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Grandma Was Right by Andrew Saul PhD.

 

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If Grandma ate collard greens, turnip greens, dandelion greens, beet greens,

pigweed, or chard, don't dismiss her as an eccentric old fogey. If you,

you-health-nut-you, enjoy crisp alfalfa sprouts on big green salads, or mung

bean sprouts in Chinese food, great! These sprouts and greens are loaded with

minerals and vitamins. As my grandfather often said, they're " good for what ails

you. "

 

This is especially true when such foods are eaten fresh and uncooked. Did you

know that sprouts provide virtually every vitamin, are a source of complete

protein, and contain more vitamin C ounce for ounce than most fruits? Did you

know that sprouts contain, pound for pound, nearly as much protein as meat?

Over five hundred enzymes may be present in one sprouted wheat grain. Sprouts

are very good for you. They are also economical. A tablespoon of alfalfa seeds

will grow into a cup of sprouts in four to six days. " All you do is add water. "

Well, they're not quite that instant, but nearly so. Soak the seeds in water

overnight, and drain the next morning. Thereafter, rinse and drain twice a day

until ready to eat. The only equipment needed is a few wide-mouthed jars.

 

A lot of garden greens get thrown away each year that could be eaten for better

health. Weeds like lamb's quarter (pigweed), redroot, and dandelion are quite

tasty when young and tender. When you thin out your beets or turnips, you can

cook up the greens as you go. Raw Swiss chard, kale or leaf lettuce is the

basis a fine salad, and is simple to grow even in the smallest and most casual

gardens. Any raw greens supply roughage (fiber) and many vitamins to your diet.

Raw foods are especially good for your body. Did you know that Garnett Cheney,

M.D. treated one hundred peptic ulcer patients with raw cabbage juice every day?

Relief from pain was rapid, as was total time to heal. Said Dr. Cheney:

" Relief of pain occurred in this series of cases without the continued use of

any form of drug therapy and without frequent feedings of food... The rapidity

of healing is emphasized when the average (cabbage juice) healing times of 14

days for gastric ulcer and 12.9 days for duodenal ulcer are compared with the 42

days and 37 days cited from the literature. " (Cheney, 1952, p. 252)

Dr. Cheney's findings were published in California Medicine. The Journal of the

American Medical Association (163:14, April 6, 1957, p. 1311) was not overly

impressed, but Dr. Cheney's cured patients certainly were.

Raw foods and their enzymes have a definite effect on the digestive tract and

the entire body's response to diet. Dr. Ralph Bircher, in an undated address in

Wisconsin entitled " A Turning Point in Nutritional Science, " said:

" There exists a reaction which normally happens every time a person begins to

eat; we call it the digestive leucocytosis. Some message sent by the palate to

the marrow through the vegetative nerve system releases a deployment of

leucocytes which swarm out to the walls of the intestines, especially of the

colon, as if to defend a frontline... Kouchakoff of Lausanne discovered that it

does not happen whenever a meal consists of, or even begins with raw vegetable

food. This fact was confirmed by several other research workers. Then Tropp,

Wurzburg, added another discovery. There are specific enzymes in fresh and

living plant cells which are very delicate. They perish when the plants are

heated or even seriously wilted. They were thought, therefore, to be of no

consequence to human health. But Tropp found out that this is not true. The

human organism knows how to protect and escort these enzymes throughout the

digestive tract, so that they can reach the colon without harm, and there they

perform a basic change in the bacterial flora by attracting and binding what

oxygen there is. Thus, they remove the aerobic condition which is responsible

for putrefaction, fermentations, dysbacteria and intestinal toxemia. " (Bircher,

pp 7-8)

Raw foods do not elicit the stockpiling of white blood cells (leucocytes) in the

digestive tissues, nor do raw foods signal the bone marrow to generate more of

the white cells. This may be of the greatest significance to persons suffering

from the disease which Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary describes as " An

acute or chronic disease in man and other warm-blooded animals characterized by

an abnormal increase in the number of leukocytes in the tissues and often in the

blood. " The disease just described is leukemia.

Could leukemia possibly be a result of a diet of always-cooked foods?

Naturopaths have always emphasized raw foods such as fresh fruits and

vegetables, sprouted grains and raw milk. If raw foods fail to stimulate the

excess production of white blood cells, then perhaps an all-raw-foods diet

should be insisted on in leukemia cases. From now on, when we talk of

nature-cure therapies used against such diseases in Europe and other countries,

we will see more clearly the basis for raw foods in them.

The enzymes that Dr. Bircher mentions as helpful to digestion and the prevention

of intestinal toxemia fit right into the naturopathic approach to health.

Pollution or toxemia throughout the body has its basis in what we eat and how we

use it. Intestinal toxemia, abnormal colon bacteria populations, constipation,

and putrefaction from an overcooked, starch and meat diet are all root causes of

illness. To prevent and cure illness we therefore stop eating meat, we eat

whole, mostly raw foods and we clean out body wastes. These are my " Three Quick

Steps to Health. " Raw food enzymes and the body's special response to them are

a time-honored key to nature-cure.

Dr. Bircher cited a paper by Swiss medical doctor Paul Kouchakoff entitled " The

Influence of Food Cooking on the Blood Formula of Man " which was presented in

Paris at the First International Congress of Microbiology way back in 1930. (If

my references to early- to mid-20th century research bugs you, remember that

Einstein's Theory of Relativity has held up pretty well, and that's not any more

recent.)

Further therapeutic benefits of raw foods diets are discussed in the much more

recent Survival Into The Twenty-First Century by Viktoras Kulvinskas (1975),

Diet and Salad Suggestions (1971) by N.W. Walker, D.Sc., Encyclopedia of Health

and Nutrition by Max Warmbrand (1962), and all works by Ann Wigmore (1964, 1982,

1983). Read more; cook less; feel better!

Reprinted from Chapter 9 of the book DOCTOR YOURSELF, by Andrew Saul. Copyright

1980, 1981, 2000 Andrew Saul, Number 8 Van Buren Street, Holley, New York 14470

 

 

 

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