The Lemon Juice Craze
One favourite method of trying to keep regular is to dilute the juice of a lemon with a glass of water. This myth goes back several hundred years. In 1950, however, reports began appearing in the medical and dental journals showing how teeth were being etched by the citric acid of lemon juice.
Warnings are now issued that people with arthritis should be on guard against lemon or diluted lemon juice as a laxative measure.
Please avoid the lemon habit—in spite of the fact that it is effective as a laxative. (The citric acid of lemon juice is definitely able to stimulate muscle contractions.) Instead, if you must, use citrate of magnesia. This employs the same evacuating principle, without drying out your body.

Warm Water before Breakfast
A pre-breakfast drink of warm water is supposed to act as a laxative. It works, too. But when taken in the morning, be sure it’s at least one hour before breakfast. Water taken by itself does have a beneficial action on sluggish bowels. It may be slower, without the lemon, but it is by far the better way. There will be absolutely no harmful side effects, like drying out the system.
While water in the morning is helpful, water during the day works against bowel regularity. Once you start eating, the process of digestion takes hours. Flooding your stomach with water during the day will only defeat proper digestion.

Mineral Oil
Crude mineral oil was discovered by Red Indians on top of stagnant water in the oil fields. Today, mineral oil is refined into pure form from petroleum.
Refineries could not sell mineral oil for automobile use, so their representatives educate people to pour it into their bodies. Just the way mineral oil does not pass qualifications for a car carburretor, it forms puddles of useless oil in your intestinal loops. This finding was published recently in American medical journals.
Even worse, mineral oil is indigestible. If taken with a meal, it surrounds food particles and makes them non-digestible. Vitamins that become clogged by mineral oil are evacuated without giving their value to your body.

Bran
To relieve constipation, one food which can help is bran. The milling industry first convinced farmers that it was good for horses. Next, the flour salesman told the public that bran had laxative properties.
But bran has this disadvantage: If its coarse grains start clumping together in the intestinal tract, they can irritate the digestive pathway. Whenever this occurs, bran loses favour as a food supplement.

Cultured Milk
An effective cultured product is Acidophilous. The Bulgarian people still use this drink, which is rich in cultured bacteria. Buttermilk is another form of laxative favoured by many. Buttermilk is acceptable, but there are better ways for the modern-day arthritic.

Psyllium Seeds
When soaked in water, psyllium seeds swell to twice their normal size—supposedly to clear the intestinal tract. The trick is to drink water before and after taking the seeds. In this manner you cause the seeds to exude a lubricating jelly which, reportedly, makes passage smoother. Frequently, however, psyllium seeds have been found to lodge in the intestinal walls and become foreign irritants.

Cascara Sagrada
A well-known laxative and stimulant, cascara sagrada is made from a shrub found in the western states. Hundreds of thousands of people use this type of product. It can give help. But cascara sagrada is not always tolerated by the system, and may place added strain on the liver.

Calomel
A white, tasteless, insoluble powder, calomel is capable of purging the body. But it, too, causes added work for liver.

Senna
The purgative known as senna is employed frequently in constipation among children and pregnant women. Senna—along with a drug called phenolphthalein—creates more havoc for the congested liver.
In addition, while carrying out waste, these laxatives may take with them some valuable digestive juices and food elements. They may remove the good as well as the bad.
Agar-Agar
The Japanese think they have come up with a possible panacea for intestinal sluggishness in agar-agar. It’s a seaweed found off the coast of Japan.
By absorbing and holding moisture, agar-agar prevents undue drying of the fecal mass. At the same time, however, it is non-digestible. Bulk results, which creates non-digestible and irritating materials. When non-digestible foreign particles from agar-agar envelop food particles with a film, the products for nutrition are not absorbed. Instead, they are excreted. Therefore agar-agar is just as bad as mineral oil. Rhubarb and castor oil would be far better choices.
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“The biologically oriented doctor is aware that with chemical and antibiotic drugs he will always cause damage to the host organism’s biological milieu, even though with such treatments he can achieve a temporary effect. Therefore, he avoids to the utmost the use of such drugs in the management of simple and harmless infections. To treat a common cold or a sore throat with, for example, penicillin, for him is a crime against the fundamental rules of health. Instead, his attention is directed to increasing the body’s own resistance with all the natural, harmless, biological methods of treatment which are available.”

“In your experience, Dr. Essen, are the results of such biological treatments gratifying?” I asked.

“I have had the joy of observing how the body, as a rule, if the general resistance is not too much lowered and if given a chance and proper aid in the form of rest, fasting, wholesome diet, and other biological measures, will by the strength of its own healing power win the battle. And this is not only true in cases of milder infections, but also in cases of very serious diseases. Furthermore—and this is a very essential point—instead of coming out of the disease weakened and debilitated, as is always the case after treatments with chemical drugs, the patient, after biological treatments, comes out strengthened and renewed. It is my observation that biological treatments raise the general resistance of patients and they will, as a rule, become more immune to infections in the future.”

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Use of other supplements or medications. Generally speaking, any medication or supplement that has proved helpful previously can be taken concurrently with CMO and need not be discontinued. There are exceptions, however, and those are various strong immunosuppressants and anti-inflammatory prescription medications which can often (but not always) slow down or block the actions of CMO. The medications that have been so identified are Methotrexate, Rheumatrex, Cloroquine, Gold Shots, Prednisone, and other steroids.

On the other hand, CMO has never been shown to interfere with the actions of any other medications or supplements. The use of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and beneficial oil supplements is encouraged.

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