·  Wormwood:  The numbers of capsules shown above should be taken before or after supper with water.    

·  B L S  refers to Breakfast,  Lunch and Supper.  ·  ZAP with Beck unit. Days 1 - 21 ZAP 60 min. minimum; preferrably 2 hours.

·  Acidophilus (Jarro-Dophilus and Enterogenic Complex) should also be used in this program.  Take as directed.    

·  Bowel cleansing is critically important.  Do 2-week Vega-Lax and Miracle 7 Cleanse.  Do liver cleanse as instructed.      

·  Take 30 mg CoQ-10 each meal.  Take 1000 mg organic flax seed oil and 1500 mg evening primrose oil daily. 

·  Take Boron not to exceed 3 mg daily.  Take 400 IU natural Vitamin E twice daily first 14 days, 400 IU daily thereafter.

·  Take 1 Tyler Multi B-Complex capsule twice daily.  Take 1 Tyler sublingual B-12/Folic multiplex tablet daily.

·  Take 2 caps EasyFlex caps 2 x daily.  Take 5000 mg vitamin C and 300 mcg selenium daily.  Take 1 Similase cap each meal.

·  Take 50 mg grapeseed extract -pycnogenol mixture (A·D·DCalm) 8 times daily first 14 days; 6 times daily next 30 days; 3    times daily thereafter.  Take Cat's Claw Extract as directed.  Take Cayenne Capsules as directed.    

·  Take 4 Cal-Plex caps at breakfast and at bedtime time (8 total per day).  Take 2 Colloidal Calcium caps twice daily (400 mg)

·  Avoid all contact, consumption and vapors from chlorine (in drinking water; Clorox, swimming pools, bleached clothes).  All

                drinking water must be passed through pure carbon filter system.  Don't shower in chlorinated water.  Use carbon                 filtered water to bath.  Avoid bromide-containing medications and bromide-bleached flour.  No FLUORIDES!!!

·  Fennel capsules (1 each meal) and Turmeric capsules (2 each meal) may be necessary to kill Shigella in the intestines.                  Lugol's Iodine is used to kill Salmonella and some Shigella in the stomach.

·  If you have mercury toxicity (from dental amalgams) or from environmental ingestion, go on Mercury Detoxification Program                 immediately.  Get i.v. chelation treatment plus Oral Chelation + 4 tablets thioctic acid daily for 14 days, 2 tabs later.        Take a minimum of 1000 mg daily of N-acetyl-L-cysteine + Special Cilantro Formula (Cilantro, sea salt and olive oil).       

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND RELATED DISORDERS

The origins of many chronic health problems including rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatoid diseases can be found in disturbed or compromised digestive function.  Toxins, processed foods, altered permeability and parasites are generally to blame for virtually all gastrointestinal dysfunction.  But the problem doesn't simply remain a gastrointestinal problem.  The consequences of toxins, intestinal permeability defects and parasites can lead to profound health consequences.  These conditions may occur singly (i.e. independently) or in clusters (i.e. groups of conditions) producing cumulative damage which leads to a cascade of chronic illness. 

Toxicity due to foreign chemicals (i.e. xenobiotics) can produce damage affecting virtually all organs and systems in the body.  Common signs and symptoms of xenobiotic toxicity include weakness, headache, neurologic disturbances, multiple chemical sensitivities, immune dysfunction and liver disorders.  And arthritis is no different.  Arthritis is more the result of metabolic disorders of the body than any other factor.   

Arthritic patients usually suffer from general deterioration of health in the form of sluggishness in the vital functions of organs, incomplete digestion and assimilation of foods.  Arthritics also suffer impaired elimination of metabolic wastes and toxins from the body.  These biochemical changes cause inflammatory and degenerative changes in the joints and surrounding connective tissue.  This results in weakened nervous and circulatory systems. 

The gastrointestinal tract is the most common route of exposure to these toxins and, as a result, the integrity of the intestine's mucosal barrier is a key factor in limiting the absorption of these damaging toxins.  Without restoring the integrity of the intestine's mucosal barrier, arthritis cannot be cured.  When the integrity of the intestine's mucosal barrier is restored, the body heals itself and the arthritis disappears.  

Increased intestinal permeability or leaky gut syndrome, results not only in increased absorption of xenobiotics, but also in the increased absorption of endogenously produced toxins (endotoxins), antigens, immune complexes and intact microorganisms normally confined to the intestinal lumen.  It is by this mechanism that chronic permeability defects have been shown to contribute to the development of certain autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, liver dysfunction, septicemia and other systemic disorders.

Parasitic infections, yeast infections (candidiasis), heavy metal-induced imbalances in the gut micro flora and other imbalances in intestinal micro flora (dysbiosis) can give rise to diverse rheumatoid diseases.  Chronic insults to the gut wall produce abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, and can lead to the development of malabsorption, inflammatory bowel disorders and ultimately to the most severe form of intestinal malabsorption -- leaky gut syndrome.  But all along this continuum of intestinal damage (from mild disturbances to leaky gut syndrome) endotoxins and antigens (produced by intestinal pathogens) are absorbed systemically (into the body) producing allergic responses, autoimmune illness (i.e. where the body attacks itself), liver damage and other toxic reactions.  Indeed, evidence exists that clearly shows that rheumatoid diseases of all kinds are all associated with allergic responses, autoimmune illness, liver damage and other reactions.  

Under normal conditions, intestinal endotoxins and xenobiotics absorbed from the gut are principally detoxified by the liver.  Liver detoxification pathways transform toxic molecules into less toxic metabolites which can then be excreted.  The liver's capacity to handle detox functions can be impaired due to excessive exposure to toxins as well as deficiencies in key nutrients.  Signs and symptoms of toxicity often occur as a result of compromised liver function.

Gut-associated chronic illness including rheumatoid arthritis requires several approaches.  Three broad objectives include 1) reducing exposure to xenobiotics; 2) normalizing gastrointestinal function, and 3) supporting liver detoxification.  Reducing the exposure to xenobiotics decreases the body's burden of toxins.  Normalizing gastrointestinal function helps improve digestion, reduce intestinal endotoxins, eliminate parasites and maintain gut wall integrity.  Supporting liver detoxification assists the body in transforming and eliminating xenobiotics and endotoxins.  

The pathological increase in permeability of the intestinal mucosa has been referred to as leaky gut syndrome.  An understanding of the causes (etiology) of leaky gut syndrome may help you understand the probable mechanisms involved in a wide range of systemic disorders. 

Leaky gut syndrome (LGS) is the problem in inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and irritable bowel syndrome.  LGS is involved in virtually all food allergies and certain auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, lupus erythematosus and atopic and eczematous dermatitis, vasculitis, intestinal toxemia (endotoxemia) microbial translocation, dysbiosis, joint pain and inflammation, fatigue, malabsorption and other diseases including chronic fatigue, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, herpes and others.  Obviously, correcting LGS dysfunctions is critical to the success of any program designed to conquer chronic fatigue, arthritis, HIV, lupus, multiple sclerosis or any of the LGS disorders.      

Chronic fatigue is a syndrome that nicely illustrates the fact that simply killing the virus (Epstein-Barr) does not correct the problem.  The virus can be killed with colloidal silver among other treatments.  But unless the underlying problem is corrected, the chronic fatigue sufferer will re-contract the disease almost immediately.  What are these other connections?  Will they help us understand what is causing the problem? 

Multiple sclerosis is one of the more complex environmental diseases that is related to chronic parasite infestations, bacterial imbalances in the gut, poor metabolism (related to poor absorption of nutrients) lower atmospheric oxygen levels, solvent and especially xylene and toluene pollution (i.e., xenobiotics), among other things.  Selenium deficiency is always found, usually in association with mercury poisoning. 

Rheumatoid arthritis is another of the more complex environmental diseases.  It is ultimately caused by disturbances in gut function, chronic parasite infections and bacterial imbalances in the gut as well as chronic parasite infections of the joints (especially Ascaris and Endolimax nana).  Heavy metal toxicity, especially mercury poisoning caused by amalgam tooth fillings (that often are contaminated by the much more toxic thallium) is usually involved as well.  Toxic heavy metals accumulate in the brain, nervous and connective tissues of the body and may send signals to parasites which attract these creatures to these tissues.  Ascaris, one of the species of round worms, is usually found in arthritic joints.  Other parasites including hookworm, Strongyloides and Trichinella have also been found in arthritic joints. 

Where environmental diseases are concerned, the emphasis should be focused on the word "complex."  In the case of multiple sclerosis, for example, we find a disorder associated with selenium deficiency but more often, MS is a disorder of selenium deficiency in association with mercury or other heavy metal toxicity.  But these conditions also set the stage for flukes to infect the brain.  All MS sufferers are actually suffering from fluke disease of the brain.  Additionally, in all MS cases, Shigella are also found throughout the body.  Thus, some of the symptoms are attributable to mercury poisoning, some to flukes eating brain tissue, and some of the symptoms are due to Shigella infestations.  Similarly, symptoms identical to those of rheumatoid arthritis are seen in patients suffering from the chronic deterioration caused by mercury.  It is known that selenium protects the body from mercury.  But this is only part of the solution to the complex puzzle. 

Arthritis has troubled mankind for thousands of years.  There are two kinds of arthritis -- osteoarthritis and rheumatoid.  The best way to differentiate these two forms is to simply understand that in osteoarthritis the joints have bacteria living in them which arrived there without being brought there by parasites.  In rheumatoid arthritis, the bacteria come from larger parasites or wormlets (nematodes, etc.) actually living in the joints. 

There are four common roundworms: Ascaris, hookworm, Strongyloides, Trichinella.  Under normal circumstances, their life cycle directs them to travel to the lungs but in some people they travel through the entire body, including brain, muscles and joints.  It is suspected that mercury, thallium, cadmium, lead and various solvents such as benzene attract the worms to these various tissues.  At a common sense level, mercury, thallium, cadmium, nickel and lead are elements of dirt.  Most parasites are creatures of the dirt and rely on it for completion of their life cycles.  Therefore they are attracted to the "dirt" in our joints in the case of arthritis.  Once the pathways to these organs and joints are established, these same pathways are used by other parasites as well.  Soon a variety of parasites, bacteria and viruses as well as pollutants all head toward these organs.   

Many xenobiotics are involved in such chronic diseases.  Benzene is one of the more common xenobiotics.          

Benzene pollution, for example, occurs in the air we breath, in certain food stuffs we eat and in the many personal, cosmetic and health care products we rub on our bodies.  Mother Nature equipped our bodies with the metabolic machinery to detoxify small amounts of benzene and benzol compounds but the problem comes from excessive benzene burdens resulting from prolonged and frequently repeated exposure to these organic chemicals.  Much of what applies to benzene also applies to xylene and toluene because these compounds all have benzene rings in their chemical structure.

We live in an age where there is a great deal of concern over our environment.  The EPA has established strict environmental pollution standards and the government has passed some of the most comprehensive laws imaginable.  Even with the Clean Air Act and the recent amendments to this act, we are still being poisoned by air pollution.  Most of the pollution comes from benzene and benzol compounds in the air, the exhaust of gasoline engines.  Benzene is routinely added to gasoline (1-2%) as an anti-knock additive not just here in the United States, but all around the world.  Indeed, the air above each major city in the world has now become a cloud of benzene.  

Adding to the problem are many benzene polluted products which we consume in staggering quantities daily.  Flavored foods such as yogurt, gelatin, candies, throat lozenges, store-bought cookies and cakes are all contaminated.  It is not that benzene is added deliberately.  It is simply not removed from the chemicals that go into making up these products.  It is present in very small, often trace quantities.  Nevertheless, it can be easily detected in hand creams, skin creams, toothpastes (including the health brands), tea tree oil products from the melaluca plant, beverages including sparkling water, bottled water, and store-bought fruit juices.  Literally all of them are contaminated.  Personal lubricants, petroleum jelly products and virtually all personal products are contaminated with benzene.  Cold cereals, cooking oils and shortenings as well as ice cream and frozen yogurts are also contaminated.  Chewing gum, marihuana, flavored pet foods and compression-molded bird foods along with cattle and poultry feed blends contain benzene contamination.  It is imperative that you throw all of these type products out!  Do not leave them in the house where their use comprises a convenience.  Throw them out and let the garbage man haul them away.

It sounds like heresy when I tell you to stop using your vitamin supplements.  They are heavily polluted with solvents (xenobiotics) that require special liver detoxifying processes.  Supplements, in addition to being heavily polluted with xenobiotics, are also heavily polluted with heavy metals and lanthanides.  In fact, 90 percent of the popular vitamin and mineral capsules tested positive.  Among the pollutant compounds found in supplements were PCBs, mercury, ruthenium, thulium, strontium, praseodymium, aluminum, lead, cadmium, thallium, benzalkonium, decane, hexane, carbon tetrachloride, benzene, and others.   

Also stop eating foods that contain benzopyrenes.  Benzopyrenes are chemicals that are produced when certain foods are grilled, toasted or cooked over open flames.  Toast and weiners contain benzopyrenes.  Benzopyrenes are capable of completely utilizing the liver's benzene detoxifying capacity.  In this event, the body's benzene burden becomes greater as benzene accumulates.

The association of elevated body benzene levels with HIV disease, AIDS and Epstein-Barr suggests that benzene may be the solvent that enables certain flukes and roundworms (e.g. Ascaris) to use certain body organs as the secondary host to complete their life cycle.  Therefore deparasitizing the body is essential to overcome these disease states but this can only be effective if accomplished at the same time we rid our bodies of benzene, xylene, toluene and other xenobiotics. 

Benzene detoxification can be accomplished by biochemical means or by a photobiochemical process using UV light.  If they are used together the result is a faster recovery and a faster return to health.  Please see the Section on Benzene Detoxification later in this document. 

Biological Treatment Procedures For

Arthritis And Related Conditions

As early as 1968 a naturopathic physician named Paavo O. Airola, reported on the results of some highly successful biological treatment procedures for curing arthritis in European clinics.  One of the most prominent treatment centers using this powerful and highly successful method of treatment is the Brandals Health Clinic located in Sodertalje near Stockholm, Sweden.   

The Miracles at Brandal

Dr. Airola provides narrative accounts of many of the thousands of patients cured of arthritis at Brandal.  Virtually all patients admitted for treatment at Brandal are remarkable in that all suffer from severe pain, mild to profound deformity and many are so crippled and debilitated that they arrive in wheelchairs or on stretchers. 

The cures were based on the work, research and self experimentation of a courageous and very determined lady, Alma Nissen, who 25 years earlier had desperately sought relief from her own severe and debilitating arthritis.  Ms. Nissen relates:

"Twenty five years ago I was so incapacitated by arthritis that I was practically bedridden.  After trying all the available medical treatments, consulting dozens of doctors, and several fruitless stays in hospitals I was becoming progressively worse.  My hands and fingers were stiff and in constant pain.  I could not bend myself, walk, or even turn myself in bed.  In addition, I had a chronic ovary inflammation and constant migraine.  I was suffering from a bad case of insomnia with resulting nervous exhaustion.  I also was chronically constipated. . .

I felt hopeless.  Nobody could help me.  I could not see my way out of the indescribable suffering I had to endure.  But my spirit was strong and wouldn't give up.  I was not willing to accept my lot as a bedridden invalid for the rest of my life.  With the typical Scandinavian sisu and perseverance I rebelled against my fate.  I wanted to live, become healthy again. . .

A book by a British physician, Sir Robert McCarrison, gave me new hope and became the turning point in my life.  It opened my eyes to the relation between nutrition and health.  I started to experiment with myself.  I changed my diet.  I fasted.  I drank fresh vegetable juices and broths made with cooked vegetables.  I drank herb teas.  I took enemas and utilized colonic irrigation to cleanse my intestines of accumulated toxins and wastes.  I read all I could on the nature-cure methods and picked up ideas here and there.  I met the famous Danish raw-diet pioneer Dr. Kristine Nolfi, M.D., and read and studied her book The Living Foods.  I also took heat treatments and hydrobaths.  I must admit, I didn't have much faith in much of what I did, but desperate as I was, I was willing to try anything.

Imagine my surprise when I started to feel better and better!  The stiffness in my joints started to disappear.  I slept better; pain gave way, and after just a few months I was, to my and everybody's amazement, completely cured!

This was 25 years ago and I never had a sick day since.  No traces of arthritis...Would you like to see how flexible and elastic my body is?"...

Now when I cured myself I was so overjoyed with the discoveries I made that I wanted to share them with others and help as many as I could.  I visited Dr. McCarrison and he advised me to open a clinic and help other arthritics regain their health. 

Encouraged by the enthusiastic endorsement of this great scientist, I transformed my seven-room apartment in Copenhagen to an arthritis clinic.  Patients came from everywhere.  They were brought in on stretchers; they came supported on crutches; they came in wheelchairs.  And after four to eight weeks on my simple regime they left the clinic on their own feet, without wheelchairs and crutches.  The grateful patients spread the news of their cures and a long line of patients were waiting to come in under my care.

My arthritis therapies and extraordinary results became widely publicized in the press.  The Norwegian Medical Association invited me to present a lecture on my therapies before the leading medical authorities of the country....

My fame spread to Sweden and a wealthy benefactor offered the Brandal, a beautiful estate with a large villa, for my disposition, to be used as a rheumatic clinic.  I accepted gratefully.  That was 13 years ago.  During these years we have helped thousands of arthritis sufferers. . ." (Paavo O. Airola, There Is A Cure For Arthritis, 1968, Parker Publishing Co. New York).  

 Dr. Airola goes on to say

"I also met a 43-year-old woman from Stockholm.  She had been ill with arthritis for 14 years.  For 14 long years she visited hospital after hospital, took drug after drug.  You name it -- she'd had it: gold injection, cortisone, Imagon, Butazolidin, etc.  The best arthritis specialists in the country from Sodersjukhuset and the famous Karolinska Institute in Stockholm treated her until finally they all gave up, admitting that they could do nothing more.  She had come to the clinic just five days before and started fasting immediately.

"I am so happy.  It is unbelievable !" she said to me with enthusiasm.  "In just four days all pain is gone.  I could not straighten this leg before --look at it now!  It is completely straight.  After 14 years of pain and suffering--it is just unbelievable!  It's a miracle!" (Paavo O. Airola, There Is A Cure For Arthritis, 1968, Parker Publishing Co. New York).

Many cases are described in Dr. Airola's book.  With the high success rate seen at Brandal and many other European clinics treating arthritis, the question arises as to why this approach to treatment has been absent in the U.S. for all these years?  Insufficient time?  Not hardly.  Recall that his book was written in 1968 and was based on extensive clinical findings including double-blind, controlled studies published in peer reviewed journals.  Some of the findings actually extend back as far as 25 years and most of the cases discussed in the book utilized procedures that had been in use since 1957 or 1958 - or at least 10 years.  Yet, even as of November, 1996, some 38 years later, neither the Arthritis Foundation, the American Medical Association nor the average American allopathic physician, were acting as if they had heard of or believed in this highly successful treatment approach.  

Offering a reason why the arthritic public is still in the dark, Dr. Airola relates:

"The reason why you do not hear about this from your television screen is because there is no money in selling knowledge, truth, education.  You cannot pack knowledge in a bright labeled bottle, as pill manufacturers do, and make a million dollar business out of it.

When your doctor tells you that there is no cure for arthritis he means that there is no cure for arthritis with a drug or a knife -- because the pharmacological and surgical treatments are virtually the only curative methods accepted and employed by the average orthodox, allopathic medical doctor.  And they are 100 percent correct:  There is no cure for arthritis with drug or knife.

But there definitely is a cure for arthritis with biological therapeutic methods.  Thousands of arthritis sufferers throughout the world have obtained complete freedom from pain, recession of swollen joints, and disappearance of every trace of this crippling and agonizing disease.  There are dozens of clinics and spas in Europe where arthritis is cured today, along with most of the other common ailments and chronic diseases.  The biological methods employed by these clinics are: dietetic restrictions, fasting, herbal treatments, juice therapies, biological medicines, heat treatments, massage, manipulations, hydro-therapies, and a number of other drugless treatments."[emphasis added]

The patients discharged from Brandal or any of the dozens of other clinics have learned to follow the routines they learned there and when put into practice at home these patients continue to be disease free.  These routines include hot and cold showers, dry brush massages, exercises and a healthful diet. 

Biological Treatments that Cure Arthritis and Related Disorders

Biological therapies are aimed at

          (1) correcting the abnormal and health-destroying conditions which           cause arthritis, and,

          (2) assisting the body heal itself.

This latter step is accomplished by normalizing all the metabolic processes, cleansing the body of the accumulated toxins and wastes, strengthening the functions of all vital organs, revitalizing glandular activity, establishing chemical balance and in sum, simply rebuilding the health of the patient.

Drug Withdrawal

Conventional arthritic drugs are used only to mask and suppress the symptoms.  These forms of treatments (i.e. drugs) have absolutely no place in biological treatment programs. 

It is important to understand that virtually all arthritic drugs are aimed at pain elimination.  To suppress pain without attempting to eliminate the original cause is contrary to the philosophy of biological medicine.

Rule # 1 becomes:

Complete withdrawal of all drugs. 

It has already been amply demonstrated that to obtain lasting results, the withdrawal of all drugs is imperative.     

Diet

This is the dominant form of treatment.  Many observations show that the diets of most (probably all) arthritics is deficient in vital nutrients for prolonged periods and is usually loaded with overcooked, canned, frozen, devitalized and over-refined foods.  Usually great amounts of empty calories are consumed from white sugar and white flour.  Add to this the problem of overeating, alcohol, smoking, coffee, failure to exercise and this results in a general breakdown of health.

The diet during the first two to four weeks consists primarily of raw, uncooked fruits and vegetables with some cooked foods.  Most of the procedures use boiled potatoes and vegetable soups in addition to the raw foods.  All the clinics use raw milk in the form of homemade soured milk.

Some of the clinics exclude all cooked foods during the first phase of treatment as well as all foods of animal origin including meats, fish, eggs, milk, butter and cheese.  Breads and cooked cereals are also eliminated as well during the first two to four weeks.  Raw nuts, seeds and sprouted grains are included in the raw food.

Therapeutic Fasting

The quintessential biological treatment modality employed in all the biological clinics treating arthritis is fasting.  Fasting is something that most allopathic physicians do not understand nor are they ever taught.

Therapeutic fasting is the total abstinence from food.  This is done to promote healing and for the restoration of health.  Large numbers of studies all confirm the therapeutic value of fasting.  All doctors who employ fasting testify that fasting indeed works.  In fact, fasting is perhaps the most efficient way known to correct virtually any disease.

Dr. Airola says

"The therapeutic value of fasting is based on the following physiological facts:

1.  Autolysis is a known metabolic phenomenon of self-digestion or disintegration of the body's own tissues.

2.  Therapeutic fasting induces the development of autolysis and directs its physiological effect for constructive healing purposes.

To clarify: when disease takes hold of the body it is usually because of the weakened defensive mechanism and impaired normal functions of the vital organs.  Due to continuous neglect in feeding the body properly and failure to observe the other rules of health, the glandular activity and metabolic rate slows down and the eliminative organs lose their efficiency.  Many of the toxins and metabolic wastes remain in the body and are deposited in the tissues, causing autointoxication.  In rheumatic diseases these wastes, such as uric acid crystals and mineral compounds including heavy metal toxins and other un-natural chemicals (i.e. xenobiotics), are deposited in the joints and soft tissues. 

Now, we must recognize the fact that the body's own healing powers are constantly trying to correct any and all defects, disturbances and damages if given the slightest chance.  Such a chance and opportunity for self-regeneration and healing is made possible during the fast.

First, during prolonged fast (after the first three days) the body will burn and digest its own tissues by the process of autolysis, or self-digestion.  In its wisdom -- and here lies the secret of the extraordinary effectiveness of fasting as curative therapy! -- the body will only decompose and burn those substances and tissues which are diseased, damaged, or of lesser importance to the body economy, such as all morbid accumulations, tumors, abscesses, damaged tissues, fat deposits, etc.  These are consumed and utilized first.  The essential tissues of vital organs are spared.

Second, the eliminating and cleansing capacity of the eliminative organs -- lungs, liver, kidneys, and skin -- is increased during fasting, and masses of accumulated metabolic wastes and toxins are quickly expelled.  This is evident in the following typical symptoms of fasting:  offensive breath, dark urine (concentration of toxins in urine ten times higher than normal --" ... "continuous and generous discharge of feces, skin eruptions, perspiration, catarrhal elimination, etc.