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Mucusless Diet Healing System
This scientific method of eating, developed by Ehret in 1922, presents a complete, workable program for cleansing, repairing, rebuilding, and maintaining a healthy body. This book lays out Professor Ehret’s simple and logical plan in plain, understandable language so that anyone can apply the Ehret method.
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First published January 1, 1922
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Arnold Ehret
94 books66 followersArnold Ehret was a German health educator and author of several books on diet, detoxification, fruitarianism, fasting, food combining, health, longevity, naturopathy, physical culture and vitalism.
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May 6, 2008
V=P-O; Vitality equals Power minus Obstruction
February 22, 2019
The mind instinctively governs all organic action of the physical body. Mucus-forming and puss-forming foods are unnatural and harmful for humans to consume. The author experimented with fasting, where he found strength and vitality, rather than starvation. Disease is a response from the body to discard infectious wastes. All disease is sourced in the colon, constantly attempting to clean itself out. Food consumption is for the purpose of cleansing, rather than energizing one’s body. Naturopathy is a drugless approach to healing via plant-based diets and intermittent fasting remedies. In the Bible, humans were intended to have dominion over animals, not eat animals. In almost all religions, high humans are characterized as ones who do not consume any type of meat. Drugs consumed are never wholly eliminated, and inevitably show up in the body after consumption. Vegetable and fruit based diets are instrumental to natural healing. After fasting emerges a unity of mind. Differences in diets can account for the vast amount of differences among people today.
First step is to fast for one to two days, then the tongue will serve as a mirror for inner health. If the body were an oiled machine, the lungs would be the pump and heart, the valve. Vitality is not a result of food consumed, but rather fewer obstructions from food. Vitality = power - obstruction (the “formula of life). Rather than being hyper focused on nutrition, breathing regulation and cleansing the body should be the focus of health. Starch-less, all fruits, green-leafy, and nuts are foods are mucus-free and therefore make the greatest difference in health and vitality. The mucusless diet does contradict itself in terms of nuts and vegetables, particularly avocado as it wasn’t recognized as a salad food until the 1950s. All fatty foods are only desired by one’s body so as long as mucus is present. See lesson 5 for how strategic and planned intermittent fasting is most effective for the healing process by eliminating disease. There’s only one disease: inner dirt, waste and obstructions.
The upset feelings while implementing a transitional diet plan are natural and should be anticipated. Transitional diet plans (also “healing crisis” symptoms) are absolutely essential as the body will experience pain if changes in one’s diet occur too rapidly. It should take about a year to gradually transition one’s diet, and then if the mucusless diet healing system is following correctly, will take about three years to fully and completely eliminate backed up waste from prior years of unhealthy or unnatural food consumption.
Heavy breakfasts are not advised. Fruit is best to consume. No more than two meals per day works best, but the quality can be as if three to four meals were eaten within those two meals. If possible, lunch should be eaten between 10AM - 11AM. Dinner should be not sooner than 5PM - 6PM. Simplicity is also beneficial when eating for health. Fluids should be avoided alongside consuming meals. If you crave meat, eat vegetables. Bread and potatoes should be consumed if too much weight is lost. Generally, meats and dairy should be avoided at all costs. Vinegar should be avoided if possible.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Animals naturally do not intermix various made-up foods. They naturally eat one food at a time, besides domesticated animals. The mucusless diet should be adapted to each individual through an ongoing and highly responsive process. It’s advisable to transition away from and off coffee as soon as possible due to its acidity. Authentic juices (or juicing) can be an effective substitute when transitioning away from coffee consumption. Bake food as dry as possible. Mono-diets are suggested after much process is made via the mucusless diet.
Suggestions for consumption: always begin each day consuming some type of fruit, wait 5-10 minutes before consuming a vegetable course; don’t consume liquids/fluids of any kind with a meal, it interferes with proper digestion; human food is fruits and herbs, in their natural and cooked state; mix food, but in few varieties; don’t eat nuts with juicy fruits; nature’s own book is simplicity; don’t overeat, Mother Nature requires moderation in all things. Laugh also always aids digestion. Chew dried fruits such as raisins, plums, etc. together. Transitional thinking is not finite, but rather ongoing. Transitional diets should be applied and are applicable according to each individual. All disease is a result of food consumption, thus the universal remedy of all disease is to reverse the process by fasting, intermittently. Starvation and fasting are not the same. Fasts feel miserable so as long as waste is present in the body’s circulation. Drugs taken at any point in a person’s life will impact each fast differently. Eating the wrong meal to break a fast can be deathly fatal if done incorrectly. General suggestions for breaking fasts are inadequate as it’s entirely relative to each individual. However, it’s clear fasts should never be broken with mucus-forming foods. This first meal must be of laxative-effect, rather than nourishment. V = P - O. The longer a fast, the cleaner the bowels perform thereafter. Fresh sweet fruits, such as berries or grapes, work best following a fast. The less drank during a fast, the more aggressive the healing process may become. Watered down lemonade is recommended. Consuming a large breakfast in the morning is a Western health myth. European countries don’t have full meals, but rather small items to classify breakfast foods. The more waste accumulated, the more food is needed for proper nutrition - nature’s paradox and humanity’s food consumption crisis. This is why life can become a tragedy of nutrition. Transitioning to fasting should be gradual, beginning without the consumption of breakfast for a few days, at first. If using a one-meal per day transition, an optimal time for food to be consumed around 3-4PM. Eggs are worse for the body than meat as its sticky substance obstructs digestive circulation, and the high protein is unnecessary are harmful. If one’s tongue and nostrils are clean, spices and flavoring becomes unnaturally unnecessary and even offensive to the senses. Current developments of spicing and flavoring are a result and continuing spiral of obstructed taste and smell. However, “whatever is first proved is doubtful,” which is why the mucusless diet and fasting processes must be experienced and understood via and on relatively individual bases. Counting calories is not useful and at best outdated. See lesson 5 for Ehret’s understanding and explanation of vitality, which is true life energy.
On sex: reproduction is a replication process, thus an unclean being will beget uncleanliness of offspring. Reproduction is recently being driven by stimulated desire, rather than deep spiritual sexual vibrations that embody authentic love. Making love is in fact a sacred act. It’s unnatural to cut one’s hair, and grow out hair has historically been a sign of health.
Ehret rejects the Darwinian notion of evolution specifically in regard and relation to humans. Ehret understands humanity as having origins in divinity, from higher planes of consciousness. Ehret appears to believe the divinity of humanity as having no definitive beginning nor ending. Walking, dancing and singing are the most pure forms of exercise, especially for beneficial breathing practices. Air and breathing is more important for health than food. Thus, high-quality and clean air is superior to high-quality and healthy food. Morning exercise is preferable when compared to afternoon and evening exercising. Exercise should be done immediately upon arising in the morning. Sunbaths are beneficial during the mucusless cleansing process. Sun rays directly on the naked body are energizing, vital and better a wholly healthy body. Eat your way into paradise through fasting and healing dieting. This is the path to mental, healthy and spiritual enlightenment.
First step is to fast for one to two days, then the tongue will serve as a mirror for inner health. If the body were an oiled machine, the lungs would be the pump and heart, the valve. Vitality is not a result of food consumed, but rather fewer obstructions from food. Vitality = power - obstruction (the “formula of life). Rather than being hyper focused on nutrition, breathing regulation and cleansing the body should be the focus of health. Starch-less, all fruits, green-leafy, and nuts are foods are mucus-free and therefore make the greatest difference in health and vitality. The mucusless diet does contradict itself in terms of nuts and vegetables, particularly avocado as it wasn’t recognized as a salad food until the 1950s. All fatty foods are only desired by one’s body so as long as mucus is present. See lesson 5 for how strategic and planned intermittent fasting is most effective for the healing process by eliminating disease. There’s only one disease: inner dirt, waste and obstructions.
The upset feelings while implementing a transitional diet plan are natural and should be anticipated. Transitional diet plans (also “healing crisis” symptoms) are absolutely essential as the body will experience pain if changes in one’s diet occur too rapidly. It should take about a year to gradually transition one’s diet, and then if the mucusless diet healing system is following correctly, will take about three years to fully and completely eliminate backed up waste from prior years of unhealthy or unnatural food consumption.
Heavy breakfasts are not advised. Fruit is best to consume. No more than two meals per day works best, but the quality can be as if three to four meals were eaten within those two meals. If possible, lunch should be eaten between 10AM - 11AM. Dinner should be not sooner than 5PM - 6PM. Simplicity is also beneficial when eating for health. Fluids should be avoided alongside consuming meals. If you crave meat, eat vegetables. Bread and potatoes should be consumed if too much weight is lost. Generally, meats and dairy should be avoided at all costs. Vinegar should be avoided if possible.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Animals naturally do not intermix various made-up foods. They naturally eat one food at a time, besides domesticated animals. The mucusless diet should be adapted to each individual through an ongoing and highly responsive process. It’s advisable to transition away from and off coffee as soon as possible due to its acidity. Authentic juices (or juicing) can be an effective substitute when transitioning away from coffee consumption. Bake food as dry as possible. Mono-diets are suggested after much process is made via the mucusless diet.
Suggestions for consumption: always begin each day consuming some type of fruit, wait 5-10 minutes before consuming a vegetable course; don’t consume liquids/fluids of any kind with a meal, it interferes with proper digestion; human food is fruits and herbs, in their natural and cooked state; mix food, but in few varieties; don’t eat nuts with juicy fruits; nature’s own book is simplicity; don’t overeat, Mother Nature requires moderation in all things. Laugh also always aids digestion. Chew dried fruits such as raisins, plums, etc. together. Transitional thinking is not finite, but rather ongoing. Transitional diets should be applied and are applicable according to each individual. All disease is a result of food consumption, thus the universal remedy of all disease is to reverse the process by fasting, intermittently. Starvation and fasting are not the same. Fasts feel miserable so as long as waste is present in the body’s circulation. Drugs taken at any point in a person’s life will impact each fast differently. Eating the wrong meal to break a fast can be deathly fatal if done incorrectly. General suggestions for breaking fasts are inadequate as it’s entirely relative to each individual. However, it’s clear fasts should never be broken with mucus-forming foods. This first meal must be of laxative-effect, rather than nourishment. V = P - O. The longer a fast, the cleaner the bowels perform thereafter. Fresh sweet fruits, such as berries or grapes, work best following a fast. The less drank during a fast, the more aggressive the healing process may become. Watered down lemonade is recommended. Consuming a large breakfast in the morning is a Western health myth. European countries don’t have full meals, but rather small items to classify breakfast foods. The more waste accumulated, the more food is needed for proper nutrition - nature’s paradox and humanity’s food consumption crisis. This is why life can become a tragedy of nutrition. Transitioning to fasting should be gradual, beginning without the consumption of breakfast for a few days, at first. If using a one-meal per day transition, an optimal time for food to be consumed around 3-4PM. Eggs are worse for the body than meat as its sticky substance obstructs digestive circulation, and the high protein is unnecessary are harmful. If one’s tongue and nostrils are clean, spices and flavoring becomes unnaturally unnecessary and even offensive to the senses. Current developments of spicing and flavoring are a result and continuing spiral of obstructed taste and smell. However, “whatever is first proved is doubtful,” which is why the mucusless diet and fasting processes must be experienced and understood via and on relatively individual bases. Counting calories is not useful and at best outdated. See lesson 5 for Ehret’s understanding and explanation of vitality, which is true life energy.
On sex: reproduction is a replication process, thus an unclean being will beget uncleanliness of offspring. Reproduction is recently being driven by stimulated desire, rather than deep spiritual sexual vibrations that embody authentic love. Making love is in fact a sacred act. It’s unnatural to cut one’s hair, and grow out hair has historically been a sign of health.
Ehret rejects the Darwinian notion of evolution specifically in regard and relation to humans. Ehret understands humanity as having origins in divinity, from higher planes of consciousness. Ehret appears to believe the divinity of humanity as having no definitive beginning nor ending. Walking, dancing and singing are the most pure forms of exercise, especially for beneficial breathing practices. Air and breathing is more important for health than food. Thus, high-quality and clean air is superior to high-quality and healthy food. Morning exercise is preferable when compared to afternoon and evening exercising. Exercise should be done immediately upon arising in the morning. Sunbaths are beneficial during the mucusless cleansing process. Sun rays directly on the naked body are energizing, vital and better a wholly healthy body. Eat your way into paradise through fasting and healing dieting. This is the path to mental, healthy and spiritual enlightenment.
December 13, 2012
The Most Important Read in the "World".....Excellent, with an intent to "sense and sensibility" that is more common than not.
March 1, 2021
In one of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, the great detective observed that one could best understand and solve crimes through knowledge of similar skulduggery in the past. The same can be said for medical quackery.
Arnold Ehret was a late nineteenth and early 20th century naturopath whose bizarre and unfounded ideas about nutrition had a brief vogue in his time, were later revived by counterculture enthusiasts in the U.S. in the 1960s, and appear to have gained a limited following in the present day. His ideas in this book about fasting and his belief that ''pus and mucus-forming foods'' clog up the digestive tract and are responsible for a host of diseases, despite being utter nonsense, appeal to those who don't understand human physiology and prefer to believe in a simple unifying philosophy of disease causation and prevention. That desire for simplicity explains how quacks continue to prosper through selling books, supplements and seminars on ineffectual nutritional and health practices, based on promoting wildly inaccurate theories of a One True Cause Of Disease.
Among Ehret's many weird and nonsensical beliefs was the idea that white blood cells are decayed mucus in the blood which clog the system and cause illness, that the lungs instead of the heart pump blood through the body. that eating rice causes leprosy, and that sexual attraction is based on the sending of electromagnetic radiation through the hair.
You would have to wonder how someone espousing such hilariously goofy ideas could ever have been taken seriously during his lifetiime, never mind by 21st century educated people. However, the volume of enthusiastic reviews here indicate that he still has fans who embrace similar nonsense and gravitate to those carrying on Ehret's tradition. For example one of several recent books written by an ex-California M.D. insists that ''the heart is not a pump'', and Ehret's book has an enthusiastic blurb written by "alternative health guru" Gary Null, who you may remember as the guy who became seriously ill after consuming excessive vitamin D in his own "Ultimate Power Meal" supplement.
Ehret's followers have advanced dark suspicions that his accidental death from a fall in 1922 was not an accident at all, but that he was eliminated by unknown enemies. The present-day counterpart to this paranoia is the ''holistic doctor murder conspiracy'' theory, in which various ''natural healers'' are supposedly being done away with by Big Pharma, the Medical Establishment, the Illuminati etc.
Sherlock Holmes was right - there's really nothing new under the sun. You'd hope though that people would know better by now and stop falling for the same quackery and conspiracy beliefs over and over again.
Arnold Ehret was a late nineteenth and early 20th century naturopath whose bizarre and unfounded ideas about nutrition had a brief vogue in his time, were later revived by counterculture enthusiasts in the U.S. in the 1960s, and appear to have gained a limited following in the present day. His ideas in this book about fasting and his belief that ''pus and mucus-forming foods'' clog up the digestive tract and are responsible for a host of diseases, despite being utter nonsense, appeal to those who don't understand human physiology and prefer to believe in a simple unifying philosophy of disease causation and prevention. That desire for simplicity explains how quacks continue to prosper through selling books, supplements and seminars on ineffectual nutritional and health practices, based on promoting wildly inaccurate theories of a One True Cause Of Disease.
Among Ehret's many weird and nonsensical beliefs was the idea that white blood cells are decayed mucus in the blood which clog the system and cause illness, that the lungs instead of the heart pump blood through the body. that eating rice causes leprosy, and that sexual attraction is based on the sending of electromagnetic radiation through the hair.
You would have to wonder how someone espousing such hilariously goofy ideas could ever have been taken seriously during his lifetiime, never mind by 21st century educated people. However, the volume of enthusiastic reviews here indicate that he still has fans who embrace similar nonsense and gravitate to those carrying on Ehret's tradition. For example one of several recent books written by an ex-California M.D. insists that ''the heart is not a pump'', and Ehret's book has an enthusiastic blurb written by "alternative health guru" Gary Null, who you may remember as the guy who became seriously ill after consuming excessive vitamin D in his own "Ultimate Power Meal" supplement.
Ehret's followers have advanced dark suspicions that his accidental death from a fall in 1922 was not an accident at all, but that he was eliminated by unknown enemies. The present-day counterpart to this paranoia is the ''holistic doctor murder conspiracy'' theory, in which various ''natural healers'' are supposedly being done away with by Big Pharma, the Medical Establishment, the Illuminati etc.
Sherlock Holmes was right - there's really nothing new under the sun. You'd hope though that people would know better by now and stop falling for the same quackery and conspiracy beliefs over and over again.
February 21, 2008
I thought this was an excellent book. The author was a dietician and is also known for his books "Rational Fasting" and "Thus speaketh the Stomach". Even though he gives a lot of information about how fasting and mucusless diet are best, he continually emphasizes that there is no one way to fast, and cites examples of people who have fasted incorrectly and paid for it with their lives.
But what is the most useful about this book is that Ahret can tell you the reason why his method of fasting works and others fail. The last few chapters of the book are particularly eye-opening, where he discusses sex diseases, pregnancy, and menstruation and his experience with people treated in his clinic!!
Another thing about that I picked up from this book--even though Ahret doesn't speak about it, is the "overpopulation" of the world issue. . .After finding out thru the herbalist Dr. Sebi's work about all the foods that are unnatural, it made me wonder if there was not something to the opinion of there being a lot of overpopulation on the planet. But after reading this book to the end, I am much less convinced.
Alaf
But what is the most useful about this book is that Ahret can tell you the reason why his method of fasting works and others fail. The last few chapters of the book are particularly eye-opening, where he discusses sex diseases, pregnancy, and menstruation and his experience with people treated in his clinic!!
Another thing about that I picked up from this book--even though Ahret doesn't speak about it, is the "overpopulation" of the world issue. . .After finding out thru the herbalist Dr. Sebi's work about all the foods that are unnatural, it made me wonder if there was not something to the opinion of there being a lot of overpopulation on the planet. But after reading this book to the end, I am much less convinced.
Alaf
February 15, 2017
People who gave his books a low rating, have really no idea what they are talking about! Most people are not ready for his teachings, they are scared of changing their food habits and their life. This is more than just a diet, this is a lifestyle change, this might include your friends and families even becoming more spiritual.
Yes his books are written almost a hundred years ago but they are still accurate. I surged and read many books over 10 years and found his books to be the best in healing the human body.
I would recommend to look into his books (Mucusless diet and rational fasting ) more in depth and you will see the truth.
Yes his books are written almost a hundred years ago but they are still accurate. I surged and read many books over 10 years and found his books to be the best in healing the human body.
I would recommend to look into his books (Mucusless diet and rational fasting ) more in depth and you will see the truth.
May 15, 2023
Dr. Christopher adopted Professor Arnold Ehret's mucusless diet in his own writings. Ehret makes the bold statement at the beginning of the book that "Every disease, no matter what name it is known by Medical Science, is Constipation, a clogging up of the entire pipe system of the human body. Any special symptom is therefore merely an extraordinary local constipation by more accumulated mucus at this particular place." Constipation doesn't merely affect the bowels... when the bowels are clogged up, so are the individual cells of the entire body. This causes toxins to build up in the tissues and blood stream. He states that every sick person has a mucus-clogged system. The way to get rid of the excess mucus is to eat a diet of raw and cooked fruits and vegetables and to fast.
Interestingly, he mentions how when a person gets the cold or flu-- contrary to what modern medical science says is caused by a virus or bacteria-- that it's actually the body reaching a tipping point with the accumulated mucus, wastes and toxins. Then the mucus tries to leave the body any way it can (through the nose, bowels, lungs , throat and even the urine). This could be why so many people get sick right after Halloween-- the candy not only weakens the immune system, but also generates mucus, like an allergic response to all the sugar and foreign additives. What others call a pathogen, this author calls mucus. He recommends any time a person is sick, that they should stop eating immediately to let the body self-cleanse.
I like how he uses fasting not only as a cleanse, but as a diagnostic tool. As the body detoxes and rids itself of the excess mucus during a fast, little temporary aches and pains show up and shift around the body. These are key areas to pay attention to, signaling a toxic condition or former injury-- one that a future weakness or disease could develop and worsen in if the right diet isn't followed thereafter. The aches and pains during fasting are good signs that the body is cleaning house. The author is convinced all diseases can be cured with fasting. The author believes it takes 1-3 years of consistent fasting and a mucusless natural diet to finally rid the body of all stored up toxins.
The author has a vitality formula: V =P-O, or Vitality = Power (the unknown quantity driving the human machine, such as air Pressure) minus Obstruction. He states, "The ingenious idea of construction of the ideal engine is to make it work with the smallest amount of friction." I found this part of the book fascinating. The body is a miraculous machine!
The author recommends never eating more than two meals per day, to give the digestive system longer breaks in between eating. He recommends eating fruit by itself. He also recommends not drinking any liquids during meals so that the digestive juices won't be diluted (this is especially important as we age). He has tips for which fruits and vegetables combine well and which ones don't. He has cooking tips for minimizing the glue-like nature of starchy vegetables and grains. There are recipes and transition menus included in the book. Ehret states there are "no mixtures in nature" and believes this supports a monodiet or eating as simply as possible. The end of the book has chapters on fasting.
All in all, a book I can recommend.
Interestingly, he mentions how when a person gets the cold or flu-- contrary to what modern medical science says is caused by a virus or bacteria-- that it's actually the body reaching a tipping point with the accumulated mucus, wastes and toxins. Then the mucus tries to leave the body any way it can (through the nose, bowels, lungs , throat and even the urine). This could be why so many people get sick right after Halloween-- the candy not only weakens the immune system, but also generates mucus, like an allergic response to all the sugar and foreign additives. What others call a pathogen, this author calls mucus. He recommends any time a person is sick, that they should stop eating immediately to let the body self-cleanse.
I like how he uses fasting not only as a cleanse, but as a diagnostic tool. As the body detoxes and rids itself of the excess mucus during a fast, little temporary aches and pains show up and shift around the body. These are key areas to pay attention to, signaling a toxic condition or former injury-- one that a future weakness or disease could develop and worsen in if the right diet isn't followed thereafter. The aches and pains during fasting are good signs that the body is cleaning house. The author is convinced all diseases can be cured with fasting. The author believes it takes 1-3 years of consistent fasting and a mucusless natural diet to finally rid the body of all stored up toxins.
The author has a vitality formula: V =P-O, or Vitality = Power (the unknown quantity driving the human machine, such as air Pressure) minus Obstruction. He states, "The ingenious idea of construction of the ideal engine is to make it work with the smallest amount of friction." I found this part of the book fascinating. The body is a miraculous machine!
The author recommends never eating more than two meals per day, to give the digestive system longer breaks in between eating. He recommends eating fruit by itself. He also recommends not drinking any liquids during meals so that the digestive juices won't be diluted (this is especially important as we age). He has tips for which fruits and vegetables combine well and which ones don't. He has cooking tips for minimizing the glue-like nature of starchy vegetables and grains. There are recipes and transition menus included in the book. Ehret states there are "no mixtures in nature" and believes this supports a monodiet or eating as simply as possible. The end of the book has chapters on fasting.
All in all, a book I can recommend.
September 26, 2021
Revolutionary
This book had me wondering where this information has been all my life! I can’t believe how long I have been eating wfpb without hearing about Ehret before. It all makes logical sense. He was certainly a man before his own time.
This book had me wondering where this information has been all my life! I can’t believe how long I have been eating wfpb without hearing about Ehret before. It all makes logical sense. He was certainly a man before his own time.
February 22, 2019
Semplicemente illuminante.
December 19, 2019
I believe this method makes the most sense out of anything I have read about eating & healing our bodies.
March 29, 2021
Better stuff out there on plant based
Some good nuggets overall about plant based diet and fasting but there are too many contradictions and very whacky claims.
Some good nuggets overall about plant based diet and fasting but there are too many contradictions and very whacky claims.
May 17, 2017
Wonderful.
May 23, 2017
I agree with Ehret's ideas about nutrition and health. The only point that made me raise an eyebrow was his opinion of women. I realise he wrote this in a time when women were not as emancipated as they are today. But still. Ehret's philosophy on health is bulletproof. His personal beliefs on other matters, well, nobody's perfect and you can't agree 100% all of the time with everything someone says. That's when you take what you agree with and find of value, and ignore that which doesn't hold water in your world. Many great medical practitioners, possibly called alternative, used the raw food diet for healing their patients, such as Max Gerson, Max Bircher-Benner, Joseph Evers, et al. This is a good intro into his system.
February 27, 2022
To detox and heal body from wrong diet (animal-source foods like meat, fish, eggs, dairy…), we should change to healthy diet (fruits, green leaf, plant-based diet) slowly because when we supply the right food, toxic will be released. If you switch the diet immediately, too much released toxic will harm body. When your body is cleaned somehow, you can start fasting to detox deeper.
There is a still a part that I doubt about women period. Author said when women body is totally clean, there is no period (I am not sure). But it seems reasonable that a clean women will born a new baby perfectly easily without much pain, will have enough milk to feed baby, and baby will grow well without sickness.
There is a still a part that I doubt about women period. Author said when women body is totally clean, there is no period (I am not sure). But it seems reasonable that a clean women will born a new baby perfectly easily without much pain, will have enough milk to feed baby, and baby will grow well without sickness.
June 16, 2020
Excellent synopsis of why humans become sick and what to do about it. Eat less. Don’t eat acid foods (animal flesh, animal secretions). Eat fruit. Cleanse. Fast frequently. This man was ahead of his time. I look forward to seeing continued improvements in my health as I follow these universal and timeless principles.
January 25, 2022
Prof Arnold Ehret makes some great points in this health read.
Personally I would recommend this as supplementation to ‘The Detox Miracle Sourcebook’ by Dr Robert Morse, which is by far my favourite book on this subject.
Recommended if you are ready to kick disease for good.
May 12, 2020
Originally published in 1922, The Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret is a “scientific” inquisition into the cause of disease, although this question seems to already be convincingly answered by Ehret himself. Arnold Ehret, a Naturopath, dietetic researcher, and health educator, theorizes that all diseases, which require no use for names because they all have a common origin, essentially are caused by the food we eat.
Throughout the book, Ehret claims and emphasizes among many other things that pus and mucus-forming foods consumed throughout our lifetime are the cause of human disease, clogging and poisoning blood circulation and major organs throughout the body, and that mucus-free foods (mainly fruits and vegetables) are the key to human health. He advocates fasting as nature's omnipotent method of cleansing the body from the effects of mucus-forming foods and over eating. Ehret asserts that our health is dependent on the functionality and the cleanliness of the internal body, formulated in his equation V=P-O.
Although Ehret makes several oppositional medical claims such as white blood cells are caused by consuming mucus-forming foods, he uses sensible analogy’s to support his claims, including that animals do not need protein dense foods to survive, pointing out that cows continue to grow to significant portions solely on the grazing of grass. Many statements come across the page that puzzle the readers mind as to what this man was thinking, while at the same time understanding his logic to the point the reader may see some truth in his words. However, many of Ehret’s claims countered common beliefs of heath professionals in the medical field during that time.
While his ideas about diet and disease have no scientific basis, and are often criticized by medical professionals, there is some basis of truth in what Ehret preaches. My rating is based on my acknowledgement that Arnold Ehret’s idea that diet has such a significant affect on health, as we witness today, was beyond his time. Arnold Ehret among many other scientists during this time provided a framework to explore deeper into the field of dietetics and health, as well the physiological effects of fasting on the human body.
Throughout the book, Ehret claims and emphasizes among many other things that pus and mucus-forming foods consumed throughout our lifetime are the cause of human disease, clogging and poisoning blood circulation and major organs throughout the body, and that mucus-free foods (mainly fruits and vegetables) are the key to human health. He advocates fasting as nature's omnipotent method of cleansing the body from the effects of mucus-forming foods and over eating. Ehret asserts that our health is dependent on the functionality and the cleanliness of the internal body, formulated in his equation V=P-O.
Although Ehret makes several oppositional medical claims such as white blood cells are caused by consuming mucus-forming foods, he uses sensible analogy’s to support his claims, including that animals do not need protein dense foods to survive, pointing out that cows continue to grow to significant portions solely on the grazing of grass. Many statements come across the page that puzzle the readers mind as to what this man was thinking, while at the same time understanding his logic to the point the reader may see some truth in his words. However, many of Ehret’s claims countered common beliefs of heath professionals in the medical field during that time.
While his ideas about diet and disease have no scientific basis, and are often criticized by medical professionals, there is some basis of truth in what Ehret preaches. My rating is based on my acknowledgement that Arnold Ehret’s idea that diet has such a significant affect on health, as we witness today, was beyond his time. Arnold Ehret among many other scientists during this time provided a framework to explore deeper into the field of dietetics and health, as well the physiological effects of fasting on the human body.
May 10, 2018
Kelios geros ištraukos
Ekspertai-patalogoanatomai praneša, kad nuo 60 iki 70 % ištirtų žarnynų randama svetimkūnių, kaip kirmėlės ir per dešimtmečius sukietėjusių išmatų akmenų. Storosios žarnos vidinės sienelės aplipusios senomis, sukietėjusiomis fekalijomis ir pagal išvaizdą primena purvino kamino vidų.
Aš turėjau stambius pacientus, kurie iš savo kūno šalindavo, nei daug nei mažai, 50-60 svarų atliekų (1 svaras = 0,4535924 kg; vertėjo pastaba). Ir 10-15 svarų tik iš žarnyno, pagrindinai iš svetimų medžiagų – ypač senų, sukietėjusių fekalijų. Vidutinis, taip vadinamas „sveikas“ žmogus nuolatos su savimi nešiojasi, pradedant nuo vaikystės, keletą svarų niekada nepašalintų fekalijų. Vienas „geras tualetas“ per dieną nieko nereiškia. Storas ir ligotas žmogus – faktiškai gyva „atmatų duobė“. Aš labai nustebau, kad daugelis mano pacientų tokioje būklėje jau bandė taip vadinamus „gamtinio gydymosi būdus“.
Kad išvengti nesusipratimų, galinčių kilti iš susilaikymo ir vegetarizmo atstovų pusės, aš turiu čia pateikti dar keletą argumentų. Mėsa jokiu būdu nėra maitinamoji priemonė, o tik sužadinanti; ji pūva ir irsta žarnyne; bet irimo procesas pirmiau prasideda ne skrandyje, o iš karto tik paskerdus; pastarąjį faktą įrodė prof. dr. S.Grahamas. Aš nuo savęs pridėsiu, kad šie puvimo nuodai žmogų veikia stimuliuojančiai ir todėl teikia maitinimosi priemonės iliuziją. O gal man kas nors gali chemiškai-fiziologiškai įrodyti, kad perėjusi į irimo stadiją baltymo molekulė atsistato skrandyje ir, pavyzdžiui, žmogaus raumenyje švenčia savo atgimimą? Kaip alkoholis, taip ir mėsa iš pradžių žada jėgą ir energiją, kol visas organizmas jais neužsikrečia, ir neprasideda irimo procesas. Tas pat vyksta ir su kitais stimuliatoriais.
Ekspertai-patalogoanatomai praneša, kad nuo 60 iki 70 % ištirtų žarnynų randama svetimkūnių, kaip kirmėlės ir per dešimtmečius sukietėjusių išmatų akmenų. Storosios žarnos vidinės sienelės aplipusios senomis, sukietėjusiomis fekalijomis ir pagal išvaizdą primena purvino kamino vidų.
Aš turėjau stambius pacientus, kurie iš savo kūno šalindavo, nei daug nei mažai, 50-60 svarų atliekų (1 svaras = 0,4535924 kg; vertėjo pastaba). Ir 10-15 svarų tik iš žarnyno, pagrindinai iš svetimų medžiagų – ypač senų, sukietėjusių fekalijų. Vidutinis, taip vadinamas „sveikas“ žmogus nuolatos su savimi nešiojasi, pradedant nuo vaikystės, keletą svarų niekada nepašalintų fekalijų. Vienas „geras tualetas“ per dieną nieko nereiškia. Storas ir ligotas žmogus – faktiškai gyva „atmatų duobė“. Aš labai nustebau, kad daugelis mano pacientų tokioje būklėje jau bandė taip vadinamus „gamtinio gydymosi būdus“.
Kad išvengti nesusipratimų, galinčių kilti iš susilaikymo ir vegetarizmo atstovų pusės, aš turiu čia pateikti dar keletą argumentų. Mėsa jokiu būdu nėra maitinamoji priemonė, o tik sužadinanti; ji pūva ir irsta žarnyne; bet irimo procesas pirmiau prasideda ne skrandyje, o iš karto tik paskerdus; pastarąjį faktą įrodė prof. dr. S.Grahamas. Aš nuo savęs pridėsiu, kad šie puvimo nuodai žmogų veikia stimuliuojančiai ir todėl teikia maitinimosi priemonės iliuziją. O gal man kas nors gali chemiškai-fiziologiškai įrodyti, kad perėjusi į irimo stadiją baltymo molekulė atsistato skrandyje ir, pavyzdžiui, žmogaus raumenyje švenčia savo atgimimą? Kaip alkoholis, taip ir mėsa iš pradžių žada jėgą ir energiją, kol visas organizmas jais neužsikrečia, ir neprasideda irimo procesas. Tas pat vyksta ir su kitais stimuliatoriais.
April 23, 2021
До этого я читала другую книгу автора "Возлюби болезнь свою", где больше как теория раскрывалось все, что зачем и почему. Эта книга была похожа на "Секрет" или что-то такое. В этой же книге уже детальный план по диете, продуктам и упражнениям, что достаточно полезно, если вы хотите попробовать подобное очищение.
Из личного опыта: я голодала по системе Оганян, около двух недель точно было (сейчас уже не вспомню, но это за минусом дней входа и выхода на голодание). Это то же самое учение, просто немного доработанное. Я пила одни травяные настои с медом и ничего не ела. Повлияло ли это как-то на мою жизнь и мой организм? Нет. Выходила ли слизь, было кучи энергии и т.д.? Нет. Похудела я, очистилась ли кожа и кишки? Нет. Возможно я мало времени голодала, но никакого эффекта и пользы на себе я не почувствовала. Только мать испугала и помучилась в ванной.
Я очень хочу верить в то, что подобное действительно работает и вся проблема человека кроется в этом. Но мой опыт ничего особо не подтвердил. Может когда-нибудь я попробую снова подобное, потому что главная фишка была в том, что от голода я не страдала и это было единственным "вау". Но не более.
Из личного опыта: я голодала по системе Оганян, около двух недель точно было (сейчас уже не вспомню, но это за минусом дней входа и выхода на голодание). Это то же самое учение, просто немного доработанное. Я пила одни травяные настои с медом и ничего не ела. Повлияло ли это как-то на мою жизнь и мой организм? Нет. Выходила ли слизь, было кучи энергии и т.д.? Нет. Похудела я, очистилась ли кожа и кишки? Нет. Возможно я мало времени голодала, но никакого эффекта и пользы на себе я не почувствовала. Только мать испугала и помучилась в ванной.
Я очень хочу верить в то, что подобное действительно работает и вся проблема человека кроется в этом. Но мой опыт ничего особо не подтвердил. Может когда-нибудь я попробую снова подобное, потому что главная фишка была в том, что от голода я не страдала и это было единственным "вау". Но не более.
June 11, 2023
This book outlines the lifestyle that anyone who is a seeker of true holistic health, vitality, progression of humanity, visionary thought & action, and other things along those lines must know. (Even Einstein had visited Fred Hirsch's center, which utilized this system after Ehret's death). I have been a seeker of these topics for my entire life basically. I'm convinced that this book comes to you just at the right time for your path. I had been doing the raw vegan thing with ease, but doing the mucusless thing, though more challenging, was really what I was looking for. Ehret inspires you to do something you probably never would, which is to really investigate vitality, disease, digestion, nutrition, etc. I'm thankful to Prof. Spira for resurfacing this book to the human consciousness of the day. All of his annotations on Ehret's writings and the commentary on his YouTube channel as well will continue to be a vital resource to me as I continue practicing in my corner of the Earth.
February 14, 2021
Czytając tę książkę kilkukrotnie sprawdzałem, czy autor na pewno napisał ją ponad 100 lat temu :) Sama koncepcja diety opartej na owocach, zielonych warzywach i ziołach wydaje się być co najmniej warta zbadania. Jednocześnie powody, dla których autor ją zaleca są w równej mierze przekonujące co przerażające. Na mnie zadziałał przykład z garnkiem: przygotuj w nim roztwór o kwasowości podobnej do tej w Twoim żołądku, wrzuć tam to co zwykle jesz ustaw temperaturę koło 36,6 i podgrzewaj przez kilka godzin. Zapach może Cię zaskoczyć ;). Teoria mówi, że "to co wchodzi, musi wyjść" ...ale co jeśli część w nas zostaje?
March 1, 2019
Very logical and good book even it's old, you have to agree with Prof. Ehret and with his idea.
Back to the root, what is the food we were born to eat, but we forgot on our way to the new age? And what is the reason more and more people are getting sick?
This book is timeless I want to read other books on the same topic from the current era, but after reading this book you can get enough motivation to change something in your eating habits.
If you are looking at how to cure your disease or simply you are interested in a healthy lifestyle, then this book is for you.
Back to the root, what is the food we were born to eat, but we forgot on our way to the new age? And what is the reason more and more people are getting sick?
This book is timeless I want to read other books on the same topic from the current era, but after reading this book you can get enough motivation to change something in your eating habits.
If you are looking at how to cure your disease or simply you are interested in a healthy lifestyle, then this book is for you.
January 7, 2026
Dangerous. The ravings of a mad man. This book is built on a completely unscientific idea that “mucus” from certain foods causes nearly all disease. It presents demonstrably false claims about human physiology as fact and promotes extreme dietary restriction and fasting as panaceas. That combination is not just wrong, it’s dangerous, especially for vulnerable readers. Any benefits people report are far more likely from eating more fruits and vegetables, not from Ehret’s bizarre and unsupported theories.
March 26, 2018
Though somewhat lacking the advanced scientific and medical perspective of our times, this book has some advices/reasonings/views that are very important to consider and think about. His opinions about fasting, the mucusless diet, exercises, sex, the "superior (mental and physical) state", etc. are all too interesting to ignore I think (the most interesting material is at the end of the book in my opinion). Someone interested in this stuff should give it a go.
December 30, 2020
Incredibly simple, intuitive explanation of the nature of disease. Includes the basis for transformation from a modern, overfed, and latently diseased "healthy individual" to the highest potential possibility of qualitative health.
Very easy to judge the book on parts that include less than ideal scientific and more than currently accepted anecdotal explanations. Personally, I'll be judging the results, not the unbelievable parts of the text which are most likely so due to cultural, intellectual, and other biases or incorrect programming.
The best way I could've imagined to bring closure to this year.
Very easy to judge the book on parts that include less than ideal scientific and more than currently accepted anecdotal explanations. Personally, I'll be judging the results, not the unbelievable parts of the text which are most likely so due to cultural, intellectual, and other biases or incorrect programming.
The best way I could've imagined to bring closure to this year.
July 29, 2021
I read this book while on a “fruit fast”. The spiritual and mental downloads I received this week, I think, are attributed to not only this book but the removal of all destructive eating like this book teaches. I am so blessed to have received this knowledge and will continue to spread this truth for not only my, but also my ancestors’ salvation. We have been sick for far too long. The time to heal is now.
April 18, 2018
He leído todos los ensayos que he podido encontrar sobre este autor y sus ideas y descubrimientos científicos me parecen revolucionarios, acertados y sorprendentes.
La razón de las pocas estrellas es que la traducción hace que muchas ideas pierdan sentido o sean difíciles de entender y que, además, el libro ha sido "rellenado" y "censurado" a placer con el paso de los años.
La razón de las pocas estrellas es que la traducción hace que muchas ideas pierdan sentido o sean difíciles de entender y que, además, el libro ha sido "rellenado" y "censurado" a placer con el paso de los años.
October 1, 2020
Some interesting takeaways about diet and his assertion that food alone is chiefly to blame for all diseases. Ehret’s ideas about fasting (natures method of cleansing/healing) has given me food for thought. He also states that, “the lungs are the pump and the heart is the valve.” He kind of lost me when he started saying that humans skin color/race reflects our health and purity.
March 14, 2025
Vitally important discourse on nutrition
The only element lacking in this seminal revelation on the science of natural eating, elimination and spiritual transformation is the awkward grammar and punctuation that was all-together ignored by the publisher. The book is ripe for editing, and would greatly improve the readability of this seminal work by Prof. Ehret.
The only element lacking in this seminal revelation on the science of natural eating, elimination and spiritual transformation is the awkward grammar and punctuation that was all-together ignored by the publisher. The book is ripe for editing, and would greatly improve the readability of this seminal work by Prof. Ehret.
October 9, 2017
Found a few interesting thoughts and ideas in the book which made me think rationally about personal diet and nutrition. However, the book seems very outdated from the medical point of view, all-in-all, a hundred years have passed from the time it was written.
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