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not present) and burdock root to support the immune system.
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See liver and colon cleanses in chapter 6 and general advice for the
pancreas.
The Circulatory System
Heart attacks and circulatory disorders are often a “disease of the knife
and fork” (a key phrase often used by natural healer Richard Schulze). It
may not have been our own knife and fork, it may have been our
parents’— but diet is, nevertheless, very frequently the cause. In America,
cholestrol-conscious diets are having a positive effect. If we were to give
heart and circulatory fatalities as much attention as we do AIDS or even
cancer deaths, we would be faced with the reality of examining what
people in the industrialized nations eat. Most people don’t want to look at
this connection or to change their habits, so the high death rate continues.
We create problems for our children and our children’s children by
passing on our bad habits via our genes, creating burdened circulatory
systems at birth that, according to surgeons, are giving rise to heart
problems in younger and younger people. In Britain, women are four
times as likely to succumb to general circulatory disorders as men, though
actual heart attacks are higher in men.
Dr. Christopher healed hundreds of people with minor heart problems
and circulatory diseases in the 1930s using natural healing methods. Now
angiograms and CAT scans are able to prove the value of this kind of
work to other medical professionals, showing that through diet, herbs,
and changes in lifestyle, coronary plaque in the arteries can be greatly
reduced, thus ultimately making surgery unnecessary.
The heart, to all poets, painters, spiritual guides, and those who really
know, is the key to emotional well-being. “Open” your heart and you will
feel loving, caring, compassionate, and at peace with life. Should your
general disposition be low and your nervous system stretched, or should
you feel depressed or angry, your heart will be affected. In many ways, the
heart and the way we feel, or rather how the mind feels, are
interconnected. Singing, chanting, movement, dance, meditation, and
food can all “open” and get to the “heart” of the matter.
In Asian traditions, the small intestine is connected with the heart.
This partnership gives the male role to digestion (small intestine) and the
female role to the heart, the rhythmic, perpetual beat. If one side of the
partnership is disharmonious, then its partner will feel it.
There are, of course, many drugs for these conditions— drugs to
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