Bircher-Benner Manual of fresh juices, raw vegetables and fruit dishes

About the author: Dr. med. Andres Bircher is Dr.med. Maximilian Bircher-Benner’s grandson. After medical studies in Zurich and Geneva, ten years as a hospital physician in anesthesiology, intensive medicine, emergency surgery, pediatrics, psychosomatics, hematology, geriatrics, psychiatry and psychotherapy, as a specialist at Zurich university hospitals at senior level. Training analysis with Brian Kenny, head physician of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich and later in the western part of Switzerland. Study and specialist training in TCM and acupuncture in Vienna, neural therapy, manual therapy, classical homeopathy, Training as a German specialist in balneotherapy, climatology and physical medicine. Scientific work in food energy, dietetics and the effects of regulative medicine. Medical director of the Bircher-Benner Medical Center

Table of contents

Introduction
Two Kinds of Food Energy
The New Order of Foods according to their Qualitative Nutritional Value
The Basic System of Soft Connective Tissue, the Origin of Chronic Diseases
The Experiment at the Royal Free Hospital, London
A Few Additional Examples of Scientific Studies on the Effect of the Raw
Vegetable Food Therapy
Secondary Plant Substances, Medical Effect of Vegetable Foods
On Raw-Food Therapy to Prevent and Fight Cancer
On Dietetic Raw-Food Therapy for Degenerative Complaints (Antioxidation)
On Raw-Food Therapy for Danger of Thrombosis and Embolism
Special Features of Raw Food Therapy for Hypertension
Special Features of Raw-Food Therapy for Reduction of Cholesterol Levels
On raw food therapy for diabetes mellitus
On raw food therapy for infectious diseases (antimicrobial effect)
On raw-food therapy for a weak immune system and susceptibility to infection.
The Indication for the Fresh-Vegetable Diet (Raw-Food Diet)
The Fresh Raw Fruit and Vegetable Diet
Stage-1 Diet
Stage-2 Diet
Forms of the Fresh-Vegetable Diet
Reactions to the Change to the Fresh-Vegetable Diet and Their Treatment
Additional General Recommendations for the Fresh Vegetable and Juice Diet
The New Balance
The Rejuvenating Effect of Fresh Raw Vegetable Food
The Right Starting Dose
The Subject of “Raw-Food Intolerance”
Recommendations for lab examinations for the attending physician
Preparation and Cleaning of Raw Vegetables
Composition of Raw Vegetables
Adjustment to Taste and Chewing Ability
Cleaning of Raw Vegetables
From the Bircher Grater to the Electric Blender
Menu
Menu Combinations for Different types of Raw Vegetable Diets
The Recipes
Birchermuesli
Fruit-an-Fresh-Grain Dishes
Fruit Dishes
Juices
Milk Types
Dressings for Raw Vegetables
Salads
Healthful Teas
List of recipes
Bibliography
Index

The Bircher-Benner diet has tremendous healing value.
This is why doctors, nutritionists and dieticians use our Bircher-Benner diet books.

Editorial reviews:
Prof. Dr.med. Halden, Graz, M.D.:
“I think the books are excellent. In addition to many spa plans, recipes and meal plans for a helpful and tasty diet, tried-and-tested instructions for a protective and uplifting lifestyle are also provided, which promote the understanding of the medical prescriptions.

Dr. med. Klimcyk , M.D. in the German Medical Journal:
"It saves a lot of time for the doctor and is very helpful to the patient."

Prof. Dr.med. K. Kötschau, Schlossberg, M.D. near Rosenheim:
“These books rank above all medicine, because they give you the chance to prevent almost every illness, and indeed some illnesses. That is my medical conviction, which I have come across in decades of working in preventive health care."

Dr. med. W.Matzke, M.D. in the Austrian Medical Journal:
“Everything is thought of and everything is well thought out. This is the special value of this diet book series. Every doctor should recommend it to their patients. "

Dr. med. J. V. Mengershausen, Bayrischzell, M.D.:
“Max Bircher-Benner was the leading pioneer of this natural diet and lifestyle. The series of Bircher-Benner Manuals for the most important disease groups has emerged from the wide and long-standing experience of his famous clinic, which can be highly recommended to anyone seeking healing. ”

Prof. Dr. med. Mommsen, Frankfurt / M ., M.D.:
“These books are a valuable aid for every doctor in the management of their patients. They show the sick and the person at risk of illness how they can regain health and resistance through proper nutrition. The reader will be amazed to see how varied a diet can be. It is not necessary to give up the joys of good meals. I wish the books the broadest distribution and I am convinced that our hospitals' susceptibility to illness and the resulting high occupancy rates could be significantly reduced if the nutritional advice of the Bircher-Benner diet books were followed by the majority of our population.”



Dr. med. Schoeler, M.D. in the general Homeopathic newspaper:
"It is most convenient for doctors and patients and the most reliable for success to use these inexpensive and practical diet books."


Prof. Dr..med. H. Warning, Saarbrücken, M.D.:
“Since the existence of this diet book series, many related authors have been trying to bring something equivalent and comprehensive to the diet book market that is equally practical for the dietetically informed professional and the general public. As far as I can see, this has so far been only partially successful. So the Bircher-Benner diet book series is marching at the top of its genre as before. ”
Dr. med. J. Zinke, M.D. "Classic Homeopathy":
“The diet books of the Bircher-Benner probably represent the best that is currently on the market in this genre. They save a lot of time for the attending doctor and are extremely valuable help for the patient. ”

Introduction: Many forms of dieting appear for a while and soon disappear again. The living fresh-vegetable food diet that you will learn about in this manual, in contrast, rests on a solid scientific basis that has only been confirmed and reinforced in the last century. At the end of the 19th century, Dr.med. Maximilian Bircher-Benner-contrary to his expectations and almost by accident-discovered the high effectiveness of freshly prepared living vegetables in the prevention and treatment of the chronic diseases that are growing more and more frequent and occurring at increasingly younger ages. After several years of clinical research, he found that the living vegetables must contain a very different food energy than the calorific value (calories). He published his first book on nutrition in Berlin as early as in 1905, after recognizing that calories, the measure of fuel energy determined by burning the foods, were insufficient as a basis for understanding food energy. His book received great attention. He explained the amazing healing effect of his diet by the second main principle of thermodynamics, the law of entropy, based on his scientific research over several years. In fact, it is surprising that our modern medical science still uses calories-calorific value- as the only measure for food energy, while the second main principle of thermodynamics has for 150 years been the basis for all energy considerations in all other areas of science. Technology, physics and chemistry. In the early 20th century, the fear of infection by bacteria ruled the medical world. The belief that all food ought to be cooked before eating led to new demands for the hygienic preparation of raw vegetables. When heat-labile vitamins and vital substances were discovered, Bircher-Benner’s raw-food diet started on its way to global recognition. Research into LASER amplification of photons in the genetic material of living cells and into information transmission and storage in the basic substance of the connective tissue confirm Bircher-Benner’s hypothesis of light accumulation in living foods and the enormous importance of photosynthesis for the energy value of foods as ordering and thus healing information. Further confirmation from basic research came in the papers of Nobel Prize Laureate Ilya Prigogine on the dissipative system of living cells, which showed that the striving of all physical processes for disorder (law of entropy) does not apply to living cells, since the storage of photons from photosynthesis and the enormous rhythmical reinforcement of this light in the cells according to the LASER principle removes them from the thermodynamic balance to the extent that the second main principle of energetic does not apply and the chaos principle turns into an ordering coherence principle. In fact, all living cells of nature are the only place where small, simple molecules are turned into complex, high-order molecules, processes and structures: where chaos becomes order. This is what makes the raw-food diet so important as the only regime that transfers the ordering principle and effect of living cells to our organic system and thus unfolds its great ordering healing effect. Furthermore, fresh raw food offers high nutritional economy, in which all nutrients are organically bound at suitable ratios and thus become highly available biologically, and providing with them the enzymes required for assimilation of living substances, as well as high content of polyphenols, carotenes and other antioxidants with their powerful protective effect against degeneration and genetic mutation, and thus against cancer. Our experience shows that a food content of raw vegetables of at least 70% at the beginning of each meal is necessary to maintain health. The pure raw-food diet, when administered by a qualified professional, is the ideal healing regime to prevent and heal any degenerative disease of the kind called “civilisation diseases”, which have spread continuously in our time. It is a path that will pay off.