The Cold Sheet Treatment
Mankind suffered greatly when the black plague struck Europe during the dark ages as well as the many times these types of flu or influenza have returned to the world, and we especially remember, with sadness, the great multitudes that died during the great flu epidemic of 1918 during World War I.
A fever is given to a person to assist in healing the body which has an over-case of toxicity which is causing a disease (lack of ease). Fever is like a fire, which can warm your body and save your life, or burn your house down and kill you. If the fever is properly controlled and skillfully handled it will clean the poisons, toxins and surplus mucus from the body and bring on a healing crisis. If not controlled properly the fever can kill the patient.
With the information we are presenting to you, at this time, many lives can be saved should another epidemic return.
Water therapy has been used for centuries to heal the sick. Rev. S. Kneipp, the great natural doctor of the old country, had published books on "water cures." One in our library is a massive work on the subject. Many doctors and authors have volumes written on this subject, and why not? The body is made up of over 80% liquid. Much of the fluids in the body are toxic, loaded with cholesterol, mucus, etc., and with proper replacing, in a natural way, of good liquid we have a great key to better health.
An old story of the first written instances of the water cure is as follows:
Many years ago a peasant was heading home on foot, with miles to go. He was racked with fever, colds, and lumbago. While crossing a stream, over a log for a bridge, he slipped and fell into the icy cold water and was drenched to the skin. It was a bitterly cold day and the man had to walk home in the cold in sloppy wet clothes. By the time he had arrived home, his clothes were nearly dried out. The fevers and heat in his body had been raised, while hurrying miles home, to a point of healing climax and was down to nearly normal at the end of his journey. The lumbago and fever were gone and he rejoiced! The next time he got lumbago and fevers he knew the cure--he would return to the stream, fall in and walk home again.
We are going to explain a procedure that will do the job at home without "falling into the stream" and this is a life saver, when pneumonia, colds, flu and fevers hit. It is called:
The Cold Sheet Treatment
This program will take a little time and effort for the one doing the nursing. If you are desirous of seeing a sick friend, patient, or loved one healed, you will never regret the time spent, for this has saved many lives of people who were given up as hopeless, left to die, but were brought back, with this program, to good health.
Step one: Give the patient an enema, using an herb to assist if available: catnip, sage, red raspberry or some other type made into an infusion and administered cold. A cold enema will cause the anus and rectal area to contract and retain the fluid until it reaches body temperature or, because of fever, higher before it will cause the rectal area to relax and allow voiding of the fluid and fecal matter. This allows the liquid to stay in the body longer and soaking more old dried waste matter loose.
We do not encourage the use of an enema except in emergency, as they can become habit forming. (Not long ago a man informed me he had two bowel movements each day like clockwork, providing he had two enemas each day. As he said, no enemas, no bowel movement. Here was a crutch. With the program here it is used as an emergency measure; then get the bowel to work on its own. See our booklet on the bowel, Rejuvenation through Elimination.)
Step two: A garlic injection. In herbology an injection is never a needle; it is a syringe type application. Into a pint of one-half apple cider vinegar and one-half distilled water, cold, blend in finely grated garlic, or use a garlic press or regular blender. Have the garlic liquid still thin enough that the liquid will pass through the orifice of the syringe. If in a blender just drop in cloves of peeled garlic, one at a time, until the proper amount is used to let it still flow from the syringe without clogging. Insert the garlic tea you have already prepared in advance into the rectum of the patient with the syringe (a pint for adult or less for children), encouraging patient to retain as long as possible before voiding. Keep patient well covered while waiting. You will find it is easier for the patient to hold in the liquid if lying on a slant board, or with buttocks elevated with pillows.
After the garlic mixture has been voided, then we use:
Step three: The patient is placed in a bathtub, full of hot water, as hot as is possible (without blistering or scalding the flesh, of course). The tub has been prepared before their entering the water by adding three very fine diaphoretic herbs, namely an ounce or more of cayenne, an ounce or more of ginger and an ounce or more of dry mustard. These and the other herbs used in this program should always be on hand.
These three herbs will assist greatly in speeding up the perspiring of the patient and this is very important. This program (or idea) is to build an artificial fever or increase the fever they already have to a higher degree. This is being done to bring an incubation condition into place, to cause the disease germs to multiply as rapidly as is possible. The germs are God's gift to the sick to be used to speed up a healing. The germ is a scavenger that lives on toxins, mucus, poisons and filth. They are nature's perfect garbage men. We should work with them, not against them. With the moist incubation they multiply faster and faster. To live they must eat and the only thing they can consume is the filth of the body. When all the garbage is cleaned up they leave, because they have nothing more to live on.
A germ cannot consume, or live on, good live cell structure. If they could then we should have a great fear! But after cleaning out the body of our sickness, which is accumulated waste, the germ finishes its job and leaves us with a healing climax.
If we take shots, inoculation and/or oral medication to kill the germs, we have defeated the purpose of nature. It is like having a garbage man's strike in a large city. We have seen this several times in our travels, and in one large city it was estimated that three thousand tons of garbage was stacked up on the streets each day. What stinking filth. When we kill our garbage men (germs) in the human body, we still have the original filth they were trying to consume, plus continual additions, plus the corpses of all the germs we have killed.
This causes the heart to labor, trying to pump the sludge through the system, pulling calcium from wherever it can to help in this extra labor. Then when we are faced with a calcium deficiency we can develop rheumatic fever (causing a rheumatic heart and a weakened body) that can even (one day) go into polio, stroke, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, etc., etc. The rheumatic fever condition leaves a calcium weakness that can lie dormant for years and then with a new loss of calcium at some future date, can develop into one of these maladies.
We want to build the fever as fast as possible with moisture. Dry fever is a killer, causing infantile paralysis, brain fever, etc., but moist fever can go much higher and if used properly, by working with the germs, can only do good as the "Maker" of this human body intended.
Step four: To assist increasing the fever, we give the patient diaphoretic teas; this can be any good sweating tea such as yarrow (Achillea millefolium) (our favorite), blessed thistle, camomile (Anthemis nobilis), pleurisy root (Asclepias tuberose), boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum), thyme (Thymus vulgaris), Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis), garden sage (Salvia officinalis), catnip (Nepeta cataria), spearmint (Mentha viridis) and many other good diaphoretic (sweating) herbs.
When the patients sweat in the tub a long time, they become thirsty. Do not give cold drinks, give hot yarrow or one of the other type-unsweetened-but stay with one type of tea to drink if possible, like yarrow, or boneset, or whichever you have. Have them drink as much as is possible.
During the sweating scene, the patient may get lightheaded and feel like fainting. If so, place a cold towel or washcloth on the forehead. Leave the patient in the hot tub as long as is possible, then have him step out, or lift him out, of the hot tub, and now...
Step five: Wrap a large double white sheet, dripping wet from being soaked in cold water, around the standing patient. With just the head and feet protruding, the sheet is pinned down the side. The patient, thus wrapped, is put into a bed that has been prepared by having a rubber or plastic sheet protecting the mattress, with a cotton sheet over it. Then a dry cotton sheet covers the patient (still wrapped, of course, in the cold wet sheet), and natural fiber blankets are put over the top sheet for warmth and to help continue the sweating routine.
The reason for using natural fibers for the covering of the patient is that synthetic cloth (which should never be used anyway, and especially in any healing program) will not breathe. It will not allow oxygen, the breath of life, to get into the body. Approximately 60 percent of all breathing done by the human body is from the neck down. This is done through the skin, and if the skin is covered with material (paint as in the motion picture "Gold Finger" or synthetic cloth) which cannot permit breathing, the individual will eventually suffocate.
Now that the patient is well covered, you do Step 6.
Step six: You have already prepared some garlic paste. This is made by blending crushed or finely grated, peeled buttons of fresh garlic into Vaseline (petrolatum) about half and half. The low vibration Vaseline will not be absorbed into the skin, as will anhydrous lanolin or vitamin and ointment. The Vaseline holds the garlic in suspension where the high vibration ointments would be absorbed and leave the garlic exposed to the bare skin to thus blister it.
Before applying the garlic paste, the feet, from the ankles down, must be thoroughly massaged with olive oil. Allow as much of this oil to be absorbed into the skin as possible, covering the sole, sides and entire foot area. After the oiling is accomplished, the next step is to use about one-half inch thick or more of the garlic paste and spread it on gauze or cotton or wool cloth and apply over the entire sole of the foot. Do not allow the paste to get up on the sides on top of the foot - only on the sole! The purpose of being on the sole is that this is the area where the major part of reflexology (zonal therapy) is applied, and here is where the nerve ends from the entire body - including all the organs, can be controlled. The garlic will, by being applied to the soles of the feet, be able to disperse its oxygen-carrying power (the breath of life) throughout the body for healing.
Use two-inch gauze, or torn white cotton strips as a bandage to hold the garlic paste on the sole of the foot. When this is in place, gently pull over the foot and bandage a large cotton or wool white sock, to aid in holding it on.
Put the bandaged feet back under the cold wet sheet and pin the bottom of the sheet together so the patient will be in a wet sack. The reason for using a large double sheet (instead of small) is because it will allow the patient to roll or turn around as we often do at night without being too closely confined.
The patient in the cold wet sheet will sleep all night, in most all cases, and you will not have to worry about the problem of wanting to get up to urinate (because of drinking all that tea). While the body is in the cold wet sheet, the subconscious mind will automatically build up more artificial fever to warm the body. Here we continue the incubation process and use up the teas and moisture accumulated in the body to warm the outside of the wet body. This process causes perspiration and draws heavily on the body for moist heat. While this is being done it breaks loose old toxins, drugs and medicines, mucus and poisons of the past which have accumulated, and will, with the sweating, carry these unwanted materials to the outside of the body. With the heat generated, to do the job, the wet sheet will become dry.
With the poisons and old drugs being removed from the body, the patient will, during the night, proceed to rest better, and the sleep will be a much more satisfying one than can be imagined. Now we use:
Step seven: After the patient awakens from the deep sleep he has had, take him out of the bed and sponge him down thoroughly with warm apple cider vinegar and distilled water half and half. This is to remove from the skin the sticky poison mucus that has worked its way out of the body, for some of it is still in the pores and coats the skin. Sponging off the body this way will allow the body to breathe again through the skin. With the pores plugged up it means the doors and windows (pores) of the temple are shut and stagnation can start setting in again
The patient now feels as though all the weight of the world has been lifted off his shoulders (with poisons and toxins removed), and he is anxious to start his new life, with ambition, and turn the world into a better place, because he feels better. Put fresh clothing on him and make up the bed with fresh bedding and have your patient go back to bed and relax for awhile to gain back strength. This house cleaning of the temple has been a hard job, and it will be good to rest a while longer.
The large white "cold" sheet that was taken from the bed when removing the patient, is now no longer wet. The fevered body has dried it out during the night, but it is no longer white. It is stained with dye from old drugs and toxins from as far back as childhood. The dye from these drugs will be of various shades and colors from pastel to dark.
It is far better to have these inorganic drugs and poisons on the sheet, rather than slowing down the activities of the body they were in! (This process has been used successfully to aid in removing the cravings for nicotine, alcohol, as well as in other drug problems. The person to be helped must want to have this aid and must cooperate with the program.)
Step eight: Our patient should by this time have a desire for something to drink or to eat. This is a very important step, because we can gain or lose ground at this time. At times the cravings from the past will crop out; the patient will want a steak, full meal, processed beverages, ice cream, gooey pastries, junk. Do not respond to these desires. Give the patient fresh fruit or vegetable juices (juices from Dr. N. W. Walker's Vegetable Juice or green drink from Dr. Karchner's Healing Grasses) or bottled or fresh grape juice, apple juice, etc., with no additives. Each mouthful of juice should be swished (chewed) thoroughly to mix it with the saliva for good assimilation, so that it, by chewing, will have no adverse action on the pancreas, thereby being helpful instead of reactionary as in cases of diabetes or hypoglycemia.
Do not mix the juices, but let them drink (chew) as much of any one kind as they desire, or feel comfortable with. If a change of juice is desired, wait at least one half hour before using a different one. After a few hours, if the patient is really hungry, let them have a little local ripe fresh fruit, but it must be chewed to a liquid before swallowing, During the day it is good for the patient to have as much distilled water as desired and good herb teas. To the teas a little honey may be added. It is really best when possible to keep the patient on juice therapy for one to three days before going into the mucusless diet.
Step nine: After a bad siege of body malfunction, it is wise to instruct the patient why he was in this condition and what to do from this point on so there will not be a reoccurrence of the disease. To just work on the effect and give immediate relief is not a complete program. This sickness has been given as an education to teach us how to clean up a bad condition and then keep the body in such a condition there will be no recurrences. This is knowledge turned into power--the power for a better life, a higher vibrating body, a temple that is clean (God will not dwell in an unclean tabernacle), and an instrument (body) so well-tuned that it can experience the joy of living and can even tune into "That Great Universal Mind." The power of clairvoyance, intuition, etc., can come to such a clean body.
After teaching our patient the way to receive health and hold it, he may often return gratitude and thanks by becoming the "student," to learn more of the healing program, and thus become helper, teacher and instructor to help others learn the natural way of life.
