Information on popular complementary and alternative medical topics

If you inherited good health and vigour you should always cherish and appreciate these valuable gifts. Inherent advantages should be enjoyed and used to make others happy too. An old proverb puts it this way: ‘The happiness we give to others will return to make our own hearts rejoice.’

Life is like good garden soil. It brings forth nothing if we do not sow, till, water and care for it. Without good seed even the best soil will not produce a thing. If we do not put anything into life, we cannot hope to get anything out of it. Again, the poet’s words come to mind: ‘Know that the noble mind puts goodness into life, but does not seek it there’! All the things that raise our spirit and give us strength are like valuable and beautiful plants in our lives. The useless things that hang about us, imperfect beings that we are, are as weeds, which should be pulled out and destroyed.

Undoubtedly one of the best and most useful plants or attributes we possess is happiness. This not only brings peace to our spirit but also healing to our body.

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Once the balance of the electric field is upset, all kinds of disturbances may manifest themselves; for example, we can be overcome by an unnatural heavy fatigue, or persistent headaches, sometimes leading to troublesome migraine and depression. A lack of vigour and initiative often comes in its wake. Worry and nervousness may set in, bothering the sufferer so much that he does not know what to do with his fidgety limbs. He may fall victim to an unpleasant nervous condition, coupled with inner discontentment.

Since modern technology enables us to measure this electromagnetic field, we know that concrete, and reinforced concrete in particular, is able to rob much energy from those people who have to live in concrete buildings, the amount depending upon their individual sensitivity. For this reason, if you have the choice, select instead natural stone, brick or, better still, wood as the main building materials if you plan to build your own house.

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The virulence of poisons should be judged not merely on the basis of their specific effects, but on their long-term influence. Poisons that trigger typical symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhoea but are easily expelled from the body or neutralised may be unpleasant and considered dangerous by the person so affected; however, poisons that produce none of these symptoms but remain in the body, causing degenerative or insidious conditions, are really much worse. In fact, they may have a considerable role to play in the development of cancer, and it is unfortunate that physicians and the health authorities in general find it difficult to recognise them.

To illustrate this point further, I know of one representative of the chemical industry, involved in the manufacture of pesticides and insecticides, who challenged the opponents of the industry to produce evidence of fatalities resulting from the application of such chemicals. No one would deny that arsenic is a dangerous poison, nor that opium is a hazardous drug. But it would not be easy to provide conclusive evidence that, say, the death of a woman who had eaten arsenic to improve her complexion and looks had been caused by her doing so. Even if it were possible to discover such a case, another expert would almost certainly stand up and prove a different cause of death. The same holds true of opium addicts.

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If we slice a wheat grain lengthways we will find that the white inside is mainly made up of starch. White flour comes from this part. The yellowish germ is located at one end of the kernel. Years ago the wheat germ was not fully used because no one knew about its great value as a source of vitamin E. The outer protective cover over the starchy part is the bran, consisting of a tough sheath which, being pure cellulose, is indigestible. This roughage should not be eaten if one suffers from gastritis and stomach ulcers, for it is so tough and sharp-edged that it would actually irritate and inflame an already damaged stomach lining. In the case of ulcers it may even trigger pain and light bleeding.

A number of valuable minerals are found in the layers between the starch and the outer cellulose sheath. These layers contain vitamins of the  complex, gluten and amino acids essential for the building up of body protein. It is exactly these valuable and important parts of the wheat kernel that are usually fed to cattle, the bran together with its roughage or cellulose and germ. It is quite an achievement that modern milling machines are able to separate the valuable layers without including the indigestible cellulose, so that we can actually obtain the important elements of the grain and include them in our diet. This product is sold as ‘wheat germ and bran.’

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Vitamin E is rarely found in meat, except in those parts that are unsuitable for human consumption, for example bulls’ testicles, the spleen, placenta, pancreas and pituitary gland. It is, however, found in fish and egg yolk, and in small amounts in milk as well as butter.

It is more abundant in vegetable products, primarily in cereal germ, oil fruits and cotton seed, also in corn (maize), peanuts and all varieties of cress – watercress, garden cress, nasturtium and American cress. For this reason the formulae of Herbamare and Trocomare include these cresses. Vitamin E is also present in spinach, lettuce and alfalfa (lucerne), as well as in most leafy salad greens. That explains why vegetarians probably meet their daily vitamin E requirement more effectively than meat-eaters. If you suffer from a deficiency, make use of the above-mentioned sources. For quick results take wheat germ oil, and if you do not like its taste, use wheat germ oil capsules, which are quite easy to swallow. The gelatine capsule dissolves in the intestine and there is no danger of the taste repeating on you.

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