Chapter 38a—Salt, Spices and Condiments
The Ministry of Healing, 325
Under the head of stimulants and narcotics is classed a great variety
of articles that, altogether used as food or drink, irritate the stomach,
poison the blood, and excite the nerves. Their use is a positive evil.
Men seek the excitement of stimulants, because, for the time, the
results are agreeable. But there is always a reaction. The use of
unnatural stimulants always tends to excess, and it is an active agent
in promoting physical degeneration and decay.
In this fast age, the less exciting the food, the better. Condiments
are injurious in their nature. Mustard, pepper, spices, pickles, and
other things of a like character, irritate the stomach and make the
blood feverish and impure. The inflamed condition of the drunkard’s
stomach is often pictured as illustrating the effect of alcoholic liquors.
A similarly inflamed condition is produced by the use of irritating
condiments. Soon ordinary food does not satisfy the appetite. The
system feels a want, a craving, for something more stimulating.
Tract Regarding the Use of Flesh Foods (Eight page tract)
Condiments and spices used in the preparation of food for the
table aid in digestion in the same way that tea, coffee, and liquor
are supposed to help the laboring man perform his tasks. After the
immediate effects are gone, they drop as correspondingly below par
as they were elevated above par by these stimulating substances. The
system is weakened. The blood is contaminated, and inflammation is
the sure result.
Letter K 37, 1901
At one time Dr.-----tried to teach our family to cook according
to health reform, as he viewed it, without salt or anything else to
season the food. Well, I determined to try it, but I became so reduced
in strength that I had to make a change; and a different policy was
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