Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
This document is a reproduction of the book or other copyrighted material you requested. It
was prepared on Tuesday, 07 Jan, 2020 for the exclusive use of Binal Joshi, whose email
address is binal121@gmail.com.
This reproduction was made by the Soil and Health Library only for the purpose of research
and study. Any further reproduction or distribution of this copy in any form whatsoever
constitutes a violation of copyrights.
MEDICINE
TO-MORROW
Introduction to Cosmotherapy
with Guide to Treatment
By
EDMOND SZÉKELY
CHAP. PAGE
Foreword by the Translator v
BOOK ONE:
INTRODUCTION TO COSMOTHERAPY
PART I
THE THEORY OF COSMOTHERAPY
I. Dialectics and Evolution 11
II. The Origins of Matter and of Life 16
III. Man's Adaptation to Nature 26
IV. The Laws of Longevity 35
V. Man and Vegetation 47
VI. The Progress of Thought 60
VII. Man at War with Himself 70
VIII. Life and the Energies of the Cosmos 82
PART II
THE PRACTICE OF COSMOTHERAPY
IX. The Natural Forces in Time and Space 101
X. Measurement and Calculation of the Natural
Forces 110
XI. Treatment of Local Symptoms 124
XII. The New Eugenics and Natural Birth
Control 130
XIII. External Cosmotherapy: Air, Sun and
Water Baths 137
XIV. Internal Cosmotherapy: Foods as Medicine 143
XV. Modern Dietetics in a Nutshell 188
PART III
COSMOTHERAPY AND THE PROBLEMS OF SOCIETY
XVI. Agriculture and Public Health 219
XVII. The Symbiosis of Men and Trees 234
XVIII. Civilisation and the Simple Life 249
BOOK TWO:
GUIDE TO TREATMENT
I. Introductory 263
II. The Cosmovitalist Movement 270
III. The Rhythmic Life of the Cosmos 279
IV. Unity of Man, Cosmos and Therapies 283
V. Cosmovital Radiations and External Cosmo-
Therapy 290
VI. External-Internal Cosmotherapy 295
VII. The Cosmovitalist Calendar 297
VIII. Harmony with the Rhythmic Cycles of the
Year 299
IX. Harmony with the Rhythmic Cycles of the
Day 311
X. Diet in Harmony with the Rhythmic Cycles 318
XI. Diet in Harmony with Individual Organism 328
XII. Cosmic Radiations and Embryonic
Development 331
XIII. Diseases and their Cures 335
XIV. The Cosmovital Forces in the Organism 338
XV. Model Questionnaire and Instruction Sheet 349
XVI. Sexual Life in Harmony with the Rhythmic
Cycles 351
XVII. Paneutherapy and Paneubiotics 361
XVIII. Terrestrial and Cosmic Life 366
Glossary 374
Index to Book I. 377
Index to Book II 395
I. Cosmovitalist Calendar
II. Synthetic Helioanthropophysiological Chart
III. Heliophysiological Chart
IV. The Four Rhythmic Cycles of the Day
during Cycles of the Year I and VII
V. The Four Rhythmic Cycles of the Day during
Cycles of the Year II and VI
VI. The Four Rhythmic Cycles of the Day during
Cycles of the Year III and V
VII. The Four Rhythmic Cycles of the Day during
Cycle of the Year IV
VIII. The Four Rhythmic Cycles of the Day during
Cycle of the Year VIII
IX. Embryochronological Chart of Gestation
X. Correlations between Cycles of Menstruation,
Ovulation, Sterility, Conception
XI. Cosmovital Bath Chart 'A'
XII. Cosmovital Bath Chart 'B'
XIII. Cosmovital Bath Chart 'C
XIV. Cosmovital Bath Chart 'D'
XV. Cosmovital Bath Chart 'E'
BOOK ONE
INTRODUCTION TO COSMOTHERAPY
PART I
RADIATIONS
Let us begin with the problem of radiations. When the
various forms of cosmic energy come to the earth's
atmosphere they are transformed in the atmosphere, as we can
see in the case of the radiations of light. In this way the cosmic
energies reaching the earth are united with the organic life of
the earth and become cosmovital energies. First we have the
active pure form of the cosmic energies and then, when they
reach the atmosphere and botanosphere, these active forms of
the energies are transformed into accumulated form in various
fruits and vegetables, etc. Now when the fruits and vegetables
come into contact with the human organism and are
assimilated and digested, the accumulated energies in the
foods are re-transformed into active energies and these active
radiations influence our various glands and consequently the
whole metabolism of the human organism. The organism has
the role of a receiving apparatus of radiations and the fruits
and vegetables have the role of a broadcasting station which
emits radiations. Now our various organs assimilate these
various radiations during the process of digestion, and the
radiations being assimilated by the cellular vibrations of the
organism, the body then uses them to complete or refresh the
various substances of its tissues and cells and to create new
cells in the organism. In this way these active radiations are
re-transformed into accumulated radiations, as specific
cellular substances or energy. So we can see that there is a
great process of transformation between active and
accumulated forms of radiations. First, we have the active
form of radiations coming from cosmic space; secondly, we
have the accumulated form in the substance of various fruits
and vegetables, and thirdly, we again have the active form of
radiations becoming active on contact with the human
assimilative system, while, finally, having been assimilated by
the human organism they become once more in accumulated
form and constitute the specific energies of the various cells of
the organism.
VITAMINS
Parallel with this question we must examine the problem
of vitamins, for there is also a good deal of chaos in this field.
The classification and definition of vitamins is purely
hypothetical and is made according to the effect of these
hypothetical vitamins on the human organism. Their
classification states that the presence of such and such a
vitamin in the organism creates such and such an activity in
the human organism, while its absence causes such and such a
disease. But this vitamin has never been met with in any
material form, in any chemical retort or in any chemical
analysis, so it is an un-material enigmatic force which we
cannot demonstrate quantitatively. We can classify it,
however, by establishing that diseases arrive if it is lacking
and by establishing what activity occurs in the organism if the
vitamin is present. Such is the actual state of the problem of
vitamins. We cannot deny the existence of vitamins, though
we cannot demonstrate them quantitatively. Why cannot we
demonstrate them quantitatively? Because vitamins are not
substances, but simply certain modalities of the accumulation
of various radiations and certain modalities of the
disaggregation of these radiations. So from the point of view
of cosmotherapy the role of the vitamins is identical and
coincident with that of radiations. It will never be possible to
demonstrate quantitatively the existence of vitamins simply
because they do not exist in substantial form, as the official
point of view supposes. Without an analytical study of the
correlations of the transformation of the active forms of
radiations into accumulated forms and from accumulated
forms of radiations into active forces, the function of vitamins
can never be precisely known and they will always remain on
a hypothetical basis. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see what
official science has established with regard to vitamins.
Everything which it is essential to know about vitamins is
contained in the following table. Since the classification of
vitamins into vitamins A, B, C, D, etc., is in common use, we
use the same classification in our dietetic chart, but we stress
the cosmotherapeutic conception of vitamins which identifies
their function with the radiations, specifically with the
cosmovital radiations accumulated in fruits, vegetables, and
other natural foods. We therefore have a different
classification to that of official science, but before speaking of
that, we must know the official classification.
VITAMIN CHART
VITAMIN A
Functions
1. Promotes tissue formation
2. Increases blood platelets
3. Promotes growth and feeling of well-being
4. Promotes appetite and digestion
5. Prevents infections, notably of eyes, tonsils, sinuses, air
passages, lungs, and gastro-intestinal tract
Results of Deficiency
1. Loss of appetite
2. Retardation of growth and development
3. Physical weakness
4. Susceptibility to disease of the eyes (night blindness)
corneal ulcers, ears (otitis media), kidneys (renal calculi)
5. Disease involving the air passages, lungs, skin, bladder,
stomach and colon
6. Influences reproduction by failure of ovulation
7. Secondary anæmia
8. Excessive growth of the lymphoid tissue
9. Dullness or perversion of special senses
Results of Absence
1. Xerophthalmia (eye inflammation and ulcers)
2. Cessation of growth
3. Failure of appetite and digestion
4. Formation of pus in ears, sinuses and glands at base of
tongue, pyorrhea
5. Prevents conception by failure of ovulation
VITAMIN B
B-l, pellagra preventing factor—not destroyed by heat
B-2, growth promoting factor—not destroyed by heat
B-3, nerve nourishing factor—destroyed by heat
All cooked foods are deficient in this nerve and brain
nourishing element, depending on the degree of heat and the
time the food is exposed to the heat.
Functions
1. Increases appetite
2. Promotes digestion
3. Promotes growth by stimulating metabolic processes
4. Protects body from nerve and brain disease and certain
painful infections
5. Increases quantity and improves quality of milk lactation.
Mothers who do not have enough milk usually lack vitamin
B
Results of Deficiency
1. Impairment of appetite and digestion
2. Loss of weight
3. Loss of vigour
4. Constipation
5. Emaciation
6. Subnormal temperature
7. Enlargement of adrenals
8. Increase in size and weight of the thymus, pancreas, testes,
ovaries, spleen, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach, thyroid and
brain
9. Various manifestations referable to the nervous system,
leading to paralysis of groups of muscles
Results of Absence
1. Beri-beri (paralysis of certain groups of muscles)
2. Peripheral and other forms of neuritis
3. Atrophy of certain lymphoid tissues throughout the body
VITAMIN C
Functions
1. Regulating substance
2. Prevents scurvy Results of Deficiency
1. Tendency to bruise easily, producing 'black and blue' marks
on the skin
2. Loss of weight
3. Physical weakness
4. Shortness of breath
5. Rapid heart action
6. Rapid respiration
7. Tendency to hæmorrhage
8. Reduced haemoglobin
9. Increase in weight of adrenals
10. Reduced secretion of adrenals
11. Decrease in weight of spleen, liver, stomach and intestines
12. Necrosis of pulp of teeth. Pyorrhea and most cases of tooth
decay are due to vitamin C deficiency
13. Friability of bones
14. Swelling and redness of gums
15. Tendency to disease of blood vessels and heart
Results of Absence
1. Scurvy
VITAMIN D
Functions
1. Controls calcium equilibrium and regulates mineral
metabolism
Results of Deficiency
1. Muscular weakness
2. Instability of the nervous system
3. Lack of resistance against tuberculosis and other infections
Results of Absence
1. Rickets
2. Deformation of bones
3. Tuberculosis
VITAMIN E
Functions
1. Exercises a determining role in reproduction by failure in
placental function
2. Probably concerned in the metabolism of iron; has to do
with preventing anaemia
Results of Deficiency
1. Glandular disorders
2. Tendency to anaemia
3. Rheumatic and gouty tendencies
Results of Absence
1. Sterility
2. Pancreatitis, hypertrophy of the liver, diseases of the spleen
3. Anaemia
Most Reliable Sources
Whole grain cereals (whole wheat, whole corn, maize,
etc.), milk, vegetables and raw fruits, and other foods.
The table given above is a summary of the official
conception with regard to vitamins. As we shall see later, it is
right in many things it establishes and wrong in many others.
For instance, it establishes the existence of various very
important vitamins in various animal organisms and
recommends them as a valuable source of vitamins. Even if
we were inclined to admit the existence of vitamins in
substantial form in the various parts of animal meat, we
should nevertheless object. For toxins exist alongside the
vitamins in the meat. We must consume those vitamins which
are not connected with toxins in preference to those which are
indivisible from toxins. If we examine the source of these
vitamins, it is certain that they cannot be created in some
mysterious way in the inside of the animal. The animal must
absorb these forces of vitamins from somewhere. It gets its
supplies of vitamins by assimilating vegetables or by direct
absorption of them from the sun or atmosphere. Why should
we not introduce these matters at first hand into the human
organism in their original form, instead of in their altered form
accompanied by toxins? The conception that the liver contains
valuable vitamins and the recommendation of it for a food is a
specific example of undialectical, static ways of thinking
which are based on the assumption that 'A is equal to A', that
one vitamin is equal to another without any correlation with
the other factors in time and space. Toxins exist alongside this
fictitious vitamin. These fictitious vitamins must have an
origin somewhere. We must examine this origin and take
advantage of the forms of vitamins which are superior in
origin. These very simple dialectical considerations are very
important in any effort to solve the problem of vitamins.
When cosmotherapy speaks of vitamins it does not speak
of them in the same exclusive sense as the official point of
view. We speak only of the predominant vitamins, so the
vitamins we specify are not the exclusive vitamins in a
particular food, but simply predominant ones, for generally
there is a coexistence of the various forms of vitamins with
one predominant. The atmosphere contains the totality of the
various specific natural energies, but in certain specific
accumulations of these energies a particular form of vitamin
predominates, but not to the complete exclusion of the others.
CLASSIFICATION OF FOODS
We must next explain how cosmotherapy classifies
various foods according to the various radiations they contain.
Those foods whose form of special existence is beneath the
earth, like the various tuber vegetables, carrots, turnips, beets,
etc., have a predomination of the terrestrial radiations, for in
their special environment the energetic forms of the
lithosphere predominate. In those vegetables whose spatial
position is on the surface of the earth, as, for instance, the
various green leaf vegetables, we say the solar radiations
predominate. In those fruits which grow on trees above the
ground the accumulation of cosmic radiations predominates.
Now this spatial classification is not complete, for we must
also classify them from the temporal point of view. Those
vegetables and fruits whose evolution to a large measure
happens in a certain cycle of the year contain the specific
natural and cosmic energies predominating in that particular
cycle. Classification is necessary both from a temporal and
spatial point of view. Always when we wish to analyse and
define the value of the radiations of this or that fruit or
vegetable, we must examine its environment. We must see
whether it is in the atmosphere or in the lithosphere, we must
consider it from the spatial and from the temporal standpoint.
We must see what specific energies accompanied its growth
during the particular cycle of the year when it was developing,
and also whether it grew below or above ground or on a tree.
These two considerations together will define the
characteristics and values of the radiations of the food. But
there are also foods which contain not only cosmic, solar and
terrestrial radiations, but other radiations as well. For instance,
milk and milk products, honey and eggs have a different
environment to that of the plants from which these products
are derived. They also contain animal radiations and their
value depends on the vitality of the animal organism which is,
on its part, determined by the specific energies of its cellular
vibrations. The vibrations are transmitted by the animal to the
milk and this can be either favourable or unfavourable to the
human organism. Similarly human milk contains human
radiations by virtue of the cellular vibrations of the mother's
organism. Naturally, the dietetic effect upon the organism of
the different foods which contain various specific radiations
will not be the same in every case. We know that the human
organism represents a special vital equilibrium between the
external cosmic and natural radiations and the internal cellular
vibrations. This equilibrium is what we call health, vitality.
When this equilibrium is disturbed for any external or internal
cause we call this a pathological state of the organism and
from the nature of this disturbance we say that the person has
such and such a disease, and the most important thing to be
done is the re-establishment of this equilibrium between the
internal cellular vibrations and the external natural and cosmic
radiations. The human organism moves in a field of various
forces and energies coming from all the various spheres which
provide different specific forms of energy from without to the
inside of the organism, and also by the assimilation and
digestion of food the organism accumulates in an indirect way
the various and specific energies of the various spheres—
atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, etc.—which are
accumulated in the various fruits and vegetables. The chief
purpose of the cosmotherapeutic diet is thus the establishment
of such a proportion between the various foods, such
quantitative and qualitative proportions as will guarantee the
maintenance of this special vital equilibrium which we call
vitality or health. So in cosmotherapy the proportionality, both
quantitatively and qualitatively, between the various
categories of foods which accumulate various different
categories of radiations is very important. As we shall see,
cosmotherapy lays down these various proportions with far
greater precision than any other dietetic system. Having regard
to the coincidence of vitamins and radiations, this is really a
very important consideration.
CALORIES
Next to the problem of vitamins, it is the calorie theory
which causes the greatest chaos in dietetics. What is this
theory of calories? The classical definition of calories by
which the energy value of food is measured is well-known. A
large calorie is the amount of heat required to raise one
kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. I have no objection
to this, for to define or measure a quantity is quite a scientific
conception. To define the system of measurement of the
specific energy is all right, and so is the next step in the calorie
theory which is the appearance of the calorimeter in which the
substance of various foods is burnt and in which the energies
produced by this burning are measured. I have no objection to
this either. So far all is in order. But now comes a great hiatus
in the theory of calories. The calorie school confound the
human organism with a calorimeter and thinks that the energy
which is produced in a calorimeter by the burning of a
particular food is the same as that produced by the process of
digestion, assimilation and combustion in the human
organism. This great logical (?) jump is truly one of the most
ridiculous and unscientific errors of official dietetics, and is
another very accentuated example of undialectical, static
methods in thinking. First, in the human organism we have far
more complicated processes than in the calorimeter, for if we
burn particular food in calorimeters every calorimeter gives
the same result, but not every organism. For instance, an
organism doing muscular work and another organism leading
a sedentary life take quite a different advantage of the various
calories, the process of oxidation and assimilation being quite
different in the different organisms. Similarly they are quite
different in children and in old people, in the female organism
and in the male organism. The process differs according to
different climates and zones: it differs with the various
seasons of the year and lastly it depends on the digestive
function of the individual and there are not two individuals
with the same digestive system. For instance, certain defects
of the digestive organs can have the result that the organs
cannot take advantage at all of the calories, while a favourable
state of the digestive organs of another individual can make it
possible for him to take far more advantage of the calories. So
this identification of the calorimeter with the human organism
is one of the greatest of scientific absurdities.
It is sufficient for us just to glance at the various calorie
systems to see immediately their absurdity without any logical
analysis. The greatest authorities on the calorie system and
theory are diametrically opposed to one another with regard to
the practical fact of how many calories the human organism
needs during the day. Some say 1,800, others 2,400, others
2,800, while others say 3,200 or as much as 3,600 and 3,800.
So we can see that between 1,800 and 3,800 there is a
difference of nearly three hundred per cent. There is really
great chaos and it is natural that there should be, for if the
fundamental theory is false, practical consequences must also
be false. One scientist makes his observations upon an
organism whose special organic state makes it possible for
him to take more advantage of calories, so that he needs less
of them. Another scientist makes experiments with other
individuals whose organisms for certain internal organic
reasons cannot take such complete advantage of the calories,
so those organisms need more calories. So we can see that
individual differences are the measure of all things,
particularly in relation to calories, and really it is laughable to
see that even to-day great authorities prescribe for their
patients so many calories per day on the basis of the holy
trinity of fat, protein and carbohydrates. They carefully define
how many calories the individual should consume each day
and ordain a certain special proportion between protein, fat
and carbohydrates. In view of the fact that in the
cosmotherapeutic diet foods play the part of medicines, it is a
very important consideration that prescriptions should be
accurate. A mistake in diet is as serious as making a mistake
in the quantity of morphine in a prescription. Contemporary
medicine has gone very far from the father of medicine,
Hippocrates, who said 'Let food be your medicine and let
medicine be your food'. But Hippocrates gave much superior
dietetic advice in spite of the fact that in his time there did not
exist modern chemistry and biology. He is much more precise
than the whole system of calories or than the theory of the
holy trinity of protein, fat and carbohydrates and other
scientific absurdities.
The calorie affair supports the classical definition of
Voltaire, the most brilliant spirit of Western culture, in his
criticism of medicine: 'Doctors introduce medicaments of
which they know very little into patients of whom they know
even less, against diseases of which they know nothing at all.'
If we examine objectively the true scientific foundations of the
most popular theories of diet, we must recognise that Voltaire
is right. If in practice we examine what healthy people in
various climates and continents eat, then we find that,
according to the calorie theory, they would long ago be dead
of starvation, for they do not have the necessary amount of
calories or the proteins that the official system prescribes. Yet
we see, as I have myself in Asia, Africa, and also in America
and the Polynesian Islands, that everywhere men exist in very
good health and enjoy great strength in spite of the fact that
they live quite out of harmony with the theory of calories and
protein. So how is this? It is that the theory is not in
accordance with the facts. What is the answer of official
science to this? Another story gives it. When Hegel in his old
age gave his famous lecture at the University in Berlin on the
most fantastic construction of idealist philosophy, young
Schopenhauer was present and called out to Hegel: 'Master,
your theory is not in accordance with the facts.' Hegel with
immovable tranquillity answered: 'So much the worse for the
facts.' And that is the answer of official science, particularly in
the field of dietetics. But there is a very dialectical Latin
proverb which says: 'Contra factum nihil argumentum.' We
must consider the science of dietetics on the basis of facts, of
empirical facts, proved everywhere and always by
experiments. We must base dietetics not on theses, theories,
hypotheses and fictions, but on the firmer and more solid basis
of the empirical facts of reality which can always be
experimented with and proved.
DIETETIC CHART
In the next chapter will be found a dietetic chart
containing the various correlations of the radiations, vitamins,
calories and mineral matters which are accumulated in the two
hundred foods which form the cosmotherapeutic dietetic
system. The various products of various climates have been
selected in such a way that the inhabitants of every climate
and zone can choose according to their taste those products
which are available in their region. Generally most dietetic
manuals are based on the products of one or another climate.
Dietetic manuals published in the northern temperate zone
contain predominantly, though not exclusively, the products of
that region. Dietetic manuals published round the
Mediterranean contain the Mediterranean products, while in
sub-tropical countries the manuals contain generally the local
tropical products. But this is not right, as we should collect all
the fruits, vegetables and other products which are at our
disposal from every climate and zone, for they form our
arsenal in the struggle against disease, and in many cases we
can make very good use of certain products which are not the
products of our own climate. This is so, in spite of the fact that
generally local products are advisable, but in certain cases and
for the treatment of certain diseases the products of other
countries can also be very useful. Dietetics must be based on
all the wholesome products of every climate. Our arsenal must
be complete, for it is only then that we can ensure triumph
over disease.
The reader can compare on the chart the various
proportions of the constituents of every food with the same
proportions and constituents in the human organism. We must
always relate the various correlations of the various products
to the human organism, and must see in what proportion all
the different chemical elements, vitamins, radiations, etc.,
exist in the human organism and in what proportion they play
an active part in the various organs and parts of the human
organism and in its general metabolism. In this way we can
use according to preference the various foods, taking into
account the various local deficiencies of the organism. This is
also an important consideration which is often neglected by
dietetic systems.
It will also be noticed that a certain proportion is laid
down for each of the various categories of food. This
quantitative proportionality is also very important, for between
the proportions of the human organism and its constituents
and the proportions of the various categories there should be
harmony and agreement. This quantitative determination must
not be dogmatic or fixed, but must vary according to various
individuals and also according to the various biological states
of the same individual, according to the individual's weight,
sex and age, to his muscular or intellectual activities, to the
climate where he lives and to the seasons when he is using the
diet. Similarly the way in which to prepare the foods, the way
to eat them, in what co-ordination, how to masticate, etc., are
all fundamental correlations of dietetics, and if we examine
the various dietetic manuals we must admit that eighty per
cent of these fundamental correlations are almost always
neglected. Each system specifies certain considerations, but
each of them neglects the majority of the other considerations,
so each dietetic system is based on a group of principles which
are not complete, and in consequence they cannot be effective.
Hence it follows that their practical therapeutic value is also
imperfect, and from this spring also other dangers. When
people have finished with allopathic systems and in the
urgency of their illnesses look on all sides for something else,
they begin to study the various unofficial therapeutic systems.
They study a manual and begin to follow it, but owing to the
incompleteness of the system it does not bring the desired
results. They then begin to study another system and with
great astonishment they find that this system almost always
says exactly the opposite to the other system, so then they go
on and examine a third, fourth and fifth system to see which is
right. Then they are surprised to find that the directions given
by these various systems are diametrically opposed or
contradictory in many essentials, for those foods which one
system considers as dangerous are recommended by the other
as very good dietetic foods, and vice versa. With regard to the
various foods there is great chaos with regard to their
compatibility and incompatibility. Each system lays down
artificial and completely unscientific laws and each
contradicts the others, with the logical consequence that the
patient loses his head completely and throws away all the
manuals, abandons the possibility of finding a precise diet and
goes back to the traditional diet, beginning again to eat
everything which he was eating before.
The result of the one-sidedness of these various systems
constitutes a great danger which can be fatal to the interests of
the naturist movement as a whole. The masses have already
lost confidence in the official allopathic diet, but have not yet
got confidence in the naturist diet, and the responsibility for
this lies largely with the various onesided naturist systems. It
is necessary to have a dietetic system uniting all the scientific
facts and the true dietetic laws contained in the various
systems and free from all their various errors and
imperfections. By what method this is possible we will now
consider.
If the reader observes carefully the method by which we
have examined the various problems of dietetics, he will see
that first the extreme conservative viewpoint of official
science with regard to the problem has been examined, and
afterwards the other extreme represented by the various
exaggerated naturist systems. The one is put against another:
first thesis, then antithesis and finally the synthesis containing
the true and good parts of the thesis and antithesis which gives
the solution. Sometimes, however, this synthesis contains new
elements which are touched by neither of the extreme
conceptions. This is the case where both are erroneous and
where both lack various scientific facts.
We will now consider in turn the various categories of
foods, fruits, vegetables, milk and milk products, oily and
dried fruits, eggs, honey, etc., and examine the various
contrary conceptions and favourable and unfavourable
criticisms of all these various categories of foods. By this
method of putting against one another the various points of
view we can see the problem more clearly, and this also helps
us solve it.
CEREALS
The third category of foods, cereals, has played a great
part in the alimentation of mankind, particularly during the
last few thousands of years. When I speak of cereals I mean
cereals in their natural form and not denatured flours made by
various indigestible processes. The latter are not cereals, but
are denatured starch with which we are not concerned. Cereals
contain very valuable organic minerals, are very calorigenic
foods and give much energy to the organism. They are very
nutritive foods and indubitably valuable. Now if we consume
them in greater amount than is necessary they become acid-
formers to an excessive degree and cause scarifications in the
organism and various inferior processes of decomposition and
fermentation. But if we take them in the right amount, then,
particularly in the case of those doing muscular work and in
cold seasons and climates, cereals are a very valuable food.
Cereals form an exception to the various vegetable products,
for they form a unique category in that they become more
valuable and more digestible in the cooked form. There are
some exceptions to this. For instance, we can eat young maize,
and wheat germinated in water beneath the sun, completely
raw. Generally speaking, other forms of cereals are better
cooked, but not overcooked. They should be cooked for the
minimum of time and with a minimum of water. It is enough
simply to soak many forms of cereals in warm water. For
instance, certain kinds of rice which the Indians in America
eat simply have to be put into warm water and then become an
excellent and tasty food. Many cereals can also be utilised in
the form of conservatively baked bread, naturally made
without salt and without unnatural ferments. Others can be
made into polenta or porridge, when they should be cooked as
little as possible and in the minimum of water. When bread is
cooked a crust is formed which is a kind of insulator which
prevents the destruction of the internal vegetable substance
which contains the valuable vitamins. So we cannot consider
bread as a food whose vitamins are killed by cooking,
provided it is not cooked too much.
Various attacks have been made upon cereals which need
consideration. The first and most serious accusation made
against cereals in the name of holy bio-chemistry is that
cereals are acid-forming foods. Let us therefore examine the
scientific basis of this accusation. Cereals undoubtedly contain
certain parts which are alkaline and other parts which are acid-
forming. This is a fact and must be recognised by any one who
knows the laws of physics and chemistry. But we must
examine the food, not by itself, isolated from the human
organism, but must see what happens in the human organism,
in the various digestive systems and in the circulation of the
blood.
There is a fundamental chemico-physiological law which
is ignored or unknown by all modern food chemists. The
electro-chemical process called electrolysis is well known. In
a container there is placed liquid in which acids or salts are
dissolved, and we connect on one side a positive electrical
pole and on the other side a negative electrical pole, placing
them in the liquid. We call these poles 'cathodes' and 'anodes'.
What happens? The salt or acid in the liquid decomposes and
one part goes to the positive pole and accumulates there; the
other part will accumulate round the negative pole. We call
them 'ions' and 'anions'. The salts and the acids, decomposed
chemically by the electrical current, become 'ions'. This is a
well-known law of electro-chemistry which shows the
reciprocal inter-influence between the chemical and electrical
energies. The same inter-influence exists between the other
energies and chemical energies, by the concentration of the
other forms of energy. Even chemical elements are similarly
decomposed and their molecules and atoms. The chemical
elements are not the last units in the universe, but the last units
are the radiations, because these radiations are the only final
units which we cannot decompose. We must always go to the
roots of all processes and phenomena and base our system on
the foundation of ultimate causes and not on the effects or any
derivation of those causes.
Hitherto we have been speaking of external electrolysis in
the laboratory, but now I will explain what happens in the
human organism. The contraction and expansion of the human
muscles creates constant electrical radiations and currents in
the muscles. The functions of the human musculature are
similar to the functioning of the Volta battery—similar
processes happen there. Between the positive electricity of the
surface of the muscles and the negative electricity of the
internal section of the muscles there is a dynamic
physiological and chemical correlation. What is the
physiological correlation? We know that the contraction of the
muscles always causes local concentration of the blood. The
rhythmic contraction and expansion of the muscles cause a
rhythmic inflow and outflow of negative and positive
electricity, and similarly cause a rhythmic inflow and outflow
of blood. As for the chemical correlation, we know that the
blood is composed of different chemical materials which are
brought there through the elaboration of the various processes
of the digestive system. We find in the blood acids, bases,
salts and so forth. We know that the value of the influence of
the food is always accomplished through the circulation of the
blood; it is the circulation of the blood that distributes the
nourishing elements to the various parts of the organism that
need them. So the influence of foods depends, not only on
their chemical content, but also on their subsequent
transformations in the blood. And these chemical
transformations in the blood are not determined alone by the
chemical composition of the original foods, but they are
determined by a series of different forces which influence the
diverse transformations of the blood during its circulation.
Among these diverse forces and factors one is the electricity
of the organism. I will not speak now of other factors, but will
limit myself to this one—electricity.
The rhythmic inflow and outflow, concentration and
distribution of the blood caused by the contraction and
expansion of the muscles, brings rhythmically into the blood
the positive electricity which is located on the surface of the
muscles and the negative electricity from the internal cross-
section of the muscles; these act as cathodes and anodes, and
they decompose acids and salts in the blood, effecting an
electro-physiological electrolysis similar to the chemical
electrolysis of the laboratory. This physiological electrolysis
in the human organism, and chiefly in the blood, decomposes
the acids and salts in the blood itself and transforms the purely
chemical effect of the foods. This is a most important
fundamental law because biochemistry and food chemistry
must be anthropocentric; they must study the chemical
processes of the foods in the internal medium of the blood in
the centre of a series of various energies, which, on a large
scale, change the interrelations of the purely chemical
processes and factors by the dynamic correlation of countless
physiological energies in the form of diverse radiations in the
human organism. The consequences of this law will easily be
appreciated. For instance, modern food chemistry asserts that
cereals are acid-forming foods. As a chemical fact that is true.
If the chemical factor were the sole deciding factor in the
human organism, then in a few years the consumption of
cereals would cause serious illness to the consumer, especially
to those who use cereals as the basis of their food. But the
acids formed by cereals in the organism are chemically
decomposed by the physiological electrolysis of the blood,
through the internal electrical influence of the organism. So
many acid-forming foods condemned by modern food
chemistry must be exonerated, because not only the chemical
factors decide, but also the many other forces in the organism,
as, for instance, the electrical radiations in the organism. That
docs not mean that we can consume in any unlimited quantity
the acid-forming foods, and especially cereals, because the
physiological electrolysis of the blood decomposes only a
small quantity of acid in the blood, but not an unlimited
quantity. The latest physiological researches show that the
physiological electrolysis of the blood is capable of
decomposing the acids in the blood only if the acid-forming
foods comprise a certain percentage and not the entire ration
of food. There is a certain limit, and this limit in the amount of
cereals is approximated according to concrete cases and varies
between ten and twenty per cent. The electrolytic processes in
the blood, by their natural functions, decompose the acids in
the blood, but only in cases where the acid-forming foods
constitute no more than ten or twenty per cent of the total diet.
We can see that the chemical constitution of foods represents
the foundation, and the various physiological processes of the
blood (directed by the radiations of the internal energies of the
organism) represent the superstructure. The foundation
determines in seventy-five per cent of the cases, as we have
seen in many previous examples, and the superstructure
influences in twenty-five per cent of the cases. In the chemical
dissolution of food in the organism, through the circulation of
the blood, the chemical composition of foods has no exclusive
role, but is influenced by many other factors, among which I
mention one. This fundamental physio-chemical law
unhappily is unknown to, or disregarded by, modern food
chemistry, and by the various dietetic systems based on
chemistry. These systems have complicated tremendously the
classification, rules and regulations regarding the
physiological influence of various foods, regarding their
compatibility or incompatibility, thus creating an enormous
and useless complication in natural dietetics. The effect of diet
is not determined by chemical factors, but by the total
dynamic correlation of all forces in the human organism, in
the diverse radiations of the cells and the different currents
formed by those radiations.
It is now possible to understand why cosmotherapy fixes
the approximate quantity of cereals to be taken as ten per cent
of the total diet and no more, for if we keep cereals down to
ten per cent of the total diet, then the acid-forming quality of
the cereals cannot be manifested as an unfavourable effect on
the human organism. For we must not forget that the
circulation of the blood dissolves the acids by physiological
electrolytic processes. Those who do much muscular work
every day can consume as much as twenty per cent of cereals
without disadvantage as by more and more intense muscular
work the dilation and contraction of their muscles produces
greater physiological electrolysis in the circulation of the
blood. If we consume the right proportion of cereals, then the
accusation against cereals that they are acid-forming is not
justified.
It is further alleged (1) that cereals taken with acid fruits
cause fermentation, and (2) that cereals are incompatible with
protein. It is also said that two proteins together are
incompatible. Various dietetic systems have developed a long
series of so-called incompatibles and have greatly complicated
dietetic science.
These and other fads and quackeries have been very
adequately dealt with in the 1936 Year Book of the American
Public Health Association, from which the following extract is
taken.
'One of the most common and extensively proclaimed
nutritional fallacies is that proteins and starches are
incompatible and should be separated into distinct and
separate meals. Based largely on this idea a system of dieting
has been developed and features in books and syndicate
newspaper columns. A monthly magazine is devoted to this
system. It is maintained that because starches require an
alkaline medium for their digestion and proteins an acid
medium, an antagonistic effect is developed when both are
taken together which seriously interferes with the digestion of
each of these classes of foods. One can look in vain through
the writings of authorities in textbooks and journals for any
scientific experimental data in support for this idea. The
proponents ignore the fact that a large proportion of our staple
articles of food contain both starch and protein. Adherence to
this system would necessarily eliminate from the diet
practically all products made from cereals and grains. It would
also exclude potatoes, beans, peas and many other important
foods. The cereal grains, wheat, rye, barley, oats and corn,
range in their protein content from nine to twelve per cent or
higher, and contain also about sixty per cent of starch. Rice
contains about seven per cent protein and upwards of eighty
per cent of starch. Beans and peas are rich sources of both
protein and starch, containing from twenty to twenty-five per
cent protein and forty to fifty per cent starch. Chestnuts range
from eight to ten per cent protein and twenty to thirty per cent
starch.
'Investigators and authorities in the field of nutrition are
practically unanimous in the opinion that there is no
incompatibility between starches and proteins in the diet.
'Faddists have hit upon the idea that we should not eat
starches and proteins at the same meal because starch
digestion is interrupted in the acid stomach, acid being
essential to peptic or stomach digestion of proteins. This is a
fallacy. There is no significance in this interruption. The cat,
dog and cow have no starch-digesting ferment in their saliva,
but they thrive on foods rich in starches. All their starch
digestion takes place after the food has left the stomach and
reaches the small intestine. Nature did not put these animals at
a disadvantage in this respect. (McCollum and Becker).
'Studies by Rehfuss, Hawk, and others on human gastric
digestion in the stomach involving more than a thousand
studies on two hundred normal men, in which a great variety
of protein and starch combinations were used, failed to
produce any evidence whatever of the incompatibility of these
two classes of foods. In order to meet criticisms of the food
faddist, that different results would have been obtained had the
studies been made with chronic invalids instead of normal
individuals, Rehfuss has more recently extended the
investigations to include a cross-section of medical invalids
representing almost every variety of chronic illness
encountered in a medical work service.
'We are told to eat one kind of starch at a time and one
kind of protein. This is obviously so devoid of any scientific
reason that it merits but a passing reference. All starches yield
on digestion the same simple sugar, glucose. The end product
is the same irrespective of the source of the starch. As to
proteins, to eat one at a time is just what one should not do.
Proteins differ in their nutritive value, depending on their
amino acid composition. Some proteins are lacking or
deficient in certain amino acids which are nutritionally
indispensable.
'Nutritionally deficient or incomplete proteins should be
supplemented with other proteins so that the amino acids
lacking in the one will be supplied by the others in order to
have an assortment of amino acids adequate to meet the
requirements of the body. For example, the endosperm
proteins of the cereal grains in general are deficient in lysine
and trytophane, two amino acids indispensable for growth and
normal nutrition. The proteins of milk, eggs and nuts (also the
soya bean) on the other hand, are excellent sources of these
amino acids. The value of the cereal proteins in the diet is
enhanced by inclusion of the latter protein foods in the diet.
Instead of an incompatibility we have a supplementation.
'Another fallacy which finds a prominent place in the
armamentarium of the nutritional quack is that acid fruits
should not be eaten at the same time with carbohydrate foods,
including breads and cereal products, potatoes, and sugars of
every kind. These foods, we are reminded, require an alkaline
medium for their digestion, and without the alkaline reaction
of the saliva they would never be digested at all. This view
ignores the well-known fact that only a part of the digestion
occurs in the mouth and stomach as a result of the action of
the ptyalin of the saliva, and that there are active starch
digesting enzymes in the intestines where carbohydrate
digestion proceeds to completion. In fact, starch digestion can
proceed favourably in a medium that is practically neutral.
The relatively small amounts of the weak organic acids in
fruits can have little or no significance in any interruption of
starch digestion in the stomach where the hydrochloric acid of
the gastric juice is many times stronger than the acid fruits.
'The statement that white meat is less harmful than dark
meat has no basis in fact. This belief goes back to the days
when gout was confused with other forms of arthritis, and that
foods rich in purines yield uric acid with resulting gout,
rheumatism and acidosis. With the exception of the glandular
organs, liver, sweetbreads, and kidneys, dark meat contains no
more purine bases than does white meat. Fish and fowl
contain as much, or more, uric acid-forming bases as beef,
veal, lamb and pork.
'It has been proved by numerous investigators that the
white of eggs is much less digestible when raw than when
cooked. There is even evidence that raw egg white when fed
to experimental animals will invariably produce toxic
symptoms. Nevertheless, it is still not uncommon to find
physicians and nurses prescribing raw eggs for invalids in the
belief that they are more digestible and more easily
assimilated than when cooked.
'Mixtures of incompatible foods explode in the stomach;
fish is a good brain food; garlic "purifies" the blood, etc., are
some of the other absurdities of the nutritional quack.'
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
It is a scandal that dangerous and absurd ideas about
compatibilities should be spread abroad, as they work to the
prejudice of the naturist and naturopath movements.
It may be thought that such theories are too absurd to be
noticed. Yet they are beginning to spread and are gaining
inherents. Remember Hitler. When first the figure of Hitler
appeared everybody laughed and said his ideas were too
absurd and unworthy of attention. We know that his absurd
racial theory has no scientific basis. Yet it governed eighty
million people. So we must not consider absurd theories to be
without danger. We must pay attention to them before they
become a collective danger. Whether the danger be biological
or dietetic it is all the same, for both dangers can be fatal to
man, and the dangers of these dietetic absurdities can
contribute to the progressive biological degeneration of
mankind. At the moment there are only some thousands of
people who propagate these absurdities, but after ten years
there may be some hundreds of thousands, and after fifty years
there may be millions. If these dietetic absurdities represent
naturism and naturopath, then I prefer to declare myself an
allopath. Official medicine is certainly dogmatic, but
dogmatism is preferable to anarchy.
THE REGENERATIVE
PROCESSES IN THE ORGANISM UNDER THE
COSMOTHERAPEUTIC MODE OF LIFE
If the cosmotherapeutic mode of life is followed for one
year (eight cycles of the year), it achieves the following
results:
PRACTICAL ADVICE
Follow all the various instructions given above with equal
precision, for everything is necessary and nothing superfluous.
Read them through carefully several times and follow
everything completely and without exception. If, in spite of
setting out to do this, you cannot for one reason or another
follow everything completely, do not lose heart, but do as
much as you can. It is better to do a little than nothing, for
results are always obtained in proportion to the number of
rules observed, and always arrive sooner or later in every case
with mathematical precision.
To start with, this diet provokes unpleasant symptoms,
due to the general elimination of old accumulations of toxins
in the organism. It is usual for the old symptoms of past
illnesses to be renewed. However, the individual who does not
let himself be alarmed by them, but understanding the natural
laws and trusting in the healing powers of the natural forces,
perseveres in following the diet, will be abundantly rewarded
by the complete cleansing and regeneration of his organism
and the cure of his diseases. So do not forget: Every disease is
curable, but not everybody; only those who have strength of
will and perseverance. Do not let yourself be influenced by
passing symptoms of the cleansing process or by the opinions
of ignorant people round you.
Part III
SILVICULTURAL APHORISMS
We should remember that a tree is worth more in dollars
and cents standing, for the protection it affords, than cut down
for lumber. Keep the ground covered. Save the humus. Leave
seed trees. Use the natural sources of fertility. There are plenty
of substitutes for forest products, but no substitute for the
forest. It is wrong to mutilate a forest tree for turpentine,
rubber or other products unless it is mature or it is time for its
removal in the process of improvement cutting. Unless the
primary object is public welfare, the forest is in the same class
as any other ordinary industry. Civilisation is marked by many
stages, but none more important and modern than the care of
the wild forest for public welfare purposes.
Bear in mind that the forest is not merely a collection of
trees. It is a society of living things, animal and plant, working
together for better or for worse. There is a sociology of the
woods, just as there is a sociology of humans. There are
mutualism and parasitism in the forest just as there are in
human society.
Forestry properly understood is the intelligent use of the
axe and spade.
Northern foresters working in the tropics must eliminate
from their minds the idea of summer and winter. This means
the elimination of the annual ring upon which so many depend
for the determination of annual increment.
Improvement cuttings should be conducted for
silvicultural and not mathematical reasons. Cutting to a
diameter limit or only as fast as trees grow is a means to an
end, but not necessarily forestry. A tree is ready to be cut
when it is time to cut it, regardless of whether the amount cut
is more or less than the rate of growth.
The idea that plants must have a season of rest or
hibernation like northern animals and plants is foreign to the
tropics, the world's biological headquarters. The idea that field
crops alone feed mankind belongs also to temperate zones.
The tropics can produce all the essential needs of man
from tree crops.
Forest trees have an advantage over the field crops in that
there is no annual planting and no necessity for fertilisers or
sprays.
Any soil will grow trees in the tropics if there is sufficient
moisture. The tropics are a tree country. The tropics are the
place for perennials.
There is an excess of sunshine in all tropical countries.
Shade for man species is necessary. Owing to lack of
seasons the snowline is usually the timberline in the tropics.
Large areas in the torrid zone are covered with ice and
snow throughout the year.
In the north agriculture is agriculture, horticulture is
horticulture, silviculture is silviculture, but in the tropics all
may be advantageously combined.
When you give a crop of trees an abundance of the right
kind of humus you are giving it a balanced ration just as the
tree took it from the soil and air.
Leaf-fall and planting in the tropics are not confined to
any season.
There is no advantage in cultivating a soil which is
already too loose and porous. The only thing that helps the
capillarity of loose soil is humus. This applies as well to a soil
that is too hard and compact.
Tree roots reach down deep into the soil to garner
fertility. Tree roots grow in salt water in the tropics, but not in
temperate regions.
The place to study trees and forests is where they are not
restrained and hindered by lack of water and warmth.
If there is a science of forestry it should be based on
tropical data. The tropical out-of-doors is an all-year museum,
best suited for study.
A thing is of little interest by itself. A plant should be
studied from a use-association standpoint, always in
connection with the place and with the people.
Man is fighting many troubles produced by his own
unnatural systems of cultivation. We should always work with
and not against nature.
The extinction of a rare plant is a world-wide calamity.
There is usually a good substitute at home for the things
we buy abroad. There is no reason why things from a distance
should be better than home products. The reverse is for several
reasons nearer the truth.
There is no reason why each region should not be so far
as possible self supporting.
If each region is self-supporting the whole will take care
of itself. Trade should be reciprocal between countries of
unlike capabilities. The section that buys more than it sells is
on the road to the poorhouse.
Many of our industries are obsolete; some are destructive,
some constructive and some neutral.
A forest tree can yield fruits, other foods, fibres, oils and
other products as well as wood.
A wood should never be discarded because it is hard to
work. This is usually offset by other good qualities. In time it
may not be the kind of wood, but wood of any kind.
Hardwoods are not always the slowest growers.
A weed is merely a plant out of place. The weed of to-day
may be very useful to-morrow. A weed in one place may be
useful in another location.
Tropical tree culture has hardly begun, and many species
may become extinct before it gets started.
In judging forest soil look up not down, since the
character of the vegetation which covers it is the test of its
capabilities.
If every family owned five acres of diverse tropical forest
bearing various useful products for home use, there would be
more people with a soil and tree conscience and more self-
supporting and patriotic citizens in the community.
Avocational schools are needed to show what can be
produced from a tropical soil, how to produce it and what
industries can be fostered for the manufacture of those
productions.
All wealth comes from the sea and the soil.
Any man who converts a piece of unused land into a
productive unit not only adds to the national wealth, but with
the help of nature is creating a real life insurance for himself.
(Actually the farmers eat what they cannot sell instead of
selling what they cannot eat.)
Many tropical fruits are not perishable and are cheaply
transported.
There is nothing that can have a greater educational,
health-producing and gratifying effect than a five-acre forest
garden in the tropics. A man is filling a very praiseworthy
niche when he produces something that is of use to the rest of
us.
One moving to the tropics must forget northern nations.
The tropic is not, as usually supposed, the land of siesta and
mañana. It is a land of intensity.
If the lumberman had left one seed tree per acre and
cleared up his mess like the other industries are required to do,
there would be many fine forests in this country (the United
States).
The way to fight excessive sun, wind and rain is with the
forest. The earth must not be deprived of its protective
covering.
The export of raw materials to foreign lands in exchange
for cheap, unnecessary manufactured articles is a poor trade.
A big export trade means a subsidised merchant marine which
in turn demands a big navy which in turn tends to war.
Our greatest asset is beauty exemplified in all kinds of
art. The nearer natural this art the better.
Vegetation is the dress that adorns the earth. Landscape
can be produced with vegetation on the face of the earth just
as a painter works with a brush and colours. This vegetarian
can yield useful products as well as beauty.
The man who leaves his inheritance in better shape than
when he received it has not lived in vain. The man who
introduces a new plant, develops a new plant or discovers a
new plant or a new use for an old plant may add millions of
wealth to future generations. A man may drop a single seed
accidentally which in time may completely change the
landscape and the industries of a people.
The best pumps are trees, they work for years without
repair or expense.
Plant deep-rooted, wind-resistant trees. Plant trees that
are fire-proof because of thick bark, gummy sap or those that
sucker from the stump and root. Use native trees or trees that
have long been naturalised and survived. Let nature do your
experimenting.
Climatic disturbances cling close to the earth and are
unquestionably in many ways influenced by a forest covering.
Forestry is a process of cultural operations that cannot be
accurately measured in feet and dollars.
Useful trees are usually ornamental. Use and art are not
incompatible.
The prosperity of a country depends, not so much upon
its natural resources, as upon the way those resources are
handled. Even the hurricane that uproots a tree may spread its
seeds.
Exchange of products is superfluous in a country which
can produce everything it needs.
Almost every tropical region can be made self-
supporting.
The final adjustments between living things and their
environment is the most puzzling thing characteristic of
nature. Too heavy and continuous fruiting may be a distress
signal.
****
There is very great affinity between the ideas of Zoroaster
and Gifford. The explanation lies in the similarity between the
two periods. In the time of Zoroaster the forests were almost
in a state of disappearance and in general arboriculture was a
vital necessity of the time. It is the same to-day. Our forests
are disappearing with terrible rapidity, and our climate
becomes worse and worse. We have too much cold, too much
heat, too much dryness, too much humidity, as a practical
consequence of the destruction of the forests. Gifford is in the
true Zoroastrian tradition when he recognizes the forests as the
greatest treasure of man and of human society.
The climate depends on the forests, and on the climate
our health, and on our health the economic welfare of society.
The reconstruction of our forests is truly an urgent task.
Unfortunately it is a problem neglected alike by politics and
by agriculture.
Public health cannot profit very much from a system of
feeding which is based upon our present system of agriculture.
The predominant and often excessive consumption of meat
and denatured cereals and the consequent craving for
stimulants and narcotics are the chief causes of the almost
universal toxic condition and social unrest of the people,
frequently intensified by over-production and unemployment
in the industrial fields. To-day we are devoting over two
million acres to the cultivation of the different cereals. The
total harvest is approximately five billion bushels, most of
which goes to the feeding of twenty million animals. Only a
comparatively small portion of the developed agricultural land
is devoted to the cultivation of fruits, vegetables and nuts.
Cereals and meat are not the best food for man. In fact, he
could live much better by reducing their consumption to a
minimum and by-eating more fruits, nuts and vegetables
instead, supplemented occasionally by small amounts of dairy
products, such as buttermilk, clabbered (sour) milk and
cottage cheese.
In the progress of civilisation fruit and nut trees will
always be a necessary and important element, not only for
providing wholesome and ample nourishment, but also for
enhancing man's love for the beauties of nature. Mineral food
can be brought from greater depths by fruit and nut trees than
by cereals, as the strong roots of the tree are capable of
reaching the deeper, richer strata of the soil, permitting,
therefore, a more intensive cultivation of a given area of land.
Agriculture and horticulture are the most natural and
wholesome occupations of man, the foundation of all other
occupations. In a nation wishing to achieve a healthy
organism about seventy-five per cent of the labouring masses
should occupy themselves largely with progressive and
wholesome agricultural and horticultural activities, and
twenty-five per cent with trades and commerce.
For health and delight the garden and the orchard are the
universal and supreme ideal of man. In every human heart
there is an ever-present yearning for the day when he may
own an acre of land and plant it with trees that will blossom
and bear fruit. This love of country and orchard is the one
abiding memory of an almost forgotten paradise. How
beautiful is the sight of an orchard, with its blooming trees
sending their roots deep down into the soil, drinking the
heavenly light with its millions of blossom and bringing forth
the luscious fruits in which the hidden treasures of the earth
and the life-giving forces of the sun are so wonderfully
combined!
The natural laws and forces determine human society.
There would be a natural human society if seventy-five per
cent of the people occupied themselves with arboriculture and
agriculture and of only twenty-five per cent occupied
themselves with other occupations. And for their health the
twenty-five per cent should work for one or two hours every
day in the garden in order to avoid the destruction of their
health and longevity and to keep their strength and vitality.
But what do we see? We see just the opposite. In the most
civilised and progressive countries it is not seventy-five per
cent of the inhabitants who occupy themselves with
agriculture, but the proportion is inverse and only twenty-five
per cent occupy themselves with agriculture and seventy-five
per cent occupy themselves with quite other things. We
concentrate in great cities and on various unhealthy
occupations, and this concentration is in a large measure
responsible for the biological degeneration of the race. We do
not wish to abolish technique; we only wish to put it back in
its place and not to exaggerate it; we wish to produce
everything which is necessary and nothing which is
superfluous.
The twenty-five per cent who occupy themselves with
agriculture use thoroughly bad methods. The agricultural
workers and peasants work ten times more than would be
necessary, if they knew the natural laws. If they knew them
they could obtain the same results with ten per cent of the
work.
Let us examine what they produce. To a very large extent
they produce cereals to feed animals and afterwards eat the
animals, instead of producing products which man can
consume directly. If, instead of raising animals and cereals to
feed them with, our peasants were to raise fruit and nut trees
by rational methods, they could get five times as much money
with a quarter the work, not to speak of the improvement in
public health which would result.
The twenty-five per cent minority of agriculturists work
with old and bad methods and produce things which are
superfluous, providing a minimum of the things which are the
most necessary, such as fruit and nut trees. Agriculture, which
is a fundamental occupation of human society, is in very great
chaos from every standpoint, and this chaos of the foundation
naturally extends to the superstructure. We can see clearly the
origin of the world's economic crises, contradictions and
problems, if we realise that in ninety per cent of cases we
produce things which are unnecessary and harmful to health,
both in agriculture and in industry.
Trees, that is, fruit trees, and forests may be regarded as
the foundation of human health and human society. I do not
wish to induce people to produce in any large measure trees
which do not produce fruits. It is always possible to combine
beauty and utility, for fruit trees are as beautiful as trees which
do not produce fruit. For instance, the great nut trees are very
impressive. In England it is not possible to produce oranges
and bananas and tropical fruits, but it is possible to grow
scores of temperate fruits. There are about fifty different
species of apple trees which can all grow very well in
England, twenty or thirty other species of fruits and a long
series of vegetables and cereals. Every climate has almost
unlimited possibilities for producing products suited to it.
Similarly there is the possibility of creating new species of
fruits, always more and more perfect. If we examine our
present fruits and vegetables, we find they were not edible
thousands and thousands of years ago, but little by little they
have become ennobled and perfect and now they are edible.
Likewise many fruits and vegetables exist now which are not
yet edible, but which by the evolution of nature on the earth
for some hundreds or thousands of years will become edible
and perfect. It is not necessary to go to the tropics and plant
trees there, for each must live his life in the place where he is.
It is possible to live everywhere naturally and in harmony with
the natural laws and forces. Every climate has its advantages
as well as its disadvantages. Our temperate climate, with the
changes of winter, summer, autumn and spring, gives very
favourable possibilities indeed for a natural life and for the
production of a large number of fruits and vegetables.
Arboriculture and agriculture should be, and will always be,
the basis of human society. If they are not, social
disequilibrium always results with a series of crises in human
society and in human economy.
Life is not as complicated and difficult as it is generally
thought. With the necessary knowledge of a rational and
natural arboriculture quite a little piece of garden, a single
acre, is sufficient to satisfy the needs of an individual, and
with only two hours work a day. And these two hours' work
are a necessary precondition of health. This agricultural
activity is in accordance with the laws of nature, and is
necessary to assure perfect vitality and health. But it is not
only a question of perfect health and vitality; it is also a
question of economic and consequently moral freedom. If we
look back at the preceding centuries, we see that when
something was needed for cooking, people went into the
garden and took it. Everything which was consumed was
simple and, before all else, fresh. There was no necessity for
these simple and natural foods to be transformed by a series of
machines and factories into a denatured condition. It would be
a very good thing to restore these good old customs. If each
family could have just a small garden of not more than one
acre, it would supply all the requirements of fruits and
vegetables, for it is not the size of the plot which determines
the quality and quantity of produce, but the knowledge and
method of production. Even in our climate it is possible to
have three crops a year if one knows how to apply the
principles of natural rational agriculture. This is the sole
solution to the problem of having fruits and vegetables which
are natural and without deficiencies. Only natural homegrown
products can satisfy the needs of the human organism.
Everyone obviously cannot leave his profession and become a
gardener, but everyone should know the laws of agriculture
just as he should know the laws of healthy living. All should
study cultivation and agriculture as a second common
occupation, for agriculture is a precondition of health. Daily
contact with fresh air and sun for two hours, with the
necessary muscular movement and respiration and in the
environment of plants and trees, is the most effective and at
the same time the most useful preserver of health and vitality.
So just as it would be good if everyone had a second common
language, so everyone should have a second common
occupation, gardening. This would free us from our artificial,
technical and degenerated civilisation which cannot assure to
us any of the preconditions of a healthy life—life with healthy
vegetables and fruits, with healthy milk, with fresh air and
sun. This programme is easily realisable by those who live in
the country. Naturally for those who live in great cities it is
realisable with difficulty, but it is possible also for them to do
it progressively. It is possible for them to acquire a little piece
of garden not too far from the town and to spend the week-end
there. Instead of indulging in various superfluous occupations
they can do a little gardening and so assure the necessary
preconditions of health. Everyone can improve his health
according to his possibilities. Health depends only upon
ourselves. There are those who can do it very radically and
rapidly and those who can do it less rapidly, but all of us can
do it in some measure.
We consider three activities as the most fundamental in
human society: agriculture, medicine, education. If we can
have centres where the practical laws of agriculture and of
health are taught, they can do immeasurable good to society.
We have innumerable institutions and schools teaching what is
ninety per cent superfluous, the dates of kings and the names
of battles; they teach useless theoretical knowledge which we
cannot utilise at all in our practical life. When we finish with
the high school or university we have a great mass of
theoretical knowledge accumulated, of which we can use less
than ten per cent in practice. Ninety per cent of it is forgotten
and that which is most necessary and vital for man cannot be
learnt, for there are no institutions and schools to teach it. The
true laws of health cannot be learnt in our schools, nor can the
laws of a natural and rational way of producing fruits,
vegetables and flowers. And if we do learn about them we
only learn the old bad methods which are better not learnt at
all.
Many things are out of order in our present civilisation, in
agriculture, in medicine and also in education. We have
everywhere schools and institutions for improving the
mechanical memory and not for educating the will and
intelligence and independence of spirit. Intelligence and will
are the greatest values in human progress and the lowest value
is mechanical memory. If mechanical memory were the
important thing in man then man could be replaced by simple
gramophone records and by volumes of an encyclopaedia.
Very many individuals with encyclopaedic erudition, holding
four or five diplomas of various universities, cut a sorry figure
in practical life. It is sad but true that our schools do not
prepare us for life.
There exist sciences which we do not know at all and
which have a vital importance in life. One of these sciences is
the science of the simple and natural life. Simplicity is an
almost forgotten notion. If we walk in London or in New
York, or even in small towns, and look in the shop windows at
all the things which are produced, we shall find that ninety per
cent of them are completely superfluous. We can live very
well and very healthily and satisfy all our needs, material,
intellectual and cultural, and never see or use these
superfluous articles. Indeed, the greatest part of mankind
sacrifices health and time to be able to acquire and purchase
these superfluous things.
From this point of view human society has not evolved
very much. Plato and Xenophon, two disciples of Socrates, tell
this story of the master: His friends once wanted him to come
and visit the great markets of Athens, so that he should know a
little about a part of the city which he had never visited. He
acceded to their wishes and went with them. From morning to
evening his friends showed him all the riches of Athens and of
the market, pointing out the various products which came
from Africa and Asia and from various countries with which
Greece had commercial relations. When evening came and
when his eyes were tired with looking at the variety of all
these things, they said to Socrates: 'What do you think of all
these things?' 'Are we not very rich and privileged in living in
Athens?' 'What is your opinion of all these treasures?' Socrates
answered very shortly: 'What a lot of things exist in the world
that I do not want.' And then he turned round and went home.
If we were to take Socrates to the various department
stores of London and New York he would say the same. The
source of all our economic difficulties and conflicts lies in
this, that we sacrifice true values for pseudo-values. We
sacrifice health for superfluous things which we do not need.
We sacrifice our free time, which is of great value in the
acquisition of superfluous things. What is the value to us of all
the things accumulated in museums and libraries if we have
not the time to take advantage of them? We have not the time
to read the thousands and thousands of books accumulated in
libraries. There is a great chasm between institutions and the
masses. We have everything; we have bigger libraries than
ever existed before in human history. We have all the
masterpieces of literature, of the arts, of music and of painting,
but we have not the necessary time to contemplate them, so
they do not exist for us. And even if we have the free time the
majority of mankind lacks the capacity to appreciate them. For
instance, in the United States, even in the small towns, there
are perfectly arranged, well equipped libraries, but they are
almost always empty. In their homes the people read detective
novels, while the volumes of Shakespeare and Goethe stay
untouched in the libraries. With our civilisation we are at once
very rich and very poor. If we weigh up what we pay for our
present civilisation and what we receive from it, then the
balance will be a very negative one. We give our health, free
time, quiet and the possibility of reading and studying, not to
speak of fresh air, sun and other natural values. In the other
balance we receive toxins, tinned foods, completely
superfluous objects, a completely unnatural environment,
stone walls and machines and an education of minimal value.
We also receive various diseases destroying the nervous
system, constant restlessness and a series of insoluble
problems and contradictions. So the balance is very negative.
Chapter XVIII
GUIDE TO TREATMENT
Chapter I
INTRODUCTORY
2. COSMOVITAL TABLE
Sources, Spheres, Manifestations and Influences of the
Rhythmic Cycles of the Cosmic, Solar, Terrestrial and
Human Radiations.
(See following page.)
Chapter IV
2. COSMOTHERAPEUTIC EXERCISES
The seven cosmovital factors are combined in the
cosmotherapeutic (sun, air, water, earth, muscular, breathing,
concentration) exercises.
(a) Vibrations of the sun.
(b) Vibrations of the air.
(c) Vibrations of the water.
(d) Vibrations of the currents of the earth.
(e) Muscular exercises. (f) Breathing exercises.
(g) Concentration exercises.
Choice of Site. The first thing is to find a river of running
water, a freshwater lake or a swimming-pool. (Sea water does
not suit the organism on account of its salt, which is
inorganic.) The water must be deep enough to allow the
patient to stand up to his chest in water.
Position of the Body. Movements in the Water. The
patient should stand with his face towards the sun and
combine movements of his arms with flexions of the thighs. In
bending the knees, the trunk is submerged up to the shoulders;
at the same time that the knees are bent, the arms which are
stretched out full length to the front make a movement and
spread out as in breast-stroke and back until they are in line
with the shoulders. The legs are straightened, the trunk rises
and the movement is repeated. At first about fifty strokes
should be done at a time. Later on several hundreds a day can
be managed as detoxication proceeds.
At the same time the patient breathes through the nose
with his mouth closed; the breath should be as complete,
rhythmic and deep as possible. The capacity of the lungs and
the thoracic cavity rapidly increases, so much so that after
some days breathing becomes much deeper and the patient can
do as many as five movements to one breath. The quantity of
oxygen used by the expanded lungs has a very marked effect
on the quality of the blood from the very beginning of
treatment. After some minutes in the water the patient takes a
sunbath. Care must be taken to sprinkle the head with water
from time to time.
Sunbaths. When taking the sunbaths, always lie with the
head away from the sun, so as to have the top of the skull in
the shade. First lie for five minutes on your back and then for
five minutes on your stomach and later on for double this time
in each position. After three weeks' treatment change your
position every twenty minutes and thereafter every half-hour.
Choose a sandy or grassy spot on the bank, and if the ground
is covered with pebbles lie on a mat in direct contact with the
ground. The use of boards a little raised is only permissible
when there is no alternative.
Time and Duration. In cold climates and in cold seasons
do the exercises, and sunbathing at midday when the sun is
strongest. In warm seasons and climates do them neither at
midday when the sun is strongest nor in the early morning and
late afternoon when the sun is weakest, but in the middle of
the forenoon and afternoon when the rays of the sun have a
medium force. Naturally, after several months of proper diet
and a proper way of living it is possible to sunbathe and
exercise at any time and in any amount without danger.
Indiscriminate exposure to the sun is dangerous only when the
organism is loaded with toxins, as these ferment under the
influence of the thermic and chemical action of the sun and
are thus able to cause serious crises in the organism.
3. PHYSICAL EXERCISES
(i) Trunk turning and forward bending. The patient stands
up with the feet placed parallel with each other on the ground,
that is, with the heels the same distance apart as the toes, about
seven inches from each other. He stretches out the arms to
either side, level with the shoulders, at the same time
clenching the fists. Keeping the arms in that position, he
makes an energetic twisting movement of the trunk from the
hips towards the left. Next he does a forward bend stretching
the right fist as low as possible, while the left fist is lifted up
behind to a vertical position. He stands straight once more,
turns the trunk—this time to the right—bends forward again,
stretching the left fist down and the right fist upwards. The
thighs are always kept taut. As time goes on, this exercise can
be repeated a great many times.
(ii) Leg Movements. The patient lies on the back, slightly
raising the nape of the neck; he should keep the hands beside
the body, raise the legs and stretch them vertically, then
separate and lower them without letting the heels touch the
ground. Then he should start again and repeat the movements
more and more frequently as training increases.
(iii) Complementary Exercises. Swimming with rhythmic
breathing (collaboration of water, air, and sun), and . Running
with rhythmic breathing, with bare feet, and in a bathing dress
(collaboration of earth, air, and sun). These two vitalising
exercises greatly accelerate the results of cosmotherapy. For
this reason we advise that patients practise them at least once a
week, according to individual possibilities. They must begin
with a little at first and then slowly and progressively increase
them, always alternating the exercises with rest.
(iv) Sunburn and its Remedy. It sometimes happens, when
the sun is strong, that at the beginning of treatment the
precautions as to length and alternation of sun and water baths
indicated above are neglected and the skin is severely burnt.
This sunburn can be cured without difficulty by covering the
inflamed part with a little oil mixed with one-fifth part of
lemon juice. Care must be taken during the daytime to leave
the skin uncovered and exposed to the air. If clothes are
unavoidable, the burn should, to begin with, be covered with
fresh leaves. During the night put a double damp water
compress, freshly prepared, over the burn, and wrap some dry
cloths round the compress. Change the compress once or twice
in the course of the night. As long as the burn remains painful,
that is, for two or three days, avoid long exposure to the sun,
but do not neglect the baths or the exercises in the water and
on dry land.
(v) Preventive Instruction. Sunburn, colds and fatigue are
avoidable by observing the following chief rules: (a) Begin
sunbathing with a maximum of ten minutes, and increase the
bath by five minutes each day following, according to
individual capacity, (b) Begin by prescribing the
cosmotherapeutic exercises for five minutes and increase the
duration by one minute each succeeding day up to the limit of
individual capacity, (c) If a patient begins to feel hot during a
sunbath, he should go at once into the water. (d) If he begins
to feel chilly during the water bath he should go out
immediately and take a sunbath. (e) Exercise, sunbath and
water-bath should be practised as much as possible, but never
to the point of over-tiring the patient. (f) Everything should be
done with moderation, (g) Be attentive to the desires and
warning cries of the organism.
(vi) The Solution in Cold Seasons and Climates and in
Large Towns. In cold seasons and climates and in large towns
where it is difficult to find free water, sun and air, the open air
baths and exercises may be replaced with cosmotherapeutic
baths and exercises taken in a swimming-pool. If there is no
such pool available, the patient must simply wash and
massage the whole body before and after doing the two
exercises (i) and (ii). The water should have an agreeable
temperature, while the air in the room should also be fresh
(ventilated). These exercises should last from fifteen to thirty
minutes. They should in all events be done every day without
exception, either in the morning or in the evening or at both
times, according to individual possibilities.
Chapter VI
EXTERNAL-INTERNAL COSMOTHERAPY
(Colonic Irrigation)
Cosmovital
Cycle Bath Chart
(see end of
No. Period Colour Season volume)
I Jan. 14-Feb. 28 Green Winter-Spring A
II March 1-Apr. 13 Indigo Spring B
III Apr. 14-May 28 Red Spring- Summer C
IV May 29-July 13 Orange Summer D
V July 14-Aug. 28 Yellow Summer-Autumn C
VI Aug. 29-Oct. 13 Violet Autumn B
VII Oct. 14-Nov. 28 Blue Autumn-Winter E
VIII Nov. 29-Jan. 13 White Winter A
NOTE.—The length of each cycle is 45 days and each month is considered as
having 30 days.
Cosmovital Bath Chart D is for Tropical Zones (between Tropics of
Capricorn and Cancer).
Cosmovital Bath Charts A-E are for Temperate Zones (North and South
Hemispheres). The charts as marked are for Northern Hemispheres. For use in
Southern Hemispheres the order of the cycles is diametrically opposite, winter in
the Northern Hemisphere being summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
tga = L ÷ 1
Diet
1. What to eat.
2. What amount to eat.
3. What sorts of food to eat.
4. What variety of foods to eat.
5. What combinations of foods to eat.
6. How to eat.
7. When to eat.
8. What not to eat.
9. Why not.
NOTE.—See "Table of Diets" page 207.
Thermal Baths
Instructions as for Cosmovital Baths.
Internal Baths (Enemata)
1. How to take them.
2. When to take them.
3. How many of them to take.
Cosmotherapeutic Exercises
1. How to do them.
2. When to do them.
3. How many of them to do.
Physical Exercises
Instructions as for Cosmotherapeutic Exercises
Compresses at Night
1. How to apply them.
2. When to apply them.
3. How many of them to apply.
Rhythmic Breathing
See Chapter IX.
Rhythmic Sleep
See Chapter IX.
Example (1)
We will suppose that the patient has a trunk measurement
of plus 33 and minus 31, and that he comes for treatment on
May 1st, in England (N. Temperate Zone).
From the Calendar on page 297 we see that the
appropriate Cosmovital Bath Chart is 'C' (see end of volume).
Having turned to this chart, find point 0 at the top of the
circle. Then measure off plus 33 to the right of point 0 on the
scale printed outside the circumference, and minus 31 to the
left of point 0 in the same way.
From point –31 to point +33 forms the patient's individual
arc.
Next divide the minus arc (0 to –31) into three equal parts
(each will contain 10-1/3 points) and mark off the second
(middle) segment of this arc on the circumference (from
points –10-1/3 to – 20-2/3). Now do the same for the plus arc
(0 to +33), making three arcs of 11 points each, the second
(middle) segment lying between points +11 and +22.
Read off the time of day on the clock within the circle
between the points –10-1/3 and – 20-2/3, which gives from
9.26 to 10.43 a.m. as the time for the morning bath, and
between points +11 and +22, which gives from 1.07 to 2.45
p.m. as the time for the afternoon bath.
Similarly if it is July 1st, the Calendar indicates that
Cosmovital Bath Chart 'D' is the appropriate table to consult.
You then mark off the arcs in the same way and arrive at the
result from 8.9 to 10.12 a.m. for the morning bath and from
2.6 to 4.14 p.m. for the afternoon bath.
If the trunk measurement is different, then different
results will be obtained on each chart.
Example (2)
Date 30th April. Chart 'C. Suppose the symptom to be in
the right shoulder with a diameter of 6 inches and that its
centre point falls opposite line 12 on the strip of paper.
Measure off three inches above and below line 12. We will
suppose that the line so marked falls between lines +9 and +
15 on the strip of paper.
Turn to Chart 'C (at end of volume), and it will be seen
that from 1.07 p.m. to 1.52 p.m. is the best time for exposing
the symptom to the sun and other cosmovital baths.
Body Temperature
Normal for all persons in all climates and at all seasons
—37° C. (98.6° F.)
Chapter IX
RHYTHMIC SLEEP
Notes
1. The foods indicated above are not the exclusive foods
for the period, but simply the foods favourable for each cycle
from the point of view of the cosmic, solar, terrestrial and
human radiations.
2. They are naturally modified, too, according to the
human radiations, that is to say, according to the vital state of
the individual.
3. The rules given on pages 199-201 (Book I) should be
followed.
4. See the Chart on pages 190-198, which groups two
hundred natural foods in accordance with their accumulated
cosmovital radiations.
5. Always heed the voice of the organism.
6. If you wish, each preceding category may be used in
place of the succeeding ones, but not vice versa. The latter can
never replace the former; e.g., you may prescribe fruits and
salad instead of the ration of cereal, dried and oily fruits, etc.,
but not cereal, dried fruits, etc., instead of fruits and salad.
7. In foods (of vegetable origin) growing below the
ground, accumulated terrestrial radiations predominate.
In foods (of vegetable origin) growing above the ground,
accumulated solar radiations predominate.
In foods growing on trees, cosmic radiations
predominate.
In maternal milk, accumulated human radiations
predominate, together with the character of the accumulated
radiations depending on the origin of the mother's food.
In animal milk, animal radiations predominate, together
with the character of the accumulated radiations depending on
the origin of the animal's food.
8. See the Table on page 208 where fifty-five different
individual diets are specified.
2. THE FIVE CATEGORIES OF FOODS
Category I. Fresh Juicy Fruits.
This category is the richest in vitalising properties. It
should form one-half (50%) of the total diet if possible. All
these juicy fruits may be taken in their natural form or their
juice squeezed out, at pleasure. All the items given in this
category are the most efficient eliminators. In their liquid
content these foods (together with those of Category II)
correspond to the liquid content of the human body, while the
minerals furnish the organism with the elements for building
the bones.
They must always be fresh—never preserved, mixed with
chemicals, cooked or iced. And this condition applies equally
to all foods in all four categories without exception. In this
perfect form they contain in synthesis the unified radiations of
the four elements: sun, air, water, earth.
These foods must constitute the whole of the first meals
after a fast.
This category constitutes the final ideal in diet towards
which we must strive; it is an ideal that can be realised in
warm and temperate climates where such products are found,
and only after many years of perseverance, during which little
by little we shall be able to discard the other categories.
The foods in this category are the best conservers of
perennial youth, the greatest enemies of age. They are the
ideal food for the intellectual and sedentary worker and ideal
for everyone during the warm seasons and in warm climates.
We have divided this category into four groups, each of
them practically equal in value; they are arranged in order of
value (therapeutic-nutritive), though the difference between
them is insignificant.
The patient should be told not to look for results from one
cosmic force alone, but always from the co-operative aid of all
the natural laws and forces (water, air, sun, cosmotherapeutic
exercises, breathing technique, diet, fasting, etc.) which form a
single vital dynamism. The radiant energies of the external
cosmotherapy (water, air, sun, exercises, etc.) accelerate the
work and results of the internal cosmotherapy (diet, fasting,
etc.), which in turn govern and determine the influence and
results of the external cosmotherapy. So all the different kinds
of instructions must be followed with equal precision, for
everything is necessary and nothing superfluous.
If, in spite of setting out to do this, the patient cannot for
any reason follow everything completely, he must not despair
but should do as much as he can. It is better to do a little than
nothing, for results are always obtained in proportion to the
number of the cosmotherapeutic rules observed. Periodic
failure to follow the treatment simply means a certain loss of
time, but not the complete impossibility of cure. The patient
who follows the natural laws 100% will have quicker and
more perfect results than one who only follows them 60%, but
the result always arrives proportionally sooner or later in
every case with mathematical precision.
Chapter XI
The principal diet tables (pp. 207 and 208) are determined
by the cosmic, solar and terrestrial radiations. The table given
above represents the variable cases arising during the first
individual cycle of treatment depending on each individual
and his condition.
M = (K + Y) ÷ 10
Chapter XII
DIAGRAM IX
Embryochronological Chart of the Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic
Development (Virtual, Structural and Functional) of the Different Parts, Functions
and Capacities of the Organism during the Four Rhythmic Cycles (Ante-
conceptional, of Gestation, and Post-natal) governed by the Cosmovital (Cosmic,
Solar, Terrestrial and Human) Radiations, and for determining the Times and
Processes Favourable for the Cure of each Organ in case of Serious Chronic
Diseases, on the Basis of (1) Date of Birth, (2) Solar Point (X on Diagram IX) at
the end of this volume.
(The circle represents the cosmotherapeutic year according to the
cosmovitalist calendar—Diagram I).
Explanatory Notes
THE cosmic and natural laws on which this chart is based
are the following:
(1) The most favourable (but not the exclusive)
cosmovital radiations for curing or improving an organ are
those radiations which were present during the embryonic
development of that organ.
(2) The most favourable (but not the exclusive) time for
curing an organ is the time during which the embryonic
development of that organ took place.
(3) Consequently, in order to regenerate completely the
whole organism, the patient must live in harmony with the
rhythmic cycles of the cosmovital radiations during a year,
paying special attention to the various diseased organs in the
cycles appropriate to each.
(4) In case of psychological diseases the most favourable
(but not exclusive) time for psychotherapy is the fourth cycle,
which determines the psychism (consciousness, character,
temperament, capacities, etc.) of the individual.
(5) According to the rhythmic cycles of the year with
which this fourth psychological double cycle (pre-
conceptional and post-natal) coincides, we distinguish the
following combinations of individual types:
(6)—Individual Types. See table on page following.
(7) An individual's degree of physiological and
psychological perfection depends on the following four
factors:
(i) on his ontogenetic heredity (from his ancestors),
(ii) on the favourable or unfavourable factors of his
embryonic (psychophysiological) development,
(iii) on his phylogenetic experience (his psycho
physiological qualities acquired during his individual
life and in his environment),
(iv) on his degree of knowledge and realisation of the
natural and cosmic laws.
(8) In other words, the determination of the factors of
embryonic development is not sufficient for the determination
of a psychophysiological individuality, but the dynamic
totality of all the four preceding factors has to be taken into
account. The cosmotherapeutic doctor who follows an
individual's psychophysiological symptoms during a year (8
rhythmic cycles) is in possession of knowledge of all these
factors. So at the end of the year of treatment he will be in a
position to prepare an analytical table of all the
psychophysiological qualities—favourable or unfavourable—
of the individual, and give him guidance how to use his
favourable qualities with the maximum of results and how to
avoid with the minimum of disadvantage his unfavourable
qualities and progressively improve them. This is a work of
synthesis, requiring a complete knowledge of cosmotherapy
and precise and fairly long calculations, but it marks the
crowning point of the cosmotherapeutic treatment. The lives
of ninety per cent of humanity would be much happier and
more harmonious (both from the point of view of
psychophysiological perfection and that of external results
obtained in life) if they knew their virtual capacities and could
thus use them to advantage, and if they knew their defects and
could thus avoid and improve them.
1. PHYSIOLOGICAL DISEASES
Disease Cure
1. General intoxication Elimination of the toxins:
fasting, diet, etc.
2. Old age Rejuvenation by a physio-
logical and psychological
regimen and by the
cosmovital energies.
3. Weakness Strengthening and
reconstruction of the organism
by diet, water, air, exercises,
etc.
4. Fatigue Rest. Physical and psychic
relaxation.
5. Insomnia Provoking relaxation and
sleepiness; water, sun; air, and
a diet in nervous activity.
6. Surplus of liquid Drying the organism: fasting,
diet, sun, perspiration, etc.
7. Surplus of fat Dissolution and elimination:
(obesity) fasting, diet, sun, perspiration,
etc.
8. Surplus of acid Absorption and elimination:
fasting, diet, water.
9. Surplus of inorganic Demineralisation: diet, semi-
minerals fasting (fruit juices, water),
water, sun, exercises.
10. Fermentations and Elimination of the specific
putrefactions causes, fasting, diet, water,
air, sun, etc.
11. Gases Fasting, exercises, perspira-
tion, air.
12. Fever Reducing to normal tempera-
ture: breathing exercises,
water, enemata, fasting.
13. Chill Raising the temperature to
normal: perspiration, sun,
exercises.
14. Specific pains Relief of the pain by cold wet
compresses or hot dry
compresses according to the
symptoms. In case of pain in
the bones use earth
compresses, in other cases
water compresses.
15. Deficient nourish- Regain weight by reconstruc-
ment (thinness) tion, diet, mastication, etc.
16. Deficiency of org- Fruits and vegetables rich in
anic minerals and minerals and vitamins, org-
vitamins anic mineral and vitamin
supplements.
17. Deficiency of pro- Increased ration of protein,
tein, fats, etc. fats, etc., in diet.
18. Paralysis Revitalisation by diet, per-
spiration, exercises, fasting,
water, sun, etc.
19. Mutilation Saving of the neighbouring
organs, prevention of spread
of mutilation, diet, water, sun,
air, etc.
20. Inactivity (lack of Reactivation of the organism
movement) by diet, exercises, sun, air,
etc.
2. PSYCHOLOGICAL DISEASES
The diseases tabulated below are not physiological
diseases, but concern us nevertheless in the treatment of the
latter, because they have an unfavourable effect upon the
glandular activity of the organism and provoke secretions
which are physiologically intoxicating. They thus hinder the
physiological treatment. On the other hand favourable psychic
states aid and accelerate the results of the physiological
treatment. Below we enumerate in one column the psychic
states unfavourable to the physiological treatment and in the
opposite column the psychic states which are favourable to it.