Prof. Arnold Ehret’s Mucusless diet healing system : a scientific method of eating your way to health

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PROF. ARNOLD EHRET'S
MUCUSLESS DIET
HEALING
SYSTEM
ANNOTATED, REVISED, AND
EDITED BY PROF. SPIRA

A Scientific Method
of Eating Your Way
to Health
PROF. ARNOLD EHRET'S
MUCUSLESS DIET HEALING SYSTEM
ANNOTATED, REVISED, AND EDITED BY PROF. SPIRA

By Prof. Arnold Ehret (1866-1922)

Annotated, Revised, and Edited by Prof. Spira

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CONTENTS
Biographical Sketch of Prof. Arnold Ehret by Prof. Spira
Introduction to the Annotated Version by Prof. Spira
Forward by Fred Hirsch
Lesson I. General Introductory Principles
Lesson II. Latent, Acute, and Chronic Diseases—No Longer a Mystery
Lesson III. Why the Diagnosis
Lesson IV. Diagnosis—Part 2
Lesson IVa. The Magic Mirror
Lesson V. The Formula of Life
Lesson VI. The New Physiology
Lesson VII. The New Physiology—Part 2
Lesson VIII. The New Physiology—Part 3
Lesson IX. The New Physiology—Part 4
Lesson X. Critique of All Other Healing Systems, and Unbiased,
Unprejudiced Reviews
Lesson XI. Confusion in Dietetics
Lesson XII. Confusion in Dietetics—Part 2
Lesson XIII. Confusion in Dietetics—Part 3
Lesson XIV. Ragnar Berg's Table (Revisited)
Prof. Spira's List of Acid-Forming and Acid-Binding
(Mucusless) Foods
Lesson XV. Transition Diet
Lesson XVI. Transition Diet—Part 2
Lesson XVII. Transition Diet (Vegetarian Recipes Revisited)
Lesson XVIII. Fasting
Lesson XIX. Fasting—Part 2
Lesson XX. Fasting—Part 3
Lesson XXI. Fasting—Part 4
Lesson XXII. Destructive Diet of Civilization and the Mucusless Diet, the
Natural Food of Humans
Lesson XXIII. Sex
Lesson XXIV. Sex—Part 2
Lesson XXV. The Enforcement of Elimination by Physical Adjustments
A Message to Ehretists
About Prof. Spira
List of Other Publications
BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF PROF. ARNOLD EHRET
Professor Arnold Ehret was a German healer,
dietitian, philosopher, teacher, visionary, and one of
the first people to advocate fasting and a plant-
based, vegan, and mucus-free lifestyle as a therapy
for healing. For over 100 years, his written works
and teachings have touched the lives of thousands of
health-seekers pursuing higher levels of vitality.
Ehret's most famous books, Mucusless Diet Healing
System and Rational Fasting, continue to increase in
popularity as plant-based, vegan, and raw-food diets
become more prevalent. Ehret believed that pus- and
mucus-forming foods were unnatural for humans to
eat, and suggested that a diet of fruits and green
leafy vegetables (i.e., mucus-free foods), are the most healing and powerful
foods for humans. Ehret offers a sophisticated yet simple and safe transitional
system for those who endeavor to stop eating pus- and mucus-forming foods.
Early Life
Arnold Ehret was born July 29, 1866, near Freiburg, in Baden, Germany. His
father was a gifted farmer who was so technologically advanced that he
crafted all of his own farming equipment. Like his father, Ehret would be
endowed with a passion for studying the cause and effect of phenomena. His
courses of interest were physics, chemistry, drawing, and painting. He also
had an affinity for linguistics and could speak German, French, Italian, and
English.
At the age of 21, he graduated as a professor of drawing and was drafted into
the military only to be discharged because of heart trouble. At the age of 31,
he was diagnosed with Bright's disease (inflammation of the kidneys) and
pronounced incurable by 24 of Europe's most respected doctors. He then
explored natural healing and visited sanitariums to learn holistic methods and
philosophies. In a desperate attempt to quench his misery, Ehret decided to
stop eating. To his amazement, he did not die but gained strength and vitality.
In 1899, he traveled to Berlin to study vegetarianism, followed by a trip to
Algiers in northern Africa where he experimented with fasting and fruit
dieting. Due to his new lifestyle, Ehret completely cured himself of all of his
diseases and could then perform great feats of physiological strength,
including an 800-mile bicycle trip from Algiers to Tunis. His discovery
caused him to posit that pus- and mucus-forming foods are the fundamental
cause for all human illness, and that fasting (simply eating less) is Nature's
primary method of cleansing the body of the effects of unnatural eating
(Hirsch 1994, 9).
Successful Healer
In the early 1900s, Ehret opened a hugely popular sanitarium in Ascona,
Switzerland where he treated and cured thousands of patients considered
incurable by the so-called "medical authorities." During the latter part of the
decade, Ehret engaged in a series of fasts monitored by German and Swiss
officials. Within a period of 14 months, Ehret completed one fast of 21 days,
one of 24 days, one of 32 days, and one of 49 days, which stood as a world
record for many years. Ultimately, Ehret became one of the most in-demand
health lecturers, journalists, and educators in Europe, saving the lives of
thousands of people.
On June 27, 1914, just before World War I, Ehret left from Bremen for the
United States to see the Panama Exposition and sample the fruits of the
continent. He found his way to California, which was of special interest to
him. This was because the region was undergoing a horticultural renaissance
due to botanists like Luther Burbank, who later paid tribute to Ehret. At the
time, the University of California, Riverside also owned the world's largest
collection of rare fruits. When the war prevented Ehret from returning to
Germany, he settled in Mount Washington (Los Angeles), where he prepared
his manuscripts and diplomas in his cultivated eating gardens. He and other
"Back to Naturists" began to influence local populations of young people to
investigate plant-based, natural living.
Benedict Lust, a student of Ehret's and early proponent of naturopathy,
initially distributed the English-language books of Ehret, Kneipp, Kuhne,
Just, and Engelhardt in the United States. This included Ehret's Kranke
Menschen (literally, sick human beings) which became a best seller. Ehret
worked at Lust's Yungborn Sanitarium for 5 years. Then, Ehret opened his
own sanitarium in Alhambra, California before a lecture tour. His course on
the Mucusless Diet Healing System became a book of 25 lessons for his
students. The book, along with Rational Fasting, became his most important
and popular publications. Ehret also developed and marketed his popular
Innerclean Herbal Laxative formula.
Death
On October 9, 1922, just 2 weeks after he completed the Mucusless Diet
Healing System, he finished a series of four lectures on regaining health
through fasting and the "Grape Cure" (grape and grape juice fasting) at the
Assembly Room of the Angelus Hotel on 4th and Spring Streets, where it
was reported that over a hundred persons were unable to find seats. After
leaving the building, between 11:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Ehret, aged 56, fell
and sustained a fatal blow to his skull. According to Ehret's business partner
and publisher, Fred S. Hirsch, DNS, he was walking briskly on a wet, oil-
soaked street during foggy conditions when he slipped on the curb and fell
backward onto his head. Hirsch did not actually witness the fall but found
Ehret lying on the street. Carl Kuhn, Ehret's German publisher during the
1920s, even questioned whether Ehret's fall was really an accident. Benedict
Lust maintained that Ehret was wearing his first pair of new dress shoes and
slipped as a result of his unfamiliarity with the footwear.
To this day, the true nature of Ehret's death raises suspicion among his
followers. Ehret's powerful healing successes along with his influential and
revolutionary new lifestyle threatened the medical, meat, and dairy industries.
Due to these factors, many believe that foul play was involved in Ehret's
untimely death. His writings on religion and family were also considered
quite controversial. In the decades following Ehret's death, Fred Hirsch had
many legal battles with medical authorities over the word "mucus" and the
Innerclean laxative.
Legacy
Arnold Ehret is a cultural icon and was an important protagonist of the