01.11.09

Sunlight in Addition to Budwig’s Flax Seed Oil and Cottage Cheese Mixture

Posted in Book Reviews, Health-related--Natural Alternative Treatments, Treatment Decisions, Uncategorized at 1:37 am by Administrator

Yesterday I checked out a small book called Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases by Dr. Johanna Budwig.  Amongst the alternative treatment advocates, Budwig is known for the flax oil and cottage cheese mixture to treat diseases such as cancer.  I had read about her years ago, but since I was already trying other healing modalities, outside of the basics, I didn’t spend much time learning about Budwig and her theories.  More recently I was encouraged to revisit Budwig’s flax oil and cottage cheese mixture as I had been experiencing very dry skin and started using flax and borage oil.  I felt that the oils were helping me and it made me wonder if I should try adding the cottage cheese.  Co-incidently, Patti wrote and asked my opinion about Budwig’s diet around the same time and mentioned of a man whose liver cancer appears to be improving using the flax oil cottage cheese mixture.  In addition, my father’s myeloma took a big leap, and so I felt more compelled to revisit Budwig’s diet again.

Upon searching the net, I found that the basic idea of the flax oil and cottage cheese mixture was to make the omega 3s in the oil water soluble, and thus more usable to the body.  Just taking the oil alone apparently is not used as efficiently by the body.  I found in Budwig’s book that it is the cysteine in the cottage cheese that makes the oil water soluble.  By the way, the reason I decided to check out one of her books is because I found that the “recipe” for the flax/cottage cheese mixture was not all the same on the net.  I wanted to know what Budwig’s actual recommendation was rather than what was everyone else’s modifications.  And being that Budwig wrote in German, I didn’t have a good selection to choose from in English but Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases.  As it turns out, this little book is a transcript of three of her public presentations.  So the amount of information is limited.

Although Budwig’s presentations were relatively short, I am glad that I read them as there was information in there that I did not find highlighted much on the net regarding her views.  I had known from the net that along with the flax/cottage cheese mixture, Budwig recommended a vegetarian diet.  I also knew that she was against drugs, chemos, radiation, and even supplements.  For that view, she did resonate well with me.  She also advocated avoiding preservatives, solidified and damaged fats such as hydrolyzed oils, and pesticides as she felt that these things interfered with the body’s fat and protein bonds which is essential to proper cellular functioning.   What her book explained much better than what I found on the net was the relationship of the sun and her theory of healing.  I had read Kime’s book, Sunlight, so really appreciate Budwig’s insight regarding sunlight, a view which I didn’t not read in Kime’s book.  That is, Budwig felt that the electrons stored in our bodies helped to attract photons from the sun.  We need good electrons in our bodies such as comes through electron-rich foods and oils such as flax oil to better utilize the photons from the sun, otherwise the sun can be harmful to us.  This reminds me of Kime’s book wherein he deals with the common belief that the sun causes cancer.  According to the study he cites, the sun only caused cancer in the subjects who were low in antioxidants.  Those who had good levels of antioxidants actually “benefitted” from exposure to sun.  Budwig’s view was that if we did not have sufficient electrons, then we would not be able to absorb enough photons from the sun and that when we burned during sun exposure, it indicates that we don’t have enough electrons to absorb the sun’s rays safely.  Her’s a quote from her book regarding that,

“The living body can only take in and store solar electrons through resonance absorption.  To absorb the electrons into the living body, we must already have in the body’s electron system either the same wavelength or a multiplicity of wavelengths.  Thus, the human who eats refined foodstuffs or food which lacks electrons, not only cuts off his oxygen enough to suffocate himself, he also cuts himself off from the effects of the sun.   When such people cover their skin with a layer of paraffin as sun protection oil, and then lie in the sun, the burn damage is very great, because the electrons, which cannot be stored, and the electron-rich-biological molecule, are missing.  It has been proved that all the poisons which affect the action of enzymes, including paraffin and the benzopyrin in cigarettes, have an irritative effect on the entire system of electron absorption, storage and further conduction.”

From that I’m think Budwig is stating that the electrons in our bodies attract the energy from the sun.  Without the appropriate electrons we would not attract the energy from the sun, and thus not obtain the full benefits the sun offers to our health.  Since flax oil is rich in electrons (according the Budwig), it works synergistically with the energy from the sun by attracting the sun’s photons.   It appears to me that Budwig felt that we obtain energy from the sun, and that is why all the electron-photon storage is so important.  This passage from her bood seems to sum it up.

“. . . We can store the sun’s energy and the living body is then in a position to summon, depending on the situation, energy from this storage depot of electrons.  When these depots are empty, the person then feels irritable, tired, and his limbs become heavy.  But we are able to replenish these storage depots by taking in electron-rich seed oils.  These are set to receive solar energy.”

In addition to attracting protons, electrons are important because they have a great affinity to oxygen, which stimulates our breathing and our entire being.  Kime wrote in his book, Sunlight many other benefits of the sun, provided you’re nourished well enough to benefit from the sun.  Such benefits of the sun are conversion of cholesterol to vit D and other hormonal stimulation.  John Ott, also wrote several books documenting his observations of the benefits of the sun to man and other living organisms including animals and plants.  He stumbled upon the effects of lighting from his hobby of time-lapsed photography.  He noticed that plants grew differently depending upon whether certain light waves were filtered or not.  He later concluded after many experiments and studies that full-spectrum lighting is the only beneficial lighting to our health.  He even advocated not wearing any eyeglasses as that inhibited the full benefits of the sun through the eyes.

All this time I had no idea how important Budwig felt the sun was to our health.  So this is another aspect that I agree on with her.  Budwig stated that,

“According to the computael findings of those modern physicists, the quantum biologists, there is no entity in nature, in life, which as a higher concentration of solar electrons than man.  It then folows that man has a true rapport with sunlight. . .”

“The electrons in our food serve as the resonance system for the sun’s energy.”

If Budwig is correct, then it stands to reason that we should be careful to put electron-rich foods into our bodies, and not dead foods devoid of nutrition.   While I have read about the importance of the sun to our health, I had no idea that Budwig also felt strongly about it and is part of her healing modality aside from her flax oil and cottage cheese mixture.

Okay, so now that I’ve got a “little” better understanding of Budwig’s ideas, I have already tried the flax oil and cottage cheese mixture, as have my parents.  We started yesterday.  HOWEVER, today I noticed on the cottage cheese list of ingredients that it has “citric acid.”  Cripes.  I’m trying to improve my health, not start taking excitotoxins. . . Whole Foods only had two selections for organic cottage cheese and I bought one of each (Horizon and Clover).  Now I notice that both has citric acid as an ingredient.  I’m gonna have to find another brand that doesn’t have citric acid in it or learn how to make my own cottage cheese.  At any rate, I hope we start noticing some benefits soon.

Marlakins

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