6/38 Booklet on Calcios, Acigest, etc. [GD's note: This
booklet was sent to us in 1938 in re the Acigest and
Calcios products about which Mr. [
1564] had asked in 1564-1]:
LIFE BEGINS WITH CORRECT NUTRITION
A. A. Nichoson
47-45 - 244 Street
Douglaston, L.I.
A number of years ago the writer of this brief brochure was
practically abandoned as being helpless and hopeless by the
medical profession. Having suffered for several years with
tuberculosis, plus its accompanying complications, and
despite the fact that authoritative advice was followed
the foundation of health gradually weakened until the point
of professional abandonment was finally reached.
As one begins to truly and seriously realize that health
is waning, the consciousness as to its import and value
is increased. Because of a general ignorance concerning
the chemical make-up and the mechanical operandi of the
human system, to the lay mind there is nothing more
seemingly futile than to endeavor to think out ways by
which health can be recouped and maintained. Thought,
however, often becomes the mother of action, and from
the mental struggle in the desire to live has evolved
this personalized procedure of correctly mineralizing
the blood stream through organic salts.
When one pauses and analyzes he becomes impressed with the
thought that the various forms of medication and therapeutics
go but little beyond the field of treating symptoms. The
invariable problem in ill or lost health is to completely
and permanently remove the causes which have contributed
to the physical breakdown. This is not an easily
accomplished task. However, as the beginning, the end and
the interim of the human family is chemistry, this must
become the major premise in attacking the problem. Further,
it is a known fact that the mineral salts of which the human
body is made can only be accepted and assimilated by the
human cell in the form of organic food.
In the action which followed the logical and fundamental
thoughts, the keystone of the program which has evolved
is nutrition - embodying not only the proper and personalized
foods to meet the problem, but, more important, their
efficient translation into assimilable and acceptable salts.
Special foods, mentioned further on in the outline, were
constructed through specially designed mechanical and
chemical equipment. These materials are auxiliaries to
the correct menu and become short-cuts in the rejuvenation
of the system inasmuch as they are predigested in make-up
and contain some of the rarer and more elusive salts uncommon
in the average menu.
Although there is nothing magical in this, as nature demands
the factor of time for repair and rebuilding, yet within the
matter of a few weeks one becomes distinctly conscious that
a physical change is taking place in the system. This is
reflected by better general feelings. To feel better means
to be better, and it is impossible to get better in one part
of the system without getting better in all.
The recouping and retaining of sound health through this plan
has been so marked to those who have observed its efficacy,
and their interest had been so definitely manifest, that
these few pages had been drafted in the interest of life's
greatest asset - HEALTH. There is so much that can and
should be said on this subject that it seems hopeless to
attempt to cover the issue in a few pages of printed matter.
However, the following outline will afford a sketchy picture
of the procedure which has been developed. The pertinent
thought of the entire plan is that its premise is based
solely upon nutrition. This is fundamental to normal living.
Straws of thought indicate which way the wind is blowing,
and the new pages of modern living will be glaring in their
exposure of NATURAL FOODS - NATURAL HEALTH.
There is but one person who can give sound health to anyone
- that is, the person who desires it. The price tag attached
to this precious asset is insignificant compared with the
returns that it affords. It demands only the giving to
nature of those essential minerals which, through incorrect
or injudicious selection of foods, have starved the system;
it asks only the curbing of perverted appetite desires; it
exacts only the consistent use of common reasoning in the
correction of established detrimental habits; it asks so
little in comparison with the rewards assured. When given
a fair chance, the dividends paid by nature are little short
of being classed as a miracle.
For centuries, semi-civilized and civilized peoples have
sought the fountain of youth either in the form of natural
or man-made curatives. The fountain of youth is sound and
and uninterrupted health, and rather than to be found, it
must be developed. During the past half century there has
been a rapid decline in national health. The largest single
contributing factor to this startling and costly situation
is the tremendous consumption of denuded foods.
Nutrition - the proper kinds of foods in the proper
combination is half the secret of health. The other,
and all important half, is to be able to correctly digest
and assimilate these foods and properly transform them into
bodily mineral salts. A sound premise is the knowledge that
a human being can only be what they eat and the importance
of food is more obvious when it is realized that the average
person consumes approximately one ton of food during the
course of a year.
So that an appeal may be made to the eye and taste, modern
foods have been denuded and stripped on their essentials
for health. The ultra refinement of foods together with
their general consumption has become the foundation for
the vast majority of our present physical ills. Every
individual interested in health must change his dietary
course towards the natural foods.
Few people have a normal metabolism and are, therefore,
unable to correctly transform even natural foods into the
proper mineral salts. In the handling of foods there are
three important steps: First, digestion; second,
assimilation; and third, elimination.
Of the important mineral salts which to go make up the body,
by far the most important is calcium. At the same time this
is one of the rarest and most elusive in modern refined foods
and one of the most difficult to extract and assimilate even
from foods which are high in calcium content. Three-fourths
of the entire weight of the body is calcium. In the system
it spells resistance against fatigue, disease, or physical
impairment. Its presence approaches the fountain of youth
as much as is possible, because regardless of the measure
of years its possessor has normal and buoyant health. It
is an integral and vital part of bones, tissue, organs,
glands and fluids. To secure calcium, as well as other
minerals in the system, demands the nutrition and
assimilation from organic food. Medication or the various
therapeutics may be relief or temporary remedy, but
permanent recuperation and maintenance MUST come by food.
The importance of calcium is emphasized by the knowledge that
to maintain normal health, an adult requires from 65 to 85
grains of calcium per day, while a growing child must have
from 300 to 400 grains. The denial of this will result in
physical impairment through the fact that the system becomes
literally starved for this vital essential of life.
The basic cause for most of the labeled complaints is
the deficiency or absence of calcium in the diet, or
the inability of the individual to properly change and
assimilate the foods eaten. This starved condition
generally makes itself manifest in some weakened spot
of the body. It may be in the mouth, throat, lungs, liver,
intestines, etc. In some individuals it is called pyorrhea,
in others asthma, tonsillitis, tuberculosis, cancer, colitis,
piles, rickets, neuritis, arteriosclerosis, and so on down
through the whole category of labeled ills and diseases.
The answer in regaining and retaining normal health and
sound physical condition is the proper selection,
combination, nutrition, and assimilation of foods. These
must conform to the age, sex, condition, and objective of the
individual concerned. There are no two individuals who
have an identical chemical reaction to the same food. By
this is not meant a bodily disagreement to a certain food
but rather a systemic translation and assimilation.
Therefore, even a slight readjustment of food combinations
for an individual produces surprising results.
In the wide range of foods which the world affords, there are
some few that should be excluded from every diet. Prominent
among these are:
1. WHITE FLOUR
2. WHITE SUGAR
3. FRIED FOODS
4. TEA AND COFFEE
5. PORK PRODUCTS
6. VEAL
7. TURNIPS
8. PIE, PASTRY, CAKE, CANDY, ICE CREAM
9. CHEESE (except Cottage Cheese)
10. VINEGAR
11. PICKLES
12. CONDIMENTS (except Salt and Pepper)
13. RHUBARB
14. PARSNIPS
15. ALCOHOL
Generally speaking, dark brown sugar, honey, and maple syrup
may be eaten in reasonable quantities.
A general menu for the average adult person, already in
normal health, should be along the following general lines:
BREAKFAST:
Fresh Fruit. (In cases where weight is desired plenty of
cream should be used on fruit where indicated,
as bananas, peaches, etc.)
Kellogg's (The use of cream applies as to weight needs
All Bran. or conditions. In the reduction of weight
no honey, sugar, or syrup should be used.
As a factor of change the bran may be
occasionally mixed with hot Ralston Food
or Wheatena. This should be on the basis
of 75% bran and 25% hot breakfast food.)
2 - 2-Minute (Not more than one egg per day should be
Eggs. eaten by females.)
2 slices of (Where weight is desired
WHOLE WHEAT spread with plenty of
bread butter.)
Milk and Acid.
LUNCH:
Grind very fine in a food chopper any three RAW fruits and
vegetables and do not remove tops from vegetables as radish,
etc. All possible of this should be eaten for the midday
meal and not less than a pint. This will be a mushy mass
more easily eaten with a spoon, but if desired olive oil
and lemon juice may be eaten on this salad.
2 slices of WHOLE WHEAT bread and butter.
Milk and Acid.
DINNER:
Any thick vegetable soup (do not use meat stocks or grease;
for flavor use onions, tomatoes, etc.)
Broiled or baked fish, fowl, steak, lamb chops or pot roast.
Baked Irish potato, being sure to eat the skin.
Any two steamed allowed vegetables.
2 slices WHOLE WHEAT bread and butter.
Rice pudding made from brown rice - with cream unless
reducing.
Any raw vegetables or in salad form.
Fresh fruit.
Milk and Acid.
Any fresh fruit in any quantity may be eaten at any time.
Do not drink any liquid WHILE EATING the meal. This tends
to dilute the digestants of the stomach which are at work
changing the food into chyme, and through such practice
digestion may be retarded and the fermentation of food
impaired.
Modern foods, even in their rougher forms, fail to furnish
in proper balance the mineral salts required for the rapid
and proper restoration of health. Therefore, in this plan
has been developed special foods and materials which are
auxiliary to those designed in the proper menu. The
development of these foods represents a new step in the
science of colloids. They are chemically and mechanically
predigested and reduced in size below a micron, making them
acceptable to and readily assimilated by the human cell.
These include:
1. ACIGEST. This is a special oxygenated acid instrumental
in activating the stomach enzymes, all essential for the
proper preparation of food to be assimilated. This acid
is to be used in RAW MILK ONLY. One teaspoonful should be
added per glass of raw milk and drunk directly after eating
each meal and sometime prior to retiring. The acid should
be added to the milk, stirred, and drunk immediately. This
acid should be kept tightly corked.
The addition of the acid to the milk produces a rennet, or
curdling. The extent of this curdling is influenced by the
type of milk, its age, and its temperature. If this is
objectionable, it may largely be overcome by having the
milk thoroughly chilled and gulping rather than to slowly
drink.
2. CALCIOS. This is a highly concentrated organic calcium
food. It is to be eaten TWICE daily - WITH the morning and
the evening meals. It may be eaten as is or placed on food
and eaten hat way. Take on the end of a spoon the quantity
that would be comparable in size to a crushed pea. A
two-ounce jar should last a month. This food will keep
indefinitely in any climate.
Children should take the same quantity of this food as
adults. There is no harm in eating any quantity and the
amount specified to be taken is that which nature is capable
of assimilating in six to eight hours. Hence, the omission
of this food at lunch.
3. TISHU. This is a rich concentrated building food. It
should be employed in run-down conditions, where the loss
of weight has prevailed, wasting diseases, low resistance,
extreme nervousness, and where a general building up of the
system and its tissues is indicated. This is an extremely
finely emulsified and predigested food of special selected
fats, proteins, albumins and mineral salts which have been
scientifically prepared for easy and complete assimilation.
This food should be taken TWICE daily - one and a half to
two hours after eating the morning and the evening meal.
It should be taken in VERY HOT WATER, and in some cases
this water should be replaced with skimmed milk. Adults
should take in terms of TABLESPOONSFUL - children under
fifteen in terms of TEASPOONSFUL. For the first four days
one tablespoonful should be used, for the second four days
two tablespoonsful, for the third four days three table-
spoonsful, and thereafter and as long as taken the quantity
should be four tablespoonsful. This food should be kept
tightly corked, clean and should not be subjected to
temperatures below 40 degrees F. or above 100 degrees F.
A warm place but not a hot one should be selected for keeping
this food, such as a dark shelf in the kitchen. This should
be kept from direct sunlight.
4. RICINOYL. This is a special form of super refined castor
oil which has been so treated as to eliminate common
disagreeable factors generally associated with ordinary
castor oil. The purpose of this oil is to furnish healing
to the entire intestinal tract. The after effects of any
castor oil are apt to be binding so the individual should be
governed accordingly. The night prior to beginning this
program of better health, two ounces of this oil should be
taken and this should be repeated on the same night each
week thereafter. It should be taken as is, though it may
be followed with orange or other fruit juices. The
so-called "repeating" of any castor oil is invariably due
to its entering the nasal passages. If the nose is held
while taking the oil this effect is largely eliminated. The
sickening reaction of oil is a reflection of toxic or
unclean internal condition. This is overcome as the
digestive organs strengthen and the system becomes normally
clean.
5. VEGO. This is a pure vegetable laxative food with a
high nutritional value as well as serving to assist nature
in proper elimination until there shall have been restored
normal functioning. The issue will then correct itself.
it may be eaten at any time and in any quantity, though
the most appropriate time to take is just prior to retiring,
and a full teaspoonful will generally be found to be
sufficient. This should be followed by a full glass of
water. It will keep indefinitely, though it may tend
to harden with age. This does not impair its value.
There must be at least two good movements per day and if
these are not forthcoming naturally then nature should be
assisted. As an auxiliary to the Laxative Food, agar used
with food will be found to be helpful in many cases, or
the employment of psyllium seeds. Laxtro Dextrin will be
found to be harmless and in many cases beneficial. Glycerine
suppositories can be used without fear or any tendency
towards habit forming.
The stool should be made a habit with punctuality as much
as the meals. Fruits for the most part should be juicy
in nature which will assist in correct elimination, and
fruit juices taken between meals are of marked benefit.
The rolling of a six pound shot along the tract of the
big colon, beginning low at the right side, coming up
the body to the height of the navel, then across the
abdomen, then down to the left side, and continuing
this motion for from five to ten minutes night and
morning will serve as a helpful abdominal exercise.
This is only a very sketchy outline of the procedure
necessary to securing and retaining good health. It will,
however, indicate that medicine and the other various
therapeutics of themselves can never be other than mediums
of relief. Of course, in some instances medication, either
of a prescribed or proprietary type, apparently corrects a
trouble, but this restoration is invariably due more to the
kindness of nature than the efficiency of the remedy. It
is not to be inferred that in no instance is medication not
indicated, as quite often just the opposite is true.
However, the basic restoration of deteriorated tissue must
come through returning to such tissue the materials of which
it is composed. Repair and reconstruction must begin at the
very base of human tissue and must be developed from the
inside out. This is marked in the modern theory of filling
teeth. It is erroneously felt that to fill the hole which
has appeared in the tooth is to correct the condition. The
tooth never began to decay from the outside, but rather the
trouble started from the inside, undoubtedly predicated by
the fact that the system was being starved for lime and
nature drew from this easily accessible source. Hence,
the softening of the calcium formation of the tooth making
it an easy prey for even weak acids, and although the mouth
is supposedly alkali in reaction yet the mouth of the average
person invariably shows acidity. This again definitely
reflects the error of the average modern diet.
There are sixteen mineral salts in the human system. These
are organic in nature and inasmuch as the human race is a
living organism the only logical manner in which this life
can be sustained is through live foods. These sixteen
mineral salts are distributed in varying proportions through
the five tissue groups of the system: the bony structure,
the brain and the marrow of the bones, the skin both on the
inside and the outside, the muscles interior and exterior,
and that all important group which is just beginning to
receive recognition - the glands. The denial of these
mineral salts, even though the amount be only a trace, can
reflect itself in nothing other than impaired health. One
part of the affected organism makes itself felt through
reflection and physical sympathy to all other parts of the
system. In such a condition, the exhilaration of powerful
medicines will not correct the trouble. They may soothe
pain and relieve after a fashion temporarily, but the
inevitable results of such procedure will prove costly
through unnatural aggravation.
Due to the fact that the correct method of living
necessitates the change or correction of habits that have
been built up, many may feel that such a procedure entails
much detail. However, final sound and buoyant health is the
reflection of thoroughness that has been accorded these
seeming details. Health should be worth any effort.
As the nerve tissue of the body are correctly fed and
strengthened, so are those of the mind, and mental fears
are eliminated along with those of a physical nature.
To follow the plan means health, and health means happiness
and success in both social and business circles.
6/05/38 He was present for his Physical Rdg.,
1564-2.
6/06/38 GD's ltr. to Colloidal Health Products, Inc:
Colloidal Health Products, Inc.
Greenvale, Long Island, N.Y.
Gentlemen:-
Through Mr. [
1564] we have heard of the wonderful results
from the use of your products.
We would appreciate your sending us by return mail:
1 bottle Acigest
1 jar Calcios
with bill attached. Also we would like to have a list
of your other products, prices, etc.
These two properties we want for a friend locally [See
1548-2] who has T.B. If you wish a report on the case we
will be glad to furnish it.
Yours very truly,
[signed] Gladys Davis, Secretary
ASS'N FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT, INC.
11/23/38 See
257-202, Par. 34-A discouraging Mr. [
257]
from approaching Mr. [
1564] and others to "get funds for
EC and the work".
11/29/38 See wife's reading
1602-2, Par. 35-A indicating
their past associations in the English Crusade and in other
incarnations.
3/14/39,
6/22/39 He obtained two Business Readings -
1565-4
and
1565-5.
3/15/39 "Mr. Cayce has been very helpful to me, to my family,
and to so many of my friends, that I know you will accept
this (contribution) as a small indication of my best wishes
and gratitude."
6/09/39 See
1472-10, Par. 36-A indicating karma from past
associations.
6/18/39 See personal message in 8th Annual Congress reading
262-121, Par. 14-A.
12/11/39 See wife's reading
1602-6, Par. 15-A on re his
advertising business.
6/28/49 GD's note: We heard that Mr. [
1564] died about a
month ago with T.B. See latest correspondence under his
second Physical Rdg.
1564-3 and under his wife's Life Rdg.
1602-1.
9/58 Routine Mailing brought change of address of company
[Colloidal Health Products, Inc., see Par. R3 above] and
Capt. A. A. Nichoson to: 1436 Elliott West, Seattle 99,
Wash.
9/58 Calcios label:
CALCIOS
A diet supplement of young bone, marrow, protein, and
essential minerals in colloidal form for better assimilation;
calcium, cobalt, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus,
potassium, sodium, sulphur, and zinc. These elements are
in trace amounts and with naturally occurring associated
factors such as found in young bone and marrow.
COLLOIDAL HEALTH PRODUCTS INC.
1430 Elliott Avenue West
SEATTLE 99, WASHINGTON
2 1/4 Av. Oz.
Spectographic analysis also shows present in trace amounts:
barium, lithium, silicon, strontium, titanium, copper,
boron.
DOSAGE: 1/8 to 1/2 teaspoonful twice daily with morning
and evening meal. Calcios is flavored and will keep under
any climate condition.
4/05/72 GD's note: Today I rec'd this with a gift jar of
Calcios from The Heritage Store, Inc., 22nd St., Va. Beach,
Va. 23451:
CALCIOS
Calcios in a product recommended about 200 times in the
Cayce readings. It is pulverized chicken bones, processed
so that the calcium it contains can be easily assimilated
and digested.
The cases in which Calcios was most often prescribed in
the readings (percentages approximate) are tuberculosis
20%, poor assimilations 15%, pregnancy 10%, and glands
5%, comprising a total of 50% of the instances where
Calcios was mentioned.
Following is a composite of some statements from the readings
on Calcios for each of the subjects listed above.
TUBERCULOSIS. [
1548] was told there was free calcium
available in Calcios, and that it strengthens the blood by
making the covering of the blood cells stronger. [
1569] was
told it contained a necessary force for body building.
[
2186] was told that T.B. germs were present in the body, but
that Calcios would prevent them from becoming destructive
forces.
ASSIMILATIONS. Calcios contains several digestive enzymes.
[
1792] was told "we find the effect of the food's digesting
and the assimilations would be greatly improved." [
1736],
recovering from after-effects of sprains was told that
Calcios "will aid in the circulation, the heart's activity,
[because of] the variations for better assimilation."
PREGNANCY. It is well known that pregnant women have a
high calcium requirement. [
951] was told, "Calcios is
the better manner to take calcium. It is more easily
assimilated, and will act better with pregnancy than any
type of calcium products as yet presented [on the market]."
She was told to have a whole wheat cracker spread with
Calcios three times weekly at noon meal until two weeks
before the baby was due. To [
73] he advised: "rather
than the calcium tablets, use Calcios. This is better
assimilated, and does not leave as much dregs to become
a hardship to the liver and kidneys." [
808] was told to
take Calcios so there would not be too great a strain on
body-building forces. [
480] was told it would be good for
the baby's bones and to replace that drained from the mother.
GLANDS. Calcios is high in iodine. Perhaps this is the
main reason it was indicated in cases of glandular imbalance.
To [
3490] Cayce said Calcios three to four times a day would
"supply the energies for activities of the glandular system."
Note: Because of its high iodine content, Calcios should
not be used on the same days as Cayce 636, Atomidine,
Calcidin, kelp tablets, or any food supplement that contains
iodine.
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