CHAPTER XI. 



THE STOMACH. 



What the roots are to the plant the stomach is to the 

 human body. The roots are the foundation of plants, 

 and the stomach is the foundation of man. When 

 plants get sick they lose their healthy green color and 

 the roots commence to ferment. When man gets sick 

 he, too, loses his healthy color, and fermentation goes 

 on in his foundation — the stomach. This fermentation 

 in the stomach produces acid and gas, which irritate the 

 delicate linings and cause the stomach to reject food 

 entirely or pass it on before it has been properly acted 

 upon by the natural fluids of the stomach. 



To cure plants we have first to remove fermentation 

 from the roots. Then new rootlets will be formed, and 

 gradually the plant assumes its former green color. In 

 the same way man must be cured through the stomach. 

 When that organ is free from fermentation, acid and 

 gas will no longer be given off. Then the delicate lin- 

 ings become renewed, appetite increases or returns, and 

 the stomach again digests the food that produces flesh, 

 blood, and color. 



If we examine the tips of white roots under a high- 

 power magnifying glass, little, hollow tubes will be de- 

 tected which act as suckers in taking up the water and 

 food upon which the plant lives. The linings of the 

 stomach, when examined the same way, also show hol- 

 low tubes which suck up the food and water to nourish 

 the whole body. Fermentation on the roots of plants or 

 in the stomach of man must naturally affect the whole 

 system of plant or man. This demonstrates that if we 

 attempt to cure man of disease the remedy must al- 



