outlined in
this step, might solve some contemporary issues.
The most important aspect would be to raise all children in a caring and loving
way, following for example, the principles of the Yequana continuum concept, to
ensure a harmonious society in the future. The school and education system would
concentrate on developing cooperation, creativity, intuition, and holistic concepts
similar to Rudolf Steiner, Montessori, or Waldorf schools.
There would be no political parties or electioneering. In one possible model,
electors would write the name of a community member of their choice on the ballot.
Leaders would be chosen for their experience, maturity, spiritual insights, and
wisdom. The elected leaders from several neighbourhoods would form local councils
of wisdom; these would then elect someone from their midst or possibly an outsider
to represent them at the next higher level. In this way, it could continue upwards to
create a world council of wisdom.
Very suitable as community leaders will be women who have harmoniously
raised a family because they will be skilled in facilitating just and harmonious social
relationships. The legal system will be very simple, observed in spirit rather than
letter. Together with other decisions affecting individuals, communities, and regions
in their care, councils of wisdom on each level will also be responsible for any legal
disputes and arbitrate in a spirit of cooperation.
Initially, the unemployment problem could be solved with flexible working hours.
This means, instead of an unemployment rate of ten percent, the standard hours of
work per week would be reduced by ten percent. Conversely, if a shortage of workers
developed, the standard working week would be lengthened. Standard hours might
be different in different professions or ventures. The government might just provide a
basic safety net. Present government regulations generally make it more convenient
to extend overtime hours for existing workers rather than hire additional staff. This is
simply a problem of community attitude and government competence. Eventually,
work will become a desirable outlet for creativity.
Based as it is on the adversary system, our society causes so much friction,
conflict, waste, and incompetence that I estimate our present lifestyle could be
maintained with less than a quarter of the present work input. However, this
percentage would initially be higher in order to bring underdeveloped nations up to
world standard and restore the planetary environment to an appropriate level.
In a mature society, only a fraction of present resources would be required for
the legal, law enforcement, and prison systems, for the defence and pharmaceutical
industries, and for the hospital system. Most of these could eventually be phased out.
On the other hand, much more would be channelled into sustainable agriculture and

health-friendly food production, into education, training, and community facilities,
including an appropriate public transportation system.
In regard to health care, I see a unified system of holistic medicine in which
surgery and drug medicine are branches, like nutrition, herbalism, or homeopathy.
Extensive clinical trials would determine the best combination of procedures for
specific diseases. However, in an increasingly enlightened society, diseases as we
know them will become increasingly rare. Surgery, for instance, would only be
required for accidents. Most of the healing work in such a society would be
concerned with promoting inner and outer harmony and spiritual growth.
Sexual Initiations: In regard to a more natural sexual development of children
and teenagers, I see two possibilities. One is complete openness in sexual matters,
letting children watch the loving sexual activity of adults without any restriction and
imitate it as they feel ready to do so. This is nature’s way as practiced in the animal
kingdom and in human societies that still live close to nature. It does not necessarily
lead to unwanted pregnancies, as shown by the Trobriand Islanders; other methods
of birth control might have to be taught. How it would work out in the end depends on
the customs of society and the examples provided by its individual members.
The other possibility is to transform juvenile sexuality into a striving for high
ideals within the context of a loving and caring society. Infants, but not older children,
would be exposed to lovemaking of the parents. At a certain age or level of
development, girls would be ceremonially and lovingly initiated by experienced and
spiritually evolved men, while boys would be taught by women with the same
qualities. The teenagers might choose the initiators themselves or leave this
selection to their parents. As a variation of this possibility, teenage couples could
receive practical instructions before or during their first sexual encounter. This, too,
could be done ceremonially. However, the main problem for teenagers is not to learn
the mechanics of sexual union, but rather to become emotionally competent.
My preferred solution in a society with strong spiritual values would be to teach
teenagers graded forms of spiritual sex in a ceremonial way as an initiation, and also
the art of sexually relating in a loving way, again graded according to age. Different
solutions will be suitable for different societies, depending on their degree of spiritual
evolution, but almost anything would be better than our present system.
Of course, in our present situation all this sounds utopian. Unfortunately, I do
not believe that a transformation into a more caring and mature society will take
place gradually and in a coordinated way. I am afraid the present system will run into
an acute crisis and more or less self-destruct. If and when this happens, it will be
important to have mature leaders in all areas who then can pick up the pieces and
show the survivors the way towards building a caring society.
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Step 59
HEAL IN GROUPS
Join a group of like-minded individuals with the goal of healing your feelings
and helping others do the same.
The small nuclear family as the basis of our social structure is an expression of
the ego-centred and individualizing nature of our society. It leads to social isolation,
difficulty in relating and cooperating, and a disruption of the age-old continuum of
traditions.
Formerly, and presently still in underdeveloped countries, humans enjoyed a
continuum of learning experiences. Step by step, through observation and imitation,
children learned how to care for babies, do the various forms of housework, repairs,
and other skills, make love and relate in a loving way, care for sick people, give birth,
and deal with death and dying. Grandparents made themselves useful and passed
on their experiences. Now most of these skills are only incompletely learned from
books or left to experts, and the art of relating and cooperating in groups is at an all-
time low. Recent explorations in communal living are an attempt to return to the
security and emotional closeness of the extended family and a more traditional
lifestyle.
Activities in various clubs and special interest groups may lessen our social
isolation, but this is only a bandaid. I suggest forming neighbourhood healing groups
with the specific aim of healing ourselves, others, and our social relationships.
A healing group can provide many functions not normally available in our
society. In a way, it can act as an extended family with an unlimited variety of support
facilities, such as baby-sitting, child-minding, kindergarten and preschool, and
possibly even alternative schooling. Members can help each other in all stressful life
situations, be it childbirth, sickness, bereavement, unemployment, or building activity.
There can be common fruit and vegetable production, a food co-op, communal
library, leisure facilities, and shared expensive working appliances.
The main aspect of a healing group is healing activity on all levels. For healing
the body, experiment with natural and holistic methods. Suitable communal healing
modalities include massage, reflexology, acupressure, spinal therapy, meridian
therapy, muscle testing, and allergy testing. Many different forms of massage can be
used, such as stimulating massage, deep muscle massage, sensual massage, or
energy distribution massage.
Individuals can share their personal experiences with the group in areas such
as nutrition, color therapy, packs, or flower remedies. A member of the group may
participate in a healing workshop and then pass on the experience to the others. The
group can also invite natural therapists and other health professionals and healers for
demonstrations, lectures, and teaching of specific methods.
There can be group evenings in which you exercise together, while on others
you discuss interesting topics; someone may read a good book and report on it; or
there can be meditation evenings, or all of these in varying combinations. You can

use group therapy for emotional release, do rebirthing and other emotional growth
work together, and do a lot of hugging. Buy some books about emotional therapies
for the communal library, and experiment.
A healing group can operate on two levels. On one level, it can be a
neighbourhood support group with food co-op, shared child-minding, communal
leisure activities, and so forth. On another level, individuals dedicated to healing can
meet weekly for this purpose. A large garage could be converted into a group
meeting place while smaller groups might meet in the living rooms of participants.
Here are a few of many possible group activities for developing feelings and
relationships. In group exercises, wherever possible, try to pair off with a partner of
the opposite sex, or when forming a circle, alternate the genders.
I SEE THE LOVE: The women sit in a circle, possibly on floor cushions or on the
carpet. A man sits opposite each woman. If there is an excess of either gender, pair
off with a member of the same sex. For a minute, look silently but tenderly into each
other’s eyes, trying to express and radiate love. Then, with a signal from the group
leader, the men move to the next partner and again both meet each other in a tender
gaze. In this way, the men move around the circle until they sit again opposite their
original partner.
Now, while again looking into each other’s eyes, the men say, “I see the love in
your eyes.” They can either repeat this phrase from time to time or a variation on it,
such as: “Your heart is filled with love and it shines out of your eyes” or “My heart is
filled with love; it radiates from my eyes.”
After a while, the men can in addition start tenderly touching and stroking the
hair and the face of their partner. After about two minutes, on a given signal, roles
are reversed and the women express tender feelings in words and by touching and
stroking the hair and face of their man. Finally, on the signal, the men move to the
next partner and repeat the same procedure and so forth until they are back with the
original partner. Now, one after the other, participants can describe their feelings and
how it felt different being either the active or the passive partner.
THE SANDWICH: This is to recreate the security, love, and warmth of the foetus
in the womb or the baby in the mother’s arms and at her breast. Someone stands in
the middle, front gently pressed to the front of a partner of the opposite sex, and with
the front of another partner of the opposite sex against the back. The middle person
has the arms over the shoulders of the front partner and the one at the back also
stretches out around the middle person to the one in front.
Stay like this for several minutes, possibly lightly swaying if that feels better. In
addition, you can have two more people lightly press against the sides of the one in
the middle. See if it feels better if these additional “huggers” are of the same or the
opposite sex as the one in the middle.
For a woman in the middle, it may also feel better to have another woman in
front; just experiment with different combinations. You may, for instance, have four
people of alternating sex standing as closely as possible with their fronts together, or
the whole group can form a ring, each one standing pressed with the front against
the back of the one in front. The ring may stand still or slowly move. Some of these
formations can also be tried while lying down.

LEARNING TO TRUST: After pairing off, couples walk around slowly, intermingling
with the others, but with one partner of each pair having their eyes tightly closed or
blindfolded. After some time, you swap places.
In another exercise, form a circle with seven people and one person in the
middle with arms crossed in front of the chest. Those in the circle lightly touch the
middle person with their hands. The one in the middle has the eyes closed and after
a moment the body relaxes and starts swaying. It will lean towards one pair of hands
and is then gently passed around the circle. After a while you can make the circle
bigger by adding more participants or just spacing yourselves out so that the one in
the middle is inclined at a greater and greater angle. His or her body should remain
straight with the feet in the middle of the circle. Those forming the circle can put one
foot back to be able to support a greater weight.
In a variation of this exercise, one person stands with closed eyes and the back
turned towards a mattress on the ground. Several helpers stand behind the person,
with outstretched hands, and catch that person as he or she falls backwards with a
stiff body. Gradually extend the range before catching.
HEALING PARTNERSHIPS: If there is no healing group that you can join, or
sometimes even in addition to it, you can find a healing partnership. Ideally, that is
with your present partner in a long-term relationship. However, many are not so lucky
and often prefer to live on their own rather than in a stressful relationship. In this
situation, you can find someone with the same interest in health improvement and
spiritual growth, but without either one of you wanting a love or sexual relationship.
You can then meet at set times, and do all the things that might be done in a healing
group. This will probably be more suitable for mature-age individuals. Eventually,
others may join in and then you have your proper healing group.
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Step 60
LEARNING TO FEEL
Feelings build the body; they are the glue that holds body and soul together.
Tender feelings make us open and vulnerable, but in order not to get hurt,
typically we prefer to close up and not feel. This has the added advantage of making
us stronger in our career because we do not need to take our feelings or the feelings
of others into consideration.
Each time we suppress a feeling or do not express it in a suitable way, the
generated energy solidifies into muscle tensions and armouring, as we learned
earlier through the work of Dr. Reich. Eventually, this leads to widespread muscle
armouring, a permanent state of muscle contraction; this closes off the circulation of
blood, lymph, bioenergy, and, equally important, the flow of feeling energies. Once
we are in an armoured condition, we cannot feel anymore, even when we want to.
This applies especially to our tender feelings and is a great loss. Our conscious
control is then out of touch with the body - its needs, wisdom, and the pleasure it
could give us.
Thus we are equally out of touch with the requirements of others, with the
forces of nature, and with our higher guidance. Everything is wrong if we are out of
touch with ourselves and with everyone and everything else, and we have to rely
exclusively on our ego-controlled mind. To heal our emotions, we need a fourfold
approach:
1. We need to “let go” and release the accumulated negative emotions and
associated tension.
2. We need to become aware again of how we feel and express our emotions
appropriately.
3. We need to learn how to feel good about ourselves and others and to generate
positive feelings.
4. We need to live in our daily lives what we have learned in our exercises.
Let Go of Negative Emotions and Tension: Feelings that we have not
expressed and often not allowed ourselves even to feel have accumulated within us
in the form of repressed emotions. They choke our emotional body in the same way
as accumulated metabolic residues obstruct our physical body. In our relationships
and social interactions, we react emotionally mainly with reactivated hurts within us
and only to a lesser degree with true feeling to the actual situation itself. This causes
endless frustration, misunderstandings, and disappointments in our daily lives.
In order to free ourselves of these emotional obstructions from the past, we
need emotional cleansing periods in which we feel safe to release and express our
suppressed emotions. This will already partly be achieved and made easier as a
result of bioenergetic exercises, deep muscle massage, and other methods to relax
our muscle armouring. Here are three helpful release techniques:

Forgiveness: The cornerstone of emotional healing is forgiveness. As long as
we cannot unconditionally forgive ourselves and others, we remain trapped in past
negative emotions. This prevents us from fully loving ourselves and others.
A good way to develop forgiveness is to make a list of everyone who has hurt
you in the past or whom you may have hurt. Recall especially relationships with your
parents, siblings, relatives, and partners. Think of incidents that may have caused
anger, resentment, disappointment, sadness, fear, or insecurity. Then mentally go
through each incident and note if there is still any trace of that hurt feeling in you. If
there is, go deeply into it, reach the bottom of it, examine it from all sides; it may then
evaporate.
If there is still some hurt, decide to free yourself of this. Do deep breathing and,
with each exhalation, imagine blowing the pain into a balloon. When you have
transferred all the hurt into the balloon, close it up and let it float off into the blue sky
for the universe to take care of. Imagine yourself in the presence of the one who hurt
you. Formally and lovingly forgive this person. A very important person to forgive in
this way is yourself. Forgive yourself for all the distress and hurt that you caused
other people. If you are not ready to forgive everyone unconditionally, come back to
this step after you have worked more on your belief systems and adopted a spiritual
philosophy of life. Realize you are not doing a favour to others by forgiving them, but
to yourself by freeing yourself from destructive emotional toxins. This is similar to
cleansing your body of chemical toxins.
An alternative is to write a letter to everyone against whom you still feel
resentment and whom you are not able to forgive. Write exactly what the other one
did and how it affected you. Then formally forgive them and express your love and
appreciation. Give this letter to the recipient, or you can burn it and hand the matter
over to the universe.
Intentional Direct Release: A simple and efficient method of emotional
cleansing is possible in a secure relationship with an understanding and cooperating
partner. When you feel angry, sad, or upset, tell your partner there is something
coming up that you want to release.
It is often necessary to exaggerate our expressions in order to get to the old
emotions. When you are angry during an intentional release, show that you are
angry: Throw yourself on the bed or the floor, kick and punch a cushion, pillow, or
mattress, wring a towel, scream, shout, or cry. Similarly with hatred, sadness, grief,
or any kind of frustration, bring each out as forcefully as you can. Your partner can
help you to deepen the feeling, telling you to get into it, to hit harder, cry louder.
Even in more restricted situations with other people, try to experience and
express your immediate feelings in an appropriate way. When you are angry, say so
and possibly hit with the fist on the table; when you have tender feelings,
acknowledge them with a loving smile and, if appropriate, with a loving touch.
Re-enactment: In many instances an understanding partner may not be
available for immediate release or the situation is inappropriate. Then it is best to re-
enact a recent hurtful or otherwise frustrating experience, as long as it is still fresh in
the memory and the feelings are easily aroused.

Do this at a convenient time in the privacy of your bedroom or in a car parked
with closed windows near a busy highway (where nobody will hear you). Recall the
details of the scene and your feelings; bring out these feelings as much as you are
able to. A similar situation from the past may pop into your mind, a time when you felt
hurt in the same way yet did not react to it. Relive and exaggerate the memories of
this past experience to get to the old emotion behind your present feeling.
Learn to do this habitually. Whenever you encounter an emotional situation to
which you cannot react in an appropriate way because of inhibitions or conventions,
re-enact it and respond to it later and elsewhere in an exaggerated form. Do this for
anger and hurts and also gratitude and tender feelings you were unable to express at
the time.
EMOTIONAL THERAPY FOR CANCER: Many individuals and especially cancer
sufferers are inhibited in their emotional expression. Often they are unselfish, quiet,
and dependable, the caring and enduring partner in a relationship. However, they
also tend to harbor resentments as they hold back in expressing their anger or their
own needs. For them, family and partner come first, while they sacrifice their own
desires and dreams. This then inhibits their life force, their inner drive, and vitality. In
cancer lore, this type of behaviour has been called the Type C personality as
compared to the Type A personality, which has the opposite character traits and a
susceptibility to heart disease. Most cancer patients have a so-called Type C
personality or behaviour. Type C personalities typically:
• Rarely or never feel or express anger or other negative emotions, such as fear
or sadness
• Are patient, cooperative, appeasing, “nice” individuals, non-assertive and
compliant with authorities
• Are extremely self-sacrificing and overly concerned with meeting the needs of
others rather than their own
• Tend to hold resentments, instead of speaking out
Another emotional cause of cancer is an unexpected loss. This may be a
partner or close relative, a job, business, financial security, or anything with which the
individual has a strong emotional bond. In individuals with a Type C or cancer
personality, such loss often causes a severe depression of the emotions as well as of
the immune system, and any hitherto dormant or slow-growing tumours explode in a
sudden growth spurt. These emotional cancer causes need to be rectified in order to
give any additional therapies a chance to work. If you have the opportunity and
financial resources, consult with someone who specializes in emotional therapies;
otherwise work with your partner or a friend.
Write in as much detail as possible about the worst experience of your life;
share it with a trusted person. Search your mind and write and talk to someone about
your other resentments, hurts, disappointments, losses, and shattered dreams.
Practice expressing yourself forcefully, even exaggerating gestures and body
movements. Remember incidents that you did not like and induce and release anger
by kicking and punching something; cry or scream if possible, then afterwards forgive
yourself as well as everyone else for past hurts and mistakes.

Practice expressing emotions and feelings with your body. Read poetry aloud
with feeling; express feelings through dancing, arm and hand movements, or
pantomime. Find another dream, something worthwhile and exciting to do after you
have recovered from your disease. Be assertive, especially with medical and other
authorities; make sure that your emotional needs are met. Meet other cancer
sufferers in weekly sessions for emotional group therapy and support; share
information, meditate, and visualize together. Take control of your therapy program.
I believe that your emotional transformation through learning to express your
emotions is the key to winning the battle with cancer or any other disease.
In summary:
• feel your negative emotions and express them appropriately
• feel your emotional needs and move towards fulfilling them
• uncover and release all resentments
• forgive yourself and others for anything you or they may have done
• speak out, become assertive
• trust your own knowledge and intuition
• find a dream that you would love to make come true in coming years
• become enthusiastic about your present life and future
Keep these points in mind and move towards changing your behaviour in small
steps in your daily life whenever an opportunity presents itself. Use mind
improvement methods, such as meditation, affirmations, and guided imagery or
visualization, to shape yourself and your future as you want it to be.
Overcome Fear: A disease such as cancer provides us with a great
opportunity to learn to care for our body, to heal our mind and emotions, and to
become spiritual. Some of the inner causes of cancer are long-standing resentments,
habitual worries, inner hurts or grief, guilt, repressed sexuality, and a lack of joy and
spontaneity. All of these are expressions of fear and we need to overcome them by
developing unselfish love.
One of the most basic fears to overcome is the fear of dying. This can best be
done by seeing yourself as an immortal soul who temporarily inhabits and operates a
biological body to gain certain experiences. Numerous near-death experiences show
that death or shedding the biological form is generally a liberating and pleasant event
for the soul; you may have similar experiences to this during meditation.
Another fear is fear of pain and dependence on others, especially in an
impersonal and technological hospital setting. By using holistic medicine, you can
remain in charge. Even if you are too old or start holistic therapy too late, you can
expect to spend your last days in a dignified way. Instead of trying to cling to the
body or being drugged into a semi-conscious state, this should become the spiritual
high point of your life, as you prepare in prayer and meditation for the liberation of
your soul. After the shocking revelation that you have cancer, you must gradually
progress to hope, belief, and faith, faith in your spiritual guidance and that all will be
well. Do your best; the rest is in God’s hands, so there is nothing to be afraid about.

This inner transformation can be achieved with the indicated mind tools.
Preferably develop a daily routine that you start with prayer, affirmations, and
relaxation, followed by guided imagery and meditation.
Become Aware - Experience Body Sensations: Even without the goad of
having cancer, we need to become aware of our feelings and emotions when they
arise. An easy way is to start with simple body sensations. Try to increase your
awareness of body sensations. Whenever a sensation arises naturally, be it warmth,
cold, tingling, hunger, thirst, the tastes during chewing, or any other body sensation,
focus your attention on it. Soon the sensation will intensify and gradually you will
learn to pick up on even faint sensations that you normally would not have felt.
Unpleasant sensations will usually recede after a while and may disappear
completely. This is especially the case with hunger or pain. In order not to feel hungry
during a fast, tell your body beforehand that you are doing a cleanse to make it feel
better and that it will get food afterwards; then ask for its cooperation. If you forget to
do this beforehand, you can still explain it when you feel hungry. Usually the craving
for food disappears after this.
It is similar with pain. By focusing your attention on it, the pain can tell its
message, the reason why it is there, and then it can withdraw, helped by the muscle
relaxation induced by your attention and non-resistance to it.
One of our most frequent sensations, both important and pleasant, is our food
taste. Use the excellent opportunity provided at each meal to savour the flavours that
develop while placidly chewing. This increases and helps your digestion. For healing
a specific problem, imagine that powerful nutrients in that food are now on their way
to the problem area to improve it.
At other times, try to feel the various parts of your body as you move, stand, sit,
or lie down. Sense which muscles are tight and which ones relaxed; warmth may
develop wherever you focus your attention, yet you can also feel a refreshing
coolness if you concentrate on that. An easy way to do this is by mentally transferring
the warmth of the breath felt during exhalation or its coolness during inhalation to a
designated part of the body.
Slightly move an arm, leg, or your head and experience how each move feels.
Focus on the beating of your heart; feel the pulse at the sides of the neck. Put a hand
on your chest to feel the movements caused by the heartbeat and the breathing
activity. Shake your whole body or one part of it and feel the energy flow when you
stop. Lightly touch various objects, your skin, that of others, tree bark, a stone, glass,
and feel the differences.
Slowly move your lightly cupped hands close together, but without touching,
then move them apart. Repeat for a minute or two, moving them slowly towards each
other and away again. Can you feel a resistance developing when the hands are
brought closer together, something like an air cushion? Do the same exercise after
shaking your arms and hands for a minute. Move the tips of your outstretched fingers
close to those of another person. Try with the same hands and also with opposite
hands. Can you feel an energy, a tingling?
Allow Spontaneous Feelings: Focus your attention on any emotions or
moods that arise. When you are angry, do not just remain angry in your head. Scan

your body to detect if you can feel it there. It may be in the form of an energy rushing
upward from the lower chakras. Is it activating your arm or leg muscles, so you want
to hit or kick? Intensify any body feeling. Hit the table or a wall with the padded side
of the fist; kick a cushion or the air. How does it feel now?
If you are frustrated, where in your body do you feel it, apart from your head?
Ask the same with other feelings, such as fear, anxiety, worry, jealousy, hatred,
longing, compassion, love, devotion. With tender feelings, focus your attention on the
heart. Do you feel a stirring there, something moving? When you feel an emotion in
the body, try to stay with it and intensify the sensation, even if it is anger or another
negative emotion. Try to express whatever you feel, but in a suitable way. Certain
muscles may want to move; intensify the movement.
If you feel fine, sense that well-being all over the body. If you are dissatisfied,
unhappy, or discontented for no specific reason, relax and focus your attention on
feeling dissatisfied, unhappy, or discontented. Feel it in the body: Where is its
centre? What does it want to tell you? Some of our strongest feelings develop during
sexual intercourse, so go into these feelings. Try to spread them out from the sex
organs into the pelvic area and throughout the body. Radiate them out to your
partner. Do not let yourself be distracted by fantasies; stay with the feelings.
Sentic Exercises for Emotional Clarity: Manfred Clynes, author of Sentics:
The Touch of Emotions, developed a set of “sentic exercises.” Clynes defines sentic
as the brain state and its corresponding experience generally associated with the
word “emotion.” He found that the same emotion in people all over the world
produces the same kind of muscle response. He used the pressure of a finger on a
measuring device to record the intensity and direction of the pressure generated by
each emotion.
Even more important for us, this process can be reversed: A certain finger
pressure tends to generate its associated emotional feeling. At the same time, this
feeling is expressed through the pressure in a way that is satisfying for the body. You
can press with one or more fingers or even with the whole hand against the surface
on which the fingers or hand rest.
Negative feelings are best generated and expressed with the fingers pointing
straight down to produce a kind of stabbing muscle response. Positive feelings are
more effectively produced if the lightly cupped hand rests on the surface and the
pressure is mainly expressed with the fingertips. Both hands may be used
simultaneously.
To do these exercises, keep the executing arm in a relaxed position. If you sit
on a chair, the jabbing pressure can be produced on the seat of a second chair or
even on your thigh. For the whole hand to rest on a surface, use a table, your thigh,
your other arm, or your chest. Eyes can be open or closed.
The pressure patterns of the seven key emotions are as follows:
• Anger: Make a jabbing movement away from the body, like hitting out. The
duration is much less than a second and is accompanied by a sharp exhalation
and a corresponding sound; the gaze is slightly downwards.

• Hate: The pressure is stronger than in anger, but develops more and is sustained
somewhat longer; it ends abruptly, as in anger. The direction is away from the
body and occurs during exhalation.
• Grief: This can be expressed with the cupped hand. The finger pressure is
straight down and increases slowly for half a second. There follows a period of
passive weakness and immobility during which the pressure gradually eases. The
head can be tilted forward and to the right (for right-handers). Breathing is slow
and shallow, pausing after the exhalation. The whole action lasts three to five
seconds.
• Love: Pressure is gently towards the body, increasing and relaxing very slowly in
a deep, smooth movement. Exhale slowly with a sensual sound; the head
remains level.
• Sexual arousal: Push down and slightly away from the body; release quickly, but
finish with a gentle pressure towards the body. Breathing is rapid, panting-like
puffs during exhalation; the head is slightly down. The action is longer than for
hate but shorter than for love.
• Joy: A quick moderate pressure straight down, immediately followed by an
upwards bounce with less finger pressure on the surface than before the action,
resulting in a floating feeling until the pressure gradually increases again to
normal. It is like jumping for joy and floating down. The action is best performed
during inhalation, head and gaze slightly raised.
• Reverence: Very gently increase pressure nearly vertical or slightly away from the
body; very slowly return to normal pressure in a smooth movement without any
body tensions. Breathing is extremely slow with pause after inhalation; head and
gaze are slightly up.
To increase your ability to feel and express your emotions, practice these
exercises for about 30 minutes daily. This will help release the emotional tension that
has accumulated during a lifetime and enable you to respond in an appropriately
feeling way to present and future emotional challenges.
Preferably start with a non-emotional expression. While relaxed, repeatedly
press straight down, with one or more fingers or the whole hand, in a mechanical
way, like hitting a typewriter key. Then express each of the emotions just listed
approximately 30 times. The emotion tends to build up gradually for several minutes
and then reach a plateau before easing off again. Follow the order as listed, starting
with anger and finishing with reverence.
The emotional buildup is strongest if there is a certain time interval between
individual actions. This interval is different for each emotion. For anger, Clynes found
this to be 4.8 seconds; for hate, 5.3; grief, 8.2; love, 7.4; sex, 4.9; joy, 5.2; and
reverence, 9.8 seconds. There may be timing tapes commercially available;
otherwise, you can initially experiment with the timing and develop a feeling for it.
Later, when you feel free of the desire to express negative emotions or you do
not derive any more benefits from it, continue with those exercises you like. Sentic
exercises can be combined with other feeling exercises. Such exercises can show
you that it is not necessary to be a victim of unpleasant feelings. You do not need to
wait for positive outside influences to produce pleasant feelings within you. Instead,

with continued practice, you can choose how you want to feel at any given moment,
how you want to respond emotionally in any situation.
Exercises for Coming Alive: When we are conscious only in the head,
without being permeated with our feelings, it is almost as if the body were not really
alive. It is then more like a machine, a mechanical device operated by the brain. This
has been the lifelong condition of most of us, so we do not know what we are missing
until the body gradually awakens, vibrating with life-giving feelings and not just pain.
We can grow even further, learning to choose our feelings, not just during an
exercise, but during our daily activities. In order to feel good, to feel love or joy, we do
not need to wait for the rare occasions when others or circumstances temporarily
ignite such uplifting feelings within us. We are not our feelings and emotions; instead
these are energies we can use and enjoy according to our needs and preferences.
The three exercises described below can gradually be extended in a way that
the generated feelings become habits in our daily lives instead of isolated instances
of feeling good. If you do not already feel alive and vibrating before starting a feeling
exercise, energize your body for a few minutes with deep breathing then shaking,
especially of the arms and head.
MIRROR: Sit or stand in front of a big mirror and smile at yourself. Look lovingly
into your eyes and talk to your mirror image in a soft voice. You can say something
endearing, such as: “I see love shining out of your eyes. It comes from your heart.
Your heart is filled with love. It shines out of your eyes.”
Repeat this over and over again, slowly, with all the feeling you can express.
Pause and smile at yourself; smile with your eyes, a gentle, loving smile. While
continuing with the mirror exercise, you can also use sentic hand pressure to
increase the feeling in your heart centre. Sense how it feels to make passes with
your hands around your head and body, slowly moving downwards with palms facing
the body. Instead of addressing the mirror image as another person, say “my” instead
of “your” during your endearments. Experiment to see what feels best.
As an extension of this, when you have the opportunity, practice with a partner
or friend making eye contact and smiling at each other. Take turns lovingly praising
each other.
MUSIC: Music is excellent for inducing feelings. For heart feelings, use soft
music with an uplifting, melting quality. This can accompany any of the other feeling
exercises. You can also use it during heart-feeling meditations while being quiet or
during repetitive activities; at other times, select stirring or uplifting music according
to the feeling you want to amplify.
Jazz can be useful for raising the energies, especially in the morning and
during shaking exercises. Some blues are good for inducing tender feelings. Rock
music, on the other hand, is usually weakening to all muscle systems and should be
avoided. This applies also to any music that conveys chaos and disharmony instead
of harmony.
There is now a wide range of New Age music available. Most of it is designed
for relaxation with sounds of waves and brooks, and some is suitable to generate an
atmosphere of reverence and emotional uplift. In most instances, however, it
provides just a pleasant, unobtrusive background for meditation and feeling

exercises. It would be excellent if a series of tapes could be obtained for inducing
various defined states of feeling.
DANCE: Dancing is a moving expression of our feelings. We can even dance
without music if we want to express a feeling. However, in order to generate feelings,
it is preferable to dance to suitable music. You do not need to move your legs when
dancing; you can dance with your head and body, but mainly with your arms, even
while sitting. Most expressive are the hands. Dance vigorously to lively rhythms in the
morning to stimulate the energy flow. In the evening, as a prelude to meditation,
dance softly to uplifting melodies. Dance often, simply to feel and express the joy of
being alive. Try to express the various feelings through dancing, such as anger,
sadness, compassion, joy, love, ecstasy, and so forth.
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Step 61
TAKE THE LOVE CURE
Lead a radiant life filled with love and joy, and practice the Love Cure.
Love may be the missing factor for our emotional well-being and for
overcoming disease. Love is the opposite of fear. With cancer, for instance,
psychological therapy has been shown to have a far greater success rate than any
other properly evaluated therapy, while fear has a major impact on cancer and AIDS
patients. There is also a close relationship between fear, often present
subconsciously, and breathing problems, as well as heart disease.
Emotional and psychological factors may be why various therapies work with
some patients but not with others. Releasing past emotional hurts and resentments is
helpful with any kind of healing, but it may not be enough if positive feelings are
missing. The ideal is a combination of appropriate therapies on other levels and
emotional therapy.
After many years of working and experimenting with a wide range of therapies,
I conclude that some of the most important factors in restoring or improving our
health and well-being are love and joy. For our emotional body, regular doses of
these and other positive feelings are as essential as vitamins for the physical body;
otherwise, we develop “emotional deficiency” symptoms, which can eventually
disable biological functions and lead to illness.
Most of us can remember a time when we were madly in love. Love, then, was
not just a mental concept, but a bodily sensation and it made us feel invincible. I
believe that we can become invincible like that in regard to disease by learning to feel
this way again as a way of life. Love and joy can rejuvenate the body and can be
more effective than even the best nutritional supplements.
Learning to Love Again: Obviously it is not possible to fall in love with
someone on a regular basis, but it is possible to experience the feeling of love as a
conscious exercise. Love has traditionally been associated with the heart. Of course,
it is not the heart muscle itself that makes us feel love, but the heart chakra centred
at the middle of the breastbone. In order to feel love and increase our capacity to
love, we need to stimulate this heart centre by focusing our attention on it. Diseases
in the chest area should respond readily to this therapy and this applies especially to
breast cancer, which has a strong emotional and relationship component.
For most of us, learning to feel love as a way of life does not come easily and
requires a commitment to an exercise program. It will be especially difficult for most
males, while many women will take to it quite naturally. Below you will find some
useful exercises for this. Experiment and continue to practice those that you find best
to generate love or joy in your body.
Feeling is energy and energy follows thought or consciousness. This means
the most basic requirement for activating our heart centre is to keep our attention
focused on it. Later, when it is easy for us to feel, we can just keep a small part of our

attention there while going about our daily business. Before using these exercises,
practice the chakra exercises earlier outlined in Step 52.
1. Breathing into the Heart: Becoming conscious of your breath is one of the
easiest ways to generate a feeling sensation inside your body and to keep your
attention focused. Sit or lie quietly and mentally follow your breath as it gently moves
in and out. Breathe through the nose. Become aware that the out-flowing breath is
somewhat warmer than the incoming breath. After a while, begin to pause for a
second or two between inhalation and exhalation. Feel a light pressure in the middle
of your chest during this pause. When you can distinctly feel it, focus again on feeling
the warmth of the outgoing breath.
Now combine this warmth with the light pressure felt in the middle of the chest.
This is the location of the heart centre. Keep your attention focused on it and
gradually intensify the feeling of warmth. Spread it all over the chest, but especially
towards the location of any health problem, such as a breast tumor. When you feel
the warmth, disregard the pressure. This warmth inside your chest is very pleasant
and makes you feel cosy, cared for, and protected.
Intensify any of these feelings if they arise. Try to create them deliberately by
using your imagination and recalling other situations when you felt this way, possibly
when relaxing in a warm bath while listening to soft music. You may find that you can
perceive feeling sensations more easily and with greater intensity if you exhale very
slowly and gently.
When you can do this exercise successfully, you can also use it to keep your
attention on the heart centre during your daily activities. You can quickly learn to
keep part of your attention focused inside your chest while performing routine tasks,
although you are likely to forget it during more demanding mental activities. That
does not matter. If you ask your subconscious mind to remember doing the exercise
whenever conveniently possible, it will eventually oblige and may tell you a hundred
times a day to refocus. If you are somewhat tired, it may even be easier to generate
a feeling sensation during activities rather than by lying down and closing your eyes,
which may cause you to drift off to sleep.
If it helps you to focus, imagine your incoming breath being rose-colored or
bright green. You may see this color intensify in the chest area with each successive
breath. Another possibility is to put one hand on the chest to feel a light pressure or
to press lightly with one or several fingers at the middle of the breastbone.
Experiment with a different breath imagination. Imagine your breath moving through
the middle of the breastbone, and again, feel the slight pressure and then the
developing warmth. For some, this exercise produces stronger sensations. When you
are somewhat tired, it will be better to do these exercises with your eyes open and
possibly even while walking slowly.
2. Feeling Love: After successfully practicing the breathing exercise for some
time, experiment with the following suggestions to see which one suits you best.
Eventually, you may use all of them at one time or another, depending on
opportunities.
It will be easier to feel a love sensation if you are already in a loving
relationship, a mother with a baby, or an animal lover with puppies or kittens to care
for. If that is the case, look lovingly at the chosen object while doing the breathing

exercise, and you may find it easy to convert the warmth in your chest into a feeling
sensation of love. If you are not so lucky, recall an incident when you felt love. Vividly
imagine this time and then intensify the sensation of love when it arises; then forget
the actual incident and only hold fast to that feeling inside your chest.
Look lovingly at something grand or beautiful: a tree, flower, picture, clouds, the
sky, or a person. Soak in the beauty and appreciate it. Then send that feeling of
appreciation back to the adored object; all the time, keep focusing your attention on
the breath in the chest centre and intensify any arising positive feeling. You can do
the same by listening to some soul-stirring music. Eventually, you can start feeling
and sending a silent appreciation of love to anyone you come in contact with and
over a distance also to someone with whom you have a disagreement or a past
problem. When you tend to plants, watering, transplanting, or sowing them, project
onto them your feeling of love or appreciation. You can do this anytime in any
activity; your only problem will be to remind yourself to do it.
If you have difficulty generating a feeling sensation of love, then feel
compassion in the heart chakra. Look at or imagine pictures of suffering individuals.
When you can feel and radiate compassion, try to change it to a feeling of love or a
combination of love and compassion. The feelings of love and compassion can be
combined with a feeling of joy, which can also be experienced in the heart centre, as
well as in the forehead centre.
Or try this: Whenever you meet someone or think of someone, smile and
silently say, “God bless you,” while feeling a wave of love or compassion radiating
from your heart centre. Or think of someone and extend your arms with palms
forward. Again, smile and feel the love or compassion in your heart. During the day,
try to remember this feeling of love in your heart and centre on it.
3. Feeling Joy: Joy is the twin of love in helping us to live a healthy and fulfilled
life. As with love, it is not easy to feel joy as a body sensation, especially if we do not
have anything to be joyful about. There is an area of the body where we can more
easily generate and feel joy and even bliss: the pituitary gland behind the middle of
the forehead. Concentrating on it during meditation can generate a feeling of bliss;
this can be felt as joy when focusing on the pituitary gland or forehead centre during
a breathing exercise.
As the breath does not flow into the brain, imagine the prana is separated from
the inhaled air and flows upwards from the nose into the pituitary gland. If you can
visualize colours, see the forehead centre as filled with indigo-coloured prana.
First try to feel a light pressure partly due to the focus of your attention and partly to
the accumulating prana. Again try to feel warmth or tingling during the slow and
gentle exhalation. To focus on the correct point, it helps greatly if you close your eyes
and turn them inwards and upwards as if looking into the brain at a 45 degree angle.
When you can easily do this, you may even be able to just imagine looking upwards
and inwards and feeling a light pressure in the pituitary area while you have your
eyes open and are engaged in other activities.
When you are able to feel the pressure or warmth, start smiling inwardly and
direct this smile to the pituitary gland. As you keep smiling, you may gradually feel a
sensation of joy and happiness spreading from your head into your body. If you have

already learned to feel a love sensation in your heart centre, combine this love
feeling with the joy spreading from your head into a unified feeling of elation.
4. Feeling Connected and Peaceful: We can learn to overcome the stresses
of daily life and live instead in a condition of profound inner peace by frequently
focusing our attention at the top of our head. This will be invaluable with all stress-
related diseases and conditions and also helps to energize the body in a pleasant
way.
Relax, close your eyes, and imagine a stream of white light entering the top of
your head. Try to feel as well as see it. However, feeling it is more important than
only seeing it. It may help at first to focus on feeling a light pressure and warmth at
the top of the head, possibly aided by leading the breath prana to this point. Exhale
very slowly and gently, and imagine feeling peaceful, a deep peace beginning to fill
and surround your body and mind. Watch for a feeling of being energetically
connected to your Higher Self, the Universe, God, or whatever you want to call it. If
you can feel or imagine feeling something like this, try to intensify the sensation.
When you have a feeling sensation at your crown centre, you can intensify it by
generating a feeling of love in your heart centre and then sending it straight up
through the top of your head to your Higher Self or God Self. Immediately feel this
love offering coming back to you through the top of your head, greatly intensified.
See and feel the incoming white light enlarging and intensifying to surround you now
in a pillar of light. Feel how it energizes your whole body. You may also see the white
light blending into other rainbow colours that are beneficial for you such as a golden-
yellow energizing color, the rose color of love, or the violet flame of purification and
transmutation.
When you are able to feel the peace and connectedness to your God presence
during the exercise, focus part of your attention on the top of your head and feel this
connection during your daily activities. Feel at peace and connected. Keep part of
your attention on the top of your head while you try to feel the joy behind the
forehead and the love at the heart centre. Alternatively, focus in sequence on the top
of the head, the forehead, and the heart. Eventually, you may be able to focus on all
three simultaneously and feel peaceful and connected, joyful and loving at the same
time.
Living Your Feelings: If you have a disease or health problem in a specific
organ or area of the body, you can now supply it with all the energy and emotional
support that it needs for healing, in addition to the nutritional and other support that
you may provide. On a regular basis, fill yourself with love and then mentally send it
with an inner smile to the organ in need of healing. Breathe more energy into it or
lead it there from the storage area or chakra behind the navel. Feel it getting warm or
tingling or just feeling good. At the same time, see it filled with a brilliant white healing
light. Intensify the vision and the feeling and hold it for a long time. Know that you are
being healed.
Tender feelings are a daily requirement for your body and soul. We need them
as much as we need vitamins and minerals, so make sure you obtain plenty of
“emotional nutrients” each day, as there is nothing better to rejuvenate an aging
body-mind. Bathe all your cells and organs in tender, loving, or joyful feelings. Focus
on each part of the body in turn and concentrate longer on those areas most in need

of improvement. Try to feel the love everywhere, in your fingers as well as your toes.
Let all your cells feel that you love them.
The breath will help you stay in touch with your body. Make it a habit to breathe
into your heart centre, and keep part of your attention there as often as possible.
Alternatively, keep part of your attention focused on the crown or forehead centre.
Better still, let the peace and connectedness of the crown centre fuse with the joy of
the forehead centre and the love of the heart centre to a symphony of uplifting
feelings.
Do not let your mind drift idly to produce repetitive mental chatter. Whenever
you notice that the internal chatter has started again, renew your focus on the heart
centre. Daydreaming, however, can be restorative and creative and is often superior
to mental chatter.
When you are tired or exhausted, it is difficult to arouse feelings even if you try
hard, but at other times gentle feelings may spontaneously arise and float through
the body. This happens most easily when we are aware of something beautiful,
something which uplifts the soul, a landscape, a painting, music, flowers, a smile.
You can then magnify your feeling by radiating it back onto the landscape, the
painting, and so forth.
When you massage someone, greet someone with an embrace, whenever you
touch someone - always remember to radiate loving feelings. It is much more difficult
to maintain and radiate positive feelings during conversations, but this will gradually
improve. You will find it a great help if you can remain relaxed and smile instead of
becoming totally absorbed by the mental aspects of the conversation.
However, it is most difficult to retain any kind of feeling awareness during
intense mental activity. Usually, we completely forget the body. This will also
gradually improve, especially if you can train your lower self to automatically switch
back to the heart and crown awareness when the mental challenge has passed.
Simplify your life and carry an inner smile with you wherever you are. See the
beauty in everything. Gradually, on rare occasions at first, a feeling of deep inner
peace may arise, clothed in a feeling of being loved and cared for. If you persist with
your attempts to remain focused on the heart and crown centres, then this deep inner
peace will intensify and begin to permeate your whole being.
Out of this tangible feeling of inner peace will then arise the other feelings,
thoughts, and activities as required and appropriate for each occasion.
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Part 9
HEALING YOUR MIND
We all would like to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilled life, yet few seem to be
Our conscious decisions are made with our mind. All healing and improvement in our
living conditions start at this level, and it is here that we must take the first step with a
conscious decision that we want to improve conditions by following a suitable
program. If we see the progression of our lives as a creative process, then we can
see the mind as the architect.
In our society, rational thinking and the intellect are worshipped, while feeling
and intuition are neglected. The reason for this imbalance can be found in the
distorted goals and ideals of our society, which has lost sight of inner values.
Wisdom, devotion, patience, and compassion are replaced by material riches; inner
purity is forsaken and traded in for excessive external cleanliness and hygiene;
success is measured by monetary wealth and dominance instead of self-mastery.
Thinking is the most important tool for achieving such external success, while
tender feelings disadvantage us for success in our society. However, thinking is
neutral and we can use it to our advantage in healing our body and emotions. Proper
thinking is required to discard unsuitable beliefs and replace them with appropriate
ones. If we accept that negative thoughts and beliefs are a cause of our illness and
social problems, then our mind is in need of healing and we must replace disease-
forming negative beliefs with health-giving positive ones.
I regard the Self as our total nonphysical entity. The Self and the body together
are the whole entity. To better understand inner processes of consciousness, we can
distinguish between different parts of our Self. I use a fourfold division:
• The higher Self or super-conscious level provides spiritual guidance as inner
knowledge and intuition. It has further divisions, variously called soul, Christ Self,
over-soul, or God Self.
• The middle self represents our normal consciousness, that of which we are
aware, mainly our mind and mental body, the thinker.
• The lower self or subconscious part is the master of our memories and emotions,
including long-forgotten beliefs and a Pandora’s box of suppressed feelings and
emotions; it is also called the “inner child.”
• The body self is an elemental (a life-force being) that looks after the biological
functions of our body; this is the level of consciousness that is still active when we
are in a deep coma.
We can say that the Higher Self operates at the spiritual level, the middle self at
the mental level, the lower self at the astral or emotional level, and the body self at
the etheric or life-force level. The middle self can to some degree become aware of
the other levels, but its centre of consciousness is based at the mental level.
Depending on our degree of spiritual understanding, this may be the concrete
mind or lower mental level; it may be the higher mental level concerned with spiritual,
creative, and intuitive thinking; or it may be somewhere in between.
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Step 62
HARNESS THE POWER OF THE MIND
Appreciate the power of your subconscious mind.
It is the real power behind the throne of the ego.
Our mind has awesome powers. It makes us sick and unhappy or healthy and
happy. It is a powerful tool and it is up to us in which way we want to use it. In clinical
trials, mind therapies have been shown to be much more effective than conventional
therapies in reversing many cancers. To illustrate the overriding importance of the
mind, I relate an example.
An elderly male with huge tumor masses all through his body had been given
less than three months to live. At that time, trials with the alternative remedy
Krebiozen were started. Despite not being eligible to participate because of his short
life-expectancy, his enthusiasm about the remedy was so overwhelming to his doctor
that he gave him the remedy outside the trial.
A few days after his first injections, his tumours had already halved in size and
continued to reduce until they had virtually disappeared and the man felt healthy and
well. However, two months later, he read a report in a newspaper that the trial was a
failure and Krebiozen was useless. Immediately, he fell ill and relapsed, with his
tumours quickly regrowing to their previous size.
His doctor was so astonished by these strong responses that he decided to
make an experiment. He told the patient that the first trial had not worked because
the remedy was too old. Now he was waiting for a fresh supply that would be double-
strength. A few days later the man was given the injection; this time the tumours
disappeared even faster than the first time and again the patient was completely
healthy and well.
However, instead of any drug, the doctor had just injected water. Again, a few
months passed and then the newspapers carried stories that the FDA had declared
Krebiozen to be completely useless and a fraud. As rapidly as he had recovered, the
patient deteriorated once more and this time his doctor let him die.70
One might think that such a strong mind effect must be very rare, but consider
this: In a chemotherapy trial, one-third of the placebo patients lost their hair. In this
rare trial, only half the participants had received chemotherapy and the other half a
harmless substance, which they believed to be an active drug. This means that the
hair loss in one-third of the placebo patients was entirely due to their belief.
This finding is confirmed by one of those rare placebo trials in surgery. After
“real” operations for cardiovascular disease, 32 percent of patients had satisfactory
results. However, 43 percent of a control group that had only pretend surgery
reported subjective and objective improvement! This means that basically all the
improvement came from their belief, but the traumatic effect of real surgery reduced
the belief-based success by 11 percent.
One-third is a figure that corresponds with results from other trials as the
approximate size of the placebo effect. I take this to mean that typically one-third of

patients will either die or recover because of their strong belief. This applies equally
to conventional medicine and natural therapy. Those who believe they will get well
will do so regardless of the therapy used, and those who doubt or are fearful will
receive little benefit from any therapy. I am convinced that this is the main reason
why one patient is cured by cancer surgery, while another with the same condition
dies afterwards.
Therefore, perhaps the main concern for patients with “incurable” diseases
should not be to find an effective therapy, but rather to find a way to harness the
power of the mind and become a believer with an unshakable faith - in effect, to put
the placebo effect to work.
Before you decide to believe in eating a piece of cake every Sunday as your
preferred cancer cure, there is another factor to take into account. Whatever you do
must be totally convincing to your subconscious mind. Just believing something on
the conscious mental level is not enough; if your subconscious mind is not convinced
that something will cure you, then it will not. The subconscious mind is most easily
impressed by something that inspires awe, by authority, ritual, the unusual, and
especially enthusiasm. Whatever impresses you as a potential cure, embrace it
enthusiastically. Anything that you just try to see if it works is not likely to work.
Get to Know the Lower Self: In order to heal our mind and use it more
efficiently, we need to have a basic understanding of our lower emotional self. This
operates on a different level of consciousness from our normal consciousness (the
middle self) and has many of the characteristics of a separate entity. When working
with it, it is best to regard and treat it as a reliable servant.
It is advisable to be on good terms with our lower self because it is the power
broker of the body. The middle self is like the captain of a ship, the Higher Self is the
shipping line and employer of the captain, and the lower self is like the union
foreman. If the crew has any grievances, the boss may call a strike or otherwise
make life difficult for the captain. The body self is comparable to the crew and
cooperates very closely with the lower self.
Here’s what we can say about the lower self and its body functions:
1. Influences the body self and the physical body (except for the voluntary
muscles)
2. Is the seat of our emotions
3. Receives all sense information
4. Keeps a record of all sense information, thoughts, and feelings
5. Operates our memory bank
6. Operates our psychic abilities
7. Is the means of communication with our Higher Self
The real power of the body rests with the lower self, but it has one shortcoming:
It cannot think logically. It has only an elementary ability to think, similar to an
intelligent domesticated animal or a small child. Therefore, it is dependent on the
middle self to tell it what to do and, as the faithful servant that it normally is, it willingly
obeys the middle self.

However, because it is simpleminded, the lower self is dogmatic. It may take
our early childhood programming, especially our religious and sex-related teachings,
and anything someone in authority may have said, as gospel truth. It can be
moralistic and regard itself as the keeper of any important commitments that the
middle self may have made. To illustrate these characteristics of the lower self, here
are a few examples from The Secret Science behind Miracles, by Max Freedom
Long.
A young man with a strong religious upbringing had the urge to enter the
ministry. He took a job in a furniture factory instead. There the paint fumes made him
sick. When transferred to the woodworking department, he developed asthma from
the sawdust. He tried several other occupations, but each time he became sick from
something connected with the job. In the end, a psychologist unearthed his earlier
intention to become a minister. As nothing else seemed to help, he advised the man
to enter the ministry. The man did and had no more illness.
A religious Hawaiian man had an affair. His wife found out but forgave him.
Within a year it happened again, but this time his wife did not find out. This seemed
to make it even worse for the man who gradually lost his strength and will to live until
he was very close to dying. A kahuna (native healer) was called and discovered the
truth. He induced the wife to forgive her husband once more and the kahuna
performed a ceremony in which all the man’s sins were washed away. The patient
immediately started a quick recovery.
A young woman had been brought up to regard dancing and drinking alcohol
as sins. After her marriage she moved in different circles and gradually started
dancing and having the occasional cocktail. Soon she twisted her ankle slightly
during a dance. Normally, she would have been fine after a day or two, but instead
the leg became gradually worse and a deep running sore developed below the ankle.
A kahuna convinced her that she had not really sinned against God and in addition
forgave her and washed away all guilt of any kind. The ankle quickly recovered to its
full strength.
However, the young woman neglected the kahuna’s instructions to continue
affirming that if she had not hurt anyone, there was no sin. Again she danced and
drank a little and eventually the ankle sore reappeared. However, this time the
kahuna explained that he could not help, as the lower self had now become too much
entrenched in its conviction of sin. The only permanent cure was to give up drinking
and dancing for good.
These examples show how our lower self holds on to childhood beliefs that as
adults we have long forgotten. In contrast, the lower self never forgets. Therefore, if
we suspect a conflict between the beliefs of these two selves, we have to convince
the lower self that the old belief is no longer appropriate and patiently and in simple
words explain the new situation instead.
The Power of Beliefs: We see and interpret the world through the coloured
glasses of our belief systems. We even create our personal world according to our
beliefs. We project selected ideas, thoughts, and emotions into our surroundings and
with these attract or repel people and events. Most notably, we manifest what we
fear. Negative thoughts harm no one more than us. When a negative thought comes

into our mind, we can either accept it or immediately block it and replace it with a
positive thought.
It is advisable to begin our healing and growth venture by looking closely at our
basic beliefs to see if we still want them. Do they present a positive outlook and are
they in harmony with our goals and our new philosophy of life? One way of finding
out is to write down your beliefs about the basic questions and problems of your life.
What do you believe about yourself, your friends, your work, your health problems,
your body and your future, about death, Afterlife, and so forth. Then cross out
whatever does not meet your new standards and rewrite in a more positive form what
you would prefer to believe.
As an example, you may believe that most people are selfish. As long as you
believe this, you will attract mostly selfish people or interpret their motives as being
selfish, which may not always be true. Therefore, start reprogramming yourself by
writing: “I attract more and more unselfish people into my life.”
Instead of believing “I will become infirm with advancing age,” you can now
write: “My health and well-being are improving with every day in every way.” Yet just
writing all this down is not enough, because by now the lower self will share many of
the beliefs of the middle self, and the lower self is very stubborn. Most effective for
influencing the lower self are autosuggestion methods, such as affirmation, self-
hypnosis, and visualization, as well as studying and gradually accepting a truly
spiritual philosophy of life.
However, even if you are successful in changing your beliefs, that is not the
end of the road. It is just a precondition to attracting the necessary knowledge or
conditions that will make an improvement possible. You still have to do whatever is
necessary on one of the other levels, be it a change in diet or asking for forgiveness
and sending kind feelings to someone you have hurt. Be careful with psychic
predictions about yourself. Some are amazingly true in minute details; however,
others can be wide of the mark. Therefore, believe only in those predictions that you
would like to come true and ignore the rest. Choose your beliefs carefully because
they determine what will happen to you.
Worry, Resentment, and Desire: Three of the most common obstacles to
good health, inner peace, and happiness are worry, resentment, and desire.
Worry is an outcrop of fear and is part of the price we pay for a lack of faith in our
guidance. For someone who is in harmony, in tune with the Higher Self, there is
nothing to worry about, neither from the past, nor in the present, nor in the future.
Resentment is an expression of ego-centeredness and results from a lack of
self-responsibility. We blame others for what happens to us and we try to make them
pay for it by withholding our love and affection from them. A change of attitude
towards self-responsibility will free us from the self-destructive effects of resentment
and enable us to become tolerant and understanding of our own shortcomings as
well as those of others. If someone does something that we do not like, then we
should either speak out or accept and forget it. Resentment is the worst of our
choices.
Desire tends to rob us of our peace of mind and destroy our inner harmony. We
must, of course, tend to the needs of our body. A desire for food when we are
hungry, for rest when we are tired, for sunshine, fresh air, and so forth, are natural. It

is also good to desire being creative. In addition to these natural desires, most of us
have numerous desires related to pleasure and social achievements.
Even such materialistic desires are no problem, provided we are happy to pay
the price for their fulfilment, and usually they help us to learn or grow. Still, the more
we improve our belief systems, the more the need for desire fulfilment and
achievements will disappear and the easier it will be to feel peace and harmony.
Actually, it is not so much the desire itself that causes us trouble, but our attachment
to the outcome of our actions. It is excellent to have the desire to be creative, but if
instead we focus our desire in the form of expectations on the result of our creativity,
then we are heading for disappointment.
Even our path towards better health, fulfilment, and happiness will be more
successful if we do not have too great a desire to achieve this goal quickly. Instead,
we can walk this path for the sake of the pleasure and satisfaction provided by the
path itself, by being creative, playful, having realizations, and doing something
meaningful. Generally, the fun is in doing, in action, rather than in the achieved
result.
When, for some reason, we are confronted with a difficult task, we must
channel all our energies into this purpose and have a “one-track mind” in our desire
to succeed. However, as long as we want something badly for mainly selfish
reasons, we may not get it, or if we do, the price may be too high and we may not
appreciate it any more.
We can overcome this obstacle by doing what needs to be done or acting for
the good of our family, community, nation, or for mankind, without desiring the fruit of
our actions for ourselves. In this way, we can never be disappointed and always get
our reward from the pleasure it gives to do well what needs to be done. Remain
aware that we are just actors in a play, with Divine guidance as the director, and
whatever the outcome of the play, all is well.
Our world covers every view and every condition possible under the given
circumstances. Due to our cultural, social, and personal programming, we select a
few views and conditions out of all that is. We focus on these, identify with them, and
move towards manifesting and even becoming them ourselves.
What we call good and evil, happiness and suffering, love and hate, joy and
despair, are part of this world. From these we select, usually subconsciously, that
with which we resonate; we attract it and then manifest it in our lives. However, we
can consciously influence this internal selection process and focus intentionally on
what we want to manifest in our lives or how we want to become. We do this by
maintaining a positive mental attitude or expectation.
Develop an attitude that remains in all situations positive, playful, tolerant, kind,
and humorous, laughing more about you and less about others. In no way, however,
should we just pretend these attitudes when we feel differently inside; always
express or acknowledge in a suitable manner whatever you feel.
It is okay to feel angry, upset, or sad. Go into it. However, in the back of your
mind, remain aware that you can change the situation and laugh any time you want.
The more you learn to take yourself less seriously, the easier it will be to laugh about
your own mistakes, until it simply becomes impossible to be angry or upset. Even

annoyances created by others may eventually cause you amusement instead of
ulcers. It is all a question of attitude.
Fear of Death: The fear of death and dying is widespread in our society, due
mainly to a materialistic belief system. Early childhood programming about eternal
punishment in hell may still have an influence on some of us. Most of the time, this
death fear is kept out of our conscious mind, unless the death of a close friend or
relative brings it to the surface. At other times, it can manifest as an inner insecurity,
a fear of disease, a general anxiety, or inner emptiness. Mourning, in this condition,
is more or less an expression of self-pity, although very helpful and necessary with
this belief system.
We can free our lives from all these negative influences by changing our belief
about death and the Afterlife. If you follow an established religion, you can actively
program yourself to believe more strongly in the positive aspects of the Afterlife as
taught by your religion.
If you do not follow a specific religion, you can get acquainted with some books
on near-death experiences or reincarnation, especially with studies using hypnotic
regression. However, do not look for “proof.” There is no concrete proof available in
spiritual matters that will convince everyone. To our normal consciousness, we
accept the spiritual world on faith and belief. Of two people confronted with the same
facts, one may believe in them and the other reject them. You can choose what you
want to believe.
After starting to believe in a spiritual truth, be it reincarnation, karma, divine
guidance, or the Afterlife, you may find more evidence to reinforce your belief. With
this, an inner knowledge will grow, which is the only true form of knowledge.
Eventually, you will know from the experience of your own life and will not be
interested anymore in the “proof” someone else may be able to offer. Nevertheless, it
may help you to review the book “A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife“
(available at: www.victorzammit.com ). In it, Victor Zammit, a retired attorney of the
High Court of Australia, has assembled all the known evidence of survival after
death. He came to the conclusion that before a court of law, the evidence taken as a
whole would constitute overwhelming evidence and irrefutable proof of the existence
of the Afterlife.
The acceptance of the Afterlife as a reality may remove the fear of death in our
society and reduce the mourning, sadness, and loss that we feel at the passing of a
loved one. Instead, it may become a celebration, in which we congratulate the
departing ones on a job well done and in which we are happy that they can now
receive their well-earned rest and reward and go on to greater things. We know that
we will catch up with them sooner or later and that it will be a great reunion.
I have in my mind the picture of a large group of deep-sea divers working under
difficult conditions in heavy steel suits at the bottom of the ocean. Their technology is
such that they can stay below for years. From time to time, one of the divers finishes
his assignment and can come back to the surface. The other divers are envious and
would like to accompany him. However, it is also important to them that they finish
their own assignments, so they give a little party for their lucky colleague,
congratulate him, wish him well, and arrange for another bigger party when they are
all back together at the surface. When the successful diver finally reaches the

surface, there is another big celebration with all his friends who had remained at the
surface or had returned before him. What a relief getting out of that heavy diving gear
after all those difficult years and seeing the sun again!
This is how I imagine the soul must feel when it can finally discard the body
after a hard life. It is understandable to feel sad at being left behind by a departing
loved one, yet the anticipation of the eventual reunion should make it easier to bear.
Even in the case of a young child dying apparently without purpose, the departed
soul may soon try to incarnate again, perhaps even with the same mother.
As we spiritually mature, we will come to know our time of departure in
advance, and we will be able to depart without requiring a disease to free our soul.
With this, we will also stop our efforts to prolong our life, to live as long as possible.
We will be happy to leave when we have finished the job that we came to do or had
the experiences we wanted.
So with this in mind, reprogram yourself into believing that you are only an
actor in a temporary role in your present life and that other roles in different lives and
perhaps different worlds are part of your greater existence. Then it may be much
easier to take it easy, to be playful about serious matters, enjoy your role in this life,
and to look at your problems as opportunities to experiment and see what comes of
them.
Self-Responsibility: By aiming for health improvement on all levels of our
existence as a conscious expression of our attitudes and beliefs, we show that we
are prepared to take responsibility for our life. It is common to blame someone or
something else for our problems, yet it rarely occurs to us to look to ourselves for the
source of our difficulties. We eat unhealthy food, create harmful emotions, adopt
negative attitudes, and when this makes us sick, we blame it on outside influences
and want someone else to fix it.
By accepting self-responsibility, we realize that there is never anyone or
anything else responsible for our problems, only us. When we become sick or have
an accident, we do not blame fate or germs, but understand that we have
transgressed a law of nature or moved against our life blueprint. We try to discover
what we did wrong and we correct the situation and guard against making this
mistake again. If our disability is of a nature that it cannot be healed, then we accept
it cheerfully as a test given to us for the good of our soul and we make the best of
what we have.
It is similar with social, marital, or financial problems. We assume that it is the
essential purpose of our existence to learn the spiritual and biological laws, to direct
our feelings and emotions into beneficial patterns, and to make the right decision at
the right time in the right place. Every problem we encounter offers us the opportunity
to learn. The way we learn most is by making mistakes and then becoming aware of
them. This is how we explore our limits. When we have learned our lessons, we will
be able to handle life’s problems without difficulty.
By adopting this principle of self-responsibility, we also adopt a position of
power. We are no longer victims of anyone or anything, but rather the masters of our
destiny.

We realize that we have to learn anyway, by the long, hard road of suffering
caused by our ignorance or by an attitude of willing cooperation in our scheme of
existence. The road of self-responsibility is so much more pleasant than the road of
suffering. It is an exciting venture in self-realization. Every unpleasant happening or
health problem not only mirrors what we have to learn but also shows us the solution
- if and when we are able to see.
Self-responsibility in regard to health care does not mean that we should rely
entirely on ourselves without outside help. Helping each other and learning to
cooperate are important parts of self-responsibility; we can seek the services of a
competent healer whenever that feels right. Our attitude towards a health
professional need not be passive submission to authority; it can be helpful and
optimistic cooperation in a joint venture in healing in which we retain the overall
responsibility. Expect your healer to help you, but not to do your work; you still need
to bring about the necessary inner and outer changes.
While the ultimate decision about our healing is made at or above our soul
level, we have to accept self-responsibility to prepare the way and remove any
obstacles for healing to become possible. I see the relationship between our Higher
Self and our personality as that between parent and child. While the child cannot
make the decision where to go on holiday, the parents will take the wishes of the
child into consideration. If the parents are generally pleased with the child and there
are no important obstacles, then the parents are likely to agree with the wishes of the
child. In the case of a so-called terminal disease, the Higher Self may grant the wish
of the person to be healed and retain the present body, especially if that may lead to
further spiritual growth.
Changing Our Attitude: Our attitude is the key to travelling the long road from
suffering to happiness. Our attitude is our mental disposition towards persons and
events as well as towards ourselves. It is greatly influenced by our belief system and
our subconscious programming. It being close to the surface of our consciousness,
we can easily observe our attitude and work on our shortcomings. This provides an
excellent opportunity for inner change. Monitor your attitude and correct it instantly
whenever it does not meet your new standards.
For example, we may have the habit of evaluating passing strangers in a
negative way. Looking at someone, we might think, “Her legs are much too fat,” or,
“He has mean eyes.” Whenever you notice yourself doing this, think of something
positive about this person or just send an inner greeting of love and peace.
You do not deny that there are negative factors in others - as seen from your
point of view - but you just ignore them. Everything has two sides, which we may call
positive and negative. The positive side is in agreement with our own values and the
negative side is in disagreement. We tend to manifest what we concentrate on.
Therefore, it is best for us to concentrate on the positive factors whenever possible
and take the negative aspects into account only when we are required to do so for
specific reasons.
The same applies to negative attitudes in an intimate relationship. You may
think on occasions that your partner is unreasonable. When this happens, try to
understand his or her position and, like a good defence lawyer, consider all the
factors in your partner’s favour. He or she may not have received much love and

security during childhood or had to fight hard for his or her rights, and so forth. Do
this as a conscious mental exercise whenever you have negative thoughts about
people or events.
In our relationships, be it in the business world or with friends and relatives, the
correct attitude for us is one that aims for a fair deal for all concerned. We may be
elated about an agreement that appears rather advantageous for ourselves, but what
good will it do us if the other party is not happy with it? We will have created a source
of resentment and trouble. Sensitive individuals will be aware of this resentment
against them and cannot be happy about a deal that the other party regards as
unfair.
When you have a mishap, breaking some crockery, dropping an open can of
paint, or hurting yourself, pretend that you are an observer and try to see the funny
side of it. When it is too serious to be funny, ask yourself why it happened, what it
wants to teach you. Perhaps you simply need to be more attentive, perhaps it has
deeper reasons; try to find out.
By training your sense of humour in this way or by looking immediately for the
reason of the accident, you may not even remember to feel upset about it; though if
you do, do not suppress it. Afterwards, realize that it happened to teach you a lesson.
Conscious Activity: In order to change undesirable habits and improve
various activities, it is necessary to become conscious of these habits and activities.
A good starting point is just to observe our mind, our thoughts, and feelings as they
arise, without any value judgment in regard to right or wrong, good or bad. Have a
part of your consciousness sitting in the back of your mind as an impartial observer,
registering everything without a comment. If done consistently, this in itself can
induce all the necessary changes to lead us towards a happy and fulfilled existence
and draw us closer to full self-realization.
For those who prefer a more active way of changing the mind, various
additional possibilities exist. As an example, you may discover that your favourite
food causes allergy or mucus congestion and you decide to avoid it. You can either
be unhappy about giving up your favourite food or you can be happy about coming
closer to good health. It is similar with accidents or any other problem. It could always
be better or worse. Your attitude decides whether you look at the positive or the
negative side of the happening, whether you make yourself happy or unhappy. You
have the choice.
We can program ourselves in such a way that something in us will call “Stop!”
whenever we start performing in the old ways, and then we can consciously do it in
the improved fashion. Another important aspect of mind improvement is to slow down
or stop the constant silent chatter in our mind and replace it with an awareness of
feelings arising in various body centres, especially in the heart centre. Aim to use the
brain only when you want to think and switch off any idle and repetitive chatter at
other times.
Two bodily activities usually in need of improvement are our posture and our
breathing. These can be monitored until we perform them automatically in the correct
way. Something we should always do consciously is eating, keeping our attention on
the food flavours that develop while placidly chewing.

We cannot become aware of all of these activities at the same time. Therefore,
we start with only one, for instance monitoring our attitude for several weeks until we
are reasonably successful with it. Then we can concentrate on the posture changes
and later on the breathing. It is different with the awareness of chewing and food
flavours. As this is for a limited time span only, we can start it immediately and
continue indefinitely. Concentrating on body sensations and feelings may be our final
challenge.
Initially, when we become aware of a new activity, we may remember it for only
a few minutes at a time and then quickly forget it again. However, when we give
ourselves the autosuggestion to remember watching a habit, we will again and again
be reminded of it. A hundred times a day, we may slump and then instantly
remember to assume the correct posture again. Do not give up. It will soon become a
new habit; then you can relax your attention on it. Gradually, become more and more
aware of your whole body and everything you do.
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Step 63
HELPFUL MIND TOOLS
Use relaxation, regression, reprogramming, prayer, meditation, and inner
communication for a more fulfilled life.
Our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, and emotions form the fabric of our
inner world. They are the main factors that determine whether we are healthy or
unhealthy, happy or unhappy. They have a direct influence on our body by changing
or maintaining our inner blueprint and by directing, blocking, or enhancing energy
flows and glandular activities. They also act in an indirect way by determining which
foods we eat, which environmental factors we choose, which kind of knowledge we
acquire and how we use it.
So to improve our condition, whether on the social, mental, or emotional level
or with reference to our health, we must first change our inner world. Here are some
recommended steps:
1. Examine your present condition on all levels. Make a list of what you do not like
and another one of how you would like to be instead.
2. Acknowledge and release emotional blocks and past negative or unwanted
conditioning. This may be the most difficult step in your improvement program
because most of these problems exist on the subconscious level.
3. Use mind-control methods to reprogram your subconscious mind; participate in
workshops.
4. Adopt a holistic and spiritual philosophy of life.
Mind-improvement therapy for acute emotional problems needs to be
accompanied by nutritional improvements such as stabilizing the blood sugar level,
avoiding allergens, and using appropriate supplements. In this way, the nutritional
component of emotional problems is easily rectified and you can make much better
progress with the remaining deep-seated problems. In this step, we’ll see how eight
mind tools can help your health.
1. Relaxation as a Tool for Mental Well-Being: Deep relaxation is a
precondition for being successful with most autosuggestion methods as well as with
meditation and all other methods to contact the inner self. You can experiment with
the methods listed below and see which one works best for you. Here are some
general guidelines:
• Sit or lie comfortably and close your eyes. Focus your attention for ten to 20
seconds on your right foot. Feel it becoming warm and heavy. Then move to the
left foot, the right calf, the left calf, and so on, moving upwards to the head.
Include the chin, jaw, eyes, and the back and top of the head. When using this
method regularly, the focusing time on each area can be gradually shortened,
and related areas, such as a whole leg or a whole arm, can be relaxed at once.
• Imagine yourself in a red-coloured room on an upper level of a high-rise
building. After a while, walk to an elevator and feel yourself going down and

down until you reach an orange room; then go further down to a yellow room, a
green one, then blue, indigo, and finally violet.
• Imagine yourself walking down a woodland path to the bottom of a waterfall; feel
the peace there.
• With each slow exhalation, feel yourself drifting lower and lower down a long
tunnel, or imagine diving towards the bottom of the sea.
• Slowly count backwards from 50 to one. With each count, imagine yourself
sinking deeper and deeper into a black void.
• Inhale for a count of eight, hold for two, exhale for eight, hold for two, and so
forth. Focus your attention on your breath; notice how it quietly flows in and out.
You can also focus on your slow inhalations and exhalations without paying
attention to the timing.
• Combine several of these methods in one exercise to achieve deeper levels of
relaxation.
AUTOGENIC TRAINING: This body-and-mind relaxation technique was developed
by J. H. Schultz.71 It requires diligent practice for several weeks or even months to
master the technique, but it is worth the effort, especially for those who are tense or
who have difficulty contacting their body.
Lie comfortably on your back, arms loosely alongside the body, palms down, or
hands folded over the abdomen. Close your eyes and breathe slowly into the
abdomen for a few minutes. At the same time, focus your mind on the formula: “I am
peaceful.”
Afterwards, repeat slowly in your mind: “My right arm feels very heavy.” Feel
your arm becoming limp and heavy like a leaden weight. If you are left-handed, use
the left arm. After a few minutes, bend and stretch the arm energetically and repeat
mentally: “My arm moves firm and free.” When you can readily feel the heaviness
after several days of practice, include the other arm, then the legs and torso. At the
end of each session, give the suggestion that the whole body is now light and free.
For the next step, add the focus: “My right arm is streaming warmth.” After you
can easily feel the warmth in the arm, include also the other arm, the legs, and torso.
The warmth does not need to be taken back at the end of a session, only the
heaviness.
For someone new to meditation and relaxation exercises, it may take about
three weeks until the heaviness and warmth can be readily felt together. Now you
can move to the next step. Support your right elbow with a pillow so that your right
hand lies over your heart. Feel it beating and hold the mental focus: “My heart is
peaceful and strong.” When you can experience your heart, you can later keep the
right arm in a usual position, relaxed along your side or hands folded over your
abdomen.
Add the focus: “It breathes me.” Feel the breath flowing in and out without
mental control. After a week or two, include the solar plexus (inside the upper
abdomen) and say: “My solar plexus radiates warmth” or “My solar plexus is
streaming warmth.”

While exhaling, imagine the warmth of the breath accumulating in the stomach
and abdomen and heating them up. Finally affirm: “My forehead is light and cool.”
You can mentally transfer the coolness felt in the throat from the incoming breath
onto the forehead.
Each time, first go through all the previous steps, such as heaviness, warmth,
and peaceful heart, and then focus on the next step you want to learn. Practice each
new step for one or two weeks. After several months, it will be easy to relax the body
completely in a very short time. Body and mind will be still and peaceful, with the
body feeling warm and heavy and the head cool and light. You may be in an altered
state of consciousness but should be inwardly alert and definitely not drowsy. This is
an excellent preparation to do before any of the autosuggestion methods and other
forms of communication with the inner self.
2. Regression Therapy: Regression therapy is a special technique of re-
enactment that can be employed professionally, in a group situation, or with a partner
or friend. You go backwards in time until you remember an emotionally charged
incident. Professionally, regression may be induced by hypnosis, but it also works
well with self-hypnosis or simply by suggestions given by a friend. However, the
person leading the regression should have some experience or at least common
sense in guiding emotionally distressed individuals.
Decide which emotional problem you want to work on. Even if you do not have
a specific problem, you may have noticed that you have sometimes acted out of
proportion in certain situations; this can be chosen as a theme. Lie down comfortably
on your back, close your eyes, and relax in response to your own relaxation exercise
or to given suggestions. Now your helper asks you to remember a recent emotional
incident and to talk about it. He will encourage you to go deeper into your feelings in
that situation while keeping verbal contact with you. Then the helper will suggest that
you slide back in your memory until you encounter a similar situation or feeling in the
past.
After a short pause, you will be asked to describe what you now hear or see
through your inner senses. You may be asked how old you are in the remembered
situation, if anyone else is present, and what is happening. The questions should be
formulated in the present tense. When you stop talking or reacting for a while, your
helper will gently lead you back into your feelings. Release your feelings as much as
possible while reliving the past incident. Finally, the helper will suggest that you relive
the situation once again, but now change it in such a way that you are happy with the
outcome. You invent your own version of a happy ending and try to feel it.
Another starting point for a regression is to find an unusual phrase that you
sometimes use or one that expresses an inappropriate belief about yourself,
preferably in connection with an emotional problem. You may sometimes say or
think, “I am too old (or too fat or too shy) to find a suitable lover,” or, “I am afraid of
crowds (or cancer or confined spaces).” Then, after relaxation, repeat this phrase
audibly over and over again and feel into it until a vision or memory develops, which
you report to your helper. Prompting questions will be used, as with the other
regression method, to lead you deeper into your emotions.
Another method, my favourite, goes as follows: Assume that this time you are
the helper or therapist to regress a friend or patient. Have the friend lie relaxed on

their back while you give instructions in a soothing voice. The initial aim is to induce
as deep a relaxation as possible. You can give the suggestions for a normal
relaxation exercise or suggest deep and slow breathing.
Then say: “Now you feel light and begin to float upwards. You rise higher and
higher into the blue sky.” After reinforcing this suggestion for a while, you can say:
“You look down but cannot see the Earth because of a dense cloud cover . . . You
continue to fly over the clouds to look for a place and a time that hold an important
clue for understanding your present condition . . . When you have found this spot,
dive through the clouds and descend to Earth . . . After landing, look around and tell
me what you see or hear or feel.” Pause after each suggestion, as indicated by the
ellipses.
If the friend remains quiet, after a while ask what is going on. If the friend
describes a landscape, ask them to find a house or some people and observe or talk
to them. Always keep verbal contact. Whatever the friend reports, try to deepen the
experience. Some may report vivid scenes and others just vague feelings. The
related incident may be an actual forgotten experience or it may symbolize the
problem.
Doing this exercise, a patient with cancer of the mouth and throat, for instance,
related to me that he had landed on a beach. Some distance away he saw a group of
people amicably gathered at another beach. I asked him to join the group to see what
was going on, but he found it impossible to approach them. He then realized that he
had felt an outsider all his life.
He was a good talker, but he talked to or at people, not with them in an open and
personal way, and he had felt separated and excluded from group activities. This
caused the energies in his mouth and throat area to stagnate and allowed a tumor to
develop specifically in that area.
Another patient related an incident. He saw himself as a young man in a fishing
boat with friends. They were drinking moderately. While all the others had fun, this
patient became ill and vomited. He said that this usually happened when he drank
alcohol. This shows that he had inherited a weak liver that he damaged still further by
trying to keep up with his mates.
In another regression, a woman in her 80’s recalled that as a baby she was
nearly suffocated by a cat lying across her face. All her life she had been afraid of
cats, even if only seen on television. After I suggested that she imagine herself as the
baby jerking her body and throwing off the cat, she immediately lost her fear of cats.
In many instances, memories and scenes come up that are obviously from a
previous life, even if a person doesn’t believe in this. Most common is the experience
of a violent death as a cause of serious present problems. Someone with Parkinson’s
disease was so afraid of fire that she became rigid merely watching a fire in a movie.
During regression, she relived the experience of being burned as a witch. After
suggesting that she burst her ropes and run away, she was much improved.
However, after some weeks, she started smelling smoke when there was none.
Another regression saw her being burned to death in the great fire of London in 1666.
After this, she was never again afraid of fire.
Instead of inducing the regression as indicated here, you may find other
suitable methods and invent your own. To end a regression session, give some

positive suggestions for coming back into the here and now. If memories become too
disturbing and emotional, the session can also be ended with positive suggestions
and repeated another time.
Repeated regressions can probe more deeply into subconscious problems or
explore different situations. When investigating a panic-laden situation, such as a
previous death experience, initially suggest the regressed person remain an impartial
observer above the scene and describe it with detachment. In repeated regressions,
you can then suggest becoming more and more closely involved and starting to
identify emotionally with the experience.
If a strong negative experience arises, always ask the friend or patient to
reinvent that experience with a happy or emotionally satisfying ending. One can also
continue to work on unearthed problem areas with affirmations and guided imagery.
As with all of these methods, it is good to start with a prayer or affirmation, stating
your goal for the session, and ask your higher guidance for protection and your inner
self for cooperation.
3. Rebirthing: Rebirthing can be used to release emotional traumas that have
accumulated since conception. Preferably have one or more initial sessions with a
professional rebirther or with a rebirthing group. Find a helper with whom you feel
emotionally secure and who has some experience or a good measure of common
sense in emotional guidance.
Lie on your back, lightly covered and without restricting clothing. The helper
can initially sit at the head end and touch your head for reassurance. Breathe deeply
in a fast, regular rhythm, without a pause between inhalation and exhalation. The
helper watches that the lower as well as the upper rib cage moves strongly. During
inhalation, press shoulders and buttocks into the mattress, while during exhalation,
let both relax. Breathe through the mouth and with an open throat to make a sound
during exhalation and preferably also during inhalation.
Let go of any emotions that arise, with the helper assisting by pressing,
stroking, cuddling, and giving verbal encouragement to bring them out. If no feelings
well up, then try to remember an incident when you where irritated, angry, fearful,
worried, or resentful and deepen that feeling. After first working on more recent
problems, try to relive your birth experience and rectify any emotional upheavals
associated with it. A surprising number of people can actually come to remember
their own birth in amazing detail.
Have plenty of big cushions or additional mattresses around so that you can
throw yourself about. Keep your eyes closed. Preferably use powerful, stirring music
with a strong, regular beat during the first part of the session, becoming quieter
towards the end and finishing with harmonious, uplifting qualities. Let your feelings
follow the music. The session may last for one to two hours.
Try to find a room or open location where you can shout and scream without
attracting undue attention. Before you start relating your experience, use crayons to
draw a picture of it, the various feelings represented by appropriate colours. You can
then change places and your friend can lie down for a session. Repeat from time to
time as required to release emotional negativity.

4. Reprogramming: Autosuggestion or reprogramming is one of the most
effective tools for changing our belief systems and reprogramming our body and
mind. It can be practiced in various forms. At the level of normal consciousness, we
can use affirmations. However, suggestions given in an altered state of
consciousness are much more effective; we then speak of it as self-hypnosis. We
can also use suggestions during sleep. Suggestions can be given in the form of inner
pictures and even motion pictures, and then we call it visualization, guided imagery,
or reverie. Reprogram-ming is much more effective if we have a strong positive
feeling or emotional outpouring at the same time.
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (EFT): Before positive affirmations can become
effective, we must first free ourselves from fears and the emotional content of
negative memories. Otherwise, these continue to cause distress and block the free
flow of energies. One of the best methods that I have found is the Emotional
Freedom Technique. This method, mainly developed by therapist Gary Craig, is very
effective in overcoming negative emotions and disturbing memories and their harmful
effects on body and mind. You may be able to eliminate some disturbing problems
within minutes.
The basic principle is to combine consciousness with energy flows. The
fundamental discovery of this therapy is stated as: The cause of all negative
emotions is a disruption of the body’s energy system. It is claimed that single aspect
problems, such as fear of public speaking, of heights, of snakes or spiders, can often
be overcome within minutes. Also, many physical problems seem to yield to the
same formula. This is not entirely surprising as most physical problems have an
emotional component. However, in addition, we can expect a direct beneficial effect
on the physical body by balancing the energy system, especially if this is combined
with conscious awareness.
You can select a health problem or a memory that still evokes a negative
emotion when you think of it or feel into it. Craig used the following formula: “Even
though I have this [state the problem], I deeply and completely love and accept
myself.” For instance, if you have been negatively affected by the diagnosis of
cancer, then you may say: “Even though I have this fear of cancer, I deeply and
completely love and accept myself.” You can also try variations, such as: “Despite my
fear of cancer, I fully expect to overcome it.” Therefore, you first state the problem
that you want to overcome and then your expected goal or solution. Preferably say
the affirmation aloud, at least in the initial tapping sequence (explained below). In
repeated tapping sequences, you can shorten the selected affirmation or say it just in
your mind.
The more specific you can be in selecting your affirmation statement, the more
effective it will be. Your fear of cancer may be a composite of multiple aspects, such
as the fear of dying, a fear of pain or suffering, a fear of having to leave your family
behind, perhaps just fear of the unknown, the emotional impact of the original
diagnosis, apprehension of financial hardship, of becoming incapacitated and a
burden on your family, and many others. You need to address each of these different
aspects separately and say, for instance, “In spite of my fear of dying . . .” or
“Although I am shocked by my cancer diagnosis . . .”
In order to make the selected affirmation effective, you tap on selected
acupuncture points. This temporarily normalizes the energy flow of the tapped

meridian. Each time, while saying your affirmation, tap each selected point about
seven times in the order given in the list. Do this firmly with the tips of the index and
middle fingers of either hand on one side of the body or better still, use all slightly
curled fingers on both sides of the body. The meridian points to tap are:
• at the top of the head
• at the inner end of each eyebrow
• on the bony ridge at the outside of the eyes
• on the bone under the eyes
• between the bottom of the nose and the top of the upper lip
• midway between the point of the chin and the lower lip
• where the breastbone, collarbone, and first rib meet
• on the side of the body, level with the nipple of a man or the bra strap of a
woman
• on the inside of each wrist
At the beginning of the procedure, and again after a series of tapping, assess
the emotional intensity of the stressful memory or fear by imagining the
corresponding situation. Assign to it a number from zero to ten, whereby you do not
feel any emotional content at zero but it is overwhelming at ten. If the intensity has
lessened but not returned to zero, repeat the series with an adjusted affirmation. Now
you can say, for instance: “Although I still have some of this fear of cancer, I deeply
and completely love and accept myself.” Later you can adjust this still further and
say: “Even though I still have some of this remaining fear of cancer . . .”
If your negative memory is not easily put into words, then you can just imagine
it as a movie scene lasting for several seconds and rerun it when tapping each point.
This may be suitable in an abuse situation with many different aspects to address. In
addition to performing the tapping on yourself, you can also work on a friend or
relative. If you do not get results, then you may need to reformulate your affirmation
to address a different aspect of the problem, or make your affirmation more specific.
With some problems, especially of a physical nature, it may help to repeat the
procedure many times during the day for an extended period. To overcome a strong
addiction, such as for drugs or smoking, it may need to be repeated every waking
half-hour for several days.
Some individuals may also be blocked by what have been called energy toxins.
These may be due to electromagnetic pollution, chemical sensitivity, food allergy,
and especially medical drugs. If no progress can be made with different affirmations,
then try to perform the procedure in a different and preferably unpolluted place. If this
does not help, clean yourself thoroughly in a bath or shower but without any soap
and then test (using muscle testing, as explained earlier in the book) before putting
clothes on. Try standing on a tile or hardwood floor instead of a carpet. If that does
not help either, try an elimination diet, as described in part 1. The most common
energy toxins are often the foods that we love most, in addition to perfume, herbs
and spices, wheat, corn, sugar, coffee, tea, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and dairy
products. Try muscle testing to find the source of your problem.

For more information see: www.emofree.com and www.emotionalrelief.org .
Dr. Mercola has a good EFT protocol for beginners at: www.mercola.com .
As an extension of this method, I suggest that after freeing yourself of negative
memories, you also experiment with positive affirmations, especially for improving
body conditions. While you may start out formulating your phrase as given above and
say: “Even though I still have some remaining weakness in my immune -system, I
deeply and completely love and accept myself,” you may eventually rephrase it as:
“Every day in every way my immune system is stronger and stronger.” You can
augment any other positive affirmations in the same way.
AFFIRMATIONS:Look through your list of beliefs that you want to change and
select one or two that have the most immediate importance. Often this will be a
health problem or an emotional difficulty. Then work out a short statement to describe
your goal.
With breathing problems, for instance, you can state: “My breath flows freely
and easily at all times.” Write it down at least ten times and then read it aloud as
often as you wrote it. Do this several times daily. While making each statement, try to
feel it at the same time; in our example, feel your breath flowing freely.
Be aware of your inner reaction to the affirmation. Does it sound convincing or
does it ring phony? Ask your inner self to participate in formulating the affirmation, so
it leaves a good feeling when you use it.
Initially, you may perhaps state, “I am happy, healthy, and fit,” but something
inside you may suggest instead, “You are happy, healthy, and fit” or “We are happy,
healthy, and fit,” the “we” referring to your different selves. Try out such variations
and different formulations of the same problem and then select the one that feels
best.
Another good general affirmation was used extensively by Emile Coue, the
originator of autosuggestion therapy: “With every day in every way I am better and
better.” Note the rhythm and poetic sound of this suggestion. In this way, the right
half of our brain, which requires artistic stimulation, can accept a verbal suggestion
that it otherwise might ignore. The right brain is intimately linked to our subconscious
mind. Making the message acceptable to the right brain is the key to successful
reprogramming. I also like to say: “My days are filled with love and joy.” You can say
this right after the Coue affirmation. Feel the joy and love while you say it.
Another way in which this can be done is by singing our affirmation or saying it
in rhythm or rhyme or with suitable music. Most effective appears to be baroque
music with about 60 beats per minute, preferably featuring string instruments. You
can also experiment by using different colours in writing down your affirmations, or
incorporate the written affirmation in a painting, or even express your affirmation as a
painting.
Preferably work on only one important problem at a time, be it for days or
weeks or months, until you have made sufficient progress. You can, however, use a
general formula, like the one by Coue, in addition to an affirmation for a specific
problem.
Affirmations are statements of goals or intentions that you imprint on the mental
level with the aim of getting them accepted by the inner self. When this is achieved,

when the inner self believes your statement, it is as good as done. As with prayer,
the key to success is your faith that your request has already been granted at the
spiritual level and just takes some time to become manifest in your existence. In
order to demonstrate this faith, it helps to stop using the specific affirmation after
some time and live as if it has already come true.
5. Self-Hypnosis: Instead of clothing a suggestion in an artistic dress to make
it acceptable to the right side of the brain, we can achieve a similar result by
switching off the analytical left side of our brain. We can do this by entering a state of
deep relaxation or meditation. We are naturally in this state just before falling asleep
or upon awakening. In this condition, the alpha brain waves dominate. Experiment
with the various relaxation and meditation methods already described in this book.
When fully relaxed or in an altered state of consciousness, repeat mentally, or
just slightly audibly, an affirmation which you have selected beforehand. Mentally
wander through your body and give a positive suggestion to each organ and system,
and send a strengthening flow of energy into each.
Start with the head and say mentally or aloud: “Brain healthy and balanced,
hair natural color, eyes strong, scalp relaxed, forehead relaxed, neck muscles
relaxed,” and so forth, working your way down to the toes. Then mention the various
systems and functions, such as “nervous system strong and balanced, glandular
system healthy and balanced, digestive system strong and efficient.” Mention also
the blood circulation, the immune system, reproductive organs, and the lymph
circulation.
Repeat each suggestion several times or for about half a minute. Concentrate
for a longer period on problem areas. Tell your body to cleanse itself of toxins and
metabolic residues. Feel the toxic energies leaving your body through the feet and
with the breath.
Do not think while giving these suggestions. Let them casually drift into your
mind and hold them leisurely for a while. Keep your attention on feeling the various
body parts or the effects of any other suggestions. You are in the correct state of
mind if you startle at an unexpected outside noise.
Before opening your eyes after awakening or when finishing your meditation or
a relaxation exercise, give yourself a positive suggestion: “When I count to five, my
eyes will open and I will feel refreshed, energized, and joyful.” Then count slowly and
try to feel the sensation of being refreshed, energetic, and joyful. Give yourself
helpful suggestions for a restful sleep or for solving specific problems just before
falling asleep.
Children, and adults with their consent, can be given helpful suggestions during
their sleep. Start by telling them to continue sleeping, that all is well, and that you
love them. Then repeat the special message ten times in simple words. With
children, this may involve overcoming problems of bed-wetting, behaviour, or school
activity. For yourself, you can also use tape-recorded messages that automatically
switch on and off.
6. Guided Imagery: For many problems, visualization or mental imagery is the
most powerful autosuggestion method. After entering a state of deep relaxation,
visualize your goal or the desired solution to your problem, and hold the picture in a

vivid form for as long as possible. Try to feel it at the same time. Alternatively, you
can produce a “mental movie,” also called a guided reverie. Visualization is usually
more effective if you do not try to hold on to a still picture, but make it in some way
dynamic, with changes in color, size, and intensity of feeling.
Picture various scenes eventually leading to the desired solution. See yourself
as you would like to be, with natural hair color, smooth skin, ideal weight, joyfully
dancing, overflowing with energy while running up a hill, and so forth. For improving
and toning your body, visualize and feel each organ and gland in turn, see it in a
healthy shape and color; you can refresh your memory from an anatomical atlas
beforehand. In addition, picture streams of healing energies circulating through the
body; use yellow or orange colours for toning, green for balancing, and blue for
sedation.
Visualize your health problem. For instance, if there is a tumor inside your
body, visualize it as a black or gray mass. Then do breathing exercises: With each
inhalation, see your body being flooded with a golden-yellow energy. See how this
energy gradually dissolves and washes away the dark tumor mass; with each breath,
see it become smaller. The dissolved mass is then expelled with the outgoing breath.
Make this exercise last 15 minutes or longer until the tumor has completely
disappeared before your inner eye. If you finish much sooner, then start again
dissolving the full-sized tumor. Repeat this exercise daily or even twice daily in
serious conditions, best in combination with prayer and meditation.
As an additional exercise, see your immune cells charging into the growth and
destroying the cancer cells. Invent a picture with a strong emotional impact. You
may, for instance, see your immune cells as white mice nibbling away at a cheese
that represents the tumor, or you may see them as star-wars spaceships shooting
down ugly enemy spaceships that symbolize individual cancer cells.
For different conditions, invent your own visualizations. For cataracts, see a
gray film over your eyes slowly disappearing. If there is a severe pain, see it as a
fireball that is gradually extinguished by a flood of deep-blue, water-like energy,
drawn in with the breath. For a paralysed body part, see an orange or fiery red
stream of energy enter the limb with each breath, causing it to become more and
more hot, tingling, and gently moving with each renewed burst of energy. Use your
imagination to create a mental picture suitable for your specific problems. There is no
limit to what you can achieve.
The following exercise may show you the power of imagination:
• Sit relaxed, then turn your head without moving the shoulders as far as possible
to each side, and note how far you can see the wall behind your back from each
side.
• Perform a short relaxation exercise and then imagine that your head turns
effortlessly almost 180 degrees to each side so that you can see the whole wall
at your back.
• Repeat this imaginary turning of the head several times to each side, but without
moving the head physically.
• Open your eyes and turn your head to each side and note how far you can now
see behind your back.

BODY TALK: Guided imagery is even more effective if you combine it with talking
to your body. Imagine that the body has many different levels of consciousness. Your
mind usually works at the mental level while your subconscious mind is in charge of
the emotional level. Below that is the life-force level, and that is where your body self
operates. However, I believe that each organ in our body and even each cell has its
own consciousness. You were already enlisting the cooperation of all these individual
levels of consciousness with your guided imagery. Now imagine that you can talk to
them as well and that they are willing and eager to comply with your wishes.
In a relaxed state, talk to any organ that you want to improve. Talk to the “body
self” that is in charge of all the different organs and body parts. Give it a name, as for
instance, your unused middle name, and talk to it as you would to a child with a
problem. Tell it repeatedly what you want it to do, such as shrink a tumor, put on or
lose weight, strengthen the immune system, remove toxins, and so forth. Give it
enthusiastic encouragement and convince it that it is able to do it. If, for instance, you
have a breast tumor, then ask it to heal the breast and to support the breast in its
efforts to heal.
Then in the same way talk to the affected breast. Tell it what you want it to do.
Tell it that it is strong enough to heal the tumor and heal any lesions. Ask it to turn to
the body self for help. Assure your breast that you love it and promise frequently to
send it love energy and any other support that it may need. Then do not forget to do
as you said. Tell your body self as well as your breast to let you know what you can
do better to support them, and in a relaxed state listen for an answer. A helpful idea
may unexpectedly cross your mind.
Talk audibly and frequently to your body, at least once a day. After the initial
contact, you do not always need to be in a relaxed state but can talk whenever you
feel like it. You may find it very effective talking in front of a mirror. You can also
directly talk to your army of immune cells, giving them a pep talk as their commander
in chief, or ask the red blood cells to carry more oxygen or the lymph fluid to remove
waste products more efficiently.
CHANGING YOUR REALITY: Let’s say your reality is that you have been diagnosed
with cancer and that you have various physical signs and symptoms to prove it.
However, the crucial point is that you cannot change your reality by focusing on what
it is. This is so because we create our own reality by what we focus on. If we focus
on having and fighting cancer, then we reinforce having cancer as our reality. The
harder we fight it, the harder it fights back. Resist and it will persist.
Therefore, to change your reality you need to change your focus. Focus on
what you want instead of what you have. That is magic. Focus on what you want to
be your reality and fill it with your energy. To do this, you can use various mind tools
such as affirmation, visualization, guided imagery, prayer, and meditation. But most
important, you must live in harmony with the new reality that you want to manifest.
You must live as if - as if the healthier and more joyful reality has already started to
manifest. It is not enough to expect tomorrow to be better or upon awakening in the
morning to expect to have a better day. It is good to expect that, but expectation is
not enough. During the day, you actually need to act according to your new reality by
embracing life to the fullest.

Do whatever you need to improve your health. You may occasionally have a
cleansing period; you may take certain supplements; or make juices and eat certain
foods. But do it with the focus of improving your health rather than fighting the cancer
and, whatever you do, do it willingly and joyfully. Make your day as interesting and
joyful as you can. The more you succeed in this, the more you will forget that you
have cancer and the less you will have it and the less it will have you.
Change your focus, deny your present reality your emotional and mental
energy, and it will gradually vanish, allowing your new reality to manifest to the
degree that you invest it with your energies. But in our physical reality, that takes
time. You need to be persistent with your new focus. Any period of doubt or
negativity may invalidate a long effort of positive refocusing and you may have to
start all over again. Therefore, avoid people and situations, mainly of a medical
nature, that tend to generate doubt and negativity. Train your mind to see only the
good in everyone and everything. Even your life-threatening illness was good, by
helping you to refocus on a new and better life.
7. Prayer and Meditation: In prayer you
CAUTION: Some individuals may be
ask for guidance, give thanks, or offer yourself
a little unstable, but may not know it.
for service, while in meditation you listen for the
This is often due to adverse nutritional
answer. The two methods can be combined in
or chemical factors. During meditation,
what we can call “inner communication.”
this can open the door to undesirable
influences. In this condition, people PRAYER: Prayer is a means of making our
may hear voices telling them to act in a requirements known to a higher guidance. This
manner that may harm others. may be a request for help for ourselves or
Therefore, be on your guard and follow others; it may be a request for advice; we may
any inner voices only if their advice is in express our gratitude; or we may offer
harmony with your ideals and with the ourselves as vehicles for greater service to
signs of true spirituality. Especially do mankind. You can continue to address your
not act on any advice that may be prayer in the accustomed way or however it
harmful to another person. feels best. When you pray to God, Jesus, or a
saint, assume that the prayer passes from the
lower self to the Higher Self and from there to any other “address” as may be
required.
When you need help with an important problem, formulate your request in a
short, precise form and preferably write it down. Then enlist the help of the lower self
to pass on your prayer to the Higher Self. This can be done through devotion,
invocation, chanting, or in any way that produces an emotional uplifting, a warm
emotional tide coming from your heart or solar plexus. This creates a “carrier wave”
that can now be modulated by clearly and precisely stating your request.
Best say it aloud, in the same way as it is written and with the same words on
successive days. In addition, create a mental picture or impression of the desired
result. It is important that such prayers be performed with a deep inner conviction that
the request will be granted.
When you live in close contact with your Higher Self and readily receive
guidance, you may proceed in a less formal way and communicate with your Higher
Self in whatever way it deems appropriate. The most effective prayer is a

thanksgiving for the granted request, knowing that it has already started to manifest
on the spiritual level and will in due time appear in your reality.
Here a summary of some requirements for a successful prayer:
• Contemplate and formulate your message.
• Relax or enter a meditative state.
• Create an emotional opening or outpouring.
• Say your message in simple words, preferably aloud.
• Include thanksgiving for what you are about to receive.
• Have complete faith that the prayer is successful.
• Repeat your prayer on successive days.
MEDITATION: During meditation, you still your mind and raise your awareness
towards your guiding consciousness. Christian saints used to call meditation “silent
prayer.” In meditation, you remain in a heightened state of consciousness without
thinking.
During meditation, we should be wide-awake. Therefore, if we feel somewhat
tired, our meditation can be improved by raising our energies beforehand with a few
minutes of deep breathing and whole-body shaking. Then proceed with a relaxation
exercise and preferably an invocation or devotional service in which you state the
goal of your meditation in a prayer or affirmation.
Assume a physical position in which you can be comfortable for an extended
period. Preferably keep the spine straight. You can sit erect, with both feet on the
ground, in a chair with a straight back, or sit cross-legged in a lotus or semi-lotus
position. For many, it may be more comfortable to sit on the heels with a cushion
under the feet. You can also lie flat on your back if you are able to remain wide-
awake in that position.
An easy method is to start with eight-two breathing (as explained in step 9) and
then gradually let the breath move on its own. Focus your full attention on the breath;
feel how it flows in and out smoothly and rhythmically. Do not try to regulate or guide
the breath; just follow it mentally and feel it. When thoughts arise, let them drift past
without paying any attention to them; the same with outside noises, just ignore them.
At other times, you can concentrate on your heart area and feel it become
warm and filled with love and compassion. Alternatively, focus on the middle of your
forehead, feel it as a centre of happiness or even bliss. If the eyes are closed, it helps
if you turn them up and inwards as if looking at the forehead centre. In addition, feel
connected to your Higher Self through a beam of energy entering the top of your
head.
Hold these sensations as long as you can. If possible, unite the sensations of
the head and the heart and expand them throughout the body. Do not be
disappointed if you cannot feel the warmth and love radiation the very first time, just
keep on practicing. Meditate for 30 minutes or longer, the longer the better.
Preferably make meditation a regular habit at the same time and in the same location
each day.

A Healing and Love Meditation
• Sit or lie relaxed but with a especially in need of world. Realize that you are
straight spine. healing. not the originator of this
• Concentrate on the middle powerful energy flow, but
• Take some slow, full
of the chest where you just a channel through which
breaths; mentally follow
create a feeling of intense it emerges from higher
each breath as your breath
love and compassion. dimensions and is
continues to flow quietly in
transformed by you to the
and out on its own. • Initiate this feeling by
human qualities of love and
• Feel how your body remembering an actual
compassion.
gradually becomes situation or person that
invoked such feelings in • At other times, radiate joy
immersed in cosy warmth -
you. After a while, forget the and happiness instead. Hold
you can imagine being in a
actual memory and feel love on to the impression of
warm bath.
and compassion in an being immersed in an ocean
• Concentrate on the idea that of beneficial healing energy
abstract way.
with each inhalation vital and for the rest of the day
energy or prana begins to fill • Imagine that you radiate
feel an afterglow of the love
the body. Direct this energy these feelings, like a sun,
and compassion or joy and
into your abdomen and feel radiating love and
happiness you experienced.
it becoming very warm. compassion instead of light
and warmth. Radiate these • If an unpleasant condition
• Direct the pleasant-feeling develops during the day, try
to all your body areas in
energy stream to those to recall mentally the ocean
need of healing as well as to
areas of the body that are of warm contentment
the outside, filling the room,
the house, and finally all the enjoyed during meditation.
CENTERING: During our daytime activities, especially on important occasions, it

is beneficial to focus our feeling awareness on an inner energy centre. We may feel
this as a deep inner peace, as love or compassion, depending on our focus and the
requirements of the occasion. This allows us to gather our energies and gives us
poise and serenity. This is called centering - moving through life in a meditative state.
There are various methods of centering. The Japanese, for instance, prefer to
centre themselves in the hara, the storehouse of vital energies behind the navel. This
helps one conduct daily activities in a more focused and powerful way. If we prefer to
interact in our relationships and daily life with love and compassion, then we use the
feeling awareness in the heart chakra as the method of centering. Focusing on the
forehead chakra may be more appropriate during times of intense mental activity,
such as discussions and meetings.
If we aim to act from our level of spiritual consciousness and like to feel
connected with and guided by our Higher Self, then we may centre on the crown
chakra. Finally, with some practice, we may be able to fuse our awareness of all of
these chakras and remain centred within this integrated feeling awareness.
When we are centred, we are not only mentally and emotionally poised and
balanced, but at the same time alert and intuitive. In this way, we can remain in touch
with our spiritual guidance continuously during our waking activities. When we are

active while being centred, both sides of our brain work in a balanced way and this is
reflected in the balance of our whole personality.
It is much easier to remain centred during manual activity than while thinking,
reading, or writing, but gradually we can also learn to remain centred during mental
tasks. Eventually, we may be able to remain indefinitely in a semi-meditative state by
focusing part of our awareness on our inner centre while another part deals with our
external problems.
8. Inner Communication: In order to receive direct guidance from your Higher
Self, combine relaxation, visualization, prayer, and meditation. Start with a relaxation
method that gives you the feeling of drifting lower and lower as to the bottom of a
lake. Or imagine sinking down a long, black tunnel towards the core of your being.
The farther you sink, drift, or swim downwards, the more you leave the noise and
activity of the outer world behind. Regard any remaining noise as ripples on the
surface of the lake while you remain at the bottom in peace and stillness.
Instead of going down, you can mentally create a special room that you enter
only when you want to meet your higher guidance, either by telepathic
communication or seeing it as a wise and kind guide. Another possibility is mentally
walking down a shaded path to a waterfall and meeting your guide there.
Whether you see a guide or not, address your presumed guide with reverence
and ask him to start guiding you on your spiritual path, in health matters, and with
other problems, by communicating with you. Ask a question and listen for the
answer. You may receive an immediate telepathic reply, such as an inner voice or a
thought popping into your mind. Alternatively, you may develop a certain feeling in
reply to a question rather than getting a mental response and this may indicate the
direction in which to proceed. Maintain a blank mind after asking your question,
otherwise you may not hear the answer or start thinking of an answer yourself. You
can ask several questions and hear answers as in a dialogue. Prepare your
questions in advance, before starting the relaxation, so that you do not need to think
while in meditation.
INTUITIVE MEDITATIVE THINKING: This is related to the traditional practice of
contemplation. Suppose you want to find an answer to a problem. This can be a
health problem, an invention, or a spiritual matter. Start by finding out relevant facts
and information, and then examine it from different perspectives with your mind. In
this way, you can identify the key question that needs to be answered in order to find
the solution to your problem. Keep this key question in the back of your mind and
enter a meditative state without specifically thinking about anything. Watch any
thoughts drifting by. If you have thought hard enough about the problem before and
now maintain a reasonably blank mind but with the question still in the background,
then the answer may now drift into your consciousness as an intuition.
FOCUSING: Lie down or sit comfortably and induce a relaxed condition. If you
have a pain, hurt, disease, or any problem in your body, focus your attention on it.
Feel into it and ask it what it has to tell you, or visualize your problem in a simple,
symbolic way, then mentally sit back and let the pictures or symbols change of their
own accord.
You can do the same thing with an uneasy feeling such as created by a social,
financial, or other problem. Contact that uneasy feeling, possibly by feeling it as a

pressure somewhere in your body. If you have a multitude of problems, ask yourself
which one is the worst and try to feel this one first.
After listening to your body and feeling the tension it creates somewhere, a
certain impression may form within you as an answer to what it is all about or you
may see a symbol as an answer. Then ask that tension or problem in your body
whether this is the right answer and feel what it does. If your answer is correct or
partly correct, the problem will shift; the tension or pain may lessen or you may feel
relieved. If the answer is wrong, the feeling of unease will not change. Try again. This
process may have to be repeated many times over several days or weeks to come to
the bottom of deep-seated emotional problems.
SLEEP OR DREAM SOLUTIONS: Before falling asleep, pray to be shown a solution
to your problem overnight or tell your subconscious mind repeatedly in simple words
that it will provide an answer to the problem at hand, either in a remembered dream
or as an insight during the following day. Visualize your problem in a simple scene
before you drift to sleep. If you are not already in contact with your subconscious
mind, this procedure may have to be repeated several times.
MAKING SACRIFICES AND AMENDS: Sometimes it may not be possible to get to the
deep-seated cause of a personal problem. Especially in cases associated with
feelings of guilt or having done something wrong, it is often helpful to make a
sacrifice in order to regain the cooperation of our subconscious mind or lower self.
The sacrifice must be enough to hurt you to some extent, for example, selling
the best part of your stamp, coin, or art collection and using the proceeds for a
charitable purpose. Alternatively, give a free service or care for a stranger in need -
anything that will satisfy the subconscious. Make amends with reference to past
faulty mental, emotional, or dietary habits. Promise improvements and definite
actions to your lower as well as to your Higher Self. However, a broken promise will
lead to further health problems, so be careful and persistent with your promises. Do
not resent your sacrifice, but do it in a cheerful mood.
MOVING WITH THE FLOW: With or without inner communication, we can gradually
adopt an attitude towards the events of our daily lives that may be described as
“moving with the flow,” as in the flow of life. This means we flow through life instead
of battling it when the going gets tough.
We can assume that our Higher Self guides us in a certain direction. When we
follow this direction, life will run more smoothly, events fall into place, we meet the
people we need, we find information that helps us along, and we obtain the
necessary resources to continue on our way. If we go too far in a wrong direction,
however, things will become tough, we make mistakes, lose out, do not obtain what
we want or need, and so forth. Therefore, when we adopt the basic attitude of
moving with the flow and we run into difficulties, we realize that we may need to
change direction. While we remain true to our spiritual goals and ideals, with the
goals of daily life, and especially in the way we intend to achieve them, we try to be
very flexible. Rigidity in daily life easily leads to pain and disappointment.
We can compare our stream of life to a newly formed watercourse that seeks
its way down a gentle mountain slope. Sometimes it winds its way steadily downhill,
while at other times it encounters a barrier, a hollow or depression in the ground.
Then it has to wait patiently for a while until the hollow is filled up. It may probe in

various directions until finally, quite naturally, and without a problem, it finds the
overflow, the lowest point in the wall of resistance, and happily it continues on its
downhill way.
This, then, shows us how we can follow our course of life in an easygoing,
pleasurable way, without undue stress or hardship. When we encounter a resistance,
we probe and wait patiently until we find a natural opening. All we need are flexibility,
patience, and faith. Faith that we are being guided, that we meet the resistance for a
purpose, and that we will learn and grow by overcoming it or finding a way around it.
Faith that all will be well and that an interesting and pleasant future awaits us.
ASK FOR HELP: If problems seem to mount and you feel pulled down by it all,
relax and ask your guidance for help. State your situation, that you do not know what
to do or that there is apparently nothing that you can do. If appropriate, acknowledge
that you made a mistake and got yourself into trouble because of a thoughtless or
selfish action. Ask your guidance to take over your problems and provide a solution
that is fair to all concerned. Then, whenever you notice your mind straying towards a
worrying thought, affirm silently that now your guidance has taken over and is
providing an equitable solution.
EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES: Sometimes you have to make a choice between several
possibilities without a clear preference for any one. Like water when it meets a
resistance in its flow, so you can probe in various directions, exploring the different
possibilities with your mind, while at the same time closely observing your feelings.
Let us assume you have several options for your future. All have advantages
and disadvantages, and you do not know what to do. Doing nothing or changing
nothing may have undesirable consequences that need to be evaluated. Start by
imagining that you follow one course; visualize or mentally explore the possibilities
arising from this and observe how you feel about it. Explore the second choice and
then a third choice in the same way. Usually one of these mind-plays will generate a
better feeling and this is the one to adopt.
Whenever problems seem to mount and you start to worry, become aware of
your spiritual philosophy and ideals and ask yourself: “Does it really matter?” Remain
centred and all your problems will soon melt away in the warmth of your radiating
love and a deeply felt inner peace.
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Part 10
SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
In order to become more whole and healed on all levels of our being, we need
to improve ourselves on these levels. Complete healing is not possible by working on
just one level. As an example, assume that you are overweight. Mustering willpower,
you start a diet and are successful in losing much weight. The problem is that after
some months it slowly creeps back up again and after a year your weight is where it
started.
Eventually, you come across some emotional release workshops and find that
these, together with a sensible diet, are more effective for losing weight and keeping
it off. Nevertheless, you find it difficult to keep your emotions under control because
you still continue to react in undesirable ways. Now you discover that you are
influenced by negative beliefs that make life difficult for you.
You realize that you need an appropriate belief system in order to manage your
emotions in an appropriate way. You start looking for a philosophy of life that helps
you to become and remain healthy, happy, and fit. This is where the spiritual
dimension comes in. You will find that the more you adopt spiritual principles in your
life, the more life will become an adventure and a pleasure rather than a struggle.
Most of us have developed our belief systems haphazardly, drawing from
parents, school, and social contacts as well as books and mass media. These beliefs
are often irrational and detrimental to us.
So to heal our emotions and other levels of our being, it is essential to adopt a
suitable philosophy of life to guide us. I call this a spiritual philosophy. The various
religions appear to have different spiritual philosophies. These differences are most
pronounced at the mental level of dogmas and doctrines, while they tend to
disappear at the level of the highest ideals of each religion. In all major religions,
some followers have aimed for these highest ideals. They are the mystics who left us
in their writings a spiritual philosophy that transcends and unites all religions.
This last chapter offers an outline of the spiritual dimension, existing in a
continuum with our physical world and not separate or in opposition to it. Out of this
understanding, we can accept a spiritual philosophy of life as the basis for our
beliefs, which determine our decisions and emotional reactions in life. Then I offer a
sketch of a modern spiritual path that uses health and emotional problems to develop
the spiritual master-ship that gives us the ability to lead a happy and fulfilled life.
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Step 64
THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION
Enter the spiritual dimension of life and make it your home.
The concept of spirituality means different things to different people. In this

book, it means deliberately manifesting or aspiring to manifest a higher, purer
consciousness. We do this by developing the attributes of spirituality, such as
compassion, discernment, faith, high ideals, harmony, joy, inner knowledge, intuition,
kindness, openness, patience, self-responsibility, serenity, tolerance, wisdom, and a
gentle love for All That Is.
To be spiritual is not the same as to be religious, which involves following the
creed of a proclaimed religion. Someone can be spiritual without being religious and
vice versa. Those who are religious become spiritual by following the highest ideals
of their religion, while those without a religion follow their own highest ideals and their
higher guidance. On the higher levels of consciousness, religion and spirituality
merge. In Christian terms, for instance, we are advised to “seek first the Kingdom of
Heaven” and all else will be given us. In spiritual terms, this means to seek first and
follow our higher guidance to manifest spirituality, then we can expect health and
happiness to result as a natural by-product.
Spiritual development should not be confused with psychic development.
Psychic abilities are no measure of spirituality. However, psychic abilities will develop
on their own and in a natural way during spiritual awakening, according to the need
for their use. While neither good nor bad in themselves, psychic abilities without
spirituality are like nuclear power without prudence; both can lead to disaster.
Neither is spiritual development a quest for altered states of consciousness,
though these may occur as natural by-products of deep relaxation and meditation.
They can be useful and provide us with insights as well as beautiful and uplifting
inner experiences. However, our main task is at the level of our normal
consciousness, and such inner experiences at elevated levels need to be
transformed into improved living habits.
We become more spiritual by living according to our highest ideals, and by
consciously improving our attitudes and feelings. Every moment in our day-to-day
interactions provides an opportunity to become more spiritual. We are aided in this
endeavour by asking for help from the highest guiding part of our consciousness,
which we can call the Higher Self or, in Christian terms, the Holy Spirit.
Our Spiritual Growth: Living spiritually is our day-to-day, minute-to-minute
effort to live according to our beliefs. Our body with its problems is an important
partner in this; it shows us where to start and what to do and helps us become more
aware of all aspects of ourselves.
Healing our body, mind, and emotions is part of our spiritual growth. Even if you
do not otherwise intend to live spiritually, you do so anyway by healing yourself on
these levels. I am convinced that by living in harmony with the biological, emotional,
mental, and spiritual laws that govern us, we can be close to perfect; we might even
personify the risen Christ. Therefore, all imperfections, usually manifesting as

problems, show us what to do to become more spiritual and, with this, more happy
and fulfilled.
Starting at the biological level, we may have a health problem, possibly a
specific disease. This disease has one or more causes, usually on several levels.
Just trying to ease symptoms with palliative care is not a spiritual solution, although
we can use the disease to practice cheerfulness in adversity. With our spiritual quest,
we try to discover and overcome the causes for the disease. We experiment with
nutrition, cleansing, and other natural healing methods; we improve our energy flows
by softening armoured muscle structures; we release suppressed negative emotions;
and we may use regression and reprogramming, guided imagery, and meditation.
Chances are the disease will more or less disappear as, at the same time, we have
progressed on the spiritual path.
The same is true for any of our other imperfections and problems: a rigid and
aging body, a lack of meaning, unsatisfactory relationships, worry, or resentments.
Keep part of your mind in observer mode and be aware of what you are doing. If you
catch yourself worrying about something, that is your problem to work on; worry is a
negative attitude, and you need to change your approach. Do what you can to get the
problem fixed and then leave it to faith; use prayer and meditation to strengthen your
faith.
If you catch yourself having an unkind thought about someone, immediately
make an effort to send a kind thought to that person. If you believe someone has
harmed you, realize that this person is a human who needs your help. Be angry if
you feel that way, but let it out in a suitable manner, and when you have calmed
down, forgive and send love.
Learn to laugh about yourself when you make a mistake or break something.
You would laugh if it happened to someone else, so try it for yourself; it makes life
much easier. Taking ourselves too seriously shows that we are dominated by our
ego.
It is said that no one is an island, that we all are in it together. We interact all
the time, and helping our fellows is the most important part of interacting. We cannot
help by preaching or trying to convince somebody. The most effective way is to be an
example of your spiritual beliefs. Be forgiving, be kind, try to do the right thing at the
right time, but if you mess up, do not worry; you are not expected to be perfect, so try
again.
As your consciousness expands, you may realize that your job or your partner
are no longer in harmony with your beliefs. Visualize and pray for a solution and
watch.
You do not need to go out of your way to look for opportunities to help others.
Just be aware and do your best whenever you come across something; your
guidance will arrange the opportunities for you to learn and help. Do not blame
yourself or anyone else if something goes wrong; making mistakes is the best way to
learn. We need to make mistakes and learn from them - that is the spiritual path.
Specific ways of life have been devised through the ages to facilitate the growth
of a spiritual body. Foremost in these are prayer and meditation, especially as part of
monastic life. In a related form, we have the yoga of devotion and the yoga of action
in which we dedicate our life to unselfish social work or healing. Rituals, such as
performed by the Orthodox or Catholic church, metaphysical societies, and New Age

groups, offer spiritual food. When we deliberately set out to awaken and build a body
for the inner Christ, we are said to be on the spiritual path.
The Structure of Manifestation: Here is a brief outline of a theoretical basis of
spirituality as I see it. Starting at the fundamental level, I regard consciousness as the
basic ingredient of everything in existence. We can compare consciousness to air,
which can be compressed to varying degrees of density in containers of different
shapes and sizes. In a similar way, consciousness becomes compressed and can
then aggregate to form more complex structures.
Different densities accumulate at separate levels to form an additional
dimension based on density of consciousness. I call this the dimension of “space-
density.” A certain density produces atomic and subatomic particles, while lesser
degrees of density manifest as etheric energy, bioenergy, or prana, as feelings and
emotional energy, as mental energy and thought forms, and finally as spiritual
awareness. All of these represent different space--densities that can interpenetrate
each other to occupy the same three-dimensional space.
Therefore, there is no fundamental difference between the consciousness of an
atom and a human; it is only a difference in complexity and range of densities. The
universe is basically consciousness acting on itself. Less dense fields of
consciousness build, change, discard, and rebuild forms from denser fields of
consciousness in order to experience and express themselves. The main activity of
consciousness is creativity; its highest manifestation on our planet is unconditional
love.
We can assume two streams of consciousness. The “stream of creation” leads
towards greater density and less complexity to form atomic particles and the physical
universe, while the “stream of evolution” flows from dense towards less dense
structures with greater complexity towards the spiritual universe.
As part of the stream of evolution, consciousness uses the various life forms,
like water uses a riverbed to flow to the ocean. A life form, be it a species or an
individual form, is useful only as long as it allows the consciousness to flow through
freely and expand. If rigidity develops and consciousness becomes stagnant, then
the form has reached old age and will soon disintegrate.
Physics cannot adequately and logically answer the question how all the
energy and mass of our universe could have been concentrated in a single point at
the start of the Big Bang and what was before. A spiritual theory of creation would
say that originally there was no energy at the physical level, that it emerged instead
from the etheric level, not so much as an explosion, but rather like the crystallization
of a supersaturated liquid starting from a seed point. A spiritual theory also answers
the question of the origin of consciousness that biology cannot answer: Our physical
universe is a condensation of a less dense etheric universe. Atomic particles are the
centres of etheric vortexes, comparable to atmospheric high and low pressure areas.
Planetary Evolution: I see the evolution of consciousness on our planet as a
multidimensional cooperative venture. Consciousness in the form of the growth force
is most active in the plant kingdom and works to transform the mineral kingdom.
In the animal kingdom, consciousness becomes dominant at the level of
feelings and emotions; it is at this level where most of the experimentation and
creativity are present. The emotional level channels the growth force into more

individualized forms than those in the plant kingdom. A price for this individualization
is a more solidified growth force with less regenerative capacity.
Insects are close to plants, with only rudimentary feelings, while primates and
possibly dolphins are closest to the humans with highly evolved complex feelings.
Similar to the evolution in the plant kingdom, which leads to the beginning of feelings
in the highest plant species, so the higher animal species acquire a rudimentary
capacity for thinking.
By having its emotional energies guided with the help of the emerging mental
level, the animal kingdom culminates with the primates channelling their life force into
a nearly perfect form for our planetary conditions. With this, the planetary evolution of
the growth force has been further completed and humanity works now on the
perfection of the emotional level with the help of the mental level. We use beliefs to
experiment with our emotions.
The animal kingdom required a rudimentary mental level for the growth force to
be channelled by the emotional level into a perfect form. In a similar way, humans
need a level of consciousness beyond the mental to perfect our emotions. We call
this next higher level “spiritual consciousness.” It evolves through the programming of
our higher mentality by the incarnated soul. We can regard our different and evolving
group belief systems as the human equivalent of different animal species.
The Nature of God: God can be defined in two ways. We can equate God with
consciousness and say God is everything. The consciousness manifested in the
various universes - the physical, etheric, and so forth up to the spiritual universe - are
the energy bodies of God, while the non-manifested part might be called the mind of
God. Alternatively, we can only regard the non-manifested universal consciousness
as God, and this may or may not be focused into what we can regard as a
personified being at certain levels of consciousness. For the evolution of our own
consciousness, the details of what we believe is God do not matter very much at this
stage. As part of a spiritual philosophy, we can assume that the more consciousness
becomes condensed, the less it is aware, especially of being a part of God or All That
Is.
The Oversoul is the creator of our soul, and as our personal God or God Self, it
is our individualized representative of the universal aspect of God. Any
communication from this divine level can reach our normal consciousness only by
penetrating our mental and emotional levels. These, however, act as filters that
distort and interpret any messages according to our beliefs and emotions.
Therefore, a devout Catholic will receive messages clothed in Catholic
symbols, while a Hindu will experience divine revelations according to his religious
beliefs. The less strong and structured our beliefs are, the less will any higher
communication be distorted. The more we expand our consciousness, the closer we
are to this higher guidance and the easier it will be to communicate. Disbelief, on the
other hand, will block any communication.
A Spiritual Philosophy: A spiritual philosophy is our basic belief system about
the nature of our existence, its purpose, and goal. From this we try to understand our
role in society and our relationship with guiding forces, and it gives us the strength to
follow the spiritual path. Everyone has a philosophy of life, even if they are not
consciously aware of it. For some, this is just the notion to get as much pleasure as
possible out of life while trying to avoid suffering. Others, like various Christian saints

and yogis, have deliberately self-inflicted suffering and denied themselves pleasures
as part of their philosophy and as a path to their God.
To have a spiritual philosophy means to see ourselves as part of a higher
purpose, of a universal blueprint, and we consciously try to cooperate with its
unfolding and manifestation. A good spiritual philosophy needs to give us guidance
and support on the spiritual path and in our daily interactions and relationships.
In the same way that we can deliberately choose to believe in and follow a
certain religion or political party, we can also deliberately adopt a spiritual philosophy
that exactly suits our purpose. Normally, this adopted philosophy can be in harmony
with our present religion or political views. Just look for the highest ideals and replace
any negative aspects with positive beliefs.
The centre point of any philosophy of life is the question of meaning or
purpose. If we see no purpose in life and especially in our own life, then it is natural
to live for the sake of sense and ego gratification, but we can become depressed by
the apparent lack of meaning. In a spiritual philosophy, we believe in a higher
purpose; we may not know the exact nature of this purpose and it may not even
matter. We can say we just want to manifest our own life blueprint, or fulfil the
purpose for which we incarnated, or do God’s will, or become one with God.
The Middle Path: By now, you may be apprehensive. Basically, all you want is
to be healthy, have a good life and some fun, and generally feel fulfilled and satisfied.
You do not want to become a mystic or a saint to achieve this. You do not need to. I
painted the big picture to show in which direction we have to move. How far or fast
you move is up to you. The important part is to move in the right direction, however
slowly. Suffering comes from moving in the wrong direction, no matter how far
advanced we are spiritually. The saint will suffer if he moves in the wrong direction,
and the sinner will feel good if he moves in the right direction.
Indeed, this is a middle path between pleasure-seeking and intentional or
unintentional self-inflicted suffering. In this, it is like the path of the Buddha. For a
long time, the Buddha tried to reach enlightenment through asceticism. He meditated
until he left a mark like the footprint of a camel where he had been sitting. Finally he
realized that he was on the wrong path, that he needed his body as a partner and
had to fulfil its needs, that he had to be firm but kind to it. He called this the middle
path, and many seekers after him found it to be the right path for them.
In the same way, our spiritual philosophy should help us to feel good in body,
mind, and spirit. Suffering is only for the ego. If instead we identify with our Higher
Self, then life will be easier and more fun.
Our basic premise is that we attract or become what we believe in. Assuming
that the universe contains all possibilities, all shades of good and bad, right and
wrong, desirable and undesirable, it is more desirable to believe in a benevolent
universe than in a vindictive one, in a God of love rather than fear. This spiritual
philosophy of the middle path says that we can choose and have what we want, but
we must firmly believe in it.
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Step 65
LIFE ON THE PATH
The spiritual path is the crowning glory of human endeavour,
and by following the 65 steps you are already on it.
The concept of spirituality means different things to different people. In this

Presently, travellers on the spiritual path have two advantages compared to those in
former centuries. We now have published information on the nature and variety of
spiritual paths, so we no longer need to find our way alone. Second, our capacity to
understand and communicate has greatly increased. What formerly was
incomprehensible mysticism, we can now understand and present in a rational way.
There is now so much information available on yoga, working with energies,
healing the emotions and the mind, and so forth, that your problem is not to find the
information, but to discern what is right for you. You can do this by keeping your
highest goals in mind and asking your inner guidance.
Beware of getting sidetracked by psychic abilities or happenings. Developing
psychic abilities can be fascinating but is no more spiritual than material, emotional,
or mental activities. However, psychic activities can be more dangerous than other
activities. Most psychic happenings take place on the astral level or open us to astral
influences. Entities operating on this level are commonly less spiritually developed
than someone on the spiritual path and often give misleading or mischievous
information. They also love to imitate or pretend to be a high spiritual entity or even
God.
Awakenings: Do not worry about whether you have had a spiritual awakening
or are on the spiritual path. Your interest shows that you are on the path. Just start or
continue searching for spiritual information. You will be attracted to what is important
and right for you. While in the beginning, it is helpful and necessary to read different
sources to get a good overview, later it is better to read as little as possible. By
continuing to read a lot, you remain at the intellectual level, and that hinders the
development of intuitive abilities. If you do not control yourself, you could become
“addicted” to reading about spiritual matters, instead of doing it.
If you are a practicing member of a religious denomination, do not be
concerned that the spiritual path may be incompatible with it. Instead, expect that it
will increase your faith. The spiritual path does not have doctrines; writings about it
are only opinions you do not need to accept. Walking the spiritual path means finding
your own insights and relationship with God.
Purification does not need to be a time of misery and suffering as it once was
for mystics. Instead, it can be a time of adventure and discovery. By removing
biological, emotional, and mental blockages, you become healthier and happier. Life
will become more satisfying. The fun is not the arrival, but the journey. You do not
need to make a sharp distinction between working on the biological, etheric,
emotional, and mental levels. They are all related, though it is easier to talk about

one level at a time. By concentrating on one level, you affect all the others. It is
easier to start with the biological level and then focus upwards.
The Biological Level: In former centuries, spiritual seekers ate only
organically grown food and their water and air were free of chemical pollution. Today
we have to work hard at purifying our body to the level where previous seekers
started. Therefore, we start with sanitizing the biological body and for this I
recommend:
• Basic Cleanse: This can be repeated from time to time, especially if you want to
lose weight; also do any other cleanse you prefer; see Fasting and Cleansing in
Part 1.
• Test for food allergies and chemical sensitivities at the end of the Basic Cleanse;
see Allergy Testing in Part 1.
• Pay attention to the acid-alkaline balance of your body as explained in Part 1.
• Take measures to free your body of parasites and harmful microbes and use anti
-inflammatory measures as required; see Parts 2, 3, and 6.
• Eat plenty of raw food, including fresh green and purple juices; see the High-
Quality Diet in Part 4.
• Select food suited for your metabolic and blood type; see Metabolic Types,
Pathways, and Diets in Part 5.
• Have regular physical exercise and outdoors activity, also yoga, stretching,
shaking, walking, jogging, or swimming.
• Sanitize your teeth, bedroom, and workplace; see the Practice of Healthy Living
in Part 1.
The Etheric Level: The main features here are the etheric body and the
chakra and acupuncture systems (see Part 7). This level of subtle energy determines
the health of our body and how energetic we are; this is the energy of life, of healing
and manifestation.
To manifest something, be it health or a physical or social condition, we use
imagery. Hold a clear visualization of the desired situation, fill it with energy, and
continue to expect it to manifest. An important part of our work at this level is to
accumulate and direct etheric energy.
In energy work, energy follows thought. However, mental and etheric energies
exist on different density levels and do not affect each other directly. Therefore, they
require the assistance of the emotional or feeling level, sandwiched between the two.
For learning to accumulate and direct etheric energies, practice the energy-
circulation (Part 7) and the Love Cure exercises (Part 8). When you are able to feel
the energy flows, use them in guided imagery for healing and other manifestations.
An excellent book on this subject is The Laws of Manifestation, by David Spangler.
By practicing the Love Cure, you can improve weaknesses and imbalances in
your chakra system. This will have favourable effects on your health. If you are so
inclined, use guided chakra meditations available on tape or CD from New Age
outlets.

For improving your acupuncture system, see Meridian and Acupressure
Therapy in Part 7, and after you have learned to feel the energy flows, use mainly
mental tracing of the channels. For further practical information on working at the
etheric level, see books on kahuna; the modern kahuna teachings started with books
by Max Freedom Long (The Secret Science behind Miracles and The Secret Science
at Work).
The Emotional Level: For most, this will be the most difficult and possibly
most painful level to sanitize, but it will also be the most rewarding. I suggest that you
read again and work through Part 8. The important steps in healing emotions are:
1. Emotional cleansing to remove blockages and traumatic memories.
2. Overcoming addictions and cravings.
3. Free-flowing emotions - learn to feel and express emotions freely without hurting
others.
4. Generating positive feelings - use meditation and guided imagery to create
positive and uplifting feelings.
5. Reacting positively - use appropriate beliefs and mental awareness to react
positively to events.
1. EMOTIONAL CLEANSING: Experiment with some of the methods described in
Part 9 under Mind Tools, especially with techniques for emotional release and
regression; these are best practiced in healing groups (Part 8). An integrated way of
healing the emotional level within a spiritual context is provided by the system of
Body Electronics devised by Dr. John Whitman Ray (for more information, see:
www.bodyelectronics.net).
Similar to Reichian therapy and bioenergetics, Body Electronics works mainly
on the body, using sustained pressure to release memories of emotional events that
have been lodged in muscles. Practice Body Electronics as a group activity, possibly
after an initial assessment by a practitioner; Reichian therapy and bioenergetics are
mainly practitioner-based. However, you can also practice bioenergetic exercises at
home or in a group; for instructions, see The Way to Vibrant Health, by Alexander
Lowen, M.D.
A simple way to contact and release emotional traumas is by using present
emotional upsets. If something strongly affects you emotionally, try to feel into it,
possibly combined with a relaxation or meditation exercise, to discover why it upsets
you. If necessary, reinforce it so as to feel it even more strongly. Most likely, forgotten
memories will come up about a similar incident in your younger years. Whatever the
method, when you become conscious of an emotional event from the past, it ceases
its detrimental effects or it can now be dealt with.
Some of the destructive emotions that we need to uncover and release are
fear, guilt, and resentment. These block the flow of life-force energy and make us
susceptible to diseases and aging. The main remedies, after making a suppressed
emotional memory conscious, are unconditional love, understanding, and
forgiveness.
On this level, you do not need to clean out all hidden negative emotional
memories, as this would probably be impossible. Aim to uncover and remove all

those factors that interfere with the flow of energies in your body, with your emotional
health and enjoyment of life, and with your ability to make decisions.
2. OVERCOMING ADDICTIONS AND CRAVINGS: For many, overcoming addictions
and cravings may seem to be the hardest task. Addictions to foods, drugs, and
stimulants are best overcome with a combination of guided imagery, prayer,
affirmation, and cleansing periods with a very high fluid intake. Homeopathic doses of
the addictive agent can be helpful.
We can also be addicted to or have cravings for certain activities or objects,
such as sex, gambling, entertainment, expensive dresses, jewellery, or antiques.
Again, the activity or object is not the problem, but rather the attachment to it, the
desire for it that controls us rather than we controlling it. The most important step is in
acknowledging that we have a problem. Apart from prayer, meditation, guided
imagery, and affirmations, the most helpful approach would be to live for a sufficiently
long period in a simple way in natural surroundings.
3. FREE-FLOWING EMOTIONS: For most of us, freely expressing our emotions is
contrary to our social conditioning. A first step then is learning to feel our emotions
when they arise instead of suppressing them; we can then decide to express them
immediately in a harmless way or re-enact the situation later. In our imagination, we
can relive the situation and kick or punch a pillow or do or say, possibly in front of a
mirror, what we felt like doing at the earlier time. Nevertheless, it is preferable to
develop the skills to react appropriately whenever the situation arises because then
we can also be an example to others.
Marriages and other close relationships are ideal opportunities for learning to
communicate. If free expression is not always possible, then arrange a fixed time at
the end of the day or once a week when you each can freely express your thoughts
and feelings. It is important that one person speak without interruption until
everything has been said, and then the other reply, also without interruption.
4. GENERATING POSITIVE FEELINGS: After emptying ourselves of negativity and
learning to acknowledge and express our feelings and emotions, it is equally
important to fill and surround ourselves with positive and uplifting feelings. Ideally,
this will come as a natural by-product of habitual meditation and through daily
activities that make us feel good.
It is beneficial to practice feeling exercises as explained in the Love Cure in
Part 8. Look at a beautiful object, a tree, flower, cloud, or landscape, and send it
appreciation, admiration, joy, and love. Do the same in thinking of an individual. Send
feelings of forgiveness, appreciation, and love to anyone you may have hurt or who
hurt you.
Learn to carry into your daily activities the loving feeling that you can now
generate in special situations. Train yourself to carry this loving feeling in your heart
wherever you go or whatever you do. Whenever you see or meet someone, embrace
that individual with the warm feeling. This is especially effective for improving
relationships with people who do not seem to like or appreciate you. Never again do
you need to feel bored when having to wait in an office or anywhere else. Just start
generating loving and joyful feelings and send them to anyone in sight or in your
mind.

Try changing one feeling into another. Start with any emotion you experience at
the time or generate a warm feeling by breathing into the abdomen or by imagining
an appropriate situation that would evoke it. Intensify the feeling, then imagine how
another emotion might feel. In this way, you can experimentally convert love into
anger and then back into love. This will show you that you do not need to be at the
mercy of emotions arising as a reaction to outside events, but that you can make a
decision as to how you will feel.
5. REACTING POSITIVELY: After learning to remain centred in self-generated
positive feelings, we need to learn to react positively and appropriately to the many
frustrations in our lives. This is possible when we are guided by spiritual beliefs. After
adopting a spiritual philosophy, it is easier to see everything that happens to us as a
test of our progress.
Every day we have many little tests. It is all right to feel a burst of anger if we
break a valuable item, but we can also just laugh about our clumsiness or look for a
reason why it happened. It does not matter too much how we react, as long as it is
appropriate. If we feel anger, then it is appropriate to feel it and not rationalize it. After
having felt the anger, we should not remain stuck in it, but use our mind to get out of
it, by seeing the funny side of it or by trying to learn from it.
The basic idea is to feel whatever emotion comes up, but then to modify our
expression according to our understanding of the situation from a spiritual point of
view. Our emotional reactions are a reflection of our beliefs, and the more spiritual
these become, the more positive will be our reactions. The ideal is to be able to
express our feelings naturally in a way that has a positive influence on others.
The Mental Level: Our mind is the most important level to heal because here
we make the conscious decisions that affect all other levels. Our aim is to free
ourselves of negativity and develop positive attitudes. In order to free yourself of
negative beliefs and thoughts, you must first recognize them when they occur.
Develop the habit of having a small part of your awareness in the background as an
observer. Whenever you have a negative thought, your observer will ring an alarm
bell so you can realize what you have done. Then, as a mental exercise, find the
corresponding positive thought.
As an example, you may watch someone passing by and observe that she is
overweight. If you notice having a critical thought about her weight, mentally
apologize to her and either send her a mental compliment about some other aspect
of her appearance or just wish her well. It is all right to observe, just refrain from
uninvited judgments, especially of a negative kind. The habit of critically evaluating
others is the opposite of an invited critical and constructive assessment in order to
help someone.
Another important aspect in controlling our mind is to refrain from talking about
other people, especially mutual friends, relatives, or acquaintances, except when
exchanging some relevant factual information. Anything more is gossiping, judging,
or criticizing and will delay progress on the spiritual path.
Practice discernment as well as creative and intuitive thinking. Creative thinking
means finding answers for spiritual or theoretical questions, or solutions for practical
problems; intuitive thinking means we focus on a question or problem in a meditative
state and then translate the realization into words.

Helpful Tips: Any kind of worry is detrimental to your health. Worry is a form of
fear and that is the opposite of positive expectation and faith. To a large degree, we
shape our own future by what we expect. Our inner self tries to manifest what we
expect. Our expectation acts like a magnet to attract and draw the expected event
into our outer reality. If we worry about anything, then we expect a negative outcome
and help to make it come true.
Therefore, our key lesson to learn at the mental level is to know what we want
and then, without wavering, expect it to manifest at the appropriate time. Except
where timing is essential, it is best not to set a definite time limit. If we want to use
“magic” to help our expectation to manifest, use energy imagery: Visualize the
desired result and fill it with emotional energy. The critical factor then is your
unwavering faith until the expected event appears.
This brings us to the next important step, to know what to manifest. It is said
that we should be very careful with our wishes because they might come true. That
means that we are usually ignorant about the hidden implications of a fulfilled desire.
Often there is a price to pay. We may delay our spiritual progress or even take on a
burden of another individual whom we try to help. We may still have certain tests to
pass in this lifetime, and it would be detrimental to our spiritual progress to delay or
avoid them
A good way of overcoming our weaknesses is by acting as if we have already
done so. With every doubtful or important decision, we can ask ourselves what a
spiritual master would do in this situation and then just do it.
Remember the advice given to Jonathan Livingston Seagull by his teacher: To
be instantly in another place, just imagine and know that you are already there! If you
habitually act like a spiritual master, then you are a spiritual master. Your “Inner
Master” is there all the time waiting to guide you. Never mind a few mistakes or
wrong decisions; there is nothing better to learn from than our own mistakes. You still
have many years ahead of you to practice doing the right thing most of the time.
When you have reached a level where your motives are unselfish, you do not need to
be too concerned about making the right decision. Just trust your intuition or inner
guidance. Whatever you choose will usually be right.
Remember the Mind Tools: Prayer, meditation, and studying scriptures were
the original mind tools in the West, while in the East visualization, guided imagery,
and mantras were commonly used. All of these are still useful.
Develop a daily routine in which you combine several of these methods. This
may, for instance, start with prayer and/or affirmations, followed by relaxation, then
guided imagery, and finally meditation. During the activities of the day, practice
centering. A good way to remain centred is to use a mantra. Another powerful
exercise is to imagine being purified by a violet flame. Imagine that the violet flame
burns up your remaining or hidden impurities, especially at the emotional and mental
levels.
You can also make an effort to become aware of your Christ Self or God
Presence, at first in meditation and as guided imagery, but gradually in your daily life.
Imagine your God Presence as an intense white spiritual light over your head, or feel
or sense it as a protective and loving presence. Initially imagine sending an offering
of love or devotion through the top of your head straight up to your God Presence or,

if lying down, send it up through the forehead or from the heart centre. Then imagine
a strong beam of white light together with an intensified feeling of love and protection
entering your top centre and proceeding through the forehead and throat centres to
the heart centre. At the same time, feel and see your whole body surrounded by a
greatly expanded aura with beautiful rainbow colours. Frequently connect with your
Christ or God Presence in this or a similar way, especially before any prayer or
healing work.
Cultivating a Healthy Outlook: We make progress on the spiritual path if in
our daily life, and especially in difficult situations, we display spiritual qualities such
as compassion, devotion, faith, forgiveness, harmony, high ideals, joy, kindness,
oneness, openness, patience, self-responsibility, serenity, tolerance, unconditional
love, understanding, wisdom, and a gentle love for All That Is.
Another way of assessing our progress is by how well we are able to unite
opposite characteristics within our personality and how well we manifest the
appropriate one for the situation at hand. For example, are we able to be a good
leader and follower, master and servant? Can we display the “male” characteristics of
assertiveness, aggressiveness, and power as well as the “female” ones of
gentleness, kindness, and yielding? Do we know how to be strong in our beliefs and
open to change?
After years of diligently working to purify and improve yourself, you may wonder
when you will have your mind-blowing illumination. That expectation is
counterproductive. The illumination experience is an act of grace, a gift of your spirit
that will come when you least expect it. It may be during a meditation or in the middle
of city traffic. Waiting for it is a sure way of postponing it, because patience is one of
the early virtues we have to learn.
When it finally does happen, enjoy it. You do not need to look actively for good
deeds to do or for your future field of selfless service. Just continue doing whatever
needs to be done at each moment, and especially continue purifying yourself at
deeper and deeper levels and uplifting yourself to higher and higher levels. At the
right time, your mission will be revealed to you. When you have become a master of
yourself, you will be suitable to become a servant of humanity.
Looking back on the path that you travelled so diligently, you may ask yourself
“What path?” and wonder if there ever was a path or only a figment of your
imagination. In reality, there was nowhere to go and nothing to do to get there. All
you did was to change some of your perceptions and attitudes. There is a Buddhist
saying: “Before enlightenment he gathered wood and carried water; after
enlightenment he gathered wood and carried water.”
* * * * * * * * * * *

A Review of the 65 Steps
The concept of spirituality means different things to different people. In this If

you decide to follow the steps outlined in this book, you will have months of
interesting work and play ahead of you. Try to make it fun by involving relatives and
friends. You may find it helpful to keep a diary to record your experiments, reactions,
and insights.
For a solid foundation of your health, get the basics right with Part 1. Start with
sanitizing the intestinal tract, cleaning it out, replacing pathogenic microbes with
healthy bacteria, and then keeping it all clean. Then you clean out the rest of the
body in a series of fasts or cleansing periods. It will be good to continue with a
cleanse once a year for the rest of your life. Then test your foods for allergy and
sensitivity reactions. Use clean and preferably energized water, adjust your body
acidity, and start improving your living conditions. Sanitize your house and minimize
electromagnetic pollution. Get into the habit of doing exercises.
These steps provide the basic physical foundation for your health. Take time to
do them thoroughly. This can cause occasional healing reactions, but these are
beneficial; just take it easy for a few days.
Part 2 explains commonly used healing techniques. The diagnostic techniques
show where your problems are and what to do to become more balanced. Muscle
testing is easy to learn and very useful for determining whether a food or remedy is
good or bad for you. Reflexology is one of my favourites; it is quick and effective for
pains and problems in all parts of the body. Magnet therapy has the advantage of
being a pain-free treatment. You will find various types of packs useful for many
different conditions.
Part 3 contains information on nutrients and remedies. If you sense you require
additional nutrients and remedies, then you need a basic understanding of their
functions and interactions and how to use them, which this chapter provides.
Part 4 shows you what a good diet is like: Eat as much as conveniently
possible of fresh, raw, and organic foods. Change gradually to give your body and
taste buds time to adjust.
Part 5 tells you why the foods you probably like are not good for you. Do your
best; the prospect of improved well-being will make it easier to give up a favorite
food. Finding out if you need a diet high or low in protein and fat is a key requirement
for your health.
Part 6 gives natural healing methods for a wide range of health problems; use
any of these methods in addition to a healthy lifestyle.
Part 7 introduces you to the subtle energies. Most of us can learn to feel
energy, commonly as warmth and tingling. For our health, it is especially valuable to
use breathing exercises to activate these energies in our body and direct them to
organs in need of healing.
Part 8 handles another key subject: healing emotions. The goal is to live life in
a radiant way, filled with love and joy.

Part 9 shows how to appreciate the power of your subconscious mind and
make it your friend, how to combine a positive expectation with the help of your
subconscious friend so you can heal almost anything. Here you will find many
valuable mind tools that make it possible.
Part 10 shows you how to use spiritual guidance to overcome health and
emotional problems as part of a spiritual path that provides the framework for your
healing venture and gives meaning to your life.
* * * * * * * * * * *

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Walter Last combines the training and work experience of Research

Chemist, Biochemist and Toxicologist with that of Practicing Nutritionist
and Natural Therapist. He was born and grew up in Germany, and held
positions in medical institutions at the Universities of Greifswald,
Cologne and Munich, working in research, forensics and toxicological
investigations. He also worked at Bio-science Laboratories in Los
Angeles.
In 1970 he settled in New Zealand and, dissatisfied with drug-based medicine,
practiced as a Natural Therapist. Since 1981 he lives in Queensland/Australia and has
investigated and experimented with a wide range of natural therapies to improve the
effectiveness of natural medicine in treating serious and medically incurable diseases.
Walter Last is the author of “Heal Yourself”, “Healing Foods” and “The Natural Way To
Heal - 65 Ways to Create Superior Health” (now out of print). This E-book “ Heal
Yourself the Natural Way” is a revised and progressively updated version of “The
Natural Way to Heal”. He is the main contributor to the “Self Help Cancer Cure” book,
and his articles appeared regularly in “Nexus” magazine and other journals.
His “Heal Yourself” series of 7 books deal with particular diseases and health
conditions, are sold worldwide, and are available at: www.the-heal-yourself-series.com.
His websites are at: www.health-science-spirit.com, www.heal-yourself.com.au, and
www.healing-yourself.com.

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Table 1-1: Opposite Body Forces

sympathetic nervous system parasympathetic nervous system

blue, indigo, purple red, orange, yellow

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Avoid or minimize your contact with:

Maximize your contact with:

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Most diseases are caused or aided by microbes and parasites. Due to

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Fasting is a period of restricted food intake and cleansing is the removal of

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1. devitalized food due to processing, cooking, and long-term storage

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Usually we are addicted to any daily-used food or substance to which we are

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Table 1-2: Symptoms of Calcium–Phosphorus Imbalance

Calcium level too high Phosphorus level too high

Colds and flu are rare Frequent colds and flu

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Ca/P ratio mg/100 g Ca/P ratio mg/100 g

Bone 36,700/16,400 Dried apricots 67/108

Dolomite supplies calcium and magnesium in the generally desirable ratio of

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