Suppression
Eating for health
Category: Actions
Type
Voluntary
Introduction and description
One reason why we may be unable to get a spiritual experience, might be because we are being assailed by our Autonomic system and Nervous system with messages indicating they are not happy.
Little Andrew on the left has just consumed a large portion of chocolate birthday cake and has no such problems, but there are many people who are not so lucky.
On a day to day basis, we are assailed on every side by attacks to our bodies. Viruses are the nastiest, but then we have the 'unfriendly bacteria', pollution, toxins, pesticides, heavy metals, not to mention the environmental factors that put us in fight and flight mode on an almost permanent basis.
And a lot of us are sick – very sick – mentally sick and physically sick.
Being very sick can produce spiritual experiences – Hallucinations, Visions, the poet's and painter's Inspiration – but it is not too good at producing Wisdom or Inspiration of the gentler sort, the sort we need on a day to day basis. Overload certainly works, but in the long term it produces misery on a major scale and ultimately kills us.
In this Suppression category there are ways to help us Relax and counter the fight and flight. There are ways suggested to handle all the Obligations that put us in fight and flight or the Threats that put us there too. And I have suggested ways to help us reduce all the 'want, want, want' ways in which we impose fight and flight on ourselves – the endless drive that exhausts us. This helps with the mental problems.
But we still have the Viruses, the Bacteria, the Heavy metals and the Toxins to counter.
A doctor when faced by a sick person asks for symptoms of the sickness and then prescribes a drug that matches the symptoms.
A computer could do this, it is not 'clever' it is a test of memory not a test of intelligence. And long term it does not work. If you do not treat the cause, the symptoms will carry on reappearing.
Long term the drugs themselves become the cause too. The intelligent healer [and there are doctors who come within this category] asks, why did this happen – what is the cause? And once the cause is found then this is handled.
I have provided a section Healing yourself, that covers a number of ways in which you can establish the cause of illness and find ways of tackling the cause and one of the ways is to eat your way to health!
Nature [the spiritual world] has provided in plants a vast array of useful defences that we can use to counter the threats from the environment and get us back in balance, once we know what the causes are.
The pharmaceutical world and research community are well aware of this and have spent a lot of research effort and money finding what these helpful constituents are. Their approach is to isolate the chemicals and then give them to us as a drug. But Nature tends to carefully balance chemicals in plants so that it is the sum total that is key, not the individual constituents.
Thus the key to fighting environmental threats is to eat the plants and other food stuffs that have healing properties.
This way we do not overdose and we get the right balance of constituents. It is incidentally a lot cheaper too – for us, for our health services and our health insurance companies.
It is potentially bad news for the drug companies as they are organised at the moment, but it doesn't have to be. By organising and helping small farmers to produce these organically grown plants and sponsoring the research to investigate plant properties they are the essential 'middle man' in the equation.
There is also a role here for the restaurant owner too, as they are the middleman in the equation when we eat out. There is a real opportunity here for the enterprising restaurant owners to team up with other holistic healers to provide a complete service – 'acupuncture and apples' , 'psychotherapy and sausages'!
In effect I am advocating an approach where, using organically grown produce, we eat our way to health, not over eat, just eat in moderation.
Method
In the Food section of this suppression category, I have listed a long list of delicious foods that according to Pubmed research papers have the capability to heal illnesses.
On a day to day basis, all you need to do is plan your meals around this list with as much variety from day to day as possible. The variety is key, it ensures we never overdose and that we provide a vast array of helpful input. And the variety helps us mentally too, it is fun and interesting to find different ways to use foodstuffs imaginatively. This is not meant to be an exclusive list – only these foods, so just because soy sauce for example has no PubMed paper for it yet doesn't mean you shouldn't use it, simply that the list I have provided is what I and the research community, have discovered so far.
Now let us suppose you become ill.
The section on Healing yourself gives you guidelines on how to tackle the illness. But you can also look in the Illnesses section to see what scientists have come up with as Treatments.
The treatments are divided into two – symptom based pharmaceuticals and cause based treatments - one of which is food.
The pharmaceuticals are there because this is the standard symptom based approach. They are also there because it is not unknown for pharmaceuticals to be the source of hallucinations and visions and not the illness.
In the observations, you will then find the Pubmed research papers I have been able to find that describe the healing properties of the food.
For example, suppose you are Constipated [illness], the treatment for constipation is laxatives [medicine]. There are a number of laxative medicines [symptom based treatment], but there are also a list of observations that describe foods that are known laxatives – prunes, figs, rhubarb and so on. You can then use the observations showing the properties of food to plan meals that incorporate these foods – figs, ham and basil salad with a honey dressing for example; or grilled liver with a savoury rhubarb, onion and cardamon compote; or a winter fruit salad of prunes, figs and apricots poached in green tea and served with yoghurt.
You are then eating your way back into balance.
If you follow the recipes in all the good cook books, you will never overdose and never over eat as most good books also have portion control as well.
David and little Arthur attempt to BBQ their way to health - but this is the UK in the summer, so ................
How it works
The aim here is to produce healing as the spiritual experience, as such each food will work differently
See the food section.
References and further reading
- Messages from the Gods: A Guide to the Useful Plants of Belize, by Drs. Michael Balick and Rosita Arvigo. This book provides information on the many species of plants in Belize and their folklore, as well as the natural history of the region and a detailed discussion of "bush" uses of plants, including for traditional healing and life in the forest, past and present. Both Balick and Arvigo bring important perspectives to the project, Balick as ethnobotanical scientist from The New York Botanical Garden, and Arvigo as a former apprentice to a Belizean healer and an experienced physician.
Observations
Alicia, Els and Lawrence eat, drink and love one another for health ...............
There are a number of cookery experts that advocate this approach. Rather than create a long list of numbered observations, what I have done here is provide links to Amazon where their books can be found, these people I think were inspired by this approach.
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- Antonio Carluccio
- Delia Smith
- Elizabeth David
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
- Jamie Oliver
- Jane Grigson
- Ken Hom
- Madhur Jaffrey
- Marguerite Patten
- Nigel Slater
- Nigella Lawson
- Prue Leith
- Raymond Blanc
- Rick Stein
- Rose Elliot
- Sarah Brown
- Sophie Grigson
- Sophie Dahl
- Rosie Lovell
- Nadine Abensur
William, who is my nephew, just likes Salcombe dairy ice cream, and he seems to thrive on it ........
Related observations
Healing observations
- A low-fat diet supplemented with dietary fish oil (Max-EPA) results in improvement of psoriasis 015618
- A review of the clinical evidence for complementary and alternative therapies in Parkinson's disease 012980
- Association between dietary phytoestrogen intake and bone mineral density varied with estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphisms in southern Chinese postmenopausal women 017885
- Atharvaveda - II 23 Charm for obtaining a child [after miscarriage] 015838
- Atharvaveda - VIII 7 from Hymn to all magic and medicinal plants 015850
- Avicenna - The Canon of Medicine - Nutrition and the balanced diet 011867
- Avicenna - The Canon of Medicine - The importance of exercise 011861
- Avicenna - The Canon of Medicine - The importance of nutrition and effective 'purging' 011863
- Bach, Dr Edward - The healing power of food 011144
- Bioactivation of Phytoestrogens: Intestinal Bacteria and Health 017888
- Blackberries and antioxidants 005361
- Branford author-athlete outruns 1 of the deadliest brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme 026972
- Bruno, Giordano – On Magic - The Humours and rhubarb 016073
- Cancer prevention by natural compounds 017699
- Chaim Vital - Sha'ar Ruach ha-Kodesh – On Isaac Luria’s abilities 021434
- Cicero Newell - Indian Stories – How they cured their sick 023816
- Count of St Germain - Using plants and teas to heal 016135
- Croll, Oswald - Preface of Signatures – 06 016024
- Croll, Oswald - Preface of Signatures – 08 016026
- Croll, Oswald - Preface of Signatures – 10 016028
- Curing AIDS and HIV in Botswana 013082
- Cystic fibrosis: evidence for gut inflammation 020185
- Dance as a therapy for cancer prevention 020165
- Darwin, Charles - Gets a cure 006678
- Depression helped by drumming, hope, healthy eating and nature 012349
- Dr Nadine Burke Harris - How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime 015244
- Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride - Food is the Best Medicine 027894
- Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride - The Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Diet 027895
- Dr Terry Wahls - Feeding Your Microbiome and going organic 024351
- Dr William Sargant – Using plants to heal and dreams to diagnose 024392
- Dr. Terry Wahls - Revitalize, How I Went From Wheelchair To Walking By Changing My Diet 024350
- Edison, Thomas - Find the cause 011221
- Effect of dietary boron on mineral, estrogen, and testosterone metabolism in postmenopausal women 017971
- Effects of acute tryptophan depletion on prefrontal-amygdala connectivity while viewing facial signals of aggression 017321
- Eleanor C Merry - The Flaming Door - Plants and healing 013948
- Fermented soybeans by Rhizopus oligosporus reduce femoral bone loss in ovariectomized rats 017889
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Thomaso Valeri, Bishop of Florence 015997
- Fighting disease with fruit and vegetables 026788
- Functional components and medicinal properties of food: a review 017887
- Gurdjieff - J G Bennett is healed 010720
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Chorea induced by powerful emotions – fright 026082
- Hagman, Larry – Conquering diabetes 025839
- Healing by AVOIDING Refined carbohydrates and food additives in Crohn's disease 026329
- Hot baths, lead workers and astronauts 006680
- Human zinc deficiency: discovery to initial translation 023527
- Immune protection of human milk 027431
- Is Postpartum Depression a Disease of Modern Civilization? 027731
- John Gerard - Herbal 1597 013353
- Ketogenic diet in neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases 026609
- Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 19 Healing the sick 020810
- Medical Nutrition Therapy as a Potential Complementary Treatment for Psoriasis – Five Case Reports FULL PAPER 017214
- Medical nutrition therapy as a potential complementary treatment for psoriasis--five case reports 017212
- Mercury in foods and fish and selenium as a chelation agent 013083
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - A state of grace 016958
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - Crushed pine needles and yoga 016949
- Nick Polizzi - On pharmaceuticals versus plants 017315
- Nutritional therapy in pediatric Crohn disease: the specific carbohydrate diet. 026326
- Omega-3 and omega-6 content of medicinal foods for depressed patients: implications from the Iranian Traditional Medicine 017018
- Organic solvent-induced bipolar disorder: a case report 016661
- Primitive Physic: or An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases - John Wesley 01 024639
- Professor Dean Ornish - Your genes are not your fate 013068
- Research progress of phytoestrogens-like chemical constituents in natural medicines 017886
- Rhubarb and cancer 016074
- Scrofula, TB and spa and sea water 006683
- Selenium, chemotherapy and heart disease 013084
- Still, Andrew Taylor- The objective of a doctor 011219
- Sunshine and 'rejuvenation' 006227
- The Ketogenic Diet: Making a Comeback 026610
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Talk on Supreme Guidance for the World 04 017856
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 04 017841
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 05 017842
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 08 017845
- The pros and cons of plant estrogens for menopause 017881
- Therapeutics Education Collaboration - Choosing Wisely 012488
- Therapeutics Education Collaboration - Doctor (123456789) 012492
- Therapeutics Education Collaboration - Tom Hanks and Type 2 Diabetes 012490
- Tirrukural, the - Book 2 from Medicine 022858
- To Heaven and Back Methadone & Ibogaine by Jasen 017440
- Urinary phytoestrogen levels related to idiopathic male infertility in Chinese men 017882
- Wesley’s Britain in the 1700s - Medical treatments 024684
Hallucination
- Demonic creatures rapidly running over me in an overwhelming stampede 014784
- Demonic creatures running over him 002326
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - Good Hope 016947
- Organic solvent-induced bipolar disorder: a case report 016661
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Bees – Lectures by Rudolf Steiner - A land of milk and honey 020913
- Bruno, Giordano – Cause, principle and unity - 05 The Third Dialogue 016153
- Chuang Tzu - The True Man 015076
- Comenius - Didactica Magna - Eat well, sleep long 020656
- Edison, Thomas - Find the cause 011221
- Edward Young - Love of Fame - extracts 012534
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Thomaso Valeri, Bishop of Florence 015997
- Fruit and vegetables 005682
- Gurdjieff - And De Hartmann - Songs of Sayyids and Dervishes 012920
- Gurdjieff - Beelzebub's tales to his grandson - Schools and Caesarian section 012925
- Gurdjieff - Beelzebub's tales to his grandson - The Brotherhood 012923
- Gurdjieff - Beelzebub's tales to his grandson - The restaurant 012924
- Gurdjieff - Beelzebub's tales to his grandson - Three brains 012921
- Gurdjieff - De Hartmann Piano Music 012922
- Gurdjieff - Ouspensky learns about leaking energy 000928
- Gurdjieff - Ouspensky learns about the destructive effect of negative emotions 000930
- Hippocrates - On food as medicine 012456
- John Butler BBC interview - organic farming 029307
- Logan Pearsall Smith - from 'More Trivia' 1922 013359
- Moitessier, Bernard - Tamata and the Alliance - The truck and the abyss 018569
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - A state of grace 016958
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - Good Hope 016947
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - I am fed up with false gods 016959
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - The Fairy Tern 016960
- Nick Polizzi - On pharmaceuticals versus plants 017315
- Professor Dean Ornish - Your genes are not your fate 013068
- Qu’ran - No food is forbidden except that not of Allah [God] - Surah Al An’am 027665
- Taoism - The body as a castle and city 016663
- Tarot - 06 Minor Arcana - 04s Power and Desire [Intellect] 028394
- The Complete Book of Principal Contents of Human Life and Temperament: Hen anthology 016749
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Talk on Supreme Guidance for the World 04 017856
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 04 017841
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 05 017842
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 08 017845
- Tirrukural, the - Book 2 Agriculture 022861
- Tirrukural, the - Book 2 from Medicine 022858
- To Heaven and Back Methadone & Ibogaine by Jasen 017440
- William Makepeace Thackeray - Memorials of Gourmandising June 1841 013355
Out of time
- Carpenter, Edward - from By the Shore 013231
- Carpenter, Edward - So thin a veil 015558
- To Heaven and Back Methadone & Ibogaine by Jasen 017440
Enlightenment
- Carpenter, Edward - So thin a veil 015558
- Krishna, Gopi - the importance of diet 007807
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - A state of grace 016958
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - Good Hope 016947
In time
- Acts 10 010235
- Carpenter, Edward - So thin a veil 015558
- Chaim Vital - Sha'ar Ruach ha-Kodesh – On Isaac Luria’s abilities 021434
- Demonic creatures rapidly running over me in an overwhelming stampede 014784
- Demonic creatures running over him 002326
- Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 19 Healing the sick 020810
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - The Fairy Tern 016960
- Nick Polizzi - On pharmaceuticals versus plants 017315
- To Heaven and Back Methadone & Ibogaine by Jasen 017440
Prophecy
Environmental Influence
- Atharvaveda - VI 142 Blessing during the sowing of seed 015845
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - The Fairy Tern 016960