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The Genuine Milk Cure

 

( Originally Published 1922 )

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To take the genuine " Milk Diet " as it should be taken and to persist in it

through a period of six to ten weeks requires courage, will power and

perseverance.

The value of such a course cannot be overestimated to the person suffering

from anemia, nervous exhaustion, emaciation, general breakdown, chronic ills,

etc. It will positively cure ulceration of the stomach, diseases of the

intestinal tract, abnormal appetites—even alcoholism. Almost any case of

chronic

misery can be permanently helped by it.

There are scattered over the country various sanitariums where the milk cure

is given scientifically. The writer attended one of these on one occasion

for six weeks with wonderfully beneficial results; and afterwards (having

learned how) took the course right at home with equally good results and without

even the attendance of a physician.

It is useless to attempt the course at all unless you obey every rule and

are willing to tolerate some discomfort. It is a heroic measure and it is only

those who have suffered much who are willing to go through with it, with the

promise of restored health as their goal.

The general rule is six quarts of milk a day (with no other food) for six

weeks. In extreme cases the length of time is extended to eight, ten and twelve

weeks. If six quarts causes a looseness of the bowels the quantity is

reduced to five. But six is the aver-age, and must not be changed by caprice.

The

average person is severely constipated by less than six quarts. The more milk

the looser the bowels. Obey Rule 4 and stick to six quarts.

The directions follow:

It is best to stay right at home and rest. It is assumed that you are sick

enough to do that. If you wish to gain in weight, stay right in bed. Nature is

very busy taking care of six quarts of milk per day. There is no energy to

waste.

1st. Twenty-four hours before starting on the milk take a dose of castor

oil.

2nd. For one day eat fruit only—all you want, and any kind except bananas.

No other food.

3rd. On the second day start at once on the six quarts a day. (Don't begin

on a less quantity and work up.) A one-half pint glass of milk every half hour

from seven in the morning till seven at night.

4th. An enema (about two quarts of water) every night.

5th. A quick hot bath every night.

It is a process of elimination as well as rebuilding. After ten days or two

weeks you will begin to sweat. Possibly three or four spells every night.

Then the real benefit begins.

After every glass of milk take a few drops of lemon juice or a little

grapefruit. Milk must curdle before digestion takes place. The lemon juice

assists

this.

Drink the milk slowly, sip it. Some people take it through a straw.

Here's where your courage is needed. The first few days the milk may

nauseate you. If so take a little lime water or (preferably) increase the

quantity

of lemon juice. This will pass away when your system gets clear of its

poisons. Stick to your six quarts.

Most people get along all right for the first two or three weeks. You will

not feel hungry—you are well nourished. But about the fourth week you will

begin to feel bloated and uncomfortable. You may even have a smothered feeling

and palpitation of the heart. Don't worry. In spite of the discomfort there

will be ultimate benefit. Use your will power and stick to the six quarts.

Just as much care must be exercised in coming off the milk diet as in going

on. You cannot go back on a mixed diet immediately. The first day eat fruit

only and two or three quarts of milk. The second day take a quart of milk and

fruit (without sugar) for breakfast and another quart and fruit for lunch.

For dinner (preferably in middle of day), eat only one kind of food. No

mixtures. You may have whole wheat bread and fricasseed chicken, all you want,

or

whole wheat bread and spinach, or a baked potato with celery, etc. The second

day you may add one article (a parsnip or carrot or celery with the chicken),

etc. It is best to keep up the milk for the two meals for a week or two and

for break-fast for some time.

You may add a whole wheat muffin or some whole wheat breakfast grain to the

milk and fruit if you wish—but under no circumstances eat white bread or

crackers or any patented " cereal. "

The trouble which ensues from this combination is not the fault of the fruit

(without sugar) as is generally supposed. It is the starch which causes the

trouble.

Immediately after coming off the milk diet you do not feel especially

strong. After about a week you begin to feel like a new person. All the poisons

have been eliminated from your body. The milk has made new blood which has been

busy every minute rebuilding your tissues, and carrying off dead tissues thus

fortifying your body against disease.

Don't go back on your old mistaken diet. Study the Science of Eating and

live accordingly. Plenty of green things—and raisins. You will want iron.

The benefits of the milk cure are far-reaching. I knew a case of neuralgia

of the optic nerve which had resisted all medical treatment for three years,

cured in ten weeks, the emaciated patient gaining thirty-five pounds.

An osteopathic treatment once or twice a week while taking the milk is

beneficial.

Semi-Milk Diet

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( Originally Published 1922 )

There are those to whom the taking of the genuine milk cure is an

impossibility. There are others to whom it is not a necessity, but for whom a

partial

milk diet would do much.

To start drinking milk in a haphazard way, mixing it indiscriminately with

your other foods will not do for you what it might do taken intelligently and

regularly.

If you are run down, anemic, nervously exhausted, susceptible to colds,

convalescent or merely underweight try the following for two months or longer.

Everyone I know of who has done it faith-fully has gained at least ten pounds

and felt infinitely better.

1st. Prepare as for the genuine milk diet—obeying faithfully Rules 1 and 2.

2nd. For breakfast a quart of milk and fruit (without sugar) and a

tablespoonful of bran.

3rd. For lunch—another quart of milk with more fruit, or an ear of corn or

two baked bananas. (Fruit is best.) If in fairly good health you may also have

a whole wheat muffin. But no white bread or crackers or refined cereal, or

meat or potatoes.

4th. For dinner: Any sane mixture. (Consult the preceding pages.) The

combination which will give excellent results is: Whole wheat bread with plenty

of

butter, two fresh vegetables and a salad.

The whole wheat bread contains all the protein which your body needs. There

is also, in this simple mixture a balance of fats, carbohydrates and mineral

salts.

Most of us have eaten too much and too carelessly. " Food Values " was an

unknown quantity. On this semi-milk diet your eyes and complexion will clear,

your step will quicken and there will be a perceptible gain in weight after the

second week. The first few days you may not feel right—but this will pass away

in less than a week.

One thing: The taking of a quart of milk at one meal sounds like a great

deal to the uninitiated. Less than that will not do. Take it if necessary in

two

sittings. Upon rising take at once a pint of milk and your fruit—then dress

for the day and take the other pint with your bran. The bran is necessary to

prevent constipation. (Also, we might add, one or two glasses of milk are

constipating; three or four are laxative.) Under no circumstances take a

cathartic. An enema if necessary the first couple of nights, and an enema once

a

week all through the course.

When you have finished the semi-milk diet—eat sanely. It would be well to

continue the milk (three or four glasses) and fruits (without sugar) for one

meal a day indefinitely.

The writer knew a young man who was discharged from the army because of

ulceration of the stomach (caused from inhaling smoke). He was put on a

straight

milk diet—but not in quantities, neither did he stay at home. As an auto

salesman he was very active. He drank a glass of milk about every two hours,

whenever he felt the need. At a restaurant—anywhere. He ate nothing else and

lost

all desire for other food. He made the mistake of going back on a mixed diet

too soon and was obliged to go back on the milk. He kept it up for over a

year, gained in weight and pep and was thoroughly cured. Persistence did it.

Haphazard, intermittent, slipshod methods will never accomplish anything.

Milk

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( Originally Published 1922 )

Few people understand the very great food value of milk. Most people give

little thought to it. Like the whole grains it contains every element which the

body needs and furthermore it contains them in the most assimilable form.

Therefore to the invalid or convalescent it is even more valuable than the

whole grains.

The sixteen elements necessary to life are all found in milk. The reason for

this is obvious. Nature is an all wise provider. The milk of the cow is the

food for the calf. (The calf must grow and thrive, and build tissue and bone

and muscle.) The food materials absorbed by the cow from the grasses and

seeds are passed on to the milk to feed the calf. Science has proven that at

least five times more of these essential materials are found in the milk than

are

found in the tissues of the cow. From this it must be clear to all that the

food value of milk is five times greater than that of meat.

The only food value of meat is its protein. The proteins of milk are more

valuable because they are in more assimilable form. To the growing child milk

is the greatest food in the world. Right into his blood go the food materials

that make blood for milk has in itself every constituent for blood making,

except, perhaps, a sufficient amount of iron. This he can obtain from his whole

grains and green leaves and raisins.

And if the invalid or undernourished or convalescent could but understand

the curative value of milk! Any other food requires a certain amount of energy

to digest. Milk requires no effort of digestion. Almost immediately it enters

your blood as blood being a blood maker. This is why the genuine milk cure

has achieved such wonderful results—even in cases which seemed incurable.

Perfect blood will eliminate disease and milk will make perfect blood.

In hot weather try the combination of milk and fruit for breakfast or

luncheon. (Do not add starch to this mixture.) If you are overweight, use

skimmed

milk.

But, besides being the most beneficial food for man, milk is also the

greatest germ carrier in the world. Every drop of it should be pasteurized

before

using unless it is certified. Certified milk is raw milk from cows which are

inspected regularly as to their health, their food and their general

surroundings.

Raw milk is better than pasteurized in cases where you can be absolutely

sure of the health and cleanliness of the cows, and of the persons handling the

milk. Even if you have your own cows their regular inspection by the Health

Authorities is a very necessary measure; but where the milk is a mixture from

several cows or herds, pasteurization is an absolute necessity.

In some communities this is a law. If you live where this law does not exist

you may pasteurize it yourself as follows :

Get a thermometer. Put the milk in a double boiler and heat it to 165

degrees Turn out the fire and let stand in heat for 30 minutes. (The

temperature

will drop to about 145 degrees.) Then place in the refrigerator, at once.

Every member of the family should have milk in some form every day, and

every growing child should drink at least a pint a day a quart is better.

Milk and Honey

Have you ever combined milk and honey? It is great. To a small glass of

heated (not hot) milk add a teaspoonful of strained honey. Here is a drink to

give the children.

Even the ones who don't like milk will enjoy it. In hot weather heat the

milk (to dissolve the honey) and then put in refrigerator to cool.

Use it in time of colds or irritated throats. The writer knows of a case of

pneumonia cured on this treatment alone, the patient taking about two quarts

of milk a day in small doses (combined with the honey) and no other food or

medicine, though under the watchful care of a noted physician.

But don't wait to be ill to enjoy this beverage. It is restful and

refreshing at any time. Far better than " a cup of tea. " Treat your friends to

it.

MILK CURES MANY DISEASES

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by J. R. Crewe, MD

 

The following is an edited version of an article by Dr. J. R. Crewe, of the

Mayo Foundation, forerunner of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, published in

Certified Milk Magazine, January 1929. We are grateful to Dr. Ron Schmid, ND

of Middlebury, CT for unearthing this fascinating piece. The " Milk Cure " was

the subject of at least two books by other authors, written subsequently to

Dr. Crewe's work. The milk used was, in all cases, the only kind of milk

available in those days—raw milk from pasture-fed cows, rich in butterfat.

The

treatment is a combination of detoxifying fast and nutrient-dense feeding. Note

that Crewe quotes William Osler, author of a standard medical textbook of

the day. Thus, this protocol was an orthodox, accepted therapy in the early

1900s. Today the Mayo Clinic provides surgery and drug treatments, but nothing

as efficacious and elegant as the Milk Cure

For fifteen years the writer has employed the certified milk treatment in

various diseases and during the past ten he had a small sanitarium devoted

principally to this treatment. The results obtained in various types of disease

have been so uniformly excellent that one's conception of disease and its

alleviation is necessarily changed. The method itself is so simple that it does

not greatly interest most doctors and the main stimulus for its use is from

the patients themselves.

To cure disease we should seek to improve elimination, to make better blood

and more blood, to build up the body resistance. The method used tends to

accomplish these things. Blood conditions rapidly improve and the general

condition and resistance is built up and recovery follows.

In several instances, Osler (Principles and Practices of Medicine, by

William Osler, MD eighth edition) speaks of milk as being nothing more than

white

blood. Milk resembles blood closely and is a useful agent for improving and

making new and better blood. Blood is the chief agent of metabolism. Milk is

recognized in medical literature almost exclusively as a useful food and is

admitted to be a complete food.

The therapy is simple. The patients are put at rest in bed and are given at

half hour intervals small quantities of milk, totalling from five to ten

quarts of milk a day. Most patients are started on three or four quarts of milk

a

day and this is usually increased by a pint a day. Diaphoresis [copious

perspiration] is stimulated by hot baths and hot packs and heat in other forms.

A

daily enema is given.

The treatment is used in many chronic conditions but chiefly in

tuberculosis, diseases of the nervous system, cardiovascular and renal

conditions,

hypertension, and in patients who are underweight, run-down, etc. Striking

results

are seen in diseases of the heart and kidneys and high blood pressure. In

cases in which there is marked edema, the results obtained are surprisingly

marked. This is especially striking because so-called dropsy has never been

treated with large quantities of fluid. With all medication withdrawn, one case

lost twenty-six pounds in six days, huge edema disappearing from the abdomen

and legs, with great relief to the patient. No cathartics or diuretics were

given. This property of milk in edema has been noted in both cardiac and renal

cases.

Patients with cardiac disease respond splendidly without medication. In

patients who have been taking digitalis and other stimulants, the drugs are

withdrawn. High blood pressure patients respond splendidly and the results in

most

instances are quite lasting. The treatment has been used successfully in

obesity without other alimentation. One patient reduced from 325 pounds to 284

in two weeks, on four quarts of milk a day, while her blood pressure was

reduced from 220 to 170. Some extremely satisfying results have been obtained

in a

few cases of diabetics.

When sick people are limited to a diet containing an excess of vitamins and

all the elements necessary to growth and maintenance, which are available in

milk, they recover rapidly without the use of drugs and without bringing to

bear all the complicated weapons of modern medicine.

Under the head of Treatment in Chronic Gastritis, Osler has said, " A rigid

milk diet should be tried " (Principles and Practices of Medicine, by William

Osler, M.D., eighth edition). And quoting from George Cheyne, he wrote, " Milk

and sweet sound blood differ in nothing but color: milk is blood. " Under the

heading of treatment in many diseases, it was true that he had little to say

about drugs but did say a good deal about diet and particularly as in most

every instance he recommended large quantities of milk.

Under chronic Bright's disease (p 704) he says, " Milk or buttermilk should

constitute for a time, the chief article of food. " Under treatment of cancer

of stomach (p 505), he says many patients do best on milk alone. Under

treatment of rheumatic fever (p 378), he says, " Milk is the most suitable

diet. "

With Olser as a background, one need not hesitate to go a bit farther. In fact,

practically all medical men are agreed as to the value of milk as a food, and

as an important part of the diet in the treatment of many diseases. But as

the chief remedy in the treatment of disease, it is seldom used.

For more than 16 years I have conducted a small sanitarium where milk is

used almost exclusively in the treatment of various diseases. The results have

been so regularly satisfactory that I have naturally become enthusiastic and

interested in this method of treating disease. We used good Guernsey milk,

equal to 700 calories to the quart.

Interestingly, diseases that have no similarity respond equally to this

treatment. For instance, psoriasis clears up beautifully. The improvement in

tuberculosis or nephritis is equally interesting but there is no similarity in

these diseases. I once heard a very distinguished medical man discussing a case

of psoriasis. He said, " This was the worst case of psoriasis I have ever

seen. This boy was literally covered from head to foot with scales. We put this

boy on a milk diet and in less than a month he had a skin like a baby's. " To

me, this means that there was evidently some nutritive substance or vitamin

or glandular secretion lacking, that was furnished by the milk.

It is well known that there is no time in the life of practically any

mammal, but especially of the human, when the body is so beautiful and perfect

as

during the period when milk is the only food. It will be admitted that there

is no period in life when the body is so perfect as in infancy, the infant

being fed on milk from a healthy mother.

The Arabs are said (Encyclopedia Brittanica) to be the finest race,

physically, in the world. Their diet consists mostly of milk and milk products

with

fruits and vegetables, and some meat.

You are all familiar with the writings of Colonel McCarrison, a medical

officer in the British Army. He tells us that for nine years he was stationed

in

India in a district in the Himalayan Mountains. He said that the natives were

very fine physically, that they retained a youthful appearance to advanced

age and lived long and that they were very fertile. During the nine years of

his residence there he saw practically no disease, no cases of malignancy or

of abdominal disease. The diet of these people was simple and consisted

principally of vegetables and fruits and milk and milk products.

Steffanson wrote most interestingly of the Eskimo, who, when uncontaminated

by civilized conditions were hardy and robust. Their diet of course was

almost entirely of meat and fish. He tells us, however, that the habits of

meat-eating people are similar to those of carnivorous animals. The wolf first

attacks the heart and gets the blood and later eats the glandular organs and

viscera, leaving the muscle meats till the last. The Eskimo does the same

thing.

During one expedition Mr. Steffanson and party started on a nine months'

trip over the Arctic ice with only one day's provisions. All previous Arctic

explorers had said that civilized men could not live in the Arctic regions

without bringing in their supplies. Mr. Steffanson and his party, during the

nine

months, were almost never without an abundance of food, and much of it was

eaten frozen and raw. I wish to show from Steffanson's experience, first, that

it is possible for people to be robust and maintain good health on various

types of food of limited variety. That the condition common to all types of

diet is, that much of the food is eaten raw. I wish to say here that our very

excellent results obtained in the treatment of disease were had with uncooked

food and raw milk.

The experience of seeing many cases of illness improve rapidly on a diet of

raw milk has suggested more and more the feeling that much of modern disease

is due to an increasing departure from simple methods of preparing plain

foods. The treatment of various diseases over a period of 18 years with a

practically exclusive milk diet has convinced me personally that the most

important

single factor in the cause of disease and in the resistance to disease is

food. I have seen so many instances of the rapid and marked response to this

form of treatment that nothing could make me believe this is not so.

We have often seen most satisfactory results in the treatment of anemia,

including pernicious anemia, on a milk diet. I have repeatedly seen a marked

reduction in the size of simple and toxic thyroid, with improvement in the

symptoms of the toxic one. In prostatic diseases and associated conditions,

this

treatment will achieve rapid and marked improvement in the infection and in

the reduction of the gland and lessening of obstruction. A professor of surgery

in one of our state universities once said to me, " Since I have used your

method in preparing prostate cases, I have had most excellent results and no

mortality. " I replied that if he had continued the treatment a little longer,

he would not need to operate. All infections of the urinary tract are greatly

improved by this treatment.

An old friend of mine, a woodworker, aged 74, had a marked heart lesion and

complete prostatic obstruction, so that it was necessary to use a permanent

catheter. He had been taking digitalis but this was discontinued, and he

received no medication of any kind. The prostate was very large and the

residual

urine very foul. His recovery has been rapid, and he has been able to work

since that time and is now in very good health at 77 years of age. Another

local

man was treated six years ago for a severe chronic winter cough and

prostatic disease, which necessitated his getting up many times at night. He

volunteered the information a few days ago that he had no more trouble with any

illness since that time.

Indeed we had a number of patients who took the treatment for " beauty

treatment. " The tissues become firmer and the general appearance is markedly

improved.

One patient with very advanced cardiac and nephritic disease lost over

thirty pounds of edema in six weeks. One would expect the large quantities of

fluid would increase the edema but the above experience has been repeated many

times in lesser degrees.

Hypertension responds with equal gratification. The blood pressure improves

rapidly. I have never seen such rapid and lasting results by any other

method. One of the patients lived almost exclusively on milk for more than

three

years.

About ten years ago a very sick man came to the Sanitarium suffering from a

severe cystitis and nephritis. He was a diabetic. As milk contains about five

percent milk sugar, it was feared that he could not manage this amount of

sugar. But he did manage it, and improved in every way and in eight weeks was

sugar free. My experience with milk diet in diabetes has been limited, but

very interesting. These few patients, only seven or eight, have been much

pleased with the results. Insulin was used for a time in some of the cases.

They

all became sugar free, or nearly so, after from four to ten weeks. From the

fact that these patients were able to use a much more liberal diet than

diabetics usually can take [after the treatment], it would seem to indicate

that at

least a partial regeneration of the pancreas is not impossible.

Recently I received a letter from a soldier who was confined in a government

hospital in Arizona [for tuberculosis]. He said a former patient of mine had

induced him to try this method. He said that he had done so well that a

number of the men were also attempting it and he had written for more definite

instructions. He also said that the patients had to buy their own milk and

received no encouragement from the hospital authorities.

There is a large class of patients who are ill but in whom no definite

organic lesion can be found. These patients are often underweight. They may

consume a fairly large amount of food but they do not gain in weight or

strength.

These patients do respond admirably to our system of large quantities of milk.

The chief fault of the treatment is that it is too simple. Patients attempt

to do it at home, but there are many pitfalls, and it does not appeal to the

modern medical man.