Critique
of All Other Healing Systems
and Unbiased, Unprejudiced Reviews
[Available in book]
In this very important lesson it is necessary for me
to convince you, once and for all, of the following facts:
- First -- that in food (in diet) lies 99.99% of the causes of all
diseases and imperfect health of any kind.
- Second -- That consequently, all healing, all therapeutics will
continue to fail as long as they refuse to place the most important
stress on diet.
- Third -- That what I call "mucusless diet" and "mucus forming foods"
divides characteristically all human foods into harmless, natural,
healing and real nourishing foods, and into harmful, disease-producing
ones.
- Fourth -- That all other dietetics are mainly wrong because they
lay their stress on food values entirely, whether "wrong" or not,
instead of the healing, cleaning, eliminating values and their efficiency
before the healing process is started, going on, or accomplished at
all. (See Lesson 5.) . . .
It is not sufficient, as the layman imagines, to know
which foods are mucusless and which are mucus-forming, but:
- HOW FAR AND HOW FAST THE CHANGE CAN SUCCESSFULLY BE MADE.
- HOW THE COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT FOODS HAS TO BE ARRANGED.
- HOW LONG AND HOW OFTEN FASTING MUST BE INTRODUCED AND COMBINED
DURING THE HEALING DIET IF FOUND NECESSARY.
This is and represents the "SYSTEM" of the Mucusless
Diet and Fasting as well as what the Practitioner has study
and must learn, and what
the layman does not know and consequently why he must inevitably fail
when trying to cure himself with "good foods."
After the foregoing explanation you will at once see
in the following critique of the best known dietetics, why they are
imperfect, and why the confusion is so great. In later lessons you will
also learn of every kind of food, why it is good, and why bad. In case
you are still unaware of the foods which are mucusless, and which mucus-forming,
they are as follows:
- All fruits, raw or cooked; also nuts and green-leaf
vegetables are mucus-free.
- All other foods of civilization, without exception,
are mucus and acid-forming, and therefore are harmful.
They claim all cooking destroys food values, but it should
properly be said: "Wrong cooking destroys healing value
qualities (efficiency) of foods, and can even cause them to become acid-forming."
The "raw food" experts, hint on the same wrong stress, as all
others, i.e., higher food value. . . .
Now you may understand why the "Mucusless Diet" is a
system in which every change in diet has certain duties to perform --
as a diet of healing to be applied systematically
according to the condition of the sick.
You will now understand why and in what manner I differ
from all others. The "Mucusless Diet Healing System" is not a collection
of different menus for every disease; it is not "made-up" combinations
of valuable and nourishing foods -- it is not like a medical prescription
or a compilation of standard diets suitable for all diseases, but
it is a system of dietetical changes and dietetical improvements
-- a system of dietetical elimination of disease matter, waste,
mucus and poisons; a system of slowly changing
and improving the diet as
a diet of healing towards
-- and up to -- the ideal and natural food of man
- FRUITS ONLY
-- or fruits and green-leaf vegetables -- THE MUCUSLESS
DIET.
It is therefore a personally supervised and in every
case different, modified, scientific, systematical, progressive method
of "eating your way to health," combined if found necessary, with short
or longer fasts.
It is a healing process through which every sick person
must go if he wants to be perfectly healed; it is an exclusive dietetical
"curing and healing, rebuilding and regenerating process" based on the
use of harmless and natural food for mankind "coined" and set biologically
by the Creator in "Genesis" -- "FRUITS AND HERBS," or "MUCUSLESS DIET."
Nature will do her part if we but give her half a chance.
Try it out for yourself and watch for results.
Transition Diet
My experience of over twenty years, covering for the
most part the extremely severe cases of all kinds of diseases, has proven
that a carefully selected and progressively changed TRANSITION DIET
is the best and surest way for every patient to start a cure, especially
for the average mixed eater. As long as wrong foods (foods of civilization)
are partly used, I call it a Mucus-LEAN DIET. Transition means the slow
change from disease-producing foods to disease-healing foods, which
latter I call the MUCUSLESS DIET.
The worst and by far the most unhealthy habit is the
HEAVY BREAKFAST. No solid food should be eaten in the early morning
at all if you desire to secure the best results. It is permissible to
take the drink that you are accustomed to, but nothing else. If you
find this difficult to do in the beginning you may drink again later
on so that your lunch is taken in the empty stomach. This is so very
important that a number of light diseases can be cured by the
so called "NO BREAKFAST PLAN" alone. (This subject is more fully covered
in Fasting Lessons 17, 18, 19, 20.)
It is best that no more than two meals a day be eaten,
even though the quantity you eat is as much as if three or even four
meals were eaten. Later, when the stomach
is cleaner, a small dish of fresh fruits when in season may be eaten
for breakfast if desired. If possible, the first meal, lunch, should
be eaten between ten and eleven in the morning, and supper not sooner
than five or six in the afternoon. Another
very important rule, when eating for health, is SIMPLICITY; in other
words do not mix too many kinds of food at one meal. Count the different
number of items in the average meal of today and the total will startle
you.
NEVER DRINK DURING A MEAL. If accustomed to tea
or coffee, wait a short while after you have eaten before drinking.
Soups should be avoided with meals, as the more liquid taken the more
difficult for proper digestion. If a warm drink is desired, for instance,
as a breakfast drink during the winter time, make a broth by cooking
for a long time different kinds of vegetables, such as spinach, onions,
carrots, cabbages, etc., and DRINK THE JUICE ONLY.
Menus for the First Two Weeks -- [available
in book]
Special Transition Recipes -- [available in book]
Vegetarian Recipes -- [available
in book]
ALWAYS EAT FRUIT FIRST.
DO NOT DRINK LIQUIDS OF ANY KIND WITH MEAL.
MAN'S FOOD IS FRUITS AND HERBS -- (Genesis 2.) --
MIX BUT FEW VARIETIES.
NEVER EAT NUTS WITH JUICY FRUITS.
NATURE'S OPEN BOOK IS SIMPLICITY.
DO NOT OVEREAT.
Sample Menus -- [available in book]
Salad Recipes -- [available in book]
Cooked Vegetable Recipes -- [available
in book]
Fasting (Part 1)
It is significant for our time of degeneration
that fasting, by which I mean living without solid and
liquid food, is still a problem as a healing factor for
the average man, as well as for the orthodox medical doctor.
. . .
On the other hand, fasting is so feared
and misrepresented that the average man actually considers
you a fool if you miss a few meals when sick, thinking
you will starve to death, when in reality you are being
cured. . . .
Have you ever thought what the lack of
appetite means when sick? And that animals have no doctors,
and no drug stores, and no sanitariums, and no machinery
to heal them?
When you fast you eliminate first and at
once the primary obstructions of wrong and too much eating.
. . . So it is a well known fact that a faster can feel
better and is actually stronger on the twentieth day than
the fifth or sixth day, certainly a tremendous
proof that vitality does not depend primarily on food,
but rather on an unobstructed circulation. (See Lesson
5.) The smaller the amount of "O" (obstruction) the greater
"P" (air pressure) and therefore "V" (vitality).
Thru the above enlightening explanation
you see that fasting is:
- first, a negative proposition to relieve the
body from direct obstructions of solid, most unnatural
foods;
- second, that it is a mechanical process of
elimination by contracting tissues pressing out mucus,
causing friction and obstruction in the circulation.
The following are examples of vitality
from "P," Power, air pressure alone:
One of my first fasters, a relatively healthy
vegetarian, walked 45 miles in the mountains on his 24th
fast day. A friend fifteen years younger and myself walked
56 HOURS CONTINUALLY after a ten-day fast.
As long as the waste is in the circulation
you feel miserable during a fast; as soon as it is thru
the kidneys you feel fine. Two or three days later and
the same process repeats itself. It must now be clear
to you why conditions change so often during a fast; it
must now be clear to you why it is possible for you to
feel unusually better and stronger on the twentieth fast
day than on the fifth, for instance.
. . . consequently a long fast, especially
a too long fast, may become in fact a crime . . . Fasters
who died from too long a fast did not die from lack of
food, but actually suffocated in and with their own waste.
I gave all of my fasters lemonade with
a trace of honey or brown sugar for loosening and thinning
the mucus in the circulation. Lemon juice and fruit acids
of all kinds neutralize the stickiness of mucus and pus
(acid paste cannot be used for sticking purposes).
If a patient has ever taken drugs over
his entire life period -- which become stored up in the
body like the waste from food, his condition might easily
prove serious or even dangerous when these poisons enter
the circulation, . . .
How Long Should One Fast?
[Available in book]
Here is the point where human intelligence
can correctly assist in the self-healing process by the
following adjustments which embrace the Mucusless Diet
Healing System:
- First. Prepare for an easier fast by a gradually
changing diet towards a mucusless diet, and by laxatives
and enemas.
- Second. Change shorter fasts periodically with
some eating days of cleansing, mucus-poor and mucusless
diet.
- Third. Be particularly careful if the patient
used much drugs; especially if a mercury or saltpeter,
oxide of silver (taken for venereal diseases) have been
used, in which a long, slowly changing, preparative
diet is advisable. An "expert's" suggestion to fast
until the tongue is clean has caused many troubles with
"fanatical" fasters, and I personally know of one death.
You may be surprised when I tell you that I had to cure
patients from the ill effects of too long a fast. The
reason will be clear later.
In spite of the above, every cure, and
especially every cure of diet should start with a two
or three-day fast. Every patient can do this without any
harm, regardless of how seriously sick he may be. First
a light laxative and then an enema daily, makes
it easier as well as harmless.
How to Break a Fast
The right food after a fast is as important
and decisive for proper results as the fast itself.
Important Rules to be Carefully Studied
and Memorized
What can be said in general, and what I
teach is new and different from the average fasting experts,
and is as follows:
- The first meal and the menus for a few days after
a fast must be of a laxative effect, and not of nourishing
value as mostly all others think.
- The sooner the first meal passes thru the body the
more efficiently it carries out the loosened mucus and
poisons of the intestines and the stomach.
- If no good stool is experienced after two or three
hours, help with laxatives and enemas. Whenever I fasted
I always experienced a good bowel movement at least
one hour after eating, and at once felt fine. After
breaking a long fast I spent more time on the toilet
than in bed the following night -- and that was as it
should be.
While sojourning in Italy many years ago,
I drank about three quarts of fresh grape juice after
a fast. At once I experienced a watery diarrhea set
in foaming mucus. Almost immediately after I experienced
a feeling of such unusual strength that I easily performed
the knee-bending and arm-strengthening exercise 352
times. This removal so thoroughly of obstructions,
taking place after a fast of a few days, increased
"P"-vitality at once! You will have to experience
a similar sensation to believe me, and then will agree
with my formula, "V" = "P" - "O," and will realize
the absurdity of making up scientific nourishing menus
for health and efficiency.
- The longer the fast the more efficiently the bowels
perform after it is over.
- The best laxative foods after a fast are fresh sweet
fruits; best of all are cherries and grapes then a little
baked or stewed prunes. These fruits must not be used
for a meat-eater's first fast, but only for people who
have lived for a certain time on mucusless or at least
mucus-poor foods -- the "transition diet."
- In the average case it is advisable to break the fast
with raw and cooked starchless vegetables; stewed spinach
has a specially good effect.
- If the first meal foods do not cause any unpleasantness,
you may eat as much as you can. Eating only a small
quantity of food for the first 2 or 3 days without experiencing
a bowel movement -- owing to the small amount of food
taken (another wrong advice given by "experts") -- is
dangerous.
- If you are in the proper condition so that you can
start eating with fruits, and you have no bowel movement
after about an hour, then eat more or eat a vegetable
meal as suggested above, eat until you bring out the
waste accumulated during the fast with your stool, after
eating the first meal.
Rules During the Fast
- Clean the lower intestines as well as you can with
enemas, at least every other day.
- Before starting a longer fast, take a laxative occasionally,
and by all means the day before you start the fast.
- If possible, remain in the fresh air, day and
night.
- Take a walk, exercise, or some other physical work
only when you feel strong enough to do it; if tired
and weak, rest and sleep as much as you can.
- On days that you feel weak, and you will experience
such days when the waste is in the circulation, you
will find that your sleep is restless and disturbed,
and you may experience bad dreams. This is caused thru
the poison passing thru the brain. Doubt, loss of faith,
will arise in your mind; then take this lesson and read
it over and over, as well as the other fasting chapters
and especially Lesson 5. Don't forget that you are,
parenthetically speaking, lying on Nature's operating
table; the most wonderful of all operations that could
be performed; and without the use of a knife!
If any extraordinary sensation occurs due to
the drugs that are now in the circulation, take an enema
at once, lie down, and if necessary break the fast,
but not with fruits.
- Whenever you arise after lying down,
do it slowly otherwise you may become dizzy.
The latter condition is not serious, but you had better
avoid it in this manner. It caused me considerable fear
in the beginning, and I know a number of fasters and
strict eaters who gave up when they experienced this
sensation -- lost their faith forever.
Fasting Drinks
. . . I consider a light lemonade with
a little honey or brown sugar or a fruit juice the best.
Drink as often as you care during the day, but in general
not more than 2 or 3 quarts a day.
As a change, vegetable juices made from
cooked starchless vegetables is very good during a longer
fast. Raw tomato juice, etc., is also good.
Morning Fast or Non-Breakfast Plan
The worst of all eating habits nowadays
is to stuff the stomach with food early in the morning.
In European countries, excepting England, no one takes
a regular meal for breakfast; it is generally a drink
of some kind with bread only.
The only time that man does not eat for
10 to 12 hours is during the night while he is asleep.
As soon as his stomach is free from food, the body starts
the eliminating process of a fast; therefore encumbered
people awaken in the morning feeling miserable and usually
have a heavily coated tongue. They have no appetite at
all, yet they demand food, eat it, and feel better --
WHY?
Another "Mystery" Revealed
This is one of the greatest problems I
solved, and is one that puzzles all "experts" who believe
it is the food itself. As soon as you refill the stomach
with food, THE ELIMINATION IS STOPPED and you feel better!
I must say that this secret which I discovered is undoubtedly
the explanation of why
eating became a habit and
is no longer what Nature intended it should be, namely
a satisfaction, a compensation of Nature's need of food.
This habit of eating, affecting all civilized
mankind and now physiologically explained involves and
proves the saying I coined long ago: "Life is a tragedy
of nutrition." The more waste that man accumulates, the
more he must eat to stop the elimination. I had patients
who had to eat several times during the night to be able
to sleep again. In other words, they had to put food in
the stomach to avoid the digestion of mucus and poisons
accumulated there!
The 24-Hour Fast, or One Meal a Day
Plan
As with the breakfast-fast, you can heal
more severe cases with the 24-hour fast, or in cases of
deep chronic encumbrance and drugs it is a careful, preliminary
step to the necessary longer fasts. The best time to eat
is in the afternoon, say, 3 or 4 o'clock P.M.
If the patient is on the mucusless or transition
diet, let him eat the fruits first (fruits should always
be eaten first), and after an elapse of 15 or 20 minutes
eat the vegetables; but all should be eaten within an
hour so that it is, so to say, one meal.
Fasting When Used in Connection With
the Mucusless Diet Healing System
If fasting is to be used at all, then start
at first with the non-breakfast plan; then follow with
the 24-hour fast a while; then gradually increase up to
3, 4 or 5-day fasts, eating between fasts for 1, 2, 3
or 4 days a mucusless diet, combined individually as an
elimination adjustment, and at the same time supplying
and rebuilding the body continually with and by the best
elements contained in and found only in mucusless foods.
Please try and memorize the lesson on Metabolism
(Lesson 9 -- [available in book]) because it is the most
important truth of my new physiology; also Lesson 5, and
you will clearly understand fasting with all its possible
sensations.
If your blood "stock" is formed from eating
the foods I teach, your brain will function in a manner
that will surprise you. Your former life will take on
the appearance of a dream, and for the first time in your
existence your consciousness awakens to a real-self-consciousness.
Your mind, your thinking, your ideals,
your aspirations and your philosophy changes fundamentally
in such a way as to beggar description.
Your soul will shout for joy and triumph
over all misery of life, leaving it all behind you. For
the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through
your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes
you delightfully.
You will learn and realize that fasting
and superior fasting (and not volumes of psychology and
philosophy) is the real and only key to a superior life;
to the revelation of a superior world, and to the spiritual
world.
Arnold
Ehret Mucusless- Diet Trilogy Part III
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