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    The Whey Prescription: The Healing Miracle in Milk
    The Whey Prescription: The Healing Miracle in Milk
    The Whey Prescription: The Healing Miracle in Milk
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    The Whey Prescription: The Healing Miracle in Milk

    By Christopher Vasey

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    An introduction to the powerful healing properties of whey

    • Explains how whey acts as a powerful detoxifying agent

    • Reveals the effectiveness of whey against diseases affecting the heart, liver, kidneys, and intestines and in controlling obesity, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure

    • Shows how this healing agent is now easily and readily available

    Since antiquity whey has been known as “healing water” by Greek physicians. Hippocrates and Galen both recommended whey to their patients. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, spas across Europe offered the whey cure to aristocrats and commoners alike. Modern scientific research has confirmed the curative capabilities attributed by our ancestors to this dairy product, but because it is highly perishable and must be consumed while very fresh, this cure fell out of favor in our modern urban age. Now, thanks to the availability of whey powder and granules, this highly nutritious and effective healing agent is once more within the reach of everyone.

    Whey is the watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in the process of making cheese. It is rich in lactose, minerals, and vitamins. Beyond its nutritional value, whey has powerful detoxification properties and its therapeutic action is beneficial for all the major organ centers of the body: heart, liver, kidneys, and intestines. It is especially effective in the treatment of liver ailments such as hepatitis as well as the treatment of skin problems, infections, edema, digestive disorders and gallstones, and the painful joint diseases of arthritis and rheumatism. Whey also has been shown to be a powerful treatment against obesity, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. In addition to its ability to treat these specific illnesses, whey is a proven invigorating supplement that promotes overall good health and vitality.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInner Traditions/Bear & Company
    Release dateOct 2, 2006
    ISBN9781594778933
    The Whey Prescription: The Healing Miracle in Milk
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    Christopher Vasey

    Christopher Vasey, N.D., is a naturopath specializing in detoxification and rejuvenation. He is the author of The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health, The Naturopathic Way, The Water Prescription, The Whey Prescription, and The Detox Mono Diet. He lives near Montreux, Switzerland.

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      The Whey Prescription - Christopher Vasey

      May your foods be your medicines.

      HIPPOCRATES

      Contents

      Cover Image

      Title Page

      Epigraph

      1. The History of Whey

      2. What Is Whey?

      3. The Nutritional Substances in Whey

      LACTOSE

      LACTIC ACID

      LIPIDS

      CALORIC INTAKE

      PROTEINS

      MINERALS

      VITAMINS

      4. The Healing Properties of Whey

      A GENTLE BUT EFFECTIVE INTESTINAL LAXATIVE

      REGENERATING THE INTESTINAL FLORA

      STIMULATING AND DETOXIFYING THE LIVER

      ELIMINATING EXCESS WATER FROM THE TISSUES

      STIMULATING TOXIN ELIMINATION BY THE KIDNEYS

      ENCOURAGING ASSIMILATION

      CORRECTING THE BODY’S INTERNAL CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT

      5. Principal Indications for the Whey Cure

      ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT

      ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES

      BLADDER INFECTIONS

      BLOOD VISCOSITY AND HIGH CHOLESTEROL

      CONSTIPATION OR INTESTINAL LAZINESS

      DIABETES

      FATIGUE, LACK OF ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM

      GAS AND BLOATING

      HEART ATTACK AND STROKE

      HEMORRHOIDS

      HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

      INDIGESTION

      JOINT DISEASES

      KIDNEY DISEASES

      KIDNEY STONES

      LIVER DISEASES AND INSUFFICIENCIES

      MUSCULAR SPASMS AND CRAMPS

      SKIN DISORDERS

      WATER RETENTION AND EDEMA

      WEIGHT PROBLEMS

      6. The Practice of the Cure

      WHAT KIND OF WHEY SHOULD I USE?

      DOSAGE

      THE WHEY CURE

      THE WHEY CURE AND DIET

      CONTRAINDICATIONS

      7. Supplementing the Whey Cure

      MEDICINAL PLANTS

      OXYGENATION

      PHYSICAL EXERCISE

      OTHER MODALITIES

      Appendix 1: The Basic Principles of Detoxification Cures

      ILLNESS: AN ACCUMULATION OF TOXINS

      THE PROFOUND NATURE OF DISEASE

      THE EXCRETORY ORGANS: THE EXIT DOORS FOR TOXINS

      TO HEAL MEANS TO DETOXIFY

      THERAPEUTIC DRAINING

      THE IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING GOOD EXCRETORY FUNCTION

      RECOGNIZING GOOD EXCRETORY FUNCTION

      THE DRAINERS

      THE PRACTICE OF DRAINING CURES

      Appendix 2: Nutritional Analysis of Powdered Whey

      Resources

      POWDERED WHEY

      SPA WHEY CURES

      AUTHOR’S WEB SITE

      Footnotes

      Also by Christopher Vasey, N.D.

      About the Author

      About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company

      Books of Related Interest

      Copyright & Permissions

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      The History of Whey

      A patient in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, whom the medical treatments of the time were unable to cure and to whom the doctors were giving little time left to live, journeyed to the mountain village of Gais (in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden) in 1749 and was healed of his disease by drinking whey on a daily basis.

      Was this patient aware of the past success of treatments based on drinking whey, the liquid known to the Greek doctors of antiquity as healing water? Or had he heard the peasants of this mountainous region talk about whey’s healing properties?

      We don’t know, but the news soon spread of this patient, who survived despite his doctor’s terrible diagnosis, and numerous people with illnesses flooded to Gais to benefit in turn from the miraculous healing properties of whey. A health spa was soon created in this tiny village. It was followed by the opening of more than 160 others in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. These spas were most active in the middle of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century. The renowned benefits of the whey cure brought emperors, princes, and aristocrats from all of Europe to take the cure in these spas, to be healed of their ailments or simply to improve their general health.

      What is most amazing about whey is that its healing properties have been recognized since antiquity, and modern scientific research has only confirmed the knowledge of the ancients. The whey cure is used today just as it was twenty-four centuries ago. Few remedies or cures can boast of such a long history and such unanimous agreement about their virtues.

      Hippocrates (466–377 BCE), the father of medicine, recommended whey to his patients. Following him, Galen (131–200 CE), another founding father of medicine, advised his patients about the whey cure. For a time he even directed a treatment center, sponsored by the famous school of Salerno, at the foot of the milk mountain in Italy, between Sorrento and Naples.

      Whey cures were also recommended by other famous names from the history of medicine: the Islamic doctor and author of nearly two hundred works, Ibn S n , known in the West as Avicenna (980–1037 CE); Thomas Sydenham (1624–89), the English Hippocrates, who especially recommended whey for the treatment of gout; Hermann Boerhaave (1668–1738), the famous Dutch physician whose methods of clinical instruction were used throughout Europe; Victor Albrecht von Haller (1708–77), the Swiss biologist, considered

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