22 Acidic Wastes: The Real Culprit
THE PULSE TEST
This test reveals allergies to particular foods. Before you do any
allergy testing, fi nd out the normal range of your pulse rate by
taking your pulse for one week before rising (while lying down),
just before each meal, and again before going to bed. To take your
pulse, place the fi rst two fi ngers of the right hand on the left
wrist. Use a watch or clock with a second hand. Wait until the
second hand reaches sixty, and then count the beats until the
second hand has returned to sixty (one minute). If you have any
problems taking your pulse, use a blood pressure device that also
measures pulse rate. If your highest pulse count every day for a
week is not over eighty-four and if it is the same each day, you
probably don’t have any food allergies.
When you are ready to test for allergies, test one food at a
time—for example a banana, oatmeal, or a plain slice of bread.
Take your pulse just before eating, one-half hour after eating, and
one hour after that. Don’t eat anything the night before you begin
testing for foods. If you are a smoker, don’t smoke while you are
testing your pulse for allergies.
Coca is vague about the number of beats above the normal rate
that indicates an allergy. I have found that if your pulse one-half hour
after eating a single food is four to fi ve beats higher than before
eating, you’re having an allergic reaction to that particular food.
From my experience, blood pressure readings in individuals
over fi fty are just as accurate a test for allergies as the pulse testA nearly foolproof method for detecting allergies is the pulse test.
Dr. Arthur Coca discovered that food allergies increase the pulse when
he noticed that whenever his wife ate certain foods she had an angina
attack and her pulse raced.^7 His wife’s heart problems disappeared after
she eliminated the foods that increased her pulse rate.
In the course of using the pulse test to uncover food allergies, Coca
discovered that a whole range of illnesses including migraines, epilepsy,
obesity, ulcers, emotional problems, hypertension, asthma, and diabetes
could be caused by food allergies because, after eliminating allergy-
causing foods, these health problems practically always disappeared.