Medi-Sign Target: exercise, fresh air, peppers & salt

Colds:  Find a cure and millions upon millions will die because a cold is the body’s method of elimination by dumping toxins, viruses and bacterial overwhelm.

Eating foods high in vitamin C is the number one best thing you can do for a cold.

A great thing to do for colds and a sore throat is to eat sliced onions.  Eat them raw or cooked slowly; do not brown them, though.  Put them then in water until they are almost a syrup and add a squirt of lemon and a tablespoon of honey and mix well.  Some people strain the onion out, and others drink it down with the syrup.

Garlic is also a renowned remedy for colds.

Drink vitamin C-rich juice like orange, tomato, grapefruit or pineapple.  This can help you get over a cold, if you drink at least five glasses a day.  Studies show it takes that much whole food vitamin C to reduce sneezes and coughs in cold sufferers.

Other remedies include:

• Serve a steamy bowl of comfort…
• Keep a glass of water on your nightstand…
• Try a ginger brew…
• Eat south of the border…
• Pump your legs…
• Snort salt water…
• Make your home tropical…
• Chill out…

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Excerpt from Don Tolman’s FDR Vol 2 pp340 & 341

Would you like to get more healthy benefits from your aerobic workout?  Would you like to burn more fat during your workout?  Would you like to reduce exercise-related fatigue and injury?  Would you like to increase your endurance and stamina?  Would you like your workout to help improve your breathing?

If your answer is “yes” to any or all of these questions, then there is one simple thing you can do.  Don’t let yourself become “breathless” during your workout.  We undermine our breathing coordination, burn sugar instead of fat for fuel and become tight and tense, which can promote injury, when we become breathless.

The simplest way to know whether you are exercising too intensely and becoming breathless is to try to speak several sentences out loud while you’re working out.  Your workout is no longer “aerobic” if you can’t do it without gasping for breath.  It is, or is about to become “anaerobic“, which means that it is proceeding without oxygen and you are no longer burning fat for fuel.

Inhaling and exhaling only through your nose is a simple way to ensure that you are working out at a level that will not make you breathless.  If you try this, you will quickly discover, especially at the beginning, that you will have to work at a less intense rate during your workout.  Gradually, your breathing coordination will improve and you will be able to do more and progress more rapidly.

Eventually, you’ll have more power and last longer than others who don’t know this almost forgotten secret of the Ancient Olympiad.  Breathing through your nose is a great regulator of CO2-to-oxygen ratio, and you actually run internally better on  more CO2 than oxygen.

Excerpt from Don Tolman’s FDR Vol 2 pp 255-256.

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“C” = 5 lbs carrots

Vegetable Jewel

“A” = 2 red apples

“B” = 1 beet 1/3 fist-size

“A” = 2 yellow apples

“L” = 1 whole lemon (rind & all if able, otherwise just the juice)

“A” = 2 green apples

Juice in food processor.

Drink 1/2 gallon minimum (no maximum) of CABALA juice for 14 to 21 days.

After this 14- to 21-day CABALA event (you chose 14 to 21 according to needs and desires of recovery), become a “wholesome raw food” vegetarian until your symptoms remit.  At that point, you decide what the risks of your former diet and lifestyle were and the course you wish to follow.

Excerpt from Don’s FDR Vol 1 pp 52.  Proud FDR owners, be sure to read the entire section “Disease: The Mystery Solved“.

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During an extended fast, the body expels both organic and inorganic poisonous substances, such as iodine, arsenic, mercury, acids, viral agents, oxalates and more.  All these substances impair body functions and are hard to eliminate under normal circumstances.

While fasting, the stomach and intestines will shrink considerably.  The excretion of digestive juices will decrease and your intestines will change from being organs of absorption to organs of excretion.  The excretion of waste products and toxins will also take place in the liver and other organs participating in the digestive process.  This phenomena will start in full force after the third day of a fast…

Heart activity also will change while fasting.  The pulse rate will go down as the heartbeat slows.  Fasting, therefore, can ease and improve certain heart conditions, such as high blood pressure, and the healing of the actual tissues of the heart.  The transition from solid foods to fluids will subject the body to certain strains that it may not be used to.  The curtailed supply of nutrients may sometimes lead to certain side effects, such as worry, sleeplessness, feelings of cold, hunger, nausea, muscle ache and constipation.  Those who experience the most discomfort are those in most need of this cleansing.  The best cures for these symptoms are fresh, clean air, daily exercise, a relaxing environment, enemas, and rest.

Excerpt from Don’s FDR Vol 1 pp 391.  Proud FDR owners, be sure to read the entire section “Fasting Words from Gaea“.

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Medi-Sign Target: brain food

Kale is very beneficial to the stomach and can alleviate lung congestion.  Due to the fact that it is an ancient member of the cabbage family, it is abundant in sulfur.  Therefore, its juice can be used to treat stomach and duodenal ulcers.  Unfortunately, kale is not cold-weather green so its flavor does become sweeter with a touch of frost.  Yet, during its growing season in the fall, winter and early spring, kale is an exceptional source of calcium, chlorophyll, iron and vitamin A.

Kale is a rich source of various cancer activity chemicals.  It has more beta carotene than spinach and twice as much lutein, which is the most of any vegetable tested.  Kale is also a member of the cruciferous family, endowing it with cancer indoles that help regulate estrogen and removes colon cancer.

Excerpt from Don’s FDR Vol 2 pp 530

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If there was a pump failure or major blockage in the city’s sewer system, it would not be hard to imagine what could happen. All of the pipes would back up when an immovable material came through, creating a gigantic crisis that would threaten the health of all who lived in the city.

Many of the devastating plagues and diseases that literally wiped out entire cities and communities arose from open sewers and improper waste disposal. If the sewer ever backs up, dangerous health problems occur!

The sewer system can also be shut down by a power failure.  The works themselves are functioning properly, but their energy source is cut off or only slightly function.

This is what would happen if our bowels ever backed  up, or if the food we took was nutritionally deficient or failed to give us the energy we need.  The build-up of toxic materials within the bowel can cause a condition known as autointoxication as the poisons in the bowel are absorbed into the bloodstream, automatically toxicating the entire body.

Why does this happen? The foremost reasons are improper eating and exercise habits.  Modern civilization, especially the industrialized nations, have the greatest bowel disturbances.  Native peoples living close to the land and nature do not experience bowel problems, and such diseases as diverticulitis and colitis are virtually unknown.

The further we stray from natural foods and the more we depend upon unnatural and artificial foodstuffs, the more certain it becomes that sickness and disease increase in frequency and intensity. The way we grow, harvest, process and market our food is at the root of much disease in our population.

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Excerpt from FDR Vol 1 pp362

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Helping Others Through Depression:

What’s the best thing to do if someone close to you gets depressed?

“Listen” more than anything; your friend needs an ear.  If someone you care about seems depressed and hasn’t said anything about it, go ahead and ask, “Do you feel depressed?“.  Follow this up with open-ended questions like, “When did you first start feeling this way?“.  This is a good question, because determining when a depression began often helps uncover the incident or incidents that might have sparked it.

As your friend opens up and starts talking about his depression, do your best to create a safe environment.  Don’t trivialize the situation by saying things like “Oh, cut it out, you have no reason to be depressed.”

Don’t offer easy solutions like “You know, all you need is…“  Instead, let the person find his own solutions, using you as a sounding board for ideas.

Do try to get the depressed person involved in physical activities like exercise.

Do try to keep the person interested in finding solutions because remember: depression could be defined as a loss of interest in all things.

And that’s the end of this 4-part series.  We hope this helped to provide a better understanding of the overwhelming sensation of depression, maybe how to cope with it a bit better or to better understand someone else’s pain.

Excerpt from Don’s FDR Vol 2.  For proud FDR owners, check pp 369 – 371 Vol 2.

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“For most of recorded history the only medicine available was folk medicine.  Remedies will only be passed on for multiple generations and for millenniums if they work.  Time and distance created the collective body of wisdom we call folk medicine.  Folk medicine then has truly passed the test of time and passed the scrutiny of experience.

Folk medicine is the compendium of wisdom that reflects not just the science of health but also the art and the method of these principles.  For instance, the nature around us in the area of living chemistry presents an array of non-toxic healing substances that are the Materia Medica of nature’s apothecary.  Whole foods provide a safe, living, energetic, “chemotherapy” if you will.  Whole foods are the anatomica metabolic nutricon that constitutes folk medicine.

Today, pharmaceutical science is jealous, envious and even hateful of plants and their attendant work, they do their work, their magic and wonders, without doing harm.  There is not one vaccine or drug that do that.  In my mind, I can see a time coming early on in the “Age of Imagination” we are now in, when every man, woman and child embraces “Self Care” by walking everyday, eating just whole foods and developing and maintaining a positive (inner sunshine) attitude.  These things go a long way to not only prevent disease but to remit existing conditions.  I do believe that within this next decade, the best of modern medicine, symptomatic response mechanism in the form of “first aid“, will be joined with ancient natural principles of “folk medicinal cures” to form a hybrid, “in home (effective and cost effective) clinics of Self Care.”

Whole food and fasting, working with nature’s air and water, sunshine and walking, pleasure of family and relationships and passion in creative pursuits, these are the bed rock of vitality into longevity; these are the seven Principles of Health.  As our modern society’s very fabric seems to be fraying at the edges, it is obvious that the valuable heritage of natural healing preserved by “backward” (truly genius) people and their enviable lifestyle of simplicity through time, need to be not only applauded and honored, but fully embraced into the daily performances of our own individual existence.  Self care.  There truly is no greater power than an idea whose time has come.” – Don Tolman

Excerpt from FDR #3 pp 137

Asthma is a chronic disease that affects the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. This causes symptoms like coughing, chest tightness and breathing problems.

Here are a few ways to ease Asthma:

* Acupuncture: has been found to significally improve Asthma and other chronic lung conditions

* Yoga: improves overall well-being, promotes greater relaxation and increases exercise tolerance

* Dietary Changes: I’ve seen it and it’s been proven, that a vegetarian diet significantly improves the condition of Asthma.

*Juice Therapy: 2 oz onion juice, 2 oz carrot juice, 2 oz parsley juice – drink twice daily

*Detoxification of liver & colon: optimum functioning of these two vital organs is crucial

Asthma inhaler

Today’s message and thousands more tips and info can be found in my 2-volume, 1,600 page Encyclopedia of Wholefood Medicine, the Farmacist Desk Reference (FDR)

Chronic Fatigue

There are commonly a number of simple causes of fatigue. If we could eliminate those causes, fatigue would normally disappear.

One of the most rarely understood causes of fatigue is overeating. We’re lead to believe generally that meals would be the very thing to help cure fatigue, but the reverse is actually the case. While a heavier supper may enable some to sleep – the sleep of the drugged, it does not cause refreshment, putting the morning person in a partial stupor.

Too little exercise is another common cause of fatigue. Again it would appear that exercise would cause fatigue in itself. Not so! Moderate exercise actually invigorates the body. As the out-of-condition person begins to exercise, chronic fatigue may disappear like magic. The less you do, the less you can do. The more you do, the more you’re body wants to do and the more you are capable of doing.

Another cause of weakness and fatigue is the use of too little water. Drinking water will perk you up just as a wilted flower perks up in water. Chronic dehydration is often caused by diuretics such as coffee, tea, cola, chocolate and over-eating. Eating concentrated, rich or heavy food or consuming protein food supplements promote chronic dehydration.

There are other conditions of the body associated with fatigue like thyroid problems, blood sugar problems and many chronic diseases.

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