Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 438

Anemic dietary addictions

28th February 1848

[1] I know anemia well and also what causes it. But it is a little difficult to deal with because she does not like to follow what is advised to her and does not neglect what is harmful to her.

[2] So tell her: Leave the coffee as long as you are anemic, and never even eat the burned poisonous grains! Because as long as you don't want to leave that, you will not blush. Do not ask why you are not allowed to eat such poisonous grains! Because the reason would touch you immorally and cause you to make a discovery that is not yet well-fitting for you to know. So follow the advice and don't ask – do you want to be healthy; otherwise you will remain anemic a week longer for each grain of poison.

[3] So you must abstain from fatty food, and from fat milk. For fat animates the horny spirits, and if these do not find their satisfaction, they penetrate the blood, rummage through it, and make it tired, lazy, sluggish, and heavy; and this then gives rise to the so-called anemia, which is always a consequence of too early excitement of the horny spirits, which cannot be satisfied.

[4] But if you want to be healthy as soon as possible, follow the following diet: For breakfast, take either a light chocolate, or even better a cocoa coffee made from roasted cocoa shells, or even a corn tea with light (skimmed) milk and a little sugar. – For lunch, have a good fresh soup with baked bread, not too heavily salted. Then also a lean beef with some mustard or fresh but sugared horseradish, which is first dressed with vinegar and oil. Calfs meat is also good. But if you don't like such meat, eat steamed apples with breadcrumbs. But you must be careful of all sausages and cheeses; likewise also of cabbage and sauerkraut, less of red and white turnips, but of yellow turnips, and of all flatulent foods in general, because these also awaken the horny spirits. In the evening, however, be content either with what you enjoyed in the morning or with a soup with baked bread. You can also moderately enjoy a good wine with water. Otherwise, drink water that is not too cold.

[5] But for all this use a so-called Latwerge (*1), which is available for this purpose in the pharmacy; or also pills for the same purpose! And in the morning, one hour before the meal, do some exercise in the open air, preferably on the Mur, where the air is purest during this time – but only not in an avenue of wild chestnuts which have harmful vapors (for you).

[6] But for all these things you must also mainly trust in Me and be quite cheerful, so you will soon be ruddy and healthy again.

[7] I love you very much; but you must also love Me very much, so you will get well and stay healthy! But if you are stubborn and have an excitable mind, you will remain anemic for years.

Footnote (*1) Laxative