An engine that runs at a reasonable pace has a longer life than if it is hardly ever used; mechanical parts that are left idle become rusty, oxidise and seize up due to hardened lubricants; in other words, they suffer damage. An engine runs best at a certain number of revolutions per minute and an adequate temperature, and it becomes damaged if it is overheated. This is the reason for installing gauges that tell you the best temperatures for running the engine so that its life can be extended. We humans also possess a reliable gauge that indicates whether our ‘body engine’ is running properly or whether we are overtaxing it. This motor is, as we all know, the heart. When running at high speed, it should not be left to a colleague or the ‘motorist’ to decide the maximum rate, or speed; let the heart itself tell you. As soon as it beats considerably faster than usual, this should be taken as a warning that you must slow down. It is true that we can let our ‘heart motor’ run at a higher speed for a short time, but when the exertion continues over an extended period, our energy reserves become drained, fatigue sets in and our health is adversely affected.

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All these factors are important enough to make us look at our pots and pans and check whether some should be discarded in the interest of good health. Certainly all copper pans should be removed from your kitchen and no longer used for cooking. Homoeopathy prescribes Cuprum (copper) in potencies of up to 20x. So, if such high dilutions produce a medicinal effect, surely it is most appropriate to consider the potential danger of your cookware.

Copper has an interesting effect on microscopic organisms. Put some copper shavings in a cloth bag, place this in some water and watch what happens to the microscopic protozoans, algae, fungi and bacteria living in it. They all die. Without losing much of its weight, copper can produce such a powerful catalytic effect that it kills these microscopic organisms.

Silver-plated or nickel-plated copper can cause upsets when they are used for toys, because once the plating has been abraded, the oxidised metal can harm the child playing with such a toy.

All these considerations should make us want to keep away from copper. If you wish to cook and live in a way that is conducive to good health, you must take care to choose safe cookware. Why add to the already existing detrimental influences in our modern life? As it is, our food loses much of its natural value because of chemical additives, preservatives and the refining processes, apart from other influences such as chemical sprays and fertilisers used in its production. You are merely following a course of wisdom if, in your kitchen, you take care not to add to all this pollution but keep the standard as high as possible so that your health will benefit.

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Throughout my many decades of practical experience I have always noticed that it is far more beneficial to utilise food in its entirety, as a wholefood, if at all possible. We should use not just the oil extracted from the seeds, but we should also consume the residual matter, the oil cake, adding it to our food. If the liver is sensitive and cannot tolerate certain oils, especially those that have been refined, it will usually accept the unrefined ones. It is even more beneficial for the liver if the whole oil seed or fruit is eaten. This observation has been confirmed in many cases and will no doubt become a universally accepted fact in the near future following its endorsement by scientific research. It is obvious that, as far as modern nutrition is concerned, new ways should be found and followed in the interests of everybody’s health.

Meanwhile, we can at least take advantage of our present knowledge and make a dish of oil seeds and honey. In doing so we will prevent oxidation and the deterioration of the nutritional value of the oil seeds. Creamed into a spread, poppy seeds, freshly ground sunflower seeds or any other oil seed and honey, is about the healthiest and most strengthening food that exists. Furthermore, it is a splendid food and remedy for those who suffer from liver problems.

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However, if you find that nuts and salads are eliminated without being digested, a raw food diet is not for you. In particular, children with digestive problems or who suffer from coeliac disease should not be given any food they cannot digest. It would be closing one’s eyes to the facts if a diet were continued although the patient was slowly dying of a complete loss of energy – a kind of foolishness I remember seeing once in the case of a girl who would not listen to reason.

It is true that some primitive peoples live almost entirely on raw foods and remain fit and strong. We in the industrialised world, however, should not draw the wrong conclusions from this. Figuratively speaking, civilisation has inflicted many wounds on us, and many of us have acquired extremely weak digestive organs, making it almost impossible, or at least very difficult, to digest raw foods. If this applies to you, you will have to make the food more digestible by cooking it. Only a modest addition of raw food in the form of puree or juice will be permissible. Facing the facts is the answer to keeping your body from being put under unnecessary stress. When the system has recovered sufficiently and the digestive juices are once again able to break down the raw vegetable cells and assimilate the nutrients, you can begin to enjoy some raw foods, but with great care. Even then, you should never forget that proper chewing and thorough insalivation are called for. Never eat in a hurry. So if you want to benefit fully from raw foods, you will have to take more time eating them than you do with cooked food.

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If you have liquid manure and dung at your disposal, do not spread it directly on the soil but incorporate it into compost to improve its quality. The compost heap will mature more quickly

if layers of dung are alternated with yarrow or pine needles in its construction. In the first year you can add animal dung and liquid manure to the compost. But in the second year, no new material should be added to the heap; it should merely be turned over to let the air get to it. At the end of the second year you will have valuable compost that is of great importance to the plants. Vegetables that require nitrogen will do better if the compost has bone meal added to it, while legumes like peas and string beans, as well as roots and vegetables that are rich in potassium, grow better with wood ash compost, since wood ash is rich in minerals, including

potassium.

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