"Fasting is a perfect example
of the hidden powers of nature that awaken when the ancient
Chinese Taoist principle of
wu-wei, "not-doing" is
put into practice. "By doing nothing," notes
the Tao Teh Ching, "the sage accomplishes everything." In
dietary terms, "doing nothing" means eating
nothing and letting nature take its course, and this abstinence
awakens the body’s most powerful cleansing and
healing responses.
Fasting : The Natural Way
Fasting
is nature’s way of
curing disease, restoring health, and prolonging life.
As all zookeepers
and pet owners know, animals of every species instinctively
refuse to eat when they are sick, and the same rule applies to animals in
the wilderness. Long ago, humans also shared this natural
revival instinct, and
even today, primitive tribes in remote regions of Africa, Asia, and the Amazon
still have special "sick houses" located on the outskirts of
their villages, where the sick rest quietly and comfortably, without eating
any food,
for as long as it takes to recover their health.
Today, however, therapeutic
fasting is dismissed by mainstream modern medicine as "primitive." As
a prominent surgeon in New York once told this writer, "Fasting went
out with the horse-and-buggy!" . Nevertheless,
owing to the pioneering work of a few courageous health professionals during
the latter half of the 20th century, the Western world has rediscovered
the profound healing powers of fasting, and practitioners of alternative
medicine
are now applying it with success for conditions in which all other treatments
fail. Moreover, recent scienctific research backed by extensive clinical
studies has established conclusive proof that periodic fasting and calorie
restriction
are the one and only proven way to significantly extend lifespan.
Scientific Studies. Factual Evidence
On May
28, 1986, the Associated Press reported as follows regarding the results
of a scientific study on aging conducted in America, in which laboratory
rats were periodically put on forced fasts: When the diets of laboratory
rats are severely restricted, they live far longer than
do otherwise identical animals that are allowed to eat
as much as they want. In fact, researchers say such food
limits are the only way they know of significantly extending
these rodents’ normal lifespans.
More recently, Dr.
Roy Walford, who was a member of the team that lived
for two years in the experimental "Biosphere" project
in America, has conducted even more exhaustive research
on the link between calorie restriction
and lifespan, using a variety of different species for his studies,
including rats and dogs.
In his book "Beyond the 120
Year Diet," he presents his
evidence, and it clearly demonstrates that calorie
restriction prolongs the lifespan
of all species tested by a factor of 50-80 per cent. In human terms,
that would mean a lifespan of 120-150 years.
While longterm
human studies on the effects of fasting on longevity
have not yet been concluded, individual
examples of several contemporary practitioners
of therapeutic fasting are highly inspiring and most encouraging.
Normal Walker. Fasting and Raw Juices
for Health
Dr.
Norman Walker, for example, who advocated periodic
fasting and daily
consumption
of
raw juices and practiced what he preached, lived to the ripe
age of 116, remaining active until the very end. Paul
Bragg, who fasted for ten days
fours times
a year for most of his life, lived almost as long as Dr. Walker,
and
he too stayed healthy and productive until his final days.
V. E. Irons, who
cured
himself of an "incurable" crippling disease by fasting,
then went on to develop the most efficient do-it-yourself fasting
and internal cleansing
system available today, would no doubt have lived a "normal" human
lifespan of 120, if fate had not intervened with a car accident
at the age of 98. Each of these individuals, and others like
them, rediscovered
through
their own experience what all animals and primitive tribesmen
still know: that fasting is nature’s way of cleansing
and healing the body and regerating the life force.
Abstaining from
food permits the body’s innate detox mechanisms to function
at full capcity and allows immune responses to operate in high
gear. When fasting, all of the energy and enzyme power that the
body must normally use to digest
and process food is diverted instead to "digest disease," while
the digestive system produces no new wastes in the body. Fasting
also triggers the production of human growth hormone in the pituitary
gland and releases
it into the bloodstream, where it circulates throughout the body
to repair damaged tissues, regenerate vital functions, and rejuvenate
the whole system.
Normally, the production of growth hormone diminishes rapidly
after humans reach adulthood, and the ever dwindling supply of
this powerful regenerative
hormone is one of the primary causes of aging and the onset of
chronic degenerative conditions. By stimulating secretion of
human growth hormone, fasting not only
helps cure disease and repair the body, it also slows down the
aging process, restores flagging vitality, and prolongs life.
The Cure of the Sages
Fasting is not
new. Hindu yogis, Buddhist monks, and Taoist hermits
have been fasting for thousands of years to enhance their
vitality
and extend their
lifespans. A few years ago in India, an elderly meditation master set a
world record by fasting non-stop for 200 days, during which
time he took nothing
whatsoever but plain water. Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosphers
whose thought laid the foundations of Western civilization fasted regularly
to improve their physical health and sharpen their mental powers, and Pythagoras
required all of his senior students to fast for 40 days as a means of purifying
their bodies and minds prior to receiving his highest teachings. Practicioners
of traditional medicine in ancient China also understood the direct link
between human disease and the toxic filth that accumulates in the bowels
as a result of unnatural eating habits. The Sung Dynasty physician Chang
Tsung-cheng observed, "If the stomach and bowels are blocked, then
blood and energy stagnate," while the famous Chinese doctor, Chai
Yu-hua, wrote centuries ago, "Purging the bowels eliminates the source
of poison, thereby permitting blood and energy to regenerate naturally.
By cleaning
the bowels we repair the body."
Fasting as recorded in The Bible
The Bible mentions fasting 74 times,
and Jesus himself fasted frequently, sometimes for as long as 40 days.
When the Dead Sea Scrolls were unearthed
in Palestine
in the early 20th century, a most remarkable document written in Aramaic
and dating from the third century AD came to light. Translated into
English in
1937 by Edmond Szekely under the title The Essene Gospel of Peace, this
ancient text recounts in detail some of the most important
healing work performed
by Jesus among the people of Palestine, and much of it sounds very
similar to
what Dr. Bernard Jensen writes about fasting and colonic irrigation in
his book Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management. Unfortunately,
none of this
information ever found its way into the Bible, despite the fact that
this gospel was recorded several hundred years earlier
than other gospels
that appear in
the Bible. Perhaps the early editors of the Bible found the topic of
colonic irrigation to be of too delicate a nature for inclusion
in the Christain
scriptures, but since this ancient historical document contains teachings
of vital significance
to the health of the Western world today, let’s take a quick look
at some key passages and listen to what Jesus said to his followers on
the subject
of detox and human health:
Renew yourselves and fast. . .
Seek
the fresh air of the forest
and of the fields, and there in the midst of them shall
you find
the angel of air. . . Then breathe long and deeply, that
the angel
of air may be brought within you. I tell you truly, the
angle 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. . . Think
not that it is sufficient that the angel of water embrace you
outwards only. I tell you truly, the uncleanness within is greater
by much than the uncleanness without. . .
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. . . 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. . .
Then let the water
run out from your body,
that it may carry away from within it all the unclean
and evil-
smelling things. . .
And you shall
see with your eyes and smell
with your nose all the abominations and uncleannesses
which
defiled the temple of your body. . .
Renew your baptizing
with water 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.
This
method of cleansing and healing the body by means of colonic irrigation
using a trailing gourd and warm river water was commonly practiced
among the ancient Essenes, among whom Jesus lived and studied during
his early
formative
years, and it constitutes one of his most beneficial teachings for
the welfare of humanity. Unfortunately, since all mention of this
period in Jesus’ life
was deliberately excluded from the New Testament, this aspect of
his work remains virtually unknown among Christians today,
although it
was common knowledge
to Jesus’ own disciples. The sages of the ancient world were
well aware of the inseparable link between the state of the body
and the state of the
mind, for they knew that toxic blood and tissues form a breeding
ground not only for disease and degeneration of the human body but
also for
the darkening
and degradation of the human spirit. They knew the law that modern
physicians and philosophers alike have forgotten: that whatever pollutes
the body also
pollutes the mind. That’s why so many sacred scriptures of
the ancient world prescribe fasting and detox as the first preliminary
steps on the path
of spiritual self-cultivation.
Today, the mutual dependence of physical
and spiritual health has
been largely forgotten, and few people see the causal connection
between
the massive pollution
of the planet and degradation of the human body, and the rampant
crime, chronic violence , and spiritual malaise that marks human
life in contemporary
times.
According to the psychophysiological prescription of the ancient
sages who gave birth to Western civilization, cleaning up the planet
and
detoxifying the human body are the best medicine of all for restoring
peace on earth
and reviving the health and spiritual integrity of humanity, and
scientific evidence
validating the truth of this ancient teaching is beginning to emerge.
In 1972, for example, the Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry
reported results
of
a clinical study in which fasting and tissue detox were successfully
used,
without recourse to any drugs whatsover, to cure over 7,000 patients
suffering from a variety of serious mental disorders that neither
psychiatry nor
drug therapy had helped in any way. This has since become known
as the "Hunger
Cure" and is still practiced in Russia.
Even a cursory glance at the current state of human affairs throughout
the world today reveals two indisputable facts: one is that people
everywhere and in all walks of life are getting sicker and more
toxic than ever
before in
human history; and the other is that human behavior is growing
more angry and violent, and world affairs are becoming more cruel
and
barbaric ,
day by day.
Maybe it’s already too late to take the slow lane of detox by gradual
dietary reform; perhaps our only remaining hope is to take the plunge and leap
directly into the "fast lane" of detox by air and water alone.
The "Fast Lane" - Fasting
Tissue toxicity
is a deadly serious condition, especially today, when
so many carcinogens and other toxic chemicals contaminate
our food and water and
pollute the air we breathe. To give the reader an idea of just how serious
the situation is, and what can be done about it, here’s a graphic
excerpt from the book Detox Diet and Wellness Lifestyle, by Dr. Grady Deal,
who operates
a detox clinic in Hawaii:
You may be unaware that the colon
remains chronically impacted
with accumulated feces and mucus backed all the way up to the
small intestine. . .In effect, your intestinal plumbing. . . backs up
like a full and overflowing septic tank. The blood vessels and
lymph vessels in the colon pick up the toxins and carry them to
all parts of the body. . .The bloodstream becomes increasingly
filled to overflowing with disease organisms. . .and toxins, where
they circulate around the body, causing inflammation, water
retention, weight gain, irritation, corrosion, damage, and disease.
Feces and toxins abnormally recirculated in the bloodstream as
a result of chronic constipation explains why the eliminative organs
of the skin and lungs have a strangely familiar unpleasant odor. . .
in the form of smelly sweat . . .and bad breath that smells like
feces. . . As a protective measure to get the disease-causing
toxins out of circulation, the body removes these poisons from
the bloodstream and stores them in cells and tissues, out of
the way. . .causing what Dr. Norman Walker calls tissue
constipation, meaning the tissues are burdened with excess
toxins which then cause cellular and tissue inflammation,
congestion, eruptions, and disease. In general, excess
toxins are continually stored in the cells [and] tissues. . .as
long as the person is taking in that particular offending
unhealthy food, allergen, drug, etc. When that specific food or
substance is completely eliminated from the diet, only then
do the cells eliminate that particular toxin from the cells back
into the bloodstream and lymph on its way to the eliminative
organs and out of the body. Once back in the bloodstream and
lymph, the toxin does its dirty work of inflaming and irritating
the body until it is eliminated and out of the body. This
aggravation or worsening of symptoms is called a healing
crisis. The person detoxifying from a toxin may get worse
before they get better and they tend to crave the very food or
habit which made him toxic initially.
Fasting: the fastest and most effective
way to deal with blood and tissue toxicity
Fasting is the fastest and most
effective way to deal with this sort of blood and tissue toxicity,
and to rid the body of the toxic residues
and
putrefactive
wastes in the colon that continuously poison the bloodstream, clog
the cells, and sap vitality. Until these toxins are eliminated,
there’s
simply no way that the body can repair and rebalance itself. Although
there are milder
methods of detox than fasting, they all take much longer and work less
effectively, and none can match the deep healing power and life-prolonging
benefits of fasting.
In order to gain those benefits,
one must be willing to tolerate the unpleasant symptoms
of the so-called "healing
crisis" that fasting always
triggers after the third day. The healing crisis opens the gate to
the state of radiant health and longevity that only fasting can create,
and the discomfort
of detox is the price one pays to pass through that gateway. The choice
is yours: either you flush those poisons out of your system, or else
you live
with the consequences of retaining them for the rest of your life.
As
the author notes in The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity:
Unless
you live an ascetic life far from civilization and avoid
all
dietary folly, your blood and other tissues are bound to accumulate
toxins and gradually lose their functional vitality. If you don’t
purge
yourself of these toxins on a regular basis, toxemia gets worse
and worse, until the body cannot stand it any longer and either
purges itself spontaneously in the form of diarrhea, acne, pimples,
boils, "liver spots," foul perspiration, body odor,
bad breath, and
so forth, or else it simply gives up the battle and succumbs to
cancer, tuberculosis, and other fatal conditions.
Mega-Fasts, Mini-Fasts, and Semi-Fasts
There
are many different types of therapeutic fasting program
with varying degrees of intensity and duration. The most
intensive detox and swiftest
healing results are produced by completely foodless fasts in which nothing
but water and a few internal cleansing supplements such as psyllium and
bentonite are used. Semi-fasts using water and supplements,
plus one type of vegetable
or fruit juice to provide energy and nutrition are easier to tolerate,
and they too provide excellent cleansing and healing results.
The so-called "Grape
Cure," in which nothing but black grapes are eaten for period of one
week to a full month, also qualifies as a sort of "semi-fast," and
it’s paritcularly effective for purifying the bloodstream, detoxifying
the liver, and correcting serious gastro-intestinal disorders.
In order
to be effective for detoxifying the blood and tissues, a therapeutic
fast must continue for a minimum of three full days. That’s
how long it takes for the body’s internal cleansing
and healing mechanisms to shift into full gear. However,
three days is not long enough to totally purify
the bloodstream and detoxify the internal organs, nor is it long enough
to experience the so-called "healing crisis" which
normally occurs sometime between the third and fifth day
of a fast. The healing crisis marks
the point in a fast when tissue detox has reached its peak, and symptoms
of the body’s most serious conditions come out of hiding and begin
to manifest. For example, in someone with arthritis, the healing crisis
occurs when the
deepest deposits of toxic residues are dislodged and drawn out of the joints,
causing pain in the joints and connective tissues. For someone suffering
from heavy liver toxicity, the healing crisis comes as the most poisonous
substances
are dissolved and eliminated from the tissues of the liver, bringing out
all the unpleasant symptoms of liver toxemia, such as overwhelming fatigue
and
listlessness, anger and irritability, yellow eyes and skin, foul breath
and body odor, and throbbing pain in the liver itself. The good news is
that
this "crisis" marks
the mid-point from which the rest of the fast is all "downhill." It
means that worst of the detox stage of the fast has passed, and that the
healing stage is beginning. That’s why it’s called a "healing" crisis.
Unless you continue a fast long enough to "hit the wall" and
pass through the dark gate of the healing crisis to reach the sunny state
of radiant
health, you will not succeed in fully correcting the root causes of your
ills. Three days is certainly sufficient, however, to achieve a major cleansing
of
the bowels and bloodstream, and to rebalance the internal organs and partially
detoxify the tissues.
The ideal duration for a therapeutic
detox fast is 7-10 days. That’s
because it takes precisely seven days to completely purify the bloodstream
and cleanse the lymphatic system of all residual wastes. When the blood
and lymph have been totally purfied, it means the whole body and all
its parts
are free of toxicity, because pure blood and clean lymph automatically
cleanse the body and eliminate toxins from the tissues on a day-to-day
basis. If you
reform your eating habits and change your diet after a detox fast, your
blood and lymph will be able to keep your tissues clean far longer than
they would
if you continue polluting yourself with wrong eating habits and wrong
food choices. Eating properly also means you won’t
need to fast so often to rid yourself of putrevactive digestive
wastes and metabolic toxins.
Generally
speaking, one 7-10 day detox fast each year, while taking care to control
your diet in between, is usually sufficient to protect you from serious
diseases
such as cancer and arteriosclerosis, prevent the onset of common degenerative
conditions such as arthritis and senility, and pave the path to a long
and healthy life. Almost anyone is capable of completing a seven-day
fast, but
for those who have never tried it and worry about going that long without
food, a few 3-day mini-fasts may be tried first, as a sort of "warm-up." This
is a good way to gain confidence and gradually work up to a full seven-day
fast.
Breuss Cancer Cure Detox Fast - Rudolf
Breuss
The longest therapeutic detox fast
known to this writer is the remarkable "Breuss
Cancer Cure," developed by the Austrian naturopath Rudolf Breuss.
This involves a 42-day (6-week) fast during which only one cup of
Breuss Vegetable
Juice (fresh or bottled) is taken per day, sipped slowly by the teaspoonful,
in addition to Sage Tea and one or two other herbal teas, depending
upon the organs and tissues that need primary attention. While this
may sound
extreme,
bear in mind that cancer is an extremely serious condition that can
easily kill the patient, and that the conventional therapies applied
to cancer
today, such as chemotherapy and radiation, are far more "extreme" in
terms of the damage they do to the body than even the longest fast.
In fact, mainstream
cancer therapy often kills the patient faster than the cancer itself.
On the other hand, no one has yet died as a result of trying the
Breuss Cancer Cure,
and to date there have been over 40,000 documented cases of cures
for various forms of cancer, some of them already in the advanced
stage of
development,
achieved by this method. Strangely, most people with cancer would
rather submit to instant chemo or radiation therapy, despite their
terrible
side-effects
and dubious results, than endure a 42-day detox fast that has a proven
track record as a real cure. It’s hard to say whether their
reluctance to try the fasting cure is due to lack of confidence in
the method ,
or sheer "fear
of fasting."
The Breuss Cancer Cure is not only
for treating cancer. As noted earlier, cancer is the final
stage of tissue toxicity,
and chronic
tissue toxicity
is the root
cause of cancer. Therefore, the Breuss fasting program may be used
in shortened versions as a means of periodic cleansing general
tissue detox,
and this
serves as very effective preventive therapy against the development
of cancer. Unless
you already have cancer and wish to use this method as a cure,
it’s
not necessary to follow the Breuss fasting program for the full 42
days. One to
three weeks suffices to effectively detoxify the whole body.
Mini-fasts are those of less than three days. While these are not
effective for serious detox purposes, they are an excellent form
of maintainence
between longer therapeutic fasts. For example, some people fast
for one full day
every week, taking nothing but pure water or one variety of alkalizing
fruit or vegetable
juice. This gives the digestive system a weekly rest, and allows
the body a brief break from "active duty" to readjust and rebalance itself.
Another way is to fast for a period of two or three days each month, which
has similar benefits to a weekly one-day fast. While mini-fasts do not provide
the dramatic cleansing results of longer fasts, they are still quite effective
as a form of regular preventive medicine against a wide range of diseases and
degenerative conditions, especially if you do longer detox fasts from time
to time. As the Greek writer Plutarch suggested, "Instead of
medicine, fast for a day."
Fasting Supplements
Water is the primary
cleansing agent involved in therapeutic fasting, and
it’s
very important to drink at least two liters of purified alkaline water throughout
the duration of any fast, even if you’re using raw juices as well.
In addition to water, a variety of very effective fasting supplements may
also
be utilized to amplify and accelerate blood purification and tissue detox,
and to promote rapid healing during the course of a fast. These supplements
are the "tools of the trade" for the theapeutic faster:
Psyllium:
This is the single most important supplement for cleaning and clearing
the digestive tract, particularly the lower bowels. It’s
mucilaginous bulking properties also help curb hunger by
making the stomach and intestines
feel "full."
Bentonite: Colloidal bentonite acts
like a "magnetic
mop" to neutralize
and carry away toxins loosened from the bowel walls by the psyllium fiber.
Five hundred times smaller than water molecules, the negatively charged
micro-molecules of bentonite also enter the bloodstream and cellular
fluids, where they latch
onto positively charged toxins up to 200 times heavier and escort them
through the bloodstream to the kidneys for excretion.
Green Food: Green
food is by far the best nutritional supplement to use during a therapeutic
fast. One of the richest and purest sources of blood-cleansing
chlorophyll and life-sustaining nutrients, green foods are easy to
assimilate and do not require complex digestion. They also
provide sufficient metabolic
energy to help counteract the food cravings that often arise while
fasting.
Lemon Juice: During a fast, fresh
lemon juice may be used to assist the detox process with
its swift alkalizing
and cleansing properties.
As
the only anionic
(negative-ion charged) food source, it provides potent antioxidant
activity and energizes the detox process. Lemon juice has natural
affinity for
the liver and stimulates bile production, thereby helping to detoxify
and repair
the
liver. An ounce or two of fresh lemon juice may be added to the water
when shaking up a dose of psyllium powder, in order to improve the
rather dreary
taste of the psyllium and enhance its cleansing properties .
Lactobacteria:
These are the so-called "friendly flora" of
the bowels, and they constitute one of the most important
elements required
for proper digestion of food, assimilation of nutrients,
and processing of digestive
wastes. In healthy bowels, friendly bacteria should constitute
about 80 per cent of total bacteria population, with
putrefactive
bacteria accounting for
the remaining 20 per cent. In toxic bowels, such as those in over
95% of the people on the planet today, the ratio is reversed,
with putrefactive bacteria
occupying 80 per cent or more of the bowel terrain, and the "good
guys" hanging
on for dear life in ever dwindling numbers. A primary goal of any
therapetuic fast is to completely dredge the bowels of all bacterial
colonies, and to eliminate
the septic filth in which they breed, then replenish the entire
intestinal tract with fresh colonies of friendly lactobacteria.
Psyllium and
bentonite do the job of dredging out the old stuff very well, but
it’s up to you
to take measures to introduce new colonies of beneficial lactobateria
into the bowels after each fast, before the "bad guys" sneak
back in with ordinary food and take over again.
One way to replenish
the bowels with friendly bacteria is to take a good lactobacteria
supplement such as acidopholus, bifudus, and
other
similar
cultures used to
make yogurt. These come in powdered and capsule form, but you
must be careful to purchase a reliable brand that retains
its potency
on the
shelf. Most
brands on the market today contain virtually no living cultures.
Another option is
to eat fresh goat milk yogurt for about a week immediately after
a fast, but this is not as effective as a high potency powdered
supplement, because
milk
products produce mucus in the bowels, and it’s best not
to consume mucus-forming foods until after you’ve firmly
established a new colony of friendly flora in your colon.
There’s
also a third way , one that you can easily prepare at home in
your own kitchen. Popularly known as "Rejuvelac," fermented
cabbage juice is one of the purest and most abundant sources
of "rejuvenating
lactobacteria" for the human digestive tract, and it does
not require the use of any dairy products. After making the first
batch, which takes about
three days, each subsequent batch ferments quickly overnight
by adding a few ounces of the previous batch as a starter to
prepare the next one. You may
therefore keep the culture going day by day for as long as you
wish, simply by chopping some cabbage, adding water and some
starter from the last batch,
and setting it aside to ferment for a day. A recipe for making
your own Rejuvelac at home is listed in the "Recipes and
Formulas" section, #6.
Regardless whether you use dairy-based lactobacteria or cabbage
Rejuvelac, you should start taking it shortly before your first
food when breaking
a fast, and continue using it twice a day for at least ten
days in order to
insure
that a new colony of friendly bacteria establishes itself firmly
in your bowels. Thereafter, it’s a good idea to repeat this regimen several times each
year, even without fasting first, in order to assist the friendly bacterial
allies in your bowels to flourish and keep the putrefactive enemy under control.
Fasting: Taking the Plunge
While fasting for
seven days completely purifies the bloodstream, cleanses
the lymphatic system, and detoxifies the tissues, fasting by itself will
not remove the 5-15 pounds of tough, toxic, mucoid matter that becomes
deeply impacted in the bowels from years of wrong eating
habits and wrong food choices
that begin in childhood. The only way to rid your bowels of this rubbery
toxic sludge is to dredge it out with a series of colonic irrigations done
in conjunction with a therapeutic fast.
Dr Tilden cured thousands of people
with fasting and colonic irrigation
A hundred years ago, when pneumonia
was still the leading cause of death in America, Dr.
J. H. Tilden of Denver, Colorado, cured thousands of
people of
this deadly disease, without ever losing a single patient , simply by
treating them with fasting and colonic irrigation and nothing
else, then putting
them
on a strict diet of fresh raw foods consisting mostly of fruit and vegetables.
After decades of dependence on antibiotics, pneumonia has grown resistant
to drug therapy and has once again become a major killer throughout
the world.
As with most infectious diseases, the real cure for pneumonia is not
a new drug; it’s an ancient naturopathic method that
long pre-dates allopathic medicine, but has lain buried
and unnoticed for centuries in the archives
of medical literature. That method is fasting and colonic cleansing.
V.E. Irons
One man who went to the
library in search of a better cure back in 1935, and
thereby rediscovered
the curative powers
of fasting and colonic irrigation,
was V. E. Irons, an ordinary American businessman who, at the age
of 40, had
been diagnosed with a crippling arthritic spinal ailment called "ankylosing
spondylosis." His doctors told him that it was incurable and
that he would soon be confined to a wheelchair. Refusing to accept
their
verdict, Irons
began to study the medical literature recorded by such early luminaries
of naturopathic medicine in America as Dr. Tilden, Dr. Kellogg, and
others, then
decided to take matters into his own hands by treating his condition
with a series of therapeutic fasts and self-administered colonics.
Says he:
Within two months I had no more pain from displacement and
within 14 months practically no spurs. All done with cleansing,
fasting, and natural foods--no drugs!
His experience, and the complete
cure it effected, impressed him so deeply that he devoted the
rest of his long life to research
and development
of
this natural way to detoxify and heal the human body. In the
process, he created
a line of products that enables anyone to practice this powerful
self-healing therapy safely and effectively at home. During the
1950s, V. E. Irons
was briefly imprisoned in a federal penitentery in America for
publicly stating
his revolutionary
views on human health and healing and refusing to recant them
under legal pressure from the American medical establishment.
Fifty years
later, in
an ironic turn
of events that must have amused Irons, President Reagan heaped
public praise on V. E. Irons for his excellent work in health
and healing,
and presented
with a national award for his contributions to the science of
longevity. Irons remained healthy and active throughout
the 98 years of his
life, starting a
second family at the age of 72 and fathering his last child at
the age of 80.
During the course of his life, V.
E. Irons perfected a system of self-detoxification based
on fasting and colonic
cleansing
that
this writer regards as
one of the most important contributions to modern medicine
and world health
in the
20th
century. In addition to his own line of internal
cleansing supplements (as used in the CleanseComplete
program) Irons
played a key role in the invention and development of the "Colema
Board" - the bowel’s "best friend" and
an indispensable tool for doing colonics yourself at home.
Operated entirely by
gravity, the Colema Board allows virtually anyone to safely
administer their own colonic irrigations in the privacy of
their own bathrooms.
As Irons notes
in an interview, it’s so easy that even a child can do
it:
My seven-year old son Robert frequently
takes home colonics--
all by himself. I’m 87 and I take them all the time. So, if you’re
anywhere between the ages of 7 and 87, you should have
no
problems. . . It is completely safe.
Colonic Cry Babies!
And yet, while
people today don’t hesitate to discuss the most intimate
details of their--and others’--personal sex lives,
the moment the world "colon" or "bowel" crops
up in conversation, everyone winces uncomfortably and looks
away, quickly changing the subject. Suggest that their
bowels are bursting at the seams with mounds
of foul putrefactive filth and that it might be a good
idea for them to flush it all out with a series of colonics,
and
most people leap to their feet and
start looking for the nearest exit. Here’s what Irons
has to say about such "colonic cry-babies" in
an interview he gave in 1982:
"If people can’t take
a simple home colonic to clean out their
clogged, constipated, putrid colons, then tell them to
start
looking for an old rocking chair and cane. . . If these
people
are afraid of all the "horrors" that may happen
to them when
they stick a tiny plastic tube one "micro-inch" up
their fanny,
there is just not much hope for them. . .Many people
will easily
talk about the most intimate sexual experiences--but
by golly,
they will revolt at the first thought of discussing the
colon.
Some people claim that fasting and raw juice therapy
alone can remove the hardened mucoid plaque from the
colon wall,
but they
are mistaken.
Irons’ replies
to this claim by saying, "Forget it! It won’t
work. . .You must use the Colema Board together with
the intestinal cleansers, if you really
want to cleanse your colon properly. If you don’t,
the thick mucus coating on the intestinal wall will never
come off. It will
stay there
till you die."
It’s imporant to remember that
this tough toxic layer of putrified mucus and partially
digested protein was put there by you, not by mother
nature,
as a result of your own unnatural eating habits and food
choices. Your body’s
natural cleansing mechanisms are not designed to deal
with this unnatural mess; it requires special methods
to eliminate it. Those methods
are fasting and
colonic cleansing, and anyone with the pluck to take
the plunge always gets spectacular results and never
regrets the decision to do it.
Listen to V. E.
Irons describe what happens when you include colonic
irrigations in a therapeutic fast, based on some of the
cases he personally handled:
You’ll get fabulous results. Some of the worst smelling
material known to man comes out when people do the
program right. . . One woman passed more than a quart
of black, vomitus, putrid material for three days in
a row.
One man passed a whole lot of material that looked
like
afterbirth. One man I know recently passed fourteen
pounds
of rotting material--all in one treatment. . . Just
about
everyone should get a lot of black, hardened mucus
on
about the fourth or fifth day, if he takes two five-gallon
colonics a day. . . Most of this mucus is as black
as charcoal
and so tough you can’t even cut it with a knife. In many cases,
it’s as tough as the rubber tubing of a bicycle tire. . .The
longest
we have had is 27 feet, in one piece. Sometimes it
will come
out as a pile weighing as much as 11 pounds and continuing
to come out for several days to a week.
Despite
the clear and present evidence, most people these days,
when told by a naturopath that their worst
chronic
ailments
are caused
by the seepage
of
poisons into the bloodstream from clogged, toxic
bowels, and that they need a series of colonic irrigations
to clear their
bowels
and cure
themselves, react with disbelief and reply defensively, "Who,
me?" The answer
to that question is a resounding, "Yes, you!" Thirty
years ago, in a rare moment of candor, public health
authorities in the USA acknowledged
that "over 90 percent" of all Americans are
running around with seriously clogged colons, such
as those depicted in Fig. 11. Even longer ago,
at the turn of the 20th century, the famous naturopath
and highly respected surgeon Dr. Harvey Kellogg said, "Of
the 22,000 operations I have personally performed,
I have never found a single normal colon." If
that’s
the way it was a hundred years ago, it boggles the
mind to imagine what a century of junk food, synthetic
additives, chemically contaminated beef and dairy products,
frozen pizzas, and now genetically modified "Frankinfood," have
done to the contemporary Western colon. As Irons’ puts
it, "Regardless
of your financial standing, regardless of your past
health history, regardless of your age or sex, YOU
do have this hardened mucus in
your colon, and
you will be amazed by what comes out of you."
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