INHS Hygienic Review 2006 Issue 1

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An inspiring around-the-world trip
by Dr. John Fielder
The past few weeks have been, for me, very busy, full of sharing, caring and
learning - most rewarding and productive I can assure you. Not only for myself,
I trust, also for those whom I have visited and made contact with.
It all
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commenced in Malaysia, on the island of Labuan, which is just off the north
roots as far
coast of Borneo, the home of Peter and Kath, who originlly came from
back as 1822.
Australia and have been living here for the past few years. Labuan was earlier
a British colony and has all the trappings of such, being displayed by its ageing
Our motto: infrastructure. Nevertheless it is a delightful tropical paradise. Peter and Kath
"trust the are themselves delightful people and hosts and ardent students of the Hygienic
body" lifestyle.
Our On then to Slovenia, which has only recently gained independance as well as
philosophy: joining the European Common Market. I spent a few days with Don and his
By following most gracious wife, students of mine, sharing the message of Hygiene with the
the simple people there. They also very kindly took me to see the original home of Arnold
rules of the Rikle, the modern founder of the Heliotherapy movement, devoted to the
socalled LAWS exposure of ourselves to the sunlight and its inherent values. Unfortunately his
OF LIFE we works have never been translated into English so he and his work is very little
can achieve known in the west. Of course life never goes completely smoothly and just as
lasting health we were to leave for the airport for me to catch the plane, the car decided it
& optimal would not co-operate, and just would not start. Panic stations were all the go
energy. for the moment as it was a public holiday and all the friends were away. There
was no public transport all the hire cars were unavailable. Eventually a relative
Our goal is to was able to be contacted, which was followed by a fast and furious drive over
teach, discuss a winding mountain pass, fortunately with an extremely competent driver, to
& improve the arrive a few minutes prior to the departure time.
best healing
From Slovenia I travelled on to Edinburgh, Scotland, via Manchester and York
methods
available. If
they are to attend the annual Conference of the Incorporated Society of Naturopaths in
low-cost or my role as President, a society established some sixty years ago. After having
free, so much fulfilled my role as President of the Society, I then travelled back with my friend
better. Leslie, a former graduate of the Edinburgh School of Natural Therapeutics,
which was conducted by James C., and C. Leslie Thomson of the Kingston
We teach that Clinic, Edinburgh, Scotland, to York. James C. and C. Leslie Thomson wrote
drugs are many articles on Nature Cure which were reproduced by Dr Shelton in his
unnecessary Hygienic Review over the years of its publication.
and will
usually delay After our return
healing and to York I was
cause new able to spend
a few days
diseases.
with my dear
friend Leslie
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excellent
matters
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methods for Nature Cure
health and Natural
recovery, Hygiene. We
tested and alkso visited
perfected by other
doctors for practitioners
over 175 discussing the
years. future and
direction of the
We want to profession.
promote
health My journey then took me to New York where I visited with Dr Penepent, and
independence then on to West Palm Beach and my good and dear friend Dr Paul Goldberg.
and critical After three splendid and enjoyable days with Dr Goldberg I spent the next
thinking. twenty or so hours travelling from West Palm Beach, Florida, to Houston in
Texas. Why did it take so long? Firstly my journey was routed through
This Chicago, one end of the country to the other. Then the weather conditions with
webpage is sever thunderstorms caused numerous flight delays till eventually I arrived in
part of our Houston around 2.30 am instead of 7pm the previous night, a delay of some
seven hours. The thunderstorms appear to have disrupted phone lines as well
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Since arriving in Houston and under the very kind care and guidance of Anna, I
volunteers.
have been able to visit with Dr Ralph Cinque in Austin, as well as visit the
University of Texas and spend valuable time with Jan and Terry Todd, both of
INHS has free whom are Professors in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at
membership, the University. They also have been instrumental in gathering together and
chat group and invaluable library of books pertaining to all aspects of Alternative Health,
articles. including those of Dr Shelton, Dr Gian Cursio, and Dr Jesse Mercer Gehmann,
which we were priviledged to view. They shared with us the fact that they have
received a grant of 3 million dollars to build a library, house and care for this
Visit INHS unique collection of books and papers, running to several thousand volumes. It
WebSite was also mentioned that the contents of the library will be digitalised in the
future. The opening for this wonderful venture is set for 2008, which we look
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cup to full and
overflowing, the
next day we visited
with Dr Virginia
Vetrano and Dr
Tosca Haag at
their very lovely
retreat near San
Antonio, spending a
most fulfilling day
sharing
experiences plans
for the future.
In a day or so I will
be making my last call with a visit to Little Rock Arkansas, as the guest of
Dew, where it is intened that we will have the privilege of spending time with
Viktoras Kulvinskas prior to returning to Australia and home.
I trust this brief account of my travels will give us all added impetus to continue
along the Hygienic path of life.
John, 6/5/06
John L. Fielder D.O, DC, ND.(Adel)

Osteopath & Lifestyle Consultant
Academy of Natural Living
Cairns, Australia
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Our motto: fed and regularly grained working horses. The droppings cost the market gardener
"trust the little because the streets had to be swept anyway and the market gardeners were
body" not far from urban centers. I have read 19th century accounts of the growers
wagon taking a daily load to the central produce market and returning with a daily
load of manure.
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By following
Intensive backyard vegetable growing still requires both of these inputs:
the simple
massive irrigation;
rules of the abundant and inexpensive sources of concentrated fertility and high quality organic
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can achieve shortages, we will be wise to consider the science behind intensive's need for lots of
lasting health water and soil nutrients, because growing vegetables in this high-input style soon may no
& optimal longer be practical.
energy.
The easiest way I know of to grasp the essence of the intensive system is to consider
Our goal is to how plants feed, which is elementary plant physiology.
teach, discuss
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best healing assimilate nutrition. Only the emerging, naked, barkless
methods tips of the roots do that, only the last few cells at the end
available. If of each root. The rest of the root system mainly transports
they are what the root tips take in (and anchors the plant). Plants
low-cost or have evolved what seems to me to appear a highly
free, so much intelligent mechanism to put just the right density of roots
better. into a given volume of soil. The growing root secretes
chemicals that, among other things, function somewhat like
We teach that herbicides that repel or deter formation of roots, compelling the plant to find new,
drugs are unoccupied ground to ramify with new roots. When densely spaced plants run out of
unnecessary unoccupied rooting zone, their production of new root tips slows greatly because the
and will exudates secreted by the plant itself or its neighbours strongly inhibits further root
usually delay development.
healing and
Water and nutrition are efficiently assimilated only through youngest few cells located at
cause new
the growing end of the root — called “the root tip.” This tip is only one cell thick and its
diseases.
thin walls are highly open to the passage of moisture, the nutrients dissolved in that
water, and the invasion of fungal hyphae, which infuse the plant with complex organic
We present
vitamin-like substances that have been called “phytamins.” But after any particular cell
excellent that was part of the tip has existed for a few days, the root will have grown on past it and
no-drugs what was the tip a few days previously will have become a more central part of a still-
methods for expanding root. It will have developed a tough skin that prevents the ready inflow of
health moisture and nutrients and resists invasion by helpful fungi. In the event the root is
recovery, prevented from further elongation by inhospitable conditions the ageing tip withers or
tested and otherwise ceases to function.
perfected by
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over 175 upon personal observation. When a plant grows crowded, when the tops are bumping,
years. the root systems of those plants are also bumping. The roots then are prevented from
forming enough new root tips, the plant's supplies of water and nutrition then have to be
We want to adsorbed through older, bark-covered roots, which are highly inefficient assimilators
promote compared to skinless root tips. I have repeatedly observed that when densely spaced
health plants start bumping on raised beds their appearance begins to resemble plants that are
independence slightly undernourished and suffering low grade moisture stress. Unless something is
and critical done by the grower to compensate for the difficulty crowded plants have obtaining
thinking. sufficient water and nutrients, their growth will be very disappointing. The plant can be
growing in moderately fertile earth that is reasonably moist but by their appearance
This would seem to be suffering from low grade nutritional deficiencies and moisture stress.
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an intensive bed begin to strongly compete for root room, they never grow as well as
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further apart than urban market gardeners did. Because these well-separated plants
were able to constantly expand their root zones without experiencing competition or
running into the root exudates of neighboring plants it was not necessary to make their
soil nearly as fertile because they were more efficient assimilators of nutrients as well as
better foragers for moisture.
I first observed these realities when, in the 1980s, I went into the mail order vegetable
seed business and began growing a variety trials ground. In trials work the object is not
to produce a lot of food, it is to produce a lot of information. To evaluate a variety and
compare it to other, similar varieties, every plant is usually given sufficient space to fully
express its genetic potential. So trials are laid out in single widely spaced rows providing
sufficient space to walk freely between them while carrying a clipboard, taking notes. The
plants usually are put far enough apart in the rows that they do not touch or just barely
touch at maturity. My business supplied home vegetable gardeners so my trials were
designed to duplicate the average home garden soil — only moderately fertile and
minimally moist — so as to reveal which varieties are best able to handle less than ideal
conditions.
In contrast to how my intensive raised bed personal garden grew, (given far more water
and its raised beds made super fertile) what I observed on those trials was:
plants of all sorts in my trials ground became much larger, so broccoli for example
made enormous flowers and heads of incredible quality and flavor, the side shoots
of widely-separated broccoli plants were far more numerous and larger and kept
producing far longer;
quality of root crops did not decline after they had become what I might have
considered overly large (even six-inch-diameter carrots or beets that grew on for
months after what might have normally been considered “mature,” were still tasty
and tender);
fruiting plants like tomatoes or peppers or zucchini did not quit yielding nor tend to
get diseased so readily toward the end of the season. Instead they grew to
monsters and their yield steadily increased as ever larger numbers of flowers
formed ever greater numbers of fruit on ever-huger plants;
bush beans did not quit yielding after a few weeks as many garden writers believe
they must, but kept on producing several weeks longer than anticipated because
they could keep on growing, besides, their pods were larger, formed more rapidly
and so were more tender, so it took less time to fill the basket;
despite lower levels of fertility (but given more growing room per plant) sweet corn
grew six to twelve inches taller and their ears an inch or so longer and somewhat
fatter;
I could considerably expand this list.
Because my variety trials took far less work, water and fertilizer for the amount of food I
produced I began using the same extensive methods in my personal gardening. I had
traded the use of somewhat more space for the need for less water, less fertility and
less work.
Our civilization is entering an era when everything made with petroleum is going to
become ever more costly. And that includes soil fertility boosters such as seedmeals and
animal manures. Feeding chickens will cost more; transportation of their waste will cost
more; I predict that bagged chicken manure fertilizers will significantly increase in price.
Municipal water is becoming more costly if for no other reason than purification and
pumping are all energy intensive activities. Municipal water is also becoming more scarce
in places as watersheds degrade and population increases make larger demands on a
limited resource.
"Our civilization is entering an era when everything made

with petroleum is going to become ever more costly."
So it behoves the home food grower to examine their methods and consider producing
as much or more food
of higher quality
using less water and
less soil building
by using a bit more land
and, as I found in my trials work, and the bonus . . . doing a heap less work to get it.
I predict that the intensive raised bed systems that become standard practice in North
American backyard gardening about 1975 are going to pass into oblivion, as we return to
the methods of our ancestors.
Steve Solomon
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Why I grow a big vegie garden
Building Fertile Soil The Easy Way
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BLENDED SALADS and more
We got a bunch of photos of raw food meals

when Dr. Fielder was visiting Texas in
mid-2006. Note that his meals seem to be lacto-
vegetarian in practice, which is reflected in these photos. He
also does a little raw fish-eating, but only a few times a year.
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in a small bowl. He has mixed finely ground
nuts and some pieces of cheese in the
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INHS, a
non-profit What is a blended salad?
organisation Blended salad = a finely chopped raw
for discussing salad, preferable using an electric machine
& teaching like a blender or food processor. It was first
Natural used and promoted by Dr. Christopher Gian
Hygiene, a Cursio in New York, in the 1950's. Cursio discovered he got better results with his patients
scientific view using these chopped salads, compared to using whole raw salads. (ANHS went against him,
on health and warning about the increased oxygenation. Any such problem is overcome by eating the salads relatively soon after
chopping, so oxygenation is usually minor, or probably equal to what takes place when chewing.)
disease with
roots as far
back as 1822.
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& optimal Here is some equipment - use either of the following -- to the left a blender, to the right a
energy. food processor, below a knife.
Plus, an assortment of vegetables.
Our goal is to
teach, discuss Development of a blended salad:
& improve the
best healing
methods
available. If
they are
low-cost or
free, so much
better.
We teach that
drugs are
unnecessary
and will
usually delay
healing and
cause new
diseases.
We present
excellent In a food processor, increasingly fine-chopped veggies. The purple color is from a piece of
no-drugs red cabbage, the red from a tomato.
methods for How to serve: Blended salad can e.g. be served as a soup. Or together with a whole
health salad, some seeds & nuts & pieces of raw cheese, see below:
recovery,
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years.
We want to
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Blended nut-salad with raw veggies
To the left, a version we saw a guest eat at the Royl Retreat -- cashew nuts blended with
This
celery stalks, red pepper and lemon juice. Has a piece of cucumber on top. Used as a dip
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part of our To the right, we have been experimenting with the idea --- the yellow blend is made from
free online pine nuts and yellow pepper, celery and lime juice. (Note that cashew nuts are cooked and not an optimal
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produced by very popular in France, have a nutty taste. Plus pieces of red pepper and tomato.
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Grated/chopped salad:
Below, Dr. Fielder has grated raw red beets with apple, and is pressing lemon juice on it.
Possibly also adding knife-chopped veggies, or using them as side-dish.
Sun-dried tomatoes:
Below, Dr. Fielder presents delicious sun-dried tomatoes from Australia --- perfect to add
to the blender when making a blended salad.
Note that the whole salad to the right, with whole pine nuts & cheese, has some sun-dried
tomatoes on the (top) side.
Tossed salad & mixed salad

Here, from left to right -- 1. A tossed salad, served with lemon/lime and olive oil. 2. A mixed
salad. 3. A mixed whole salad plus a blended salad, which can be used as a dressing if
liquid enough.
Lunch directly from nature:
Below, Dr. Fielder and Dr. Cinque are picking and eating figs directly from Dr. Cinque's
trees:
Lunch by the pool:

In Houston, Dr. Fielder and Nancy form INHS enjoy a lunch of fruit (papaya, peaches, water
melon) and raw vegetables (sprouts, cucumber, celery, tomatoes).
"The application of Hygiene to the preservation of health is

simplicity itself."


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PALEO HYGIENIC food ideas
What is paleo hygiene?

Paleo Hygiene is the branch of
Natural Hygiene that believes the
optimal diet is a raw omnivorous
diet, e.g. something like this: see
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to the First some background:
magazine of In paleo hygiene, when we look
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non-profit sapiens) natural diet - we conclude that there have historically been 2 major
organisation turns, or deviations from the original (= for 5+ million years) all-raw omnivorous
for discussing diet:
& teaching The first was when humans started using fire for cooking. This happened
Natural more than 200,000 years ago.
Hygiene, a The second turn came when humans became farmers, radically
scientific view increasing starches and sugars in their diet, while eating less animal foods.
This started around 10,000 years BC in areas like the Middle East, India and China. And only 200 - 300
on health and
years ago in Native USA and Australia.
disease with
roots as far
back as 1822.
Our motto: 200,000 - cooking started / 10,000 - agriculture started (starch+sugar excess)
"trust the
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Simplified PALEO HYGIENIC optimal eating
Our
philosophy: Major requirements: Additional requirements:
By following maximize the raw don't overeat & don't undereat (avoid
deficiency)
the simple
minimize sugar & save energy other ways (food combine,
rules of the avoid stress while eating, etc.)
socalled LAWS
starches only natural & healthy & non-grain-fed
animal foods
OF LIFE we minimize toxins
can achieve
Since we haven't had time as a species to adjust to
lasting health
& optimal high-sugar/starch eating - minimizing sugar & starches may
energy. be even more important than maximizing the raw - for
optimal health.
Our goal is to
teach, discuss How about the following simplification?
& improve the
best healing
methods
available. If
they are
low-cost or
free, so much THE 100% DIET -
better.
THE 85 % DIET
optimal
Easier requirements (transitional) -
Strict requirements
We teach that e.g. for feeding a family.
1. no toxins
drugs are 1. almost no toxins
unnecessary 2. no sugars &
2. 85 % sugar & starch-free
and will starches
3. 85 % raw
usually delay 3. all raw
healing and
cause new
diseases.
We present
excellent THE 100 % DIET
no-drugs All-raw, no sugars & starches.
methods for For most successful disease reversal, most optimal health, longest life.
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Salad with mini-tomatoes and raw egg yolks.
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From a Norwegian cookbook: marinated salmon. Sprinkle lemon juice and
green herbs (cilantro, dill, chives, chervil, & optional salt) over the raw (wild)
salmon, keep ice-cold under plastic-wrap for 2 hours, or up to 2 days. Drizzle a
little olive oil over before serving with a salad.
From the web: beef carpaccio - Italian recipe, paper-thin slices of raw beef
(slice when half-frozen),
served with lemon wedges, olive oil, parmesan cheese
slices and 2 cups (1/2 l) of arugula leaves. Optionally make a sauce from egg
yolks & olive oil and drizzle over.
From the web: Chopped Raw Beef - Steak Tartare, served with egg yolk,
chopped onion, capers. A version is Italian Carne Cruda, served with lemon
juice, olive oil, anchovy fillet & thinly sliced mushrooms. Serve with a big green
salad.
From the web: sashimi & sushi, made from raw fish, serve with shredded
daikon radish, and lemon (optional: soy sauce & wasabi paste; skip the rice)
THE 85 % DIET
85 % raw, 85 % sugar & starch-free.
Food choices you can serve anybody in your family who refuses to eat
all-raw.
You may be able to find ideas in your own cookbooks.
A good idea, according to NH, is to have two meals per day, 6 hours apart,
each with some animal foods. Possibly a snack inbetween. Then let the
stomach rest for 18 hours. On the other hand, for those who are overweight
and suffer from food cravings, it may be better to instead have 5 smaller
meals per day, and avoid stuffing oneself.
EXAMPLES:
Low-heat egg-dishes: Top left - low-heat poached egg with salad. Top right:
eggs heated on low in coconut oil until egg-white coagulation. Bottom - the
same eggs stirred slightly, and stirred well - also added is: kelp powder,
fish-oil and bee-pollen.
Sardines from a can, with a blended salad, a whole salad, parsley and
tomatoes. Note: sardines with heads are better.
From Swedish cookbook: Anchovy eye - Egg yolks, chopped onions, capers,
chopped raw anchovie fillets, chopped red beets, chopped parsley. (Skip the
toasted bread.)
From Swedish cookbook: Roast saddle of reindeer - roasted at low heat, note
the reddish color. Served with salad, mini-tomato decoration, pearl onions.
From Norwegian cookbook: Shrimps in avocado - serve with creme fraiche

dressing, dill and lemon.
From Norwegian cookbook: Warmed salmon - Boil up water with some spices
& mustard seeds, take off the heat, add lemon juice, add the salmon pieces
and let stand until the salmon is warmed through, 1/2 hour. Take up the
salmon. Serve with sliced onion, asparagus, and a salad.
From Scandinavian cookbook: Smoked mackerel, with lettuce leaves, spring

onions.
From Swedish cookbook: West Coast Salad - raw mushrooms, frozen peas,
tomatoes & lettuce, and an assortment of seafood (lightly cooked lobster, shell
fish, shrimp, cray-fish). Served with dressing made from olive oil and lemon
juice.
To think about:
FOOD COMBINING
after eating proteins, especially animal proteins --- avoid
all sugars and starches for 3 hours, to avoid putrification
(semi-destruction) of the proteins, and digestive
problems. Don't eat sugars before the meal either.
AMOUNT
No limits to salads. Limit the proteins: eat about 1 gram
of protein per kilogram (2.2 lb) of your lean body weight,
per day. No more, unless you are an athlete, or a
growing teenager. Approximation: about the size of the
palm of your hand, and thickness, for each of 2 meals,
daily. The proteins should be complete (e.g. from animals).
Eat a lot of good fats, appr. equal the amount of protein
foods.
SUGARS & STARCHES
If you can't avoid sugars completely (which should be done,
optimally, for at least 3 weeks, to rest the pancreas and other glands) -
perhaps best to eat your sugars & starches as a small
snack, together with lettuce leaves, to minimize eventual
blood sugar increase. Berries are better than fruit. Raw
mini-carrots is an ok (small) snack.
Drs. Michael & Mary Eades - from PROTEIN POWER:

"An anthropologist examining skeletal remains of early man can tell
immediately whether the bones and teeth belonged to a hunter-gatherer
(mainly protein eater) or a farmer (mainly carbohydrate eater) simply by
their condition.
The hunters grew tall, with strong, well-formed bones and sound
teeth, and
the remains of the farmers usually show skeletal signs of malnutrition,
stunted growth, and tooth decay.
For 700,000 years humans ate a diet of mainly meat, fat, nuts, and
berries. Eight thousand years ago we learned to farm, and as our
consumption of grains increased, our health declined. Genetic
evolutionary changes take a minimum of 1,000 generations - or another
8,000 to 10 000 years to adapt."
http://drbass.com/eades.html
INTERVIEW QUOTE
Robert Crayhon: What's the best way to cook meat? How and when did
Paleopeoples start cooking their meat?
Loren Cordain: Organized stone hearths (and hence the first concrete
evidence for the control of fire) probably did not occur until the
appearance of Neanderthals roughly 200,000 years ago. So prior to this
time, humans probably did not cook their meat.
Robert Crayhon: What is the best way to cook meat?
Loren Cordain: The way we tend to cook meat these days is very
different from the ways of hunters and gatherers who tend to slow-cook
meats over a long period of time. A favored cooking procedure was
digging a pit and putting in hot stones, putting in the whole animal or
portions of it, putting in vegetable matter and other stones above the
vegetable matter and cooking the meat all day long. So what is
suggested is slow cooking at low heat.
http://www.biblelife.org/cordain.htm


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"People are already getting significant amounts
from food, mouthwashes, toothpastes. The
amounts are cumulative."
Dissecting The Issue of Flouridation vs. The Ingestion of

Flourine
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Continued interview with Dr. Virginia Vetrano - #4
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for discussing In 1965 after I graduated and passed my state boards, I started working solely at Dr.
& teaching Shelton's Health School. I ran the health school and did everything. Some of the patients
Natural we had were international, they came from all over. Shelton was bed-ridden, pretty much.
Hygiene, a He could talk still. When he couldn't get enough energy to push the air out to be heard, he
scientific view would whisper.
on health and
disease with Tosca did the books with him. She was 15 when
roots as far she graduated, that's when she started working
back as 1822. with him, when he couldn't work anymore. He
couldn't get up. That's exactly when she started
Our motto: to come over in the evenings, in the afternoon,
"trust the after school. (She worked with him until she was 25 and
married.)
body"
It was at that time that she started putting out the
first hygienic newsletter for children, probably at
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the age of 15 or 16. And it caught on, she had
philosophy:
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By following the subscribers, but it was called The New
the simple Dawn, and it was just like Shelton's Hygienic
rules of the Dr. Shelton's chair, at the Royl retreat
Review but it was geared for children, for young
socalled LAWS people, and had a lot of articles in there. I still have some copies of it.
OF LIFE we
can achieve She had a whole mailing list, but I don't remember where she got the names. Everybody
lasting health in ANHS knew that she were putting this paper out, so they all wanted their children to
& optimal have it. That's how she got the money to publish it. And she hand-printed it with this old
energy. type mimeograph, that the teachers used. It was like a paint tray with gel and ink, and
she would lay out the sheet on this gel and it would copy. That was the first copying
Our goal is to machine, hand-done copies on this gel. It took her about a month to put it out, but she got
teach, discuss it out every month.
& improve the Where did she get the information? It was just out of her knowledge, her own writing.
best healing She had little stories in it, I don't remember what she put in it. It was darling.
methods
available. If When Greg Haag first met Tosca, and found out about
they are Natural Hygiene, he took to it, just like I had taken to
low-cost or it. This was before he ever studied anything. When he found out what the Health School
free, so much was all about, that's what he wanted. There was no question ever in his mind what he
better. wanted to do. That was it; that was what he was gonna do; it was meant for him; it was
fate; it was whatever you want to call it. He was so enthusiastic about the health school,
We teach that and I think at that time we had somebody there who had no energy, and somebody with
drugs are a knee injury, and he was so amazed that they got well.
unnecessary
and will When Greg and Tosca got married, she was about 25. Soon Tosca got pregnant and
usually delay they had Raven when she was 26. By then, they both had decided to go to Texas
healing and Chiropractic College, which had now moved to Houston from San Antonio. But they
cause new wanted to be in classes together; because they studied best together. They moved to
diseases. Houston, when Tosca was pregnant, and she was studying to catch up with Greg. They
also had started taking classes at San Antonio college to catch up on the basic sciences,
and were allowed to take them at the same time. So they were living in 2 places then.
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Greg stayed out of school one year and helped me. He was travelling back and forth to
excellent
the Health School to help me out, and give me a break.
no-drugs
methods for The first case Greg was introduced to at the Health School, was a horrible case. This
health patient (Golford) had been given antibiotics, and he had gotten carbunkles and fistulas
recovery, and they just burst all over, on his arms and groin. He was referred to me from Dr. Cursio
tested and who had stopped practising at that time. The patient had an allergic reaction to the drugs
perfected by that he had been given. The carbuncles would open and you could see all the way into his
doctors for body, into his abdomen, even to his bones, where he had abcesses too. We fasted him,
over 175 he fasted about 28 days; and the holes were closing up, slowly closing up. They weren't
years. completely closed, because after all there were huge holes all over his body. He couldn't
even take a bath, because then he would get water inside his body. He had had a
We want to reaction to the medicine, I think it was penicillin.
promote
health Greg had a similar case recently (2001), an 89 year old lady in Florida, who developed a
independence huge carbuncle right on her back. It was that big, with purple & blue & black marks all
and critical over it, around a foot in diameter. On her little back. And there was a hole about 2 inches
thinking. across. Greg has already gotten her over it, only about 2 months ago.
This Tosca and Greg switched from chiropractic study to medicine, after 2 years, so they
webpage is never graduated. They went and found a medical school they wanted to go to in Mexico.
part of our 7 1/2 years they studied medicine and worked in the hospitals. So they studied totally 11
free online 1/2 years from the time they started taking basic sciences to go into that field. The
school was a state school of Mexico, but it was right across the border from Brownsville,
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It was all in Spanish. They had to learn Spanish, a super-speedy course in Spanish, 6
months in Houston with a Spanish teacher, private classes. Learning how to speak
INHS has free Spanish to go down into Mexico and learn medicine.
membership,
chat group and In Brownsville I started my own health school and had to build up a new clientele, but it
articles. didn't work out too well. What I wanted to do was keep Shelton's open and mine open
too. I spent 3 days at my health school and go up there and keep it open for him 3 days.
Well, some at Shelton's Health School didn't like that, and the help started talking bad
Visit INHS about me to the clients. One of the girls who took Tosca's place when she went to
WebSite school, was trying to read his lips and could never do it right, and I told her when she
learnt to proofread I'd give her a raise. Well, she never learned to proofread. So I had to
Visit INHS continually keep reading proof, even though I wasn't getting paid for it. To keep the
Review's magazine going. That woman was working for me before I left, and she is the one who
Home Page started lying, and getting with Shelton's daughter Willden, just telling lies about me. No
reason at all. They spread a lot of bad rumors. So that made a lot of problems with me,
so I said what am I coming back and killing myself for, when they don't want me to
anyway.
Shelton's kids wanted him to close the school, they didn't want it open anymore. Because
they had had too many lawsuits already, you know. So I left, they didn't want me there,
they didn't appreciate me coming 3 times a week.
I worked for Shelton for 17 years, from 1964 to 1977. Shelton was still alive then, he was
living at the Health School, but he didn't come with us. He stayed at his school but it
wasn't open. And he had somebody coming in and taking care of him. Around 1979
Shelton closed the Health School, because he couldn't get anybody to really do anything,
and I had to come back to do the magazine.
He was there when other people were running it, but these other people were not very
responsible people, because they just decided to pick up and leave, and all the girls had
quit, and there was nobody to look after Dr. Shelton, and he was there for at least one
full day or 2 days alone. Bedridden. No food, no nothing. Nobody to turn him, nobody to
help him, they just left, and he couldn't get to the telephone. Somebody finally called and
said: those guys left and took everything with them and Willden better come and get Dr.
Shelton, or something. They said they took as much as they could of everything. They
were about to take something else when somebody came upon them.
His daughter Willden came and took him over to his wife's home in San Antonio, and
that's where they kept him until his death in 1985. They tried to run the Health School for
almost a year, so I think this was 1980. They tried to run it without me for almost a year,
but they couldn't do it.
When we were in Brownsville,

Greg and Tosca were also
studying midwifery. They set up
those home birthing centers for
people who didn't want to go into
the hospital or the clinic, a natural
birthing center, and we had
women coming in there. We had
little birth certificate for little girls
and little boys, and had other
things that we gave to the ladies.
They graduated from medical
school in Mexico, at Universidad
de Tamalipas. And Tosca was
with child again, when graduating,
Dr. Vetrano portrayed in the Brownsville Herald, 1980
she walked across the floor like
that. I came down to see her
graduate, because at that time I lived in Brownsville myself, near them. And I was running
the Chateau de Sages health school, because I had left Shelton's at that time. And Tosca
and Greg did the castle on the weekends, while they were studying. So I had 2 days off.
It was very hard to get that health school in Brownsville started, the Chateau. I should
have retired, because I had worked day and night for 17 straight years, and here I was
still commuting to San Antonio, trying to keep Shelton's open too. Wearing myself out for
6 months that way. I kept trying for 6 months. And it was just too difficult, especially with
everybody talking bad about me. You know, after I was killing myself, and then I had
people talking. This was 1980, and I was 50.
I was ready to retire. Working at a health school is hard. Natural Hygiene counselors, all
they do is counsel in the daytime and they go home and have a nice night of sleep and
not worry about anybody having a crisis or anything. That's fine, I think we need a lot of
counsellors, I am not putting them down, I am really pleased that we have hygienic
counselors like David Klein and all those other, we need millions of them, to teach
Hygiene to the people, but we do also need some doctors. But the doctors have it the
hardest. Because they have to fight the medical profession, and the family, the family
comes out there, sees where the person is, and they get mad, and they say "you're
coming home", boom, while they are still fasting, and then they sue you. And blame you
for something that happened.
I was in Brownsville from 78/79, and my health

school closed in 1981, something like that. We had a
hurricane, a huge storm, the first year I was open.
After that, zilch, no patients. We were full until then,
but after, people were afraid to come in. So the
business just went boom, and it was also during that
1981 collapse of the market. Nobody had any money
for a while. It was sort of a semi-depression.
So it was just a bad time, the hurricane plus the
economic condition in the US, and I had opened a
new place.
Not many people came, the cost of electricity was

2000 per month. It was economically not feasible,
because I had to pay 2000 a month on the mortgage
that I had on the Chateau, 1800 a month for the electricity, and then another 2000 for the
girls that worked there, and I wasn't even making 6000 a month. So I was losing money.
While helping to put them through school. So we just went through a lot of money there,
and didn't make any money back.
Next they sued Shelton's Health School and I was working there then. In the end they
took the health school and the home. My home in Brownsville was taken away. One big
lawsuit. And it was a physician's fault. This patient had been on cortisone for years and
years, I told him he couldn't come until he had been off cortisone for 6 months, and then a
month later he called and said "I just cannot do it at home, I want to come now".
Unfortunately I said yes. But when he got there he didn't want to break his fast when I
told him to, he got into a crisis and he needed cortisone to get through the crisis. He
didn't bring his prescription, so I took him to the hospital. He was going into shock
because you cannot take a crisis without a lot of adrenaline. There I told them he had
been on cortisone for years and I said he needed cortisone, but they didn't listen, they
just waited around, and he died. And then they blamed it on me and Shelton's Health
School. We went to the court.
When I was foreclosed on and lost the Castle, I lost all the 200,000 dollars I had put into
it, and all the monthly payments, making a fence, new roof, repairing, etc. I lost a lot of
money and was broke after the lawsuit, because they also took my house in Houston.
They didn't take the Queen's Castle away from me because I couldn't pay for it anymore,
so it went back to the previous owner.
After this, there was kind of a long hiatus, when I spent many years traveling around,
trying to keep writing all the time. I wrote a lot of stuff for Victoria Bidwell, but never got a
book finished before I got started on another project. Now I have about 8 books that are
more than 3/4 done, on the computer. I have a book on vaccination, on exercise,
weightloss, arterial sclerosis, food and feeding, vegetarianism, water (8 glasses a day,
that is not good for you), and food combining. (ANHS doesn't believe in food combining
anymore, but I am bringing it totally up to date, scientifically proving that it is good.)
All those books are almost written, I just have to finish them. But I don't want to fall into
the trap of no copyrighting, as Shelton did. Also, we have a book that Shelton wrote, that
he never published, full notes for a new book. I have so much in my head that I cannot
get to.
The earlier parts of the interniew available here, and in the INHS member area.
Dr. Vetrano and Drs. Haag at the Royl Retreat in 2001
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"Education rather than treatment is the great
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Hygiene vs. Curing

by Dr. Herbert Shelton
My father developed asthma when I was a small boy,

suffering intermittently for a number of years.
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& teaching of stramonium (jimson weed).The narcotic contained in the smoke occasioned
Natural a temporary relaxation of the bronchioles and enabled him to breathe freely,
Hygiene, a but, like the relief afforded him by opium or morphine, the relief from inhaling
scientific view the fumes of burning stramonium was only temporary. No amount of repetitions
on health and of relief brought permanent relief.
disease with
roots as far Time flowed on, two World Wars and a number of smaller wars came and
back as 1822. passed, the Earth has been ransacked by searchers and researchers in an
effort to find a lasting cure for asthma, but today, as when my father was
Our motto: young, the curing professions are still satisfied to provide evanescent palliation
"trust the for the sufferer with asthma. There were the adrenalin and antihistamine eras,
body" followed by the present vogue for desensitization, by injections of antigens. As
with the common cold, there is no known cure for asthma.
Our
During the 80 years that have elapsed since
philosophy:
my father developed asthma, literally
By following
thousands of asthma sufferers have
the simple regained health and maintained it thereafter
rules of the by the simple plan of living defined by
socalled LAWS Natural Hygiene. Using no drugs with their
OF LIFE we inevitable aftermath of adverse reactions
can achieve and iatrogenic diseases, but relying upon the
lasting health normal things of life, superb and lasting
& optimal health is built.
energy.
The first requisite of restoring health is
Our goal is to the removal of the causes of impairment
teach, discuss of health. Cause is multiple and never
& improve the singular. Logically, we are entitled to include
best healing in our constellation of causative factors
methods
available. If
they are every act, habit, indulgence, circumstance and material that either remotely or
low-cost or immediately impairs the structural integrity or lowers the functional vigor of the
free, so much organism or any of its parts. The lowered capacity to function produced by the
better. totality of impairing influences checks secretion and excretion, producing a
toxemic state out of which there evolve the many diseases to which the
We teach that individual is predisposed. Trying to remedy a disease, such as asthma for
drugs are instance, without removing the cause is like trying to sober a drunken man
unnecessary while he continues to drink.
and will
usually delay The second requisite of recovery is an adequate supply of the normal
healing and requirements of healthy life — mental, physical and physiological rest,
cause new adequate but not superfluous food, fresh air, sunshine, warmth, and cleanliness
diseases. — providing these within the reduced capacity of the crippled organism to
make constructive use of them. Instead of using all the causes of disease
known to the three kingdoms of nature in a futile effort to cure disease, Natural
We present
Hygiene employs the normal mainstays of life to build and maintain high level
excellent
health.
no-drugs
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There are certain fundamental conditions proper to the mental and physical
health well-being of man, and we must understand, as a matter of strictest science as
recovery, well as of individual experience, that health is maintained or lost in exact
tested and proportion as these fundamental conditions are supplied or denied. This is one
perfected by of the first important truths in reference to our physical organization which we
doctors for must learn if we are to have health on anything more than the haphazard basis
over 175 that is commonly accepted.
years.
When, in our manner of living, we violate, whether through ignorance or
We want to in spite of knowledge, certain organic laws, obedience to which alone
promote can preserve health, we must inevitably suffer the necessary
health consequence of each violation.
independence
and critical "Health by healthful living" thus becomes the watchword of Natural Hygiene.
thinking. Education rather than treatment is the great need.
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A young soprano whose voice and hard
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Opera found herself in a heartbreak-ing
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articles. asthmatic condition and could no longer
sing.
Her physician told her frankly, "I can
Visit INHS give you temporary respite. We have no
WebSite cure for asthma." The desperate singer consulted a specialist who reiterated
what the family physician had told her. There was no cure.
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Home Page in spite of her talent, training, work and dreams. She gave up singing. She
retired to her farm in New Jersey. Medicine had written off her chances.
Then she heard of Natural Hygiene - the concept of the importance of the
body's own healing capacity. Uncertain, but willing in her predicament to try any
possible avenue of help, she consulted a Hygienist.
After examining her and hearing her story, he told her, "You can be helped. I
believe you can free yourself of this asthmatic condition if you will do what I tell
you - not by medicine or medical treatment at all."
"What then?" she demanded.

"Simply fast."
She did not understand. He explained at length to her the processes of fasting
as we have been discussing them and their techniques in this book. The young
singer grasped at this idea that was entirely new and startling to her.
The fast did the job.
In a matter not of months but of weeks the asthma cleared, within a few
months she was back at the Metropolitan. A career that might otherwise have
been smashed on the rocks of asthmatic suffering was able to return to its
triumphant course.
H.M. Shelton, Fasting Can Save Your Life, 1964
"ALL cases of bronchial asthma are

remediable."
Dr. Shelton's Orthopathy disease encyclopedia:

BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
Symptoms: Asthma is preceded by chronic bronchitis and often by hay

fever and sinus affections. The paroxysms may be preceded by such
premonitory symptoms as oppression of the chest, mental depression,
dyspeptic or other symptoms, or may come on suddenly, usually at night.
The patient is unable to lie down, but is forced to sit up, often before an
open window. The dyspnea becomes intense, the face is pale, the
expression anxious, there is a great feeling of oppression in the chest and
often a dread of suffocation. Though labored, respiration is not usually
frequent, due to prolonged expiration. In severe or prolonged paroxysms
there is blueness, sweating, cold extremities, small and frequent pulse
and drowsiness. Paroxysms last from a few minutes to many hours and
may pass off suddenly, perhaps to recur soon or on several successive
nights, with slight cough and difficult breathing in the intervals; At first the
cough is nearly dry and the sputum very tenacious. At the beginning the
paroxysms may last only a few days, and recur at intervals of a few
weeks or months, but as the condition grows chronic, the asthma
becomes continuous.
Prognosis: ALL cases of bronchial asthma are remediable. Five to six

weeks are sufficient time for complete recovery in the average case.
More time is required in a small percentage of cases.
Care of the Patient: Eliminate toxemia, restore nerve energy and correct
the mode of living. The fast should last until all abnormal breath sounds
have disappeared from the lung; preferably, it should last until the tongue
is clean. Two to four days of fasting is usually enough in even the most
severe and long-standing cases to bring sufficient relief to allow the
patient to lie down and rest and sleep.
When the underlying toxic condition is eliminated, all forms of sensitization
disappear. When the asthmatic gets rid of toxemia he does not have to
worry about sensitization. He automatically gets rid of this when he gets
rid of the true cause toxemia. It is, perhaps, true that all asthmatics will
retain to some extent their sensitiveness to certain foods, chemicals,
heat, cold, etc., as they originally had that tendency or diathesis when
they were born, but by following a few simple rules of right living they may
always avoid a recurrence of asthma.
..... Few asthmatics have much idea of their limitations in eating, working,
enjoying, etc., and, as a consequence of their over-indulgence, are
constantly adding to their trouble. If they are to get well and remain well,
they must learn self-control.
..... The palliative treatment commonly employed adds greatly to
enervation and thus to toxemia. The original causes are not corrected.
Under such conditions, how can recovery be hoped for?
H.M. Shelton, Orthopathy, 1941
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Herbert M. Shelton wrote more than 40 books, published the Hygienic Review monthly and operated his
famous Dr. Shelton's Health School in San Antonio,Texas. He was the co-founder of the American Natural
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In the 1930's, before I was born, my father had
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Natural When he met Dr. Cursio, who was a relative of ours, Dr. Cursio put him on a
Hygiene, a natural hygienic plan and he could breathe again. My father was able to go
scientific view back to work and he was very energetic, once he was working. We lived in
on health and upstate New York, in the western part of the state. Dr. Cursio's wife and my
disease with mother were second cousins.
roots as far
back as 1822. We heard about him through an uncle on my father's side. Another uncle, on
my father's side, went to him. He had a problem with hay fever and Dr. Cursio
Our motto: put him on raw vegetable salad for 30 days. The hay fever went away and
"trust the never came back. After that, he became our family physician.
body"
My family changed their eating habits. If it hadn't been for Dr. Cursio, we would
not have been successful contractors. We built bridges and roads, bridges
Our
mostly. If it hadn't been for Dr. Cursio, my father wouldn't have been around,
philosophy: my brothers would have been sick or dead. No, it was because of him that we
By following were able to do it.
the simple
rules of the
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OF LIFE we What else did Dr. Cursio do for your family?
can achieve
lasting health A few years after they met Dr. Cursio, my mother came down with double
& optimal bronchial pneumonia, and he fasted her for 30 days. She was very sick, she
energy. had a problem breathing, even during the fast she came very close to death
but she survived. I would never take a case like that.
Our goal is to
teach, discuss In any case, my father and my brothers decided they wanted to do it
& improve the hygienically, so they called Dr. Cursio and he put her on a water fast for 30
best healing days and she came out of it. Cursio said that my mother was the patient in his
methods
available. If
they are entire career that came closest to death, and survived.
low-cost or
free, so much My mother was having trouble with repeated miscarriages and she went to fast
better. months prior to the pneumonia for 30 days to increase her fertility so she could
conceive and carry me. She was 43 years old! I had four older brothers, all
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diseases. school I just started to practice Hygiene, as much as I
could. I also held a job at a clinic, so I would have enough
money to live, because Hygienic physicians are notoriously
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excellent
couple of years.
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When I was 20 years, I became his chauffeur; when he
health came to Buffalo, Rochester, and Batavia. I would drive him
recovery, everywhere, and he would teach me about his patients.
tested and When I was a driver for Dr. Cursio, I went with him to see
perfected by his patients, and I conversed with the patients a great deal.
doctors for This is what made me decide to go to medical school.
over 175
years. When I lived with Dr. Cursio, in Lido Beach, I was a medical
student. It was during my clerkship in the hospitals. Dr.
We want to Cursio lived there too, but at that particular time he was a
promote fugitive, because of a case in Florida. Sometimes, I thought Dr. Cursio took on
health cases that were too dangerous. He used to rush in where angels feared to
independence thread. He took chances and took cases that were too risky. Usually that is
and critical what got him in legal trouble. Cursio was a naturopath, N.D. One time he went
thinking. to jail because he took a blood pressure! Back in the early 50's.
This The first case I treated was a man with diabetes. They wanted to cut off his
webpage is leg, his wife brought him to me, and I put him on a nutritional plan. Within the
part of our first week his blood sugars went down to normal, and he came off the insulin.
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old and the doctors wanted to do a total hysterectomy and take out her
ovaries, so she would be free of pain. She wanted to bear children. So with
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began to feel so much better that he went and found a 27 year old woman,
remarried (his wife had died previously), and they had a baby.
Dr. Cursio had one case of schizophrenia. Her parents brought the girl to Dr.
Cursio, and she was so debilitated that she would take feces and put it in her
hair, and her mother had to clean her. Once, when she was at our house she
wandered outside and took off all her clothes. Luckily, we lived in the country
and nobody was driving by. (Dr. Cursio would see patients in our house once a
month.) This patient got well, went on to have 3 children and led a normal life.
Anybody that has a mental health problem, and goes on a hygienic program,
their sanity improves.
There were a number of conditions in my family. My father had wet psoriasis

that Dr. Cursio cured. He put him on a potato diet. My father also had a cyst
on his elbow when Dr. Cursio was alive. He put him on a potato diet, and it
went away.
My mother had congestive heart failure when she was in her late 70's, and
he fasted her, and I assisted him over the phone, and I would give him the
information, and after a 11-day fast, I had to wake up the grocer, to get
oranges, so we could squeeze oranges to break the fast. It was 4 oz of
orange juice that we gave her. It was 10 pm at night when we broke the fast.
She went on to live another 5 years, she went on to live longer than he did.
Why didn't you wait until the morning to break your mother's fast?
My cousin ran the store, it was a distant cousin. I called him and he agreed to
open the store. The reason we didn't wait until the morning, was because it
couldn't wait. The fast had to be broken then! She had abruptly lost her energy,
which indicated that the fast had to be broken. The patient was going into
starvation. She had to be fed at that point, right then!
"Dr. Cursio put him on raw vegetable salad for 30

days. The hay fever went away and never came
back."
Anthony J. Penepent was M.D. in New York, using Natural Hygiene methods, and lacto-ovo vegetarian
diets.
Christopher Gian-Cursio operated a fasting retreat in New York, the Castle. He developed new
understanding of the optimal diet, promoted lacto-ovo vegetarianism in NH, and pointed out the dangers
with veganism. He was a good friend of Dr. Shelton, and co-founder of the American Natural Hygiene
Society.
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The following Natural Hygiene doctors suffered from serious diseases early in
life, which (allopathic) medicine couldn't help them with. They were expected
to become crippled or die. By accident they both found natural healing
methods, recovered their health, and both later decided to become Natural
Hygiene doctors.
"In 1976, I developed serious rheumatoid disease.

My physicians told me that the condition was
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Natural eventually would become fully crippled.
Hygiene, a I felt that there had to be causes for the
scientific view illness and that somewhere, approaches
on health and were available to help me evolve out of
disease with the disease state.
roots as far
back as 1822. By chance, I saw a magazine ad for the
Shangri-La Natural Hygiene Institute in
Our motto: Bonita Springs, Fla. where I traveled and
"trust the met owner R.J. Cheatham. Mr. Cheatham was a wonderful teacher
body" and he introduced me to the concepts of Natural Hygiene. During
the next year I lived at Natural Hygiene Institute. and put those
Our concepts into practice. Later, I was hired as the facility's health
philosophy: director.
By following After leaving Natural Hygiene Institute, I pursued graduate studies
the simple in public health, followed by earning a chiropractic degree and
rules of the becoming an IAHP member.
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OF LIFE we How has Natural Hygiene affected your health?
can achieve
lasting health Knowledge alone about Natural Hygiene does not allow one to be
& optimal healthy. It requires consistent application of the principles in all
energy. aspects of our lives. I have found the principles of Natural Hygiene
to be instrumental in not only the preservation of my own health
Our goal is to and well-being, but that of my patients as well.
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best healing where she was employed at the time. We have three children, all of
methods whom have been raised as vegetarians.
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free, so much
better. My main concern is that the self-empowering message of Natural
Hygiene does not get confused with the many products, services,
We teach that and therapies that are called "natural" these days. Too much of the
drugs are "natural" health field today has to do with multilevel marketing of
unnecessary health products and a host of therapies, rather than teaching people
and will how to become responsible for themselves in a way that leads to
usually delay their highest level of health.
healing and The most important thing each of us as Natural Hygienists can do to
cause new positively influence others is to set a good example in all aspects of
diseases. our lives, to develop a Hygienic lifestyle, and "to practice what we
preach."
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years. which was literally a period of fasting, and I
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What sets Natural Hygiene apart from other health systems?

Natural Hygiene doesn't single out one specific thing that is
responsible for your overall health. Natural Hygiene comprises all of
the facets of healthful living, including physical activity and
exercise, wholesome diet, pure air and water, adequate rest and
sleep, mental and emotional poise, and creative activity. Natural
Hygiene is the art and science of living in such a way that all of
these aspects are provided abundantly.
What advice do you have for newcomers to Natural Hygiene?
Approach Natural Hygiene with an open mind. There is so much to

learn! Recognize that Natural Hygiene is more than body building or
a good diet. It is a way of looking inward, of being totally alert, of
realizing your fullest potential.
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"It is more important in cases of constipation to
restore normal nerve energy than to add bulk to
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Constipation
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Man's alimentary canal is a long, hollow tube beginning with the oral cavity
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(mouth) and extending through the esophagus, gastric cavity (stomach), small
intestines, and large intestine (colon), to the anus. It is not inert, but
Welcome incorporates in its walls a large number of physiologically active structures,
to the including glands, muscles, blood vessels, and nerves. In its healthy state its
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organisation effort.
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Natural spontaneous and should not intrude themselves upon
Hygiene, a consciousness. There are only two points at which we
scientific view may exert some direct conscious control: namely, in the
on health and mouth when we chew and swallow, and at the lower end
disease with of the rectum when we expel the residue.
roots as far
back as 1822. Two circular muscles, the internal and external sphincters
located at the lower end of the rectum, normally control bowel evacuations.
Our motto: Voluntary control of the sphincters is developed during early childhood and
"trust the should be retained throughout life. Involuntary voiding may occur thereafter,
body" however, as a result of sudden fright, strong purgation, and disease of the
bowels or nervous system. The changes of senility may also weaken voluntary
control.
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PRIMITIVE MAN
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Primitive man did not know nor need to know anything about the functions of
the simple
his alimentary tract. These functions were so efficient due to his natural way of
rules of the life that he had but to take care of two conscious processes—eating and
socalled LAWS voiding—and leave the rest to the unconscious or subconscious activities of the
OF LIFE we body. With all his assumed superiority over his primitive forebears, modern
can achieve civilized man suffers discomfort and distress in his digestive tract, frequently
lasting health complaining of constipation, diarrhea and hemorrhoids. It is common to say
& optimal that these symptoms result from his failure to adapt himself to his modern
energy. environment; it is probably more correct to believe that they are the result of
his failure to shape his environment to meet his basic needs.
Our goal is to
teach, discuss When the small intestine, which averages about 22 feet in length, and the
& improve the colon, which averages five to six feet in length, are not actively engaged in
best healing handling food, their muscles, glands, and nerves should be quiescent and the
methods
available. If
they are blood supply to these parts reduced. The entrance of food from the stomach
low-cost or occasions the secretion of such substances as bile, pancreatic juice, intestinal
free, so much juice, and lubricating mucous, together with an increase in blood supply.
better.
It also occasions strong waves of rhythmic muscular contractions, which we
We teach that call peristalsis—movements which mix the food with digestive juices and their
drugs are enzymes and propel it along the intestinal canal. To assure efficient control of
unnecessary this start-and-stop mechanism, the intestine is supplied with a double set of
and will nerves. The vagus nerve activates these structures while the sympathetic
usually delay nerves inhibit their activities.
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foodstuffs will provide a general idea of the whole complex process which, in
diseases.
health, is so wonderfully and ingeniously regulated that it is carried on without
our awareness. As the bolus of undigested food and indigestible portions of
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food reaches the rectum, a reflex urge to evacuate the bowels (defecation)
excellent
notifies us that there is need for movement.
no-drugs
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recovery, This should be the first consciousness of the existence of food in the digestive
tested and tract. The movement should be free, easy and pleasurable. It should be devoid
perfected by of discomfort and distress. Pain, sluggishness, straining, and bleeding at stool
doctors for are evidences that something is wrong. The condition known as constipation
over 175 has well been termed our first national disease. It seems to become more
years. prevalent as man departs more and more from his natural way of life.
We want to REFINED FOODS

promote The modern diet of civilized man, which is largely processed and refined, is
health robbed of essential nutritive value and natural bulk, contributing largely to
independence constipation. As man's food becomes progressively more refined and less
and critical valuable as nutrient, constipation becomes more marked. The evolution of
thinking. modern machinery has largely deprived man of the necessity for physical
activity, so that he tends to become indolent, lazy and deformed (stooped).
This This also produces constipation. An enervating mode of life reduces nerve
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part of our evidence of waning power.
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force the bowels to act. In some areas and in some sections, laxatives and
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intended to lubricate the intestine and colon to enable the food bolus to pass
more easily. But these structures supply their own lubrication and need none
from without. Oily substances tend to prevent normal absorption of food, and
dissolve fat-soluble vitamins, which are then passed out in the stools. This
causes an insidious form of malnutrition, which may lead to abnormal
conditions, such as anemia. Lubricants lead to the development of a lazy,
enervated and flaccid colon.
2. LAXATIVES
Some so-called laxatives occasion irritation in the digestive tract, giving rise to
violent bowel action. The effect of such
laxatives and purgatives is a weakened intestine, flaccid colon, and, eventually,
inflamed and damaged intestinal linings. The habitual use of such substances
may easily lead to ptosis, ulceration, and even cancer.
3. EATING BULK FOODS

A third means of inducing bowel action consists in eating such substances as
wheat bran, agar-agar, psyllium seed and similar forms of bulk to compensate
for the natural bulk removed in the refining process. While this method of
inducing bowel action succeeds for a time, it does not correct the diet. It
provides bulk, but not the minerals and vitamins removed from natural food.
Sylvester Graham stressed the importance of bulk in promoting more efficient

activity of the alimentary canal, as well as better bowel action. But there has
been a tendency to overstress this feature and provide too much bulk. The
in-nutritious portions of food are, as a rule, not disproportionately great.
However, they constitute all the bulk required for healthy action of the digestive
tract, assuming these portions are not removed by milling and refining
processes.
More important to good bowel action than bulk is normal nerve capacity. The
person with normal nerve energy will have normal bowel action on a diet of
bananas for instance, which contain almost no bulk. The enervated individual
may be constipated in spite of excessive bulk. It is more important in cases of
constipation to restore normal nerve energy than to add bulk to the diet.
Among those who seek to avoid the use of drugs, the enema and colonic
irrigation are very popular. Our first criticism of these practices is that they do
not remove or correct the cause or causes of constipation. By encouraging the
individual to resort to the enema or irrigation, we encourage him to ignore
causes.
4. ENEMAS
It should be known that normal peristalsis depends on good health; good health
does not stem from peristalsis. Taking large quantities of water into the colon,
whether by enema or by irrigation, distends it, leaves it dry and enervated and
causes constipation to become chronic. Any method of forcing bowel action
may add to constipation.
ANXIETY
All of these habits—the laxative habit, the bulk habit, the enema habit—and the
fallacies that give rise to them tend to produce deep-seated anxieties about
function of the bowels. Such anxiety may itself cause functional disturbances,
which, in many cases, may result in colitis or diarrhea alternating with
constipation. Or, in other cases, the emotional stress thus occasioned may
cause spasticity of the colon.
ALLOW REST
Instead of providing more work for an already enervated colon by these
methods, we would get better results by giving the digestive tract, including the
colon, a rest. If, instead of filling our digestive tract with bulk, we provided it
with natural food containing needed bulk and essential nutrients, we could
assure normal bowel function. Better nutrients, as here suggested, provide
more adequate nourishment of the whole organism, hence better function of
the body.
Instead of forcing bowel function we could all profit from the advice of that
grand old Hygienist of Boston, Dr. Charles B. Page: "Mind your own business,
and let the bowels mind theirs." By this he simply means that we should take
care of our part of the normal living processes and let the subconscious and
unconscious activities of the body do their own work in their own way. In
numerous cases, we have found that all that is needed to end constipation is to
cease efforts to cure it.
Constipation cures, like all the other cures, tend to produce the very trouble
they are intended to cure, just as sleep-inducing drugs occasion sleeplessness
and coffee-drinking causes the headache that it tries to relieve.
Herbert M. Shelton, Health For The Millions
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When your digestive tract is not functioning properly, your
body has to make room to accommodate that growing pile
of putrefied waste, which can harden and cause your colon
to significantly expand in size to become what is referred to
as a 'mega-colon'. Elvis Presley was known to have battled
congenital colon problems (congenitally twisted ganglionic
fold in his intestine) for years and ended up extremely
overweight. After his sudden death in 1977, four medical
examiner doctors performed an autopsy on Elvis. According
to an account based on their report, they noted that sections of his large intestine
ranged from 3 ½ to 5" in diameter! (A normal colon for someone Elvis's size is about
2").
As the medical examiners continued dissecting his colon, they found that "…the
mega-colon was jam-packed from the base of the descending colon all the way up
and halfway across the transverse colon. It was filled with 'white, chaulk-like fecal
matter"…." The impaction "had the consistency of clay and seemed to defy the
doctors' efforts with the scissors to cut it out "
The doctors believed that Elvis must have suffered discomfort from that fecal
impaction as the fecal material would have caused the colon to stretch as it worked its
way through. His diet of cooked food, his congenital colon problem, and his overuse of
laxatives and prescription drugs were large contributing factors. These factors have the
concomitant effect of slowing down the digestive system."
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DR. ESSER
Illness Is Not Inevitable
Natural Hygiene illuminates the laws that govern health

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human being is immune to all disease. Man always
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& teaching disease and death result from the wrath of God;
Natural the medical profession has done the best job of
Hygiene, a teaching the uncertainty of health. The legal
scientific view profession has added to man's fears by fostering
on health and injustices.
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The power of fear
roots as far Health Ranch in Florida, in a 1978 portrait,
The result of such teaching is the building of fear
back as 1822.
complexes, which reduce vitality and lower health standards, and is a prominent reason
why other nations point to America as a country of sick people. Sadly, there is shocking
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truth to this belief. The average American has developed "the habit of being sick."
"trust the Seeking cures from curers is the tragic national pastime. Cures are as elusive and
body" unreal as mirages. But the palliation and subsequent impairment of vital organs— and
the surgical mutilation—are very real and lasting.
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philosophy: The time is long overdue for thorough renovation. The causes of fear must go. Man has
By following nothing to fear except himself and his disease-building, life-shortening habits. Years
the simple ago, when the microscope enlarged tiny organisms to a size which made them look
rules of the ferocious and dangerous, a wave of fear swept the land. It was decided that these
socalled LAWS caused most of our diseases, and, as a consequence, a sterile existence was
OF LIFE we frantically sought after by all who wished to be healthy. Today, the fear of germs is
can achieve mostly a thing of the past. But another phobia, more mysterious but less tangible—the
lasting health "virus," has taken over to explain disease.
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energy. Illness results from man's own violations and indiscretions, his own sins against himself.
When he ceases to make himself sick, he becomes immune, and disease no longer
Our goal is to exists. John H. Tilden, M.D., once wrote, "All the cures which have been invented by
teach, discuss man are boomerangs that have returned to do him evil."
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best healing Freedom of will
methods Man has freedom of will. It is about time that he becomes aware that his destiny is of
his own choosing. The knowledge of health and its maintenance is not exclusive with a
available. If small chosen group of people. Nor is the knowledge too technical for the average mind
they are to grasp. Man's willingness to allow someone else to think for him has almost caused
low-cost or him to lose his self-protection.
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better. The animal kingdom has its claws, teeth, beaks, and other instinctive defenses for
protection and for securing food for young and self. But man has his mind, which gives
We teach that him dominion over everything else on Earth. He has opened many doors and unlocked
drugs are many mysteries with his mind. Unfortunately, he knows more about things outside
unnecessary himself than he knows about himself The results of this ignorance, plus lack of
and will self-control, are sickness, pain, and premature death. And the accumulated sequences
usually delay of crime, perversity, war, and a decaying society are the by-products of this ignorance.
healing and Unless man learns to know himself, he will destroy himself.
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Knowledge is strength
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Sickness is unnecessary. Those who possess good health should know why they are
well. If the only reason they can give is that they have always enjoyed good health and
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with which to keep the good health they possess. Their good health potential and sound
no-drugs constitutions can easily be frittered away.
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health The fact that parents and grandparents lived to a ripe old age gives one a fine feeling of
recovery, security but is very much like an athlete resting on his laurels. Unless he continues to
tested and train and maintain his achievement, he will soon find his records toppling. The asset of
perfected by long-lived forebears can be offset easily by the rush and worry of modern business, or
doctors for by a frantic social pace, which outdistances that of our fathers by at least five to one.
over 175
years. Challenges we face
Today, there are many advantages over previous decades, but there also are many
We want to disadvantages. The machine age, with its push button existence, enables men and
promote women to achieve many things with great efficiency. But it does nothing to relieve the
health grueling pace and tension which goes hand and hand with it. The nervous and digestive
independence systems, brain, and heart are taxed far beyond their endurance. In order to keep up
and critical with the demands of competition, tobacco, coffee, and other drugs are relied upon to
thinking. stimulate flagging nerves and functions. The man is wise who from time to time
withdraws from the insanity of today's graceless living for somber contemplation of true
This and eternal values.
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It is not the aim of Natural Hygiene to invalidate the definite advances which man has
made since the beginning of time. It is, however, necessary to point out the flaws in
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conventional and synthetic living. Cold, analytical investigation is the key.
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This article first appeared in the June 1958 issue of Natural Hygiene, an early
publication of the American Natural Hygiene Society, and was re-printed in ANHS
Health Science in 1998, with these words: It is remarkable that the overall thrust of
this article and the issues that it addresses are as timely today as they were 40 years
ago. William Esser, N.D., D.C., author of Dictionary of Natural Foods, was the
director of Dr. Essers Health Ranch in Lake Worth, Fla, until age 90. Dr. Esser was
one of the original co-founders of ANHS. He began his professional career In Natural
Hygiene in 1935.
"Sickness is unnecessary."
A voice of experience
Excerpted from a 1992 interview (ANHS Health Science)
Natural Hygiene is such a great thing, it should spread like wildfire. It offers great hope
for people, and a wide variety of conditions respond well to fasting and Natural Hygiene
care. But it requires discipline. It is not something to be bought or to be sold as a quick
fix.
Those who are not disciplined are accustomed to their addictions, and it is very difficult
for them to get away from that. Some of these people come back to the Ranch year
after year, and often I am tempted to tell them not to come! But then I realize that a
little benefit is better than nothing. I tell people to value health and the pleasure of being
well. Cherish the wonderful knowledge and enjoyment that you gain from living in a
healthy way. That is the reward of it all!
William Esser, ND., D.C
"One of the great benefits of Natural Hygiene is the

ability to live without fear"
Three ANHS Past-Presidents
Former ANHS presidents Dr. William Esser (I), Dr. Virginia Vetrano, and Jack
Dunn Trop are pictured here at the 1978 ANHS Conference that was held in Buffalo,
N.Y., where Drs. Esser and Vetrano received awards for their lifelong efforts on
behalf of Natural Hygiene.
While Herbert M. Shelton was the most widely recognized name in Natural Hygiene
for most of the 20th century, and was the first president of the American Natural
Hygiene Society many men and women have made substantial contributions. Dr.
William Esser, Dr. Virginia Vetrano, and Jack Dunn Trop each served as president of
the Society in addition to their many other efforts on behalf of Natural Hygiene.
The roots of the Hygienic movement can be traced to the 1830s, set into motion by
pioneering doctors, both male and female, who first articulated the laws of life on
which the basic principles of Natural Hygiene are founded. Dr. Shelton was
instrumental in bringing these ideas into the 20th century In 1948, he, Dr.William
Esser, Dr. Gerald Benesh, Dr. Christopher Gian-Cursio,Dr.Jesse Mercer Gehman,
Jack DunnTrop, Irving Davidson, and Symon Gould founded the American Natural
Hygiene Society. The first annual ANHS Conference was held in 1949, at the Diplomat
Hotel in NewYork City.
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THE WAR AGAINST IGNORANCE
Irving Davidson: Beyond Personal Health
How the Natural Hygienist measures up in human relations
More Because the Natural Hygienist is conditioned to keep his

magazines interests geared to essential things, which are socially
motivated and humanitarian in outlook, he must either directly
Welcome or indirectly play an important part in all the problems and
to the moral issues of public life today. As a tried and tested
magazine of warrior who has fought bravely on the battlefield of human
INHS, a rights, he has won many encounters in the war against
non-profit ignorance of the laws of life and the laws of nature. Society
organisation should be fortunate for having the leaven of Natural Hygiene
for discussing to contribute to its social growth, and many Hygienists have
unselfishly contributed a considerable quantity of quickening
& teaching
knowledge to the flickering breath of life. The light of
Natural
Hygienic doctrine and of Hygienic example are welcome
Hygiene, a
torches in the darkness of error and uncertainty.
scientific view
Torches in the darkness of
on health and Qualities of a Natural Hygienist error & uncertainty
disease with Many are the qualities that contribute to the making of a
roots as far modern Hygienist. To be a Hygienist, one must have courage and determination, and
back as 1822. one must be willing to be a nonconformist. Andrew Jackson said that "one man with
courage is a majority." It also takes a pretty determined spirit to shine its way through
Our motto: the thick veils of convention, through the cramping walls of conformities, and through the
"trust the rigidly fixed rules of narrow, self-determined opinions. Ralph Waldo Emerson cautioned
body" that "if you would be a man, be a nonconformist." From the great teachings and
philosophies, the universal truths and ageless wisdom of our Hygienic pioneers, we
Our have learned how to awaken our minds, how to steer our own thinking, how to see for
philosophy: ourselves, and how to discern truth in every form and disguise.
By following
the simple Growth through learning
rules of the Because man is capable of great errors, and because he is capable of discovering the
socalled LAWS truth and of growing in wisdom, there is always time left for man to grow out of his
OF LIFE we confusions through reading. Man can learn, be influenced, and be caused to change.
can achieve Man is capable of unlearning all the unsound things he has learned and substituting
lasting health instead the sound ones. The freedom to believe what man chooses to believe carries
& optimal with it the obligation to take the greatest pains, if necessary, to prove his beliefs sound;
energy. that they are measurable by verifiable standards.
The developed Hygienist makes himself acquainted with the best that has been done,
Our goal is to written, and thought on the subject of Natural Hygiene, and then applies his knowledge
in every possible way.
teach, discuss
& improve the
Experiencing true freedom
best healing
Freedom for the Hygienist does not mean the liberty to do what one likes, but rather the
methods
right to be able to do what one ought, because it is the right and healthiest thing to do.
available. If In time, what one ought to do tends to be perfectly compatible with doing what one
they are likes.The fault lies not so much in ourselves, as in the values in which most of us are
low-cost or conditioned. Our values are traditionally determined, and we are socialized and
free, so much conditioned in them long before, if ever, we are capable of taking an objective look at
better. them. It is quite possible to go methodically wrong in a systematic manner with the
greatest of ease in the attainment of clearly conceived goals which are both unsound
We teach that and confusing.
drugs are The Hygienist realizes that external defenses are of no use, if our inner defenses break
unnecessary down. A plant's sickness cannot be corrected by lopping off the ailing leaves. Man
and will carries within himself the seeds of his own destruction. A person being disordered in
usually delay himself is likely to make disorder in the world. The understanding Hygienist knows that
healing and man creates his world according to the kingdom that is within him. If we are to make
order in the world, we must first make order in human beings. If sufficient numbers of
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us were true and genuine Hygienists, there would be less fear for the future of
diseases.
humanity. A Chinese proverb puts it, "If every man would mend a man, the world would
all be mended."
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recovery, of Natural Hygiene. "
tested and
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over 175 Aggressiveness exists in nature, but there is also a simultaneous drive towards
years. cooperation. Cooperation is stronger and biologically more important. Even the
chimpanzees, kind and generous by nature, will give away part of their own food to
We want to hungry companions, by passing food to one another through the bars of their cages,
and go to one another's aid when such help is needed, such as helping each other carry
promote
loads. One chimpanzee pulled a splinter out of a keeper's hand and made a very good
health
job of it. [Charles] Darwin, by overemphasizing the importance of competition,
independence
neglected the factor of cooperation in the evolutionary process, and badly put the whole
and critical
picture out of focus. The emphasis on inborn or instinctive features of hostility,
thinking. aggression, death wishes, and the negative experiences have led our students of child
psychology astray.
This The less frustration children experience, the better balanced, less aggressive, and
webpage is competitive they will be. Because America is made up of so many who try to get
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chat group and love—the source of which we draw and convey our warmth to others. It is the light
articles. which guides us in relation to our fellow men. It is a flame before which we warm the
hands of life, and without which we remain cold all our lives. It is the light of the world.
The light which it casts enables us to clearly and unequivocally see our relation to our
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others. They should stop talking about Natural Hygiene and start living it. Performance
and example will teach more than promise and theory. Rather than practice what they
preach, Hygienists should rather preach only that which they practice.
The mature and evolved Hygienist truly possesses a rare capacity to contribute to the
happiness and creativitv of human beings. He has learned how to share his unique
knowledge and experience with others. He carries with ease his accelerated freedom
of inquiry, and more often through analysis heads off impending paralysis. He
emphasizes cooperation because he knows that competition usually puts men in
opposition to each other. He customarily carries in his knapsack values that can
contribute to the happiness and creativeness in human beings living together. He tries to
minimize conflict, anxiety, insecurity. Altruism rather than egoism is the dominant motive
of his behavior.
Celebrating community
Because the biological nature of man is directed toward relatedness as a process of
living, the Natural Hygienist knows that it is unnatural and unhealthy to be and feel
alone. He has a deep sense of responsibility to man. He must become more neighborly.
He must become increasingly less private and more public. He must ever remain
entrenched in the fellowship of man.
This article first appeared In the program of the American Natural Hygiene Society's
1965 Conference, which was held at the Pick-Carter Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. ANHS
co-founder irving Davidson, Esq. (1904-1990) served as the president of the Society
from 1974-75. Also printed in ANHS' Health Science 1998.
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of life and the laws of nature."


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they will not need so many fasts."
Getting the MOST out of HYGIENE

More Unlike the systems of cure, Hygiene is for both the well and the sick. Indeed, it
magazines is my firm conviction that, in preserving and promoting vigorous health, Hygiene
is of greater value to mankind than in promoting recovery from the many and
Welcome varied states of impaired health. This is not to hint that it is lacking in efficacy
to the as a promoter of recovery but to emphasize the truth of the old adage that an
magazine of ounce of preservation is worth more than a pound of restoration. We should
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non-profit recovery therefrom. We can do this best by extending a knowledge of the
organisation principles upon which health depends.
for discussing
& teaching The application of Hygiene to the preservation of health is simplicity itself and
Natural any individual of average intelligence can understand it and apply it to his or her
Hygiene, a individual life or to the life of the children of the family. It is, of course, so much
scientific view at variance with everything we have been taught in the past that some study is
on health and required to arrive at an adequate understanding of it, but no unusual amount of
disease with education is required as a precedent to this understanding. Sometimes, indeed,
roots as far so thorough has been the brain-washing job of the educational process, it
back as 1822. seems that much education is a bar to understanding.
Our motto: As applied to the care of the healthy organism,

"trust the Hygiene comprises the maintenance of all the
conditions of health and the avoidance of all
body"
causes of impaired health. As applied to the
many and varied conditions of impaired health,
Our
Hygiene consists in the maintenance of all the
philosophy: conditions of health, and the removal of all the
By following causes of impaired health. In this latter instance
the simple a thorough and scientific application of the
rules of the elements of health, as the proper and sufficient
socalled LAWS means of supplying the needs of the
OF LIFE we recuperative and reparative powers of the living
can achieve organism in restoring health, requires a careful
lasting health adjustment of these elements of health to the current needs and capabilities of
& optimal the enfeebled organism. Greater knowledge and skill are required in this
energy. adjusting of means to ends in states of impaired health than are required in
adjusting these means of life to the varying conditions of healthy life.
Our goal is to
teach, discuss The materials and processes of Hygiene are considerable in number and the
& improve the range of their application almost unbelievable. Great variation in their
best healing application is required in the various conditions and states of existence and, in
methods
available. If
they are some states of acute disease, they have to be adapted, hour by hour, to the
low-cost or patient. Every different state of the sick and every different circumstance of the
free, so much well requires careful adaptation of the means of Hygiene to the needs and
better. capacities of the individual. Who would be foolish enough to try the same
application that has proved to be beneficial in a robust man to a delicate
We teach that woman or child? Can we feed a baby at its mother's breast as we do a harvest
drugs are hand laboring long hours in the field? Can the invalid perform the exercise that
unnecessary is beneficial to the vigorous youth? Shall we give the same Hygienic conditions
and will to the man shivering in the cold that we do the sick man with a high fever? Our
usually delay means of care must always be adapted to the nature of the case and the
healing and condition of the individual.
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Mistakes have been made and mischief done by providing the same kind of
diseases.
care for different individuals in different conditions, but the harm that has
resulted from these mistakes has been slight, when compared with the harm
We present
that results from the employment of poisons. We cannot care for the weak and
excellent
delicate as we may the strong and robust, but must adapt our Hygiene to the
no-drugs circumstances, and this adaptation, especially in the case of the sick, requires
methods for more knowledge than the average person possesses. We do not assert that
health Hygiene will cure any so-called disease. We contend only that it may be
recovery, adapted to the human constitution in every condition of health and sickness,
tested and that it will enable the body to restore health in all cases in which restoration is
perfected by still possible, and that, even in hopeless cases, it provides more lasting relief
doctors for from suffering than can be secured by resort to drugs and that it does not
over 175 produce drug addiction.
years.
Under Hygienic living there is an entire making over of the organism. Freshness
We want to comes to the cheeks, brightness to the eyes, strength to the limbs and
promote elasticity to the motions. There is demand for food, vigor for activity and keen
health enjoyment of life. Under the genial influences of the Hygienic materials and
independence conditions toxins are thrown out by the quiet, orderly actions of the organs of
and critical excretion, by eruptions, sometimes by boils, and by other processes of
thinking. compensatory elimination. The body is purified and purification brings health.
The proper application of Hygiene will enable the restorative forces of the body
This to bring about a hasty return to health; their improper application may result in
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articles. Hygiene to the particular needs of the human organism in its various and varied
stages of impaired health. This is a grievous error which has already resulted in
much mischief, both to those who have attempted the care of themselves and
to Hygiene itself. Even under the direct supervision of a competent Hygienist
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Review's carrying out what they conceive to be the plain teachings of Hygiene, we
Home Page realize fully how wrong it is for the beginner in Hygiene to attempt to care for
his own needs in any serious state of impaired health. When, through his own
errors and misapplications and misunderstandings, he grows worse instead of
better, he is sure to place the responsibility for his worse trouble upon Hygiene
rather than upon his own misconceptions and misuses.
I receive frequent requests to give advice by mail. So many misconceptions
arise out of the descriptions these people provide of their condition and they
misconstrue the simplest advice to such an extent that such care is not
satisfactory There is another weighty factor in this matter that must always be
considered: it is the strong tendency of almost everyone, in a crisis, to become
alarmed and to have recourse to a physician, to a pill, or to some non-Hygienic
mode of treatment, so that it is not wise to attempt to advise the sick by mail.
They will resort to other than Hygienic measures first and inform you of their
actions after it is over Not only does this help to convince them that Hygiene is
wrong, but, by thus playing into the hands of the enemies of Hygiene, they lend
ammunition to the enemy.
Anything that is worth doing is worth doing right and if Hygiene possesses the
value we attribute to it, it should be properly applied and not left in the hands of
the ignorant and half-informed. The individual who falls into excesses in his
application of Hygiene or who neglects some important part of it through
ignorance or laziness can do both himself and Hygiene great harm. There is a
great tendency in a large percentage of people to be carried away by what
they conceive to be the most important part of Hygiene. I once was called to
see a dying baby whose parents had permitted themselves to be carried away
by their idea that man should live on fruits alone. The mother could not nurse
the baby, due, primarily, to the inadequacies of her own diet. No doubt the
baby had been born feeble because of the same inadequacies. They had
attempted to rear the child on a diet of juices. It had received no protein from
any source. It died in a few hours after I saw it. Such misconceptions and
faulty applications do Hygiene much damage.
Among my valued friends of yesteryear was a woman who was enthusiastic

about Hygiene. She underwent a fast at home without supervision. She had
fasted enough and she knew enough about the process to have done this
successfully. But, from some source, not from any Hygienic source, she
acquired the idea that in order to really cleanse her body she had to abstain
from water as well as from food. According to the information I received, she
went twenty-four days without water. By this time she was so weak and her
condition was such that her family persuaded her to let them call a physician.
One was called but he could do nothing or did nothing that was of any value.
She died on the thirtieth day of the fast. Her death added another splotch on
the escutcheon of Hygiene despite the fact that what she did was not Hygienic.
Neophytes in Hygiene are prone to take their "hygiene" from many sources.
They are not careful to discriminate between Hygiene and what may, to them,
appear to be the same thing. They go searching through all kinds of literature
and attempt to select for themselves what is good and to reject what is not
good. This process is successful only in the case of the individual who has the
background essential to the requisite discrimination. Without a knowledge of
physiology and biology, without a knowledge of the basic principles of Hygiene,
these neophytes go scampering off through the fields in search of flowers and
often come up with their feet filled with thorns.
"Unlike the systems of cure, Hygiene is for both the

well and the sick."
Enthusiasm leads many into error. Enthusiasm is a splendid thing and we need
to encourage it in everyone. But enthusiasm must be mated with knowledge
and judgment if it is not to lead us astray. Give us more enthusiasm, but along
with it give us more understanding and more power of discrimination. I see
people who become so enthusiastic about fasting that they attempt to
substitute fasting for a normal way of life. They undergo frequent fasts,
because they live between the fasts in such a way as to make frequent fasts
necessary If these people will learn moderation and self-control they will not
need so many fasts. Nor is fasting a satisfactory substitute for a way of life
that accords with the laws of life. Fasting should be thought of as an expedient
that may be avoided by correct living.
Then there is the man who becomes so enthusiastic about sun bathing that he
spends hours in the sun. He bakes and broils himself until he is black, his skin
is dry and parched, he is enervated and toxemic as a result of such excesses.
With the exception of food and water of which we are advised to take habitual
excesses, the so-called scientific world seems to be bent on trying to get us to
try to get along on inadequate quantities of everything that we require. We are
often told that we can get all the sunshine we need through our hands and
face, even, it seems, if these are in the sun but little. We should avoid making
the mistake of going to the other extreme.
All the Hygienic factors are related elements in a vital reciprocity. The amount
of one that we need is commensurate with the amount of the other that we
take. More food and less exercise lead to fatness, weakness, indolence and
ultimate disease. Food intake and exercise should bear a definite relation to
each other Our need for rest and sleep is commensurate with our mental,
physical and physiological activities. Our need for air is commensurate with our
physical activities. So, also, our need for sun is commensurate with our nutritive
activities. Overeating and lying in the shade build weakness and disease, not
health and strength. The one-method approach to the problems of health and
sickness, as the enthusiast is so often likely to make, is, for this reason,
doomed to failure.
There is also very often a lack of understanding of what can and cannot be
accomplished. The poisons of the physicians and the knives of the surgeons
often cause enough ravages to the body that complete recovery is not
possible. The same thing is true of the toxins that are the primary cause of the
patient's illness. Especially in long standing chronic disease do we observe
organic changes that are not reparable. The enthusiast is often unwilling to
recognize limitations to the possibilities of repair and regeneration. So far I
have not run into one of these who expected the body to grow a new leg or a
new arm that had been lost, but they expect the same thing in other parts of
the body. As the years go by and my experiences and observations broaden, I
become more firmly convinced that it is impossible to administer poisons to the
sick, whether in acute or chronic disease, without producing harm. This is true
even in those cases where, on the surface, they appear to be beneficial. If
their administration is continued over a considerable period of time, irreparable
damages result.
There is no state of impaired health, whatever name may be given to the

complex of symptoms that may be present, and no stage of this illness, in
which the greatest possible assistance to the restorative operations of the
body cannot be given by means of Hygiene. But there are many stages of
organic deterioration in which this greatest possible assistance is not enough.
The impairment has gone beyond the point of possible vital redemption; the
pathological evolution has passed the point of irreversibility. In most cases a
measure of comfort may be afforded the patient without making a dope addict
out of him and life may be prolonged. He may even be restored to usefulness
and enabled to enjoy life again, but he will not get well.
My telephone rings; I answer it. It is a long distance call from Chicago, New
York or elsewhere. A voice on the other end of the line says: "I have my
mother on a fast. This is her thirty-fifth day. We are following your book. But
we do not know whether to break the fast or let her fast longer. What do you
advise?" I ask the needed questions to get some idea of the condition of the
fasting woman and give what advice I can. But they were not following my
book. Repeatedly my book stresses the need of competent supervision in long
fasts. Especially does it insist upon such supervision in older people. Were they
following the book the ignorant and inexperienced would not attempt to conduct
a long fast.
I receive a letter from a mother who tells me that she is feeding her baby
according to instructions contained in my book, The Hygienic Care of Children.
She has run into trouble and she wants to know what to do. She details the
manner in which she is feeding the baby and I do not recognize the feeding
program as anything I ever advised in writing or by any other means. It is safe
to say that these mothers have read several books, perhaps mine being the
only work on Hygiene, and have tried to combine in some fashion the
information and advice they received from these several sources. Hygiene and
Hygienists should not be held responsible for the results of such mixings of
Hygiene with whatever else may appeal to the intelligence of beginners.
Hygiene is easily adapted to circumstances, but this adaptation, especially in

the care of the sick, requires more knowledge than the average person
possesses. Yet, curiously enough, a flying visit to a Hygienic institution or the
reading of a book or two on the subject has been thought of as enough to
qualify a man or a woman to apply Hygienic means to the needs of the sick
organism. Uneducated laymen have attempted to blossom out as fully
competent Hygienists. Some of these have taken the sick into their homes and
attempted to care for them, to fast them and feed them and in other ways to
care for them Hygienically. Credit is due to the great virtue of Hygiene that,
even in such untrained and inexperienced hands, it has frequently been very
successful. But it should be understood by all beginners in Hygiene that no
general rules and no number of examples will apply to the peculiarities of every
sick person. This is precisely the reason that the guidance of a competent and
experienced man or woman is so vitally important in the recovery of health.
I appeal to beginners in Hygiene everywhere to give Hygiene a fair chance and

not discredit it by faulty application and by mixing it with a lot of un-Hygienic
measures that vitiate its effects. Don't indulge in any foolish experiments with
your health. If you are in need of care, get it from a competent Hygienist and
don't run the risk of injuring yourself by faulty applications of Hygiene. If your
knowledge of Hygiene is meager, if you are inexperienced, if you are in doubt,
secure the guidance of one who is trained and experienced in Hygienic work.
This not only gives Hygiene a chance to do the most for you, it also gives you a
chance to get the most out of Hygiene.
Herbert M. Shelton (from the Hygienic Review)
"The application of Hygiene to the preservation of

health is simplicity itself."
Hygiene Society.
MORE ARTICLES BY DR. SHELTON:
Fasting - 9 basic steps
Why do we fast? - Answer: rest, rest, rest
Enemas - observations of nature



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John L. Fielder D.O, DC, ND.(Adel)

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Intensive Methods Will Fail Post Carbon Gardeners

Nineteenth century urban market

I could considerably expand this list.

"Our civilization is entering an era when everything made

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"It behoves the home food grower to examine their

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From Norwegian cookbook: Shrimps in avocado - serve with creme fraiche

From Scandinavian cookbook: Smoked mackerel, with lettuce leaves, spring

Drs. Michael & Mary Eades - from PROTEIN POWER:

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Dissecting The Issue of Flouridation vs. The Ingestion of

It is true that people who eat a poor diet AND

Paul A. Goldberg, MPH,DC,DACBN

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When we were in Brownsville,

I was in Brownsville from 78/79, and my health

Not many people came, the cost of electricity was

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Hygiene vs. Curing

My father developed asthma when I was a small boy,

This Herbert M. Shelton (from the Hygienic Review)

"What then?" she demanded.

H.M. Shelton, Fasting Can Save Your Life, 1964

"ALL cases of bronchial asthma are

Dr. Shelton's Orthopathy disease encyclopedia:

Symptoms: Asthma is preceded by chronic bronchitis and often by hay

Prognosis: ALL cases of bronchial asthma are remediable. Five to six

H.M. Shelton, Orthopathy, 1941

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INTERVIEW with Dr. Anthony J. Penepent.

More How did you learn about drugless natural healing?

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There were a number of conditions in my family. My father had wet psoriasis

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