Traditionally, this is the season of new Year resolutions. Just before midnight last December 31, churches were awash with prayers for 2012 to be a better year than 2011. thus, at the start of every new Year, this column challenges its readers to make a new year resolution which would improve their health one way or the other. Last year, it was suggested that they make the liver the focus of their health. The ladder to good health was to be climbed one rung after the other, from bottom up. thus, MILK THISTLE was the HERBAL REMEDY OF YEAR 2011. I chose the improvement of the liver’s health as 2011 new resolution because the liver is central to the health of the entire body. Advisedly, its name derives from the words to live which means it has a lot more to do with life than any other organ. In the 1970s, I was exposed to spiritual literature which showed that cancer cannot develop in any human body in which the liver is healthy. it took medical science about 50 years to come to terms with this assertion. The proof came with autopsies on the people who died of cancer. their livers had been compromised in varying degrees. The liver has many jobs too numerous to mention here. it aids digestion, is involved with practically all metabolic processes, stores nutrients for a rainy day and, above all, is the chief organ for removing poisons from the body as they journey through the blood. Women who are estrogen dominant suffer from period pains, have hormonal imbalance, high prolactin levels, and discharge from the nipple when they are not breastfeeding, probably have insufficient liver. As high prolatin levels prevent pregnancy, and may predispose the breast to cancer, care of the liver becomes an important therapy objective in the management of this condition. As important as the liver is to good health, especially these days in which many people are coming down with ovarian cysts, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer, it is only one of many indispensable players in the digestive system, care of which this column now proposes as 2012 health resolution. A few years ago, the Royal Society of Surgeons in the United Kingdom issued a public statement which it entitled:
Death begins in the intestines
This column reviewed the public warning in an article entitled: THE PIT TOILET INSIDE ALL OF US. for, indeed, what goes on inside the pit toilet goes on inside intestines that are not kept clean. This message is driven home below by JETHRO KLOSS, a leading American herbalist, in his five million copies best seller BACK TO EDEN. what you are about to read from this book, which I recommend for all home libraries, were his experiences after he was privileged to observe post-mortem surgeries to diagnose the causes of death. over now to JETHRO KLOSS.
Post-mortems reveal secrets
“At one time I connected with an emergency hospital just to get the experience. it was a wonderful help to me in many ways. I witnessed scores of postmortems performed by competent surgeons. it was very interesting to see the organs of people whose lives and eating and drinking habits we had previously known about.
“we opened up a middle-aged man, quite fleshy, who had died of heart failure. Here is his story: one evening at about six o’ clock as he prepared to take a bath, he reached up to get a drinking glass standing on a shelf about as high as his head. As he reached for it, he fell dead. This man had been a great eater of meats, rich pastries, pies, cakes, puddings, white bread, peeled potatoes, etc. we found his liver about three times its normal size. There were tumors all around the liver, and some in the liver, ranging in size of a small marble to a small-sized potato. The heart was also very much enlarged, more than once again its normal size, and the walls of the heart were very thin and flabby and a dark colour as if bloodshot. The spleen and pancreas were both enlarged and diseased and he had stones and gravel in the gallbladder. His stomach was also very much prolapsed and diseased.
“another man, past middle age, was cancerous. He had always complained of pain around his navel, but there was no outward sign of cancer. The only indication that could be seen on the outside of his body was a little lump under his jaw. after he died we did a postmortem examination. His bowels were full of cancerous growths where he had complained of his pain. The cancer had eaten right through the bowels, which resulted in his death. He was full of cancerous growth from his head clear down to his feet. You could not cut him anywhere without finding cancer. all his organs were in bad shape.
“One person who was very fleshy had layers of pure fat almost three inches thick. The colon in some parts was three or four times its natural size. but in some parts it had shrunk to the diameter of a finger and in other places it was so small that it was almost impossible for anything to pass through. The small intestines had shrunk in some places to the size of a lead pencil, with a heavy hard growth on the outside. only a very small portion of the intestine was of natural size. The spleen was very much enlarged and the stomach hung far down in the abdomen. The kidneys were very enlarged and flabby, the lungs were much enlarged and almost black, and the liver was enlarged and hard.
In another case, the lungs and liver were very much enlarged and almost as hard as a rock. The colon and small intestine were also much enlarged, although in some places they had shrunk so that almost nothing could pass through. The stomach was enlarged and flabby and hung far down out of its place. The kidneys were spongy and the whole intestinal tract was out of its regular order.
In another case the liver was very much enlarged. over and around it were tumors, from the size of a small marble to that of a small potato. The heart was very much enlarged, very flabby, and in each part was a bunch of pure fat the size of a small potato. both the colon and the small intestines were very much enlarged, with pockets that were filled with fecal matter.
In another case, the intestines had shrunk very much,
with pockets in various parts of the colon; and the entire
intestines were full of small growths. There were little hard growths under the skin over this person’s entire body, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
“another case was one that was mere skin and bones. The liver was almost entirely eaten away, with just a little fibrous slush left; and all the intestines were deformed. There was not a drop of blood in the whole system, and the body was full of pus and slime.
“but some patients, whose X-ray revealed that the colon was full of deformities and that it and the stomach hung far down in the abdomen, are alive after treatment and are able to be up and working.
“One such case had a colon that was shrunken in several places. In other places there were big pockets, and the rectum was full of hard growths. Through an operation the narrowed places were cut out and the colon was sewed back together. The patient recovered enough to be up and working, and to have normal bowel movements.
These cases, and others that I might mention, give unfailing evidence and proof of what effect a wrong diet will have upon the system. all of the preceding examples lived largely on foods that had been robbed of their life-giving properties, and are mixtures that could not make good blood but only cause suffering and disease. if everyone would follow the health principles as outlined in this book, they would avoid untold amount of suffering and premature death.
“One finds no such irregularity in the bodies of the other animals. They eat their foods as God has prepared it for them. Man has spoiled the food by poor preparation and has robbed it of its life-giving properties. if man would eat the food as God has made it, his body would be symmetrical, beautiful and health.
‘Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought many inventions.’ Ecclesiastes 7:29. Man has made many inventions that are good and very useful, but also many that destroy both soul and body.
The autopsy descriptions of Jethro Kloss are a timely warning to anyone who’d like to live disease and pain free. Enlargement of any organ is inflammation of it. Very few people are inflammation free. so widespread is inflammation that doctors add a description of it anywhere in the body with four letters… itis, which are prefixed with the medical term for the site of the inflation. thus, we have myocarditis (the heart) bronchitis (bronchitis or the air pipes), arthritis (the joints) sinusitis ( the sinuses), meningitis (ménages, covering of the brain), conjunctivitis (conjunctiva, Apollo of the eye), gastritis (stomach wall) colitis (colon), hepatitis (liver), nephritis (kidneys) pancreats (pancreas), cystitis (bladder) Inflammation of any organ suggests the argents of destruction operating there may be at work elsewhere. Inflammation is the response of tissue to irritation, and irritation is poisoning. Poisons enter the body from food, water and air intake, and from ingress through broken skin. In asthma, the respiratory system is poisoned. In some cases, skin eruptions often suppressed with creams are ways and means through which the body finds an outlet for poisons incompetent liver, kidneys and intestines cannot adequately eliminate. When the outlet for these poisons through the skin is blocked, they flow back, like water diverted from its course, to find a new level. There is none of us who is so healthy that he or she is free of inflammation. Snoring, a symptom of infection in the soft tissue of the upper palate, is due to inflammation there. Prostate enlargement is inflammation. Pain anywhere is a sign of inflammation. Every morning after brushing, I check my nostrils. I block one and exhale through the other. The degree of resistance to air outflow suggests to me the level of inflammation. The nostrils are particularly upset by petrol fumes at filing stations, and odour from smelling open gutters, not to mention automobile and electricity generator exhaust. Dr Holda Clark sounds alarming but she is right, when she says she finds chemicals of paraffin from paraffin (kerosene) lanterns in ailing breasts. Similarly, she finds in these breasts lithium, dangerous chemical, from lipstick! In diseased ovaries and breasts, she also finds chemicals from hair dyes and hair shampoos and hair treatments chemicals many women relishly use in Nigerian salons today. any wonder that the rate of ovarian cysts and breast problems are increasing alarmingly every year? perhaps these poisons would not have constituted a nuisance if the liver and digestive system functioned properly but can they, in the world of poisons in which we now live? Wash your hands with liquid soap after a meal. those lemon-smelling brands contain chemical solvents which dissolve the oil.
If the liver works well and the intestines are healthy,
poisons will not menace the body. but, often, the liver
is compromised by many years of overwhelming work, like a football goalkeeper who has to catch five or six balls at the same time. As he must concede some goals, so does the compromised liver let some poisons pass. some of the poisons, as Jethro Kloss warns, are actually the foods we enjoy… bread, milk, sugar, fried foods, poultry foods, such as egg, chicken and turkey. we do not need to read the book capitals to know certain foods don’t agree with us. if you disguise fish stew and make Esther Olanrewaju, my niece, eat it, you would call the ambulance almost immediately. she reacts to fish. Every food has in its molecules and antigen, a protein antena sort of. Every cell in the body has it. so when molecules which disagree encounter one another, “war breaks” out. Imagine what happens after transfusion of the wrong blood type? The blood coagulates, that is becomes stuck, stops flowing…. And death occurs. As the digestive system is the processing plant for all that gets into the cells through the blood, it is proposed that it be, this year, the central focus of 2012 new year resolution for improved health. This call is for a special care of all the organs operating in this system: the teeth and the gums ( for proper chewing), the salivary glands, (for digestion in the mouth) the tongue ( to register taste and initiate nerve responses which trigger secretion of digestive enzymes), the throat ( some throat lobs germs into the system below and above it), stomach ( low level of stomach aid, inflammation and ulcers inhibit digestion, fatty liver (poor bile secretion, gallstones etc inhibit digestion), pancreas (dehydration, flat worms, excess sugar consumption etc damage pancreatic health), intestines (deficiency of calcium and magnesium and B-complex Vitamins limit capacity for peristaltic motion, as does lack of fibre in the diet), colon (congestion and leakage infect the prostate gland, cause lower back and waist pains, colitis )ulcerated colitis, piles and cancer in some cases).
Caring for the system
Besides avoiding denatured food, it is important to get the right foods properly digested and assimilated. being a new Year Resolution, this discussion will be ongoing. for it will be too broad to bottle in one column and, so, today, I’d just prepare the grounds.
Mouth odour comes from decaying matter, including food particles and oral tissue broken down by bacteria, or gas from decaying food from the stomach or intestines. One pastor once told me of his embarrassment. He churns out so much saliva droplets during sermon that only latecomers in the congregation sit in the front pew. His salivary glands are most probably inflamed, over-producing saliva which cannot be quickly drained down the throat because inflammation there has created a barrier against which excess saliva rebounds to the outside. The tongue would very likely have patches of gray matter, oral thrush, or Candida, indicating on the tongues map of the body, which organ is affected and in what degree. Ladies and gentlemen, check your tongues in the mirror right away! I broke a tooth many years ago and I know the weakened tooth may be a haven for germs. so before I go to bed, even when I am too lazy to brush, I insert capsules or tablets of protective herbs in each side of the check.
My favourites are
• Parashield: a blend of about six herbs
• Grape Seed Extract, which the tablets and let the powder mix well with saliva which I then swirl around the teeth and gums before I gently let down the throat it trickles.
• Garlic powder capsules from Dynapharm. it soothes pain and freshens up – all night
• Bitter kola: like Grape Seed Extract or garlic power, the effect is wonderful.
• Amazon A-V Topical. it works well for cold sores, warts and herpes ulcers
• Amazon C-F helps strep infections, pneumonia, colds, flu and staphylococcus.
