Sheep sorrel and water-pepper eaten every day as a salad
during June will eradicate fibroids and cancers.
Take a cold plunge or a sponge bath before retiring and
be sure you rub off the body thoroly. Go to sleep before
midnight and arise before sunrise, making it a point to go
out barefoot even if but for five minutes.
Should you be troubled with catarrh in winter or hay
fever in mid-summer, remember that June will eradicate
it soon if you will simply seek a cozy spot of running water
or the lake shore. Jump into the water just at sunrise.
Move about lively for five minutes. Go under water a few
times. As you come out of the water throw over yourself
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a garment quickly while emptying the lungs thoroly and
fill your chest thereafter, taking to your heels and running
as if for your life for about three minutes. Then rub off
body with your hands ; use no towels. Having done this
daily for ten days you want to let up on it, taking this open-
door plunge every other day for a week, and quit before
the first of July,
Those suffering from hay fever let them remember that
now is the time to take cold water sponge baths three
times a day, to wear very light linen clothing, and to swab
their nostrils with brandy. At night take a saleratus
powder.
Let your food consist of fruits and vegetables of the
season, and avoid sugar, salts and condiments if you want
to enjoy the glories of the season.
Eat the petals of the buttercup flower as you pass the
field. Eat them freely and miss it not to nibble the
tender leaves of sheep sorrel wherever it is found. It will
send thru your veins intelligences conducive to your
bodily welfare.
If feeling heavy and costive, use Httle pebbles, two or
three every other day — pebbles the size of mustard seed.
Petals of blue flowers and those tinged bluish and white
possess curative powers during June. Eat them with the
dew upon them in small quantities daily and you will
never be given to blood diseases of a serious nature. The
same is true of small fruits. Gather them before sunrise-
Feed on them and be happy.
Do not drink water, which is but a crutch that paralyzes
all organic action. Use fruits of an acidulous kind; too
much you cannot take of it, my friend.
Clothed lightly, comfortably and in texture and color
corresponding to the season, refraining from nightgowns,
free from association, resting in the everlasting arms of
God, all the inventions of man called hygiene and health
measures will become superfluous.
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JULY.
Lettuce with fresh unprepared cucumbers and a few
slices of raw potatoes, is the best food for dyspeptics.
Tomatoes are best in intestinal troubles and should be
used without preparation.
Drink no water. Quench thy thirst by bathing with cold
water, previous to the m^eal, your upper arms, wrists and
hands.
If thirsty after a meal dip thy finger into the running
water of the stream beside you and lick the finger gently,
as the breezes touch thy lips. Forget not to lift thine eyes
beyond the jasper sea, when raising the finger of destiny
to thine own blessed lips. And your soul will understand
the sacred rite of thy conduct, while thy spirit will shower
blessings upon thy head in the form of earthly success.
Clabber with a dish of nutmeg will prove refreshing and
aid the alimentary organs, while the skin will remain active.
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Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Sheep sorrel and water-pepper eaten every day as a salad during June will eradicate fibroids and cancers.
Take a cold plunge or a sponge bath before retiring and be sure you rub off the body thoroly. Go to sleep before midnight and arise before sunrise, making it a point to go out barefoot even if but for five minutes.
Should you be troubled with catarrh in winter or hay fever in mid-summer, remember that June will eradicate it soon if you will simply seek a cozy spot of running water or the lake shore. Jump into the water just at sunrise. Move about lively for five minutes. Go under water a few times. As you come out of the water throw over yourself
a garment quickly while emptying the lungs thoroly and fill your chest thereafter, taking to your heels and running as if for your life for about three minutes. Then rub off body with your hands ; use no towels. Having done this daily for ten days you want to let up on it, taking this opendoor plunge every other day for a week, and quit before the first of July,
Those suffering from hay fever let them remember that now is the time to take cold water sponge baths three times a day, to wear very light linen clothing, and to swab their nostrils with brandy. At night take a saleratus powder.
Let your food consist of fruits and vegetables of the season, and avoid sugar, salts and condiments if you want to enjoy the glories of the season.
Eat the petals of the buttercup flower as you pass the field. Eat them freely and miss it not to nibble the tender leaves of sheep sorrel wherever it is found. It will send thru your veins intelligences conducive to your bodily welfare.
If feeling heavy and costive, use little pebbles, two or three every other day — pebbles the size of mustard seed.
Petals of blue flowers and those tinged bluish and white possess curative powers during June. Eat them with the dew upon them in small quantities daily and you will never be given to blood diseases of a serious nature. The same is true of small fruits. Gather them before sunrise- Feed on them and be happy.
Do not drink water, which is but a crutch that paralyzes all organic action. Use fruits of an acidulous kind; too much you cannot take of it, my friend.
Clothed lightly, comfortably and in texture and color corresponding to the season, refraining from nightgowns, free from association, resting in the everlasting arms of God, all the inventions of man called hygiene and health measures will become superfluous.
JULY.
Lettuce with fresh unprepared cucumbers and a few slices of raw potatoes, is the best food for dyspeptics.
Tomatoes are best in intestinal troubles and should be used without preparation.
Drink no water. Quench thy thirst by bathing with cold water, previous to the meal, your upper arms, wrists and hands.
If thirsty after a meal dip thy finger into the running water of the stream beside you and lick the finger gently, as the breezes touch thy lips. Forget not to lift thine eyes beyond the jasper sea, when raising the finger of destiny to thine own blessed lips. And your soul will understand the sacred rite of thy conduct, while thy spirit will shower blessings upon thy head in the form of earthly success.
Clabber with a dish of nutmeg will prove refreshing and aid the alimentary organs, while the skin will remain active.