I understood that the tremendous vitality I felt from my years of eating
raw food was due to the totality of a food and its electromagnetic energies,
not its separated chemistry. This is when I switched to botanicals (herbs). I
have been using them now for over twenty-five years. I use them as
detoxifiers, not for “treatment.” Together with an organic, live food diet,
herbs are the simple answers to robust health and vitality.
We explored in Chapter One the difference between detoxification and
treatment, explaining that treatment deals with symptom-alleviation but not
necessarily with the underlying cause of disease. It is time for us to break out
of our treatment mentality and open up to the world of detoxification.
Detoxification does not “treat” the symptoms (of the problem), nor does it
treat from “deficiency” concepts; if it treats or addresses anything, it treats the
root cause of the symptom(s). Detoxification takes into consideration
alkalization, homeostasis, enhancement, revitalization, regeneration and
cleansing. Eating your foods whole, fresh and raw, whereby the chemistry
and energy is unchanged by human intervention, is the golden key that
unlocks the door to health and vitality.
When you heat your foods you radically change their chemistry, creating
acrylamides and other carcinogenic substances. This is especially true when
using higher temperatures (frying, pasteurizing, canning, processing). The
energy and nature of the foods you eat can make you vital or sick. The nature
or vibration of a particular food creates reflex energy waves throughout your
body. This can have a positive or negative effect upon your body’s system
and cells. The healthier you become, you will experience this. Simply by
putting a food in your mouth, or even just touching or smelling a food, you
can feel your body’s response. I’ve seen the lymph system produce excessive
mucus (or go into shock), just from smelling a harmful food or substance.
Rather than choosing foods that you think your body needs, your body itself
will indicate what it needs by what it is attracted to eat from among the many
fresh raw foods that are available.
Detoxification is a system, not a treatment. It is a science that
encompasses chemistry and how chemistry interacts with itself. It also
encompasses physics and the energies of the universe and how your body is a
part of the whole. It also encompasses God and how your spirituality, your
mind and your emotions play an instrumental role in the functioning of your
physical body.
Detoxification is the simple answer to curing disease and unhappiness. It
cleans you out, and uplifts and reconnects you to God and nature. It rids your