Nutrition for Health

Every so often a book I read takes the wind out of me. I prefer old medical books, mostly, when the doctor was closer to Nature and further from the Artificiality that medicine offers in today's age. Why, today, if you could manage to eat food that is healthy for you, you'd know it's an absolute chore to accomplish. What with even good, non-processed food such as vegetables and fruit having in them pesticides and herbicides, let alone their deficiency in balanced mineral content because of chemical fertilizers, it's a wonder we don't drop from allergies and chronic problems by the young age of 50.

One book that radically changed my perspective on medical therapy was Dr. Max Gerson's book, "A Cancer Therapy". That book held a special place in my library for a long time, and still does. Dr. Gerson's methodology of hyperalimentation and detoxification, where with the former he brilliantly deduces the best way to juice the produce, and where with the latter he brilliantly finesses the science of eliminating the body's toxicity, all fit in with the intuitive intelligence of a believer in G-d who provides us with a body that can cure itself, if only given the right circumstances to re-establish the links He gave us to Nature, which, out of His benevolence, can cure itself.

Anyhow, another such great book I just came across. It's a "simply written" book by a Dr. Alice Chase, first published in 1954. It's a bombshell. She is a drug nihilist and proud of it. She uses food as medicine. She invokes fasting and light diets mostly, as well as enemas (not coffee enemas) to cure chronic debilitating diseases that conventional medicine cannot cure. She was mentored by Dr. J.H. Tilden, whom she admired, who practiced natural therapeutic medicine in the late 80's and early 90's. He too bucked the trend of taking the drug-oriented approach to maladies. (I'll now want to devote much time to his writings as well.) Her book divulges all that she carefully applied over her 30-year practice. She was a phenomenal success.

In it she shows the very same reasults achieved by Dr. Gerson and, in fact, predates the latter, as did Dr. Tilden. These doctors, like Gerson, understood that the body has the intrinsic capacity to regenerate and heal itself, if only given the chance to do so. Apparently Gerson never knew of Tilden because his book makes no reference to this doctor. I'm still in the middle of the book, but couldn't wait to tell you about it. I want to read it slowly, chew on it and devour it. Thank you Alice Chase for having shared with us your wisdom.

P.S. A quick internet search reveals these powerful statements said by her mentor, Dr. John Tilden (1851-1940), the truth of which would have allopathic doctors today reeling (I'll bet this man was hounded for his beliefs and practices):

- "You cannot have a very severe round of typhoid fever unless you have a "first-class" physician to give it strength to down you .... I have not lost a case in 15 years (including typhoid and pneumonia), and I have treated hundreds. Fatality is attributable to the medication."

- "There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliterated this disease [smallpox], and sooner or later will dispose of it entirely. Of course, when that time comes, in all probability the credit will be given to vaccination."

- "Smallpox is considered one of the most virulent of contagious diseases, and it is generally believed that persons exposed are almost invariably attacked, unless protected by vaccination. This is one of the most stupendous exaggerations to be found in medical literature. My experience has been that very few people take it when exposed to it."

See also this post on Dr. Tilden.