Description
Cooking with little or no salt so that eating is a pleasure is a high art that was developed in the world-known Bircher-Benner Clinic, a centre for the most modern arts of healing. This diet is very important for all people with high blood pressure or kidney diseases. In this book you will find the cause and nature of salt-sensitive hypertension explained in detail. It contains well elaborated diet plans and many tasty recipes, ready for practical use: a must for anyone suffering from high blood pressure or a kidney disease. This manual supplements the Bircher-Benner manual no. 19 for patients with high blood pressure, heart diseases and arteriosclerosis and the manual no. 12 for patients with kidney- and bladder diseases. Table of ContentsPreface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................5Blood Pressure Regulation in the Kidney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..............8The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System of Blood Pressure Regulation . . .....8Salt-Sensitive Hypertension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................10Osmotic Storage of Salt in Tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..................10Effect of Salt Storage on Blood Vessels and Blood Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . ........10Effect of a Low-Salt Diet on Blood Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................. 11Epigenetic Inheritance of Salt Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..................11Effect of Table Salt Storage on the Blood Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............11Effects of Salinisation and Saccharisation (Glycation) of the Inner Layerof the Blood Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......................12Oxidative Stress at the Centre of the Causes of Degenerative Diseasesand Dementia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................14The Problem of Food Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................. 17Order Therapy for Hypertension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ................18Photon Storage in Living Tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..................18The Basic Regulation System of the Soft Connective Tissue . . . . . . . . ..... . . .....19The Meaning of Food Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................20The Integral Law of Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................22Vibrancy of Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........................22Principles of the Bircher-Benner Diet and Order Therapy . . . . . . . . . ...... . . . . ....23Order of Life and Physical Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...............25Menus for the Low-Salt Diet, for Patients with Hypertension and Heart Problems..................................................................................... .26Menu for 1 Week of Salt-free Diet (Milder Form) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................274 5Recipes for Salt-free and Low-salt Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . ............29Juices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............................29Gruel Added to Juices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ......................30Bircher Muesli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............................30Raw Vegetables and Salads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................32Salad Dressings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........................33Suggestions for Dressings to go with Salads and Raw Vegetables . . . . . ........ . . ..36Milk Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............................37Butter, Vegetable Fats and Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................38Gentle Cooking and Steaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... ..................39Soups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..............................39Soup Additions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............................40Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................... Dr. med. Andres Bircher grandson of Dr.med. Maximilian Bircher-Benner.Medical studies in Zürich and Geneva, ten years practice as a hospital physician in anaesthesiology, intensive care, emergency medicine, surgery, paediatrics, psychosomatics, haematology, geriatrics, psychiatry and psychotherapy, medical specialist(Facharzt) in an administrative position at Zürich university hospitals, teaching analysis with Brian Kenny, chief physician (Chefarzt) of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich and later in Western Switzerland, medical specialist (Facharzt) in TCM and acupuncturist in Vienna; studies of neural therapy, manual therapy and traditional homeopathy, successful completion of medical specialist (Facharzt) training in balneology, climatology and physical medicine in Germany, scientific work on food energies, dietetics and the effects of regulatory medicine.Dr. med. Andres Bircher is the medical manager of the Centre for Scientific Natural Medicine Bircher-Benner.
