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AFTER ABOUT four to six weeks in the clinic most of the patients feel stronger and have lost most of their original anxiety and depression. They think they can relax their adherence to rules and schedules. They frequently find no one to help them sufficiently with the preparation of the juices, diet, application of enemas, etc.
In general, people go to hospitals for operations or serious illness; the family considers them recovered upon their return. This is different with cancer. Cancer is a degenerative disease, not an acute one, and the treatment can be effective only if carried out strictly in accordance with the rules for one and a half to two years. We repeat here that it is not a symptom that is treated, nor a specific disease, but the reactions and functions of the entire body which have to be transformed and restored.
As an illustration of the difficulties encountered, I quote the following from a patient's letter: "I feel like I have gone downhill since arriving home due to the strenuous past week - can't see how it could have been avoided. I have stayed on the diet - just have not managed to get in all the juices until the past two days." As an explanation of the foregoing, it should be mentioned that the patient had ten operations in eight years prior to arriving at the clinic. Naturally she was seriously weakened but gained strength in four weeks; this led her to the assumption that she could now take care of all the shopping, preparation and treatment by herself, without help.
Furthermore, at the time of their leaving home, patients often had been given up by relatives, physicians and friends, none of whom had been able to offer any further advice. Upon their return, they suddenly find that everyone has contrary opinions to offer, criticizing components and preparation of the diet and suggestions "to make it easier". One patient, when friends and relatives began offering contradictory advice and suggestions, asked them whether these opinions ever helped a patient who had already been given up. This question put interfering persons in their place. Also physicians often use the phrase: "Diet has nothing to do with cancer", despite the fact that they had given up a patient before, and now see the improvement.
Another frequent mistake patients make is to feel, that "a little bit" of one or the other forbidden foods cannot do them much harm. This is an entirely mistaken notion; besides, these "little bits" tend to become larger and more frequent: they do not fail to produce harmful results.
Again, we often find that patients are helped by persons who have to leave the house to go to work at a certain time and, therefore, prepare most of the day's juice supply in advance and the evening supply upon their return home. This renders the juices largely ineffective, for the following reasons:
A number of items on the market cannot be used for purposes of the diet, especially vegetables and fruits processed with chemicals for longer preservation, sold in plastic bags (carrots, spinach, lettuce, beets, cherries, etc.); fruits and vegetables with color added - some red potatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, and oranges and dried fruit which have been sulphured or otherwise preserved.
Aluminum utensils, pressure cookers, orange squeezers into which the half orange is inserted with the skin; if the skin is also pressed out, it will emit harmful fatty acids and aromatic substances contained in its surface.
Two machines are required, a separate grinder and a separate press, for the correct preparation of juices, especially of liver juice. Centrifugal machines, in which air has insufficient access to the grinding process, cannot be used. When the grinding wheel rotates against a resistance with insufficient access of air, positive electricity is produced and induces negative electricity on the surrounding wall. The exchange of the positive and negative electricity kills the oxidizing enzymes and renders the juice deficient. These are findings of experiences over many years in which patients who used a one-unit machine had no success.
Cooked vegetables must be prepared in an appetizing manner. It must be borne in mind that a complete change in the accustomed taste is involved; therefore, vegetables must be prepared with much care and imagination. It is not possible just to omit water, salt, fat, condiments, etc. Vegetables can be made tasty by means of fresh and dried herbs and different fruits.
It is not easy to keep strictly to the treatment if a convalescent patient does not have enough help. In all cases a life is at stake. After a remarkable improvement and a renewal of faith and hope, some patients discontinue the treatment because of mistaken advice and family aversion. This way, the notion is spread that the treatment is helpful only at the start. Anyway a good number of patients follow their prescriptions, are cured and are living a normal life after five and more years.
The answer to each question should be "yes"; any deviation usually slows or stops healing. "It is advisable not to start the treatment, if for any reason strict adherence to it is not possible".