Christopher Vasey - The detox mono diet: the miracle grape cure and other cleansing diets

The Detox
Mono Diet

Detoxification is the missing link in Western nutrition, and fasting and/or juice cleansing is a pure and safe form (over water fasting) of detoxification. Dr. Vaseys very informative book brings light to this vital process through one of the first approaches to cleansing, Johanna Brandts Grape Cure. There are so many people and so many health conditions that can benefit from the natural health approach found in The Detox Mono Diet.

ELSON M. HAAS, M.D., THE DETOX DOC (WWW.ELSONHAAS.COM), AUTHOR OF The New Detox Diet AND Staying Healthy with Nutrition

Enthusiastic applause for the combined efforts of Dr. Vasey and the late Mrs. Brandt! Give The Detox Mono Diet your full attention, and you will have the foundation for success in self-healing.

CARRIE LESPERANCE, AUTHOR OF The Seasonal Detox Diet

Finally, a fully comprehensive and accurate dossier on how to rest the body from complicated combinations of foodsand enable a return to vibrant health. The Detox Mono Diet is inspiring and scientifically sound.

NATALIA ROSE, AUTHOR OF The Raw Food Detox Diet

Contents

Chapter 1.

Chapter 2.

Chapter 3.

Chapter 4.

Chapter 5.

Chapter 6.

Chapter 7.

By Johanna Brandt
(abridged and reformatted)

Chapter 8.

Chapter 9.

Chapter 10.

Chapter 11.

Chapter 12.

Chapter 13.

Foreword

The book that you are about to read is a harbinger. It represents the result of extensive work done by one woman on her own body during the 1920s. This exceptional woman, Johanna Brandt, was then a nurse living in South Africa.

This book reminds us of the long path traveled by those who have gone before us, the difficulties they encounteredand overcameas well as victories won by those with strong, clear motivation.

A new paradigm, a conceptual contextperhaps a better description would be a pair of glasses that inspires us at the threshold of a new millennium to look anew at health, illness, the individual, and his environmentwas already at work with Brandt. This steadfast and visionary woman, eager to share what she had experienced, was in the avantgarde of a wave that has swept across the West, a wave that can be described as the holistic approach, or global approach.

Essentially, from the holistic perspective, health is no longer viewed as the absence of illness nor the opposite of illness. Health is neither a right nor a product to be bought, but is rather a personal and collective itinerary, an individual journey. It is:

a movement toward self-mastery and control over ones relationship to oneself, to others and to an ever expanding environment, toward clarity, autonomy, and the discovery of an increasingly satisfying personal insight.

From this perspective, people stricken by an illness can be healthy nonetheless if they understand their illness and they have mastered the long-term treatments required to maintain balance.

Illness of any kind can also be a growth experience; it can inspire one to reorganize priorities in life and encourage the experience of self-reassessment and openness to a larger spiritual dimension.

Brandt was wise enough to listen to her inner guide, to become a purposeful and autonomous woman confronting the illness that had struck her. She sought to learn all she could about it, she listened, and she personally tested the Grape Cure with notable success. It enabled her to heal herself and, later, inspired her to share what she had learned.

In her book she wrote:

Nothing has been said in this article about the mental aspect of healing. The subject is too big. It forms the most thrilling story of my life, but I must be now content to state that I became super-conscious. I had unerring hunches and cultivated a bowing acquaintance with my subliminal selfwhatever that may be.

Almost eighty years ago, Brandt described the importance of each patient taking responsibility for his or her illness, and of remaining open to the inner guide, the healer we all carry within ourselves.

Brandt did not resist sharing her discovery of the grape diet and its effects. Spurred on by a desire to provide help and comfort, she successfully publicized the regimen that had contributed so much to her own healing. Today, almost everyone who boasts knowledge of alternative approaches to health will understand the beneficial properties of the grape as an example of a mono diet cure.

Between 1927 and 2006, an explosion of health-related knowledge attained dimensions never before imagined. Brandt wrote her book using the terminology in vogue at the time. Scientists today seek a better understanding of Brandts theories to support acceptance of her hypothesis regarding the Grape Cures singular effectiveness.

This is what Christopher Vasey has accomplished. The first part of the book prepares the way for Brandts findings by discussing the importance of the physical environment in which illness and toxins exist. It offers particularly useful information about fasting, autolysis, and mono diets in general. Further on, the author discusses the virtues of grapes, of raw food diets, and, most importantly, addresses the indications and contraindications of a grape mono diet.

So many people interested in the Grape Cure as a preventive health measureor as a healing strategy against a serious illnesswill find precise information here to help them successfully follow this cure. They will also find a wealth of scientific data explaining the reasons behind the effectiveness of this cure.

Of course, the human being is part of a whole, a global unit, and the Grape Cure cannot be solely responsible for healing serious illness. In addition to the healing properties provided by grapes, this cure represents an enormous effort of will. It requires a decision, a willingness to take responsibility for ones life and to take charge of reorienting that life in a way that assists the body in its struggle against an invader.

Those who undertake a Grape Cure accept the requirements to change, to remain receptive, and to believe in the results. In other words, they act as an exceptional patientas described by Dr. Bernie Siegel in his book Love, Medicine, and Miraclesas care users who dare to affirm themselves and follow through to the end of what they expect will make them well. Thus they care for the body and the mind.

The Detox Mono Diet is now available for those who want to learn more about healing themselves.

Several years before his death, the psychologist Carl Rogers wrote:

You know I believe that no one has ever taught anybody anything. I question the effectiveness of teaching. The only thing I know is that he who wants to learn will learn. Any powerful teacher is a facilitator, a person who brings things to the table and shows people how appetizing and wonderful they are, and then tells them to serve themselves.

This is what Brandt and Vasey do for you. So serve yourself and walk to your own rhythm to reach a higher level of well-being.