Dry, scaly skin that is flaking off can be effectively treated by the external application of St John’s wort oil, in alternation with Symphytum Cream or Symphosan, which contain comfrey and other herbs. At the same time, take Violaforce, a tincture made from heartsease (wild pansy). If the condition is caused by dry psoriasis, you will also have to dab the affected area with Molkosan every day. Callouses, causing skin that is as hard as a lizard’s, are the result of a disease of the endocrine glands, often connected with avitaminosis (a disease caused by vitamin deficiency), and will require special treatment of the underlying cause.
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If the media are right, hundreds of thousands of people in the United States and Europe alone have already fallen victim to AIDS. What can be done to prevent it? A widely read American newspaper gave the advice (with which I agree) to lead a morally clean life, rejecting all sexual excesses and other perversions of the body, mind and emotions. This disease has spread mainly, but not exclusively, among those who practise these things, having taken on epidemic proportions. Infection is said to be possible via the mucous membranes, primarily the sex organs. I do not like to write about things like these, I would rather talk about positive aspects of therapies and treatments that are intended to take care of our health and fitness. Still, I may be able to transmit a glimmer of hope, comfort and advice to the fearful.
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Poisons in the form of pesticides and herbicides are often used indiscriminately. These can stick to vegetables, for instance, and are taken into the body through carelessness or lack of forethought. The result can be extremely damaging since lead, arsenic and copper are much more toxic than is generally realised.
The biological balance in plants can be disturbed because of errors when using fertilisers. If such produce is eaten for any length of time, it can also upset the biological balance in the human body.
Tenseness and indurations disturb and slow down the metabolic processes and foster the development of cancer. It is therefore strongly recommended that regular exercise be taken for relaxation as a prophylactic therapy. Indurations, lumps and growths such as scars and warts should be carefully watched. Never scratch or irritate them.
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It is true that excessive amounts of the fat soluble vitamins A and D can cause toxicity in the body but very large amounts must be ingested before any damage is done. Vitamin A toxicity could result from a daily intake of 150 000 iu every day for one or more months, but Formula Six contains only beta Carotene which the body converts to vitamin A. Nature also employs a simple method of warning that toxic levels of vitamin A arc approaching with symptoms of morning sickness and loss of appetite. When the morning sickness symptoms have abated and the appetite and taste for foods containing vitamin A have returned the levels of vitamin A in the body have dropped right down and the toxic slate no longer exists. It would be impossible to eat enough food to provide 150 000 in unless you were eating whale or seal liver each day or you were making a concerted effort to gulp down fifteen 10 000 iu tablets of vitamin A. Both vehicles of vitamin A overdose would prove to be very expensive and chances are you would never persist with the exercise.
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Drugs can also be responsible for metabolic imbalances by creating vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Fluid tablets cause potassium to be lost from the body in urine. Antacids prevent the absorption of vitamins A and B complex. Antibiotics cause vitamin K, iron, calcium and magnesium deficiencies. The contraceptive pill gobbles up vitamins B12, B6, C, folic acid and the mineral zinc. As we already know the effects of deficiencies in these nutrients are detrimental to our bodies. Without adequate vitamin and mineral supplementation the pill can contribute significantly to metabolic weight gain, via fluid retention.
The bad news is that white bread, white flour, sugar, or any foods which contain these items, create metabolic imbalances and weight gain. The good news is that they need not do so. If you select 95 per cent of your foods from the Metabolism-Balancing Program and only 5 per cent from refined forms, while remaining on a complete vitamin and mineral formula, the effects of the junk food will be negligible. All foreign chemicals, be they drugs or food flavourings, preservatives, colourings or chemical pollutants of air and water, will try to interfere with the normally occurring chemical reactions in cells. Whenever they succeed in getting involved in these chemical reactions they alter their outcome and so disrupt the metabolism.
The Metabolism-Balancing Program has a minimum of foreign chemicals in it. The supplementary vitamins and minerals that form an integral part of the program help prevent foreign chemical intervention by latching onto (chelating) and neutralising these chemicals before they get involved.
These days we need enough vitamins and minerals left after the cells, needs have been fulfilled to protect us against foreign chemical invasion. For example, extra zinc neutralises the cadmium released from motor vehicle tyres driven along the road; vitamin C neutralises the pesticide DDT and calcium neutralises the lead from car exhaust fumes.
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Q. I don’t want to go on a diet, I’m thin enough.
A. Not all diets are weight-loss diets. The programs in this book are health-promoting programs. By optimising your health they automatically optimise your body weight and shape. If you are overweight, they bring your body weight down to normal, if you are under-weight, they will build your body weight up. If you are already at optimum weight, they leave you there, that is, providing you follow them properly.
Q. I’ve been dieting for some time. The Metabolism-Balancing Program includes more food than I’ve been having. I’ll freak if I put on weight.
A. If you need less food than is on these programs to hold yourself at your optimum weight, you are malnourished. Malnutrition produces metabolic imbalances which, in turn, cause fluid retention which manifests as weight increase. Fluid retention worsens over time if the metabolism isn’t balanced. While the metabolism is balancing itself, your weight will fluctuate up and down a bit. This is normal so don’t be concerned. When the metabolism has fully balanced, your weight will normalise, this should take only three to six weeks. Don’t get on the scales during this time.
We are what we think. If you focus on over-weight and get emotional (depressed) about it, over-weight is what you will get. If you put the scales away and focus on getting healthy and get emotional (excited) about it, optimum health is what you will get. Optimum body weight and shape is a spin-off of optimum health. To help ease your worries about putting on weight with these programs, don’t eat any nuts, limit your bread intake to two slices per day (eaten in the middle of the day) and don’t eat deep fried foods. Include nuts when your weight has normalised. If your weight doesn’t normalise on the Metabolism-Balancing Program you are retaining fluid because of Candida and/or allergies. The weight will normalise when they’re treated.
Q. I haven’t lost the weight I expected to on the Anti-Candida Program. Why haven’t I lost weight?
A. Reduce the size of your meals by 40 per cent. Over-size meals is the main reason body weight doesn’t normalise on these programs. Cut out nuts and deep fried foods until your weight normalises.
Q. If Formula Six is a concentrated food will I put on weight if I take them regularly? Do they contain many calories?
A. The calorie content of Formula Six is minuscule. It helps you lose weight by helping to raise your metabolic rate. It will never put weight on.
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As with the Metabolism-Balancing Program you can mix and match your breakfast options on this program. Amend these options to keep high and moderate amine and salicylate foods out for the first four weeks.
OPTION 1
Untoasted whole meal bread (one to three slices) made from wheat, rice, soy, millet, buckwheat or arrowroot Hour, depending on what allergies, if any, you have. Have a thin spread of butter (if you are not allergic to milk and have normal cholesterol levels) on your bread, though it is preferable to use cold pressed oil (olive oil is best unless you have a known salicylate sensitivity). Brush the oil on the bread.
Egg may be had on the bread if you are not allergic: to it and your cholesterol levels are normal. Tahini, almond, cashew or hazelnut paste of butter may be used, but no peanut butter. Peanuts grow in the soil and have mould growing on them. Canned tuna, sardine or salmon (done in brine [salt and water] only—not oil) may also be eaten. Tomato and onion may be added for flavour. Candida Killer sandwich filling may be used on the bread if desired. Consult the amine and salicylate lists at the back of the book. I have only cashew butter and soya oil for the first four weeks. After the first four weeks you may toast the bread.
OPTION 2
Any of the toppings from Option 1 on two to four brown rice cake/ wafers (the big round ones from the health store) instead of the unleavened bread or unleavened bread toast. Candida Killer sandwich filling may be used on top if desired, but only after the first four weeks, when high amines and salicylates are allowed on the program.
OPTION 3
A bowl (as big as you like) of puffed brown rice (rice bubbles) from the health store with either freshly juiced carrot juice or soya milk over the top. This tastes great with nuts and seeds added. Be careful with soymilk though. The palatable ones tend to be thickened and sweetened with malt, maltose, maltodextrose and other sugar derivatives. Check with the manufacturer, and if it contains any ingredient that ends in -os, -ose, -one, ona or -ol it’s sugared—don’t have it. Wheat bran may be added. No carrot juice and only cashew nuts for the first four weeks.
OPTION 4
A bowl of cooked millet, buckwheat or brown rice with butter melted over it (if you are not allergic to milk), though preferably cold pressed vegetable oil. Olive oil is best. Wheat bran may be added. Use soya oil until the inclusion of amines and salicylates is permitted.
OPTION 5
Raw nuts, such as almonds, cashews, brazil nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, sunflower or sesame seeds (no peanuts—they have mould on them). Have as much as you feel you need without overdoing it. Don’t have less than 60 g (2 oz). Cashews only for the first four weeks.
OPTION 6
A fresh fruit salad (no dried fruit and not from a fast food outlet), using any variety of fresh fruit except grapes, bananas and melons (all melons). You may have any of the nuts and seeds mentioned in Option 5 over the top—60 g (2 oz). Puffed brown rice bubbles may also be put over the top. A dressing of cold pressed oil and lemon juice may be used. Apricot kernel oil goes well with fruit salad, as do sunflower, sesame and safflower oils. Wheat bran may be added. Don’t have fruit for lunch if you had it for breakfast. You may only have pears (peeled), golden delicious apples (peeled), pomegranate and cashews for the first four weeks.
OPTION 7
Stewed fresh fruit. Nuts, seeds and brown puffed rice may be added. No dried fruit. Wheat bran may be added. Remember: Some time during this twelve week program you have to be off all fruit for four weeks and all milk for six weeks. It’s preferable to go off them simultaneously, though not imperative. You may go off each one at separate times.
OPTION 8
Savoury mince (non-amine/salicylate version for first four weeks) on toast or bread or as a filling in a homemade pie or pancake or over noodles, brown rice or kasha. No toast for first four weeks.
OPTION 9
Three or four whole fresh fruits and 60-90 g (2 -3 oz) of nuts and seeds, any variety according to any allergies that may exist. No melons, grapes or bananas. You can’t have this option during your four weeks off fruit.
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This is the name given to the major metabolic imbalances caused by excess cortisone. The symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome are:
1. The removal of fat from the arms and legs, which is deposited on the upper back and shoulders (buffalo hump), the torso and the abdomen.
2. The face develops a moon shape, due to the deposition of fat and the retention of fluid.
3. The skin becomes very thin due to the dissolution of the collagen and elastin. It bruises easily and tears, giving rise to stretch marks. Sores appear in the advanced stages.
4. The muscles become thin and weak, due to dissolved collagen.
5. The bones become thin and weak, due to a lack of calcium (osteoporosis).
6. Stomach ulcers develop.
7. Resistance to infections, allergies and cancer is significantly reduced.
8. The ageing process is significantly accelerated.
The sad thing about cortisone drugs is that they only treat the symptoms of allergy, not the cause. By the time you have developed the full-blown symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome you still have your original allergies, only by this time they are usually worse. You are in a double lose situation as you have added a disease that is far more debilitating than your allergies.
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Depending on the nature and extent of your cancer and treatment, living with cancer can have a dramatic effect on your family life. You may be less active and therefore less able to participate in your usual family routines, and your wife or partner may feel the strain of trying to cope both emotionally and practically. It will take time for children to adjust too and to understand that you can’t always join in with their activities.
The extent of the effect on your family will obviously depend on how well or unwell you are. For example, if you need someone to be with you more or less constantly (not necessarily because you need constant ‘nursing’ care, but rather in case you need extra help at times during the day or night), then you need to work out ways of managing that. Your family might be able to manage this with occasional help from friends and relatives, but if you feel you need more support, your hospital or GP can put you in touch with organizations such as Marie Curie Cancer Care or Macmillan nurses, which can organize extra care at home. There is no charge to a patient or their family for this specialist nursing care (although many people feel motivated to support their work by means of a charitable donation).
The best ways of coping tend to evolve over time. You all need to be flexible, and to accept that while you want to preserve as much normality as possible, there will be times when plans go awry. Perhaps a planned day out can’t go ahead because you feel too unwell, causing disappointment to your children. You may feel frustrated and even guilty that your cancer is such a dominant factor in your lives. It is hard, and the desire to avoid disappointing others is strong, but looking after yourself has to remain your top priority.
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It is common to feel anger and rage that cancer has been inflicted on you. You want to shout ‘Why me? What have I done to deserve this?’ while knowing that there is no ‘good’ answer. You can read technical explanations about how cancers develop, or the factors which make us more susceptible but this is not really the point. All you want is for someone to tell you it’s been a ghastly mistake, and that in fact you have a perfectly straightforward and treatable condition.
We were almost too numb to be angry at first, and oddly, what anger we did feel was directed at the small but (to us) significant inadequacies of the health system. There is also the suspicion that if you once let go of your emotions, you’ll never be able to stop and can wave goodbye to any last semblance of control and rational thought. We were trying desperately hard to be calm and sensible although we were at times incredibly frustrated at the apparent lack of action or progress and at our own powerlessness. There was also the sense that everything we’d worked so hard for years to build up was crumbling around us and that our whole future together was disappearing before our eyes.
We generally consider anger to be a negative emotion, but it can have a positive side in helping you to focus your thoughts and energy. You can channel your anger in a constructive way so that
rather than saying, ‘It’s not fair’, you gradually come to think, ‘OK, so I’ve got cancer. I can’t change that but I can fight to cope with it the best way I can.’ When talking about serious illness, and especially cancer, we often use language which we associate with a battle – ‘I’m not going to let this disease beat me’, ‘I’m going to fight this with all my strength’. Cancer becomes the ‘enemy’, to be treated as something which has to be fought with every possible resource. You can draw on your anger to fuel your determination and a more positive frame of mind which will help you to face your cancer and treatment with greater strength.
Inevitably, frustrations can simmer inside you and there will be times when these boil over and your anger is directed at the people you love most. This is rarely because you feel angry with them personally, but because it is natural to express your emotions to those closest to you. If your anger stems from the sudden loss of control over your destiny, from a sense of loss of strength and ‘status’ or a sudden feeling of inadequacy, it can be hard to put these feelings into a coherent explanation – and you may not feel like doing so. However supportive those close to you are, they need some understanding of your anger in order not to feel hurt and shut out. Of course, you won’t feel like entering into lengthy explanations every time you snap at someone, but if communication is good, people will have a basic understanding of why you feel so frustrated and find it easier to offer you the right type of support when you need it.
It can come as a surprise to experience anger at what is intended as kindness by others. For example, acquaintances who have a friend or relation who has been treated for cancer may say to you, ‘I know how you feel. My friend’s friend had cancer, and it was awful.’ It may seem to you that they claim to know exactly what you are going through, having shared a similar experience only second-hand. You may feel enraged because nobody knows exactly what is in your mind except you. Everybody’s experience of cancer is different, and even two cancer patients talking to one another can’t know exactly what is in each other’s mind. Cancer patients are still individuals even if bound by a shared disease! However, we all draw on our own experiences in our conversations, and people will try to sympathize with your situation by remembering how they felt in similar circumstances, either first or second-hand. The comparisons are well meant, even if you feel like shouting at them, ‘You haven’t got a clue what it’s like!’
In a similar vein, there is a fine line between sympathy and patronizing behaviour. You might find that people are more tactile than usual with you and, for example, touch your arm frequently when talking to you. They are probably trying to demonstrate physically their support and sympathy for you, showing that they are close to you – but it can feel very patronizing. Pregnant women sometimes complain that when their pregnancy becomes obvious, even casual acquaintances feel they have some right to touch their ‘bump’, as if it has become public property. This is a similar syndrome, and it’s difficult to avoid without causing offence: you might feel like saying, ‘Please don’t touch me, I’m not a cat’, but at the same time don’t want to convey any sense of rejection.
You can hardly avoid changes in your perspective on life following your diagnosis. What used to cause your blood to boil with anger and frustration may seem irrelevant now and people who moan endlessly about their seemingly trivial problems can become a further source of irritation to you. A friend who complains of toothache or of standing in the supermarket queue for ages or the breakdown of their car may leave you feeling, T wish I had your problems’ or “Think yourself lucky!’ It is difficult not to voice these thoughts or to be angry with others for taking for granted aspects of life which are currently beyond your reach. Your sense of perspective and outlook on life have taken a battering. In the meantime it is helpful if others take account of this, but life is not that simple and you will need your reserves of patience.
Some men find that anger, whether a brief but violent outburst or a simmering, seething frustration, is expressed in unexpected and uncharacteristic ways. You may be more prone than usual to sudden outbursts or a tendency to snap unreasonably for little or no reason. You may feel a need to exert your authority more than usual, to ‘prove’ that you are still the same strong, capable man, to insist that things are done ‘your’ way, or become more defensive about your role and abilities. The temptation may be strong to reject ungraciously and crossly offers of help with a task which is traditionally ‘yours’, such as walking the dog or cutting the grass.
If you are usually mild-mannered and even-tempered, experiencing anger and frustration from a variety of sources may come as a shock, both to you and your family. This is not a reason to suppress it as ‘inappropriate’ behaviour. You are allowed to be angry, and without feeling guilty or the need to apologize afterwards.
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