MOLASSES could be your answer! #6

Maybe MOLASSES could be your answer

CHAPTER 18

"PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE"

The truth of this hackneyed old saying has been twisted and
exploited for insidious commercial purposes on the disregarded
assumption that one can "prevent" a thing which nobody can be
certain is bound to occur. This would not matter much if the
alleged preventives were entirely harmless. But unfortunately
many of the vaccines and serums now used in orthodox medicine
have in a number of cases either immediate or long-delayed
after-effects of a harmful nature. The trouble is, however, that
just as it is impossible to prove save by circumstantial evidence
that so-termed prophylactics do not prevent what might never have
happened in any case, so it is impossible to prove save by
circumstantial evidence their long-delayed undesirable
after-effects. For instance, I recently heard from a naturopath
in Australia that since an increasing number of children in that
continent have been immunized against diphtheria, there has been
a considerable increase in cases of infantile paralysis among the
child population. Now it is a significant fact that immunization
in many isolated cases has been known to cause paralysis,
sometimes lasting for a whole week in the newly immunized. This
being the case, can it be ruled out that instead of paralysis
occurring immediately, and eventually passing off, the action of
the serum may be delayed and give rise at a later date to that
more intractable form termed infantile paralysis?

It may now be asked what bearing has all this on Molasses and the
old adage quoted above? Is it to be inferred that I am going so
far as to maintain that Molasses will prevent smallpox, typhoid,
diphtheria and all the other acute diseases which vaccines are
said to prevent? Yet granted that acute diseases are much less
likely to occur when the blood and tissues are kept in a healthy
state through absorbing the requisite vitamins and mineral salts,
the type of prevention with which we are here concerned is of
quite a different order. To illustrate my point I will again
refer to Dr. Forbes Ross, and at this juncture, to his noteworthy
experience in connection with cancer. For during the whole of his
years of practice he noticed that not one of his many regular
patients ever developed malignancy; and he attributed this to the
fact that he freely used potassium in his prescriptions, a policy
which no other doctor, to his knowledge, had adopted. Here then
we have, not the proof, but at any rate circumstantial evidence
that potassium salts prevent cancer-though (I for my part would
add) provided that no other powerful causes are present.

The inference should be obvious. As Molasses is especially rich
in potash and other valuable salts, it is reasonable to conclude
from the circumstantial evidence that the habitual consumption of
it would tend to prevent cancer, and such other diseases for
which it has proved to be a cure. Moreover, as every naturopath
knows, it is always best to absorb the required salts and
vitamins from the foods we eat or the beverages we drink, rather
than from medicaments, which, when all is said, are artificial
products, extracts or what not, divorced from their natural
environment. Wisely did the homoeopath, Dr. Dorothy Shepherd, who
has written many enlightening books, give utterance to the
dictum, "Let your foods be your medicines," and also, one might
add, your prophylactics. Indeed the matter is of so much
importance that I may quote from a letter recently received;
though sad to relate it is only one out of many I have had in the
same vein since writing my books on therapeutics. After informing
me that the patient concerned was removed to hospital in order to
be treated for cancer, my correspondent goes on to say:
"She died in the hospital after nine months' suffering, patiently
borne. She had the usual hospital treatment - mainly 'dopes' to
ease the pain. In this large hospital there was no special diet
for cancer sufferers, indeed, all the patients seemingly are
given the same food. Even a patient just operated on for
appendicitis is given suet pudding if that is the 'sweet' of the
day.
"This poor lady's fatal illness was my first experience of
cancer, and I was amazed at the shortcomings of the present
treatment of sufferers from that dire disease.
"The lady in question had previously had a breast removed in the
same hospital. No advice was given to help to prevent a
recurrence of the disease, and within a year she was back in the
hospital suffering from further cancerous growths, this time
considered inoperable.
"Although the hospital doctors knew her case to be hopeless, a
belt was ordered by them to ease pain in her spine. She was never
able to wear it, and her husband (a working man) was charged
fifteen guineas for it.
"A month before her death she was.... operated on.... In spite of
her entreaties for an anaesthetic that would render her
unconscious during the operation, only a local one was given
'because they had to study the muscle reflexes.' She complained
of terrible pain during the operation, throughout which she was
fully conscious, and was told that a second operation might be
necessary within ten days, which filled her with despondency.
"After this first operation (when she was probably merely opened
up to see the extent of the growth) her relatives were told that
the hospital was most hopeful of her improvement under the new
treatment. The second operation was not carried out."

There are thousands of such sad cases, and, alas, there will be
thousands more until the orthodox Medical Profession begin to
look further afield and to realize, as did Dr. Forbes Ross, that
cancer, like many other diseases, is most frequently due to a
lack and not the presence of some "unknown quantity" in the human
organism, and that merely to operate or to burn the outward
manifestation with radium is not to get rid of a cause but only
to tinker with an effect. Admittedly, when the disease has made
such inroads that death would ensue in a matter of a few weeks or
less, then the knife becomes necessary in the hope that life may
be prolonged. But unless the surgeon and his confreres possess
some knowledge which enables them to advise the patient how to
prevent a recurrence, the evil hour of even greater suffering is,
in many cases, merely postponed, as in the sad example already
mentioned. Is it not a noteworthy fact that many physicians who
are not hidebound by orthodox, dogmatical views about cancer,
have come to the conclusion, in company with naturopaths and
biochemic practitioners, that growths are due to wrong feeding;
by which they mean habitual consumption of refined and
deficiency-foods, as Dr. Forbes Ross was one of the first to
contend. White bread, white sugar and boiled vegetables are all
deficiency foods; and yet for generations these have been the
staple diet, plus cooked or tinned meat, of the majority of the
population. As to the brownish bread which people are now obliged
to eat, it is so little better than white bread, and perhaps in
some respects worse, that it certainly does not make up for other
deficiencies. It is true that a much better type of proper brown
bread is procurable, but for some strange reason the man in the
street dislikes the wholemeal loaf and won't be seen eating it.
Consequently, as Drs. Bicknell and Prescott point out in their
impressive book "The Vitamins in Medicine;" as the most valuable
part of the grain is removed from flour and given to pigs and
livestock, "the daily bread of the poor becomes a broken reed
instead of the staff of life."

CHAPTER 19

MOLASSES COULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM

How, then is the problem to be solved? If people will not or can
not live on a well-balanced diet, which, as every naturopath
knows, is the secret of health provided there is no interference
from disruptive emotions, then the best thing to do is to consume
as a daily habit at least one food which contains the largest
proportion of essentials to keep the blood and cells in a healthy
condition, thus acting as a prophylaxis against the chronic
disorders enumerated in these pages. From what has already been
written it will have become obvious that the food in question is
Crude Black Molasses. In addition to the valuable salts content,
canesugar Molasses, contains 700 international units per hundred
(approximately 3 1/2 ounces) of Vitamin B2. As for the mineral
salts, a rough analysis of one specimen used in this country for
making silage, revealed 9 per cent of these necessary substances.
The precentage, however, is probably higher in the Molasses used
in Australia and New Zealand for the same purpose and for the
therapeutical purposes to which my correspondent, Mr. Persson,
has drawn attention. This substance is almost as thick as putty
and tastes much less sweet than the Molasses I have tasted here
in England. In U.S.A. the Molasses used for making gingerbreads,
etc., is termed blackstrap Molasses, and I note from a cutting in
the "Daily Scotsman" (August 23rd, 1946) that the International
Emergency Food Council announced that the 1946 allotment was
368,000,000 gallons, of which 103,200,000 gallons were allocated
to the United Kingdom.

But now comes the snag. Despite this enormous allotment, Molasses
is not at present available in this country for the general
public but is reserved for the farmers. Whether it will have
become available by the time this booklet is in print, I cannot
pretend to predict, seeing that letters to the Board of Trade
have evoked the reply that there is no medical evidence to hand
that Molasses has ever been used in Great Britain for
therapeutical purposes. And that may well be the case, for
although some doctors may have heard of the valuable properties
in Molasses, especially if they have read "The Vitamins in
Medicine," that by no means proves they have advocated its
consumption; orthodox physicians usually preferring to tell their
patients what they should not eat rather than what they should.
But in any case everything must have a beginning! After all there
were times when certain herbs, foods and drugs we now know to
contain valuable properties were looked upon as either useless or
neutral - which is much the same thing. I can remember that, in
the days of my boyhood, fruits were regarded by many people as
nothing but luxuries, very often indigestible ones at that. Few
doctors knew about the value of apples (which contain malic
acid), and of the citric fruits which are now said to be useful
against bacterial invasion. As for vitamins, about which we now
hear so much, no such word existed and had not been even dreamt
of by the scientist, though naturopaths did at least talk of
"vital foods." And what about white sugar? It was thought to be
that particular portion of the sugar-cane which was suitable for
human consumption, whereas the Molasses, the other portion
containing all the mineral salts of which doctors had never
heard, was considered only fit to be given to livestock. The
machinations of the sugar refiners last century may have been
largely responsible for this, seeing they induced an unscrupulous
doctor to "find" a "bug" in unrefined sugar which he conveniently
alleged was harmful for human beings, though apparently it caused
no trouble to animals! As matters now stand, the Molasses
imported into this country for silage is labelled "Not Fit for
Human Consumption," yet when a doctor who was interested in
Molasses-therapy had a sample analysed, this analysis revealed
nothing whatever of a harmful nature either to animal or to man.
Whether the ruling on the part of the authorities is still based
on the "bug" notion, I have been unable to ascertain. What is
perhaps more likely is that as long as the imported aliment is
labelled as above-mentioned, then less care has to be taken about
the containers in which the substance is shipped.
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OBVIOUSLY you will gather from the writer this was written many
decades ago, for now of course crude or blackstrap Molasses and
etc. can be obtained very readily; certainly Health Food Stores
will carry organic blackstrap or crude Moslasses.
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To be continued