NUTRITIONAL TABOOS FOR ARTHRITICS

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It is the opinion of biologically oriented doctors that the best therapeutic diet for arthritics is a low-protein diet, with emphasis on raw, fresh vegetables and fruits, and with the total exclusion of meat and fish. Also, salt, white sugar and white flour and everything made from them, soft drinks, coffee, tea, alcohol, and tobacco should be completely eliminated.

The value of biological treatments for arthritis was scientifically tested by the Royal Free Hospital in London, England, in 1949. Twelve patients with arthritis, all more or less hopeless cases given up by doctors as not responsive to conventional treatments, were selected to participate in the tests, which were carried out under careful scientific control. The experiment was documented on films taken during the entire period of the treatments; both the films and the detailed report were published in the British Medical Journal.

The results were very convincing. Patients who had been considered hopeless cases, crippled and in many cases bedridden, improved remarkably and regained the use of their deformed and formerly immobile joints. They literally left their crutches and beds and walked. The treatments used in this experiment were those employed at the Bircher-Benner Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland—basically a raw food diet and other biological treatments, as described in this chapter.

Biological medicine is not quackery or a passing fad. It is a new, fast growing branch of medical science—truly the medical science of the future. It is as scientific as it is simple. Its philosophy is based on the fundamental principle of intelligent cooperation with nature; it sees man as a part of nature, subject to its eternal laws. It is a modern science which incorporates all the harmless and effective therapies that can be applied in the support of the body’s own healing forces in restoring health.

A biological program of treatments is not easy. There are no specific miracle remedies, no specific diets which can cure arthritis. Arthritis can be cured only by the efforts of the body’s own healing powers. With the assistance of the wide arsenal of biological treatments and with the full and willing cooperation of the patient, it can be done—it is done in European clinics every day. But in order to achieve lasting and effective results, full cooperation and a positive effort on the part of the patient are imperative.

Lars-Erik Essen, M.D., the leading pioneer of biological medicine in Sweden, said:

There is no question that arthritis, if not too advanced, can be cured. Biological methods are the only ones at present which can bring about the cure. . . . Many patients have been restored to health through the practiced application of biological medicine after all the conventional treatments have failed. Biological medicine and naturopathic methods of treatment will come to the fore more and more as the successful alternative to conventional therapy; and for the afflicted, who tried in vain conventions! therapy, they present the only choice.

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