Diet
This patient remained in bed while taking the liquid diet the first week, taking an enema each evening as directed in the chapter on hydrotherapy, and flax seed tea with each meal.
Breakfast
One of the natural cereals, with cream, and an abundant supply of fresh and dried fruit, with buttermilk or soybean milk, continuing the use of the juice of half a lemon in two glasses of water an hour before breakfast. Raw celery and carrot juice also could be used with any meal of the day. Our Aloe Vera Gel Flakes retain the flavour, color and delicate vitamins of Aloe Vera higher than juice.
Dinner
Soup—Vitamin A Broth
Cooked Root Vegetables (Choice of one)
Carrots, Radishes, Turnips Beets, White Potatoes
Cooked Leafy Vegetables (Choice of one) Yellow Dock, Spinach, Asparagus
Green Peas, Parsley, Broccoli
Green Kidney Beans, Garlic
Turnip Tops, Endive, Celery
Proteins (Choice of one) Mushrooms, Beans, Lentils
Buttermilk, Soybean Milk
Soybeans, Lima Beans, Nuts
Cottage Cheese, Ripe Olives
Raw Vegetables (Choice of one) Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Lettuce
Cabbage, Parsley, Celery
Carrots, Leeks, Sorrel, Escarole, Turnips
Cream and olive oil where used instead of butter.
Lunch Yellow dock root
Dinner was repeated, and breads made from the natural flour were added when the patient regained strength, which was an indication that the system had been freed from toxins. Learning that yellow dock root is one of the pig’s favorites in his rooting for food, this lady visited a drugstore where herbs are dispensed, and purchased a supply of dry yellow dock root from which a tea was made by steeping two heaping teaspoonfuls of this in three cups of water five minutes, and drinking the amount before meals. In such cases as-the above, it is important that all irritating substances be omitted from the diet, as fried foods, vinegar, spices, tea, coffee, cocoa, sweets, meats, and all white flour and white sugar products.
Appendicitis
According to statistics, appendicitis is increasing in this country. Drinking Forever Freedom every day may assist to enhance bowel regularity and enhance nutrient absorption because it concurrently supports the growth of good bacteria and yeast. One writer, Dr. Frederick L. Huffman, states that the death rate in the United States is twice that in England and about three times that of many other countries. He also suggests that if thorough inquiry into the situation were made, it would probably disclose the fact that the disease is one of the penalties paid for the way in which people now live, and especially in the way they eat.
Primitive people rarely suffer from this disease. It is reported by Dr. McCarrison that during nine years of medical service in northern India at a station where he was the only surgeon, he did not find occasion to operate upon a single native for appendicitis during that time. He says further that the disease does not exist among the hill tribes of India, who live on the natural foods of the Himalayas where the women grind the grain with a hand stone burr or cook the natural brown rice without milling. So again we find another belonging to that large class called “diseases of civilization.”