THE HOLISTIC HEALER

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cures, the naturopathic physician lends intelligent assistance
1. From the Desk of the Editor.................................. 3 and interprets its laws for the patient. Human body can
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2. Doctor's Dilemma ................................................... 4 to right itself and restore its own balance. There are certain
self curetive forces which are inherent in the human body
3. Doctors have a Vested Interest in
Prolonging Our Sickness !? ................................. 7 working towards health and healing. We cannot heal a
disease with a remedy we apply. It is the vital force within us
4. Say no to Cereals ................................................. 11 which heals and we need but to aid it. It is a supreme force,
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5. "I am smarter than you
body which is the true healer.
if you are a meat-eater".........................................15
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7. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind ............. 22
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DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
Oh ! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about !
– Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
A thinking doctor will have a great dilemma in the midst
of all the medical claptrap that is being sold to the gullible
public. Most of what we do is not being properly audited :
when audited, the bench marks used are questionable. The
euboxic medicine, trying to see that all the boxes in the
computer generated case records are filled to avoid future
litigation, practised in the west today and copied by others
would only keep the record sheets straight but might result
in dysboxic death, death at unexpected time and place, of
the patient! This is one of the reasons why the death and
disability rates went down when doctors went on strike in
Israel in 2000. This has to change and the earlier it happens
the better for humankind.
Our present disease-based medical education should be
replaced by patient (human) oriented medical education of
yore where the patient was the kingpin in the game of
healing. Great brains of the past - Thomas Lewis, Sir William
Osler, Lord Platt, Sir George Pickering, Paul Wood,
Paul Dudley White, Sam Levine, Thomas Holme Sellers,
Lord Brock, Lord Brain, John Hutchinson and many other
thinkers of the past - had said this time and again but we, in
our present delusion with scopes and scanners thought that
we need not pay heed to these people. In fact, if one
re-reads that classic by Richard Asher, Talking Sense,
even today one would wonder that his writings
are so contemporary and very topical. They all had robust
Present day medical science seems to be guided by monetary
interests alone. Surgical correction and drug therapy are only
palliative.
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common sense which is a scarce commodity in the
medical world today.
Lord Platt wrote : "If you listen to your patient long
enough he/she would tell you what is wrong with him/her."
Today's technologists would think this is madness. However,
a recent double blinded, prospective, computerized study
in London showed that listening to the patient and reading
the referral letter gave 80% of the accurate final diagnosis
and one hundred percent of the idea of future management
strategies in medical out-patient diagnosis. Would not this
cost a lot less?
Value based medical education, preferably based mainly
in the community, would solve some of the problems, like
over-investigation and over treatment that result in many
Ulysses syndromes. Rather, teaching in the hi-tech set up
should be discouraged to make the doctor-patient
relationship the sheet anchor of medical care delivery.
Medical students should have lessons in medical humanism,
which includes insight into the real health problems and their
solutions. Research must be better regulated. Financial
interests of the researchers need to be carefully assessed
before publishing their data. Time is now ripe for openness
in research.
The profession, before being advertised to the gullible
public, should evaluate newer heroic surgical feats that bring
in fame, money and status to doctors, hospitals and the
vendors of equipment. Deportation of the physician under the
most draconian law in South Africa, in the much publicized
first heart transplant, for refusing to declare the donor brain
dead, is a glaring example of what happens behind the scenes
in such situations. We need stricter control over these heroic
Simple anxiety reduction would make most people healthy
and enthusiastic.
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procedures where the real hero is the patient who offers himself
for the procedure unaware of its implications and hazards.
Interventions could be audited, like drugs, by controlled
studies. Many new techniques had resulted in mortality and
morbidity in the past : they are too many to enumerate! Most
of them have been swept under the carpet.
Medicine revolves round anxiety - patient anxiety of
disability and death and doctor anxiety of having done enough
of the right thing or not. If something could be done to allay
both these, we will have progressed in the right direction.
Doctor's dilemma that causes so much of stress related
diseases among doctors goes unnoticed to the detriment of
patients and the public. This has to be urgently addressed by
the profession as also the powers that be. This is not a small
matter. Hope sanity will prevail and medical education gets
suitably modified with special stress on continued rounded
professional development of the practitioners.
Before society loses faith in doctors we have to change
for the better and make modern medicine accessible to the
majority of the suffering humanity. The popularity of
complementary systems is not to be taken lightly despite
the fact that we shout from house tops day in and day out
that complementary systems are not scientific, people in
large numbers opt for those systems. They are not fools to
do so. Let us introspect before it is too late. We should
remember that a patient could live without we doctors but
doctors cannot live without patients. Before we reach that
stage let us act wisely and set our house in order.
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to
its original shape." – Oliver Wendell Holmes
– Dr. B. M. Hegde
A sensible life style also assists healing. In essence the human body
is built by nature to last. If one lives sensibly, health will be the rule
and disease an exception.
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Doctors Have a Vested Interest
in Prolonging Our Sickness!?
Bapu blamed the doctors for allowing us to indulge in
gustatory delectation, which often resulted in constipation, which,
in turn, gave rise to one or more ailments. Bapu believed in the
old maxim “Constipation is the fertile mother of most diseases.
Kill the mother, and the orphans will perish!” Granting that there
is some exaggeration in this adage, there is much truth too in it.
Most of the patients that are suffering from diabetes,
cardiovascular ailments, hypertension, osteoporosis,
osteoarthritis, Parkinson’s disease and other chronic ailments
are sufferers from latent or patent constipation. And most of these
can be relieved of their symptoms in a week or a month if they
ate the right food—frugally—and exercised daily so that their
constipation became past history, and the bowels started moving
two or three times a day, and that too, freely, without straining. It
is interesting to note that Bapu considered overeating not merely
an unhealthy habit; he considered it a vice. Later on, after deeper
study of this trouble—which had bothered him since childhood
and even resulted in his suffering from appendicitis, for which
he had to get appendectomy done—he had started calling
gluttony a SIN! He even went to the extent of saying that just as
we call promiscuous, sexually loose-moralled persons
characterless, we should call habitual overeaters also
characterless! Nobody in the world, except Bapu, has dared to
brand gluttons as sinners or characterless persons! For that
matter, none but Bapu has dared to make this statement that
“hospitals are institutions that propagate sin!” Bapu has been
the only personage in the history of civilization who has
denounced overeating as being sinful and immoral!
Thinking along similar lines, he wrote at one place:
“Multiplicity of hospitals and medical men is no sign of
civilization”—a shocking but nevertheless thought-provoking
statement. Obviously, what Bapu wished to convey here was
The fewer the medicines you give to your patients, the better
for them. – Dr. H. G. Cox
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that if we needed an ever-increasing number of doctors to
take care of our ever-increasing diseases, we cannot claim
ourselves to be intelligent, self-controlled, healthy people,
capable of looking after our own physical and mental fitness.
Bapu expected every doctor to be a teacher of healthy living,
but he found to his dismay that in allopathic medical colleges,
NOTHING IS TAUGHT ABOUT HOW TO MAINTAIN GOOD
HEALTH BY MODERATE INTAKE OF ONLY WHOLESOME
VEGETARIAN FOOD, BESIDES REGULAR INVIGORATING
EXERCISE AND A DISCIPLINED YOGIC LIFESTYLE. In fact,
childhood onwards, nowhere in the world, right knowledge
is imparted about what to eat and what not to, as also how
little is our requirement for oral nourishment; or that fasting
or frugal partaking of exclusive fruit diet or a raw diet or a
kalpa (monodiet), by itself, can rid us of almost any ailment,
sans drugs or medical intervention, unless the disease is too
far advanced, having reached a point of no return.
Based on his experiences and his reading of literature by
naturopaths such as Dr. Benedict Lust and Adolph Just, Bapu
used to write articles in his paper Indian Opinion, when he was
in South Africa; out of these articles, in 1906, the first ever book
by Bapu was published on simple rules of healthy lifestyle. By
a curious coincidence, the very last of Bapu’s writings in book
form were also health-related; the booklet was titled Key to
Health, published in 1942, and the articles in the same were
written by Bapu when he was incarcerated in Aga Khan Palace
in Pune. For conservation of vital energy, Bapu invariably
advocated abstinence from sexual coitus, along with fasting or
strict dieting. Bapu was convinced that elimination of toxins
from the body was best speeded up by resting the digestive
apparatus from its daily task of digesting, absorbing and
assimilating of food; Bapu’s advice for brahmacharya (celibacy)
was also based on the same contention of conservation of Vital
Power, which then is geared to the herculean task of
detoxification of our usually highly autointoxicated physiques.
It is most regrettable that we are bent upon making ever increasing use
of medicines, instead of relying on, and having faith in, Nature’s powers
of resistance to disease. – Dr. Wendell Mcleod
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Of course, side by side with the resting and cleansing of the
bowels, the kidneys, the liver, the lungs, and other physical
tissues of their pathological load, Bapu’s emphasis always
rested on RAMA-NAMA (chanting the name of God). It may be
noted here that Bapu’s Rama was not Bhagwan Rama of
Ramayana, but He was the omnipresent, omniscient Lord, God,
Ishwar or Allah. Bapu wished that each and every person had
an absolute faith in the healing power of God or Nature; he
regretted the fact that the tendency of the average human being
was to have tremendous faith in his or her doctor but little or
no faith in God Almighty. For psycho-spiritual purification,
Bapu’s prescription was total faith in God, along with a heart
full of Love for all and ill will for none. Bapu was Compassion
and Love personified, and he wished that all humanity also
similarly walked the path of “Love for all humans.” Being a
votary of Ahimsa (Compassion), Bapu also advocated non-
harming of any human being, even by unspoken or spoken word,
let alone by inflicting bodily injury. Of course, non-killing of
animals for our eating was a part of Bapu’s Ahimsa; and going
a step further, Bapu abhorred the usual practice of experiments
on animals in medical research since such research involved
cruelty to helpless, defenseless animals who had to suffer a lot
of agony for our—human beings’—health problems; these so-
called researches mostly terminated in killing of those animals
at the hands of the scientists. In Bapu’s spiritual dimension of
holistic health, killing of animals did not find any place. That
was another reason Bapu was absolutely against allopathic
system of medicine.
Perhaps, all the aforesaid views of Bapu on health and
healing, up to the year 1945, may be considered obsolete or
irrelevant in this year 2004. One may argue that allopathy has
made tremendous strides in the intervening half century in
the fields of laser surgeries, organ transplants, emergency
medicine and scores of health-loss problems in human
beings; these achievements certainly are very laudable.
I have had greater success in the treatment of diseases by
snatching drugs away from patients rather than by administering
drugs to them. – Dr. Alton Goldbloom of America
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However, notwithstanding all those accomplishments and
despite the increase in lifespan of an average Indian, a
majority of us—in all age groups, infancy onwards—seem to
be suffering from some or the other chronic health problem,
physically or psycho-emotionally. This is because of our non-
rectification of wrong eating habits; our addictions to alcohol,
tobacco, etc.; sedentary long-hour jobs; mental stresses,
tensions, etc.; as also due to ever-increasing air pollution,
water pollution and other factors that are largely beyond our
personal control. Health should be valued above wealth; but
most of us are in a fast pursuit of riches and status, thereby
planting seeds of psychosomatic illnesses, which may turn
into degenerative, almost incurable, diseases with our
advancing age. We have forgotten that certain eternal truths
about health and disease have withstood all tests of time;
the most important verities are these: (1) There is a Divine
Intelligence in all the trillions of cells of which our physique
is constituted, governing our Vital Power, or PRANA-URJA,
which alone has the healing strength or prowess in itself. (2)
There is a broad-based truism that all diseases are curable—
cancer and AIDS inclusive—though all patients are not. (3)
Dr. Herbert Shelton considered enervation as the sole cause
of most chronic diseases, which in modern times are
multifactorial. Since most modern diseases are
psychosomatic, the treatments too have to be mind-body
based, as Dr. Deepak Chopra always suggests. (4) Acharya
Shri Lakshmana Sarma’s precept of elimination of bodily
toxins being best promoted by totally or largely suspending
the ingestion of all food, semi-fasting, etc., is as valid today
as it was in Bapu’s times; in fact, Hippocrates and Charaka
were the first votaries of these health-restoring measures,
over 2,000 years ago. Let us study briefly the vindication of
eternal verities of health in modern times.
– Dr. M. M. Bhamgara
No drug can be considered safe. The Head of the Dept of
Pharmacology at the Bridham Hospital in Boston.
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SAY NO TO CEREALS
Down the centuries, through agricultural and
technological revolutions, Cereal foods, rice and wheat in
particular, have shaped and turned human history.
Agriculture - which more and more has come to signify
single-crop farming has replaced not only the hunters,
gatherers and nomadic herdsmen, but also the methods
and practices of traditional farming. Cash cropping has
steadily replaced techniques that protect the soil, the earth
and thereby our health. Mixed crop strains are still being
replaced with uniform, short stemmed hybrids of rice,
wheat and maize. Further, these strains are bred and
researched to respond to chemical fertilizers, pesticides
and herbicides. Complex irrigation systems, which
necessitates the construction of big dams and hydro
electric projects are also required. Food production today
is totally reliant on a technical revolution that pushes out
the small farmer, reduces the ability to buy food, denies
access to land and work, increases risks of plant pests,
disease and erosion, drains the earth of fuel, water and
finally gives little in return. This revolution, as history has
shown, only enriches the already well-off. For the small
farmer, there are no returns, not even health.
It may be true that cereals, generally considered the
"staff of life", have provided that sustenance. But it is only
in times of famine, shortages, wars and upheavals of
nature, that rice and wheat are nature's gifts. In reality, we
have destroyed over a thousand other varieties of food -
millets, grains, fruits and vegetables. Today, the only
association with food is of cereal food. And yet, cereals
do not form any part of the natural diet of humans. They
Sixty to seventy percent of the habitual users of aspirin eventually
suffer from internal hemorrhage and anaemia.
– Dr. Roth of America
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are unnecessary to health and life. As anthropologists,
historiographers and geologists would agree, humans did
not become cereal eaters, until late in our evolutionary time.
Cereals can be stored, and keeping food a long time is
the underlying principle of food manufacturing today,
especially in industrial societies. The more industrialised
a country becomes, the longer food is kept, preserved or
stored, before it is finally eaten. Food that is stored is
profitable. The longer the storage and shelf life, the less
money that is lost. Introduced with the intention of
preventing starvation and providing emergency
sustenance, cereals came to dominate the economy with
the misconception that what is right for the economy is
right for humanity.
In the present era of "plenty", cereal foods do not
deserve the title of "staff of life" or "essentials of life" ,
especially in the sad demineralised state in which they are
offered to the public for consumption. In the present
scheme of cultivation, processing and manufacturing, the
term "fresh" holds no ground!
Cereals are the main food groups consumed, not only
in India but all over the world today. Though cereals are
considered to be a "right" source of calories, to extract
these calories from the cereals, all other essential nutrients
are robbed, depleting the body's resources.
Apart from processing, refining of cereals, makes them
even more 'dead'. Refining means removing the 'germ' -
the part of the grain from which a new plant will grow -
and the outer bran layers. White refined cereals, be it rice,
wheat, flour or maida, have come to signify a cosmetic
change, a status symbol. Whiter flour with less bran makes
Medicine is not in harmony with the order of Nature.
– Dr. Dewey
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finer textured, higher rising bread... Removing the bran
and germ, removes all the oils of the wheat grain which
can go rancid and spoil the flour. Roller-milling further,
'nicks' the whole grain, extracting all fibre from the grain.
Cereals, even in their natural wholesome state are acid-
forming and difficult to digest. All cereals especially in the
mature state, have a tendency to cause acidosis because
the contents are made up largely of protein, phosphoric
acid and carbohydrates. Cereals even in this natural state
are deficient in sodium, lime, chlorine, calcium and lacking
in iodine.
All starches need thorough chewing. They require to
be broken up and mixed with the saliva of the mouth,
allowing the enzymes ptyalin to initiate the digestion of
starch. When babies are fed with cereals (bread and other
starch foods included) it leads to indigestion, constipation,
colic, skin rash, catarrh, and tonsillitis. Babies lack both
the teeth with which to chew such foods and the ptyalin
with which to initiate their digestion.
Deficiencies in bone and tooth structure which almost
every modern child is suffering, are the result chiefly of
this overabundance of carbohydrate food. Rheumatism,
arthritis and polyneuritis are caused chiefly from the eating
of grain and grain products.
The alternative then is to make cereals form only a small
part of the diet. They should be offset with an abundance
of fresh green, raw vegetables. Much like a rice salad or a
lapsey mix.
Cereals can also be used in a sprouted form. The
grasses can also be introduced into salads and vegetable
juices. These provide rich fresh sources of nutrients.
Modern medicine is itself the disease.
– Dr. Herbert Shelton
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Sprouts from grains is not only an excellent addition to
the diet, but in certain geographical conditions (colder
climates) they can mean the difference between being
nourished and deficient.
Fresh cereals like corn, fresh wheat and jowar are far
superior than processed, refined, granary stored-cereals
and grains. Consciously making a demand for such items
is one small way of contributing towards your health-and
that of the earth.
Unrefined organic, handpounded (or stone ground)
wholesome cereals are definitely more conducive to the
sustenance of the earth and our bodies. Traditional
techniques of multi cropping are more in tune with
balancing the earth's resources. And this could indeed
make the difference between hunger and starvation,
feeding and rotting, food and distribution.
– Dr. Vijaya Venkat & Associates
• Whatsoever was the Father of a disease, an ill diet was
the Mother.
• We spend the first half of our lives wasting our health to
gain wealth.
And the second half of our lives spending our wealth to
regain our health.
• The way to good health is through your stomach.
• Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
• In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with
oneself if one is out of tune with everything else.
• Either it is food preservation or its self preservation.
• The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.
• Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
• O Sun ! the source of all life, I salute thee.
All our curative agents are poisons and as a consequence every
dose diminishes the patient’s vitality. – Dr. Alonzo Clark
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"I am smarter than you
if you are a meat-eater"
The British Medical Journal has reported a study done
by Southampton University of 8.179 people. Researchers
found that people who had become vegetarian by the
age of 30 had a higher IQ - more than 5 points higher
than meat eaters. Men who were vegetarian had an IQ
score of 106, compared with 101 for non-vegetarians,
while female vegetarians averaged 104, compared with
99 for non-vegetarians. The researchers found linkages
of intelligence to health as well but the jury was still out
on whether people who are more intelligent become
vegetarian or people who were vegetarian had so much
better health, specially in terms of heart disease and
obesity that their brains could develop more. I agree with
the second theory - after all someone who is born into a
vegetarian household does not use his brains to make a
choice. The fact that he/she turns out more intelligent
could be a result of the body having more time to devote
to brain development rather than combat the food
shoved into it. What else would explain the mental
abilities of the Jain and Marwari communities for
instance? Or the Brahmins? The researches in the British
Medical Journal say it isn't clear why veggies are brainier
- but admit the fruit and vegetable diet could somehow
boost brain power. The study said that vegetarians were
also more likely to have gained degrees and hold down
high-powered jobs. Researcher Dr. Gale said : "Such a
diet might have some beneficial effect on subsequent
cognitive performance. Might the nature of the
Most modern diseases are iatrogenic. i.e. caused by medical men
or medical methods directly or indirectly . Dr. M. M. Bhamgara
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vegetarians diet have enhanced their apparently superior
brain power? Was this the mechanism that helped them
achieve the disproportionate nature of degrees?"
I am not surprised at this finding. In India, seventy-
five percent of the true achievers are vegetarian The top
businessmen, the top business classes, most of the top
politicians and film-stars, models, athletes. Having
grown up in a meat eating environment (the army) I am
happy that my husband Sanjay made me vegetarian at
the age of 18. My favourite vegetarian, my son Varun
has been vegetarian since he was born and has an IQ of
161 (proving this theory). All the vegetarian people whom
I know are all significantly more intelligent than the
average. I have a list of my favourite vegetarians and,
thank God for India, I have a huge long list to choose
from. I am only choosing the most intelligent in this list
- the handsomest, most beautiful, sexiest etc. we will
leave for another day.
Let me start with the Great Khali - the WWF wrestler
who is the largest man I have ever seen on television.
He is not just a vegetarian but is a gentle giant who feeds
homeless people wherever he is. One of my firmest
beliefs is that it takes intelligence to have compassion.
Pritish Nandy, poet, writer, filmmaker, painter,
designer, thinker, the editor of the Illustrated Weekly of
India when it was the single largest magazine in India
and Member of Parliament much before it became
mandatory to reward loyalty in journalists and
industrialists with Rajya sabha memberships.
The Ambani brothers, their wives and their father and
mother. Imagine creating and managing so much wealth
Let us try to avoid the ravages of modern medicine.
– Dr. B. M. Hegde
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that it becomes inspirational. Group them with Aditya
Birla and his family and Narayanmurthy, the founder of
Infosys and the IT movement in India which has given
jobs to lakhs of people. The list of vegetarian creators
of wealth runs into thousands of pages. Is a vegetarian
diet the key to success as well as well-being?
Dr. Abdul Kalam has been the finest President we
have ever had and certainly a role model for many people
- including my son. He is not just very bright, he is
humane, graceful and disciplined. I wish he had a second
term-especially when I look at his successor who will
come and go unnoticed-even though she is also a
vegetarian.
LK Advani - the skilful and undisputed head of the
largest party in India and a proud vegetarian.
Hema Malini, actress and dancer is not just beatiful
and generous but a smart and hardworking politician.
Her daughters Esha and Ahana are equally bright and
motivated.
Amitabh Bachchan, who at his age and with his
health, manages his and his family members' careers
with such intelligence and sophistication.
Manira Bedi who became the first woman
commentator in the male preserve of cricket and with a
joyful combination of intelligence and charm managed
to make millions of new cricket fans.
Milind Soman who has made his career as a model
last forever, remaining numero uno in his forties and
now branching out into rejuvenating Indian textiles.
Chinny and Nanitha Krishna : Chinny heads a
company that specialises in solving machinery problems
The patient has to recover twice, once from the disease
and once from the remedy. – Dr. Sir William Osler
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for companies internationally. He also runs India's first
animal shelter. Nanditha is one of the country's leading
experts on mythology and culture. She heads a major
educational foundation and is one of Penguin's most
prolific and best selling authors.
While I am conscious that all Indian spiritual teachers
and Gurus are vegetarian, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar stands
out because he has created an empire of intelligent
people who embrace the modern while attempting to
follow the refinement of a gentler India.
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak who runs the largest NGO in
India and has devoted his life to make provide sanitation
and who has now discovered the most ecological way
to get rural energy.
Dr. Mukesh Batra who has made homeopathy a
mainstream medicine and runs an empire as large as
Ranbaxy's.
This is about 1% of my favourite veggies - I am giving
you the names of people you may have heard about. There
are thousands of people who are as bright but I will have
to put them into another grouping. My mother for one -
her keen intelligence, warmth and zest for life has taken
all of us through crises that would have destroyed most
mortals. Ozair Hvain, my coauthor in several books and
the Nawab of Lorpur who has given up a kingdom to make
people for Animals into the power it is today.
Noting famous vegetarian intellectuals proves
nothing, but is food for thought nonetheless : thousands
of the greatest thinkers in recorded history were
vegetarians and advocated vegetarianism, including
Pythagoras, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Leo Tolstoy,
Why proceed year after year searching, hoping, groping in
vain for artificial remedy when the natural is at hand.
– Dr. Elmer Lee-M.D.
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Plato, Voltaire, Mahatma Gandhi, Charles Darwin, Albert
Shweitzer, Dr. Benjamin Spock. Franz Kafka, H. G. Wells,
Henry David Thoreau, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jeremy
Bentham, Leonardo da Vinci, Milton, NikolatTesla, Percy
Shelley, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Socrates, Tolstoy, William Wordsworth, William Blake,
Dr. C.V. Raman, Annie Besant, the Bronte sisters, Rupert
Brooke, Isaac Pitman, Ovid, Henry Salt, Schopenhauer,
Seneca, Henry David Thoreau..... If meat eating were
required for a person to be intelligent, then we would
expect to see few intelligent people supporting
vegetarianism. George Bernard Shaw said, 'A mind of
the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from
cows', while Benjamin Franklin stated that a vegetarian
diet resulted in 'greater clearness of head and quicker
comprehension'.
BBC One has a hugely popular show every Saturday
called the National IQ Contest. 80,000 people took part.
The winners the brainiest Brits of the UK, were a 40 strong
team of vegetarians with an average IQ score of 113. The
individual contestant with the highest IQ was a vegetarian
too. Winner Marie Bidmead, 68, a mother-of-five from
Gloucester said : "I was in absolute shock when I got the
top score! I've never considered myself to be a brain-box.
I think it shows that we veggies are good 'thinkers' - we
think about what we eat with intelligence for a start!"
If there is anything that proves that human are meant to
be vegetarian, it is this study. In today's world, you need all
the intelligence you can to survive. Parents - give your
children the extra leg up, make them vegetarian today.
– Maneka Gandhi
We do not know whether our patients recover because we
give medicines or because nature cures them.
– Dr. Carson-M.D.
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LEMON SHOTS
Lemon shots provide the ABC of health. A = Acid,
B = Base, C = Its Concentration. This means the PH level
or the acid base balance of our internal fluids. The PH
level affects every cell of our body - it is important right
from the beating of our heart to the neural messages of
the brain. Our bodies - our blood is slightly alkaline in
nature - our entire metabolic process depends upon this
alkaline environment. Just like our body temperature is
98.6O C. our blood is ideally maintained at 7.365 PH -
which is very mildly alkaline. Over acidity thus affects
and interferes with life itself. What is over acidity? When
we eat wrong foods or live with an unhealthy lifestyle -
then our bodies reach on acidic state (highly toxic) -
thereby causing disease and illness.
So why lemon shots? Lemons are chemically acid -
but when they are utilised within the body - they have an
alkalinizing effect. They act like instant flushers -
throwing away wastes and toxins and bringing the body
back to an alkaline state. All symptoms of disease are
expressions of the stress created by the PH imbalance.
Lemon shots ease this stress instantaneously. Because
of their high mineral content and low sugar - they make
oxygen available to the body. This combination of
oxygen, low sugar, and alkalinity discourages and
prevents micro-form overgrowth and reduces the acidity
in the body. Lemon shots are therefore balancing agents
- between our body and externally stressed lifestyles.
How to make a Lemon Shot - Lemon shots indicate
More and more studies in conventional scientific
disciplines have affirmed the fact that faith does heal.
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pure lemon extraction - with minimum water for dilution.
This is not the same as nimbu pani / lemon water.
Squeeze the juice of 1 (or 2) lemons. Add the exact same
amount of water as the lemon juice. The ratio of lemon
juice and water should be 1:1. Drink immediately after
extraction - fresh. Do not store.
Lemon Shots are the best for balancing out junk food
intake. Whenever you have indulged in your favorite
foods - meat, dairy, junk, sweets, fried, heavy foods -
follow up with a lemon shot.
• You have partied hard - whether you are drunk or
have a hang over - have lemon shots - they work like
magic !
• For any and every kind of sickness and disease -
whether it's a cold, fever, diarrhea, BP, diabetes, skin
problem anything and everything. From the smallest
to the biggest. Whether it is a minor or a major
discomfort - it can all be neutralised with a lemon shot.
• In times of stress, worry, anxiety, headaches,
migraines, nausea, vomiting - etc., lemon shots are
the best. In times of illness - have lemon shots every
2 hours for thorough cleansing and flushing.
Use lemons liberally on salads, vegetable juices,
curries, cooked vegetable. It adds a great taste.
Always remember - Lemons are the single most
powerful way of flushing your body instantly and
bringing your body from acidic to alkaline.
Dr. Vijay Venkat & Associates
Tel.: 2436 1672 / 2432 0788
Time has come for mankind to depend more on our
immune system rather than on antibiotics.
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THE POWER OF
YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
1. Success means successful living. When you are
peaceful, happy, joyous, and doing what you love
to do, you are successful.
2. Find out what you love to do, then do it. If you don't
know your true expression, ask for guidance, and
the lead will come.
3. Specialize in your particular field and try to know
more about it than anyone else.
4. Those who are successful are not selfish. Their
main desire in life is to serve humanity.
5. There is no true success without peace of mind.
6. A successful person possesses great psychological
and spiritual understanding.
7. If you imagine an objective clearly, you will be
provided with the necessities through the wonder-
working power of your subconscious mind.
8. Your thought fused with feeling becomes a
subjective belief, and according to your belief is it
done unto you.
9. The power of sustained imagination draws forth the
miracle-working powers of your subconscious mind.
10. If you are seeking promotion in your work,
imagine your employer, supervisor, or loved one
congratulating you on your promotion. Make the
Doctors put drugs of which they know little, in bodies of which
they know less, to cure diseases of which they know nothing at all.
– Voltair
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picture vivid and real. Hear the voice, see the
gestures, and feel the reality of it all. Continue to
do this frequently, and through frequent occupancy
of your mind, you will experience the joy of the
answered prayer.
11. Your subconscious mind is a storehouse of
memory. For a perfect memory, affirm frequently:
"The infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind
reveals to me everything I need to know at all times,
everywhere."
12. If you wish to sell a home or property of any kind,
affirm slowly, quietly, and feelingly as follows :
"Infinite intelligence attracts to me the buyer for
this house or property, who wants it, and who
prospers in it." Sustain this awareness, and the
deeper currents of your subconscious mind will
bring it to pass.
13. The idea of success contains all the elements of
success. Repeat the word "success" to yourself
frequently with faith and conviction and you will be
under a subconscious compulsion to succeed.
– Dr. Joseph Murphy
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All medicines which enter the circulation poison the blood in the
same manner as do poisons that produce disease.
– Dr. J. M. Smith-M.D.
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THE FAMOUS LETTER WRITTEN and tough with the tough.....

BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN Teach him there is no shame in tears
Teach him to scoff at cynics
TO HIS SON’S TEACHER
and to beware of too much sweetness...
He will have to learn, I know Teach him to sell his brawn
that all men are not just, all and brain to the highest
men are not true.... bidders, but never to
But teach him also that for put a price tag to his
every scoundrel there is a hero : heart and soul....
that for every selfish politician Teach him to close his ears to
there is a dedicated leader.... a howling mob, and to stand
Teach him, for every enemy and fight if he thinks he is right....
there is a friend Treat him gently but do not
Steer him away from envy cuddle him, because only
If you can teach him the secret the test of fire makes
of quiet laughter.... fine steel....
Let him learn early that the Let him have the courage
bullies are easiest to lick... to be impatient
In the school teach him let him have the patience
it is far more honorable to to be brave....
fall than to cheat...... Teach him always
Teach him to have faith to have sublime faith
in his own ideas in mankind.
even if everyone tells him This is a big order, but
they are wrong..... see what you can do......
Teach him to be gentle He is such a fine fellow
with gentle people my son !
The body never loses its inherent ability to recuperate if
Every dose diminishes the vitality of the patient.
you give it a chance. – Dr. George Crill
– Dr. Clark-M.D.
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Ten Ways to Use
Your Three Golden Keys
to Build Self-Confidence
Golden Key One (Thought)
1) Live with the knowledge that you will succeed.
2) Don't compare your weaknesses with others' strong
points.
Golden Key Two (Writing)
3) Keep on index cards or in a loose leaf notebook, a
record of the qualities you wish to have and note your
success in attaining them.
4) Keep a record of your time budget.
Golden Key Three (Action)
5) Compete against your own past records, instead of
those of other individuals or companies.
6) In all competitive thinking, reach for a definite objective.
7) Keep studying and learning.
8) Take up a social activity like ping-pong or dancing,
that will give you practice in getting along with others.
9) Join a congenial club. Be one of the workers in your
club. Don't sit back and let the other fellow do all the
work.
10) Tackle big jobs, a step at a time.
– Dora Albert
"Natural hygiene is in harmony with nature in accord
with the principles of vital organic existence, correct in
science, sound in philosophy and ethics, in agreement with
commonsense, successful in practice, and a blessing to
humankind." – T. C. Fry
The treatment of disease is not a science, not even a refined
art but a thriving industry.
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Think about these facts... when you are tempted by a
luscious-looking ice-cream.
N Ice-cream manufacturers are not required by law
to list the additives they use. Consequently, the
majority of ice-creams are synthetic from the first
temptation to the last lick.... Even the
conventionally used ingredients of milk, eggs and
sugar are "synthetic" to the body.
N Lab analysis shows that ice-creams are really a
mixture of anti-freeze, oil-paint, paint-remover,
nitrate-solvent, leather-cleaner, and even lice-
killer... the actual ingredients are :
N Diethyl Glucol : a cheap chmical used as an
emulsifier instead of eggs. This is the same
chemical used in anti-freeze and paint-remover.
N Piperonal : Used as a substitute for Vanilla. Also
used to kill lice.
N Aldehyde C17 : for flavouring cherry ice-cream.
An inflammable liquid used in dyes, plastic and
rubber.
N Ethyl Acetate : For pineapple flavoured ice-cream.
Used as a cleaner for leather and textiles.
N Butyraldehyde : For nut flavoured ice-creams.
Ingredients of rubber and cement.
N Benzyl Acetate : Strawberry flavouring.
Otherwise a nitrate solvent.
N Amyl Acetate : Banana flavour. Used as an oil paint
solvent.
– Dr. Vijaya Venkat & Associates
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The Following Concepts are

Commonly Accepted in
Mainstream Medical Circles :
1. An individual is inherently capable of
controlling his or her own physiological
processes to a greater degree than ever
before thought possible.
2. Healing always involves both mind and
body as well as what many call the spirit.
3. Negative emotions can have adverse
psychophysiological effects.
4. Positive emotions can have positive
psychophysiological effects.
5. The mind has many avenues of contact with
bodily processes, some of which can "tip
the scales" toward healing.
– Jose Silva

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