Ancient Epicures (Remedies to Heal What Ails Ya)

This 60+-page ebook contains all of Don Tolman's epicures (remedy recipes) from his two-book encyclopedia set, FDR, in one easy-to-read ebook. 

How about a smoothie recipe that will keep you focused & attentive throughout the day?

Need a recipe to detox your liver?

An elixir to boost your immune system?

These and many more are to be found in this fabulous little ebook that you'll store on your hard drive and refer to again & again.

Self-Care Revolution: Tips to Start Fasting

Self-Care Revolution: Tips to Start Fasting

Tips to Start Fasting

The word 'fasting' can be somewhat scary, intimidating & even overwhelming.  No worries!  You can do it!  Start out slow & easy.  Start with just one day of fasting.  Fast just the one day a month.  Then, as you & your body adjust to this new (to you) way of life, add another day or so.   A fast can be as short as one day or several days.  Don has fasted as many as 40 days on water alone.  You may not choose to fast that long or just on water, but you get the idea.  The important thing is to listen to your own body.

Simple tips to get your started:

1. Try a mono diet - eating just one food; also, Don-recommended as a method to overcome food allergies - you could eat Don's Colon Cleanse Fiber Blend
2. Drink fresh juices - fruit or vegetable, even combinations - vegetables having a lower sugar content
3. Drink green smoothies - full of lovely leafy greens - check out two of our loyal readers' recipes:  Tim's Smoothies or Anthony's Green Smoothie
4. Eat raw whole foods - #5 of Don's 7 Principles of Health: fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables
5. Eat Don's Authentic Pulse - a nature-rich meal of fruit, nuts & grains (back to the raw whole foods concept)
6. Delay your "break-fast" (get it?) by three or four hours
7. Drink hot soup or broth

Just try one day of fasting and see how you feel.  Keep in mind that the first day of any new routine (dare we say "habit"?) is the hardest!  Your body will rebel with much growling...at first.  It will thank you later, though.  If you're up for it, extend your fast another day.  If not, try again in a week or a month.

Once you've tried your first fast, come back & leave us a comment about your experience.  Feel free to comment no matter how experienced/inexperienced you are at fasting.  Someone else may need your words of encouragement.

Be sure to read our articles about fasting as listed below to learn of the many health benefits of fasting.

For more on fasting, read Don's FDR Vol 1 pp 390 - 394

What is a Farmacist in the 21st Century?

A Farmacist is a modern day sage.  A Farmacist is a person filled with wisdom and knowledge and intuition in the art, science and method of health.  If you want to know about sickness, disease and death, study those things.  To understand life, vitality and health, study those things.  The FDR (Farmacist Desk Reference) is a study of the latter.  A Farmacist understands that ascension and clarity of human knowledge through time comes as an idea, or thesis.  That this thesis is almost always met along the way with an opposing view or idea, its anti-thesis, then what happens is that over time, the best parts of each (thesis and antithesis) tend to join together or combine into something new: a syn-thesis.  In all of this the synthesis becomes the new thesis.  Then it starts all over again.

It's time, not just for a synthesis of alchemy and chemistry, but it's time for an anti-thesis!  We need to stop raging against disease!  The new antithesis is the idea of embracing the principles of life and of health in the brilliant complexities of nature, disguised for us and presented to us as "simplicities".

May the FDR lead you gently into a bloodless, non-violent revolution of thought, deed, passion and magnified health.  May you stand as a twenty-first century Farmacist, a peaceful but firm iconoclast to "disease fighting".  May you be proud to proclaim yourself a twenty-first century Farmacist.  Not a wizard of popular drugs, nutritional chemicals and supplements, but rather a sage of the experience of whole foods and the principles of health. 

Excerpt from Don's FDR Vol 1 pp 100

Self-Care Revolution: Wisdom's Symptoms

Self-Care Revolution: Wisdom's Symptoms

Wisdom's Symptoms

Don't make the mistake that so many do:  rushing off to the medical doctor at the first sign of illness.  Instead learn to listen to your body.  It's trying to tell you something.

“Symptoms are not something “wrong” with the body! Symptoms are what’s “right” with the body!!
Symptoms represent the efforts of the body’s intelligence (its mind, if you will) in the self-healing autogenic system to defend, cleanse and heal itself from a variety of infective agents, toxic sludge, and/or stresses. The body/mind intelligence creates fever, inflammation, pain, discharge, nausea or whatever is necessary in order to heal itself of the offense.

Medical science today is slowly, but, increasingly recognizing symptoms as adaptive responses of the body to a cause. Standard tests of pathology define the process of inflammation as the manner in which the body seeks to wall off, heat up, and burn out infective agents or foreign matter. The cough has long been known as a protective mechanism for clearing breathing passages. Diarrhea has been shown to be a defensive effort of the body to remove pathogens or irritants more quickly from the colon. Discharges are understood as the body’s way of ridding itself of dead bacteria, viruses, and damaged or spent cells. Even high blood pressure is an important defense and adaptation to the internal and external stresses that a person experiences.”

So listen up!  Your body's talking!  Remember: the medical doctors are still 'practicing', but your body is the expert on what's going on internally.

Excerpt from Farmacist Desk Reference Vol. I pp 32

Proud FDR owners, for more details check out the section on “Wisdom’s Symptoms”.

7 Principles of Health

Don's extensive research has resulted in his 7 Principles of Health.  Adhere to these Principles and see how much better you feel.

Whether you call the nutritional components of the brain/nervous system foods:  Botanical Nervines, Ortho-Molecular Infusions, or any of the other made up Latin names for purposes of sound “scientific”, it’s still as simple as eating common whole foods that support your body’s Autogenic Self Healing System.  At the end of the day, most, if not all, psychiatric disorders are due to significant deficiencies in key nutrients that are present in whole foods.  Nerve disorders are healed and re-missed in the same way.  Embracing the 7 Principles of Health allows healing to naturally occur.

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity, Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events:

1.  Breathing fresh circulating air;
2.  Fresh clean water;
3.  Sunshine;
4.  Walking/movement (life is movement);
5.  Whole foods (especially local, fresh, in season);
6.  Loving touching (non-toxic) relationships;
7.  Passion, pleasure in all you do…creating a sense of gratitude for being alive.

Excerpt from FDR #3 pp 28

To own yours, CLICK HERE.  You can also hear Don speak about this and many other subjects on the DVD: “Health: Remembering the Lost Truths”.

For you proud FDR #3 owners, check out “Brain/Nervous System” section.

Folk Medicine

"Folk medicine is the compendium of wisdom that reflects not just the science of health but also the art and the method of these principles.  For instance, the nature around us in the area of living chemistry presents an array of non-toxic healing substances that are the Materia Medica of nature’s apothecary.  Whole foods provide a safe, living, energetic, “chemotherapy” if you will.  Whole foods are the anatomica metabolic nutricon that constitutes folk medicine.

Today, pharmaceutical science is jealous, envious and even hateful of plants and their attendant work, they do their work, their magic and wonders, without doing harm.  There is not one vaccine or drug that do that.  In my mind, I can see a time coming early on in the “Age of Imagination” we are now in, when every man, woman and child embraces “Self Care” by walking everyday, eating just whole foods and developing and maintaining a positive (inner sunshine) attitude.  These things go a long way to not only prevent disease but to remit existing conditions.  I do believe that within this next decade, the best of modern medicine, symptomatic response mechanism in the form of “first aid“, will be joined with ancient natural principles of “folk medicinal cures” to form a hybrid, “in home (effective and cost effective) clinics of Self Care.”
Whole food and fasting, working with nature’s air and water, sunshine and walking, pleasure of family and relationships and passion in creative pursuits, these are the bed rock of vitality into longevity; these are the seven Principles of Health.  As our modern society’s very fabric seems to be fraying at the edges, it is obvious that the valuable heritage of natural healing preserved by “backward” (truly genius) people and their enviable lifestyle of simplicity through time, need to be not only applauded and honored, but fully embraced into the daily performances of our own individual existence.  Self care.  There truly is no greater power than an idea whose time has come

Love, work, knowledge and wisdom, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, are the wellsprings of our existence.  They should also occupy, regulate and lead our lives, as these provide feelings of value, joy and pleasure and a sense of purpose for our having been here.” – Don Tolman

Excerpt from FDR #3 pp 137