A Legacy of Healing: The Role of Nutrition, Chiropractic and Other Alternative Therapies in Self-Healing

By Dr.Christopher Amoruso and Dr.Angelo Rose

This book was the brainchild of Dr. Angelo C. Rose. After fifty years of practicing holistic care, he wanted to leave his patients with a resource they could use as a guide in the natural healing of the more common health problems people typically face. This book provides a wealth of information and includes dietary guidelines, specific healing protocols, remedies, and valuable resources for myriad conditions. The book is designed to be used as a reference for people of all ages, even for those just looking to increase their knowledge of nutrition and diet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524645847

Dr.Christopher Amoruso

Dr. Angelo C. Rose graduated from The Chiropractic Institute in New York City in 1956. A freak football injury during freshman year at William & Mary left him blind, but 8 months later, in a visit to a neighborhood chiropractor, his sight was restored. This life-changing event set him on the path to becoming a devoted believer in chiropractic and other alternative disciplines of healing. In his early years of practice he worked with pioneers in the alternative healthcare field, traveling to Texas to study at Parker College of Chiropractic and also to Georgia to learn from Sid Williams, founder of Life University. His 50-year practice of chiropractic with a concentration in nutrition began in Jersey City and eventually continued in Bergen County. He raised six healthy children, all without vaccinations or antibiotics. His knowledge and skill in diagnosis and holistic treatment of his patients was surpassed only by his faith in the human body’s God-given innate intelligence. His unexpected passing in March of 2007 left a difficult void for his family and patients to fill, one which this book, which he began before his passing, attempts to fill. Dr. Christopher J. Amoruso is a graduate of the Rutgers College pre-med program. He attended the University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic where he graduated in 2002 magna cum laude with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree as well as a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition. During his first three years of chiropractic practice, he worked side by side with his father, Dr. Angelo Rose, absorbing and fine-tuning the skills his father was passing on to him. A voracious reader and student, Dr. Amoruso became a Certified Nutrition Specialist (C.N.S.) Certificant in July 2016. He continues to practice in Bergen County, NJ where he combines chiropractic with patient education in varying areas of healthcare including digestive/intestinal disorders, diabetes and autoimmune conditions. He is a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation and applies many of the traditional principles Dr. Price espoused in his practice. He and his family currently reside in New Jersey.

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This book is for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for the diagnosis, treatment, or advice of a qualified licensed medical professional. The facts presented in the following pages are offered for informational purposes only. Always consult a medical practitioner before embarking on any of the protocols in this book. Neither the author nor the publisher can be held responsible for any loss or claim arising out of the use, or misuse, of the suggestions made, or the failure to take medical advice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction by Dr. Angelo C. Rose

SECTION I

INTRODUCTION

The Politics of Corruption, Whom Do We Trust?

A History Lesson: The Error of Our Ways

Today’s Agriculture: Cheap Food – Poor Health

SECTION II

THE HOLISTIC DOCTOR/PATIENT EXPERIENCE

Physical Examination/Holistic Patient Assessment

SECTION III

THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER DIGESTION AND THE FOOD WE EAT

Intestinal Lining: Barrier Between Health/Sickness

Food Quality

Food Quantity

Proper Food Combining

The Importance of pH Balance

General Dietary Guidelines for a Healthy Life

A Word About Supplements

SECTION IV

THE HEAD

Headaches: Different Types and Treatments

Crown Headache (Top of the Head)

Temporal Headache (Side of the Head)

Frontal Headache (Forehead)

Occipital Headache (Back of the Head)

Behind the Eyes Headache (Lower Forehead)

General Headache

Sinus Infections/Sinusitis and Allergies

Conditions of the Ear

Middle Ear Infections/Otitis Media

Earache (Middle Ear)

Tinnitus

Conditions of the Eye

Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)

Styes

Floaters and Glaucoma

Common Conditions of Mouth, Tongue, Throat

Bruxism (Grinding of the Teeth)

Bleeding Gums

Thrush/Candidiasis (Yeast Infection)

Conditions Affecting the Tongue

Glossitis/Burning/Painful Tongue (Glossodynia)

Angular Stomatitis

Fissured/Cracked Tongue

Geographic Tongue

Sore Throat/Swollen Tonsils

SECTION V

CONDITIONS OF THE CHEST AND LUNGS

Basics of Treating Lung Disorders and Congestion

Chest Congestion Due to Bronchitis/Cold/Flu

Germ Theory and Treatment for Common Cold/Flu

SECTION VI

CONDITIONS OF POOR DIGESTION/INTESTINAL TRACT

Indigestion/Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)

Halitosis (Bad Breath)

Flatulence (Gas in the Intestinal Tract)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)/Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Constipation/Diarrhea

Gallbladder Disease/Gallstones

SECTION VII

COMMON CONDITIONS OF THE JOINTS AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)

Sprains and Strains of the Knee

Knee Pain and Other Knee Injuries

Sprained Ankle Treatment

Plantar Fasciitis

Bursitis

Lyme Disease

Joint Pain in Young Children

Joint Pain in Older Children

Arthritis in the Adult

Juvenile Arthritis

Menopausal Arthritis

SECTION VIII

BACK PAIN AND NECK PAIN DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE AND OSTEOPOROSIS

Cervical Disc Syndrome

Degenerative Disc Disease, Back Pain/Sciatica

Osteoporosis/Arthritis and Calcium

SECTION IX

CONDITIONS OF THE MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT

Erectile Dysfunction (ED)

Conditions of the Prostate

Ovarian Cysts and Menopausal Symptoms

Sexual and Reproductive Dysfunction

Painful Intercourse (Dyspareunia)

Menopausal Bleeding

Fibroids

Ovarian Cysts

Birth Control Pill

Feminine Hygiene

SECTION X

CONDITIONS OF THE URINARY TRACT

Bladder and Urinary Tract Infections

SECTION XI

DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

Should Cholesterol Be Our Main Focus?

Saturated Fat and Cholesterol – Real Facts about Fats

Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease

Hypoglycemia

Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD)

Juvenile Diabetes

Congestive Heart Failure

Twelve Commandments for a Healthy Heart

SECTION XII

NEUROLOGIAL DISORDERS

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

SECTION XIII

DERMATOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

Dryness and Cracking of Skin on Hands and Feet

Fungus of Fingernails/Toenails

Eczema

Urticaria/Hives

Skin Cancer/Sun Tanning

Psoriasis

Acne

Boils

SECTION XIV

WOUND HEALING

Cuts, Scrapes, Open Wounds, Bed Sores

Burns

Bruising

SECTION XV

PREGNANCY AND INFANT CARE

Pregnancy and Prenatal Nutrition

Morning Sickness

Prenatal Nutrition

Infant Care/Raising a Healthy Child

Fevers in the Infant and Young Child

Fever Caused By Teething

To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate?

Dealing with Picky Eaters

SECTION XVI

ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER (ODD)

Attention Deficit Disorder ADD/ Attention Deficit Hyperactivity

Disorder ADHD/ Oppositional Defiant Disorder ODD

The 4 Rs Cleansing Protocol (Dysbiosis)

Treatment Using the 4 Rs Program for Intestinal Health

SECTION XVII

HOLISTIC TREATMENT OF CANCER

Natural Treatment of Cancer

Timeline of Suppression of Alternative Cancer Cures

SECTION XVIII

APPENDIX

A. Important Protocols for Natural Healing

B. Important Patient Self-Tests

C. Recipes and Miscellaneous Information

D. Important Resources

E. Recommended Reading

F. Appliances

G. Charts and Illustrations.

H. Acronyms

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated first and foremost to the patients; people who, often through great personal hardship, suffering and personal sacrifice, have sought a better, more natural, holistic way of healing. It was my father’s hope and dream that this book would reach more people searching for help than he was able to while in practice. Therefore, this book is also dedicated to his memory, and to his more than 50 years of hard work and constant study, all of which enabled this book to become a reality.

I also dedicate this book to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Working on this book has been a gift and I am continually humbled by Your wisdom and design.

Lastly, I dedicate this book to my family. I hope that this book will be as great a blessing for our family as my father’s guidance has been for me.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First and foremost, I would like to thank God for blessing me with the experiences He has and for trusting and directing me to complete this book for my father; his were/are big shoes to fill. I am thankful for God’s grace and for using me as a vessel for His healing. All Glory is His.

To my father, may God rest his soul. I am thankful for having been blessed to grow up with a father who had such a strong faith in the natural healing ability of the human body and its connection to our spirituality as human beings. I am also grateful for all of the wonderful things that he taught me and for the values he instilled within me, which have forever left an impression on me and have forged the man that I have become, as well as the man I hope to be. Most of all I thank him for teaching me to be a critical thinker, to not be afraid, but rather to question the world around me, to work hard, to think and to trust in God to illuminate the darkness.

My gratitude to my beautiful wife Rosanna as well as our three children, Isabella, Joseph and Angelo, for putting up with me through this daunting challenge, and for being patient whilst I spent much of my free time at the computer or buried behind books. Your support, love, and proofreading are as much a part of this book as anything else. I love you with all of my heart.

To Terry Eppridge without whom this book would not be. Her tireless efforts and patience are what made this book flow into a concise, accurate and organized work and made its eventual publication a reality. Her attention to detail and input are what made this book complete. I am forever grateful for her friendship and her work on this book. I also thank Marie-Celine Miranda for her experienced proofreader’s eye.

I would also like to offer my most sincere gratitude and thanks to Dr. Chante Callis and Ms. Lauren Spooner whose work with proofreading and content were invaluable to the completion of this book.

To Sally Fallon-Morell whose work has inspired a revolution. Her writing and work as the co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation have helped countless people searching for traditional wisdom and healing, and have spurred a return to our traditional ways of eating and living. A special thanks to her for graciously allowing me to reprint the instructions for soaking/preparing foods and to disseminate the information to my readers.

To Dave Carlson for his artwork which makes ideas about the body come to life for the reader and makes explaining complex anatomy and its relationship to disease possible.

To Stephen Buhner, for permitting the reprint of some of his protocol for treating Lyme disease from his amazing book Healing Lyme. The importance of his work and knowledge in treatment/prevention of Lyme disease is immeasurable.

To Dr. Bruce West for kindly allowing us to reprint his Zypan Test.

To Backtalk Systems, who gave permission to reprint their intricate diagram of the spine and its extensive connections to the body. It is an image so essential for understanding Chiropractic’s role in effecting change throughout the body.

To the Kansas Medical Clinic for the use of their diagram of the stomach and hiatal hernia thus giving our readers a better anatomical understanding of the digestive system.

To Foot Levelers for allowing the use of some of their images to portray just how important the feet are as the foundation of the spine and in our everyday health. Their well-crafted products served my father and his patients for much of his career and continue to serve my patients today.

To the doctors, researchers and writers from all walks of life who have contributed their talent and tireless works to the healing of human illness: Dr. Weston A. Price, Antoine Béchamp, Dr. Royal Lee, Dr. Francis Pottenger, Allan Savory, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynsky, Dr. Mary Enig, Dr. William Crook, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, Dr. Thomas Cowan, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, and many, many others. You are truly the giants upon whose shoulders we stand. Thank you.

Lastly, but most importantly, thank you to every patient who trusted my father over his 50 years of practice, some of whom trust in me still today. And to the many who never met my father but who have trusted me to continue his work. It is from you that we learn and grow every day. Whether from success or failure, it is the many relationships we have developed over the years that have brought us to healing and led us closer to God, without whom we serve no purpose.

FOREWORD

This book by my father, Angelo C. Rose, is the culmination of a lifetime of work and practical experience as a holistic physician. (Amoruso is my father’s correct family name — an interesting immigration story in itself.) Before his death, my father began writing this book so that his experience and wisdom in treating illnesses holistically could live on. My father was one of the Great Ones. You read and hear about people who embody selflessness and caring, wisdom and kindness. My father was one of those. He never pursued fame and was not greedy. He once told me that God took care of our family because he (and my mother, of course) always did the best they could to help others and to live honestly. At his funeral in March of 2007, a line of people an hour-and-a-half long waited to greet his casket, in an unspoken testament to the lives he touched. Some of the faces I recognized as current patients of mine whom I had inherited from him; some I knew as distant family or friends; and others were patients of his from before I was born, many of whom I had never met, and many of whom had not seen my father in decades. From different places, times, and with different experiences with my father, they shared a common thread — my father had touched their lives in a significant way, and they came to pay their respect to him. Each had a personal story to tell of how my father had helped them, or changed their lives. To this day I wonder how they received word of his passing. I remember thinking that if I could touch just a tenth of the people my father had touched, my life would be successful.

I grew up as the youngest of the six children of Felicia A. Maresca and Angelo Carlo Rose. Looking back, my childhood was quite normal by most standards. I always felt blessed and fortunate that my parents could provide us with a good home, quality education, and a loving family environment. My brothers and sisters were much older than I, so I would follow them around like a puppy looking to be included in all they did. We swam, played ball, had snowball fights, and ate dinner together as a general rule. We were raised as a God-fearing Roman Catholic family, though my father was far more spiritual in how he lived his life than he was a churchgoer. We neither attended Church regularly nor went around quoting scripture, yet God and His natural law were a part of the lessons our parents taught us. On a regular basis we received chiropractic adjustments especially if we were coming down with an ailment. We took vitamins regularly. When anyone in the family was hurt or sick, my father tended to it. He seemed to have all of the answers. It was so normal to me that I never really thought of our lives as being different until much later in life. Then I realized how different our upbringing had been.

For me, my father was my doctor. Growing up I never thought of that as special. It was cool to tell friends and to feel proud that my father held a respectable occupation and helped those who were sick. Like most children, I trusted my father, and did what he said to do, accepting it as the norm. As I grew older, I began to see that my father was governed by a set of rules very different from those of my friends’ parents. He raised six children and influenced the upbringing of ten grandchildren according to a set of tenets which, at the time, many would have considered quackery. For example, as children, we were given enemas not aspirin to reduce a fever. When it came time for the schools to get everyone up-to-date on vaccines, mysteriously we were exempt.

The chasm between my upbringing and that of my friends began to widen. Naturally, I became inquisitive.

My first memory of this was when at a friend’s house his mother offered me a glass of conventional pasteurized milk. I politely refused the drink. She asked, Why not? Don’t you know milk builds strong bones and teeth? This is when it all hit home for me. Almost reflexively, I replied, No, thank you, pasteurized milk is poison. Understandably, this created quite a stir at my friend’s dinner table, one where milk was a regular fixture. I remember trying to explain how milk creates mucus in the body, and how milk is loaded with hormones and cows are given antibiotics and an unnatural diet. I also remember going home feeling very different. I was not ashamed, but I became aware in that instant, almost like a bolt of lightning, just how different I was from everyone else.

A second experience which remains with me happened in my freshman year at Rutgers College during a measles outbreak. I received notice from the registrar’s office that my vaccination records were not complete. I was told that in order to remain in my classes, I would have to come down to the medical office to be vaccinated. When I told them I had never been vaccinated before, and did not plan on doing so, I was told I would have to leave school. I was not given options, nor was I treated with any kindness or respect. It was as though I suddenly became a persona non grata.

As you might imagine, I immediately became frightened and apprehensive. How would I get my course work done? Would I lose my semester and have to start over? What would happen to me? I would like to say that the college administration was helpful in clarifying things for me, but the opposite was true. I was shunned, made to feel like an outcast, and spoken down to by almost everyone I called upon seeking answers. I remember calling my father, asking him what to do. Then, the phone call came that opened my eyes to how things really worked.

One of the deans of the school explained to me off the record, that they could not force me to leave school and to stand my ground. She explained that she was familiar with chiropractic, believed in the profession, had personal experience of it, and was a supporter. She was able to calm me down and lessen my worry about my academic life. We discussed how I should proceed and what I needed to do (my family used a religious exemption in the state of New Jersey to avoid all vaccinations). She also told me that if questioned, she would deny our conversation. Her words still ring in my ears twenty years later. Should you wonder, I never left school. No one in police gear or medical masks came to take me away. I finished my freshman year on the Dean’s list and graduated three years later as though nothing had ever happened. But something important had happened in my life, and I would never be the same.

Twenty years and three degrees later I am the beneficiary of my father’s pioneering and fearless efforts to help the sick. He thought outside of the box, and used traditional wisdom and critical thinking to bring about healing. I inherited my father’s practice in 2005. He left big shoes to fill. I was blessed to work side-by-side with him, first as a son and student and then as a physician myself. I have been able to personally observe how natural healing methods worked for my entire family as I grew up. I have also heard countless stories from patients who were once under my father’s care, people who were told there was nothing that could be done for them, women told they would not be able to conceive, patients suffering from Crohn’s disease or from migraine headaches who had been placed on one drug after another. After years of suffering they found their way to my father. He was successful because he believed in what he was doing. At the very heart of that belief was his spiritual faith in our body’s God-given ability to heal, a belief in the design of our Creator, a belief in the body’s innate intelligence. This is the foundation of holistic healing no matter the specific field —whether chiropractic, nutrition, or naturopathic medicine.

Traditional cultures around the world understood the connected-ness between body, spirit, and the world around us. This included food, drink, relationships, and the immediate environment. To-day’s culture has forgotten this approach. We look for pills to fix our problems. If we can’t sleep, we pop sleeping pills; if we have a headache we take an aspirin. When more and more children are born with autism, learning and developmental problems and allergies, we look to Big Pharma for answers instead of Mother Nature. We take little time to make breakfast or sit together as a family at the dinner table and share our lives with each other. We have lost touch with our roots and with our humanity, playing instead on our iPads, following trends on Facebook and watching TV.

For the past twelve years I have had the privilege of continuing my father’s practice in Bogota, New Jersey. When I first began practicing in 2002, my father worked side-by-side with me on patient after patient, teaching me how to think through diagnoses and identify dysfunction, passing on to me the wisdom his patients sought. After a few years he began slowly to withdraw from the practice in order to work on preparing this book. Late in 2006, after nearly completing the initial draft, he became ill, and was forced to stop his writing. Sadly, a few months later on March 23, 2007, he passed away. Since then I have worked tirelessly to document the sources of my father’s techniques, the basis for his beliefs and to give explanations of his ideas, as well as polishing the rough edges of the writing he left behind.

It is my hope, as it was my father’s, that this book will continue his legacy of healing for those who are ailing and unable to find help. I hope I have done an adequate job of transcribing his writings in a cohesive and organized manner, and have accurately filled in the holes my father left when he died. I have also provided resources and references of other wonderful healers and pioneers of traditional wisdom whenever possible, many of whom my father held in great esteem and spoke of often. For readers who knew my father, much of this book will bring him back to life. It will bring to mind his characteristic passion and caring, his strong opinions regarding health and our responsibilities to ourselves and each other. He was magnanimous. Above all, he embodied selflessness to a fault. It was this that led him to neglect his own health. But now he lives through me and through the words in these pages, through the countless hearts he touched and the lives he helped heal.

I am confident you will find this book as helpful as my father hoped it would be, and that this book will light the path for those of you who have found your health in darkness. It is my hope that this book will touch as many hearts and lives as possible. In the words of Andy Dufresne from the movie Shawshank Redemption, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. I hope. …

Sincerely,

Dr. Christopher J. Amoruso, D.C., M.S., C.N.S.

FROM DR. ANGELO ROSE

To my patients and friends,

I am writing this book to help make life a little easier when illness strikes, to make coping with simple health problems and more serious ones a bit easier. For many conditions there are proven, time-tested remedies. We use these natural methods of healing, not to avoid the medical profession, but to avoid hindering the natural healing processes of the body. The use of medications like aspirin or antibiotics can be harmful. Reaching for drugs first may prolong recuperation time, weaken the immune system and create more serious problems. This book will empower you to accept responsibility for your own health. It is wise to keep in mind that when the body becomes dis-eased, it is not always a virus or bacteria that is to blame. Physical problems and body changes can be and often are normal — a baby running a fever, a clear runny nose, can be nothing more than a child teething; a ten-year old running a fever for a day with no other symptoms can be a simple growth spurt. This book is to serve as a guide to use common sense and to take advantage of God-given natural health.

When drugs, including antibiotics, are used, the body relinquishes its ability to work and is forced to react to that specific drug or antibiotic. For example, when a child has a fever and is given an antibiotic, the child’s temperature may drop initially, but as soon as the effects of the antibiotic wear off, the temperature returns. This is a common occurrence which no honest doctor can deny.

For each different illness covered in this book, I show you the way to help yourself with simple treatment. For more complex issues, I offer you a framework from which to start your journey back to better health. In these cases you will need to work with someone familiar with alternative treatments and chiropractic. I guide you step by step in handling these problems. My motive is to prevent you from complicating a simple problem, not to keep you from consulting with your medical doctor. I hope you enjoy this book and put it to good use.

In good health,

Dr. Angelo. C. Rose, D.C.

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INTRODUCTION by Dr. Angelo C. Rose

The Beginnings: chiropractic and what it has meant for me, my family, and for the countless patients I have treated over the past 50 years.

Chiropractic has been a gift from God allowing me to give to others a wonderful, natural way of healing without the use of drugs and, more importantly, without causing more harm to the body. Natural healing comes only from within and it is my feeling that this is God’s will. Only God can truly cure the body of any disease. Man can only assist this process by serving in the delivery of the natural course of healing.

But that’s not where this story begins. To understand what chiropractic has meant for me, we have to go back to 1952. I was a freshman at William & Mary College on a scholarship for football. During one of the first games of the year, a scrimmage against Princeton, I was kicked in the face during a play where I was attempting to block a punt. In 1952 football players did not have the safer helmets we are all familiar with today. We had nothing more than a leather helmet with a chin strap. There was no facemask. What happened in the hours following my flying through the air to block that punt is mostly a blur. I can tell you, however, that by the time the play was over, I was blind. That’s right, I couldn’t see. I was taken to a doctor immediately, but there wasn’t much they could do for me at that time. It wasn’t long before I lost my scholarship to play football and was sent home with an uncertain future.

I spent the next 8 months or so learning Braille and being, as you might imagine, a little depressed. Then, one day, my mother came to me and said, C’mon Angelo, we are going to the doctor. I was resistant because I had already succumbed to the idea that I would spend the rest of my life blind. But I was wrong. My mother took me to the office of a friend of my brother-in-law, a chiropractor in Jersey City, New Jersey not far from where we lived. All I really remember that day was that he laid me down on the table, looked at my x-rays, and performed an adjustment on my neck that I found very painful. I later came to learn that it was so painful because, as a result of my football injury, my skull had been moved completely out of its normal position with the very first bone of the spine (known as the Atlas or C1 vertebra). Apparently this was pinching the spinal cord where it exits the brain and creating a stasis of the cerebrospinal fluid in that region.

After the adjustment, I swore I would never go back to that doctor again. I was bitter, upset, and figured I was just wasting my time. But my mother didn’t like that idea. She forced me to go back and allow this man a chance to help me. I’ll spare you the unnecessary facts and just say that after a few treatments I began to see a hazy light when my eyes were open. I liken it to looking into the sun on a bright sunny day — you can’t really see things clearly and defined, but you can see the light and its glare. It sounds hard to believe. Sometimes I have to pinch myself too. God had given me a second chance. He had shown me that the body can heal, it just needs to be given a fair chance. Needless to say, this ignited my interest in chiropractic which, at the time, was considered to be on an equal footing with witchcraft. I enrolled in the Chiropractic Institute in New York shortly thereafter.

When I graduated from chiropractic college, I took an oath to help as many people as I could in the most natural way possible. The philosophy of chiropractic is based on the body’s own innate intelligence. This intelligence is based solely on natural processes and is ultimately derived from God. The simplest example I can give is this: if you cut your finger, over time the body heals, eventually forming a scar. How does the body know where the cut begins and ends? How does the body know when the finger is fully healed? The answer is very simple, innate intelligence. This is accomplished without the use of drugs, medication, or surgery.

When my wife Felicia and I had the first of our six children, we decided to raise them naturally. Our first child was born in 1957, a baby boy we named Thomas. We had a natural delivery and my wife breast fed him for one year. Then he was taken off of the breast milk and we used fresh goat’s milk and a natural diet consisting of organic fresh fruits, pastured meats and vegetables. We never needed a pediatrician because he was healthy and I would always check his spine. When he needed an adjustment, I gave him one. My wife and I went on to have a total of six children, four boys and two girls. Not one of our children was vaccinated or brought to a medical doctor for any treatment.

Chiropractic adjustments and a good, wholesome natural diet rich in fresh, organic fruits and vegetables were the foundation of their healthcare and the plan that my wife and I followed with our children throughout their lives. If we could not find organic fruits and vegetables, we would always wash them in either apple cider vinegar, Clorox bleach, or 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide (see Appendix C p. 351). This was done to oxygenate the food as well as to remove all chemicals and pesticides. Furthermore we made sure to keep the children away from all synthetic chemicals and unnatural foods.

When one of our children became ill for any reason, we treated the situation holistically. In other words, we allowed the body to heal itself, facilitating this healing by using a little common sense along with the natural remedies, procedures, and guidelines found throughout this book. Anyone can apply these principles to achieve better health and avoid the pitfalls of modern medication and surgery.

The proper approach to any condition starts with a thorough patient history. Diet must be questioned and reviewed; salivary pH must be checked; all medications and their side effects reviewed and documented. Food allergies must be considered, and when appropriate, tested for. All of this should be followed by a thorough physical examination of the abdomen, documenting where along the gastrointestinal tract the most sensitivity and inflammation exist.

Depending on the history and physical examination findings, some testing may of course be necessary. The first step in getting a patient back on the track toward health, however, is to identify their dietary shortcomings and to TEACH. In fact, the word doctor comes from the Latin docere meaning to teach. Why this is almost NEVER mentioned or remembered is disturbing to me. So you must first sit down with a qualified professional (a knowledgeable chiropractor, medical doctor, naturopathic doctor, nutritionist, or dietician) who can go over your diet with you. You do not want someone who is going to teach you the dogma of the politically correct nutritionists and lobbyists. I recommend you contact the Weston A. Price Foundation at www.westonaprice.org for more information and try to work with a physician who is familiar with the foundation and their principles. Their website will help guide you.

Since every person is unique and their nutritional needs vary, it is impossible for me to give a diet that would be completely suitable for everyone/condition. Perhaps this is what is really wrong in medicine. Too often doctors (chiropractors and medical doctors) try to shoebox everyone with similar symptoms into the same treatment plan. This never works, and in fact, almost always produces bad results. People are unique with unique habits, experiences, stresses and lifestyles. They are not robots. Therefore I will discuss the main points you should know, and the rest is up to you and your physician.

SECTION I

INTRODUCTION

The Politics of Corruption, Whom Do We Trust?

Today the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries have unprecedented power over the medical establishment and its principles of practice. Sadly, they also have a stranglehold on government. Their power also pervades the scholastic system, even esteemed universities like Harvard. Let me correct that, especially revered universities like Harvard. Take a walk on the Harvard campus and look at the names on some of the buildings. Donations come with a price, and the price is cooperation with the donor’s agenda. The agenda of donor companies is to make money. This trickles down to the curriculum, what is taught, what products are endorsed and who are placed in positions of power. If you are skeptical, ponder this. On March 2, 2009 The New York Times published an article titled Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandry by Duff Wilson, about a growing number of students concerned about the revolving door and conflicts of interest between Big Pharma and Harvard professors. The following is a summary of that article.

A Harvard Medical School student named Matt Zerden became concerned about the possible conflict of interest present between one of his professors and the pharmaceutical industry. Zerden’s concern began when the professor, while lauding the benefits associated with cholesterol drugs, refused to address their dangerous side effects. Students who questioned this issue seemed to be belittled or treated with disdain. Zerden, doing his own diligent research, discovered that this professor was not only a full-time member of the Harvard Medical faculty, but was simultaneously being paid as a consultant to 10 drug companies, half of whom were makers of these very cholesterol drugs.

The information brought to light by Zerden’s research began to grow into a movement at Harvard to push back against this corporate, higher education, conflict of interest. Soon, over 200 Harvard Medical School students and faculty had formed a coalition to expose and confront the influence of the pharmaceutical industry in the classroom and in research laboratories. The coalition’s main concern was that money used to build Harvard’s Medical School into a world-renowned facility was affecting its curriculum.

The article goes on to say that students expressed concern at the F grade received by Harvard from the American Medical Student Association, a national group that rates medical schools on how well they monitor and control monies received from industry and special interests.

Information on this kind of collusion should not surprise us. We need not look only at Harvard to realize that the corrupt tentacles of the pharmaceutical industry run deep in our society. An internet search of Cabinet members appointed by recent presidents reveals a revolving door in which high-ranking members of our governing institutions have held positions of authority on the boards of top pharmaceutical companies and vice versa. The influence of money and power in the field of medical education should give us reason to pause and to question the consequences of this conflict of interest for public health.

Books have been written on this topic. The information is there if one is willing to search for it.

A History Lesson: The Error of Our Ways

My point in the last segment was to expose a dangerous collusion. Information is only as good as its source. If the source is corrupt, then the information is of little or no value. We have to take responsibility for our health and for the direction we follow. We have to be critical thinkers, demand the right to obtain alternative care. Most importantly, we have to ask ourselves, Are we really better off this way? Our children are our future. If we don’t have healthy children, the future is bleak.

Did you ever ask yourself why most insurance plans do not cover visits to alternative doctors for nutritional consultation and alternative therapies? Educating patients on healthy eating habits would cure many ills. Take gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD for example. With a willing patient and simple patient nutritional education on proper food combinations and supplementation, this problem can be cured. No need for costly endoscopies, CT scans or medical procedures including surgery on the stomach. Even the supplements needed, in most cases just two, are temporary.

A close look at those around us, family, friends, acquaintances, quickly shows the presence of many diseases and ailments. Both young and old as well as those in between are beset by poor health. Much of this is of our own doing. Supermarket shelves are laden with food products laced with harmful ingredients that prolong product life and shorten ours. The refining and processing of natural foods has created its own problems. The introduction of refined sugars and flours, canned goods, vegetable fats and polished rice have had a devastating effect on human health. Television advertising then entices us to take one drug after another in spite of harmful side effects.

Where did this deterioration of health begin? Weston A. Price, dentist and founder of the research section of the American Dental Association (ADA), answers this when he says, Life in all of its fullness, is mother nature obeyed. We have become complicit in her destruction.

Today’s Agriculture: Cheap Food – Poor Health

Although this topic is vast, I urge the reader to keep an open mind. It is not hard to understand that our fruits and vegetables are only as good as the soil from which they come. Where do soil nutrients come from? The produce we eat comes from the ground we cultivate. The healthier that ground, the healthier the plants which spring from it. There are many very informative books on this subject. One such book is Soil, Grass and Cancer by André Voisin. Although largely ignored by the mainstream agricultural community, the pioneering soil studies of André Voisin bring to light the complex relationship between soil quality, food composition and human health. Both a biochemist and a farmer, Voisin found, in his many years working his own farms, that when the soil and grasses were cared for properly, the animals living upon that land would enjoy abundant health. And as a result, the people consuming these animals and their products would enjoy abundant health as well.

Author Joel Salatin in Folks, This Ain’t Normal states that, "as our country grew at the turn