Arnold Ehret. The Healing System of Mucusless Diet

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THIS IS NOT THE GOSPEL, THEREFORE ONE CANNOT ACCEPT IT ON FAITH AND BE SAVED FROM THE COMING WRATH OF GOD BY IT. THIS IS ANALYTICAL — MATERIAL FOR REFLECTION ON HEALTH, NUTRITION, FASTING, AND A CORRECT LIFESTYLE. SALVATION, LIFE, HEALTH, SOUND MIND, PURITY, RIGHTEOUS ACTS — ARE FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL — THE NEW TESTAMENT!

From the Translator

“What cannot be explained in simple words is nonsense. No matter how scientific it sounds.”
Arnold Ehret

I undertook this translation because this author has influenced my life in an incredible way. Another reason is that he is unknown to the Russian-speaking reader. I do not know why his weaker book “Rational Fasting” — translated as “Healing by Hunger and Fruits” — was rendered into Russian rather than this one. In this work, Ehret demonstrates the full power of his intellect, observation, and common sense. And all of this is backed by vast experience. I also like that Ehret describes complex medical categories and the unique mechanism of the human body’s functioning with ease and simplicity — so that a reader of any level of preparation will, as they say, “pick it up on the fly.”

Yet the most valuable thing in our world is knowledge. And where does a person direct their restless zeal, if not toward perfecting their body and spirit? Knowledge about the body has in recent years gone in a direction that is not beneficial for the ordinary person. Scientists “dig” deeper and deeper into genes, genomes, chromosomes, DNA; man can grow organs, make perfect prostheses, clone, transplant body parts, and so on and so forth. But if you ask — what has been created in today’s world for health (mental and physical), how have these enormous technical and theoretical achievements influenced the enjoyment of life in a healthy body? The answer is as follows: official medicine is a “conveyor belt of death,” and a very profitable one. The fact that it has no success in granting health is demonstrated by the number of diseases, which over the last hundred years has grown, if I am not mistaken, from 5 to 30 thousand names, and the “age” of diseases has dropped to terrifying figures. So now it is high time for little old ladies to give up their seats on public transport to the young. Is this progress? And “treatment” is carried out with toxic chemicals, each of which has its own “lethal dose.” Pharmacology and surgery flourish! To stuff with poisons and cut off is, of course, easier than to cure. As a whole, one could speak of medicine for a long time, but this conversation will not bring any joy. Read, at least, the latest revelations by Stolestnikov, and you will understand the essence.

If you look into it, now EVERYTHING works AGAINST human health a hundred times more than even 20 years ago — food (GMOs, additives, colorants, thickeners, stabilizers, E numbers, horrible mixtures, preservatives, condensed milk made from wallpaper glue and titanium white….), drink (99% harmful counterfeits of everything — from juices to mineral waters and beer… and the “originals” are far from shining in terms of usefulness), habits (smoking, alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, promiscuity, hurry, overwork, laziness…), atmosphere (CO2, emissions, accidents, noise, microwave radiation from cell phones, TV channels, satellites…), society (homosexuality, pedophilia, extremism, the authorities’ neglect of everything…). And in this world you must survive yourself and raise children. For everything, energy is needed. And the body spends it on all of this. As a result, under present conditions, a person “exhausts” his colossal resource in 30-40 years, instead of 100-150; produces defective offspring that will die out after 2-3 generations anyway, because degeneration and decline of vitality progress with each generation.

That is why I want to bring to the world the views of this great man – Arnold Ehret (who, by the way, was killed for this knowledge. It is foolish to believe that a man who walked across all of Europe and Asia on foot “slipped, fell” and did not come round). Views that, incidentally, have been known for 100 years. Yet no one, somehow, is in a hurry to implement them. That means someone benefits from this depopulation and class slavery.

Fasting and eating according to this system have already rid me of two chronic illnesses, one of which I suffered from all my conscious life – pharyngitis (colds, runny noses, can’t dress lightly, don’t drink cold things…), the other I caught two years ago – prostatitis. And this second one usually affects men 20–30 years older than me. From this second one, I endured more than from all the colds in my life. I won’t describe the official “treatment” – those who have gone through it know how humiliating, unpleasant and expensive it is. Moreover, they tell you right away: “There, now it’s for life.” But not so! There is nothing irreversible in the body except an injury and a bullet in the head, if the reserve of vital forces has not yet been used up.

I’ll repeat once more. Knowledge is power. You will need it to understand what is really happening in your body. Indeed, you need to be very confident in yourself, in your strength, and in your understanding of the situation when stones start coming out of your gums, acid vomiting appears, your temperature and pressure jump, and abscesses appear on your skin in places of former/future diseases – these are all signs of elimination – your body getting rid of foulness. Believe what Ehret says. If you have enough Faith and Strength, soon this faith in his words will turn into the level of Knowledge, and then no proofs will be needed anymore. Regarding fasting, I also recommend reading Stoleshnikov’s “How to Return to Life.” In his book at the end, you’ll find a list of literature where all authors worthy of attention are gathered.

And finally – I translated this text for a long time, sometimes at night. Therefore, there may be typos, grammatical errors, repeated words. But they do not affect the quality of the presentation and its essence.

Strength and patience to you on the Path of “Eating Your Way to Health!”

P.S. The book has margins T1; B1; L2.5; R1. To print it most effectively, start printing with “odd pages,” then flip the paper, swap the numbers for left and right margins – L1; R2.5, and print “even.” This way you’ll get a convenient little book that you can punch holes in on the left and read in a binder, fasten with clips, etc.

Perhaps someone will also want to show their love for their neighbor. To such people, I recommend translating the books of Arnold DeVries. He excellently describes practical tests of fasting in various diseases, the physiology of fasting, experiments on introducing the destructive diet of civilization over several generations of cats and their horrifying results. And you don’t necessarily need to know English. I had time and desire, while someone may have money and desire – the translation can be ordered. Fortunately, there are now many freelance translators, agencies, and titans like Pragma and Promt.

1)Luigi Cornaro “The Art of Living Long”
2)Hereward Carrington “Vitality, fasting and nutrition”
3)N.W. Walker “Raw Vegetable Juices”
4)“There are no Incurable Diseases” Dr. Richard Schulze
5)“Nutrition and Health” Sir Robert McCarrison and H.M. Sinclair
6)“Enzyme Nutrition. The Food Enzyme concept” Dr. Edward Howell
7) “Food Enzymes. Missing link to radiant health” Humbart Santillo
8 ) “Blatant Raw Foddist Propaganda.” Joe Alexander

INTRODUCTION BY DR. BENEDICT LUST

Everyone ought to know the limits of their need for food. Anyone who has studied the question of eating knows that humanity, and especially its wealthy portion, suffers from overeating. Even the poorest do not suffer from insufficient nutrition: at most, from the inferior quality or poor condition of their food. It would not be an exaggeration to say that more or less all beings suffer.
We all eat out of habit and for the pleasure of consuming tasty dishes. From a physiological point of view, however, only food eaten with a certain hunger (a natural craving for food) has value. And only under those circumstances will any food, even the simplest, create satisfaction and pleasure. No animal in the wild will take food unless it is hungry. It is a fact that the highest number of centenarians is found in the poorest countries. And it is equally true that the diet of the cities—so-called “refined,” “processed” dishes—is the main cause of the extinction of all families in the third or fourth generation. It is an established fact that all large cities would very quickly die out were it not for the healthy newcomers from rural areas, where simpler food is consumed. It is a fact that two-thirds of the human race (Buddhists, Muslims, Chinese, and Japanese) live on meager meals consisting of a handful of rice and a few vegetables—and their resistance to disease, and their strength, far exceed those of meat-eaters. It is a fact that the Bedouins make long and arduous journeys across the desert with no food except a few pounds of dates. It is a historical fact that the great philosophers of Ancient Egypt did not eat solid food for decades, but refreshed themselves by swallowing the juice obtained from chewing food, and their wisdom and knowledge, through Greek influence, still form the basis of philosophical thought even today. It is a fact that the greatest thinkers of humanity were more or less ascetics, that is, frugal eaters.
The mathematician Pythagoras could not gain access to the School of Philosophers in Egypt until he had fasted for forty days, not of course to test his patience and will, but for the physiological cleansing needed to allow his brain to receive great wisdom. Moses fasted on Mount Sinai while issuing the laws for his people, and Christ fasted forty days in the wilderness, probably without even water, before appearing before the people. The history of the Roman Catholic Church shows a large number of saints who ate almost nothing for decades and lived to old age. The Italian physician Cornaro reached a hundred years by subsisting on a daily ration of twelve ounces of food and twelve ounces of wine (1 ounce = 28.35 grams; translator’s note). The American Fletcher proved the physiological truth of this so-called legend by reducing his daily portion of food tenfold, applying intensive chewing—Fletcherism—thereby curing himself and others of the most serious diseases. Socrates says: “The less a man eats, the closer he is to the divine.” Goethe says: “Man is what he eats.” The facts and the wisdom of great men prove that worry and anxiety, and the unceasing struggle for daily bread, are merely the pursuit of a phantom. “The Whims of Our Diet Are the Chief and Primary Causes of All Diseases” is the title of a book written by a Swiss physician.
The struggle for existence is mainly an effort to acquire the means to live in luxury, that is, above all to eat well and abundantly. The truth about proper nutrition is a sealed book for the public and for scholars. Most people, especially the poorer ones, are under the impression that they are underfed in comparison with the rich man’s sumptuous table. The fear of hunger hangs over modern humanity like a nightmare; missing a single meal already causes nervousness. This morbid error, this tragic ignorance, this fatal delusion, is engendered and maintained by erroneous medical doctrines.
The attempt to place people on a correct diet will be completed with success only if they are given the straight truth. Restriction in general is possible only if you know how much, or how little, is absolutely necessary, and what is truly the best and most valuable nourishment. New thoughts and truths penetrate only when demonstrated in pure form in practice by individual leaders. People will not turn toward a new goal until they see a champion swimming against the current of the old, wrong doctrine.
No one will renounce pleasure unless compelled to do so. No one voluntarily gives up certain foodstuffs as long as he imagines them to be the best and does not know that there is something better, something vastly superior, something infinitely more beautiful. The purest, most beautiful, and at the same time most assimilable food of humanity can only be that which is biologically appointed for it by the law of Nature—in its natural form.
If man was the most beautiful being at creation, then his food at that time must have been the most beautiful and most nourishing, and therefore all mixtures originating from the modern kitchen must of necessity be regarded as inferior—they represent a regression and degeneration of humanity.
On the other hand, the fruit diet, as described in the Book of Genesis, is the highest and surpasses any form of diet for the human race. In order for the correct diet to be met with success, the fear of insufficient nutrition must first be dispelled from public opinion. If a partial or complete renunciation of bread, meat, eggs, milk, etc., is to be applied, it must be proved and demonstrated by individual examples that it is not only possible to exist on a diet of fruit, but also that this paradisiacal, natural diet of humanity is the most acceptable and beautiful, and therefore can serve even today. It must be demonstrated that a handful of fruit contains more nourishment than a whole modern dinner consisting of half a dozen dishes. The value of ideally assimilable food and all forms of nutrition must be demonstrated by fruitarians.
But where can one find strict fruit-eaters? In civilized life they exist only in theory. He could strictly adhere to his convictions only by living in nature, separated from civilized surroundings. Together with a friend he lived in this way for two years. During that time he conducted the most remarkable tests, which are described in his book “Rational Fasting.” It is impossible to live on a strict fruit diet in civilized life, because the senses are so highly developed that they make life very unpleasant and uncomfortable when dealing with so-called healthy people. One must live on the “Mucusless Diet” and narrow one’s sensitivity. The paradisiacal diet does not harmonize with the Sodoms of civilization, just as no one can arrive at a strict fruit diet except through a transition—via the “Mucusless Diet.” It must be carefully and gradually introduced, and individually adjusted.
The universe is governed by laws that never change; therefore, just as fruits were the paradisiacal food of the most beautiful and godlike beings, they are today the supreme paradisiacal healing diet.

Introductory Principles
LESSON I
Every disease, regardless of what medical name it bears, is
CONSTIPATION

A clogging of the entire tubular system of the human body. Therefore, any specific symptom is simply a unusual local stagnation of mucus in that particular place. Special accumulation points are the tongue, the stomach, and especially the entire digestive tract. The latter is the real and deeper cause of constipation in the intestines. The average person continuously carries around in their intestines approximately ten pounds (4.5 kg; translator’s note) of uneliminated feces, which poison the bloodstream and the whole system. Think about it!
Every sick person has a more or less mucus‑clogged system. Such mucus results from undigested and uneliminated unnatural food substances, accumulated since childhood. Details regarding this fact may be studied in my book “Лечение голодом и плодами” (“Rational Fasting and Regeneration Diet”).
My “Mucus Theory” and “Healing System of the Mucusless Diet” remain unshaken; they have proven the most successful “compensatory action” — so‑called healing — against every kind of disease. Applied systematically, thousands of patients pronounced “incurable” can be saved.
The Mucusless Diet consists of all kinds of raw and cooked fruits, non‑starchy vegetables, and cooked or raw herbs. The Healing System of the Mucusless Diet is a combination of individually determined long or short fasts with progressively changing menus of “non‑mucus‑forming” foods. This diet alone can heal any “disease” without fasting, although such a treatment requires a longer time. The System itself will be explained in later lessons.
However, in order to know how to apply the system, to understand how and why it works, it is necessary to free your mind from medical errors, partly adopted by naturopathy. In other words, I must teach you a new physiology, free from medical errors; a new method of diagnosis; the correction of fundamental errors about metabolism, high‑protein foods, blood circulation, composition of the blood, and last but not least, you need to know
WHAT “VITAL FORCE” REALLY IS.
For medical science, the human body is still a mystery, especially in a state of disease. Every new “discovery” by doctors is a new mystery for them. There are no words to express how far they are from the truth. Naturopathy uses the phrase “vital force” continuously. Yet neither “medical scientists” nor naturopaths can say what vital force really is.
It is necessary not only to erase all these errors from your brain, but also to show you the truth in such a new and simple light that you can accept it at once. The great advantage of simplicity and clarity is one of the fundamental reasons for my success. Besides, my teaching embraces the Truth. By the way, what cannot be explained in simple words is nonsense, no matter how scientific it may sound.
You will understand how wrong and foolish it is to believe that any particular disease can be cured by the right food, by living on “special menus,” or by applying long fasts, if all this is done without experience, without a system, and without special adjustment to each individual case.
“Fasting” has been known for hundreds of years as a “compensation” against every disease, as the single and unfailing law of Nature; the same applies to the Mucusless Diet, as stated in the Book of Genesis (concerning fruits and herbs). But why have they never come into general use and brought universal success? Because they have never been used systematically and in accordance with the patient’s condition. The average person has not the slightest idea how necessary the process of elimination is; how much time it requires; how and how often his diet must be changed; what is needed to cleanse the body of the terrible amounts of filth accumulated in it over a lifetime.
Disease is the body’s effort to eliminate waste, mucus, and toxins, and this system helps Nature in the most wonderful and natural way. Not the disease, but the body must be healed! It must be cleansed, set free from unnecessary and foreign substances, from mucus and toxins accumulated since childhood. You cannot buy health in a bottle, you cannot cure your body — that is, cleanse your system — in just a few days. You must “compensate” for the harm done to the body throughout your entire life.
My system is not a treatment or medicine; it is regeneration, a thorough housecleaning, the acquisition of such pure and wonderful health as you have never known before.
Remember: your organic obstructions in all systems of the body are the root of every disease; the largest and most harmful source of lowered vitality, imperfect health, lack of strength and endurance — of any and all diseased conditions. Their cause lies in the intestines, never completely emptied since your birth. No one on earth today has an ideally clean body, and therefore, perfectly pure blood. What medicine calls “normal health” is actually a pathological condition.
Brief summary: The human mechanism is an elastic tubular system. The food of civilization is never completely digested, and the remaining waste is never fully eliminated. The tubular system slowly clogs up, especially at the site of the specific disease symptom and in the digestive tract. This is the foundation of every disease. To get rid of these impurities, to eliminate them intelligently and thoroughly, and to manage this operation can only be done by applying the HEALING SYSTEM OF THE MUCUSLESS DIET.

Hidden, Acute and Chronic Diseases — No Longer a Mystery
LESSON II

The first lesson gave you an understanding of what illness truly is. In addition to mucus and its poisons, there are other foreign substances in the system, such as uric acid, toxins, etc., and especially drugs. Over years of practical experience, I have learned that drugs are NEVER eliminated like food waste — they remain in the body for many decades! Under my observation, there have been hundreds of cases where drugs taken 10, 20, 30, and even 40 years earlier were expelled together with mucus through this wonderful healing system. This is a fact of primary importance — especially for the practitioner. When these chemical poisons, after breaking down, re-enter the bloodstream for elimination through the kidneys — the nerves and heart can be affected — causing extreme nervousness, dizziness, cardiac arrhythmia, and other unusual reactions. An uninformed person, confronted with these problems, is likely to call the family doctor, who will diagnose this condition as a “heart defect” caused by “lack of food,” ignoring the drugs he prescribed 10 years ago.

A “normal” person, considered healthy, has chronic, accumulated waste from unnecessary food, poisons, and drug toxins.

THIS IS HIS HIDDEN ILLNESS.

When these hidden disease substances are set in motion, for example by cold, a person discharges large quantities of mucus and feels miserable instead of rejoicing in the cleansing natural process. If the amount of released mucus is large enough to shake the whole system, but without life-threatening danger, then this condition may be diagnosed as influenza. If nature’s cleansing work penetrates deeper into the system (especially into such a vital organ as the lungs), then so much mucus and poisons are liberated at once that the circulation is forced to work with great friction, like a dirty mechanism, or a car driving with a seized brake. The friction produces an abnormally high temperature, called fever. In such cases, doctors diagnose “pneumonia.” In reality, this is a “feverish” attempt by nature to free a vital organ from debris. If the kidneys become involved in the elimination process — to expel the freed mucus — thus shaking that organ, the condition is called “kidney inflammation,” etc.

In other words, whenever nature tries to save a human life through “feverish” attempts to eliminate mucus and its toxic products, it is called

ACUTE DISEASE

In the medical profession, there are more than 4,000 names for various diseases. The specific name of a disease is formulated according to the particular location of elimination, or the location of stagnation, where blood passes with difficulty, causing pain — as in joint pains, rheumatism, etc.

For ages, this well-intentioned, purposeful work of nature aimed at healing has been misunderstood and suppressed with drugs and food, despite the warning signals of danger — pain and loss of appetite. Despite the “help” of doctors — help that is, in fact, harmful and dangerous to the patient’s life — his vitality and especially his eliminative capacity are reduced, but nature slowly continues its work. Facing these obstacles, it cannot work as effectively; it requires more time, and the case is called “chronic.” This word is derived from the Greek “chronos,” meaning “time.” In Lesson 7, you will learn more about this secret.

Diagnosis

LESSON III, WHY IS A DIAGNOSIS NEEDED?

Laypeople and even some dietary experts (with the exception of myself) believe there is no need whatsoever for a diagnosis. You may ask—since there is only one disease, why is a diagnosis necessary? If every unhealthy condition stems from contamination by uneliminated, undigested food, mucus, uric acid, toxins, drugs, etc., why diagnose? We shall now understand why the fruit diet and fasting have led to such questionable results—because of their incorrect use and the misunderstanding caused by the belief that the general rules of this treatment are suitable for everyone and for every case. Nothing is further from the truth! No other treatment requires such individual specialization and gradual adjustment according to the patient’s reaction. That is why people who attempt to apply these methods of healing without experienced guidance often suffer serious harmful consequences.
HAPHAZARD FASTING
McFadden and many others, for example, recommend fasting as a method applicable to all cases. I have learned, having observed thousands of cases, that nothing demands a more individual, differentiated approach than fasting and the mucusless diet. Of two patients, one may recover completely after a two- or three-week fast, while the other may die within the same period! That is precisely why an individual diagnosis of the general condition and the degree of contamination is so necessary.
THE METHOD OF ORGANIC DIAGNOSIS
My diagnosis includes the following points:

The relative amount of obstructions in the system.
What the bulk of them consists of—mucus or poisons.
Whether there is pus in the system, the quantity and type of drugs used.
Whether the internal tissue or an organ is undergoing decomposition.
How much the vital force has been lowered.
You will also understand from experience and from further reading of this book that the general appearance, especially the patient’s face, will indicate, more or less, his internal condition.
MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
Medical diagnosis does not give a real explanation of the disease, although doctors think it is more important than the treatment itself. It is made according to a set of symptoms and based on past experience of the course of thousands of diseases. The particularly meaningless nature of medical diagnosis is confirmed by the frequent assertion of many patients that “the doctors never did find out what I was suffering from.” The name of the disease does not interest us at all. One person with gout, another with stomach trouble, a third with kidney inflammation—all may start with the same advice. For example, the decision as to whether to fast and for how long depends not on the name of the disease, but on the patient’s condition and how much the vital force has been lowered.
NATUROPATHIC CONCEPTS
The advantage of naturopathy over medicine lies in the assertion that all diseases are caused by internal filth. Naturopathy does not fully explain the source, nature, and composition of these “foreign substances.”
Doctor Lahmann asserted: “Every disease is caused by carbonic acid and gas.” But he did not find their source in the decomposed, uneliminated food residues—mucus in a state of continuous fermentation.
Doctor Jaeger asserted: “Disease is a stench.” Nature herself makes the diagnosis by means of a foul odor, which indicates how far the internal decomposition has progressed.
Doctor Haigh of England (the founder of the diet aimed at combating uric acid) bases his concept of a general diagnosis on the assumption that most diseases are caused precisely by uric acid. Of course, it is an essential part of the harmful substances, besides the mucus itself.
DIAGNOSIS BY URINALYSIS
Doctors, like many others, regard this type of diagnosis as the most important. But this diagnosis is fundamentally misunderstood. Apart from the digestive tract, the urinary channel is the main highway of elimination. As soon as anyone reduces the amount of food consumed, fasts a little, or switches to a natural diet, waste, mucus, poisons, uric acid, phosphates, etc. appear in his urine, and urinalysis becomes alarming. The same thing happens in most cases whenever a person becomes ill. Everyone can see the body’s attempt to eliminate waste—which is, in truth, a healing and cleansing process.
If sugar or protein is found in the urine, the case is called “very serious,” and a diagnosis of “diabetes” or “kidney inflammation” is given accordingly. With drug treatment, the patient in the first named case dies from sugar starvation, caused by a lack of sugar and sugar-forming products in the diet. In the second case, the patient dies from an intensified “replacement of wasted protein”—overfeeding with protein-rich foods.
Any substance that the body removes from itself is useless, decomposed, dead. This simply indicates that the patient is in an advanced state of internal contamination, which has already caused decomposition of internal organs—leading to the rapid breakdown of any food that enters the body. Such cases (for example—tuberculosis) must be treated very cautiously and VERY SLOWLY.
WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE THE HUMAN INTESTINE
It is of paramount importance that through our diagnosis we should understand as much as possible about the inner condition of the human body. Our diagnosis, therefore, consists in discovering the degree of contamination of the patient.
Expert pathologists state that 60 to 70 percent of the colons examined contain foreign bodies such as worms and decades-old, hardened fecal stones. The inner walls of the large intestine are plastered with old, hardened feces and in appearance resemble the inside of a dirty chimney.
I have had obese patients who eliminated from the body, no more and no less, 50–60 pounds of waste (1 lb = 0.4535924 kg; translator’s note). And 10 to 15 pounds from the intestine alone, consisting mainly of foreign substances—especially old, hardened feces. The average so-called “healthy” person carries with him continuously, from childhood on, several pounds of never-eliminated feces. One “good stool” a day means nothing. A fat and sick person is actually a living “cesspool.” I was particularly astonished that many of my patients in such a condition had already tried so-called “natural methods of healing.”

Diagnosis (Part 2)
LESSON IV
FAT AND THIN PEOPLE

The body of a fat person, on average, has more mechanical obstacles because they mainly overeat starchy foods. In a thin body, there are more physiological, chemical obstacles. Such a person, as a rule, is a one‑sided meat eater — a condition that produces especially high acidity, large amounts of uric acid, other poisons and pus.
HISTORY OF ILLNESS
As a rule, I ask my patients questions, the knowledge of the answers to which is very important:

How long have you been ill?
What did the doctor call your illness?
What treatment was prescribed?
How many and what kinds of medicines were taken?
Have you ever been operated on?
What other types of treatment have you undergone before?
(Age, sex, hereditary diseases, etc., are also important points).
However, the most important thing is the patient’s current diet, his cravings for certain foods, his harmful habits, whether there is constipation and how long it has lasted, what types of diets were used before. This is necessary in order to build changes into the patient’s existing diet. It is advisable to make only SMALL CHANGES in the direction of an improved diet.
EXPERIMENTAL DIAGNOSIS
The most accurate and unmistakable diagnosis is given by a short fast. The sooner the patient begins to feel “worse” during a short fast, the greater in quantity and the more poisonous are his accumulations. If he develops dizziness, severe headaches, etc., he is very clogged with mucus and toxins. If the heart rate accelerates repeatedly, this is a sign that somewhere in the system there is pus, or that medicines, even those taken many years ago, are in the bloodstream for elimination.
Any internal special “place of stagnation” begins to ache slightly. The practitioner can ascertain, better than an X-ray machine, through the revelation of nature after a short fast, the true condition of the internal organs and systems of the human body. And he knows the real diagnosis more correctly than doctors with all their expensive scientific equipment and instruments.
If this diagnostic method obtained through fasting is tried on an average, so‑called “normal” and “healthy” person, nature will show how much he is actually clogged with mucus (latent disease). And if a “weak spot” has begun to develop, unsuspected by him, nature will unmistakably indicate where and how he will later become ill if an unhealthy lifestyle is continued. Although this development of disease may take several years. This is what the prognosis of disease is.
SOME SPECIFIC DIAGNOSES
To show that all differently named diseases (even the most serious) have their cause and are all caused by the same general organic accumulations in the body, I will show you, in the light of truth, several characteristic cases. Through these illustrative examples I will prove that there is no disease, discomfort or sensation, unhealthy manifestation or symptom, that cannot be explained and seen at once in its true nature as local constipation, an organic stagnation of mucus and its toxins. Most of them are continuously supplied from “chronic deposits of waste” located in the abdomen and especially in the intestines. The “foundation” of the human “temple” is a reservoir from which weakness and every sign of disease are supplied in all their manifestations.
Cold
A useful effort to eliminate waste from the cavities of the head, throat and bronchial tubes.
Pneumonia
A cold penetrates deeper and eliminates mucus from the most spongy and vital organ — the lung. Bleeding occurs in more radical cases of housecleaning. The whole system becomes excited, causing a higher fever through the presence of foreign substances in the bloodstream. This causes alarm, and the doctor suppresses these symptoms with medicines and food, actually blocking the natural healing and cleansing process. If the patient does not die, the elimination becomes chronic and is called “consumption.”
The consumptive patient continuously expels through the lungs (instead of the natural routes) the mucus obtained from wrongly increased nourishment with mucus‑forming foods. The organ itself decays more and more, producing germs. And then this is called tuberculosis.
The vital organ (the lung) — a pump — carries out circulation less efficiently, the whole cell system decays more and more, and decomposes, leading to the patient’s death.
Toothache
This pain is a warning signal from nature: “Stop eating; I must repair the body; there is waste and pus; you have eaten too much food poor in lime, meat.”
Rheumatism and Gout
Mucus and uric acid, especially accumulated in the joints — as these are less important parts of the tissues for the bloodstream, heavily loaded with waste and uric acid in the body of a one‑sided meat eater.
The stomach is the central organ of supply of disease‑producing substances. There is a limit to the ability of this organ to digest and empty itself after eating. Any food (even the best kinds) mixes with the acid mucus continuously remaining in the stomach of the average person. The wonder is how long a person can endure such conditions.
By its nature — a deposit of an enormous amount of waste, meant to prevent it from entering the bloodstream.
Furuncle
In principle the same, only the elimination takes place on the outside.
Stuttering
An accumulation of mucus in the throat, affecting the functioning of the vocal cords. I have cured several people with this disorder.
Diseases of the Liver and Kidneys
These organs have a very spongy structure, and their function, like a physiological sieve, is to sieve and filter. Therefore they easily become clogged with sticky mucus.
Venereal Diseases
These are nothing other than the elimination of mucus through the sex organs, and they are easily cured. The use of medicines alone creates the characteristic symptoms of syphilis. The more medicines were used, especially those containing mercury, the more cautious the treatment must be.
Ear and Eye Diseases
Even nearsightedness or farsightedness, and hearing problems come from the accumulation of foreign substances in the eyes and ears. I have cured several cases of blindness and deafness using the same principles.
MENTAL DISORDERS
In addition to the general clogging of the system, I have found that in every mentally ill person there is stagnation, especially in the brain. One person on the verge of insanity was cured by a four‑week fast. There is nothing easier than treating insanity by fasting — such people have lost the ability to reason; their natural instinct tells them not to eat.
I have learned that by healing with the Healing System of the Mucusless Diet all kinds of diseases, most patients are more or less freed from mental disorders. After fasting the mind becomes clear. Unity of ideas replaces various contradictions

Magic Mirror
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LESSONS OF DIAGNOSIS III AND IV

Since man has degenerated through civilization, he no longer knows what to do when he falls ill. The disease remains as much a mystery to modern medical science as it was to the “medicine man” thousands of years ago—there exists a mysterious external force intent on harming you and destroying your life. The main difference is that the “germ” theory has replaced “demonic possession.”
Disease is a mystery to you, just as it is to every doctor who has not yet looked into the “magic mirror” that I am about to explain. Naturopathy deserves thanks for proving that disease exists inside you—it is foreign substances that have weight and must be eliminated.
If you want to become your own doctor, if you seek ways of healing without drugs and want to succeed, then you must learn the truth and know what disease is. You cannot heal yourself or others without an accurate diagnosis that gives you an idea of the body’s true condition. This infallible truth can only be obtained from the book of Nature—through the test on your own body—the “magic mirror.”
Suffering from any kind of disease for any person, whether they are ill at the moment or not, will pass through the healing process of fasting and a mucusless diet. The mucus eliminated in this process will demonstrate that the basic cause of all hidden human diseases is a tissue system clogged with uneliminated, unused, and undigested food substances.
Through the “magic mirror” a true and unshakeable diagnosis of your disease will be made.
“THE MAGIC MIRROR”

Proof that your personal, individual symptom, inflammation, or diseased condition (according to the name of your disease) is nothing other than an extraordinary local accumulation of waste.
A coated tongue is evidence of organic obstructions throughout the entire system, hindering and overloading the blood circulation with decomposed mucus. This mucus even appears in the urine.
The presence of uneliminated feces, retained due to sticky mucus in the pockets of the intestines, constantly poisoning and interfering with digestion and blood-building.
To see inside your body better than doctors can with expensive X-ray machines, and to understand the cause of your disease, or even to discover some previously unknown physical or mental defects, try the following:
Fast for one or two days, or eat only fruits (such as oranges, apples—any juicy fruit in season) for two or three days, and you will notice that your tongue becomes heavily coated. When this happens to an acutely ill patient, the doctor’s conclusion is always the same—“stomach upset.” The tongue is a mirror not only of the stomach, but of the entire membranous system. The fact that this heavy coating returns, even if scraped off the tongue several times a day, is an exact sign of the amount of filth, mucus, and other poisons accumulated in the tissues of your whole system, now being expelled onto the inner surface of the stomach, intestines, and every cavity of your body.
After fasting it is advisable to reduce the amount of food you habitually consume, and to eat only natural, cleansing, mucus‑free foods (fruits and non‑starchy vegetables). This will give the body an opportunity to loosen and eliminate mucus, which in essence is the HEALING PROCESS.
This “mirror” on the surface of the tongue shows the observer the amount of obstructions that have been clogging the system since childhood—due to wrong, mucus‑forming foods. By observing the urine during this test (allowing it to settle for several hours), you will notice the elimination of large amounts of mucus.
The actual amount of filth and waste that is the “mysterious” cause of your “troubles” is truly incredible.
Every disease is, first: a specific, localized stagnation of blood circulation; tissues; tubular system, manifesting itself in various symptoms. If there is severe pain or inflammation, it is due to high pressure or temperature caused by friction and local obstruction.
Second: Disease is a general constipation. The entire human tubular system, especially the microscopic capillaries, is “chronically” clogged because of the wrong foods of civilization.
White blood corpuscles are unnecessary waste—and there is not a single person of Western civilization whose blood is without mucus and whose blood vessels are not clogged with mucus. It is like soot in a chimney that has never been cleaned. In fact, it is worse—because the obstructions from protein and starchy foods are STICKY.
The tissues, especially of important internal organs (such as the lungs, kidneys, all glands, etc.), closely resemble a sponge in structure. Imagine a sponge soaked in paste or glue!
Naturopathy as a science must be cleansed of medical superstition, wrongly called “scientific diagnosis.” Nature alone is the teacher of the science of truth. She heals through one thing—FASTING—any disease that can be healed at all. This alone is proof that Nature recognizes only one disease, and that in every body the greatest harmful factors are always waste, foreign substances, and mucus (in addition to uric acid and other toxins, and very often—pus, if there is tissue decomposition).
To understand how terribly polluted the human body is, one must, like me, see thousands of fasting people. An almost insoluble question: how can such quantities of waste be stored in the body? Have you ever wondered what mass of phlegm you expel during a cold? And just as it happens in your head, your bronchioles, lungs, stomach, kidneys, bladder, etc.—all are subject to the same process of mucus elimination. All are in the same condition. And the spongy organ known as the tongue exactly reflects on its surface the condition of every part of your body.
Medicine has developed a “special science” of laboratory tests, diagnoses from urine and blood analyses.
More than fifty years ago, the most prominent pioneers of naturopathy said: “Every disease is foreign substances, waste.” I said twenty years ago, and I repeat again and again, that most of these foreign substances are paste, produced from wrong foods. When, after the process of decomposition, they leave the body, they are noticeable as mucus. Meat, in decay, forms pus.
The light of truth dawned on me after I fasted against the will of the naturopath who was treating me for kidney inflammation. When the test tube filled with protein, I read his thoughts in the expression on his face. But it seemed to me that what Nature removes from the body is useless, regardless of whether it is protein, sugar, mineral salts, or uric acid. That was more than twenty-four years ago, yet this folk healer (a former doctor of medical sciences) still believes in replacing protein with foods high in protein.
The medical diagnosis “kidney inflammation,” when a chemical urine test shows a high percentage of protein, is as misleading as others. The elimination of protein proves that the body does not need it, that it is overfed and overloaded with high‑protein foods. Instead of reducing these poison‑producing foods, their quantity is mistakenly increased in an attempt to replace the “loss”—until the patient dies. How tragic—to replace waste while Nature is trying to save you by removing it!
The next important laboratory test is for sugar in the urine (in diabetes). The medical dictionary still calls this “mysterious.” Instead of eating natural sweets that enter the blood and can be used, the diabetic patient is fed eggs, meat, bacon, etc., and he, in fact, dies from sugar starvation caused by a lack of natural, sugar‑containing and sugar‑producing foods that were denied him.
It has long been proven that all these blood tests, especially the Wassermann test, are erroneous.
We, as naturopaths, cannot ignore Nature’s teaching in any case; even though it may be difficult for us to give up old errors instilled in us since childhood.
One of the most misleading errors is the individual labeling of all diseases. The name of any disease is unimportant and has no value when natural treatment (especially through fasting and diet) begins. If every disease is caused by foreign substances (which is indisputable), then it is only important and necessary to know how heavily the patient is actually polluted, how much his system is clogged with foreign substances, how diminished his vital force is (see Lesson 5), and in the case of tuberculosis or cancer—whether the tissues are in a state of decomposition (whether pus and germs are present).
I have had hundreds of patients who told me that the doctors they had consulted gave various diagnoses and, accordingly, different names for their diseases. I always astonish them by saying, “I know exactly what is troubling you—through face diagnosis—and you will see it yourself in the ‘magic mirror’ within a few days.”
EXPERIMENTAL DIAGNOSIS
As I stated at the beginning of this lesson, you must fast for two or three days (if you are stout, drink more liquids during the fast). The surface of the tongue will clearly indicate the condition of the internal organs, and the patient’s breath will show the amount and stage of decomposition. It may even be possible to indicate the kind of food they preferred most!
If at the beginning of the fast pain is felt in a certain place, you can be sure that this is your weak link, but the symptom has not yet developed sufficiently for doctors to find it through their examinations.
Waste will appear in the urine and stool together with clouds of mucus. Mucus will be expelled from the nose, throat, lungs, etc. The weaker and more miserable the patient feels during fasting, the greater his pollution and the weaker his vital force.
This experimental diagnosis will show you exactly where the trouble is and how to correct it, starting with a moderate transitional diet (or a more radical one), and whether to continue or stop the fast.
This experiment is the foundation, the basis for the development of the science of Natural Healing, physics, chemistry, etc. It is a question posed to Nature, to which she gives an infallible answer always and everywhere.
If the patient becomes agitated, heart pains appear, you can be sure that there are deposits of drugs taken at some time in his body. A consumptive patient begins with such terrible elimination after a short fast that it must be absolutely clear to everyone how ignorant and impossible it is to try to cure him with “good nourishing foods,” such as eggs and milk.
The above explanation is the experimental and only correct diagnosis. You cannot get a better idea of what is happening inside you than by using this simple method. No expensive apparatus can more accurately show the true internal state of the body. All other examinations, including diagnosis of the iris, spine, etc., are never exact and therefore not reliable.
The mirror of Nature, her revelations, her demonstrations—this is “magic” only as long as you lack the correct interpretation of them. Nature shows you everything much more accurately and better than all the “diagnostic sciences” put together.
PROGNOSIS OF DISEASE
Now we come to the prognosis of disease. Everyone, regardless of the degree to which they enjoy “good health,” has hidden diseases—Nature is only waiting for the opportunity to eliminate the waste accumulated from childhood to the present day.
Everyone knows, but fails to understand, that a serious “shock” (such as a cold, or “flu”) to the whole body starts elimination. But, unfortunately, Nature is hindered in her attempted house‑cleaning by the doctor’s advice to keep eating, by the use of drugs, etc., obstructing elimination and producing acute and chronic diseases.
Anyone, even a “healthy” person, especially in the critical stage between thirty and forty years of age, can fast for a few days and, through the “magic mirror,” study the degree of his hidden disease, where his weak link is located, the name of his hidden disease, and where it will manifest in the future. This is the prognosis of disease, and if insurance companies believed in it, it would give them a true and safe method of determining “risks.”
To fast until the tongue is completely clean is dangerous. Who can explain why the tongue becomes clean after a fast has been interrupted by wrong food, and why the “magic mirror” shows even more pollution if, after fasting, you live on fruits or a mucusless diet? This is, up to now, an unexplained secret of the “magic mirror.” And the explanation is quite simple: elimination stops for a while because of the intake of wrong foods. As a result, you feel better on them for a time than on fruits. And during this period even the “magic mirror” leads you to conclude that the body is clean. A return to natural foods soon proves the opposite.
For the average person, it will take from one to three years of systematic fasting and a natural, cleansing diet before the body is truly cleansed of “foreign substances.” During this period you will see how the body constantly eliminates waste through the entire outer surface, every pore of the skin; through the urinary tract and intestines; from the eyes and ears; from the nose and throat. You will see how both moist and dry mucus (for example dandruff) are removed. All diseases, therefore, are enormous quantities of “chronically” stored waste. Having passed through this artificially induced elimination of “chronic disease,” you will agree with me and understand that I am not exaggerating when I state:
The diagnosis of your disease—of all diseases of humanity—both mental and physical, from the very beginning of civilization proves that they all have one and the same fundamental cause, in whatever symptoms it may manifest. This is, without exception, the one common and universal condition of every disease: waste, foreign substances, mucus, and its poisons.
“Inner pollution” is too mild an expression for chronic constipation. Waste, filth, mucus, stench (repulsive odor), invisible toxins—is a truer description of this subject.

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