Many years later I was living among the carefree inhabitants of a small South Sea island. I was curious about the cause of their happiness and found that they subscribed to gratitude without thinking. They never forgot to express gratitude for all the many little and greater joys the Creator gave them day by day. Without tiring they felt grateful for the sunshine, the warmth, the blue sea with its abundance of food, the coconut trees, various other fruit trees and many other things. Gratitude not only transmits warmth, it also produces contentment, which in turn awakens happiness. It stimulates the endocrine glands, promotes good circulation, and thus influences the metabolism for better health, with all the important body functions being activated. The German poet Schiller once described joy as an animating spark, believing that joy in fact makes the world tick. With two world wars behind us, and all the subsequent wars, we realise that the spring in the world clock can be equally well wound by destructive powers. However, since these powers are never able to rob us entirely of the divine gifts of light, sunshine, air and others, we have reason enough to express our joy about them daily.

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When a young person first starts smoking, how unpleasant he or she usually finds it. To be honest, it is far from enjoyable. On the contrary, the young person must fight all the way through nausea, disgust, nervous shock, dizziness and a general feeling of natural aversion in order to overcome the ill effects the learner smoker is subject to.

As with all harmful practices, the person trying to enjoy smoking insists that the pleasure outweighs the risks involved and that it can’t be all that bad anyway. He may even point to his grandfather who, although an inveterate smoker, lived to be eighty years or more. It is true that a person with a strong constitution may be able to stand poisons without any apparent damage to his health. However, if there are people who can take drugs and grow old in spite of doing so, that does not mean that everyone has the same strong powers of resistance. On the contrary, millions of people have died prematurely because of tobacco or nicotine, narcotics, alcohol and other drugs.

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Another product for daily use is the seasoning sauce Swiss Alpa-mare, also called Kelpamare. This product is made from the juices of fresh vegetables and herbs and is also manufactured by means of a special fermentation process. For this purpose suitable herbs are fermented in accordance with old Chinese and Japanese methods, using edible fungi (mushrooms), which develop in an absolutely natural organic way. When fermentation comes to an end we have a seasoning sauce similar to the soy sauce found in Japan and China.

Instead of having to extract the salt using hydrochloric acid, which destroys a number of vital elements, the natural method makes for quite a different product that is far superior in taste and content to the products made according to our old-fashioned methods. Furthermore, Swiss Alpamare (Kelpamare) also contains seaweed, which is added during the manufacturing process and therefore integrally mixed and blended with the herb extracts.

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It has always pleased me when, here and there on my travels, I have been served with bread as it was once made in my own country – from the whole grain. I found that the North American Indian women prepared their bread from grain that they had ground themselves with a stone mill. Arabs, Bedouins and other African people still keep up the custom of making their bread from wholegrain cereals. Some use wheat, some rye, others barley and each of these breads tastes good and provides the body with all the goodness of the whole grain, because whole cereals contain most of the elements needed to build up the organism and maintain it in a healthy condition. They abound in minerals, enzymes, vitamins and other essential factors.

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I have often been asked how much an adult should eat. Should we adopt the system of calories as a measure of our need or is there another way of knowing how much food will prevent us from becoming undernourished?

Like most systems, reckoning in terms of calories is not the perfect system, and should therefore be considered as a purely theoretical guide. An exact method of calculation is not possible because an individual’s need for food depends upon so many different and constantly varying circumstances, so that the adoption of a strict and definitive system can do more harm than good. True, a person’s body weight or build plays an important part in determining how much food one should eat. Theoretically speaking, a stout and tall person should require more food than a slim one. It is possible, however, that the slim person has a more vigorous nature and burns up more energy than the fat, placid, calm person and in this case our theory already ceases to be valid. A happy, jolly type needs less food than a discontented, unhappy person, because cheerfulness promotes better glandular function and consequently better digestion and improved assimilation. The happy person gets more out of his food. There is much truth in the old saying that one does not live on what one eats but on what one digests.

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Jaundice is much more dangerous than is generally assumed. People who have suffered from it confirm that once they have had it, they never feel the same again. They also notice that fried foods and sweet things no longer agree with them.

When treating a case of jaundice it is always important to take care of the bowels. If regular movement is lacking, herbal enemas should be given to open the bowels. The bile must be removed from the blood as quickly as possible, for the longer it remains in the system and the more concentrated it is, the greater the harm that will result.

Beware of modern proprietary medicines for the treatment of jaundice. They invariably only serve to mask and suppress the symptoms and serious complications can follow their use. It is much wiser to let the illness take its normal course and assist the body with natural remedies. Even so, the healing process takes time and cannot be unduly hurried. Most cases under the supervision of an allopathic doctor will take 6-8 weeks of treatment. But if you employ the recommended natural therapy with its various measures, a cure can be achieved in two weeks in some cases. However, it must not be considered complete until the follow-up treatment has been carried out conscientiously as well. If these measures are neglected, the patient may be left with some permanent damage.

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Much is being written and talked about the modern principles of proper nutrition. Wholegrain products, brown rice, wheat germ, natural honey, buttermilk, soft white cheese (cottage cheese, quark) and vegetable oils high in polyunsaturated fatty acids are being recommended as nutritionally sound food, and rightly so.

But it is also interesting to note that in a family of five, all eating the same healthy natural food, not every member benefits to the same degree. One member of the family may be strong, healthy and in good physical shape, whereas another may be skinny and weak, and a third member could even be anaemic and pale. Only when one of them suffers from such a marked calcium deficiency that he experiences constant cramps and spasms and can only keep free from pain by taking antispasmodics does it begin to dawn on us that nutrition involves more than simply giving the body a certain quantity of good food with a high nutritive content. Nutrition also means making sure that the body can absorb this good food, thus enabling the cells to receive all the nutrients they need.

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Psychological problems are not always easy to solve, but there are instances where the solution could be quite simple if only the right method of approach was first sought and then used. Every improvement in the body functions, even if it is perhaps only relief from constipation, can help or even lead to a cure. The use of physical therapy in its many forms can open up new avenues in the treatment of such patients.

As usual, diet plays an important part, for we know that pure, natural wholefoods keep a healthy person fit for daily work and help maintain general balance. Is it therefore not reasonable to expect that a proper nutritional therapy would be necessary and useful for the sick person too? Indeed, you should see to it that all denatured or refined foods are avoided. Make sure you eat only

food items that still contain their full nutritional value, that is, wholefoods, and that fruit and vegetables have not been contaminated by chemical sprays and fertilisers. This careful attention to diet, in conjunction with physical therapy and a healthy psychological influence, will provide real help for both body and mind, giving the patient the chance to recover.

It is also important that circulatory disorders are taken care of, by means of natural remedies such as Aesculaforce or Ginkgo biloba, and that the patient’s calcium level is raised by taking an easily assimilated calcium preparation such as Urticalcin.

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Taking everything into account, this is still a simple method of treatment and will avert a ureter blockage with its serious consequences or even the need for an operation. It is clearly worthwhile, because the patient will recover astonishingly fast after the cure, whereas an operation can often have complications, requiring a great deal of after-care. However, should the size of the stone prevent its elimination through the natural, physical therapy outlined above, it is not too late to resort to an operation. I would add, however, that there is very rarely a need for this. In most cases it will be possible to effect a successful cure if the treatment is given with great care and thoroughness. Of course, stones can also be gradually dissolved by taking natural remedies. Rubiaforce, made from the madder root, is such a remedy, and one that has been tested and proven in practice. If taken over a longer period of time, Rubiaforce will dissolve even larger stones, especially if the patient also drinks a lot of goldenrod tea.

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Even before we become conscious of our existence, before birth, the heart begins to beat and continues to do so day and night throughout our life. It performs its work unflaggingly until the body is worn out and we close our eyes in death. Are we really grateful to the heart for serving us so faithfully during our lifespan of maybe 60-90 years, without even stopping for one hour, or do we take the heart for granted and neglect to look after it?

Where could we ever find a machine that would work as efficiently as the heart? When we begin to study the structure of the myocardium we cannot help but be overwhelmed by this astounding example of divine Creation. Just look at the design of the muscle fibres. They are made up of fibrils, laid down in criss-cross layers, giving them marvellous elasticity. The cardiac wall consists of thousands of such fibres. Interwoven with this fibrous tissue we find a network of blood vessels providing nourishment and a network of nerves to register the stimuli. On reflection, we must admit that this living miracle in our body deserves more consideration than we are wont to give it. Is it not true that young people and athletes tend to treat the marvellous heart in their trust in an irresponsible and careless manner? Yet it is not only physical overexertion that can tax and damage it. Worries and anxieties also weaken and harm the heart. The sympathetic nervous system serves to stimulate the heart and the parasympathetic slows it down. Both of these impulse conductors work in a rhythmic fashion, which means that the heart beats either slower or faster according to demand. Between every beat the heart stands still for about one-sixth of a second, the only rest it ever indulges in. But this rest in no way compensates for the amount of work we expect it to do throughout our lifetime. The heart, with all its capabilities and untiring service, is truly a miracle.

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