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How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
by Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon
Chapter Seven
The Analysis of Disease States:
Helping the Body Recover
From the Hygienic Dictionary
Diagnosis. [1] In the United States, making a diagnosis
implies that you are a doctor duly licensed to engage in diagnostic function. . .
. The making of a diagnosis is reserved only for doctors. . . . The term "analysis"
does not have such an explicit legal definition. Thus, it is the term of choice of
iridologists and the one most often used by them. It is essential for the survival
and promotion of iridology that those who choose to engage in its practice avoid
naming any disease condition. As we have seen, to do so is to infringe on rights
reserved exclusively for doctors and can land the iridologist, sooner or later, in
a snarl of legal troubles.
It is better for the iridologist to
refrain from suggesting to a person that he has any particular disease, letting such
diagnostics remain the province of licensed doctors. In so doing, the iridologist
will avoid transgressing the law and stepping on the toes of those who are legally
qualified to diagnose.
It is indeed unfortunate that one of
the greatest pitfalls awaiting the iridologist is the temptation to name diseases.
The feelings of satisfaction and power resulting from conferring a name are deeply
rooted in the human psyche. For example, the Bible tells us that man's first task
on Earth was to name the animals, thus giving him power and dominion over them.
Strong is the temptation to name diseases
because nearly everyone has come to expect that his malady has a name. Patients have
come to expect, and doctors have been trained to make, a diagnosis. . . . "After
all," the patient may reason, "how can you hope to deal with my condition
if you aren't knowledgeable enough to call it by name?"
It is not necessary to name diseases
in order to exercise dominion over them. Dr. Bernard Jensen, Visions of Health.
In self defense, I must make it very clear from the first
word that hygienists and most other naturopaths of various persuasions, and especially
I myself, have never in the past, never!, and do not now, diagnose, treat or offer
to cure, disease or illness. Diagnosis and curing are sole, exclusive privileges
of certified, duly-licensed medical doctors and may only be done with a grant of
Authority to do so from the State. Should an unlicensed person diagnose, offer to
treat or attempt to cure disease or illness, they will have committed a felonious
act. With big penalties. Therefore, I do not do it.
When one of my clients comes to me and says that a medical
doctor says they have some disease or other, I agree that the medical doctor says
they have some disease or other, and I never dare say that they don't. Or even confirm
on my own authority that I think they do have some disease or other.
What I can legally do for a client is to analyze the state
of their body and its organs, looking for weaknesses and apparent allergies. I can
lawfully state that I think their liver tests weak, the pancreas appears not to be
functioning well in terms of handling meat digestion, that the kidney is having a
hard time of it. I can say I see a lump sticking out of their body when one is obviously
sticking out of their body; I can not say that lump is cancerous but I can state
that the cells in that lump test overly strong and that if I myself had a mass of
growing cells testing overly strong and if I believed in the standard medical model,
then I would be rushing my overly strong testing cells to an oncologist. But I don't
dare say the person has a cancer. Or diabetes. Or is getting close to kidney failure.
That is a diagnosis.
To me, diagnosis is a form of magic rite in which the physician
discovers the secret name of the devil that is inhabiting one's body and then, knowing
that secret name, performs the correct rite and ritual to cast that demon out. I
don't know why people are made so happy knowing the name of their condition! Does
it really matter? Either the body can heal the condition or it can't. If it can,
you will recover (especially if you give the body a little help). If the body can't
heal a condition you will die or live a long time being miserable. No "scientific"
medical magic can do better than that.
By describing a disease in terms of its related organ weaknesses,
instead of pinning a Latin name on it, I am able to assist the body to achieve recovery
in a superior way that the physician rarely does. By discovering that the body with
the lump of overly strong cells also has a weak spleen, liver and thymus gland, I
can take actions to strengthen the spleen, liver and thymus. If the body can strengthen
its spleen, liver and thymus, then the overly strong cells miraculously vanish. But
of course I and what I did did not cure any disease. Any improvements that happen
I assign (correctly) to the body's own healing power.
The way I analyze the organic integrity of the body is through
a number of related methods, including the general appearance of the body, the patient's
health history, various clues such as body and breath odor, skin color and tone,
and especially, biokinesiology, the applied science of muscle testing. Biokinesiology
can be used to test the strength or weakness of specific organs and their function.
A weak latissimus dorsi muscle indicates a weak pancreas, for example. Specific acupuncture
points can be tested in conjunction with muscle strength to indicate the condition
of specific organs or glands. The strength of the arm's resistance to downward pressure
could be calibrated with a spring scale and precisely gauged, but experienced practitioners
have no need for this bother, because they are able to pick up subtle changes in
the arms resistance that are not apparent to the testée. Thus muscle testing
becomes an art form, and becomes as effective as the person using it is sensitive
and aware.
Biokinesiology works because every organ and gland in the
body is interconnected with other parts of the body through nerve pathways and nerve
transmissions, which are electrical and can be measured through muscle testing. This
may seem too esoteric for the "scientific" among you, but acupuncture points
and energy manifestations around and in the body–are now accepted phenomena, their
reality demonstrated by special kinds of photography. Acupuncturists, who heal by
manipulating the body's energy field with metal needles, are now widely accepted
in the western hemisphere. Kinesiology utilizes the same acupuncture points (and
some others too) for analytic purposes so it is sometimes called "contact reflex
analysis."
I have studied and used Kinesiology for 25 years with the
majority of my clients with very good success. There are some few people who are
very difficult to test because they are either too debilitated, lack electrical conductivity,
or their state of mind is so skeptical and negative about this type of approach that
they put up an impenetrable mental barrier and/or hold their body so rigidly that
I can hardly determine a response. A skilled can overcome the obstacle of a weak
body that can barely respond, but the person who is mentally opposed and determined
to prove you wrong should not be tested. If you proceed it is sure to have an unsatisfactory
outcome for all concerned. For even if I manage to accurately analyze the condition
of a skeptical client, they will never believe the analysis and will not follow suggestions.
The "scientific," open-minded, "reasonable"
client can be better approached using an academic-like discussion based on published
literature that demonstrates how people with similar symptoms and complaints do very
well on a particular dietary regimen and supplements. This type of person will sometimes
follow dietary recommendations to the last letter, because their scientific background
has trained them to be obedient.
When a client comes to me, I like to take a real good look
at who is sitting in front of me. I take my leisure to find out all about their history,
their complaints, their motivation to change, their experience with natural healing,
their level of personal responsibility, whether or not they have to work, whether
or not they can take time out to heal, will they fast or take supplements, do they
have sufficient finances to carry a program through to a successful completion, do
they have people closely connected to them that are strongly opposed to alternative
approaches, can they withstand some discomfort and self-denial, do they have toxic
relationships with other people that are contributing to their condition, are they
willing to read and educate themselves in greater depth about natural healing, etc.
I need to know the answers to these questions in order to help them choose a program
which is most likely to succeed.
Even though fasting is the most effective method I know of,
it is not for people who are compelled to keep up a work schedule, nor is it for
people who are very ill and do not have anyone to assist them and supervise them.
Nor is it for people who do not understand fasting and are afraid of it. People who
have associates that are opposed to it, and people who do not have a strongly-functioning
liver or kidneys should not fast either. Seriously ill people that have been on a
meat-heavy diet with lots of addicting substances need a long runway into a fast
so as to not overwhelm their organs of elimination. Does the person in front of me
have an eating disorder, or an otherwise suicidal approach to fasting, etc. Clearly
fasting is not for everyone, and if I recommend it to the wrong person, the result
will be a bad reputation for a marvelous tool.
Given that many clients can not fast without a lot of preparation,
the majority of my clients start out with a gentle detox program that takes considerably
more time, but works. These gradients have been outlined under the healing programs
for the chronically ill, acutely ill, etc.
To help rebuild poorly functioning organs, I sometimes use
a specialized group of food supplements called protomorphogens. These are not readily
available to the general public and perhaps should not be casually purchasable like
vitamins, because, as with many prescription drugs, supervision is usually necessary
for their successful use. If the FDA ever succeeds at making protomorphogens unavailable
to me, I could still have very good results. (At this time the Canadian authorities
do not allow importation of protomorphogens for resale, though individuals can usually
clear small shipments through Canada Customs if for their own personal use.) But
protomorphogens do facilitate healing and sometimes permit healing to occur at a
lower gradient of handling. Without them a body might have to fast to heal, with
the aid of protomorphogens a person might be able to get better without fasting.
And if protomorphogens are used (chewed up--ugh!) while fasting, healing is accelerated.
Protomorphogens are made from freeze-dried, organically-raised
animal organ meats (usually calf or lamb) combined with very specific vitamins, herbs
and other co-factors to potentiate the effect. I view protomorphogens as containing
nutritional supplementation specific for the rebuilding of the damaged organ.
Doctor Royal Lee, a medical genius who developed protomorphogens
therapy in the 50s and who spent several stints in prison in exchange for his benevolence
and concern for human well-being, also founded the company that has supplied me with
protomorphogens. After decades of official persecution and denial of the efficacy
of protomorphogens by the power structure, it looks like they are about to finally
have their day. As I write this book cutting-edge medical research companies are
developing therapies using concentrated animal proteins (protomorphogens) to treat
arthritis, multiple sclerosis, eye inflamations and juvenile diabetes. The researchers
talk as though they are highly praiseworthy for "discovering" this approach.
Unfortunately, this development is likely to cut two ways.
On one hand, it vindicates Dr. Lee; on the other, when these drug companies find
a way to patent their materials, they may finally succeed at forcing protomorphogens
(currently quite inexpensive) off the non-prescription market and into the restricted
and profitable province of the MD.
I divide clients into two basic types: simple cases and complex
ones. When I was treating mental illness, occasionally I had a client who had not
been sick for too long. I could usually make this client well quite easily. But if
the person had already become institutionalized, had been psychotic for many years,
had received much prior treatment, then their case had been made much more difficult.
This sort had a poor prognosis. A very similar situation exists with physical illnesses.
Many people get sick only because they lack information about how to keep themselves
healthy and about what made them sick. Once they find out the truth, they take my
medicine without complaint and almost inevitably get better very rapidly. Some of
these people can be quite ill when they first come to me but usually they have not
been sick for very long. Their intention when coming into my office is very positive
and have no counter intentions to getting better. There are no spiritual or psychological
reasons that they deserve to be sick. If this person had not found me, they almost
certainly would have found some other practitioner who would have made them well.
This type of person honestly feels they are entitled to wellness. And they are.
However, some of the sick are not sick for lack of life-style
information; they suffer from a mental/spiritual malady as well, one that inevitably
preceded their illness by many years. In fact, their physical ailments are merely
reflections of underlying problems. This patient's life is usually a snarl of upsets,
problems, and guilty secrets. Their key relationships are usually vicious or unhealthy.
Their level of interpersonal honesty may be poor. There are usually many things about
their lives they do not confront and so, can not change. With this type of case,
all the physical healing in the world will not make them permanently better because
the mental and emotional stresses they live under serve as a constant source of enervation.
Cases like this usually do not have only one thing wrong
with them. They almost always have been sick for a long time; most have been what
I call "doctor hoppers," confused by contrary diagnoses and conflicting
MD opinions. When I get a case like this I know from the first that healing is going
to be a long process, and a dubious one at that. On the physical level, their body
will only repair one aspect of their multiple illnesses at a time. Simultaneously,
they must be urged to confront their life on a gentle gradient. There is usually
a lot of backsliding and rollercoastering. The detoxification process, physical and
psychological, can take several years and must happen on all the levels of their
life. This kind of case sees only gradual improvement interspersed with periods of
worsening that indicate there remains yet another level of mental unawareness that
has to be unraveled.
Few medical doctors or holistic therapists really understand
or can help this kind of case. To do so, the doctor has to be in touch with their
own reactive mind and their own negative, evil impulses (which virtually all humans
have). Few people, including therapists, are willing to be aware of their own dark
side. But when we deny it in ourselves, we must pretend it doesn't exist in others,
and become its victim instead of conquering it. Anyone who denies that they have
or are influenced by their own darker aspects who seem to be totally sweet and light,
is lying; proof of this is that they still are here on Earth.
All this generalizing about diagnostic methods and clinical
approaches could go on for chapters and more chapters, and writing them would be
fine if I were teaching a group of health clinicians that were reading this book
to become better practitioners. But I'm sure most of my readers are far more interested
in some complaint of their own or in the health problem of a loved one, and are intensely
interested in one might go about handling various conditions and complaints, what
types of organ weaknesses are typically associated with them, and what approaches
I usually recommend to encourage healing. And, most importantly, what kind of success
or lack of it have I had over the past twenty five years, encouraging the healing
of various conditions with hygienic methods.
In the case studies that follow I will mostly report the
simpler, easier-to-fix problems because that is what most people have; still, many
of these involve life-threatening or quality-of-life-destroying illnesses. I will
tell the success story of one very complicated, long-suffering case that involved
multiple levels of psychological and spiritual handling as well as considerable physical
healing.
Arthritis
Some years back my 70 years old mother came from the family
homestead in the wilds of northern British Columbia to visit me at the Great Oaks
School. She had gotten into pathetic physical condition. Fifteen years previously
she had remarried. Tom, her new husband, had been a gold prospector and general mountain
man, a wonderfully independent and cantankerous cuss, a great hunter and wood chopper
and all around good-natured backwoods homestead handyman. Tom had tired of solitary
log cabin life and to solve his problem had taken on the care and feeding of a needy
widow, my mom. He began doing the cooking and menu planning. Tom, a little older
than my mother, had no sense about eating but could still shoot game. Ever since
their marriage she had been living on moose meat stews with potatoes and gravy, white
flour bread with jam, black tea with canned milk, a ritual glass of brandy at bedtime,
and almost no fresh fruit or vegetables.
In her youth, my mother had been a concert pianist; now she
had such large arthritic knobs on all of her knuckles that her hands had become claws.
Though there was still that very same fine upright in the cabin that I had learned
to play as a child, she had long since given up the piano. Her knees also had large
arthritic knobs; this proud woman with a straight back and long, flowing strides
was bent over, limping along with a cane. She was also 30 pounds overweight and her
blood pressure was a very dangerous 210 over 140, just asking for a stroke.
Instead of a welcoming feast, the usual greeting offered
to a loved one who has not been seen for a few years, I immediately started her on
a juice fast. I gave her freshly prepared carrot juice (one quart daily) mixed with
wheat grass juice (three ounces daily) plus daily colonics. She had no previous experience
with these techniques but she gamely accepted everything I threw her way because
she knew I was doing it because I loved her and wanted to see her in better condition.
She also received a daily full body massage with particular attention to the hand
and knees, stimulating the circulation to the area and speeding the removal of wastes.
Every night her hands and knees were wrapped in warm castor oil compresses held in
place with old sheeting.
I did not use any vitamins or food supplements in her case.
I did give her flavorful herbal teas made of peppermint and chamomile because she
needed the comfort of a hot cupa; but these teas were in no way medicinal except
for her morale.
In three weeks on this program, Grannybelle, as I and my
daughters called her, had no unsightly knobs remaining on either her knuckles or
knees and she could walk and move her fingers without pain within a normal range
of movement. The big payoff for me besides seeing her look so wonderful (20 years
younger and 20 pounds lighter) was to hear her sit down and treat us to a Beethoven
recital. And her blood pressure was 130 over 90.
Breast Cancer
I have worked with many young women with breast cancer; so
many in fact, that their faces and cases tend to blur. But whenever I think about
them, Kelly inevitably comes to mind because we became such good friends. Like me,
Kelly was an independent-minded back country Canuck. At the age 26, she received
a medical diagnosis of breast cancer. Kelly had already permitted a lumpectomy and
biopsy, but had studied the statistical outcomes and did not want to treat her illness
with radical mastectomy, radiation and chemotherapy because she knew her odds of
long-term survival without radical medical treatment were equal to or better than
allowing the doctors to do everything possible. Nor did she want to lose even one
of her breasts. She knew how useful her breasts were because she had already suckled
one child, not to mention their contribution to one's own self-image as a whole person.
I admired Kelly's unusual independent-mindedness because she comes from a country
where universal health coverage is in place; her insurance would have paid all the
costs had she been willing to accept conventional medicine, but Canadian national
health insurance does not cover alternative therapy.
Kelly stayed with me for nearly two months as a residential
faster, because she needed to be far from the distractions of a troubled family life.
With financial support from her parents and child-care from her friends she was able
to take time out to give the recovery of health top priority in her life without
worrying about whether her small son was being well cared for. This peace of mind
was also very important to her recovery.
Analysis with biokinesiology showed a pervasively weak immune
system, including a weak thymus gland, spleen, and an overloaded lymphatic system.
Her liver was weak, but not as weak as it might have been, because she had become
a vegetarian, and had been working on her health in a haphazard fashion for a few
years. Kelly's body also showed weaknesses in pancreatic and adrenal function as
well as a toxic colon. Most immediately worrisome to her, biokinesiology testing
showed several over-strong testing lumpy areas in the breasts and over-strong testing
lumpy lymph nodes in the armpits. Cancerous tumors always test overly strong
Kelly's earlier life-style had contributed to her condition
in several ways. She had worked for years in a forestry tree nursery handling seedling
trees treated with highly toxic chemicals. She had worked as a cook in a logging
camp for several seasons, eating too much meat and greasy food. And she had also
spent the usual number of adolescent and young adult years deeply involved in recreational
drug use and the bad diet that went with it.
Kelly started right in on a rigorous water fast that lasted
for one entire month. She had a colonic every day, plus body work including reflexology,
holding and massage of neurolymphatic and neurovascular points, and stimulation of
acupuncture points related to weak organ systems and general massage to stimulate
overall circulation and lymphatic drainage. She took protomorphogens to help rebuild
her weakened organs; she took ten grams of vitamin C every day and a half-dose of
life extension vitamin mix in assimilable powdered form; she drank herbal teas of
echinacea and fenugreek seeds and several ounces of freshly squeezed wheat grass
juice every day. Twice each day she made poultices out of clay and the pulp left
over from making her wheat grass juice, filled an old bra with this mixture and pressed
it to her breast for several hours until the clay dried. Shortly, I will explain
all the measures in some detail.
These physical therapies were accompanied by counseling sessions
dealing with some severe and long-unresolved problems, response patterns and relationships
that triggered her present illness. Her son's father (Kelly's ex) was suppressive
and highly intimidating. Fearful of him, Kelly seemed unable to successfully extricate
herself from the relationship due to the ongoing contact which revolved over visitation
and care of their son. But Kelly had grit! While fasting, she confronted these tough
issues in her life and unflinchingly made the necessary decisions. When she returned
to Canada she absolutely decided, without any nagging doubts, reservations or qualifications,
to make any changes necessary to ensure her survival. Only after having made these
hard choices could she heal.
I one respect, Kelly was a highly unusual faster. Throughout
the entire month on water, Kelly took daily long walks, frequently stopping to lie
down and rest in the sun on the way. She would climb to or from the top of a very
large and steep hill nearby. She never missed a day, rain or shine.
At the end of her month on water Kelly's remaining breast
lumps had disappeared, the lymphatic system and immune system tested strong, as well
as the liver, pancreas, adrenals, and large intestine. No areas tested overly strong.
She broke the fast with the same discipline she had conducted
it, on carrot juice, a cup every two hours. After three days on juice she began a
raw food diet with small servings of greens and sprouts well chewed, interspersed
at two hour intervals with fresh juicy fruits. After about ten days on "rabbit
food," she eased into avocados, cooked vegetables, nuts, seeds, and whole grains
and then went home.
As I write this, it is eight years since Kelly's long fast.
She still comes to see me every few years to check out her diet and just say hello.
She has had two more children by a new, and thoroughly wonderful husband and suckled
them both for two years each; her peaceful rural life centers around this new, happy
family and the big, Organic garden she grows. She religiously takes her life extension
vitamins and keeps her dietary and life-style indiscretions small and infrequent.
She is probably going to live a long, time.
I consider Kelly's cluster of organ weaknesses very typical
of all cancers regardless of type or location, as well as being typical of AIDS and
other critical infections by organisms that usually reside in the human body without
causing trouble (called "opportunistic"). All these diseases are varieties
of immune system failure. All of these conditions present a similar pattern of immune
system weaknesses. They all center around what I call the "deadly triangle,"
comprised of a weak thymus gland, weak spleen, and a weak liver. The thymus and spleen
form the core of the body's immune system. The weak liver contributes to a highly
toxic system that further weakens the immune system. To top it off, people with cancer
invariably have a poor ability to digest cooked protein (animal or vegetable) (usually
from a weak pancreas unable to make enough digestive enzymes) and eat too much of
it, giving them a very toxic colon, and an overloaded lymphatic system.
Whenever I analyze someone with this pattern, especially
the entire deadly triangle, I let the person know that if I had those particular
weaknesses I would consider my survival to be at immediate risk I'd consider it an
emergency situation demanding vigorous attention. It does not matter if they don't
yet have a tumor, or fibroid, or opportunistic infection; if they don't already have
something of that nature they soon will.
Here's yet another example of why I disapprove of diagnosis.
By giving the condition a name like "lymphoma" or "melanoma",
"chronic fatigue syndrome" "Epstein-Barr syndrome" or "AIDS,"
"systemic yeast infection", "hepatitis" or what have, people
think the doctor then understands their disease. But the doctor rarely understands
that all these seemingly different diseases are essentially the same disease–a toxic
body with a dysfunctional immune system. What is relevant is that a person with the
deadly triangle must strengthen their immune system, and their pancreas, and their
liver, and detoxify their body immediately. If these repairs are accomplished in
time, the condition goes away, whatever its Latin name may have been.
Now, about some of the adjuncts to Kelly's healing. Let me
stress here that had none of these substances or practices been used, she probably
still would have recovered. Perhaps a bit more slowly. Perhaps a bit less comfortably.
Conversely, had Kelly treated her cancer with every herb, poultice and vitamin known
to man but had neglected fasting and colonics, she might well have died. It has been
wisely said that intelligence may be defined as the ability to correctly determine
differences, similarities, and importances. I want my readers to be intelligent about
understanding the relative importances of different hygienic treatment and useful
supporting practices.
Echinacea and chaparral leaves, red clover flowers, and fenugreek
seeds are made into medicinal teas that I find very helpful in detoxification programs,
because they all are aggressive blood or lymph cleansers and boost the immune response.
These same teas can be used to help the body throw off a cold, flu, or other acute
illness but they have a much more powerful effect on a fasting body than on one that
is eating. Echinacea and chaparral are extraordinarily bitter and may be better accepted
if ground up and encapsulated, or mixed with other teas with pleasant flavors such
as peppermint or lemon grass. These teas should be simmered until they are at the
strongest concentration palatable, drinking three or four cups of this concentrate
a day. If you use echinacea, then chaparral probably isn't necessary and visa versa.
Red clover is another blood cleanser, perhaps a little less effective but it has
a pleasant, sweet taste and may be better accepted by the squeamish.
If there is lymphatic congestion I always include fenugreek
seed tea brewed at the strength of approximately one tablespoon of seeds to a quart
of water. Expect the tea to be brown, thick and mucilaginous, with a reasonably pleasant
taste reminiscent of maple syrup.
Kelly used poultices of clay and wheat grass pulp on her
lumps, somewhat like the warm castor oil poultices I used on my mother's arthritic
deposits. Poultices not only feel very comforting, but they have the effect of softening
up deposits and tumors so that a detoxifying, fasting body is more able to re absorb
them. Poultices draw, pulling toxins out through the skin, unburdening the liver.
Clay (freshly-mixed potters clay I purchase from a potters' guild), mixed with finely
chopped or blended young wheat grass (in emergencies I've even used lawn grasses)
makes excellent drawing poultices. Without clay, I've also used vegetable poultices
made of chopped or blended comfrey leaves, comfrey root, slightly cooked (barely
wilted) cabbage leaves, slightly steamed onion or garlic (cooked just enough to soften
it). These are very effective to soften tumors, abscesses and ulcers. Aloe poultices
are good on burns. Poultices should be thought of as helpful adjuncts to other, more
powerful healing techniques and not as remedies all by themselves, except for minor
skin problems.
Poultices, to be effective, need to be troweled on half an
inch thick, extending far beyond the effected area, covered with cheese cloth or
rags torn from old cotton sheets so they don't dry out too fast. Fresh poultices
needs to be applied several times daily. They also need to be left on the body until
they do dry. Then poultices are thrown away, to be followed by another as often as
patience will allow. Do not cover poultices tightly with plastic because if they
don't dry out they won't draw much. The drawing is in the drying.
Sometimes poultices cause a tumor or deposit to be expelled
through the skin rather than being adsorbed, all with rather spectacular pus and
gore. This phenomena is actually beneficial and should be welcomed because anytime
the body can push toxins out through the skin, the burden on the organs of elimination
are lessened.
Wheat grass juice has a powerful anti-tumor effect, is very
perishable, is laborious to make, but is worth the effort because it contains powerful
enzymes and nutrients that help detoxify and heal when taken internally or applied
to the skin. As a last resort with dying patients who can no longer digest anything
taken by mouth I've implanted wheat grass juice rectally (in a cleansed colon). Some
of them haven't died. You probably can't buy wheat grass juice that retains much
medicinal effect because it needs to be very fresh and should be drunk within minutes
of squeezing. Chilled sharply and immediately after squeezing it might maintain some
potency for an hour or two. Extracting juice from grass takes a special press that
resembles a meat grinder.
The wheat is grown in transplant or seedling trays in bright
light. I know someone who uses old plastic cafeteria trays for this. The seed is
soaked overnight, spread densely atop a tray, covered shallowly with fine soil, kept
moist but not soggy. When the grass is about four inches high, begin harvesting by
cutting off the leaves with a scissors and juicing them. If the tray contains several
inches of soil you usually get a second cutting of leaves. You need to start a new
tray every few days; one tray can be cut for three or four days. (Kulvinskas, 1975)
More wheat grass juice is not better than just enough; three
ounces a day is plenty! It is a very powerful substance! The flavor of wheat grass
juice is so intense that some people have to mix it with carrot juice to get it down.
DO NOT OVERUSE. The energizing effects of wheat grass can be so powerful that some
people make a regular practice of drinking it. However, I've seen many people who
use wheat grass juice as a tonic become allergic to it much as antibiotic dependent
people do to antibiotics. Better to save wheat grass for emergencies.
I also have treated my own breast cancers–twice. The first
time I was only 23 years old. One night I noticed that it hurt to sleep the way I
usually did on my left side because there was a hard lump in my left breast. It was
quite large–about the size of a goose egg. Having just completed RN training two
years prior, I had been well brain washed about my poor prognosis and knew exactly
what requisite actions must taken.
I scheduled a biopsy under anesthetic, so that if the tumor
was malignant they could proceed to full mastectomy without delay. I was ignorant
of any alternative course of action at the time.
I might add that before I grew my first tumor I had been
consuming large amounts of red meat in a mistaken understanding gained in nursing
school that a good diet contained large amounts of animal protein. In addition to
the stress of being a full time psychology graduate student existing on a very low
budget, I was experiencing I very frustrating relationship with a young man that
left me constantly off center and confused.
A biopsy was promptly performed. The university hospital's
SOP required that three pathologists make an independent decision about the nature
of a tumor before proceeding with radical surgery. Two of the pathologist agreed
that my tumor was malignant, which represented the required majority vote. But the
surgeon removed only the lump, which he said was well encapsulated and for some reason
did not proceed with a radical mastectomy. These days many surgeons routinely limit
themselves to lumpectomies.
I never did find out why I awakened from general anesthetic
with two breasts, but I have since supposed that due to my tender age the surgeon
was reluctant to disfigure me without at least asking me for permission, or giving
me some time to prepare psychologically. When I came out of anesthesia he told me
that the lump was malignant, and that he had removed it, and that he needed to do
a radical mastectomy to improve my prognosis over the next few years. He asked me
to think it over, but he signed me up on his surgery list for the following Monday.
I did think it over and found I was profoundly annoyed at
the idea of being treated like I was just a statistic, so I decided that I would
be unique. I made a firm decision that I would be well and stay well–and I was for
the next fifteen years. The decision healed me.
When I was 37 I had a recurrence. At the time I had in residence
Ethyl and Marge, the two far-gone breast cancer cases I already told you about. I
also had in residence a young woman with a breast tumor who had not undergone any
medical treatment, not even a lumpectomy. (I will relate her case in detail shortly.)
I was too identified emotionally with helping these three, overly-empathetic due
to my own history. I found myself taking on their symptoms and their pain. I went
so far into sympathy as to grow back my tumor–just as it had the first time–a lump
mushroomed from nothing to the size of a goose egg in only three weeks in exactly
the same place as the first one. Just out of curiosity I went in for a needle biopsy.
Once again it was judged to be malignant, and I got the same pressure from the surgeon
for immediate surgery. This time, however, I had an alternative system of healing
that I believed in. So I went home, continued to care for my very sick residents,
and began to work on myself.
The first thing I had to confront about myself was that I
was being a compassionate fool. I needed to learn how to maintain my own personal
boundaries, and clearly delineate what stuff in my mind and my body was really mine
and what was another's. I needed to apply certain mental techniques of self-protection
known to and practiced by many healers. I knew beyond doubt that I had developed
sympathetic breast cancer because a similar phenomena had happened to me before.
Once, when I had previously been working on a person with very severe back pain with
hands-on techniques, I suddenly had the pain, and the client was totally free of
it. So I protected myself when working with sick people. I would wash my hands and
arms thoroughly with cold water, or with water and vinegar after contact. I would
shake off their "energy," have a cold shower, walk bare foot on the grass,
and visualize myself well with intact boundaries. These prophylaxes had been working
for me, but I was particularly vulnerable to people with breast cancer.
I also began detoxification dieting, took more supplements,
and used acupressure and reflexology as my main lines of attack. My healing diet
consisted of raw food exclusively. I allowed myself fruits (not sweet fruits) and
vegetables (including a lot of raw cabbage because vegetables in the cabbage family
such as cauliflower and broccoli are known to have a healing effect on cancer), raw
almonds, raw apricot kernels, and some sprouted grains and legumes. I drank diluted
carrot juice, and a chlorophyll drink made up of wheat grass and barley green and
aloe vera juice. I took echinaechia, red clover, and fenugreek seeds. I worked all
the acupuncture points on my body that strengthen the immune system, including the
thymus gland, lymph nodes, and spleen. I also worked the meridians, and reflex points
for the liver, and large intestine. I massaged the breast along the natural lines
of lymphatic drainage from the area.
Last, and of great importance, I knew that the treatment
would work, and that the tumor would quickly disappear. It did vanish totally in
three months. It would have gone away quicker if I had water fasted, but I was unable
to do this because I needed physical strength to care for my resident patients and
family.
Eighteen years have passed since that episode, and I have
had no further reappearance of breast tumors. At age 55 I still have all my body
parts, and have had no surgery except the original lumpectomy. Many, viewing my muscles
and athletic performance, would say my health is exceptional but I know my own frailties
and make sure I do not aggravate them. I still have exactly the same organ deficiencies
as other cancer patients and must keep a very short leash on my lifestyle.
If for some reason I wanted to make my life very short, all
I would have to do would be to abandon my diet, stop taking supplements, eat red
meat and ice cream every day and be unhappy about something. Incidentally, I have
had many residential clients with breast cancer since then, and have not taken on
their symptoms, so I can assume that I have safely passed that hurdle.
I've helped dozens of cases of simple breast cancer where
my treatment began before the cancer broadly spread. Kelly's case was not the easiest
of this group, nor the hardest. Sometimes there was lymphatic involvement that the
medical doctors had not yet treated in any way. All but one of my early-onset breast
cancer cases recovered. I believe those are far better results than achieved by AMA
treatment.
Before I crow too much, let me stress that every one of these
women was a good candidate for recovery–under 40 years old, ambulatory and did not
feel very sick. And most importantly, every one of them had received no other debilitating
medical treatment except a needle biopsy or simple lumpectomy. None of these women
had old tumors (known about for more than six months) and none of the tumors were
enormous (nothing larger than a walnut).
Clearly, this group is not representative of the average
breast cancer case. Hygienic therapy for cancer is a radical idea these days and
tends to attract younger people, or older, desperate people who have already been
through the works. In every one of my simple cases the tumors were reabsorbed by
the body during the thirty days of water fasting and the client left happy.
Except one. I think I should describe this unsuccessful case,
this "dirty case," so my readers get a more balanced idea of how fearsome
cancer really isn't if the sick person can clearly resolve to get better and has
no problem about achieving wellness.
Marie was an artisan and musician from Seattle who grew up
back East in an upper-middle class dysfunctional family. She was in her late twenties.
She had been sexually abused by an older brother, was highly reactive, and had never
been able to communicate honestly with anyone except her lesbian lover (maybe, about
some things).
Three years prior to coming to see me Marie had been medically
diagnosed as having breast cancer and had been advised to have immediate surgery.
She ignored this advice; Marie never told her friends, said nothing to her family
and tried to conceal it from her lover because she did not want to disrupt their
life together.
On her own, she did begin eating a Macrobiotic diet. In spite
of this diet, the tumor grew, but grew very slowly. After two years the tumor was
discovered by her lover, who after a year of exhausting and upsetting arguments,
forced Marie to seek treatment. Since Marie adamantly refused to go the conventional
medical route, she ended up on my doorstep as a compromise.
By this time the tumor was the size of a fist and had broken
through the skin of the left breast. It was very ugly, very hard. Biokinesiology
showed the usual deadly triangle and other associated organ weakneses typical of
cancer. Marie began fasting on water with colonics and poultices and bodywork and
counseling and supplements. At the end of the water fast, Marie looked much healthier,
with clear eyes and clear skin and had a sort of shine about her, but the tumor had
only receded enough for the skin to close over it; it was still large, and very hard.
To fully heal, Marie probably needed at least two more water fasts of equal length
interspersed with a few months on a raw food diet. But she lacked the personal toughness
to confront another fast in the near future. Nor was she emotionally up to what she
regarded as the deprivation of a long-term raw foods healing diet.
So I advised her to seek other treatment. Still unwilling
to accept standard medical management of her case, Marie chose to go to the Philippines
to have "psychic surgery." She was excited and optimistic about this; I
was interested myself because I was dubious about this magical procedure; if Marie
went I would have a chance to see the results (if any) on a person I was very familiar
with. Marie had her tickets and was due to leave in days when her lover, against
Marie's directly-stated wishes, called her parents and informed them of what was
happening.
The parents had known nothing of Marie's cancer and were
shocked, upset, outraged! They had not known Marie was a lesbian, much less that
their daughter was flirting with (from their view) obvious quackery. Their daughter
needed immediate saving and her parents and brother (the one who had abused her)
flew to Oregon and surprisingly appeared the next day in a state of violent rage.
They threatened lawsuits, police, incarceration, they threatened to have their daughter
civilly committed as unable to take care of herself. They thought everything Marie
had done for the last three years was my fault. I was lucky to stay out of jail.
Of course, all of this was why Marie had not told them in the first place; she had
wanted to avoid this kind of a scene.
Marie did not have enough personal integrity to withstand
the domination of her immediate family. They put her in a hospital, where Marie had
a radical mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. Assured that they had done everything
that should have been done, the self-righteous parents went back home. Marie never
recovered from chemotherapy and radiation. She died in the hospital surrounded by
her lesbian friends who took dedicated, ever-so-sympathetic turns maintaining an
emotional round-the-clock vigil.
Marie's death was partly my fault. She was an early case
of mine. At the time I did not yet understand the total effect of lack of ethics
and irresponsibility on illness. Had Marie really wanted to live in the first place,
she would have sought treatment three years earlier. In our counseling sessions she
always evaded this question and I had not been wise enough to pin her down with my
knee on her chest and make her answer up. Marie had too many secrets from everybody
and was never fully honest in any of her relationships, including with me. I think
she only came to Great Oaks at her lover's insistence and to the day she died was
trying to pretend that nothing was wrong.
All Marie really wanted from her life was to be loved and
have a lot of loving attention. In the end, her dramatic death scene gave her that,
which is probably why she manifested cancer and kept it and eventually, died from
it.
The name for this game is "secondary gain." A lot
of sick people are playing it. Their illness lets them win their deepest desire;
they get love, attention, revenge, sympathy, complete service, pampering, create
guilt in others. When sick people receive too much secondary gain they never get
well.
One of the hardest things about being a healer is that one
accumulates an ever-enlarging series of dirty, failed cases like this one. It is
depressing and makes a person want to quit doctoring. Whenever I get involved with
a case I really want them to get better. My life is put entirely out of joint for
several months dealing with a residential faster. My schedule is disrupted; my family
life suffers; my personal health suffers. No amount of mere money could pay for this.
And then some of these people go and waste all my help to accomplish some discreditable
secret agenda that they have never really admitted to themselves or others.
Constant Complaints
Alice was a middle-aged woman who couldn't understand why
she had always felt tired, even when she was young. Her life had been this way ever
since she could remember. Most puzzling to her was why her life was so Job-like.
She did everything the proper way. Doing things correctly was important to her, and
fitted her Puritan background. Alice supported all the right causes, did good works,
was active in a Unitarian church and bought all her food at the healthfood store–and
made sure it was organically grown.
But in spite of Alice's righteous living, her existence was
a treadmill of constant, minor complaints. She was constantly exhausted, so much
so she had difficulty getting up in the morning and feared she might have chronic
fatigue syndrome (whatever that is). Alice suffered bouts of depression over thoughts
like these, and had many acute illnesses like colds that hung on interminably and
would not go away. She had a constant post-nasal drip. Though she enjoyed life, her
body was a millstone around her neck.
I've had a lot of clients exactly like Alice. Sometimes they
complain of headaches; sometimes constant yeast or bladder infections. Whatever the
complaints, the symptoms are rarely severe enough to classify themselves as someone
who is seriously ill, but their symptoms rarely go away and they almost never feel
good. Medical doctors rarely find anything wrong with them, though they will frequently
prescribe an antibiotic to treat a somewhat constant infection, or an antihistamine
for sinus symptoms. Getting a new prescription drug makes the complaint go away for
a short time until their resistance is lowered again and the very same complaint
returns. These people frequently depend on over the counter pills and are routinely
prescribed sleeping remedies and antidepressants. If instead of this route they will
but take my medicine they are usually easy to fix and afterwards are amazed that
it was all that simple and that so much of their life has been less than it could
have been.
Alice had been through the medical doctor route. She had
become quite familiar with antibiotics for her colds and flu, and also took synthetic
thyroid hormone–the doctor had diagnosed her fatigue as being caused by an underactive
thyroid, which was partly correct–but the thyroid medication didn't give her much
more energy. Alice had been supporting this medical doctor in grand style for over
thirty years but never obtained the relief she sought.
I put Alice through my usual two hour first-time-visit thorough
analysis. For two weeks before coming to see me she had saved tiny samples of everything
she ate, wrapped them in plastic film, carefully labeled, and put them in the freezer.
Along with these food samples and a typed list of all these foods, she brought a
big box full of her condiments, herb teas, vitamins, spices, prescription medications,
over the counter drugs, oils, grains, breads, crackers and small samples of her usual
fresh vegetables and fruits. Even her water. Her entire kitchen! By biokinesiology
we proceeded to test all of her foods for allergic reactions. I also tested the integrity
of her organs and glands and in the process, got a detailed medical history and list
of her complaints.
Alice had exhausted adrenals, and they probably had been
that way for thirty years. Her pancreas was now too weak to digest the legumes that
made up a large part of her vegetarian diet. She was allergic to wheat, soy, and
dairy products and had especially been eating dairy in the mistaken notion that it
was necessary to keep up her protein intake. Really very typical. So many health
food store shoppers these days mistakenly believe that, because they are vegetarian
and do not eat meat, they especially need to boost their protein intake with dairy
and soy. Unfortunately, so many North Americans are highly allergic to dairy and
unfortunately, soy products are as hard or harder to digest than cooked meats.
Alice was especially shocked to discover that she was allergic
to such foods as cabbage family vegetables, alfalfa sprouts and citrus. Most people
don't think that anyone could be allergic to something as healthy as alfalfa sprouts.
The doctor was right about one thing; her thyroid was underperforming. He had not
noticed that her heart was weak.
Medical doctors rarely discover an organ weakness until that
organ actually begins to catastrophically fail. A busy honest doctor will usually
tell the complaining patient there is nothing wrong with them: go home, take two
aspirin, accept the fact that your body is not perfect and don't worry about it.
A hungry doctor will be delighted to perform countless lab tests, seeking any possible
reason for the complaint. This can go on as long as the patient has money or as long
as the insurance company will pay. They rarely find anything "wrong" and
the patient is far better off if the doctor doesn't discover something "serious"
to treat because their treatment may carry with it consequences far more severe than
the complaint. For example, I have seen dozens of people whose lives were virtually
ruined after surgical treatment for chronic back pain.
Biokinesiology is actually a far more sensitive system of
analysis than lab tests. It picks up weaknesses at a very early stage so total organ
failure can be prevented. Rarely will any of the organ weaknesses I discover be confirmed
by a medical doctor. First I put Alice on a six week cleanse. She did one week on
fresh, raw food; one week on dilute carrot juice with some green leafy vegetables
juice too; one week on water fasting; and then she repeated the series. After six
weeks of detoxification, I gave Alice a life extension megavitamin formula, discovered
she could not handle the acid form of vitamin C (that she had already been taking)
and had her start on protomorphogens to rebuild her weakened endocrine system, her
exhausted adrenals and weak pancreas. She also began taking pancreatic enzymes when
she ate vegetable protein. She was put on a maintenance diet that eliminated foods
she was allergic to; the diet primarily consisted of whole grains, nuts, cooked and
raw vegetables, and raw fruits. On her maintenance diet Alice had a profound resurgence
of energy and rediscovered a sense of well-being she had not known for decades. She
began to feel like she had when she was a child. Her constant sinus drip was gone.
She was able to stop taking synthetic thyroid hormones and instead, supported her
endocrine system with protomorphogens.
A Rampaging Infection
At the age of 40, John, an old bohemian client of mine, came
into a moderate inheritance and went "native" in the Fiji Islands in the
South Pacific. He spent about four months hanging out with the locals. Life there
was so much fun that John completely forgot that his body was actually rather delicate,
that many of his organs were weak, and that to feel good, he had to live a fairly
simon-pure life.
But the jovial, accepting, devil-may-care Fijians enjoyed
a constant party, even more so because John's money allowed the Fijians to manifest
powerful, tropical, home-grown strains of recreational herbs to smoke in abundance,
beer and rum and worse, the Fijians (and John) constantly used a very toxic though
only mildly-euphoric narcotic called kava, something Europeans usually have no genetic
resistance to. The Fijians (and John) also ate a lot of freshly-caught fish fried
in grease, well-salted, and huge, brain-numbing bowls of greasy starches, foods that
they call i'coi, or "real food" as opposed to things like fruit and vegetables
that aren't real food because they don't knock you to the floor for hours trying
to digest them in a somnambulant doze.
John miraculously kept up with this party for a few months
and then, while scuba diving, got some small coral scratches on his leg. These got
infected. The infections got worse. Soon he had several huge, suppurating, ulcerous
sores on his legs and worse, the infections became systemic and began spreading rapidly.
He was running a fever and was in considerable pain. So John booked an emergency
ticket home and fled to find Doctor Isabelle. When I met his plane he was rolled
out in a wheelchair, unable to walk because of pain and swelling in his legs.
John was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment;
he especially would not have taken antibiotics even if he had died without them because
previous courses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life-threatening conditions
that first brought John to my care. John used his last strength to get to me because
he knew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medical doctors would
have done exactly as they pleased.
I gave John a colonic, a gentle, mental spanking, and put
him to bed without any supper. He started water fasting and did colonics every day.
He began gobbling vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate) a few grams every hour. I put
huge poultices on his sores made of clay and chopped lawn grass (we needed a week
or so before a tray of wheat grass would be ready). John's sores were amazing. Every
day a new one seemed to appear on a different part of the body. The old ones kept
getting bigger and deeper. The largest original ones were about three inches in diameter,
smelled horribly and had almost eaten the flesh down to the bone. His pain was severe;
there was no position John could assume that didn't irritate one sore or another,
and it was a good thing my house was remote because John frequently relieved his
pain by screaming. John was never delirious, but he was always original. He did not
have to scream, but enjoyed its relief and howled quite dramatically. I wore earplugs.
After about two weeks of water fasting, John counted up the
total of his sores. There were forty three. Seven or eight of them were enormous,
two or three inches in diameter and well into the flesh, but the last ones to appear
were shallow, small and stayed small. After that point no more new ones showed up
and the body began to make visible headway against the infection. Very slowly and
then more and more rapidly, the sores began to close up and heal from the edges.
John's fever began to drop. And he had less pain. I should mention that John brought
an extremely virulent and aggressive pathogenic organism into our house to which
we Americans had no resistance. Both my husband and I were attacked where the skin
had been broken. However, unlike John, in our cases, our healthy bodies immediately
walled-off the organism and the small, reddened pustules, though painful, did not
grow and within a week, had been conquered by our immune systems. And after that
we had an immunity.
After about three weeks of his fasting we were thoroughly
tired of hearing John's cathartic howls, tired of nursing a sick person. We needed
a break. John at this point could walk a bit and was feeling a lot better. John had
previously water fasted for 30 days and knew the drill very well. So we stocked up
the vitamin C bottle by his bed and went to town for the weekend to stay in a motel
and see a movie. As they say in the Canadian backwoods, we were bushed.
John had promised to be good. But as soon as we left he decided
that since he felt so very much better, he could break his fast. He knew how to do
this and fortunately for him, (it was very much premature for John to eat) did it
more or less correctly, only eating small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables.
But by the time we got back home three days later, John had relapsed. The pain was
rapidly getting much worse; the sores were growing again and a few small new ones
appeared. Dr. Isabelle again took away his food and gave him another verbal spanking
a little more severe than the one he'd had a few weeks earlier and put him to bed
again without his supper.
After two more weeks on water, John had gained a great deal
on the sores. They were filling in and weren't oozing pus, looked clean and the new
forming meat looked a healthy pink instead of purple-black. But John had been very
slender to start with and by now he was getting near the end of his food reserves.
He probably couldn't have fasted on water for more than one more week without starvation
beginning. But this time, when he broke his fast, it was under close supervision.
I gave him dilute juice only, introduced other sustenance very cautiously and made
absolutely sure that reintroducing nourishment would not permit the organism to gain.
This time it didn't. John's own immune system, beefed up by fasting, had conquered
a virulent organism that could have easily killed him.
Before the era of antibiotics, before immunizations to the
common childhood illnesses, people frequently died of infections as virulent as the
one that attacked John. They usually died because they "ate to keep up their
strength." Most of these deaths were unnecessary, caused by ignorance and poor
nursing care. For example, standard medical treatment for typhoid fever used to consist
of spoon-fed milk–sure to kill all but the strongest constitution. Even without the
assistance of massive doses of vitamin C, if people would but fast away infections
they could cure themselves of almost all of them with little danger, without the
side effects of antibiotics or creating mutated antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
Dr. John Tilden, a hygienist who practiced in the '20s, before
the era of antibiotics, routinely fasted patients with infectious illnesses. Supporting
the sick body with wise nursing, he routinely healed scarlet fever, whopping cough,
typhoid, typhus, pneumonia, peritonitis, Rocky Mountain fever, tuberculosis, gonorrhea,
syphilis, cholera, and rheumatic fever. The one common infection he could not cure
was diphtheria involving the throat. (Tilden, Impaired Health, Vol. II).
Recently, medical gerontologists have discovered another
reason that fasting heals infections. One body function that deteriorates during
the aging process is the production of growth hormone so the effects of growth hormone
have been studied. This hormone also stimulates the body to heal wounds and burns,
repair broken bones, generally replace any tissues that have been destroyed and,
growth hormone stimulates the immune response. Growth hormone also maintains muscle
tone and its presence generally slows the aging process.
Growth hormone might make a wonderful life-extension supplement;
on it a middle-aged person might readily maintain the muscle tone of youth while
slowing aging in general. Unfortunately, growth hormone cannot at this time be inexpensively
synthesized and is still far too costly to be used therapeutically except to prevent
dwarfism. However, any technique that encourages a body to produce more of this hormone
would be of great interest to life extensionists.
The body only produces growth hormone at certain times and
only when certain nutrients are present in the blood. Gerontologists call these nutrients
"precursors." The precursors are two essential amino acids, argenine and
ornithine and certain vitamins such as C and B 6. But having the precursors
present is not enough. Growth hormone is only manufactured under certain, specific
circumstances: for about one hour immediately after going to sleep and then only
if the blood supply is rich with argenine and ornithine but contains few other amino
acids; it is also manufactured during heavy aerobic exercise that goes on for more
than thirty minutes; and growth hormone is produced at an accelerated rate when fasting.
(Pearson and Shaw, 1983). I did not know this when I was fasting John, but now, I
would give argenine and ornithine to someone with a serious infection as well as
massive quantities of vitamin C.
Chronic Back Pain
Barry was a carpenter who couldn't afford to lose work because
he was unable to bend or twist or lift. He frequently had bouts of severe back pain
that made working almost impossible. Upon analysis by biokinesiology I found that
he had a major problem with large intestine weakness and secondarily, adrenal weakness.
Constipation frequently causes back pain. The muscles of
the back have nerve pathway connections to the large intestines; weakness in the
intestine causes weakness of the back and makes it prone to injury. But the problem
is the intestine, not the back. And the only way to make the back stay better is
to heal the intestine. Many athletes have very similar problems. For example, they
get knee injuries and think there is something wrong with their knee. Or they get
shoulder injuries and think their shoulder is weak. These people are only half right.
Yes, their knee or their shoulder is weak. But it could become strong and almost
uninjurable if the underlying cause of the weakness is corrected.
The knee for example, has nerve pathway connections to the
adrenal glands and kidneys. The shoulder has similar connections to the thyroid.
The foot is weakened by the bladder. The treatment should first be on the weakened
gland or organ and secondarily, on the damaged muscle tissue. I have solved numerous
sports-related knee problems with protomorphogens for the adrenals and elimination
of food allergies that make the adrenals work overtime. I have fixed bad shoulders
by rebuilding the thyroid.
In Barry's case, it was the intestine. I asked him about
his bowel function and he said that he was never constipated, had "a daily bowel
movement without a lot of straining." But having given some 6,000 colonics,
I knew better. There should have been no straining; Barry was trying very hard to
be regular–he should not have had to effort. Fortunately, it struck him as true that
he needed to detoxify and I managed to convince him to water fast. He probably figured,
why not since he couldn't work anyway. Barry was a tall, skinny man to start with
and you would think he hardly carried any fat at all, but he fasted on water for
30 days, receiving a colonic every day, while I did bodywork on his damaged back.
He sure was constipated and couldn't deny the evidence that floated by through the
sight tube of the colonic machine. By the end of the fast his colon was fairly repaired
and free of old fecal material. And Barry had become a tall, gaunt-looking guy who
had lost about 20 pounds you wouldn't think he had to spare.
After a few weeks of careful weaning back on to food, Barry
felt pretty good, terrific even. He had no back pain and found out for the first
time what not being constipated meant. It no longer took "not very much effort"
to move his bowels; they moved themselves. That was ten years ago. A few months ago,
Barry looked me up, just to say thanks and to let me know that he had not had any
more back problems and had generally felt good because he had more or less stayed
on the improved diet I had instructed him about during his fast.
Painful Menstruation
Elsie was twenty. She came to see me because I had helped
Elsie's mother overcome breast cancer many years earlier. Elsie began to have very
painful periods with profuse bleeding and abdominal pain. Her nutrition had been
generally good because her mother couldn't survive on the average American diet and
had long ago converted her family to vegetarianism. And like her mother, Elsie had
been taking vitamins for many years.
A medical doctor diagnosed Elsie as having endometriosis,
meaning, the lining of her uterus had migrated to the fallopian tubes, where it continued
to bleed regularly into the abdominal cavity, following the same hormonal cycle as
the endometritial tissue that lines the uterus. The doctor offered to try hormonal
manipulation and if this proved unsuccessful, offered a hysterectomy. That would
certainly eliminate the symptoms!
But Elsie did not wish to eliminate her ability to have children
and preferred not to risk throwing her hormones off balance. So she came to me. My
analysis showed that she had weak ovaries and weak uterus. These were secondary to
a toxic colon, toxic because she had a weak gall bladder and weak pancreas that reduced
her digestive capacity and turned her improperly combined Organic, vegetarian legume-rich
diet into toxemia. Checking her foods for allergies I discovered the normal pattern:
Elsie was intolerant to dairy, wheat, eggs, corn, soy and concentrated sugars.
Being no stranger to fasting (her mother had fasted at length
ten years previously) Elsie undertook a 30 day cleanse on vegetable juice with daily
enemas, taking vitamins in powdered form. After the fast I put her on protomorphogens
for her reproductive organs and pancreas. The gall bladder had healed by itself during
fasting–gall bladders usually heal easily. Her maintenance diet included using pancreatic
enzyme supplements when eating vegetable proteins and Elsie eliminated most fats
so her gall bladder would not be stressed. The fasting also overcame her allergic
reactions to corn and wheat but she was still unable to handle soy products, eggs
or dairy. After six months Elsie no longer needed protomorphogens, had no abdominal
pain and her periods were normal.
You may well be wondering how or why detoxification of the
bowels allowed the body to repair the uterus. The large intestine is a sort of nest
that cradles the reproductive organs, including the ovaries, uterus, and in the case
of the male, the prostate gland. A toxic colon is like having one rotten apple in
a basket, it contaminates the whole batch. Many problems in the abdominal area are
caused by a toxic colon, including chronic back pain, ovarian cysts, infertility,
birth abnormalities, bladder infections and bladder cancer, painful menstruation,
fibroids and other benign growths as well as malignant ones, and prostatitis or prostate
cancer. Detoxing the body and cleaning out the colon should be a part of the healing
of all of these conditions.
Irritable Bowels
Some peoples' lives don't run smoothly. Jeanne's certainly
didn't. She was abandoned to raise three little kids on welfare. Her college diploma
turned out to be useless. Jeanne used to help me at Great Oaks in exchange for treatment.
During those early years she had done a 30 day juice fast with colonics. Twenty years
later at age 60, having survived three children's growing up, surviving the profound,
enduring loss of one who died as an adult, after starting up and running a small
business that for many years barely paid its way, and experiencing an uninsured fire
that took her house, she began to develop abdominal pains the doctors named "irritable
bowel syndrome" or "colitis." The MD offered antibiotics and antispasmodics
but Jeanne had no insurance, the remedies were unaffordable. She also retained considerable
affinity for natural medicine.
Prior to these symptoms her diet had been vegetarian, and
had included large quantities of raw fruits and vegetables and whole grains. But
the bran in bread was irritating to her bowels, she could no longer digest raw vegetables
or most raw fruit.
Jeanne's vital force was low; her healing took time. She
started on a long fast supported by powdered vitamins, vegetable broth and herb teas,
but after three weeks was too weak to do her own enemas at home and could not shop
for vegetables to cook into broth. So she had to add one small serving of cooked
vegetable per day, usually broccoli or steamed kale. This lasted for one more week
but Jeanne, having no financial reserves, had to return to work, and needed to regain
energy quickly. Though not totally healed, she progressed to a maintenance diet of
cooked grains and vegetables and food supplements, very much like a Macrobiotic diet.
She felt better for awhile but wore down again after another stressful year.
Her abdominal pains gradually returned though this time she
noticed they were closely associated with her stresses. About one year after ending
her first fast, as soon as she could arrange to take time off, she began another.
This time to avoid extreme weakness, she took vegetable broth from the outset, as
well as small amounts of carrot juice and one small serving of cooked vegetable a
day for three weeks. Again, this rest allowed the digestive tract to heal and the
pain went away. She returned to her Macrobiotic diet with selected raw foods that
she could now handle without irritating her bowel.
She was now healthier then she had been in many years. With
improved energy and a more positive attitude, Jeanne returned to University at age
65 and obtained a teaching certificate. Now she is making good money, doing work
she enjoys for the first time in 35 years. I hope she has a long and happy life.
She is entitled to one!
A Collection of Gallbladders
Gallbladder cases are rather ho-hum to me; they are quick
to respond to hygienic treatment and easy to resolve. I've fixed lots of them. But
an inflamed gallbladder is in no way ho-hum to the person afflicted with it. I've
been frequently told that there are no worse pains a body can create than an inflamed
gallbladder or the sensations accompanying the passing of a gall stone. I hear from
kidney patients that passing a kidney stone is worse but I've never had a patient
who experienced both kinds of stones to give me an honest comparative evaluation.
The only thing dangerous about simple gallbladder problems
is ignoring them (between the bouts of severe pain they can cause) because then the
inflamed gallbladder can involve the liver. I already told the story of how my own
mother lost half her liver this way.
The condition is usually caused by a combination of hereditary
tendency, general toxemia, and/or a high-fat diet, especially one high in animal
fats. The liver makes bile that is stored in the gallbladder, to be released on demand
into the small intestine to digest fat. A toxic, overloaded liver makes irritating
sediment-containing bile that inflames the gallbladder and forms stones. A high-fat
diet forces the liver to make even more of this irritant.
A toxic, overloaded, inflamed, blocked gallbladder is capable
of causing an enormous array of symptoms that can seem to have no connection at all
to their cause. In part these same symptoms are caused by a toxic, constipated colon
that, in part, got that way because of poor fat digestion over a long time. These
symptoms include: severe back pain; headache; bloating; burping; nausea; insomnia;
intestinal gas; generalized aches and pains.
Medical doctors used to remove a troublesome gallbladder
without hesitation; it was an organ they considered to be highly dispensable. Without
one, the bile duct takes over as a bladder but its capacity is much smaller so the
person's ability to digest fats has been permanently crippled, leading to increased
toxemia and earlier aging if fats are not eliminated from the diet. These days the
medicos have a new, less invasive procedure to eliminate stones; they are vibrated
and broken-up by ultrasonics without major surgery. Inflamed gallbladders are usually
removed because gallbladder inflammations resist treatment by antibiotics.
There are several very effective natural gallbladder remedies.
The best is a three week fast, taking the juice of one or two lemons every day, along
with colonics. The lemon juice tends to clear the bile duct. The fast allows the
gallbladder to heal from inflammation. In cases that aren't too severe I have had
very good results simply eliminating fats from the diet and using a food supplement
derived from beet tops called AF Betafood. However, in all these cases, once the
gallbladder is no longer "acting up," the person must stay on a low fat
diet. Any fats they do eat must be vegetable and in small quantities.
By healing their gallbladders and cleansing their colons,
several of my clients have resolved severe, debilitating back pain, pain so severe
that the suffers were becoming bedridden. Medical doctors don't associate gallbladder
disease with back pain.
The Frightening Heart
Heart disease is one of the major causes of death among North
Americans. It evokes images of resuscitation, of desperate races against time, trying
to restart an arrested heart before the brain dies. It makes people think of horribly
expensive surgery, last wills and testaments, terrible, paralyzing pain. Heart disease
is a great profit center for the medical profession.
Most heart problems are very easy to fix by holistic approaches,
even many hereditary weaknesses and malfunctions can be healed, if the work is done
before too much organic damage occurs. But it rarely is easy to get the people to
take the necessary medicine; everything in their lives must change–and fast.
First of all, people with heart problems must rapidly reach
and maintain normal weight. This can be done by fasting or by dietary change, usually
by eliminating all fats, sugars and refined starches. Alcohol and tobacco must instantly
and forever become only past memories. It is almost as essential to eliminate flesh
protein foods and dairy. Should that prove entirely too painful, fish in small quantities
and only one or two times a week is tolerable.
For starters, a long fast, especially one involving lots
of bed rest, is ideal. This gives the heart a chance to heal while the body weight
is adjusted. A period of intense rest even without water fasting will accomplish
almost as much. Even someone with the potential for heart disease who has not yet
had a heart attack would be well-served to spend a month in bed, losing weight on
juice, or sitting in a rocker on the porch eating only raw foods. After the weight
is down to normal or close to normal and the heart tests stronger, an exercise program
should be started.
Exercise has to become a religion. A daily aerobic program
must be started on a carefully managed gradient, using the pulse rate as an regulator,
at first raising their maximum heart rate to a point just below 150 percent of its
resting pulse and keeping it there for thirty minutes. One can walk, jog, ride a
bicycle or use an exercise machine. Actually, everyone should do this, even those
with no heart problems. My husband, who hates the boredom of exercise, enjoys a ski
machine in front of the TV while the stock market program is on. He finds the TV
interesting enough that he pays no attention to his workout. Daily aerobic exercise
will strengthen the heart, gradually slowing the heart's resting pulse rate, indicating
that the heart has become much stronger, pumping more blood with each pulse. As the
resting pulse drops the exercising heartbeat can be increased to double the resting
rate.
Highly aggressive, competitive, stress-oriented people have
to give up being adrenaline junkies and learn to relax and assume a laid-back approach
to living. Or die soon. An adrenaline junkie is someone that enjoys the feeling they
get when operating under stress. Stress and the adrenaline it releases produce a
kind of a drug-high. Many stressaholics cannot give up their adrenaline addiction
while maintaining their previous employment and life-style, even though their life
is at stake. In this sense they are like alcoholics, who should not take employment
tending bar. To survive for long these people may have to retire or change professions.
Stockbrokers may have to become Organic farmers; journalists may have to operate
a news stand or bookstore, or work part-time covering the society page and dog shows.
Women frequently turn their family life into a stress-filled drama too.
With heart problems a life extension megavitamin program
is essential, even for twenty somethings if they have heart disease. The sixty milligrams
of Co-Enzyme Q-10 I recommend for the average middle aged person will not be enough
for heart cases; they should take at least 120 milligrams daily and consider up to
250 mg. This much Q-10 greatly boosts the energy output of the heart on a cellular
level. Vitamin E should also be increased, to between 600 and 2,000 iu daily. I also
rebuild diseased hearts with protomorphogens; usually they must stay on protomorphogens
for the rest of their lives. Niacin taken several times a day in doses, sufficient
to dilate the capillaries and cause a skin flush (50 to 200 milligrams), increases
the blood flow to nourish the heart. The amino acid L. Carnitine is also useful by
increasing the energy output of the heart much like Co-Enzyme Q-10.
When I put people on this program, the supplements and other
measures gradually take effect, and over months the patient begins to feel enormously
better. Inevitably they come to dislike the side-effects of the various medications
their medical doctor has put them on and they begin to wean themselves off of heart-stimulating
poisons like digitalis. Another benefit of my program is that inevitably, blood pressure
also drops to a normal range so if they have been on blood pressure medication they
quit that too. Their diuretics also become unnecessary. The money they save more
than pays for their supplements and the sense of well-being they feel is beyond value.
Other Kinds Of Cancer
There seem to be many other kinds of cancer, at least if
you believe the medical doctors. They divide up cancers and their treatments by their
location in the body and by the type of cancer cells present. I do not see it that
way. To me, a cancer is a cancer is a cancer, and there is only one kind: it is an
immune system collapse, consequence of the deadly triangle of weak spleen, thymus
and liver, plus a toxic large intestine and weak pancreas. That organ profile is
found in skin cancer, prostate cancer, leukemia, brain cancer, cancer of what have
you. How fast or how slowly the cells multiply or spread, where they are located,
what the cancer cells look like in a microscope, these are irrelevant factors compared
to the body's ability to conquer the disease. Or die from it.
If the body's immune system can stop the growth of the cancers
and begin to turn them back before the cancer cells impinge catastrophically on some
vital function, the person can usually survive. Even if the body cannot completely
eliminate all the cancer cells, but regains enough immune function to keep the existing
cancers in permanent check, a person can survive many years with an existing, stable
cancer without undue pain or discomfort. Still having a non-growing tumor after a
long fast indicates that a person is a lot better than they were before fasting.
I believe that virtually everyone has cancer cells in their
body, just like viruses and bacteria. But most people do not develop cancer as a
disease because their immune function is strong so these misbehaving cells are destroyed
as fast as they appear. Mutated, freely-multiplying cells are caused by peroxidized
fats, by free radicals in the body, by radiation (there has always been background
radiation on Earth), by chance mutation. There are naturally occurring highly carcinogenic
substances in ordinary foods that are unavoidable. In fact some of these naturally
occurring substances are far more dangerous than the toxic residues of pesticides
in our foods. The body is supposed to deal with all these things; they are all called
insults. It is rarely the insult, but the failure of the body to eliminate cancerous
cells promptly that causes the disease called cancer. So the treatment I recommend
for cancer in general is the same as the one described for breast cancer cases. Restore
the immune function.
However, as much as I lack respect for conventional medical
cancer therapies, I do think surgery can have a useful place in cancer treatment
along with hygienic methods. Some people just cannot confront the lump(s). Or they
are so terrified of having a cancer in their body that their emotions suppresses
their own immune function. Even though surgery prompts a cancer to spread more rapidly,
without their lumps some cancer patients feel more positive. If surgery is done in
conjunction with rebuilding the immune system, the body will prevent new cancers
from forming.
Removal of a large mass of cancer cells can also lighten
the immune system's task. Not having to kill off and reabsorb all those cells one-by-one
from a huge cancer mass, the body can better conquer smaller groups of cancer cells.
And the die-off of large cancers produces a lot of toxins, burdening the organs of
elimination. This is an argument for the potential benefit of a lumpectomy. However,
I do not support mastectomies, or the type of surgery that cause massive damage to
the body in a foolish attempt to remove every last cancer cell, as though the cells
themselves were the disease.
Sometimes cancer tumors are well-encapsulated, walled off
and can be easily removed without prompting metastasis. This type of tumor may not
be completely reabsorbed by the body in any case; though the immune system may have
killed it, an empty shell remains, like a peanut shell. Sometimes the judgment calls
about surgery can get dicey. When surgery involves removing an organ. I oppose the
loss of useful body parts.
I have also known and helped people who believed they couldn't
recover without radiation and chemotherapy. What people believe is, is. The emotions
generated when a personal reality is suppressed, ignored or invalidated will overwhelm
an immune system. I always tell those people who sincerely believe in it to go ahead
with standard medical treatment (while I'm privately praying the doctors won't cause
too much damage). However, when I am supporting a body with supplements and dietary
reform, have put that body on a raw-food cleansing diet or even a raw food diet with
nuts and grains that hardly detoxifies, and then the person has had chemotherapy
and radiation, the medical doctors in attendance are inevitably amazed that the side
effects are much milder than anticipated, or non-existent. And fewer courses of chemotherapy
are needed than the doctors expected.
For example, I worked with a little boy with leukemia. His
mother brought him to me while trying to resolve a conflict with her ex-husband about
the boy's treatment. The father demanded the standard medical route; the mother was
for natural therapy. Eventually the father won in court, but I had the boy on my
program for three months before the doctors got their hands on him. Even during chemotherapy
and radiation the mother kept the boy on my program. Throughout the doctors' treatment
he had so few bad side effects that he was able to continue in school and play with
the other children; he did not lose his hair (which would have made him feel like
a freak). He recovered. I don't mind that the medical doctors took credit, but to
my thinking, he recovered despite their therapy.
Onion Cases
All too many of my cases are what I privately refer to as
onion cases. By this I mean the opposite of a simple case. There are multiple complaints.
I call them onion cases because these people get better in layers, like pealing an
onion. As each skin comes off, the next becomes visible. Sometimes when the patient
overcomes an existing complaint, another appears that was not there in the beginning,
probably this new one is a complaint that they had at an earlier point in their life,
one that had gone away. Onion cases take a long time to completely heal, sometimes
years. There frequently are psychological aspects to the case that surface with different
physical problems. If I were not an effective psychologist I could not succeed with
most of them. The average medical doctor probably considers onion cases to be hypochondriacs,
but they usually are not.
Almost always the first symptoms that demand attention are
the most life-threatening, like immune system failures, liver failures, pancreatic
failures, nervous system failures and heart failures. With these eliminated, new
complaints appear. Often these are endocrine system imbalances or weak endocrine
glands, anemias, mild heart conditions. Then it gets down to eye or ear infections,
muscular or skeletal weaknesses, mild skin problems, sinusitis, teeth problems; things
that aren't serious but that do degrade the quality of life. Each one of these layers
also carries with it a psychological component; each of these layers can take three
to six months to resolve.
I had a pretty good idea from the first visit that Daniel,
not yet 30, was going to take some time to get well. He already had a degenerative
condition not usually seen until middle age–crippling gout and arthritis. He had
badly distorted joints, walked with considerable pain, lacked a full range of movement,
had enormous fatigue and consequently, a well-justified depression. Daniel was about
to give up working as no longer possible, but he liked his job. And he certainly
needed it.
Daniel's analysis showed massive allergies to foods, a systemic
yeast and multiple virus infections and multiple organ weaknesses: a life-threateningly
weak immune system, weak pancreas, weak adrenals, weak large intestine. Because he
could hardly accept anything he wasn't allergic to and because he could not afford
to quit working even for a few weeks (though he was about to be forced into complete
disability) I put him on a Bieler fast. This is a monodiet of fairly substantial
quantities of either well-cooked green beans or well-cooked zucchini, the choice
between these two foods depending on the acid-base balance of the blood. (Henry Bieler,
1965) In Daniel's case my choice was zucchini, one pint of plain zucchini puree with
a little kelp and garlic added (no salt, no butter, no nothing else) every few hours.
I also put him on heavy vitamin support and protomorphogens for his desperate immune
system. While on the Bieler fast he did daily enemas at home. Had colonics been available
to him, Daniel couldn't have afforded them.
Within three weeks he was far more comfortable, had less
pain, more energy even though he was still eating nothing but zucchini, had less
swelling in his joints. During the first month he lost about ten pounds and had been
skinny to start with. I then added other cooked nonstarchy vegetables to his diet
and we continued the same protomorphogen and supplement program for another month.
Once each month Daniel came to see me. Each time he had slightly
improved organ strength and was able to tolerate a few more foods. By the third month
he stopped losing weight because we added small quantities of cooked rice and millet
to his diet. However, to continue his detox, I had him water fast one day a week,
staying in bed and resting all day. At the start and end of the fasting day he also
took an enema. He continued a weekly one-day fast for many months. By the fourth
month, his immune system testing stronger, a new problem appeared. Daniel had intestinal
parasites. So I also put him on a six month program to eliminate those.
Daniel required monthly dietary adjustments because he quickly
became allergic if he ate very much of anything very often–broccoli or rice for example.
During this time he became aware of many negative emotions associated with childhood,
of young adult frustrations and disappointments. He was really very angry about many
things in his life, even though he had for many years maintained an invariably pleasant
social veneer. But now he began expressing some of these feelings to me and to his
associates.
Daniel had an abusive girlfriend, but as he improved this
relationship became insufferable. So he broke off with this woman and found a new
relationship that was much more positive, one based on mutual respect and admiration.
There are frequently strong connections between repressed anger and depository diseases
like arthritis and gout. Daniel could not permit himself to constantly be made angry
and still get well.
His next layer of symptoms did not appear until nearly eighteen
months after he had first come to see me. By this time he had good energy, had returned
to hiking and skiing, camping and canoeing. He had worked as a printer but was now
bootstrapping his own print shop on a shoestring, and became entirely self-employed.
He had a good romantic relationship. The parasites were gone; his gout and arthritis
was virtually gone; many of his food allergies were gone. Now his body was demanding
that its acid/base balance be adjusted and he began to pay attention to the minor
back problems he had all along. Daniel had also developed a new problem–inflammation
of the eye. It was so severe that he went to an opthamologist seeking immediate relief
because he could hardly see. I put him on massive doses of vitamin C and protomorphogens
for the eye and we attacked the other problems.
Now I still see Daniel every three months for minor dietary
and supplement adjustments. His emotional space is very positive. His business is
doing well. His love life is doing well. He has developed no new problems and all
the old ones are under control. His organ systems, though better, will never tolerate
many insults, physical or mental, but if he lives within his limits, he has every
chance of a long and happy life.
Daniel has become a friend of mine by now and I like to see
him but I expect I won't see Daniel very much at all any more. He has learned what
he needs to know to take care of himself. This is a typical onion case that resolved
successfully. However this case might not have worked out so well had Daniel not
possessed a high degree of personal integrity and bravery, had he not faced and resolved
his emotional conflicts. Fortunately, Daniel had always conducted an ethical life,
without dishonesty or a secret collection of disreputable acts. Bodies are easy to
fix; they are carbon oxygen engines that work on chemistry and respond unfailingly
to physical measures. But the entity that runs the body is not so simple. The thoughts
and emotions of the spirit impinge on a body as powerfully or more powerfully than
all the vitamins, dietary reform or protomorphogens I can provide. The mind, and
the spirit behind that mind, can make a body sick or can prevent it from getting
well or staying well despite everything I do.
Unethical Illness
I see a lot of spiritually-induced physical illness in my
practice. Maybe more than my share. Maybe its karmic; it tends to find me because
I understand it. And it comes up my driveway because people who have it often become
doctor shoppers, and seek out a naturopath as a last resort after exhausting everything
that modern medical science has to offer. I have had large numbers of undiagnosable
people that suffer greatly but who medical doctors can find nothing wrong with and
label psychosomatic. I have also repaired people given specific medical diagnoses
that standard physical remedies cannot make better.
In most of these cases, the physical illness is secondary
to, is an overlay of a more fundamental spiritual cause. On this type of case there
are inevitably severe problems connected with close friends, relatives and business
associates. The sick person inevitably blames the friends, relatives and business
associates and takes no responsibility. The problems seem unresolvable. When I probe
deeply enough into these problems, I begin to discover the real infection below.
The sick person, so fond of complaining about all the terrible things done to them
by the people they have or have had problems with, or sometimes, so proud of not
complaining about all the terrible things done to them. Actually, almost inevitably
this person has committed a huge mass of secret crimes, viciousness and betrayals,
rarely indictable felonious acts, but crimes none the less, disreputable deeds that
must be kept secret.
These deeds are always completely justified; the sick person
always claims to have been right for having done them and it is next to impossible
for me as a therapist to get them to take responsibility for their sins. But at the
deep, center of almost all people is an honest, decent soul that knows what it has
really done and feels guilty and judges itself. That is why it says in the Bible,
'judge not, lest you be judged'. It is not the judgment of the Deity we have so much
to fear; we are own worst judge, jury, and executioner, and eventually extract from
ourselves full payment with compound interest for all harmful acts.
People frequently punish themselves with severe, incapacitating
illness or even death. A spiritual illness will not respond very well to physical
treatment until the spiritual malaise's is resolved. This case has to find enough
courage to become honest with themselves, to admit their deeds in all their disgusting
detail and then to make amends, or if amends are not possible, to at least cease
and desist. They have to take personal responsibly for what they really are being
and what they have really done and most importantly, accept that they are responsible
for creating their own illness. It is not a virus, a cancer cell or something that
just fell out of the universe and struck them, innocent victims that they are. They
have made their illness and only they can uncreate it.
Unfortunately, few people who have spent a lifetime indulging
themselves in this degree of irresponsibility have the integrity to change. This
is a tough case. Especially so because they think they are physically ill, they did
not come to me to be defined as a "mental" case and tend to reject such
approaches.
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There is no shortage of additional degenerative conditions
that I could describe. There are eating disorders, shingles, skin problems, kidney
disease, Alzheimer's, senility, mental illness, addictions, chronic fatigue syndrome,
aids. There's macular degeneration, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic ear infections
(especially in children), tonsillitis, bronchitis, pancreatitis, cystitis, urethritis,
prostatitis, colitis, sinusitis, osteomyelitis and a dozen other itises, including
appendicitis. There's algias (itises of the nerves): neuralgia, fibromyalgia. There's
ism's (really itises of the muscles). There are 'onias like pneumonia; omas like
carcinoma, melanoma and lymphoma.
I could (but won't) write a page or two on every one of these
conditions and turn this book into an encyclopedia. After twenty five years of practice,
there is little I have not seen. Or helped a body repair. Generally, everyone of
those following pages I'm not going to bother to write would repeat the same message.
That the medical profession has little understanding of the real causes or cures
of disease; that the world is full of unnecessary suffering; that there are simple,
painless, effective, harmless approaches to eliminating most of the ailments of mankind
except the ultimate ailment, old age, the thing that takes us all eventually; that
essentially all the diseases resolve from the same approach.
But I have already explained the theoretical basis of natural
hygiene, the key role of toxemia, enervation, constipation, the essentials of good
diet, fasting and colon cleansing, the importance of regular exercise, and the rational
for vitamin supplementation. I have revealed a lot of the secrets in my bag of tricks,
like my favorite herbs, poultices and wheat grass.
What concerns me most about medicine today is that there
seems to be ever fewer hygienists practicing. The young holistic practitioner is
overwhelmed with confusing data and approaches and is increasingly less able to discern
what is really important and what is distraction, and is increasingly intimidated
by the AMA, made fearful of accepting people with serious conditions. Too many young
practitioners become ideologues, clinging to the rightness of a single rigid discipline,
missing the truths that exist in other approaches and worse, missing the limitations
that exist in their own personal healing methods.
The current concern about the cost of medical care and resorting
to government-run insurance programs and regulations will do little or nothing to
reverse the trend to more and more sickness that costs more and more to treat. The
root causes of our current crisis are two fold. One, our food, just as it comes off
the farm, is getting ever worse. This is not even recognized as a problem. After
we process it for an industrial food distribution system, much nutrition is lost
too. This is barely recognized as a problem. Until we are better nourished, we will
be ever sicker and each generation will become a degeneration. Secondly, our society
is suffering from all the evils of monopoly medicine. This is barely recognized.
The AMA has a stranglehold on the sick. There is no effective competition for its
methods. Alternatives are suppressed. In my version of a better world, if anyone
that wanted to could hang out a shingle and offer to diagnose, treat and cure disease,
a few quacks would really hurt a few people. But many genuine therapies would appear
and the public would be exposed to workable alternatives. If anyone that wanted to
market it could put a label on a bottle of pills, power or tincture that said its
contents would heal or cure disease, yes, a few people would be poisoned. And a few
would die needlessly by failing to get the right treatment. But on the positive side,
all this liberty would result in countless new therapies being rediscovered and many
new uses for existing substances would appear.
Fundamentally, this is the issue of liberty. I believe it
is better to allow choice and options, to permit the dangers that go with liberty
to exist. And to allow unfortunate outcomes to occur without intervention into individual
lack of intelligence and irresponsibilities. The opposite is our current path–an
attempt to regulate and control away all dangers. But this overcontrol results in
institutionalized violence and cruelty, inefficiency that is not checked or exposed
by the bright light of a better way. As Churchill said, 'democracy is the worst form
of government there is–except for all the others.' What he meant is that we must
accept that this is an imperfect world. The best this planet can be is when it is
at its freest, when restrictions are minimized and when people are allowed to make
their own choices, be responsible for their own outcomes and experience the consequences
of their own stupidities.
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