Food is third in our list, yet most authors put it first. Then they give slight notice to the second, and none to the first and leading cause.
Water plays a big part in the ossification role because so much of the body is composed of water, and because most of the water used is the kind that produces ossification.
The body of the average infant is approximately 75 percent water. A man of 150 pounds in weight would weigh 50 pounds if he were well dried out.
The more highly refined a tissue is, the greater the percent of water entering into its composition. The blood is 90 percent water; some parts of the nerve system are 90 percent water, others are 85 percent, and ordinary nerve tissue is about 80 percent water. The brain is 85 percent water, and the bones are nearly 50 percent water.
People give great attention to what they eat, but little to the kind of water they drink. No matter how much city water is poisoned by political health boards, the people use it and offer no protest. It pays to keep people ignorant.
In all the fluids and tissues—blood, lymph, nerves, glands, muscles—water plays the part of a general solvent. By its work the River of Life is replenished and maintained. It is the medium in which solid and semi-solid aliments are dissolved so they can pass into the blood, and by which all excretory products are eliminated from the body. The various processes of excretion, transudation, and elimination depend on water for their performance.
IMPORTANCE OF WATER
In the physiology of respiration, water and air unite, and water fulfills its biological function in the form of vapor mixed with the atmosphere. The importance of its needs in living organisms appears in the fact that water occupies four-fifths of the earth’s surface.
The dual elements of water and air in combination in the atmosphere assure the supply of the total needs of man’s vitality. They do so in three principal ways, viz.,
1. With the aid of the sun, which vaporises the water of the earth, causing the water particles to unite with the atmospheric properties of the air so as to serve in the physiological process of respiration.
2. By haematosis, or the aeration of the blood in the lungs in the function of respiration, and
3. By supplying the body with the sustaining properties of oxygen and nitrogen in the air, and the oxygen and hydrogen in the water vapor.
To this list there must be added the emanations radiating from the sun’s effluvia, which is condensed by the water vapor during its time in the atmosphere. This sun-filled vapor, inhaled by man, becomes an accumulator of the power of the sun within the body.
Water deprived of sunlight is termed dead, and incapable of transfusing the least vitality into the organism. Such is the case with water from wells, closed cisterns and distilled water. Water should be exposed to the air and sunlight for some time before used, so it may be regenerated with the vitality of the sun and air. But this does not apply to water contained in coconuts, melons, berries, fruits and vegetables.
The living cell is the basis and foundation of our body. The cell can function on the life level only in an auriferous environment. If the cells are deprived of water, they become dry, inert and fall below the life plane in function. They are called dead.
There is no sign of living things, plant or animal, in deserts where perpetual dryness of the air prevails. Living forms cannot come into physical being where there is no water.
Much care should be exercised as to the kind of water one takes into the body. One kind hardens blood vessels, tissues and glands, and produces stones in kidneys and gall bladder.
Another kind of water dissolves and washes from the body the mineral deposits that produce these conditions.
Most water used in general is what we call “hard.” It is water in which quantities of lime and other minerals are held in solution.
Spring water, well water, water that comes out of the ground, is charged with lime and minerals in solution. Hence, such water is “hard.”
Water from certain wells, springs, and lakes is often called “soft.” It is soft only in comparison with water that is harder.
Dr. G. A. Dorsey wrote:
“Each year the earth’s rivers carry to the sea billions of tons of dissolved minerals and carbon compounds.”
“MINERAL WATER” NOT BENEFICIAL
Suffering people are often deceived by certain claims for “mineral water” from certain springs. Such water is very hard and very bad for the body. Those who recommend it for health are in error, or they profit on the sale of it.
Some patients claim they get relief by drinking such water. They do at first, largely because they drink much of it and that aids in cleansing the glands and tissues.
It is the second effect that is lasting and damaging. If the use of such water is continued, “serious effects will appear from mineral deposits in the body. So the remedy back-fires and in the end does much more harm than good.
Spring water, any water from the ground, contains in solution an amount of earthy ingredients that is fearful to contemplate. It has been calculated that water of the average quality from the ground contains so much carbonates and other compounds of lime, that one using the average quantity in the form of tea, coffee, soup, etc., would in forty years be sufficient to form a pillar of solid chalk or marble the size of a large man.
So great is the amount of lime in spring and well water, that the quantity consumed daily would alone be sufficient to clog the system and bring on decrepitude and death before one reached the age of 20, but for the heroic labor of the eliminative organs.
Were it not for the eliminative function of the skin and urinary system, by which is eliminated much of the earthy matter entering the body with food and drink, no one, who eats and drinks in the conventional way, would live ten years.
Undistilled water, taken internally, is very bad. Boiling the water removed only a portion of the water and leaves the earthy matter behind.
In the hundredth part of a drop of raw water the microscope reveals a world of tiny animals. The dead bodies of the animals remain in the water after it is boiled, and help to clog the depurating organs and eliminating channels.
By drinking boiled water one may avoid taking the live animals into the body, but one buries their dead remains in the body. If raw water is an aquarium, boiled water is a cemetery.
After boiling in a clean teakettle for a week the water from a well, spring, creek, or lake, a stony coating will be found on the inside wall of the kettle.
LIME DEPOSITS CAUSE STIFF JOINTS
What occurs in the body when one drinks such water for forty years? If the body were as helpless as the kettle to protect itself against the accumulation of these deposits, the body would be a solid pillar of limestone in a few years.
Liquid lime is always present in the blood. When a structure or gland decomposes in the presence of liquid lime, the lime begins to fill the space resulting from the decomposition, and there it solidifies.
Many fossil remains of ancient animals and vegetables are limestone casts thus filled in as the original entity decayed.
Bunions and enlarged joints rise chiefly from this cause. When a joint is held open, as where an ill-fitting shoe holds the great toe pressed over towards the other toes, the liquid lime fills in the space thus caused, and the joint becomes enlarged.
If any joint is held in one position long enough, without movement, it will grow stiff because of liquid lime deposited around the joint. The only remedy is movement of the joint and the use of distilled water, or the juice of oranges or grapefruit, to dissolve the lime so it may be washed out and eliminated.
RAIN WATER AND DISTILLED WATER ARE SAFE
Rain water has been distilled by the sun. It is free of all minerals. But when it falls as rain, it may pass through air filled with tiny animals, dust, smoke, soot, acids and all kinds of filth. As it reaches the earth in such cases it is so saturated with the filth of civilization, that its color is a very light straw. As the rain continues to fall, the air soon becomes washed of the f
ilth, and the water grows clear and clean. That is the water one should use.
Distilled water is water that has been transformed to vapor and condensed. It is free of minerals and the only water, except rain water, fit to use. Such water may be boiled in the same kettle for years and will leave no deposits on the kettle’s walls.
Distilled water is the greatest solvent known. It is the only water, except clean rain water, that may be taken into the body without damage to cells and tissues. By its continued use, it is possible to dissolve mineral deposits, acid crystals, and other hardening deposits in the body.
Captain Diamond, mentioned in Lesson No. 16, got relief from his stiffened state by the use of fresh fruit juices and distilled water. As these are not “medicines,” they are not usually used.
As distilled water is such a powerful solvent, it is bad for the teeth because it leeches out their minerals. The same is true, to a lesser extent, of acid juices such as those of oranges and grapefruit.
Distilled water passes directly into the blood and the solvent properties of the blood are increased by the distilled water to a degree that the blood will keep in solution the mineral salts already in it, and prevent their harmful deposition in organs and glands, and favor their elimination by the different excreta.
If distilled water be taken in large quantities, or if it be the only liquid one takes into the body, it will in time tend to dissolve and remove those earthy compounds that have accumulated in the system, the effects of which usually become more manifest at the ages of 40 and 50.
The daily use of distilled water facilitates the removal of deleterious compounds from the body by means of the excreta, and therefore tends to prolong life.
No water is so good for the body as the distilled water contained in coconuts, melons, berries and fruits. From this source one should obtain all the fluid the body needs, and plain distilled water should not be used unless one believes it is necessary to dissolve tumors and hardening deposits in the body.
People living in limestone localities who use water from wells, springs, creeks, lakes, are invariably afflicted at a comparatively early age with a general ossification of the whole body. Instances of longevity among such are rare.
As we eat to live and eat to die, so we drink to live and drink to die.
LESSON NO. 20—THE WONDERFUL ORANGE
by Dr. Leon A. Wilcox
It was Kipling who said:
“If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
You’ll be a man my son.”
For twenty years I have been trying to put over a message about the wonderful orange and the benefits to be obtained from its use. I have heard the truth, I have spoken twisted, pulled apart, distorted and tortured till, had it not been for the great truth it is, there would not be enough of its virtues left to wad a pop gun.
Till a very few years ago, it was the custom to carry home a dozen oranges with much the same mental attitude as was felt about a box of candy. They had been regarded as something nice to eat between meals, or as a dessert. To think of them as a wonderful food—perish the thought.
The majority of the medical profession have always knocked citrus fruits. Even in this day of enlightened opinions from some of the world’s most famous physicians and dietitians, it is not uncommon to hear one say their doctor told them not to eat fruits, as they contained much acid.
Especially are people advised not to eat the citrus fruits, such as oranges, lemons and grapefruit, on account of the acid. It is only within recent years that any of the medical practitioners suggested the use of these valuable foods. I regret to have to say that only a few today know now these fruits should be used.
It depends entirely how these fruits are used as to whether they will give an acid reaction or not. Citrus fruits will always return an alkaline reaction when taken into the stomach by themselves. These fruits (in fact all juicy fruits) should never be eaten at the same meal with cooked or baked foods, nor should they ever be eaten with sugar.
Cooked foods contain a certain amount of starch. When fruit juices come in contact with starch in the stomach, the reaction is certain to be fermentation. The fermenting process is what generates acid. So you see it is not the fruits that make the acid; it is the food combinations.
A common sight in any restaurant in the morning, at breakfast, is people drinking a glass of orange juice or eating grapefruit, followed by a sweet roll, then washed down with a cup of coffee. This makes a nice acid breakfast and, if continued long enough, will produce an acid stomach, neuritis or some kind of rheumatic condition.
Remember, all kinds of fresh fruits, melons, and berries should always be eaten alone, or with the fresh salad vegetables.
William H. Dieffenbach, M.D., of New York City, is authority for the following about fruits;
“Fruit, instead of being a dessert, should, if properly evaluated, be classified as the most valuable of foods.
“Fruits contain little protein and fat but are most valuable sources of mineral salts, cellulose, carbohydrates, and vitamins. The water content of fruits, with mineral content, keeps the blood in a state of alkalinity. Its alkaline elements, which are combined with the fruit acids, act as natural laxatives by promoting the secretory action of the liver, pancreas and other secretory glands.
“Fruits furnish calcium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, and manganese of a highly organized type and are indispensable for the rebuilding of red blood platelets and corpuscles.
“The fresh citrus fruits, lemon, orange, tangerine, lime and grapefruit, prevent scurvy, due to vitamin C.”
KING OF FRUITS
After having given the question of fruits twenty years of study and research not only by personal use but also by the direction and treatment of patients, I have arrived at the conclusion that the orange is king of all fruits. Very few would believe the length of time an individual can live and perform the hardest kind of work, both mental and physical, using absolutely nothing but oranges for food. Another very important thing: a sick person living exclusively on an orange diet, is not only getting all the nourishment that the body requires, but the orange will neutralize the acid in the system.
FINEST DISTILLED WATER
I, one time, heard a great physician and dietitian say, “orange juice is water distilled in God’s own distillery.” How true this is. It is a food and a drink for the healthy and medicine for the sick. For those who are seeking to regain health, there is nothing that can be taken that will assist nature like this golden elixir of life.
Millions of dollars are being spent annually advertising all kinds of foods. The old high powered salesmen has given way to the high powered advertising counselor. These fellows must lay awake nights conjuring up good advertising copy telling us why we should eat Buncom & Co’s Patent Leather Cheese for health.
Having many friends and relatives among the advertising fraternity, printers and allied lines of business, I am much amused, at times, to hear remarks which indicate how easy it is for these high pitch copy writers even to put it over on their own profession. Well, there is nothing like taking your own medicine. For one advertising man to believe what another fellow worker says about the product he boosts surely shows faith in the profession. However, I would suggest that in the future you do not place much dependence on what advertisers have to say about their food products.
In the fruits and green uncooked vegetables you have food exactly as Nature has prepared it, and there is positively nothing of any sort that can equal these foods for health. All the vitamin content is still intact. There has been no processing of any sort to remove the virtue from these things. All the food value is still there.
The pioneers brought to us the beautiful California and Florida sunshine and all its wonderful fruits. I am proud to be one of the pioneers who have been teaching people to use these products of the climate and sunshine discovered by some of our forefathers.
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Now we present a most interesting account written by John W. Marshall about a person who lived six months on orange juice. This person was a patient of the author of the above article on “The Wonderful Orange.”
SIX MONTHS ON ORANGE JUICE
by John W. Marshall
For years I had known of the great food value of the orange, not its value as measured in calories, but as a rectifier of the chemistry of the blood, as a restorer of the proper alkalinity of the life stream.
I had seen many people live two or three weeks and even a month and on occasion even six weeks, on an exclusive diet of the delicious fruit. I had seen people complaining of all sorts of diseases, afflicted with worn out, poisoned, overfed and overnourished bodies, restored to a remarkable degree of health through the exclusive use of the citric fruit for varied periods of time. But when Dr. Leon A. Wilcox, a leading Osteopathic Physician of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, informed me in an unassuming fashion that he had a patient who had lived on orange juice for six months, I was amazed.
I should not have believed the story from the lips of an ordinary man. But Dr. Wilcox is a man of high repute among the members of his profession and among his many patients and friends in Pittsburgh, where he has lived and practiced for a quarter of a century. Then, too, when he told me the story as I sat in his office, he spoke with such confidence and candor that I never thought for a moment to doubt his word.
The following day I had the pleasure of seeing and speaking with the patient herself, a quiet little girl with big blue eyes and an oval face encased in a lovely white skin, into which, as I conversed with her there came and went flushes of pink and red as she told me the remarkable story of her recovery from a condition of living death and her gradual evolution into a creature of living delight unto herself and to all whom she might meet.
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