EACH DAY WHILE FASTING you should see that the bowels are cleansed of the effete and poisonous matter thrown off by the self-cleansing process now being set up by the body. This is MOST IMPORTANT, for, if omitted, the body will reabsorb the poisons, and your fast will have been more or less in vain. A gravity douche is the best appliance to use.

Symptoms which may arise during fasting, but need cause no alarm.
Slight Fever. If this makes itself felt, a little warm water may be drunk.
Dizziness, headache, faintness, insomnia, palpitation. If any of these symptoms appear, they will pass off as the fast progresses, and undue importance need not be attached to any of them.
Coated tongue and bad taste. Both these are very common symptoms, and are indications that the work of cleansing the tissues of accumulated toxins is progressing.

Breakfast. Juice of two oranges, grapes, and an apple (well masticated).
Midday. Salad of lettuce, watercress, tomatoes, mustard and cress, grated raw carrot (dress with olive oil and lemon juice). Wholemeal toast (cold) and butter. A pear or an apple.
Evening Meal. Steamed cabbage (or brussels sprouts, spring greens, savoy, etc.) and carrots, with stewed prunes, figs, or raisins as a second course.

After these two days you should take food in accordance with the suggestions contained in the treatment for your case in the practical section of the present book If you have been advised to go on a fruit diet after the fast, the day on milk and day on special diet should be omitted.

SPECIAL NOTE. To break an extended fast, the reader is referred to the treatment of fevers.

THE ALL FRUIT DIET. When on the all-fruit diet you should have three meals a day of fresh, juicy fruits, such as apples, pears, grapes, grape-fruit, oranges, pineapple, peaches, melon (or any other juicy fruit in season), but no bananas or dried, stewed, or tinned fruit, AND NO OTHER FOODSTUFF WHATEVER.

For drinks, lemon water unsweetened or water either hot or cold may be taken, nothing else. If any food, such as bread, is taken with the fruit meals, the whole value of the treatment will be lost. If losing much weight on the all-fruit diet, those already underweight may add a glass of milk to each fruit meal.

SPECIAL NOTE. See that all fruit is quite ripe before eating; unripe or sour fruit is no good at all.

Morning. Oranges, or orange and lemon juice, or grape-fruit. (Never use sugar for grape-fruit.)
Midday. Salad (raw), composed of any of the vegetables in season, attractively prepared. Dressing should consist of olive oil and lemon juice, never vinegar. Dessert. raisins, prunes (soaked), figs, or dates.
Evening. Raw salad, or one or two vegetables steamed in their own juices, such as spinach, cabbage, carrots, turnips, cauliflower, etc. Finish the evening meal with a few nuts or some sweet fruit such as apples, pears, plums, or cherries.

Have milk as usual up to 3 p.m., then have nothing up to 7 p.m., when a salad meal should be taken. Do the same the next day, and on the third day you may go straight on with the next diet as prescribed for you in the treatment for your case.

If organic milk is not available, the best substitute for the milk diet is " Slippery Elm Food," a drink of which, unmalted, can be taken with fresh or dried milk and water

First Day.
Breakfast. Juice of two oranges, grapes, and an apple.
Lunch. Salad of lettuce, watercress, tomato, grated carrot and beetroot. Wholemeal toast (cold) and butter. A few raisins or dates.
Evening Meal. Poached egg on steamed spinach, steamed carrots and celery. Baked apple.

Second Day
Breakfast. Soaked raisins, an orange. Glass of milk.
Lunch. Raw vegetable salad made from as many salad vegetables as desired. Cottage cheese. Wholemeal bread and butter.
Evening Meal. Steamed fish, any two steamed vegetables. Soaked dried fruit.

Third Day
Breakfast. Fresh fruit salad. Glass of milk.
Lunch. Lettuce, celery, banana, and date salad. Wholemeal bread and butter.
Evening Meal. Lamb or mutton chop, or nut cutlets, with steamed cabbage, marrow, onion, or leeks. Stewed fruit.

Fourth Day
Breakfast. One raw juicy fruit in season, one sweet dried fruit.
Lunch. Poached egg on spinach, baked potato in jacket, steamed greens. Baked apple.
Evening Meal. Puree of vegetables. Salad of as many salad vegetables as desired, with wholemeal bread and butter.

Fifth Day
Breakfast. An apple, a few soaked prunes, a glass of milk.
Lunch. Salad of lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, and grated carrot, chopped dates and seedless raisins. Wholemeal toast (cold) and butter. A pear or some grapes.
Evening Meal. Buttered cauliflower, steamed carrots, baked potato in skin. Grated nuts, or grated cheese. Baked apple.

Sixth Day
Breakfast. Half a grape-fruit, grapes, an apple.
Lunch. Raw vegetable salad, cottage cheese, wholemeal bread and butter. A few raisins, dates, or black figs.
Evening Meal. Chicken, two or three steamed vegetables. Fruit.

Seventh Day
Breakfast. An orange, a few dates, a glass of milk.
Lunch. Lettuce, cabbage, celery, and grated beetroot salad Wholemeal toast (cold) and butter. Ripe mashed banana.
Evening Meal. Nut cutlets (or poached egg), steamed onions, marrow, leeks, turnips, or carrots. Fresh fruit salad.

NOTES ON THE FOREGOING DIET CHART. The midday and evening meals on any day may be reversed as desired, but it is not permissible to take the lunch for one day and the evening meal for another. Any vegetable mentioned on the diet-chart which is not in season may be substituted by any other suitable which is in season. Where chicken is mentioned, those who cannot afford it may have rabbit or lamb in its place.

All salads should have a dressing of either olive oil or lemon juice, or both. If both should happen to disagree, have nothing at all on the salad. Never use manufactured " salad creams," salad dressings, seasonings, sauces, etc. Use no vinegar either. Such things are very bad indeed, and completely spoil the value of a salad. Fruit should always be as ripe as possible; no sour, unripe fruit should ever be eaten. Milk, where mentioned, should always be fresh and unboiled, but may be slightly warmed in cold weather if desired.

Those under thirty (and those underweight) may have a glass of milk every morning with the fruit breakfast, if desired ; those over fifty (and those overweight) should have nothing but fresh fruit for breakfast (no dried fruit or milk at all), unless they are doing hard manual work. If milk disagrees in any particular case, it should be left out entirely from the dietary."}

In the colder months a little vegetable soup, made by simmering fresh vegetables, may be taken occasionally before either the midday or evening meal. Never use potatoes, beans, peas, or lentils for this, and always cut the vegetables up very fine. It is advisable to take the soup from a quarter to half an hour before the meal, as liquid taken with meals tends to weaken the digestive juices.

Those who would like to have no cooked food at all, and they will derive great advantage by so doing, may substitute salad for cooked vegetables where mentioned on the chart, and either egg or cheese or nuts for meat, fish, etc.

Vegetarians should substitute either egg or cheese or nuts for flesh foods where mentioned on the diet chart.

For winter salads, cabbage, sprouts, carrots, beetroot, turnip, etc., may b� used. All ingredients should be finely shredded or grated. Those doing hard manual work may have dried fruit with the breakfast meal every morning, if desired; also milk.

Always drink at least half an hour before a meal or about three hours after. A glass of hot water or fruit juices diluted with water, on rising or before retiring, will be found very helpful in cleansing the body of waste matter and toxins, and would be especially beneficial in conjunction with the natural treatment you are now undergoing. The best drinks are water (either hot or cold) and fruit juices (with or without water).

Milk is not a drink, but a food, and is best taken in conjunction with fruit. Strong tea and coffee should be carefully avoided, as both these drinks have a bad effect upon the digestive and nervous system, also on the kidneys and heart. A cup of weak China tea, without sugar, may be taken during the afternoon, however, by those who desire it. This will do no harm at all. No food should be taken with the drink, though. For sweetening a drink of hot water and lemon juice, the best thing is honey. The desire for excessive drinking should always be regarded as a sign of disturbance of function of a diseased condition. Never drink because you think you ought to, but when you really want to do so. On a diet such as is being prescribed for you, very little drinking will be found necessary, as most of the food is already in a diluted condition, for all natural, uncooked foods contain a large percentage of water in their composition.