Book Review: Mucusless Diet Healing System – Professor Arnold Ehret

Recently, I had been ill for over a month and was coughing non-stop. This began to cause me a little bit of concern as I can’t recall ever having a cough persist for so long.

Given that we are now in the age of searching online to find out what our symptoms mean, I went and did the customary search on Google. I gathered from my research that I had a chronic cough called Postnasal drip. This cough involves mucus trickling down from the back of your nose into your throat. My diagnosis was not confirmed by my GP, but hey they didn’t check so I stand by my diagnosis.

Every now and then I go on to the Kindle store for a little browse to see what book will my tickle my fancy and on this occasion I came across the Mucusless Diet Healing System by Professor Arnold Ehret’s. It’s quite funny but books often pop out to me when my life situation requires them, when the student is ready the teacher will appear as they say.

When it comes to any health books or advice I am often quite skeptical. I am skeptical about contradicting claims, commercially led advice and suggestions that are poorly researched. However, some concepts just seem to make sense.

The first time that I heard about avoiding mucus forming foods was from Dr Sebi. Although I wasn’t intentionally doing so at the time, avoiding mucus forming foods was much easier when I was vegan. I then went vegetarian this year and found myself going overboard on chocolates, cakes and other dairy filled products so the mucus happily found it’s home in my body again. However, I am happy to say that as a result of reading this book and other influences I have decided to become vegan again.

To provide a bit of background, the author, Professor Arnold Ehret, was compelled to find a cure for his illnesses after being faced with death and being told by numerous physicians that he was incurable. He went on a search for a diet that would help him to recover and as a result ended up trialing diets such as the fruit and nut diet and vegetarianism.

Unfortunately, these diets did not make much of a difference, but he did have some success and discovered that mucus and albumin were having an adverse effect on him. He also learned about the benefits of fasting, but this was opposed by his friends, his family and his former doctor who said that a few days of fasting would prove fatal to him.

Following a positive experience in North Africa where his conditions improved, Arnold opted to try short fasts to assist the cleaning properties of the fruits and the climate. This had great results and over time it resulted him in feeling stronger and fitter than ever, curing him off his illnesses. When Arnold did eventually pass away it was due to an an accidental slip that fractured his skull, however he lived for a long 25 years after being told that he was incurable.

This book is a culmination of numerous studies and experiments and provides a guide on following a mucusless diet and the benefits of doing so. Although I am no expert and have not completely experimented with this diet myself, many of the arguments come across as quite compelling. For me the combination of fasting and right eating stood out to me. I have read many books on healthy eating but not many that discuss combining this with fasting. Furthermore, not any that provide an explanation on how to fast.

I could write a lot more about this book but I’ll leave you to have a read for yourself.

Some of my favourite excerpts are:

Our mind and mental condition influence the body, just as the body influences the mind and a clean, pure blood stream is therefore absolutely essential for clean, pure thoughts.

The present ignorance of the laws underlying normal health is now, in this century, the greatest of all the past centuries, and is evidenced by the deterioration of the so-called civilized people, health-wise, although advanced far, in many ways.

The average person has as much as ten pounds of uneliminated feces in the bowels continually, poisoning the blood stream and the entire system.

The cow builds flesh, tissues, bones, hair, milk, efficiency, heat, all from grass exclusively. Feeding milk to a cow to increase milk production would be classed as the height of folly, and yet man does this very thing with himself!