I agree with much of this, though I know what it was like to be me with an actually ruptured appendix. Mine ruptured at age 5 and I was in hospital for like two days before they actually figures out what was wrong and I was rushed into emergency surgery: I had an OBE during surgery and watched it and explored the hospital. I had infection all thru my body and had to have tube inserted and pulled out and snipped each day to drain infection, which was a trip to watch , and incredibly painful. I was in the hospital for several weeks nearly septic. Even after I was released they never sewed the incision up which is huge, because my mom had to continue squirting stuff down in there with this huge applicator bottle ( I thought it was hydrogen peroxide but I could be wrong) I must eat very specifically and learned over the years my body does best on lots of natural fat and very little starch, and smaller amounts of food. I have not been to a doctor in my entire adult life, as I take my health and everything in my own hands and stand for personal sovereignty. My family like to say ‘you would have died if it weren’t for doctors’ when they comment on my adult decisions ( I’m 45) and I likely would have in that situation. But I ended up having an unassisted pregnancy and birth and have a 20 year old son who has never seen a doctor in his life nor had any allopathic medicine. Modern medicine is good for some things for sure, but for the most part I like to stay far away from all of them, while remaining grateful for the care during my near-death appendix rupture and sepsis.
Wow, it's impressive what you have achieved healthwise. It would be interesting to know what Tom Cowan or Barbara O'Neill would recommend in such a case as yours. Kudos to you for totally overcoming the hiccup you went through at 5.
I am grateful I intuitively was drawn to healing and somatic work from very young age, I’ve played with various dietary protocols over the years, having been vegetarian for 7 , raw for some time during/at the end of that….etc. but after having my son the vegetarian diet was not cutting it and I added in organic meat snd removed all
Gluten and most starches instead and suddenly it was like a revelation. And since then I’ve that span of time have learned perfected my own digestive protocol but that includes lots of movement work, morning sun, grounding, I live without wifi lol, in the mountains, and even turn electric breaker off at night ( electrical sensitivity ) so I don’t know what my life would be like if I was eating and living a standard American diet/ lifestyle.
I too can vouch for the pain and recovery associated with appendicitis. In my forties and with a high degree of fitness and a healthy diet I suddenly experienced acute pain. I looked so well that one hospital sent me home for the night and I had to return the next day. Then "suspecting" appendicitis the staff referred me to a larger regional base hospital. My husband drove me an hour and a half to get there and then we were left waiting in the emergency department for several hours further. The surgeons stated they would operate although they weren't entirely sure of the diagnosis but had ruled out other causes. Just as well they did as my appendix had long since burst and turned gangrenous. I was in hospital for several days, returned home only to experience paralysis in my gut from the infection and a return trip to ED and more antibiotics. The appendicitis was bad enough but having your intestines swell up where you have just had surgery was not fun! Clearly my immune system was running well to be able to function as normal despite the internal infection going on but sometimes surgery is a life saver.
Glad you are ok! I know the scar tissue and adhesions have created issues over the years with me, luckily by age 20 I was obsessed with healing and Somatics and energy work and purity of diet, so I started young at getting my body right. Though even now there is a definitely digestive sensitivity. I am Ehlers Danlos and have. Various issues associated with that I have learned to work with over the years too and I have often pondered in the connection possibly between appendicitis and EDS or other connective
Tissue things but have never found much said about it.
I had a severe case of appendicitis in college and went to the local hospital where they put me on a saline drip and rested with no food and monitored for 3 days. No antibiotics or other interventions. By the 3rd day I was fine and went home. I have always been grateful for whoever and why ever I was in a place that didn’t jump to unnecessary procedures. Now 68, still have my appendix and have never had another problem with it.
I have direct experience with this appendicitis without surgery, and made a full recovery in just over two weeks. In May of 2020, I played golf after work, went to bed later that night feeling normal, woke up in the middle of the night with severe diarrhea, went back to bed, woke up shortly after with severe vomiting. Literally cleaned out from both ends. In the morning I tons of pain and a swollen, protruding, appendix, to the right of my belly button.
I new that if I went to the hospital they would do surgery and antibiotics, I wasn’t interested in that, I researched online, found out that chance of rupture was 3% according to John Hopkins. I found out that the number one day for admissions to the hospital in the US for appendicitis is the day after thanks giving, obviously food related. It’s so painful to eat that your body forces you to fast, it took just over two weeks, I lost 25lbs in that time. But then I woke up and the pain was gone, everything felt fine. And curiously, foods like gluten that I was allergic to before this, no longer bothered me, my gut healed. That was almost six years ago, i haven’t had a problem since, can still eat bread without having any type of reaction.
I suspect my appendix was plucked from me during my hysterectomy that I tried to avoid but could find no one to direct me otherwise. After three days home postop and recovering nicely, I developed an ilious that landed me in the hospital for a week with an NG tube. Maybe that could have been avoided if my healthy appendix would have still been in place.
If I had read this article before my appendectomy, I might not be here! No doubt many appendixes are unnecessarily removed, but it is a very serious life-threatening condition and honestly it's likely hospitals don't want to take the chance of the patient dying. I'm fully in favour of a naturopathic approach, but some conditions warrant medical treatment.
I do wish people would not quote Barbara O'Neill unless they also provide evidence of what they're quoting, as though she is the authority on the subject. How does castor oil break down scar tissue? To what degree (if at all)? What's the mechanism? Which studies provide the evidence?
I ignore her reasons, but try the remedy anyway. Most of them work. It is only when they don't work that I look at her explanation.
My observation about Barbara O'Neill is her explanations are based upon flawed science, but many of her remedies are steeped in ancient cures that withstood the test of time. This applies to her dietary advice which is still steeped in the meat is bad, fat us bad narrative which do not take into consideration that cows or pigs are what they eat, just like us. Feed a cow GMO-laden soy high in vegetable oils you will get beef that is inflammatory. Feed a cow what cows are supposed to eat and you get beef that has the right omega-3 to omega-6 ratio and beef that is at a higher vibration as well as fat that is good for you.
Here I have to agree with Dr. Cowan that the fat has to be raw. So while trimming the fat off may be good advice if you are cooking the meat, it is also true that fully fat raw milk or products made with it are good for you.
When they say they haven't got enough studies to say one way or another, we need to see what this is really saying. We must assume that someone knows otherwise why do they always ban, downplay or restrict the things that cure such as hemp, black seed oil, CDS? It's obvious that's what they've done over the century. Saying there are not enough studies must make us look deeper because it's a sort of give-away from them that they don't want us to go there. We share the responsibility for this because we fail to find other sources of information besides "the $cience". We cannot trust "the $cience" for now. I don't know how we'll go forward this way, perhaps as you say sometimes there may be a need for medical care however I wouldn't trust them with my body now that I know what they really do.
Thank you so much for writing this post! I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of appendicitis. I’d been wondering about all the details (how, why, what to do) and your post covered these. I’ve stepped completely away from the allopathic model-away from the fear mongering, away from being told that someone else knows what’s going on in my body better than I do. What a pack of lies we’ve been sold!
Listening to Dr. Tom Cowan really opened my eyes to what I was believing. He would use non-medical analogies and then ask if any of us would still believe what we were told. Of course we wouldn’t! We only believed because a god in a white coat used big words to “explain” the situation to us. I’m so grateful to all of you who aren’t afraid to go against the system to help us wake up!
The appendix is an essential organ -- there is no such thing as an unnecessary body part! https://humbleweed.net/articles/the-appendix/ Very thankful that you wrote an essay on this topic. Have you done a deep dive into male circumcision? Now that would also be an important topic to explore as well as organ harvesting...
Yes, those 2 other topics need a deep dive, as well. However, in the case of infant circumcision (as well as circumcision as first treatment for any problem "down there"), there is so much emotion involved that even some parents and "nature doctors" insist on it for their godforsaken sons. I'm not talking about jews' circumcising their boys here, that's another topic altogether, but rather I'm referring to people whose ancestors would have been horrified by this being done to their males. It is a fallen world, that's all.
The "anti circ" crusade has not had much luck in this area even though it's been around for about 40 years in the USA but started earlier in England. Some areas of the USA still have an incredibly high rate of babycutting. Look up the stats if you are interested, but you (Ingri) probably know all this stuff already. I'm writing to inform others here.
Thank you, Horsea T. If people don't think this is an issue, they should look at Eric Clopper's one man 'play' that he courageously performed at Harvard University eight years ago and got fired from Harvard over it. Notice that he looks like he is a cross between a German and a Khazar... Sex & Circumcision: An American Love Story by Eric Clopper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCuy163srRc (2:10:50) If people only knew how harmful to our male infants this ONE barbaric practice truly is, it would be outlawed -- but that is true about vaccines, too, and organ harvesting.
He's a jew from Boston and says so near the beginning. He also talks about his "cisgender white privilege"; black people were still under Jim Crow; women did not have the vote,; ghey people had "no rights whatsoever" - 100 years ago. He mentions how USA has always been a "dark place" "except for white men like me". Direct quote - and all within the first 3 minutes (actually a tad less).
A minute or two later, whilst discussing his hemorrhaging kidneys, he once again refers to his "cisgender white privilege" because he received good medical care. Countless liberal-leftist-woke references ensue. "Hetero-normative" etc. Can't list 'em all.
Clopper's monologue appears to be a life support system for hatred of whites and America in general, and, more important, conflating white people with jews when it is convenient to do so. It was geared to his audience, college students. What - circumcision doesn't matter to socalled conservatives or right wingers? I use those terms loosely.
He is a hyperactive, self-centered entertainer with an agenda far beyond circumcision. Rodney Dangerfield and Alan King without any laughs. He can't help himself, inserting his hateful liberal ideas into some good and necessary info. Clever dog! Mix it all up together. Where have I seen this before.
I made it to 33 minutes, but now I must return to my housework. A more complete viewing (and review) from me may ensue in due course though I doubt anyone here is waiting with bated breath.
He has woken up a lot since then. He was a young guy in 2018 and clearly addressing a liberal audience at Harvard. He went on to sue Harvard and finally got his law degree to be an attorney on this one issue. He means well and is passionate about outlawing this barbaric practice. Just so you know, it took me three days to watch it all - staying up late all three nights. He is now the main guy in the country organizing conferences in Portland, Oregon on Circumcision. I was hoping we could somehow get the $ together for him to sue Idaho for equal protection under the law since they outlawed female circumcision but allow male circumcision.
I have looked at a thousand or more appendixes and I call bullshit. Regardless of what the appendix is, an inflamed abnormal appendix is bacterial and, when if it proceeds to rupture and local infection, antibiotics work on resolving the problem or, if the collection does not get blood flow and the antibiotics, drainage via a catheter and antibiotics resolves the condition.
At surgery normal appendixes are removed to prevent possible appendicitis later. Whether or not this is a good thing is debatable since there is an immunity element involved and long term follow-up studies have too many variables to make a declaration. Also, payment for the surgery introduces a variable. Similar approaches to incidental gall bladder removal exist. (10% of cadavers have asymptomatic gall stones.)
With the new biology thinking, it's not as mechanical as the conventional, I'd like to posit that using anything that says "anti-bacterial" or "anti-microbial" or ante anything actually, This kind of articulation puts us in a state of warring, which the beings that make up our body, "hear". Therefore we make the "good guys" in our bodies, the primordial precursors that work towards building/growth, run for cover. How can anyone do their job when their human driver wars against them? They're desperately trying to fix their human. This "healthy precursors" must exist because we live in a duality so the opposite of the death/decomposition types is most likely the growth/synergistic "precursors". What we speak has a frequency so if we're talking about anti-this or anti-that, then we're silencing the living entities that make us up. Just a thought but I bet that's what's going on.
Inasmuch as the intestines are considered a second brain, I remember some healer from east Asia saying that removing the appendix produces stupidity.
Also, Norman Walker, promoter of juices and a non-starchy, non-meat, mostly raw diet (dairy product once in a long while) agrees that appendicitis is an "inflammation of the appendix resulting from the excessive accumulation and retention of waste matter in the colon" and has more to say on this topic as well. In addition to colonic irrigations or high enemas at 15 to 30 minute intervals, he advises to consult a doctor "familiar with Nature's Purpose in furnishing us with this protective gland." This was in 1970 when he wrote this in one of his books, Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices.
In his book, Colon Health, Walker has much more to say about the appendix and appendicitis - 4 pages' worth.
And wait til you read what Walker has to say about tonsil removal - with input from two medical doctors (the Calderoli brothers), who say that tonsillectomies bring about much degeneration in personality and behavior. However, it is debatable which came first - the degenerated character causing attraction to a terrible diet - or the chronically septic tonsils "requiring" their removal and subsequent distortion of behavior. Typical cause VS effect issue. Grist for the mill.
Thanks so much for your article. How I wish everyone would read this. It would not change most medical doctors' minds, though - there's gold in them thar knives.
Re: " Germ-free animal research on appendix/cecum dysfunction." Animal research, huh. That even nature-oriented practitioners would run to the animals (even supposed painless research) to prove or disprove their particular hobby horse indicates that maybe they need some psychological/spiritual healing first.
I agree with much of this, though I know what it was like to be me with an actually ruptured appendix. Mine ruptured at age 5 and I was in hospital for like two days before they actually figures out what was wrong and I was rushed into emergency surgery: I had an OBE during surgery and watched it and explored the hospital. I had infection all thru my body and had to have tube inserted and pulled out and snipped each day to drain infection, which was a trip to watch , and incredibly painful. I was in the hospital for several weeks nearly septic. Even after I was released they never sewed the incision up which is huge, because my mom had to continue squirting stuff down in there with this huge applicator bottle ( I thought it was hydrogen peroxide but I could be wrong) I must eat very specifically and learned over the years my body does best on lots of natural fat and very little starch, and smaller amounts of food. I have not been to a doctor in my entire adult life, as I take my health and everything in my own hands and stand for personal sovereignty. My family like to say ‘you would have died if it weren’t for doctors’ when they comment on my adult decisions ( I’m 45) and I likely would have in that situation. But I ended up having an unassisted pregnancy and birth and have a 20 year old son who has never seen a doctor in his life nor had any allopathic medicine. Modern medicine is good for some things for sure, but for the most part I like to stay far away from all of them, while remaining grateful for the care during my near-death appendix rupture and sepsis.
Wow, it's impressive what you have achieved healthwise. It would be interesting to know what Tom Cowan or Barbara O'Neill would recommend in such a case as yours. Kudos to you for totally overcoming the hiccup you went through at 5.
I am grateful I intuitively was drawn to healing and somatic work from very young age, I’ve played with various dietary protocols over the years, having been vegetarian for 7 , raw for some time during/at the end of that….etc. but after having my son the vegetarian diet was not cutting it and I added in organic meat snd removed all
Gluten and most starches instead and suddenly it was like a revelation. And since then I’ve that span of time have learned perfected my own digestive protocol but that includes lots of movement work, morning sun, grounding, I live without wifi lol, in the mountains, and even turn electric breaker off at night ( electrical sensitivity ) so I don’t know what my life would be like if I was eating and living a standard American diet/ lifestyle.
Sounds like you live a healthy and idealic life and reversed the problems you had in your earlier life. Kudos!
I too can vouch for the pain and recovery associated with appendicitis. In my forties and with a high degree of fitness and a healthy diet I suddenly experienced acute pain. I looked so well that one hospital sent me home for the night and I had to return the next day. Then "suspecting" appendicitis the staff referred me to a larger regional base hospital. My husband drove me an hour and a half to get there and then we were left waiting in the emergency department for several hours further. The surgeons stated they would operate although they weren't entirely sure of the diagnosis but had ruled out other causes. Just as well they did as my appendix had long since burst and turned gangrenous. I was in hospital for several days, returned home only to experience paralysis in my gut from the infection and a return trip to ED and more antibiotics. The appendicitis was bad enough but having your intestines swell up where you have just had surgery was not fun! Clearly my immune system was running well to be able to function as normal despite the internal infection going on but sometimes surgery is a life saver.
Glad you are ok! I know the scar tissue and adhesions have created issues over the years with me, luckily by age 20 I was obsessed with healing and Somatics and energy work and purity of diet, so I started young at getting my body right. Though even now there is a definitely digestive sensitivity. I am Ehlers Danlos and have. Various issues associated with that I have learned to work with over the years too and I have often pondered in the connection possibly between appendicitis and EDS or other connective
Tissue things but have never found much said about it.
I had a severe case of appendicitis in college and went to the local hospital where they put me on a saline drip and rested with no food and monitored for 3 days. No antibiotics or other interventions. By the 3rd day I was fine and went home. I have always been grateful for whoever and why ever I was in a place that didn’t jump to unnecessary procedures. Now 68, still have my appendix and have never had another problem with it.
Complete fasting is practically speaking a panacea.
I have direct experience with this appendicitis without surgery, and made a full recovery in just over two weeks. In May of 2020, I played golf after work, went to bed later that night feeling normal, woke up in the middle of the night with severe diarrhea, went back to bed, woke up shortly after with severe vomiting. Literally cleaned out from both ends. In the morning I tons of pain and a swollen, protruding, appendix, to the right of my belly button.
I new that if I went to the hospital they would do surgery and antibiotics, I wasn’t interested in that, I researched online, found out that chance of rupture was 3% according to John Hopkins. I found out that the number one day for admissions to the hospital in the US for appendicitis is the day after thanks giving, obviously food related. It’s so painful to eat that your body forces you to fast, it took just over two weeks, I lost 25lbs in that time. But then I woke up and the pain was gone, everything felt fine. And curiously, foods like gluten that I was allergic to before this, no longer bothered me, my gut healed. That was almost six years ago, i haven’t had a problem since, can still eat bread without having any type of reaction.
I suspect my appendix was plucked from me during my hysterectomy that I tried to avoid but could find no one to direct me otherwise. After three days home postop and recovering nicely, I developed an ilious that landed me in the hospital for a week with an NG tube. Maybe that could have been avoided if my healthy appendix would have still been in place.
A sore lack of honor to another's body autonomy.
If I had read this article before my appendectomy, I might not be here! No doubt many appendixes are unnecessarily removed, but it is a very serious life-threatening condition and honestly it's likely hospitals don't want to take the chance of the patient dying. I'm fully in favour of a naturopathic approach, but some conditions warrant medical treatment.
I do wish people would not quote Barbara O'Neill unless they also provide evidence of what they're quoting, as though she is the authority on the subject. How does castor oil break down scar tissue? To what degree (if at all)? What's the mechanism? Which studies provide the evidence?
I ignore her reasons, but try the remedy anyway. Most of them work. It is only when they don't work that I look at her explanation.
My observation about Barbara O'Neill is her explanations are based upon flawed science, but many of her remedies are steeped in ancient cures that withstood the test of time. This applies to her dietary advice which is still steeped in the meat is bad, fat us bad narrative which do not take into consideration that cows or pigs are what they eat, just like us. Feed a cow GMO-laden soy high in vegetable oils you will get beef that is inflammatory. Feed a cow what cows are supposed to eat and you get beef that has the right omega-3 to omega-6 ratio and beef that is at a higher vibration as well as fat that is good for you.
Here I have to agree with Dr. Cowan that the fat has to be raw. So while trimming the fat off may be good advice if you are cooking the meat, it is also true that fully fat raw milk or products made with it are good for you.
When they say they haven't got enough studies to say one way or another, we need to see what this is really saying. We must assume that someone knows otherwise why do they always ban, downplay or restrict the things that cure such as hemp, black seed oil, CDS? It's obvious that's what they've done over the century. Saying there are not enough studies must make us look deeper because it's a sort of give-away from them that they don't want us to go there. We share the responsibility for this because we fail to find other sources of information besides "the $cience". We cannot trust "the $cience" for now. I don't know how we'll go forward this way, perhaps as you say sometimes there may be a need for medical care however I wouldn't trust them with my body now that I know what they really do.
Thank you so much for writing this post! I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of appendicitis. I’d been wondering about all the details (how, why, what to do) and your post covered these. I’ve stepped completely away from the allopathic model-away from the fear mongering, away from being told that someone else knows what’s going on in my body better than I do. What a pack of lies we’ve been sold!
Listening to Dr. Tom Cowan really opened my eyes to what I was believing. He would use non-medical analogies and then ask if any of us would still believe what we were told. Of course we wouldn’t! We only believed because a god in a white coat used big words to “explain” the situation to us. I’m so grateful to all of you who aren’t afraid to go against the system to help us wake up!
Wonderful article as usual. Very enlightening. Thank you for all your work.
The appendix is an essential organ -- there is no such thing as an unnecessary body part! https://humbleweed.net/articles/the-appendix/ Very thankful that you wrote an essay on this topic. Have you done a deep dive into male circumcision? Now that would also be an important topic to explore as well as organ harvesting...
Yes, those 2 other topics need a deep dive, as well. However, in the case of infant circumcision (as well as circumcision as first treatment for any problem "down there"), there is so much emotion involved that even some parents and "nature doctors" insist on it for their godforsaken sons. I'm not talking about jews' circumcising their boys here, that's another topic altogether, but rather I'm referring to people whose ancestors would have been horrified by this being done to their males. It is a fallen world, that's all.
The "anti circ" crusade has not had much luck in this area even though it's been around for about 40 years in the USA but started earlier in England. Some areas of the USA still have an incredibly high rate of babycutting. Look up the stats if you are interested, but you (Ingri) probably know all this stuff already. I'm writing to inform others here.
Thank you, Horsea T. If people don't think this is an issue, they should look at Eric Clopper's one man 'play' that he courageously performed at Harvard University eight years ago and got fired from Harvard over it. Notice that he looks like he is a cross between a German and a Khazar... Sex & Circumcision: An American Love Story by Eric Clopper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCuy163srRc (2:10:50) If people only knew how harmful to our male infants this ONE barbaric practice truly is, it would be outlawed -- but that is true about vaccines, too, and organ harvesting.
He's a jew from Boston and says so near the beginning. He also talks about his "cisgender white privilege"; black people were still under Jim Crow; women did not have the vote,; ghey people had "no rights whatsoever" - 100 years ago. He mentions how USA has always been a "dark place" "except for white men like me". Direct quote - and all within the first 3 minutes (actually a tad less).
A minute or two later, whilst discussing his hemorrhaging kidneys, he once again refers to his "cisgender white privilege" because he received good medical care. Countless liberal-leftist-woke references ensue. "Hetero-normative" etc. Can't list 'em all.
Clopper's monologue appears to be a life support system for hatred of whites and America in general, and, more important, conflating white people with jews when it is convenient to do so. It was geared to his audience, college students. What - circumcision doesn't matter to socalled conservatives or right wingers? I use those terms loosely.
He is a hyperactive, self-centered entertainer with an agenda far beyond circumcision. Rodney Dangerfield and Alan King without any laughs. He can't help himself, inserting his hateful liberal ideas into some good and necessary info. Clever dog! Mix it all up together. Where have I seen this before.
I made it to 33 minutes, but now I must return to my housework. A more complete viewing (and review) from me may ensue in due course though I doubt anyone here is waiting with bated breath.
Pip pip cheerio!
He has woken up a lot since then. He was a young guy in 2018 and clearly addressing a liberal audience at Harvard. He went on to sue Harvard and finally got his law degree to be an attorney on this one issue. He means well and is passionate about outlawing this barbaric practice. Just so you know, it took me three days to watch it all - staying up late all three nights. He is now the main guy in the country organizing conferences in Portland, Oregon on Circumcision. I was hoping we could somehow get the $ together for him to sue Idaho for equal protection under the law since they outlawed female circumcision but allow male circumcision.
I have looked at a thousand or more appendixes and I call bullshit. Regardless of what the appendix is, an inflamed abnormal appendix is bacterial and, when if it proceeds to rupture and local infection, antibiotics work on resolving the problem or, if the collection does not get blood flow and the antibiotics, drainage via a catheter and antibiotics resolves the condition.
At surgery normal appendixes are removed to prevent possible appendicitis later. Whether or not this is a good thing is debatable since there is an immunity element involved and long term follow-up studies have too many variables to make a declaration. Also, payment for the surgery introduces a variable. Similar approaches to incidental gall bladder removal exist. (10% of cadavers have asymptomatic gall stones.)
With the new biology thinking, it's not as mechanical as the conventional, I'd like to posit that using anything that says "anti-bacterial" or "anti-microbial" or ante anything actually, This kind of articulation puts us in a state of warring, which the beings that make up our body, "hear". Therefore we make the "good guys" in our bodies, the primordial precursors that work towards building/growth, run for cover. How can anyone do their job when their human driver wars against them? They're desperately trying to fix their human. This "healthy precursors" must exist because we live in a duality so the opposite of the death/decomposition types is most likely the growth/synergistic "precursors". What we speak has a frequency so if we're talking about anti-this or anti-that, then we're silencing the living entities that make us up. Just a thought but I bet that's what's going on.
Inasmuch as the intestines are considered a second brain, I remember some healer from east Asia saying that removing the appendix produces stupidity.
Also, Norman Walker, promoter of juices and a non-starchy, non-meat, mostly raw diet (dairy product once in a long while) agrees that appendicitis is an "inflammation of the appendix resulting from the excessive accumulation and retention of waste matter in the colon" and has more to say on this topic as well. In addition to colonic irrigations or high enemas at 15 to 30 minute intervals, he advises to consult a doctor "familiar with Nature's Purpose in furnishing us with this protective gland." This was in 1970 when he wrote this in one of his books, Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices.
In his book, Colon Health, Walker has much more to say about the appendix and appendicitis - 4 pages' worth.
And wait til you read what Walker has to say about tonsil removal - with input from two medical doctors (the Calderoli brothers), who say that tonsillectomies bring about much degeneration in personality and behavior. However, it is debatable which came first - the degenerated character causing attraction to a terrible diet - or the chronically septic tonsils "requiring" their removal and subsequent distortion of behavior. Typical cause VS effect issue. Grist for the mill.
Thanks so much for your article. How I wish everyone would read this. It would not change most medical doctors' minds, though - there's gold in them thar knives.
Re: " Germ-free animal research on appendix/cecum dysfunction." Animal research, huh. That even nature-oriented practitioners would run to the animals (even supposed painless research) to prove or disprove their particular hobby horse indicates that maybe they need some psychological/spiritual healing first.
Dr. Williams should’ve qualified his statement, cooked meat. eating raw meat is as natural as sitting out in the sun
I good friend about 5 yrs ago was diagnosed with an appendicitis and opted to treat it with abx. I’d never heard that was even an option.