The Whey Prescription: The Healing Miracle in Milk
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• Explains how whey acts as a powerful detoxifying agent
• Reveals the effectiveness of whey against diseases affecting the heart, liver, kidneys, and intestines and in controlling obesity, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure
• Shows how this healing agent is now easily and readily available
Since antiquity whey has been known as “healing water” by Greek physicians. Hippocrates and Galen both recommended whey to their patients. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, spas across Europe offered the whey cure to aristocrats and commoners alike. Modern scientific research has confirmed the curative capabilities attributed by our ancestors to this dairy product, but because it is highly perishable and must be consumed while very fresh, this cure fell out of favor in our modern urban age. Now, thanks to the availability of whey powder and granules, this highly nutritious and effective healing agent is once more within the reach of everyone.
Whey is the watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in the process of making cheese. It is rich in lactose, minerals, and vitamins. Beyond its nutritional value, whey has powerful detoxification properties and its therapeutic action is beneficial for all the major organ centers of the body: heart, liver, kidneys, and intestines. It is especially effective in the treatment of liver ailments such as hepatitis as well as the treatment of skin problems, infections, edema, digestive disorders and gallstones, and the painful joint diseases of arthritis and rheumatism. Whey also has been shown to be a powerful treatment against obesity, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. In addition to its ability to treat these specific illnesses, whey is a proven invigorating supplement that promotes overall good health and vitality.
Christopher Vasey
Christopher Vasey, N.D., is a naturopath specializing in detoxification and rejuvenation. He is the author of The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health, The Naturopathic Way, The Water Prescription, The Whey Prescription, and The Detox Mono Diet. He lives near Montreux, Switzerland.
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The Whey Prescription - Christopher Vasey
May your foods be your medicines.
HIPPOCRATES
Contents
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
1. The History of Whey
2. What Is Whey?
3. The Nutritional Substances in Whey
LACTOSE
LACTIC ACID
LIPIDS
CALORIC INTAKE
PROTEINS
MINERALS
VITAMINS
4. The Healing Properties of Whey
A GENTLE BUT EFFECTIVE INTESTINAL LAXATIVE
REGENERATING THE INTESTINAL FLORA
STIMULATING AND DETOXIFYING THE LIVER
ELIMINATING EXCESS WATER FROM THE TISSUES
STIMULATING TOXIN ELIMINATION BY THE KIDNEYS
ENCOURAGING ASSIMILATION
CORRECTING THE BODY’S INTERNAL CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT
5. Principal Indications for the Whey Cure
ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT
ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES
BLADDER INFECTIONS
BLOOD VISCOSITY AND HIGH CHOLESTEROL
CONSTIPATION OR INTESTINAL LAZINESS
DIABETES
FATIGUE, LACK OF ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM
GAS AND BLOATING
HEART ATTACK AND STROKE
HEMORRHOIDS
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
INDIGESTION
JOINT DISEASES
KIDNEY DISEASES
KIDNEY STONES
LIVER DISEASES AND INSUFFICIENCIES
MUSCULAR SPASMS AND CRAMPS
SKIN DISORDERS
WATER RETENTION AND EDEMA
WEIGHT PROBLEMS
6. The Practice of the Cure
WHAT KIND OF WHEY SHOULD I USE?
DOSAGE
THE WHEY CURE
THE WHEY CURE AND DIET
CONTRAINDICATIONS
7. Supplementing the Whey Cure
MEDICINAL PLANTS
OXYGENATION
PHYSICAL EXERCISE
OTHER MODALITIES
Appendix 1: The Basic Principles of Detoxification Cures
ILLNESS: AN ACCUMULATION OF TOXINS
THE PROFOUND NATURE OF DISEASE
THE EXCRETORY ORGANS: THE EXIT DOORS FOR TOXINS
TO HEAL MEANS TO DETOXIFY
THERAPEUTIC DRAINING
THE IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING GOOD EXCRETORY FUNCTION
RECOGNIZING GOOD EXCRETORY FUNCTION
THE DRAINERS
THE PRACTICE OF DRAINING CURES
Appendix 2: Nutritional Analysis of Powdered Whey
Resources
POWDERED WHEY
SPA WHEY CURES
AUTHOR’S WEB SITE
Footnotes
Also by Christopher Vasey, N.D.
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
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1
The History of Whey
A patient in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, whom the medical treatments of the time were unable to cure and to whom the doctors were giving little time left to live, journeyed to the mountain village of Gais (in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden) in 1749 and was healed of his disease by drinking whey on a daily basis.
Was this patient aware of the past success of treatments based on drinking whey, the liquid known to the Greek doctors of antiquity as healing water
? Or had he heard the peasants of this mountainous region talk about whey’s healing properties?
We don’t know, but the news soon spread of this patient, who survived despite his doctor’s terrible diagnosis, and numerous people with illnesses flooded to Gais to benefit in turn from the miraculous healing properties of whey. A health spa was soon created in this tiny village. It was followed by the opening of more than 160 others in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. These spas were most active in the middle of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century. The renowned benefits of the whey cure brought emperors, princes, and aristocrats from all of Europe to take the cure in these spas, to be healed of their ailments or simply to improve their general health.
What is most amazing about whey is that its healing properties have been recognized since antiquity, and modern scientific research has only confirmed the knowledge of the ancients. The whey cure is used today just as it was twenty-four centuries ago. Few remedies or cures can boast of such a long history and such unanimous agreement about their virtues.
Hippocrates (466–377 BCE), the father of medicine, recommended whey to his patients. Following him, Galen (131–200 CE), another founding father of medicine, advised his patients about the whey cure. For a time he even directed a treatment center, sponsored by the famous school of Salerno, at the foot of the milk mountain
in Italy, between Sorrento and Naples.
Whey cures were also recommended by other famous names from the history of medicine: the Islamic doctor and author of nearly two hundred works, Ibn S n , known in the West as Avicenna (980–1037 CE); Thomas Sydenham (1624–89), the English Hippocrates,
who especially recommended whey for the treatment of gout; Hermann Boerhaave (1668–1738), the famous Dutch physician whose methods of clinical instruction were used throughout Europe; Victor Albrecht von Haller (1708–77), the Swiss biologist, considered