Cancer, Cell Deterioration and Laetriel

For a number of years now, it has been dangerous to even say the
word cancer from the podium for fear of being arrested for
prescribing medicine, when one is only talking about cancer. This is
something that has been very sad--that we have lost our freedom of
speech!

We are going to talk on this very subject--cancer, and ask, "Will
the natural wholistic program of healing help stamp out this curse
to humanity?"

Wholistic healing was taught by Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine,
and has been passed on down through history. Will its philosophy
help or will it not help overcome the conditions of cancer? Are we
entitled to know right from wrong?

We feel that the right way to treat a human being is to follow the
instructions of simplicity, as suggested by the Creator. We have
gone into such technical routines to try to heal disease, and have
become so confused that it is disheartening.

The wholistic program of natural healing is not even interested in
the word disease. It is interested in health, and a healthy body
will not have disease. So this is how we try to work on one of the
great problems of all time.

For maybe forty years I have given the advice, which has also been
given to me by teachers and doctors ahead of me, that cancer can be
cured. This can be done under certain conditions.

As we have often said "there are no incurable diseases, but there
are incurable people."

Here are a few:

1. The individual who is a hypochondriac, who enjoys ill health, and
will not follow the advice. It is a waste of time to talk to them
because they enjoy ill health, and they enjoy the pleasure of having
people bow and scrape to them--those who try to make life a little
easier for them. Maybe some of these individuals were wallflowers
and nobody paid any attention to them, so they became very sickly.
Now they are actually hypochondriacs, and everything that sounds
like it might help, they might try for a short time to get
attention, but they won't try diligently enough to follow through.
They still enjoy ill health best of all!

2. The second type of individual that we cannot help is the one
whose "time has come." "Everything moves in its time and season."
There is an hour to be born, and there is an hour to die. We cannot
dispute this because when our job is done here on earth, and we have
done either the good or the evil that we have come to earth to do,
the good Lord says, "it's your time." I don't care if you have a
staff of the greatest doctors on the face of the earth, that
individual is going to go! And, this is right, isn't it?

3. The third type that we cannot help is the lazy individual who
just can't seem to follow a program. They leave the aids on the
shelf; they will not follow through on the therapies or even
on "Thought patterns"...i.e. mind over matter; magic of believing,".
They are not what we call faithful patients. The faithful patient is
one who will follow the program as many times a day as needed,
accepting all physical inconveniences, whatever program a good
natural wholistic instructor has given them. Those who are faithful
to the program, six days a week (never seven), week after week, will
be healed, if it is to be.

I mentioned six days a week. I was in practice for well over twenty
years before I realized the good Lord meant what He said when He
said, "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work". He was
referring to the human body as well as our jobs, etc. The human body
will labor six days and it is ready to drop its toxic poisons on the
seventh day. And it does need a day of rest. So this is what a
faithful individual should do-six days a week of therapy, week after
week, until they get

I had a very interesting thing happen to me as I left Salt Lake City
by plane, settling into my seat, and getting out my reading
materials to occupy my mind for the several hours of flying, I was
interrupted by the lady sitting next to me. She asked me, "Where are
you going?" "To Toronto Canada," I replied, and continued my
reading. "What are You going there for, business or pleasure?" "Oh",
I responded, "just to lecture". I again opened my book to read and
try to relax. "My that sounds exciting, what subjects do you lecture
on?" she asked. I told her I lectured on herbs, diet and health. I
had kept my finger in the volume as a bookmark, and so I again
opened it, thinking 'that will sound dull enough', but that's just
what she wanted to talk about.

She then told me that she had gone to her family doctor a couple of
years ago because she had a lot of pain in her left breast. He
examined her and told her it was "cancer", and that the breast would
have to be removed. She was sent almost immediately to the hospital
for surgery, with the assurance and promise that it was the only
way.

After the operation, she was told that a "GOOD JOB HAD BEEN DONE,
ALL THE CANCER WAS REMOVED, AND NOT TO WORRY ABOUT IT EVER
RECURRING.

Nevertheless, in about six months, pains developed in the other
breast.

Upon examination, her doctor informed her that the other breast
would also have to be removed. She went home after that next
operation an extremely sad, and frightened woman who was plagued
with an inner fear of maybe more trouble to come!

Months went by and then pains developed in her abdominal and pelvic
area. Examination showed possibility of an abundance of cancer in
this area, and she was told again that treatments would have to
start immediately. She was given no assurance of healing this time,
just treatment by chemotherapy, surgery, etc., to help relieve the
pain. So she told her doctor he had operated twice, removing part of
her body each time, and that she was not going to allow any more
cutting--she just wanted to go home and try to help herself.

This idea, of course was ridiculed and warned against, but she made
up her mind, and she went home!

She stated that she knew nothing about medicine, herbs, treatments
of any kind; so, she said, "Do you know what I did?"

Now the picture had changed, I was no longer annoyed about having my
reading time interrupted. I had taken my "bookmark" out, and closed
the book. I was now the one asking questions. "No, what did you do?"
I asked. She then told me a story that was very exciting, yet very
simple, because it is just what I have been teaching after forty
years of study and research.

But, this lady was prompted by a divine source, as to the plan to
follow for a healing. She felt strongly that her diet had been in
error and knew it had to be changed.

I was all attention now, and wanted to know what diet she went
on. "Just the plainest one I could think of--fruits, vegetables,
grains, nuts and seeds," she replied. She ate as many of these foods
as possible in their raw or wholesome state. The grains and hard
seeds she would soak on low heat. (How simple can you get? I think
the good Lord wants us to keep things simple).

She said that the last examination was two years ago, and then she
started on the "new" (actually as old as life itself) diet, using
nothing else. After a period of time, she was feeling much better
and the pains had gone. She went back to the doctor for another
examination, He was astounded. Only a small indication of cancer
showed on the pap smear; otherwise, he pronounced her healed.

A few months went by, she had been faithful with her "new" diet and
the next examination showed complete healing--a healthy body!

This lady was bubbling over with enthusiasm and asked me if I could
guess what she was doing now. She told me she had been receiving
invitations from various groups throughout the country and was
traveling to many areas teaching women the "new" way of eating to
prevent and/or heal cancer--I was glad for that visit and testimony!

Diet has been ignored, ridiculed and laughed at since long before
the turn of the century by doctors who specialize in fighting
disease and labeling and learning about disease germs. It is
refreshing to see a change gradually coming over them and noting
that many of them are turning to the idea that diet might have
something to do with good or bad health.

"The simple addition of fresh fruits and vegetables to one's diet
may act to minimize an individual's chance of acquiring intestinal
cancer," said Dr. Guy Newell, deputy director of the National Cancer
Institute.

"The link between nutrition and cancer is a young and exciting
area." [the natural wholistic healers have been using this principle
since before Hippocrates--author] We are moving into an era in which
people want to do more for themselves to safeguard their health," he
said.

"Fiber, or roughage, is the nondigestible part of food formed
commonly in whole grains such as wheat grain, nuts, fresh fruits,
and vegetables.

He goes on to say that eating and drinking habits associated with
digestive tract cancers include: high fat-low fiber-cancers of the
colon and pancreas; low intake of Vitamin C and E-cancers of the
stomach and liver; heavy alcoholic consumption-cancer of the oral
cavity, larynx, and esophagus.

Here is a good example: Ronald Kotulak, medical reporter of the
Chicago Tribune, stated in an article, the second of a five-part
series on the increasing incidence of digestive diseases, which
inflicts one in six Americans:

"Since the turn of the century the average American's diet has
dramatically changed for the worse, causing a modern day plague of
digestive woes, according to many experts.

These dietary failures are to blame for the three most common
disturbances of the digestive tract and fourth disorder that is a
killer, they say.

As the result of the things he eats or doesn't eat, every American
runs a nearly 100 percent chance of developing one of the
big "three" digestive problems--irritable bowel syndrome,
diverticulosis, and hemorrhoids--and a 1-25 chance of being hit by
the killer, colon cancer.

All four are linked to a drastic reduction in the amount of fiber
people eat. Scientists call them diseases of Western Man."

The Big Three disorders are practically unknown in under-developed
countries where people still stick to the high fiber-low fat diet
that our ancestors thrived on.

Recent studies indicate that this epidemic of gastrointestinal agony
can be reversed by putting more fiber back into the diet.

"lt is possible that if we eat a balanced diet, including an
adequate intake of fiber," said Dr. Joseph Kirsner, a University of
Chicago gastroenterologist, "we can protect ourselves against these
three common disorders."

"If through education of the individual and education of the
provider of foods, from the farmer to the manufacturer and the
distributor, we secure a slight but definite restructuring of the
diet of the Western World, we would go a long way toward reducing
the risk for cancer of the stomach and colon," said Dr. John
Weisburger, of the New York-based American Health Foundation.

He continues, "Only now are scientists beginning to realize that the
diet of many Americans, which is high in animal and dairy fats, may
lead to man-made cancers."

"The type of diet we consume today, and for that matter, its
preparation, may be a kind of diet for which we were not prepared,
from an evolutionary point of view," said Dr. Ernst Wynder,
president of the American Health Foundation.

I would like to make a reprint of an article printed in June, 1977
Saga, c. 1977. I received permission from Gambi Publishing Inc, 333
Johnson Ave. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11200, to reprint this article with"all
rights reserved."

THE GREAT CANCER CONTROVERSY

Is it merely a fraud or the cure for the disease that's the scourge
of the '70's?

In January 1974 LaVeeta Vernon was admitted to an Oklahoma City
hospital for treatment of shingles, knots, and nodules hanging from
her neck. She also complained of a growth in her groin. Doctors
diagnosed an infection and prescribed antibiotics. They sent her
home. A few days later she returned with the same symptoms, and this
time the doctors diagnosed a nervous condition. They put her in an
ambulance and sent her to a psychiatric clinic.

When she arrived she was crying, so the psychiatrists immediately
ordered electric shock treatments. She remembered little about the
next three weeks. Still the nodules persisted and seemed to be
growing larger.

Finally she was admitted to University Hospital. Eight months after
her first complaint doctors diagnosed massive cancer of the bone
marrow, lymph glands, and spleen. The disease affected about 75
percent of her body.

Next came eight months of chemotherapy--severe drugs prescribed to
attack the cancer cells. The chemotherapy cost about $20,000, most
of it paid by Medicare. At the end of the eight months Mrs. Vernon's
weight had dropped from 140 to 106 pounds. She was suffering from
blood clots. Her husband pushed her around in a wheel chair. Her
doctor told her she would never walk again.

Then she heard about a cancer treatment called Laetrile, from her
sister in California. She tried to buy some at a local health store,
but was told that it was illegal.

Desperate, Don and LaVeeta Vernon took a vacation in Tijuana,
Mexico.

Clinica Del Mar is one of the three locations in the border towns
where visiting cancer patients can buy Laetrile. Run by Dr. Ernesto
Contreras, the clinic treats more than 100 cancer patients a day.
Laetrile is legal in Mexico (and also Japan, Germany, and 20 other
countries). In a renovated warehouse on a back street in Tijuana,
Mexican workers grind up apricot kernels into a fine, white powder
that is rich in cyanide. From the powder they produce yellow tablets
and pale serum.

According to the theories of Laetrile's patron saint, Dr. Ernest T.
Krebs, the cyanide in Laetrile attacks cancer cells directly,
whereas normal cells contain an enzyme that neutralizes the cyanide.
Result: THE CANCER CELLS DIE.

"It's a superb biological principle," commented Dr. Frank Rauscher
of the American Cancer Society. "I wish it worked."

LaVeeta Vernon wished for all her might that it would work.

Three weeks of treatments at the Clinica Del Mar cost her more than
$2,000 in cash (no checks are accepted.)

Shortly after she returned to Oklahoma she was able to leave her
wheelchair and walk. She stopped her chemotherapy and continued to
take smuggled Laetrile tablets for the next six months. She says
that her doctor told her, "I have never seen a case like yours.
Something is happening, I don't know what." When she admitted her
use of the forbidden Laetrile, her doctor refused to see her
anymore.

In May 1976 LaVeeta Vernon entered the hospital once more to submit
to a complete battery of cancer tests. The results showed the
presence of cancer cells, but they had become dormant. She joined a
growing number of Americans determined to fight the dictates of the
medical establishment.

Did Laetrile cure LaVeeta Vernon? What is this miracle powder? Why
has the medical profession refused to pursue its promise?

Dr. Vincent DeVita, clinical director of the Stoan-Kettering
Institute for Cancer Research, the nation's premier cancer research
organization, explains stories like LaVeeta Vernon's (and there are
many) as example of the "placebo" (or "sugar pill") effect. In other
words, the patient responds emotionally to what he or she believes
to be a cancer cure--and actually experiences a remission of the
disease, or relief from pain.

The medical establishment has aligned itself firmly against
Laetrile. The American Cancer Society lumps Laetrile with 71 other
unproven methods of cancer management and vigorously opposes any
program to legalize it. The American Medical Association takes a
similar view. So does the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare. On the Mar. 31, 1974, broadcast of "60 Minutes", Dr.
Rauscher, who was then director of HEW's National Cancer Institute,
told CBS reporter Mike Wallace, "I would certainly not turn off
Laetrile if it had an iota of activity that we could pinpoint.
Unfortunately, there's no evidence at all."

All the research organizations agree that laetrile is harmless. The
extract of apricot kernels does no damage to the body. But the
medical establishment argues that patients who use Laetrile would
ignore the more traditional treatments of surgery, chemotherapy, and
radiation. They also point to the huge profits made by the Laetrile
clinics in Mexico. "There are few things that come lower," mutters
Dr. Robert Taylor, executive director of the National Cancer
Institute of Canada.

Despite their misgivings, officials of the U.S. National Cancer
Institute yielded to the pressure of Laetrile's proponents and
supported tests at various research facilities.

Sloan-Kettering first ran tests on Laetrile in 1973. The early tests
indicated that Laetrile did, indeed, seem to inhibit the growth of
malignant tumors in mice. But the researchers were unconvinced. They
tried again. In July 1975 they released the results of those final
studies, which they said, failed to confirm the early tests. The
verdict: Laetrile had no effect on reducing the spread of cancer in
mice. Sloan-Kettering said it would discontinue further studies on
Laetrile and concentrate on more promising lines of research.

The issue seemed to be dead.

Then on August 23, 1975, Mike Culbert, editor of The Choice, the
newsletter of a California group called The Committee for Freedom of
Choice in Cancer Therapy, opened his morning mail to discover an
anonymous letter typed on Sloan-Kettering stationery. The letter
began:

"Here are some of the results of Sloan-Kettering's continuing
experiments with Laetrile. Due to political pressure these results
are being suppressed. Please do your best to bring these important
findings to the attention of the people."

The package contained test results that seemed to indicate that at
least seven series of tests on mice showed positive results for
Laetrile. The work was purportedly done by Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura at
Sloan-Kettering. Dr. Sugiura later confirmed the results.

Why had the tests been suppressed? Who is telling the truth about
Laetrile? Is it beneficial or not? And why the renewed interest in a
cure dismissed by the medical establishment years ago?

Last year, cancer patient Glen Rutherford appealed to the U.S.
District Court in Oklahoma City to allow him to use Laetrile in his
treatment. In October 1976, Federal Judge Luther Bohanon issued an
injunction prohibiting the Food and Drug Administration from
interfering with Rutherford's right to import Laetrile for his own
treatment. At the same time, Bohanon ordered the FDA to compile an
administrative record to prove that it has jurisdiction to ban
interstate shipment of the substance. (Proponents of Laetrile
believe it is a substance and not a drug, thereby taking the
material out of the hands of Federal authorities).

In response to the court order, the FDA announced on February 17th
that it invited public testimony on the legal and scientific status
of Laetrile. The FDA began holding open hearings in Kansas City on
May 2nd. Officials for that organization have announced that the
proceeding is being undertaken "solely because the agency was
directed to do so by the Court of Appeals."

In a comfortable old house in northwest Washington, D.C., lives a 73-
year-old retired biochemist by the name of Dr. Dean Burk. Today he
spends much of his time painting or playing Bach on his harpsichord.
But when he retired in 1974 he had completed 17 years as chief
chemist of the National Cancer Institute. His credentials are
impeccable. All told, he spent 35 years in various capacities as a
National Cancer Institute chemist. He was a professor at Cornell
University Medical College and at George Washington University. He
has published more than 250 articles in respected scientific
journals. He has received numerous awards and honors. "I have no ax
to grind," he says calmly, setting into an easy chair. "I am retired
with a good pension from the government. I have no need for money.
I've had all the power and prestige I ever want, I've thrown away my
clocks and calendars."

He paused to light a cigar.

"l suppose I've tested Laetrile on more than 5,000 mice. I know more
about Laetrile than anyone else in the world."

"Does it work?" I asked.

"In general, its as good as anything else. And it has the tremendous
advantage of being nontoxic. All the drugs used for chemotherapy are
poisons. They produce harmful side effects. They also lower the
body's resistance to infection. Laetrile is not a drug. It is a
vitamin. At least five well-established laboratories in three
countries of the world have produced definite evidence of anti-
cancer activity. One is the Southern Research Center of Birmingham,
Ala., which was programmed by the National Cancer Institute to make
such studies. Its data indicated overwhelmingly positive results
under appropriate experimental conditions."

"Why, then, hasn't the medical establishment promoted its use?"

"They're not interested in finding cures. I'm sorry, but they're
not," Burk replied.

"What are they interested in?"

"Your guess is as good as mine," Burk said. "People find it
difficult to believe, but a few years back they would have found it
difficult to believe anything as sinister as Watergate. I've read
enough Shakespeare to know that human nature has no limits in any
direction."

Dr. Burk explained that Laetrile therapy has grown despite the
opposition of the organized medical profession. Desperate visits to
Tijuana are not necessary. "Anyone who wants Laetrile can get it,"
he asserts. "The Cancer Control Society in Los Angeles puts out a
list of sources. A lot of health food stores sell it openly under
different names such as amygdalin or vitamin B-17. Two thousand
American physicians prescribe it regularly for their patients (one
is Dr. Larry McDonald, a urologist who is U.S. Representative from
Georgia's 7th District.) There are 50,000 people in America using
Laetrile right now. They do not ignore traditional cancer
treatments. Anyone with cancer wants to try all approaches."

"But what about the 'quacks', the clinics in Mexico charging
thousands of dollars?"

"If Laetrile was used more openly in America there would be no need
for those clinics. And if you want to discuss fees, the cost of
traditional cancer treatments are far greater. There are no bigger
quacks than the people in the National Cancer Institute who take
public money and don't do their best to find cancer therapies. They
are the supreme examples of quacks."

"But why? Why would they do such a thing?"

"The opponents of Laetrile talk mostly of ignorance. Some out of
malice."

"What do they have to gain?"

Dr. Burk smiled. "No one can read another person's mind. But when an
organization gets locked into a position it finds it difficult to
change direction. The National Cancer Institute and the American
Cancer Society have been fighting Laetrile for years. They would be
embarrassed to admit their error."

"Let's talk more about money. Wouldn't the drug companies be able to
make a lot of money by selling Laetrile on the open market?"

"No," Dr. Burk said. "Laetrile is not patented. It is in the public
domain. Anyone could make it and sell it cheaply."

"Are the drug companies afraid?"

"They keep a low profile. But they are big supporters of the
American Cancer Society and the American Medical Association. You
have to draw your own conclusions.'

Dr. Burk re-lit his cigar.

"What," I asked, "would you do if you learned that you had cancer?"

"The first thing I would do is to take about 50 apricot kernels each
day, thrown them into my coffee grinder, and swallow the
powder. . . "

Dr. Edward Shook states in his advanced book on herbs that there are
over one thousand cures for cancer. This is speaking on the subject
of feeding the body and rebuilding it in order to overcome the toxic
conditions of cancer.

There are many other procedures to use in speeding up the
elimination of cancer cells from the body. A procedure to start with
is "Dr. Christopher's Natural Routine."


DR. CHRISTOPHER'S NATURAL ROUTINE

The patient may have suffered for a long period of time. Because of
the years of improper eating, his body is now suffering from
malnutrition. Not the amount of food that has been eaten matters,
but the quality and how well it has been assimilated. We accept lots
of food into our bodies, but only that which has been properly
assimilated can be utilized for rebuilding and repairing cells and
malfunction areas. Proper assimilation is acquired by "drinking the
solid foods and chewing the liquid food." This is an old and true
axiom. We should thoroughly chew the solid foods, mixing saliva with
them until the food becomes a liquid; then we drink it. The liquid
foods must be swished (or chewed) in the mouth, then swallowed. The
saliva thoroughly mixed with the foods is the key that opens up the
doors of digestion. Without mixing saliva with the food, the balance
of the digestive juices are not activated for good assimilation. By
gulping, "inhaling" or bolting the food down without properly mixing
sativa with it, we only get eight to ten percent of its value. By
properly chewing we can raise this to forty or forty-five percent.
The balance is generally cellulose or indigestible fiber. We not
only receive far better health, but also save money. Food is one of
our largest expenditures, and if we can get four to six times better
assimilation and use four to six times less food we are saving a lot
of money! This simple method alone, which gives better assimilation,
can promise superior health and a happier life. With one fourth or
one third of the food we have been used to eating, we can receive
much more power and energy. Remember a large part of your success
will come from chewing both solid foods and liquid foods.


FIRST WEEK OF WHOLISTIC AID

FOOD. Many people feel that without three large meals of solid food
each day they will shrivel up, starve and blow away. Dr. N.W.
Walker, in his book RAW VEGETABLE JUICES, and Johanna Brandt, in her
book THE GRAPE CURE, will both assure you that the juices alone will
sustain you in health for a long time while healing.

The following suggestions are for an old chronic condition, not an
acute one requiring emergency treatments. For the first week, drink
as much fresh carrot juice as desired. Some people can be satisfied
with a quart, others up to a gallon or more. Drink, by chewing, an
eight-ounce glass or more each hour during the day for six days the
first week.

Drink one cup or more of slippery elm gruel each day. The liquid can
be as thin or thick as desired. With this herb you take the powder
and carefully mix enough liquid with it to form a paste, because it
does not mix easily. Then thin it to the consistency desired. A
little honey can be added if you like. Drink also one cup or more of
comfrey leaf tea each day. Twenty minutes before of after drinking
the juice, tea, or gruel you may drink as much steam-distilled water
as you desire.

HERBAL FOODS. One cup or more or 2 capsules 3 times a day of this
cell building tea, Complete Tissue & Bone Formula, should be used
for the rebuilding of cells in flesh, cartilage and bones. Also take
one cup three times a day or 2 capsules 3 times a day of Blood
Stream Formula as a blood purifier.

Each day, with some of the liquid being used, take the following:

Two or more Lower Bowel Formula, three times a day for regularity,
as solids are not now cleansing the bowels.

Two or more pancreas aid, Pancreas Formula, three times a day, to
assist the bowel aid.

Two or more Herbal Caciam Formula capsules three times a day for a
good herbal calcium.

THREE OIL MASSAGE. The first two days the patient should be massaged
with castor oil, using a clockwise circular motion from the top of
the head to the bottom of the feet, always working toward the heart.
The next two days use olive oil, and the last two days of the week
massage with wheat germ oil.

By using the skin as a filtering agent the castor oil cleans and
flushes the skin; and goes into the blood stream, aiding in the
removal of mucus and toxins from the inner body. The olive oil is a
complete food itself and will penetrate into the body to feed and
rebuild muscles, flesh and the entire system. Wheat germ oil is a
healing oil, high in vitamin E, valuable in rejuvenating the body.

On the seventh day rest the patient, using no foods, herbs or juice,
only steam-distilled water, as much as is desired.

SUNBATH. Immediately after the massage, each day take a sunbath in
the nude and not through glass but in the direct sun. Only allow two
minutes on the front and two minutes on the back the first day. Then
add two minutes front and back each day, but no more. In six days
you will be up to twelve minutes front and twelve minutes back. Do
not sunbathe between eleven in the morning and one o'clock in the
afternoon, that is, not at high noon. If it is a cloudy or cold day,
use a sunlamp, but do not allow a burn.

The sun is the world's greatest doctor but must be used by building
up the exposed time in the sun gradually so as to not burn. Do not
be alarmed by articles in national publications each spring, warning
people to avoid sunbathing, saying it is cancer-forming. The sun
cannot cause cancer. If you do not gradually increase the use of it,
but lie in the sun for long lengths of time and burn, certainly it
is dangerous for it will cause a severe toxic burn, but it is not
cancer forming. If cancer is already in the bloodstream and the
body, the sun can ripen it and bring it to the surface, but that is
the only way skin cancer can result from the sun.

Ask any aborigine, Indian or member from any tribal area where only
loin cloth, if anything, is worn. There is no cancer, although their
bare skin is exposed constantly to the sun the year around. If any
of them develop skin cancer, he would have been eating the civilized
(?) man's food for a sufficient period of time to get the body into
a toxic condition.

John N. Ott's book, HEALTH AND LIGHT, will explain further the
benefits of healing with light. Here this research scientist tells
how natural (sun) light is a food or nutrient and can cure many ills
and keep us well, while the wrong kind (artificial light) can make
us ill. You'll read how certain ailments respond to a daily
treatment of full spectrum light.

BATHS. Each day the patient should have a hot bath followed by a
cold shower or tub. No soap should be used for the bath unless it is
a good biodegradable body cleanser. Each day before the bath give a
dry skin brushing (always toward the heart) using a natural bristle
brush (not nylon). Sixty percent of all of our breathing is done
through the skin, so it must be kept clean with water and brushing.
The skin is our "second set of kidneys" and must be kept in good
condition.

CLOTHING. We should use only natural fibers for the clothes we wear,
and also for our bed covers. Synthetic cloth does not breathe; and
we need all the oxygen obtainable, the "breath of life." Do not
strangle or choke the body with cloth that is a barrier tO oxygen.
Do not use synthetic cloth for straining herbal drinks or for
fomentations and bandaging. Use only natural fibers, such as cotton,
wool, linen or silk.

HERBAL FOMENTATIONS. We use an herbal fomentation each night of the
six days of the week. lt should cover the head area (hair line),
down the spine, all the way down to the end of the tailbone. Make
the cap fit down to the ears (or use a cotton or wool skull cap) and
stitch a flannel strip four or five inches wide down the back over
the spine area. After wetting the fomentation cloth with BF&C, so
that it is not too drippy, cover it with a plastic over the head
(shower cap, etc.) and a strip down the spine. Thus the moisture
will go into the body and not the bedding and mattress. the
fomentation down the back can be held into place with sweat shirt
and shorts.

To aid the motor nerve and spinal cord, use our Ear & Nerbe Formula
combination, inserting with an eye dropper four to six drops of oil
of garlic and four to six drops of Herb Tincture into each ear six
nights a week. Plug the ears with cotton overnight and on the
seventh day flush out the ears with half and half warm apple cider
vinegar and distilled water. Repeat this each week during the
program.

ZONAL FOOT MASSAGE (REFLEXOLOGY). If possible, use zonal therapy on
the feet three times a week, leaving one day in between such Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, or Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Zonal therapy
will greatly speed up the program. You may find a number of good
books on zone therapy at libraries or health food stores.


SECOND WEEK

The second week will be the same as the first except, instead of
fresh carrot juice, substitute apple juice. Freshly made apple
juice, of course, best. If you do not have a juicer or fresh apples
are not available, use a bottled apple juice that has had nothing
added. Used canned only in an emergency. Do not use frozen juice, as
nearly all frozen juices have additives. During this second week use
the three-oil massages, sunbaths, zonal therapy, fomentations, etc.
With the sunbaths add two minutes front and back onto the final
total of the last week.

On the day of fast there may be some physical reactions because you
have reached a cleansing cycle. Toxic poisons break up in the body,
accumulating for disposal and causing some upset. Do not be alarmed,
for with some people it is more pronounced than with others. This
same cyclical reaction can happen in any healing program in the
third week, seventh week, seventh month and seventh year. The longer
spasms occur in the major cycles and can be more pronounced, by far,
than the minor cycles. If a cleansing crisis occurs during this
short time, be happy with it and smile through the tears; for it
shows the program is working well.


THE THIRD WEEK

Again repeat the full complete program, except instead of carrot or
apple juice, during the third week use grape juice. Freshly made is
best from dark grapes (concord preferred), juice from organically
grown grapes found in some health stores, or any of the standard
brands in bottles such as Welch's, Church's, etc. Be sure in the
bottled juice there are no additives (preservatives or sugar). It
can be pasteurized, but not frozen.


THE FOURTH WEEK AND ON

Continue to rotate the three juices each week as before. You could
live on the program for a long period of time, as you are taking
rapid-healing and wholesome food. If you desire more solid food,
just add one solid meal each day. This meal will consist of a good
fresh vegetable combination salad (as many raw fresh vegetables as
you desire). If a salad dressing is desired, use a natural one, such
as one made with fresh olive oil, apple cider vinegar or lemon
juice, and if desired, a small amount of honey, grated fresh onion
and garlic to taste, savory salad herbs, coarse freshly ground black
pepper, etc.

A small serving of presoaked, low-heated grain may also be added.
This is done by taking the whole UNCRACKED grain (wheat, rye,
millet, buckwheat, barley or whole oat groats) and soaking it with
distilled water. Soak in a cool place so it won't sour, up to twenty
hours depending on the hardness of the grain. Then low-heat it in a
stainless steel or Pyrex double boiler for twelve to fourteen hours.
Use a food thermometer and do not allow the temperature to rise over
130 F. If you use a crockpot, equip it with a dimmer switch or some
other type of control so it will not overheat.

In whole live grain you have nearly every known vitamin and mineral
known to mankind, but live food must not be killed by overheating,

Professor Arnold Ehret and the Rodale Press have both advised
against the use of grain because of its acidity. In its hard state,
grain is generally pH 5. By using presoaked, low-heated grain we
raise it from the objectionable pH 5 to 7 pH which is easily
assimilated.

The salad and grains must be chewed thoroughly until they become
liquid, before swallowing. These additions can be used in the
healing routine as long as is desired. On this type of food a person
can live to a ripe, healthy old age. As the individual improves in
health a larger variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and
seeds can be used. Later all the lentils, beans and harder seed
types with longer soaking and more low-heating can be added. With
these, and lowheated grains, delicious casseroles may be created.
Potatoes, steamed or slow baked, using skin and all, are a very good
food. Use of them fresh olive oil and coarse ground black pepper
and, if desired, chives and/or other herbal seasoning.

Use no salt, sugar, eggs, meats, bread, milk or milk products. In a
short time you will find the hidden hunger will leave by using the
food recommended. The cravings will disappear and you will feel a
cozy, unbloated, satisfied fullness that will bring ease and peace.


BREATHING WITH DEPTH

The Lord put into us the breath of life, but we have to keep it
there. Shallow breathing is not much life, but full breathing is the
full breath of life. Learn to breathe deeply, as is taught in yoga,
to get the breath of life into the upper lobes of the lungs.


POWER OF LIFE

Walk or jog barefooted on the lawn to get rid of the static
electricity in the body and to allow new electrical vibration to
come from the atmosphere. This is pure universal electricity that
operates all the parts and organs of the body. It cannot come if
static electricity is present, which should be grounded through the
feet to keep a continual flow on hand.

After we have the bowel cleansed, and the blood stream cleaned, we
now have the patients on live or whole-raw or low-heated food.
Webster's Dictionary defines wholesome as: with the life therein, as
in its original state. The word wholesome goes against all of the
world's general principles today of "processing food" because herbs
in their wholesome state means just that--nothing taken away,
cooked, or added. Herbs mean, of course, fruits, vegetables, grains,
nuts and seeds, as well as the medicinal herbs; and when they are in
their wholesome state they are beneficial. But when they have been
processed, we are in trouble. It is the processed and sugared foods
and drinks that are causing more cases of cancer than can be
imagined. They are making a world of weak people and especially a
weak nation here in America, because we have had the wealth, but not
the brains, to go back to wholesome foods, living off "Mother Earth"
as was intended. We buy from the store shelf processed foods that
are dead, and death comes with dead food. Life is generated by live
food.

So we advise eating fruits, nuts and vegetables and keeping them as
raw and as live as possible. Grains may need to be low-heated, and
these grains are so important in their "whole" state--not taking out
just a little here in the way of a vitamin or a little here in the
form of a mineral. That whole grain is so valuable in so many ways
with vitamins and natural estrogens and hormones and minerals in the
proper proportions (as well as the much needed bulk). When mankind
is properly nurtured for generations, these inherent weakness and
diseases will be gone

The wholistic principle of renewing the body is to use any
procedure, as well as proper foods, that is helpful (instead of
harmful) to the body in any way and here we have given just a few
suggestions. Use the wholistic procedure to offset the toxic
conditions of a sickly body. Here is the answer to helping an
unhealthy body bounce back to a renewed condition of good health.

Used by permission: Volume 2 Number 2



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