Fasting.

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The therapeutics of fasting is the most ancient therapy of the humanity. Fasting has not only tremendous healing effect on the health of an individual, it holds an important role in a social history of the mankind. Let’s recall Moses, Christ, who fasted for 40 days, before getting revelations. Every religion and culture maintains the necessity of fasting and abstaining from fatty food. Different views, different approaches, methods and applications – but in one thing any culture is unanimous: me should abstain from food at least for some time. Ancient people did knew a huge role of fasting in curing diseases of body and soul and to make masses follow it,certainly the notion was ciphered in religious symbols and rites.

Our forefathers observed that after some days of fasting, an eruption of vitality and vigour show itself in the organism. Nature turns it to account for the purpose of accelerating the profits by the rest afforded to the digestive functions and by the vital machine’s slacked activity resulting from the fast to cast off the impurities and waste of the organism by every channel. In sickness, nature seeks to eliminate until the choked up ducts which are the vehicles of vitality and energy are made free and good health re-established.

What happens in the organism during a fast? We know that a great part of the energy of the organism is absorbed by the work of digestion. When we do not introduce food into the organism, then those forces which are generally absorbed by the work of digestion are freed. And these forces which are usually paralysed by the struggle against toxins introduced into the system, and occupied with the elimination of waste provoked by an irrational diet, are liberated by the rest which fasting secures. The organism begin to feed upon its own reserves and the liberated forces begin to eliminate various old local accumulations and deposits of toxin, which the organism when occupied with the daily influx of toxins has neither the energy nor time to do.

Sadly enough, but we eat far too much. We overfeed ourselves, and yet we are undernourished. How can it be? Because cooked food lacks greatly the necessary elements and vitamins. And on the contrary, from raw food we get ten times more energy. That’s why having eaten something yammi-yammi which is processed, very soon we want to put something inside again. We are obsessed with cooked food, we are dependent on it, we are foodoholics.

And it is important to underline, that when we put even a tiny piece of food in our stomach, the process of elimination is immediately stopped. That’s why those constantly chewing something are in very dangerous position, as the process of elimination of toxins is suppressed almost all the time. And that’s why we are advised to eat only two times a day (preferably at noon and around 6pm) and no snacks in between.

What happens if a person using drugs is deprived of them? He craves for them by all means. The same mechanism works with processed foods. Toxins and poisons released while digesting cooked foods require more toxins, alcohol very well accompany it. Evil circle. And soon after 30 years our poor body is actually overstuffed with poisons, toxins and other waste. Our organism is depositing them first in fatty tissues, and when they are full, there is no other place to store them, as in important and vital organs, and then we fall ill. First we have relatively small health problems, but the more toxins are accumulated, the more serious diseases we acquire. And fast is the most radical and efficient method of getting rid of these toxins (and deceases apparently). If we are able to face the problem and not to look after some magic pills which would save us. For our sins we have to pay full price.

What diseases can be cured by fasting? Practically any. If you can not be healed through fasting you can not be healed at all!

So, you read a few books on the subject and became aware of the necessity to do something for your body, you decided to fast. The question is – how to proceed correctly, how to avoid common mistakes and inflict harm to your precious body.

Strictly saying, the most important part in fasting are preparation to it and way out of it. No one should skip these stages, if he really wants to regain health without any harm done to himself. Forget about quick results, hurry slowly, you spent dozens of years damaging your health, but you may resume excellent health in much shorter time, still it will be many months and even a few years.

What does the preparation to fasting include?

I take an average layman as a model, without very serious decease, 30-50 years old. (Those in a very serious condition might need an emergency plan, which will be very stressful for the organism and not 100% successful, but when official medicine declares you having no chances of survival, fasting has at least 50% chances of recovery). One with great desire and intention to be healthy.

First of all you should cancel all foods containing meat products. It’s not easy, but the thought whether to die relatively young suffering in pain from deceases, being a load to your loved ones, or – live long happily, full of vigour, even in intimate relations when others can hardly move – should prevail. Once you managed to spend 5 weeks without meat (and putting the skids under the old habit and switching to a new one takes approximately 40 days), start omitting other harmful products: bread, pastries, sweats, chocolate, coffee, tea, eggs, butter, pasteurized milk and milk products(practically – everything that is denatured and full of preserving, conserving agents, different Es, etc). Simultaneously, after you ditched meat products from your menu, start the purge of your large intestine by the following regime: first week use enema daily, second week– once in two days, third week– once in three days, forth week – once a week and the rest of your life – once in a week, if you will not manage to adopt raw, preferably monotrophic diet.

There exist polar views on using enema in naturopathic circles. Some are stating that it is unnatural for the humans as it does not exist in wild nature. I am inclined to stick to those who consider that unnatural habits (consuming cooked food, which does not exist in the wild) require unnatural methods to get rid of the consequences of such habit. The more that it greatly quickens the process of elimination of wastes and takes a huge load off the body.

Concerning colonics which is a trend of the modern times, I think it to be too radical a method, it is better to move step by step, cleansing the stomach little by little, changing our milieu interieur(inner environment) by stages, phase after phase. If we make too sharp swerves (and that relates not only to this), usually our organism tends to regain the previous balance, and we feel exhaustion by the failure to reach a cherished result. Though, if you are young, it may work. Actually, for young people an abrupt switch to something new, is a good choice and workable.

How to use enema correctly? The best substance to be used is own urine diluted with some boiled water to make it warm or, if that is unacceptable, use warm boiled water with a tablespoon of salt and teaspoon of lemon juice (they prevent absorbing the water through the lining of the intestine). Fill the vessel with it, hang it on a shower stand, take the knees-elbows position in your tub, adjust the head of the hose into the anal opening with your hand and allow the liquid to flow in. Breath deeply and rapidly to produce the sucking effect to promote easy consumption of the liquid into the intestine. When the procedure is finished, step out of the tub, lie down in the corridor close to the bath, prop your legs against the wall and raise your pelvis as well, shake them a bit, stay for 1-2 min. in that position, that will allow the liquid to pass through the descending into the traverse colon. Then lower your legs onto the floor, lie in that position for a minute and turn on your right side in embryo position (legs perpendicular your torso), stay so for another 2 minutes, that will allow the liquid to move further down the ascending colon and cecum. After completing this stages lie on your back relaxed for another couple of minutes and then turn on your left side for a minute, which will allow the liquid to move back. That’s it. Stand up and promptly secure your place on the loo. Allow enough time for the procedure as the content from your intestine will not get out in one go, there will be several of them, in between try to move briskly, jump up, that will help the voiding process. When you feel that nothing is left inside you can take a shower, and very advisable is a contrasting one, starting with cold and finishing clod as well(4 cold and 3 hot for men, 3+3 for women is the ideal correlation). Et voila! You made it!

But this is not the end of the purge. At least your liver should be cleansed as well. To conduct this procedure, do not eat the whole day, drink only water. Around 7pm drink 150-200 gr. of both virgin olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon or grapefruit juice, drink them in turns by small sips. You even may feel nausea after completing the intake of it – but that is the price we pay for our sins. Rest, put something warm on your liver. In a few hours you will feel the need to go to toilet. Watch carefully what was stored in your poor liver. I would advise to make such evacuation as doubles(another one conducted in a day).

Only now you are relatively ready to start the fast itself.

To start with, do 36-48 hours fasting once a week for a month at least(Actually it is not a fast as such, just the rest and relaxation for your body). The day before and after the fast, eat only fresh fruits and juices, though you may include a salad if hunger prevails you. During the fast you drink only water, as much as you need, range may be from a litre to 2-3, depending on your constitution. Do not force yourself to more than you really want, gallons of water will put additional load on your organs. Concerning water, ideally it should be live water from a well, but too few can enjoy it, so, in urban conditions we can have only defrozen water(put filtered water in a vessel into the freezer, take it out when it is iced, defreeze and remove whatever is on the surface. Then carefully pour it in a jar, around ¾ of it, salts on bottom should not be stirred and certainly not used, throw the rest. The other choice of water to be drunk is the distilled one. Personally, I adhere to the defrozen water, as it regains its natural structure and is easy to prepare.

Next month include into your weekly short fasts a 3-5 days one. Stay on fresh fruits and juices for 2-3 days before and after the fast. The next month include a 5-7 days fast, with 3-4 days on fruits and juices before and after. And the next month you can have a 7-10 days fast. When you feel confident you may try a longer fast. The most beneficial to cleansing your body are 3 to 4 weeks long fasts, but we must keep in our mind, that long fasts are dwindling our “élan vital”, vital force of our organism. So it is better not to indulge into very long fasts, instead, more sensible would be to exercise middle-termed fasts(7-10 days), probably once in 2 months (here you should follow your instincts). Though, a long fast produce more effects than 3 short ones. It would be correct to say that the younger and relatively healthier a person is the long fasts are appropriate. And if you are over 40-50 and loaded with a couple of diseases, after initial long fasts to drag you from the abyss, it would be sensible to concentrate on 10 days fasts in continuation of your rehabilitation. One or two long fasts during a year may be enough.

First fast will not be easy. Strong appetite, nausea, possible shivering, feeling cold, a white or yellowish coating on your tongue, very unpleasant” acidic” breath, broken night dreams etc – all that is caused by the big amount of toxins released from tissues into the bloodstream. There may appear symptoms of your old diseases. Don’t panic! It is a common, usual thing during a fast, and it means you are being cleansed. The more often you will practise fasting the easier you will endure it. The only symptoms indicating that you should stop fasting due to excessive amount of released toxins which your kidneys and other organs cannot void are: 1)the urine stream is lax, actually hardly dripping and rising amount of water intake does not change the situation, 2)you can not sleep at all. It is preferable to withdraw into a natural environment and fast in the open air, with plenty of sun. It is better to fast in isolation, away from temptations of cooked foods, stresses etc.

There should be different way out from the fast of 7 and more days.

PLEASE NOTE: WAY OUT FROM THE FAST IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE FAST ITSELF!

Usually, even if the fast was terminated with juices, fruits and vegetables, a person feels tremendous appetite, one wants to devour anything he sees, it may be called “ gorge”. This question is often avoided to be discussed. The consequences of this gorge are very serious, actually, sometimes the damage from it may be prevailing the gains of the fast. To prevent a gorge we must start the way out from the fast on exclusively juices from non-starchy fruits(lemon, grapefruit, orange, grape, pineapple, pomegranate, appl), and dilute them with water. After a day or two one can drink juices undiluted, and then one can eat these same fruits, thoroughly masticating them (and we actually should always do so with any food we eat). For a few years I personally could not cope with the gorge myself until I found (Prof. Stoleshnikov) and applied this method, it does work!

When we began fasting we started a big process of releasing toxins from their depots. When we terminated the fast, there exists a big stir-up of toxins ready to leave the tissues, where they were deposited, which are ready to move into the bloodstream. If we want to continue getting rid of them we must keep blood in acid state, that is we should drink non-starchy, preferably citrus juices. And it is better when we protract this period at least as long as the fast itself. The longer we proceed on acid juices the more toxins we evacuate.

After the period of non-starchy juices is the one when we include as well all the rest of the juices from fruits/vegetables and eat them raw for as long as you can, ideally – for the rest of your life. If not, embarking on meaty/fatty /or whatever other diet will eventually, step by step, return you to the position you have been in before: sick, hopeless etc. And, with renewed efforts, you start pouring water out of a holed boat.

You may require hundred of days, even years to void all the toxins we deposited in dozens of years, it will definitely need great persistence and integrity to achieve this goal (and the signs that you finally are clean inside are: glowing eyes, no coating on your tongue(and in gastro-intestinal tract apparently), very good and natural appetite, unbelievable vigour and lightness in your body).

Everyone is a master of his own boat with a free choice in which state to uphold it.

Good luck!

That's probably, very important tale for those at the start of wakening up. Very inspiring.

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TOXEMIA EXPLAINED

Below is the precis of the book «Toxemia explained» by J. H. TILDEN, M. D.,an outstanding physician who explained the cause of the diseases thus showing the way for self-healing.


The study of pathology--the study of disease--has engaged the best minds in the profession always, and all research workers believe, that a more intense and minute study of the early symptoms of disease will reveal the cause. There is, however, one great reason why it cannot, and that is that all symptom-complexes--diseases--from their initiation to their ending, are effects, and the most intense study of any phase or stage of their progress will not throw any light on the cause.
Cause is constant, ever present, and always the same. Only effects, and the object on which cause acts, change, and the change is most inconstant. To illustrate: A catarrh of the stomach presents first irritation, then inflammation, then ulceration, and finally induration and cancer. Not all cases run true to form; only a small percentage evolve to ulcer, and fewer still reach the cancer stage. More exit by way of acute food-poisoning or acute indigestion than by chronic diseases.
In the early stages of this evolution there are all kinds of discomforts: more or less attacks of indigestion, frequent attacks of gastritis--sick stomach and vomiting. No two cases are alike. Nervous people suffer most, and some present all kinds of nervous symptoms--insomnia, headaches, etc. As the disease progresses, a few become pallid and develop pernicious anemia, due to gastric or intestinal ulceration and putrid protein infection; in others the first appearance of ulcer is manifested by a severe hemorrhage; others have a cachexia and a retention of food in the stomach, which is vomited every two or three days, caused by a partial closing of the pylorus. These are usually malignant cases.
To look upon any of these symptom-complexes as a distinct disease, requiring a distinct treatment, is to fall into the diagnostic maze that now bewilders the profession and renders treatment chaotic.
It should be known that the earliest stage of organic disease is purely functional, evanescent, and never autogenerted so far as the affected organ is concerned, but is invariably due to an extraneous irritation, augmented by Toxemia. When the irritation is not continuous, and toxin is eliminated as fast as developed, to the toleration point, normal functioning is resumed between the intervals of irritation and toxin excess.
For example: a simple coryza (running at the nose--cold in the head), gastritis or colonitis. At first these colds, catarrahs, or inflammations are periodic and functional; but, as the exciting cause or causes--local irritation and Toxemia--become more intense and continuous, the mucous membranes of these organs take on organic changes, which are given various names, such as irritation, inflammation, ulceration, and cancer. The pathology (organic change) may be studied until doomsday without throwing any light on the cause; for from the first irritation to the extreme ending--cachexia--which may be given the blanket term of tuberculosis, syphilis, or cancer, the whole pathologic panorama is one continuous evolution of intensifying effects.
Germs and other so-called causes may be discovered in the course of pathological development, but they are accidental, coincidental, or at most auxiliary.
The proper way to study disease is to study health and every influence favorable or not to its continuance. Disease is perverted health. Any influence that lowers nerve-energy becomes disease-producing. Disease cannot be its own cause; neither can it be its own cure, and certainly not its own prevention.
After years of wandering in the jungle of medical diagnosis--the usual guesswork of cause and effect, and the worse-than-guesswork of treatment, and becoming more confounded all the time--I resolved either to quit the profession or to find the cause of disease. When I think back over my life, and remember the struggle I had with myself in supplanting my old beliefs with the new--the thousands of times I have suspected my own sanity--I then cannot be surprised at the opposition I have met and am meeting.
My discovery of the truth that Toxemia is the cause of all so-called diseases came about slowly, step by step, with many dangerous skids.
It took a long time to develop the thought that a poisoned or injured body, when not overwhelmed by Toxemia. would speedily return to the normal, and when it did not, there was a sick habit--a derangement of some kind--that required some such contingency to bring it within sense-perception.
To illustrate: An injury to a joint is often complicated with rheumatism; the rheumatism previous to the injury was potentially in the blood.
Just what change had taken place in the organism which, under stress of injury or shock of any kind, would cause a reaction with fever I could not understand until the Toxemic Theory suggested itself to my mind, after which the cause of disease unfolded before me in an easy and natural manner. And now the theory is a proved fact.
After years of perplexing thought and "watchful waiting," I learned that all disease, of whatever nature, was of slow development; that without systemic preparation even so-called acute systemic diseases could not manifest.
In a few words: Without Toxemia there can be no disease. I knew that the waste-product of metabolism was toxic, and that the only reason why we were not poisoned by it was because it was removed from the organism as fast as produced. Then I decided that the toxin was retained in the blood, when there was a checking of elimination. Then the cause of the checking had to be determined. In time I thought out the cause. I knew that, when we had a normal nerve-energy, organic functioning was normal. Then came the thought that enervation caused a checking of elimination. The cause of all so-called diseases is found! Enervation checks elimination of the waste-products of metabolism. Retention of metabolic toxin--the first and only cause of disease!
Medical science is founded on a false premise--namely, that disease is caused by extraneous influences, and that drugs are something that cures or palliates discomfort. The whole structure of medicine is built around the idea that there is an object--disease--that can be cured when the right drug--remedy, cure--is foun.The cause and cure of disease is and has been a medley of guesswork and speculation which has confounded the best and most industrious medical minds in every generation.
Today, as never before, the brightest minds in the profession are delving into research work, endeavoring to find the efficient cause of disease. But they are doomed to disappointment; for they fail at their beginning. Why? Because all the work that has ever been done in searching for cause has been along the line of critical study and examination of effects; and certainly reasoning minds cannot believe that an effect can be its own cause. No one believes in spontaneous generation. The remnant of this belief was annihilated by Pasteur's discovery of germs as the cause of fermentation--a discovery so profound that it created a frenzy in the medical world; and, as in every epidemic of frenzy, mental poise was lost. The importance of the germ as a primary or efficient cause of disease was accepted nolens volens, willy nilly. Everyone was swept off his feet. As in all sudden gushes in change of belief, it was dangerous not to agree with the mob spirit; hence opposing or conservative voices were suppressed or ostracized.
According to the Toxin Philosophy, every so-called disease is a crisis of Toxemia; which means that toxin has accumulated in the blood above the toleration-point, and the crisis, the so-called disease--call it cold, "flu," pneumonia, headache, or typhoid fever--is a vicarious elimination. Nature is endeavoring to rid the body of toxin. Any treatment that obstructs this effort at elimination baffles nature in her effort at self-curing.
Drugs, feeding, fear, and keeping at work prevent elimination. A cold is driven into chronic catarrh; "flu" may be forced to take on an infected state; pneumonia may end fatally if secretions are checked by drugs. Every so-called disease is a complex of symptoms signifying a crisis of Toxemia--nature's house-cleaning. And she--nature--can succeed admirably if not interfered with by venders of poison, who are endeavoring to destroy an imaginary entity lurking somewhere in the system, which is mightily increased and intensified by the venders' cures or amelioratives.
When Doctor Nature is allowed full control-- all acute so-called diseases can be cured; and the patient will stay cured if he will practice self-control concerning the enervating habits that brought on his crises of Toxemia. Where this is carried out faithfully, so-called chronic diseases will never be built.
Cancer, tuberculosis, Bright's disease, and all chronic diseases were once innocent colds "ameliorated," and which returned and were "ameliorated" again and again; each time accompanied by a greater constitutional enervation, and a greater constitutional toleration for toxin-poisoning, requiring a greater requisition of mucous membrane through which to eliminate the toxin.
Research is being carried on vigorously in an attempt to find the cause of disease; the conception of disease being that it is individual. Here is where investigators meet their Waterloo. All the so-called diseases are increasing symptom complexes due to repeated crises of Toxemia. They have no independent existence. As soon as Toxemia is controlled, they disappear, unless an organ has been forced by innumerable crises to degenerate. Even organic change, when the organ is not destroyed, will be overcome by correcting the life and getting rid of the cause--crises of Toxemia.
Few realize man's possibilities if his handicaps are removed--handicaps which are old beliefs and herd-instincts.
The Toxemic Philosophy is founded on the truth that there is no such thing as cure. In this it differs from all the so-called curing systems. Every pretense or promise of cure, in all lines of therapeutics, is false. This cannot be grasped by all minds until time for thinking has allowed the idea to soak in. Convention and superstition have the floor, and they are unwilling to sit down and listen to the other side. Many learn slowly, others not at all, and still others are put to sleep mentally by truth.
It should not be forgotten that unobstructed free drainage from wounds, ulcers, canals, ducts, keep them aseptic (non-poisonous). The deadly germ on the hands, lips, drinking-cups, hanging-straps of street cars--in fact, found anywhere and everywhere--is not deadly until it gets mixed up with man's deadly dirty, filthy physical and mental habits. The deadly germ must be mixed with retained, pent-up waste-products before it becomes metamorphosed into its deadly toxic state. The dog or other animal licks it out of his wound. When the "deadly germ" is osculated into the mouth, and from there into the stomach, it is digested. The normal secretions of the body, on the outside as well as on the inside of the body, are more than enough to get away with all the "deadly germs" allotted to each person.
Normal persons are deadly to all germs and parasites peculiar to the human habitat.
Those who preach fear of germs today are the mental offspring of those who have preached fear of God, devil, hell, and heaven in the past. They do not know that the fear which they inculcate is more to be dreaded than the object of their warning. Fear does a thousand times more harm than any other one cause of Toxemia.
The medical world has been looking for a remedy to cure disease, notwithstanding the obvious fact that nature needs no remedy--she needs only an opportunity to exercise her own prerogative of self-healing.
A few years ago a sick doctor offered dollars for a cure for cancer. If he had known the cause of disease, instead of being scientifically educated, he would not have died believing in the possibility of a cure, after nature had passed her eternal fiat of unfitness in his case. Cancer is the culmination of years of abuse of nutrition, and years of Toxemia from faulty elimination. Forcing the bowels to move is an old and conventional method of so-called elimination which gets rid of the accumulation in the bowels, causing an extra amount of water to be thrown out by the kidneys and bowels; but this forcing measure adds to enervation by its overstimulation, and further inhibits elimination proper--elimination of waste-products in the blood, the source of all disease-producing toxins. The most powerful eliminant is a fast. In other words, give nature rest, and she needs no so-called cures. Rest means: poise mind and body, and fast. Nature then works without handicaps, unless fear is created by all the old fear-mongers, professional and lay, sending to the patient the warning: "It is dangerous to fast; you may never live through it." These wiseacres do not know that there is a vast difference between fasting and starving.
Here is a hint for those kill-joys who are afraid to allow their patients to fast: You know, or think you do, that people who are forced to stay in bed from injury never do well, and this is especially true of old people. Why? Because they are overfed.
Without nerve-energy the functions of the various organs of the body cannot be carried on. Secretions are necessary for preparing the building-up material to take the place of worn-out tissue. The worn-out tissue must be removed--eliminated--from the blood as fast as it is formed, or it accumulates, and, as it is toxic, the system will be poisoned. This becomes a source of enervation.
Elimination of the waste-products of tissue-building is just as necessary as the building-up process. As these two important functions depend on each other, and as both depend on the proper amount of nerve-energy to do their work well, it behooves all people who would enjoy life and health to the full to understand in what way they may be frugal in using nerve-energy so that they may learn how to live conservatively or prudently, thereby enjoying the greatest mental and physical efficiency, and also the longest life.
"These are the times that try men's souls." If Tom Paine were here now, he would change the wording of that line to read: "These are the times that try men's nerves." Nerve-energy and good money are the commodities that are spent very rapidly these days. Chasing the dollar causes great waste of energy; and the dollar has been chased so much that it has developed wanderlust to such a degree that men enervate themselves catching up with a few, but prostrate themselves endeavoring to break them of their wander-habit. There are many ways to use up nerve-energy.
Without nerve-energy the functions of the body cannot be carried on properly. The present-day strenuousness causes enervation, which checks elimination, and the retained toxins bring on Toxemia.
Everything that acts on the body uses up energy. Cold and heat require the expenditure of nerve-energy to adjust the body to the changes.
Work with worry will soon end in flagging energy--enervation.
As no provision is made for the demand of an extra supply of energy at a given time, it is necessary, very necessary, to know how to conserve what we have and build more. It is easy to see that the so-called science of medicine, as practiced, is an ally extraordinary of all the causes of enervation, and becomes a builder of disease instead of curing or ameliorating man's sufferings. Every so-called cure in its very nature causes enervation. Even the drugs used to relieve pain end in making a greater pain, and sometimes kill. The drugs to relieve cough in pneumonia sometimes kill the patient. Removing stone from the gall-bladder does not cure the cause, and more stones form.
Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put nature in line for curing. Sleep and rest of body and mind are necessary to keep a sufficient supply of energy.
Enervation per se is not disease. Weakness, lost power, is not disease; but, by causing a flagging of the elimination of tissue-waste, which is toxic, the blood becomes charged with toxin, and this we call Toxemia--poison in the blood. This is disease, and when the toxin accumulates beyond the toleration-point, a crisis takes place; which means that the poison is being eliminated. This we call disease, but it is not. The only disease is Toxemia, and what we call diseases are the symptoms produced by a forced vicarious elimination of toxin through the mucous membrane.
When the elimination takes place through the mucous membrane of the nose, it is called a cold--catarrh of the nose; and where these crises are repeated for years, the mucous membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones enlarge, closing the passage, etc. At this stage hay-fever or hay-asthma develops. When the throat and tonsils, or any of the respiratory passages, become the seat of the crises of Toxemia, we have croup, tonsilitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, etc. What is in a name? All are symptoms of the expulsion of toxin from the blood at the different points named, and are essentially of the same character and evolving from the one cause namely, Toxemia--crises of Toxemia.
This description can be extended to every organ of the body; for any organ that is enervated below the average standard from stress of habit, from work or worry, from injury, or from whatever cause, may become the location of crises of Toxemia.
All diseases are the same fundamentally.
The cause travels back to Toxemia, caused by enervation, which checked elimination; and enervating habits of body and mind are the primary causes of lost resistance enervation.
Every chronic disease starts with Toxemia and a toxemic crisis. The crises are repeated until organic changes take place. The chain of symptoms range from cold or catarrh to Bright's disease, tuberculosis, cancer, syphilis, ataxia, and other so-called diseases; all, from beginning to end, symptoms of the cumulative effects of crises of Toxemia.

ENZYMES AND THEIR ROLE

Below is the abridgement of Dr.Edward Howell's book «Enzyme Nutrition»(1985).

A living organism and its enzymes are inhabited by a vital principle or life energy. The enzyme complex harbours a protein carrier inhabited by a vital energy factor, which is exhaustible. Also, the capacity of a living organism to produce enzymes is limited and exhaustible.
Thought for many years as catalysts, enzymes are much more than that. Catalysts work by chemical action only, while enzymes function by both biological and chemical action. Catalysts do not contain the ' life element', which can be measured as a kind of radiation, emitted by enzymes. This can be demonstrated by biological means and other methods (the Mitogenetic Rays of Gurwitsch, Kirlion Electro-Magnetic Photography, Rothen's Enzyme Action at a Distance, Visual Micro Observation of Working Enzymes).
Enzymes contain proteins and some contain vitamins which have been synthesized by chemists, however, the ' life force' of the enzymes cannnot and has never been synthesized. So, the enzymes are protein carriers charged with vital energy (just as car battery consists of metal plates charged with electrical energy).
In 1930's there were known 80 enzymes, in 1957 – 660, in 1968 – 1300, and by today there are thousands of them identified and more to be discovered.
There are 3 classes of enzymes: metabolic enzymes, which run our bodies, digestive enzymes, which digest our food and food enzymes from raw foods, which start food digestion.
The metabolic enzymes run all our organs and tissues, they structure proteins, fats and carbohydrates into healthy bodies, keeping everything working properly. Every organ and tissue has different metabolic enzymes and every of them has a particular specialized job to do (One molecule of the enzyme called 'catalase', found in the blood, will split five million molecules of hydrogen peroxide into molecules of water and oxygen in a mere 60 seconds. Some intestinal enzymes can break up a million times their weight in sugar and fat).
Digestive enzymes have only three main jobs to do: digesting proteins(enzymes called proteases do this job), carbohydrate(amylases do this) and fats(upasas do this job).
The digestive enzymes of humans are much stronger and more concentrated in enzyme activity than any of the metabolic enzymes – more than any other combination found in nature. There is no evidence that wild animals, living on natural raw diet, have digestive enzymes even remotely approaching the strength of those of human beings. Only humans live on enzyme-free food itself. All wild creatures get their enzymes supplement in the raw food itself. Many animals( cats and dogs, cattle and sheeps,horses) have no enzymes at all in their saliva. But when dogs are fed on heat treated diet, enzymes show up in their saliva within a week!
Back in 1943,the physiological laboratory of North Western University made experiments on rats and they showed that the amount of digestive enzymes secreted by the pancreas depended on the amount of food consumed; since then it was confirmed by dozens of university laboratories throughout the world.
Food enzymes ( found only in raw living food itself) help with digestion instead of forcing the body's digestive enzymes to carry the job. When food enzymes are at work, the enzymes' potential can allot less activity to digestive enzymes and can concentrate it on metabolic enzymes to run the entire body. It'e like with bank account, which can be dangerously deficient, if not continually replenished.
The heat, used in cooking, destroys all food enzymes and forces the organism to produce more enzymes, thus enlargingn digestive organs, especially pancreas. When excessive amount of digestive enzymes is made, the enzyme potential may be unable to produce an adequate quantity of metabolic enzymes to repair body organs and fight disease.
If humans take in more exogenous (outside) enzymes,which are in raw food,, the enzymes potential will not have to waste so much of its heritage digesting food, it will act to maintain health and prevent disease.
We are careless with enzymes. They are the most precious asset we possess. In an experiment in 1944, young rats and chickens were fed raw soybeans(high in enzymes inhibitors) and huge quantities of panctreatic digestive enzymes were wasted combating the inhibitors, the pancreas enlarged to handle the extra burden and the animals sickened and failed to grow. That was since proved in dozens of scientific laboratories.
Animals, such as cattle and sheep, get along with a pancreas about a third as large as ours(figured as a percentage of the body weight) on their raw food diet. Laboratory mice fed on heat-processed, enzyme-free food, have pancreas 2 to 3 times heavier than in wild mice eating raw food, full of enzymes. When laboratory mice are put on enzyme-rich raw food, their pancreas gets only about a third as heavy as in those on enzyme-free diet.
Wastage of body enzymes can have a deadly effect on organism, as proved in the experiment at Washington University: When dogs were equipped with fistulae(tubes) to drain all pancreatic juices out of body, while they received food and water – profound deterioration sat in and all of them died. Acute human intestinal obstruction has been resulting in death within 3 to 5 days. It is a remarkable fact that preventing of bile to enter the intestines is not fatal in man or laboratory animals, because no enzymes are wasted in this instance.
Cattle and sheeps have 4 stomachs and only 1 secrets enzymes, the others allow food enzymes in food to digest itself. In humans,when raw food with its enzymes is eaten, it goes to the upper portion of the stomach ( which does not produce enzymes) and is digested there by food enzymes for 30-60 minutes. If the food is enzyme-free, nothing happens to it, it just idles there all this time, only salivary enzymes work on carbohydrates, but proteins and fats must wait until they are moved further on, and then digestive enzymes do the job instead of food enzymes.
Thus, enzymes potential is spent digesting, instead of supplying metabolic functions. Raw food does not stimulate enzyme secretion as much as cooked food, more digestion is performed by food enzymes. When food enzymes do this work, this results in normalizing and lessening the strength of excessively high digestive enzyme secretion.
So, using cooked food, we waste our enzyme potential, our exhaustible 'life force'. And consuming raw food, we prolong our life, live in full vigour and disease-free!

SPIRITUAL SIDE TO FASTING AND RAW FOOD DIET

THE STORY OF THE ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE

It was in 1928 that Edmond Bordeaux Szekely first published his translation of Book One of The Essene Gospel of Peace, an ancient manuscript he had found in the Secret Archives of the Vatican as the result of limitless patience, faultless scholarship, and unerring intuition. This story is told in his book, The Discovery of the Essene Gospel of Peace, published in 1975. The English version of Book One appeared in 1937, and ever since, the little volume has traveled over the world, appearing in many different languages, gaining every year more and more readers, until now, still with no commercial advertisement, over a million copies have been sold in the United States alone.
It may be mentioned that after this publication he became an ardent naturopathic follower himself for the rest of his life.
Below are the excerpts from the apocryph which are deemed to be the perfect examples of how to live according to Natural Hygiene. There is nothing new in this world. Things are forgotten and rediscovered.


"And Jesus said: “Seek not the law in your scriptures, for the law is life, whereas the scripture is dead. I tell you truly, Moses received not his laws from God in writing, but through the living word. The law is living word of living God to living prophets for living men. In everything that is life is the law written. You find it in the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the mountain, in the birds of heaven, in the fishes of the sea; but seek it chiefly in yourselves. For I tell you truly, all living things are nearer to God than the scripture which is without life. God so made life and all living things that they might by the everlasting word teach the laws of the true God to man. God wrote not the laws in the pages of books, but in your heart and in your spirit. They are in your breath, your blood, your bone; in your flesh, your bowels, your eyes, your ears, and in every little part of your body. They are present in the air, in the water, in the earth, in the plants, in the sunbeams, in the depths and in the heights. They all speak to you that you may understand the tongue and the will of the living God. But you shut your eyes that you may not see, and you shut your ears that you may not hear. I tell you truly, that the scripture is the work of man, but life and all its hosts are the work of our God. Wherefore do you not listen to the words of God which are written in His works? And wherefore do you study the dead scriptures which are the work of the hands of men?”
I tell you truly, God and his laws are not in that which you do. They are not in gluttony and in wine-bibbing, neither in riotous living, nor in lustfulness, nor in seeking after riches, nor yet in hatred of your enemies. For all these things are far from the true God and from his angels. But all these things come from the kingdom of darkness and the lord of all evils. And all these things do you carry in yourselves; and so the word and the power of God enter not into you, because all manner of evil and all manner of abominations have their dwelling in your body and your spirit. If you will that the living God’s word and his power may enter you, defile not your body and your spirit; for the body is the temple of the spirit, and the spirit is the temple of God. Purify, therefore, the temple, that the Lord of the temple may dwell therein and occupy a place that is worthy of him.
“And from all temptations of your body and your spirit, coming from Satan, withdraw beneath the shadow of God’s heaven.
“Renew yourselves and fast. For I tell you truly, that Satan and his plagues may only be cast out by -fasting and by prayer. Go by yourself and fast alone, and show your fasting to no man. And fast till Beelzebub and all his evils depart from you. For I tell you truly, except you fast, you shall never be freed from the power of Satan and from all diseases that come from Satan. “Seek the fresh air of the forest and of the fields. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of air to embrace all your body. Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of air may be brought within you. I tell you truly, the angel of air shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within.” “After the angel of air, seek the angel of water. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of water to embrace all your body. Cast yourselves wholly into his enfolding arms, and as often as you move the air with your breath, move with your body the water also. I tell you truly, the angel of water shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. I tell you truly, the uncleanness within is greater by much than the uncleanness without. And he who cleanses himself without, but within remains unclean, is like to tombs that outwards are painted fair, but are within full of all manner of horrible uncleannesses and abominations. So I tell you truly, suffer the angel of water to baptize you also within, that you may become free from all your past sins, and that within likewise you may become as pure as the river’s foam sporting in the sunlight.
“Seek, therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its inwards and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon the branch of a tree, and kneel upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, that the water may flow through all your bowels. Afterwards rest kneeling on the ground before the angel of water and pray to the living God that he will forgive you all your past sins, and pray the angel of water that he will free your body from every uncleanness and disease. Then let the water run out from your body, that it may carry away from within it all the unclean and evil-smelling things of Satan. And you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose all the abominations, and uncleannesses which defiled the temple of your body; even all the sins which abode in your body, tormenting you with all manner of pains. I tell you truly, baptism with water frees you from all of these. Renew your baptizing with water on every day of your fast, till the day when you see that the water which flows out of you is as pure as the river’s foam.
“And if afterward there remain within you aught of your past sins and uncleannesses, seek the angel of sunlight. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of sunlight to embrace all your body. Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of sunlight may be brought within you. And the angel of sunlight shall cast out of your body all evil-smelling and unclean things which defiled it without and within. For I tell you truly, holy is the angel of sunlight who cleans out all uncleannesses and makes all evil-smelling things of a sweet odor. None may come before the face of God, whom the angel of sunlight lets not pass. “The angels of air and of water and of sunlight are brethren. They were given to the Son of Man that they might serve him, and that he might go always from one to the other. Let these three brother angels enfold you every day and let them abide with you through all your fasting.
And when they baptized themselves, the angel of water entered their bodies, and from them flowed out all the abominations and uncleannesses of their past sins, and like a falling mountain stream gushed from their bodies a multitude of hard and soft abominations. And the ground where their waters flowed was polluted, and so great became the stench that none could remain there. And the devils left their bowels in the shape of multitudinous worms which writhed in impotent rage after the angel of water had cast them out of the bowels of the Sons of Men. And then descended upon them the power of the angel of sunshine, and they perished there in their desperate writhings, trod underfoot by the angel of sunshine.
And there were some whom great pains tormented.
” And one cried out: “Master, we do indeed, come and free us from our pains.”
And Jesus spoke to them in parables: “You are like the prodigal son, who for many years did eat and drink, and passed his days in riotousness and lechery with his friends. And every week without his father’s knowledge he incurred new debts, and squandered all in a few days. And the moneylenders always lent to him, because his father possessed great riches and always paid patiently the debts of his son. And in vain did he with fair words admonish his son, for he never listened to the admonitions of his father, who besought him in vain that he would give up his debaucheries which had no end, and that he would go to his fields to watch over the labor of his servants. And the son always promised him everything if he would pay his old debts, but the next day he began again. And for more than seven years the son continued in his riotous living. But, at last, his father lost patience and no more paid to the moneylenders the debts of his son. “if I continue always to pay,” he said, “there will be no end to the sins of my son.” Then the moneylenders, who were deceived, in their wrath took the son into slavery that he might by his daily toil pay back to them the money which he had borrowed. And then ceased the eating and drinking and the daily excesses. From morning until night by the sweat of his face he watered the fields, and all of his limbs ached with the unaccustomed labor. And he lived upon dry bread, and had naught but his tears with which he could water it. And three days after he suffered so much from the heat and from weariness that he said to his master: ‘I can work no more, for all my limbs do ache. How long would you torment me?’ ‘Till the day when by the labor of your hands you pay me all your debts, and when seven years are passed, you will be free.’ And the desperate son answered weeping: ‘But I cannot bear so much as seven days. Have pity on me, for all my limbs do burn and ache.’ And the wicked creditor cried out: ‘Press on with the work; if you could for seven years spend your days and your nights in riotousness, now must you work for seven years. I will not forgive you till you pay back all your debts to the uttermost drachma.’ And the son, with his limbs racked with pain, went back despairing to the fields to continue his work. Already he could hardly stand upon his feet because of his weariness and of his pains, when the seventh day was come-the Sabbath day, in which no man works in the field. Then the son gathered the remnant of his strength and staggered to the house of his father. And he cast himself down at his father’s feet and said: ‘Father, believe me for the last time and forgive me all my offenses against your swear to you that I will never again live riotously and that I will be your obedient son in all things. Free me from the hands of my oppressor. Father, look upon me and upon my sick limbs, and harden not your heart.’ Then tears came into his father’s eyes, and he took his son in his arms, and said: ‘Let us rejoice, for today a great joy is given me, because I have found again my beloved son, who was lost.’ And he clothed him with his choicest raiment and all the day long they made merry. And on the morning of the morrow he gave his son a bag of silver that he might pay to his creditors all that he owed them. And when his son came back, he said to him: ‘My son, do you see that it is easy, through riotous living, to incur debts for seven years, but their payment is difficult by the heavy labor of seven years.’ ‘Father, it is indeed hard to pay them, even for seven days.’ And his father admonished him, saying: ‘For this once alone has it been permitted you to pay your debts in seven days instead of seven years, the rest is forgiven you. But take heed that in the time to come you do not incur more debts. For I tell you truly, that none else but your father forgives you your debts, because you are his son. For with all else you would have had to labor hard for seven years, as it is commanded in our laws.’
My father, I will henceforth be your loving and obedient son, and I will not any more incur debts, for I know that their payment is hard.’
“And he went to his father’s field and watched every day over the work of his father’s laborers. And he never made his laborers work hard, for he remembered his own heavy labor. And the years passed, and his father’s possession increased ever more and more beneath his hand, for the blessing of his father was upon his labor. And slowly he gave back tenfold to his father all that he had squandered in the seven years. And when his father saw that his son used well his servants and all his possessions, he said to him: ‘My son, I see that my possessions are in good hands. I give you all my cattle, my house, my lands and my treasures. Let all this be your heritage, continue increasing it that I may have delight in you.’ And when the son had received his inheritance from his father, he forgave their debts to all his debtors who could not pay him, for he did not forget that his debt also had been forgiven when he could not pay it. And God blessed him with long life, with many children and with much riches, because he was kind to all his servants and to all his cattle.”
Then Jesus turned to the sick folk and said: “I speak to you in parables that you may better understand God’s word. The seven years of eating and drinking and of riotous living are the sins of the past. The wicked creditor is Satan. The debts are diseases. The heavy labor is pains. The prodigal son, he is yourselves. The payment of the debts is the casting from you of devils and diseases, and the healing of your body. The bag of silver received from the father is the liberating power of the angels. The father is God. The father’s possessions are earth and heaven. The servants of the father are the angels. The father’s field is the world, which is changed into the kingdom of the heavens, if the Sons of Man work thereon together with the angels of the Heavenly Father. For I tell you, it is better that the son should obey his father and keep watch over his father’s servants in the field, than that he should become the debtor of the wicked creditor and toil and sweat in serfdom to repay all his debts. it is better, likewise, if the Sons of Man also obey the laws of their Heavenly Father, and work together with his angels upon his kingdom, than that they should become the debtors of Satan, the lord of death, of all sins and all diseases, and that they should suffer with pains and sweat till they have repaid all their sins. I tell you truly, great and many are your sins. Many years have you yielded to the enticings of Satan. You have been gluttonous, wine-bibbers and gone a-whoring, and your past debts have multiplied. And now you must repay them, and payment is difficult and hard. Be not, therefore, already impatient after the third day, like the prodigal son, but wait patiently for the seventh day which is sanctified by God, and then go with humble and obedient heart before the face of your Heavenly Father, that he may forgive you your sins and all your past debts. I tell you truly, your Heavenly Father loves you without end, for he also allows you to pay in seven days the debts of seven years. Those that owe the sins and diseases of seven years, but pay honestly and persevere till the seventh day, to them shall our Heavenly Father forgive the debts of all these seven years.
“If we sin for seven times seven years?” asked a sick man who suffered horribly. “Even in that case the Heavenly Father forgives you all your debts in seven times seven days.
For you may escape the laws made by kings, but the laws of your God, these may none of the Sons of Man escape. And when you come before the face of God, the devils of Satan bear witness against you with your deed, and God sees your sins written in the book of your body and of your spirit and is sad in his heart. But if you repent of your sins, and by fasting and prayer you seek the angels of God, then each day that you continue to fast and to pray, God’s angels blot out one year of your evil deeds from the book of your body and your spirit. And when the last page is also blotted out and cleansed from all your sins, you stand before the face of God, and God rejoices in his heart and forgets all your sins. He frees you from the clutches of Satan and from suffering; he takes you within his house and commands that all his servants, all his angels serve you. Long life does he give you, and you shall never see disease. And if, thenceforward, instead of sinning, you pass your days in doing good deeds, then the angels of God shall write all your good deeds in the book of your body and of your spirit. I tell you truly, no good deed remains unwritten before God, not from the beginning of the world. For from your kings and your governors you may wait in vain for your reward, but never do your good deeds want their reward from God.
By your fasting and your prayer, you have called back the lord of your body and his angels. And now Satan sees that the true lord of your body returns, and that it is the end of his power. Wherefore, in his wrath he gathers his strength once again, that he may destroy your bodies before the coming of the lord. It is for this that Satan torments you so grievously, for he feels that the end is come. But let not your hearts tremble, for soon will the angels of God appear, to occupy again their abodes and rededicate them as temples of God. And they will seize Satan and cast him from your bodies with all his diseases and all his uncleannesses.
“Satan torments you thus greatly because you have already fasted many days, and you do not pay to him his tribute. You do not feed him with all the abominations with which you hitherto defiled the temple of your spirit. You torment Satan with hunger, and so in his anger he torments you also. Fear not, for I tell you, Satan will be destroyed before your body is destroyed; for while you fast and pray, the angels of God protect your body, that Satan’s power may not destroy you. And the anger of Satan is impotent against the angels of God.”
And the sick men asked Jesus:“Tell us, what are the sins which we must shun, that we may nevermore see disease?”
Jesus answered: “Be it so according to your faith,” and he sat down among them, saying:
“It was said to them of old time, ‘Honor thy Heavenly Father and thy Earthly Mother, and do their commandments, that thy days may be long upon the earth.’ And next afterward was given this commandment, ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ for life is given to all by God, and that which God has given, let not man take away. The flesh of slain beasts in man’s body will become his own tomb. For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and whoso eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats of the body of death. For in his blood every drop of their blood turns to poison; in his breath their breath to stink; in his flesh their flesh to boils; in his bones their bones to chalk; in his bowels their bowels t o decay; in his eyes their eyes to scales; in his ears their ears to waxy issue. And their death will become his death. Satan forgives you nothing and you must pay him for all. ‘Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot; burning for burning, wound for wound; life for life, death for death.’ For the wages of sin is death. Kill not, neither eat the flesh of your innocent prey, lest you become the slaves of Satan. For that is the path of sufferings, and it leads unto death. But do the will of God, that his angels may serve you on the way of life.
Obey, therefore, the words of God: ‘Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is breath of life, I give every green herb for meat. Also the milk of every thing that moveth and liveth upon earth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given unto them, so I give their milk unto you. But flesh, and the blood which quickens it, shall ye not eat. And, surely, your spurting blood will I require, your blood wherein is your soul; I will require all slain beasts, and the souls of all slain men. For I the Lord thy God am a God strong and jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands -of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength: this is the first and greatest commandment.’ And the second is like unto it: ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’ There is none other commandment greater than these.”
And after these words they all remained silent, save one, who called out: “What am I to do, Master, if I see a wild beast rend my brother in the forest? Shall I let my brother perish, or kill the wild beast? Shall not I thus transgress the law?”
And Jesus answered: “It was said to them of old time: “All beasts that move upon the earth, all the fish of the sea, and all the fowl of the air are given into thy power.” I tell you truly, of all creatures living upon the earth, God created only man after his image. Wherefore beasts are for man, and not man for beasts. You do not, therefore, transgress the law if you kill the wild beast to save your brother’s life. For I tell you truly, man is more than the beast. But he who kills the beast without a cause, though the beast attack him not, through lust for slaughter, or for its flesh, or for its hide, or yet for its tusks, evil is the deed which he does, for he is turned into a wild beast himself.
For life comes only from life, and from death comes always death. For everything which kills your foods, kills your bodies also. And everything which kills your bodies kills your souls also. And your bodies become what your foods are, even as your spirits, likewise, become what your thoughts are. Therefore, eat not anything which fire, or frost, or water has destroyed. For burned, frozen and rotted foods will burn, freeze and rot your body also. Be not like the foolish husbandman who sowed in his ground cooked, and frozen, and rotten seeds. And the autumn came, and his fields bore nothing. And great was his distress. But be like that husbandman who sowed in his field living seed, and whose field bore living ears of wheat, paying a hundredfold for the seeds which he planted. For I tell you truly, live only by the fire of life, and prepare not your foods with the fire of death, which kills your foods, your bodies and your souls also.”
Eat all things even as they are found on the table of the Earthly Mother.
COOK NOT, NEITHER MIX all things one with another, lest your bowels become as steaming bogs. For I tell you truly, this is abominable in the eyes of the Lord.
“And be not like the greedy servant, who always ate up, at the table of his lord, the portions of others. And he devoured everything himself, and mixed all together in his gluttony. And seeing that, his lord was wroth with him, and drove him from the table. And when all had ended their meal, he mixed together all that remained upon the table, and called the greedy servant to him, and said: ‘Take and eat all this with the swine, for your place is with them, and not at my table.’
“Take heed, therefore, and defile not with all kinds of abominations the temple of your bodies. Be content with two or three sorts of food. And desire not to devour all things which you see around you. For I tell you truly, if you mix together all sorts of food in your body, then the peace of your body will cease, and endless war will rage in you. “And when you eat, never eat unto fulness. Flee the temptations of Satan, and listen to the voice of God’s angels. For Satan and his power tempt you always to eat more and more. Eat only when the sun is highest in the heavens, and again when it is set. And you will never see disease.
On six days feed your body with the gifts of the Earthly Mother, but on the seventh day sanctify your body for your Heavenly Father. On the seventh day eat not any earthly food, but live only on the words of God. Lie not idle in your beds, for the angels of air and water await you already without. And labor all day long with the angels of the Earthly Mother that you may come to know them and their works ever more and more well. But when the sun is set, and your Heavenly Father sends you his most precious angel, sleep, then take your rest, and be all the night with the angel of sleep.
“And take no delight in any drink, nor in any smoke from Satan, waking you by night and making you to sleep by day. For I tell you truly, all the drinks and smokes of Satan are abominations in the eyes of your God.
“Shun all that is too hot and too cold.
“PEACE BE WITH YOU.”

TO BE HEALTHY OR NOT TO BE?

The blog is created to share the advantages of monoraw eating and ,probably, this will help some people in understanding that they can recreate their impaired healh, including getting rid of cancer and AIDS, not to say about less serious diseases. It will include articles and excerpts of important books on the theme and is intended to give consise info.



TO BE HEALTHY OR NOT TO BE?

KNOWLEDGE IS PROUD THAT
HE HAS LEARNT SO MUCH,
WISDOM IS HUMBLE THAT HE
KNOWS NO MORE!

Being healthy is a wonderful gift. Health is the most welcome guest in the shabby room of the poor man or in the luxurious premises of the wealthy man.
If anyone is asked whether he wants to be healthy, the answer will be definitely “Yes!” Why is it then that the general health of humanity is deteriorated? Why is it that constant rise of expenditures on National Health Service is viewed as a positive move? Why have chronic diseases become the unseparable companion of man, despite his wishes to be healthy?
The answer is simple: because we ourselves, by our own will, based on ignorance and lack of knowledge, have forgotton that we are an integral part of Nature and as such, should follow its laws . But instead we have become the humble slaves of our stomachs.
We forget that we began our evolution as a frugivorous animal and the structure of our organism is geared-up for consumption of plants, fruits and vegetables. Nature has made us pay for eating animal’s albumen with our own health and freedom.
Anatomically and physiologically, a human is different from herbivorous and carnivorous animals. The length of the gastrointestinal tract of man is shorter than that of herbivores, it lacks additional stomachs, where the food is pre-digested by protozoa and bacteria, but it is longer than that of carnivorous animals and not so round. The research undertaken by the famous Russian naturopath Dr. G. Shatalova in the Moscow Zoo, showed that the pH of carnivorous animals is 7,2, of herbivores– 7,6 – 7, 8, and of human – 7,4. The difference between man and herbivorous animals lies in the following: masticating animals eat mainly green parts of plants, relatively poor of proteins and fats and this has predisposed the structure of their gastrointestinal tract, while foods of human species, who is frugivorous, constitute fruits, berries, grains, nuts, seeds and roots – those parts of the plants, where concentration of nutrients is much higher. Some polemize that man is omnivorous and developed this in the process of the evolution. But what can be called meat? Beasts of prey eat raw flesh, which fully preserve all the quality of living food, including that of self-predigestion. A man, on the contrary, consumes just a useless combination of proteins and fats, resulting from its heat-processing . And the ability to eat the flesh of others man discovered only after he had discovered fire, some hundreds thousand years ago. (Let’s bear in mind that Prometeus, who, by legend, had introduced fire to the mankind, has been pecked by the Eagle as a punishment. Appropriate allegory: fire – cooked meat – suffering).Since those ancient times we havn’t got features of the beasts of prey, no claws or fangs have developed, the alkaline reaction in our mouth hasn’t changed.

DANGERS OF COOKED FOODS.
Our body is a perfect self-repairing entity. It can work restlessly for at least 150-200 years if we don’t spoil and damage it, which we persistently do every day of our life. Despite this, our body manages to continue functioning up to 60, 70 and sometimes 80-100 years. So, what is wrong?
And the answer is that we eat food which was not designed by Nature for us, -- actually, no creature on Earth, except a human, is eating heated foods. And eating cooked foods leads to overproducing of all kinds of toxins which block the capillaries, hardens the arteries; the mucus, a by-product of digesting cooked food , in attempt to filtrate the toxins, as well blocks the absorption of nutrients from food. As a result, the work of cells and entire organs is disrupted and distorted. Trying to eliminate the waste, our bodies mobilize all its forces, which we perceive as a disease, -- in fact, the body is desperately fighting for our life. But, after numerous years of valorous efforts, it finally surrender. And we die.
Nature’s rule is that – LIFE SHALL FEED UPON LIFE!
Most people think that adult bodies are built once and for all and that food is just a fuel. This is far from true, because our bodies are composed of individual cells like the bricks of a building, each cell having its own life and death. These cells are constantly wearing out a few at a time, dying and being replaced by new cells, utilizing mostly new material taken from our food. Nature has given us glorious ability to rebuild ourselves day by day from food we eat. So,, if we improve our food our bodies gradually become finer, stronger and better looking. Surely, younger people react faster and have a greater range of potential improvement, but it is never too late to make a worthwhile betterment, while life remains. Experimental feeding of animals and humans has shown that dramatic improvements even in old debilitated individuals can be made in a few month by feeding fresh living food.
Let’s see what unharnessed scientists of medicine think and what are the scientific results, proving that raw food is our natural food, not cooked one.
Dr. Roy Walford, a well-respected medical research gerontologist, scientifically demonstrated that a qualitative life span up to at least 115 years of age is reasonably attainable by the average person if he starts working on it no later than being 50 years old(raw nutrition, water fasts, exercises).
Dr. G.T. Wrench, who studied the people of Hunza, famous for the longitude and perfect health back in 1930’s, emphasized: “ Of all factors which make for human health the greatest single factor is adequate nutrition. This simply means that however excellent housing, clothing, sanitation, exercise performance, inadequate nutrition such as still prevails in Britain will continue to cause widespread disease.”
EXPERIMENTAL DATA.
Among the first scientists to study cooking in its application to animal nutrition were Weill and Mouriquant of France. In 1912 they conducted experiments with pigeons to determine effects of cooked food. Pigeons fed on raw grains showed great activity and vigour, those given cooked grains developed beriberi and all died paralyzed within 90 days.
The celebrated British scientist, Sir Robert McCarrison, while Director of Nutritional Research in India in 1920’-30’s, confirmed in a long programme of research on 2000 rats, that those fed on healthy diet of Sikhs and Hunza (raw cabbage, carrots, milk, meat, unleavened bread and sprouted legumes) showed all the signs of vibrant health, were gentle and affectionate. While those given food, identical to that typical for poor class British (tinned meat, boiled potato and cabbage, white bread, margarine, jam, much sweetened tea) – resulted in poor physique, widespread respiratory infections and gastrointestinal degeneration in rat colonies. Rats given uncooked food for 2 and a quarter years (which is corresponding to 55 years in man), showed after autopsy no disease whatsoever. Those fed on cooked one developed practically every ailment found in any medical textbook, and in addition they seemed to be affected mentally, became ill-tempered and vicious, they would bite the attendant, killed each other and were in a state of continuous nervous irritability!
Dr. McCarrison’s other experiments with monkeys showed similar results, with those on cooked diet developing troubles from the very start and dying within 43 to 100 days.
Experiments with guinea pigs, fed with cooked food, conducted by Dr. O. Stiner from Swiss Board of Health in Berne, showed that large number of diseases appeared (softening of teeth and jaws, goitre, anaemia etc.) and when pasteurized milk was added, guinea pigs developed arthritis; most of them died of scurvy and some of cancer.
Perhaps the most important of all the animal experiments with raw and cooked foods are those of Dr. Francis Pottenger, Jr., one of the world’s great physicians and food scientist. At his sanatorium in Monrovia, California, he conducted experiments with white rats and cats covering 10-years period. In a group of 900 cats studied, the following results were obtained: those fed on raw food(meat and milk) remained in excellent health from one generation to the next, physical development was perfect, abortion occurred very seldom, all mother cats nursed their young in a normal manner, death resulted only from old age or injuries sustained in fighting, NONE died from disease. Cats fed on cooked meat and pasteurized milk didn’t reproduce in homogeneity, each kitten being of a different skeletal pattern, dental conditions deteriorated from one generation to next, severe impairment of bone composition was observed, reproductive efficiency was greatly lowered, abortion ran from 25% in the first generation to 70% in the second, deliveries were very difficult and many cats died in labour, often mother was unable to lactate, some failed to become pregnant; in males there was disturbance of genital development, sterility was so common that raw-food males had to be used for breeding purposes. Development of the secondary sexual characteristics was incomplete. The degree of masculinity and femininity was lessened and cats of both sexes tended to become more neutral in appearance, sex interest was very slack, in many cases it was perverted, with some cats developing in true homosexuals. Most were very irritable and occasionally viciously bite the keeper, skin lesions and allergies became worse from one generation to the next. No cats survived the sixth month of life in the third generation. Those fed on sweetened condensed milk produced the most marked deficiencies of all. (Do you notice any signs of resemblance concerning modern life?)
Some cats, which were fed cooked food, would be placed upon a completely raw diet, continued in subsequent generations: improvements in resistance to disease was noticed in the first and the second generation in the “regenerating” animals, though there were still allergic manifestation and reproduction was erratic. In the third generation there was considerable further improvements and by the fourth generation some of the animals returned to completely normal skeletal and tissue form.
From these experiments, as well as all other*, results of feeding raw and cooked foods become apparent: almost without exception, animals thrive well upon an exclusive doet of raw foods. And with general uniformity they immediately suffer from various forms of deterioration – physical,sexual, and mental –when given cooked foods The degree of damage varies with different animals, but in no instance have large quantities of heat-processed foods been consumed over a long period of time without some harm being observed. The contrast is clearly seen in ALL cases, with different animals used, and shows that the result may be accepted as a general principle.
And the consequences of eating cooked food are that not only excessive toxaemia and all kinds of diseases develop as its result – these toxins and poisons, stacked in our tissues, crave for other stimulants and that is why when we consume heat-processed meal, we as well readily absorb tea, coffee and alcohol.
Dr. Roger Williams states that those who stick to natural nutrition don’t become alcoholics. He made series of experiments with rats and proved that processed meal make them alcoholics, when rats prefer alcohol to water, but when the diet returned to raw food the craving for alcohol disappeared..
The similar results were obtained by researchers of University of L Linda in California – rats became mad for alcohol when fed cooked foods. Other data prove this as well.
Man is a part of Nature and the same results were obtained concerning raw and cooked food in relation with its effect on human’s health.
Minerals and vitamins must be found in an organic combination with other food nutrients if they are to be used efficiently by the body. We must rely on the plants to synthesize the minerals of the earth into combinations, which are entirely non-toxic. In the presence of heat certain nutrients are destroyed and hence the delicate chemical balance is altered. Evidence of this is seen by the fact that leukocytosis, an increase in the number of white corpuscules of the blood, follows the exclusive consumption of cooked foods, which means lowering of immunity. Dr.Paul Kouchakoff of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry in Lausanne, conducted some 300 detailed experiments which indicated that leukocytosis was the specific effect of eating heat-processed food and never occurred after a meal of raw food.
All cooked foods undergo important changes, they lose a part of their mineral and vitamin content, their proteins are partly destroyed and rendered less digestible and nutritious, their fats become toxic, the starches and sugars are altered and food lose all of their enzymes and become toxic.
Dr. MacDonald, medical Officer to Dr. Barnardo’s Homes in England, reported that among 750 children who were given pasteurized milk for a period of 5 years, 14 cases of tuberculosis developed, another 750 boys, given raw milk with the same other conditions – only 1 case was registered.
From letter signed by 8 Members of Parliament, concerning report of Medical Officer of Health for Hertfordshire, we read: ”During 1932 there were 45 deaths in all from surgical tuberculosis…In 13 rural districts where the whole supply is in the hands of small retailers of raw milk. There were no deaths at all during the year from surgical tuberculosis.”
Prof. Jaffa of the University of South California, made a study of a number of families, who, for religious, ethical or scientific reasons, subsisted almost entirely upon raw fruits and nuts. He found them to be in excellent health, with unusual freedom from colds and other ailments. Subsequent observations of families living upon raw foods have indicated much the same. Many have reported a rapid improvement in health after adopting the raw diet, with the remedy of severe and long-standing diseases.
The famous adherent of healthy food Dr. Sylvester Graham and his many thousands of followers survived the epidemic of cholera in America in 1830’s with no cases of disease reported among them.
There are many more data clearly showing that raw food not only prolong very considerably human’s life but as well cure man from practically all diseases.
Dr. Kristine Nolfi of Denmark, who developed cancer and recovered excellent health after treating herself with an exclusive raw diet, opened sanatorium “Humlegaarten” and treated around 1000 patients annually with phenomenal success on a diet of raw foods. Patients recovered from all manner of disease, including cancer, sterility, obesity, diabetes, heart debilitation, high blood pressure, rheumatism, epilepsy, asthma and many others. Dr. Nolfi stated:” Raw diet cures not only diseases contracted during our life but also those determined by hereditary predisposition.”
Similar results were achieved by Dr.K.Eimer, of University Medical Clinic at Marburg-Lahn, Dr.Joseph Evers in Germany, who reported 42% improvements or complete recovery in 600 cases of multiple sclerosis. German physicians Friedrich and Peters treated many very severe cases of liver cirrhosis. Dr. Hare of the Royal Free Hospital in England, placed arthritis patients on an exclusive raw diet and most of them began to feel better within one to four weeks, with marked improvements continuing thereafter. Dr. Kinderheilk found that raw diet helped in avotaminosis, nephrites, diabetes, chronic constipation. Dr. Heupe, of the University Medical Polyclinic in Frankfurt, reported the diet to aid in diarrhea, heart and kidney diseases, obesity and diabetes. Dr. Kuratsune, of the Kyushu University, Japan, reported curing by raw diet anaemia and other diseases, which failed to yield to conventional medical care.
Even much more better results in curing diseases are achieved when raw diet is combined with fasting.
Dr. Henry G. Bieler in his book ‘Food is your best medicine” very well expressed his view on the subject: “ As a practising physician for over 50 years, I have reached 3 basic conclusions as to the cause and cure of disease. The first – it is caused by a toxemia which results in cellular impairment and breakdown, second – is that in almost all cases the use of drugs is harmful. My third conclusion is that disease can be cured through the proper use of correct food. These conclusions are based on experimental results, gathered through years of successfully treating patients. Today we are not only in the Atomic Age but also the Antibiotic Age, and this is, unhappily, the Dark Age of Medicine – when many of my colleagues, confronted with a patient, consult a big volume containing thousands of drugs to decide which one to choose. I disagree with doctors who stuff the sick, exhausted man with powerful toxic drugs and then are forced to use other drugs to ‘remedy the remedy”, instead I “fast” the patient on simple vegetables or fruit juices to discharge their waste products and allow the nature heal them. Improper foods cause disease, proper ones cure it”.
Sir William Osler, one of the most brilliant physicians of recent times said:” The young physician starts life with 20 drug for each disease and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases” and this drug is correct nutrition and fasting, we see this in Hippocrates’ precept that ‘”Nature heals; the physician is only nature’s assistant”.
Dr. Arnold Ehret in his book “Rational Fasting” wrote: “ After a 2-years strict fruit-diet with intercalated fasting cures, I had attained a degree of health which is simply not imaginable nowadays: With the knife I made an incision in my lower arm, -- there was no flow of blood as it thickened instantaneously, closing up of the wound, no inflammation, no pain, no mucus and pus, it healed up in 3 days; later, with vegetaric food, including mucus-forments(starch) – the wound bled a little, some pain and pus, little inflammation, pain; after the same wound, with meat-food and some alcohol – long bleeding, inflammation, pain, pus for several days, healing only after 2 days’ fast. I was no longer in need of a handkerchief, a chronic inflammation of the kidneys, considered deadly wasn’t only healed but I enjoyed the immense degree of health – I could run for 150 minutes non-stop or make endurance march of 56 hours duration.”
Dr. Henry S. Tanner, who called himself the father of fasting in USA, treated himself with long fasts(40, 42 days) after collapsing, with all symptoms of illness disappearing after 10 days of fast and regained excellent health after finishing it. He practised “natural methods” for 42 years.
It is interesting to know how Dr. E.H.Dewey ,who practised fasting in treating patients and himself, became aware of the fasting cure. He was called to treat a patient with typhoid fever. The patient couldn’t eat anything, so Dr. Dewey just supervised him and determined that on the 34th day of forced fast the patient began to eat and fully recovered. (Actually, in wild nature all animals which get sick or injured immediately stop eating to allow their bodies to heal themselves).
Dr. Linda Hazzard started fasting, being ill from mercury pills, given in her childhood, and then applied fasting in treating her patients with excellent results. And cases, incurable by medical physicians, were full success.
Dr. W A. Evans stated:” Fasting is a remedial agent of enormous power”.
There are many more doctors and researchers all over the world who in their practice in clinics and sanatoria ,as well as on themselves, proved that raw food diet and fasting is the most powerful tool eliminating all kinds of diseases( A.Aterov, Prof. G.Shatalova, Prof. Y.Nicolaev, prof. Stoleshnikov, Dr.K.Sidhwa, Dr. Moser, etc., not to mention well-publicised Paul Bragg and Dr. Herbert Shelton ).
All these facts are published. But the general public is still mostly unaware of. Why? Because they are being silenced or ignored. And what should millions of GPs, farmers, all food-processing, catering industries etc. do without those they “care for”? I remember how a few years ago I visited a hospital suffering from arthritis. The only doctor’s advice was – take painkillers. Every day, year after year, from TV screens and advertising boards we hear – take this pill and pain will be gone, take that pill and you will be slim, take the new wonder-pill and you will be healthy. Unfortunately, they can sometimes only alleviate the symptoms and suppress the disease but not cure it. We need to take responsibility for our life into our own hands.
The reality is simple: money rule the world. In the incessant race for profit we forgot that we are supposed to eat to live, not live to eat. Until a serious disease forces us to understand that whatever material we gain in social life is nothing compared with health and life itself!
Most definitely, the abovementioned may seem strange, curious, stunning or just fairy-tale and very shortly will be forgotten. New days, new problems, new emotions, new deeds. And health – well, probably some other time…
The aim of this article was to give this information to peruse and ponder upon for those seriously ill, who having exhausted all the traditional methods of curing diseases, used by the official medicine, was left hopeless and desperate.
Natural Hygiene, Naturopathy or Natural Cure – is the name of this method. And certainly, fasting and raw nutrition must be accompanied by other means: special exercises and physical activity,, fresh air, water procedures etc. and probably the main – the change in one’s world’s perception, the change in one’s thoughts.
You may try it if you really want to live. Only remember that it is not so easy to change one’s life-style, eating habits. It requires a very huge effort, as we are deadly stuck in our habits and customs! ( And I do know it myself, as I managed to switch to fasting and raw food with immense difficulty, in order to cure my arthritis).The head of a clinic specialising on fasting and raw diet admitted sadly that even facing death, only about 2% of patients who underwent the treatment continued to follow it after getting better. And if you don’t continue the disease will quickly returns back.
But if you think you are strong in your will and desire to live – find a naturopathic doctor nearby, as fasting is not that simple as it seems, it requires huge knowledge and experience.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours to write this concise abridge in the hope that it will help cure at least a few of you. I, as many thousands, managed to become healthy again. So can you! Remember, even AIDS and cancer ARE curable, even at the very advanced stages(AIDS may be cured in 6 months, cancer – in 1,5 – 2 years; read “Roger’s recovery from AIDS” by Bob Owen, 1987,about curing cancer -http://www.creativehealthinstitute.com/articles/Open%20Letter%20from%20Dr_%20Lorraine%20Day.htm , http://www.drday.com/crs.htm ).

• (Dr.R.Wulzen & A.Bahrs of Oregon State College, Dr. E. Scott & Prof. L. Erf of Ohio State Univ-ty, English scientists Mattick & Golding, investigators S. Schmidt-Nielson, Daniels & Loughlin, Kitchin & McFarland, Russel, Abeline, Dr.Renius of Finland, McCandlish & Black, W.Catel, Dr.J.E.Muller of Indiana Univ-ty, McClure & Folk, Kraft & Morgan of Univ-ty of California, Fink & Schlie from Germany, Wilson & Cowel, Marine, M.J.Morris, Dr.C.McCay, Koehn, E.C. Foust, Magendie, Dr. C. Semford, Dr.M.Mellanby, Ragu & Rajagopalau of India, Sir S.S Sokhey, Dr. Lane, Dr. A. Roffo of Argentina and many others)

GOOD LUCK!