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FIFTH STAGE: THE MIXED DIET
With this innovation, there is a recurrence of the old trouble in some cases, and
the patient—sadder and wiser for the experience—is glad to go back to the raw
diet. But if the disease has not been very deep-seated and the cure is complete,
the following regimen is recommended.
Eat three meals a day:
1. A fruit breakfast, one kind only
2. A cooked lunch
3. A salad dinner
Single-Fruit Breakfast
For breakfast, eat plentifully of any of the juicy fruits that are in season. Make a
strict habit of this and observe it for the rest of your life if you want to be
healthy.
Skipping breakfast or having just a light breakfast of fruit is splendid for
people who have been systematically overeating and especially those who are in
the habit of indulging in heavy lunches and late dinners. But when the dinner is
taken not later than 7 PM and consists of raw salad or fruit, the stomach of one
who has been on a proper grape diet is free from acidity and accumulations.
In such cases, the fruit breakfast is better than the fast, in that it supplies the
body with cleansing and building material.
One can, moreover, do a hard morning’s work on a fruit breakfast.
The Cooked Meal
A dry meal. No soups (other than a good thick soup, which contains little liquid
and is a meal in itself). No liquids of any kind.
No raw salads. No fruit either fresh or cooked.
The main foods are to be steamed vegetables. Begin with one kind at a time

after the Grape Cure. If the results are good, take two or three varieties at a meal.
Not more than one kind of starch. This may consist of any of the cereals such
as oatmeal and Wheatena, brown rice, potatoes, or whole wheat bread and
unsalted butter.
Enjoy this meal. If you are not a vegetarian, indulge in a piece of baked,
broiled, or steamed fish occasionally, with a steamed potato and butter. Or else,
an infinite variety of savory dishes may be made by mashing one of the green
vegetables with steamed potatoes, mixing it with egg, covering with bread
crumbs and pats of butter, and baking this to a rich brown in the oven. Leftovers
of cauliflower, cabbage, steamed lettuce, spinach, and baked onions lend
themselves especially to this form of cooking. Take the time to arrange your
dishes nicely, as visual pleasure is also important—the idea of sitting down to eat
at the table should be inviting.
For variety, you can also prepare pasta or fresh corn on the cob or any of the
other palatable food provided by nature.
Watch the effects of the cooked meal and with the first signs of discomfort,
return to the raw diet.

CONCLUSION
To put it clearly, the condition of our blood is more dependent on the food we eat
than on anything else, including thought. I know some saints whose bodies are
very sick because they transgress against the laws of dietetics. And I know more
than one sinner who is disgracefully healthy because he is more concerned about
pure food than the good of his soul. Others there are, neither saints nor sinners,
who have hardly had an original thought in their lives and yet are healthy and
happy, like the cow placidly thinking of the next cud.
The thoughts of supermen may annul the effects of wrong eating, but until we
reach that stage, we do well to study the daily menu.
When all is said and done, the matter of eating and drinking is at the present
time the most important because it is the only thing over which we have
conscious and deliberate control. We must concentrate on that, find out what are
the best foods, and not allow ourselves to be persuaded by anyone to take
anything that we know to be injurious.
A Summary of the Different Stages of Brandt’s Grape Cure

First stage: The vital preparation before the cure—enemas and fasting
Second stage: The exclusive grape diet
Third stage: Gradual introduction of other raw fruits, tomatoes, sour milk, fromage blanc,
cottage cheese, or yogurt
Fourth stage: The raw food diet
Fifth stage: The mixed regimen—a raw food diet with the introduction of some cooked foods

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The Grape

THE MONO DIET
I believe it was the exclusive grape diet that saved my life in the end.
After the nine years’ battle with death, I discovered almost accidentally that
fresh grapes, when taken alone, answered the three requirements of dissolving,
eliminating, and building.
Like everyone else, I had been eating grapes for years. I grew up among the
vineyards of South Africa and the finest grapes of the world were to be found on
our table at Harmony in Pretoria. We ate them with other foods. That was the
mistake.
The stomach is nature’s own laboratory. Put the right combination of foods
into it and the result is the fabrication of every essence necessary for life and
health.
But the stomach is also a still [apparatus used in distillation to produce
alcohol]. At the temperature of blood heat, the process of digestion is carried on
in the form of fermentation. The manufacture of alcohol can take place. This
seems to be indispensable to the well-being of the body. But an excess of alcohol
causes a poisoning of the system. Toxemia or autointoxication takes place. This
is true when foods are mixed in the stomach indiscriminately, and especially so
when to this mixture is added the grape. Taken into an impure stomach, it
becomes a dangerous enemy.
On the other hand, when by fasting the system has been prepared for the
change of diet, the grape becomes our great benefactor, our savior from the ills
of the flesh.

The grape is, as far as I know, the most powerful nature solvent of chemical
deposits, and at the same time the most drastic eliminator. Because of its
extraordinary properties, the avenues of excretion become superbly active under
a proper grape diet.

THE GRAPE AS FOOD AND MEDICINE
The medical properties of the grape cannot be overestimated. Salts of potash are
found plentifully in grapes. And now we understand why the grape may be a
specific cure for cancer, for there is said to be a marked deficiency of potash in
the makeup of the average cancer patient.
The grape is remarkable. It is the finest natural tonic in the world. It also has
some vital relation to the protein base of the protoplasm of the cell and is on that
account considered a quick repairer of tissue waste. As a flesh-and muscleforming element, it has no rival. In my opinion, the grape is a perfect food.
Proteins are the great body builders. This, then, partially explains why new
tissue is built with such extraordinary rapidity on an exclusive grape diet.
But science has not yet discovered what elements in the grape break down
malignant growths. Some fine essence, which has hitherto escaped observation,
must be present in this “Queen of Fruits.”
Perhaps this elusive substance will be found in the pure distilled water of the
grape.
Supplemental Uses
We are only on the threshold of our discoveries and experiments, learning
something new every day. With great success the pure juice of the grape is used
for cleansing the throat, ears, nose, and mouth; applied externally on wounds in
the forms of poultices and compresses diluted with water; and introduced per
rectum as food. We can hope for yet more gifts from this queen of fruits.
GRAPE POULTICES
In the case of external growths, where there is an open sore, grape poultices have
been found to be effective. The grape poultice is made by crushing grapes,
spreading between layers of cheesecloth or muslin, and placing over the affected
part, covering the whole with a dry cloth.

GRAPE COMPRESSES
Where whole grapes cannot be procured, a compress may be used. Soft muslin
or cheesecloth is dipped in grape juice diluted about two-thirds. Both poultice
and compress should be renewed frequently and the cloths safely disposed of, as
they absorb much of the poison. The purpose of the compress is to keep external
cancers and other wounds open and soft so that the poisons can be expelled. This
is very important.
HEAD COLDS
Use also for sinusitis, brain fever, and similar ailments: a nasal douch six to eight
times a day with diluted grape juice.
THROAT OR LARYNX CANCER
Gargle with diluted grape juice.
RECTAL CANCER
In addition to treating it with grapes as food, use diluted grape juice as an enema.
UTERINE CANCER
Regular injections of three parts lukewarm water and one part grape juice.
All the indicated treatments discussed in this section are to be performed as
complements to the grapes ingested—in other words, as part of the Grape Cure.
When the effects of the cure are too drastic (purgative), fast judiciously, then fast
again—imbibing nothing but pure water. No lasting result can be obtained
without fasting.

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The Complements of the Grape Cure

THE DOCTORS OF NATURE
There are seven doctors of nature:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Fasting
Air
Water
Sun
Exercise
Food
Mind

Fasting
Fasting has already been discussed at length, so we will move right ahead to a
description of the importance of air.
Air
Breathing well is essential because no one can renew the oxygen in one’s lungs
but oneself.
However, the respiratory tract is not the only thing involved here: your skin is
covered by millions of minuscule lungs: the pores. You must learn the magical
effect of aeration and how to use an exfoliating body brush to stimulate the pores
and rid them of accumulated inorganic substances.
The skin of a healthy person casts off the dead cells without artificial means,

but in a diseased body the pores are choked with decayed matter. The entire
body of the patient should be brushed morning and evening with a loofah or
exfoliating brush.
These brushes may be procured at almost any drugstore or body care
boutique.
But it is not enough to get the poisons out, you must see to it that no new
poison gets in. There are more ways of taking in poison than through the mouth.
We do not put inorganic poisons into the system of a patient who is trying to
expel poisons. That would be like pouring oil on a fire with one hand and water
with the other, in an effort to extinguish it.
The construction of the human body is marvelously complex. The millions of
pores on the surface have many functions. They not only excrete waste products,
but they also have the power of absorbing material essences. The care of the skin
is of immense importance in the treatment of cancer, for the pores are accessory
organs of breathing. That is to say, instead of having only one pair of lungs, we
possess many millions, so that in the case of internal cancer, when the breathing
is heavily restricted, we have to depend largely on the free action of the pores for
oxygen.
Individually, we have very little control over the air we breathe. But the
human race is collectively responsible for the present tainted atmosphere by
which the blood is poisoned. Until provision can be made to clear the air of
smoke and gas and the deadly fumes of nicotine, our bodies will suffer. The
annual cleansing by a thorough Grape Cure will be necessary.
Water
It would be impossible to fast for very long without using a lot of water, both
internally and externally. Rainwater is surely the best choice. Distilled water can
be used to drink for several weeks, but it is ill advised to make it a regular habit
because it would deprive the body of certain mineral salts.
We have received many inquiries regarding the amount of water the patient
should drink. The patient is permitted to drink as much water as he feels inclined
to between the grape meals.
Generally, sufficient water is supplied by the juice of the grape. In the early
stages of the diet, the patient often becomes very thirsty. Nature calls for an
abundant supply of water to flush the system. After the poisons have been
eliminated, this craving ceases. Too much drinking often tends to overwork the

kidneys.
Ablutions, compresses, lotions, baths, body wraps, seawater baths, and ice
cures all form part of this natural treatment. Make wide use of these methods by
telling yourself that it is for your general well-being that you are devoting so
much attention to your body.
Body wraps, water compresses, and poultices are highly commendable, and in
extreme cases these should be saturated with diluted grape juice. A great many
patients can now testify to the magical effects of these compresses.
Sun
Sunbathing can be combined with these methods. The vital emanations of the
sun will be able to enter the body through the pores opened by the water.
Caution: Don’t expose yourself for too long or too quickly.*1
Morning sunshine is the best. Don’t lie out bare-headed. To be truly healthy,
the sunbath should be taken gradually so that the skin pigmentation will darken
normally. In order to take long sunbaths, you should wait until you have
achieved a uniform tan.
Exercise
Life is movement. Death is stagnation. All forms of moderate exercise are good.
We teach our students to gently massage the afflicted areas and to stretch their
spinal column in order to improve the nervous system and blood circulation.
THE SACRED SPINE
Wonders have been accomplished with the Grape Cure, fasting, and the
Fruitarian Diet, but the secret of perfect physical well-being lies in the condition
of the spine. The bones should be well separated from one another by cushions
of firm cartilage in order to allow an unrestricted flow of blood, nerve fluid, and
other vital essences from the Generator of Life—the brain—to every part of the
body.
The spinal column, or backbone, should be pliable, supple, and flexible
without being limp; there should be no excessive curving in the lumbar region.
The full weight of the body should rest on the pelvis and be held in place by
the internal muscles. This position tilts the pelvis forward and upward, lifts the
ribs, expands the chest, reduces the abdomen, and lessens dangerous curves in
the lumbar region by the pressure of which the internal organs can be displaced,

starved, and atrophied.
No living human being whose pelvic bones are out of place can breathe
correctly or walk gracefully. Every movement becomes an effort. Wearing high
heels is a prime culprit in the deformation of women’s pelvises.
How can incorrect posture and the displacement of the pelvis be rectified?
There are many schools of physical culture teaching corrective exercises.
There are trained chiropractors and osteopaths who, by the skillful manipulation
of the spine, adjust the vertebrae and so release the pressure on the nerves.
Spinal extension and correction can also be obtained by suspension, based on
the universal law of gravity.
All these exercises should be done under the supervision of a trained
professional in a specialized institution.
We should remember, though, that in order to have perfect health, it is
necessary to hold oneself properly and keep an eye on the state of one’s spinal
column.
Food
The healing that is possible with deliberate choices of the foods we take into our
bodies has been sufficiently covered in other chapters.
Mind
It is the mind that cures. Man being a material being on a material plane, he
requires material means to express his mind and spirit. The purification of the
body acts directly on the mind, which, in turn, influences the habits of the body.
Mind operates through magnetism. In order, therefore, to contact the forces of
mind, we purify and build up our personal magnetism. The best way to do this is
to turn to the great doctors of nature.
THE PROMOTION OF HARMONY ON EARTH
The old method of reforming “the other fellow” is useless. We must begin with
ourselves. We must start on the lowest vehicle—the physical body—and
gradually work up to perfection of mind and spirit.
This is commonsense healing, or Harmony.

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The Secret of the Success of the Grape Cure

SIMPLICITY
The Grape Cure is so simple that you can adopt it in your own home. It is only in
extreme cases that patients are confined to their beds while on a grape diet. To be
able to go about one’s work as usual is perhaps one of the greatest advantages of
this method. Think of what it means to the businesswoman, the professional
man, the university student! Many have taken the exclusive grape diet and
continued their work; sometimes it is advisable to take a short exclusive diet for
the weekend and, after that, take the following three stages for an equal length of
time, repeating this occasionally.
Power shall be added unto power. By the purification of blood and the general
uplifting of mind and body resulting therefrom, I see the people of the earth
gradually becoming more resistant to disease. Germs, plagues, and epidemics
lose their terror. Fearlessness has been born. The entire mental outlook has been
changed. Hopeful, constructive, optimistic, the sufferer sets about adjusting his
faculties to this new psychology.

BLOOD DISEASES
There is said to be only one disease and that is blood disease. It is for the sake of
convenience that we classify them into nervous, muscular, organic, or
constitutional diseases. As a matter of fact—barring accidents and
malformations—we depend, for life and health, largely on the condition of our
blood. And our blood is dependent on what we think, on what we inhale, and on
what we eat and drink.

PURIFYING THE BLOOD
I am convinced that cancer is a blood disease, more so, in fact, than any other
disease. No bruise could develop into cancer if the blood was pure, and so I say
again most earnestly, give the Grape Cure a trial! Go to the root of the matter and
remove the cause of the trouble. Or better still, prevent future troubles.
There is nothing like the Grape Cure for purifying the blood from gouty and
rheumatic poisons. The inorganic deposits that have settled between the joints
are apparently dissolved and expelled in the form of diarrhea or as an unpleasant,
oily sweat. The loosening of the joints sometimes causes great pain, which may
be relieved by poultices or compresses of fresh grape juice.

THE COURSE OF THE DISEASE
Under the Grape Cure, cancer should run its full course within a month or six
weeks. The patient loses weight to an extent that would be alarming if he did not
understand the principle of the Cure. While on the first stages of the Grape Cure,
nothing should be administered to make him gain weight—no food of any kind
except the grape. In advanced cases of cancer, it is only by reducing him to a
virtual skeleton that the disease may be overcome. When he has reached this
point, when he has been brought almost to skin and bone, there is nothing left for
the cancer to live on and it usually disappears spontaneously. There are many
kinds of cancer, and the patients are all at different stages of the disease. It is
therefore impossible to say beforehand how long it will take to arrive at the
turning point.

NO CAUSE FOR ANXIETY
When the inorganic poisons have been effectively eliminated and the patient
seems to have reached the last stage of weakness, there is usually a sudden and
marked change for the better. He may fall into a refreshing sleep and wake up
feeling “fine,” feeling strangely invigorated—and usually his first demand is for
“food.” The greatest care must now be exercised. For a day or two, he should
live on pure grape juice (homemade or unsweetened commercial)—half a pint
sipped slowly every two hours, and then gradually the other fruits may be
introduced.
The critical time is during that period of exhaustion just before the tide turns.

It is so natural to think that the patient is dying for want of nourishment. This is
not the case at all. If he has been kept faithfully on grapes, he has been fed with
the finest and richest food on earth—a food that will sustain a healthy, active
man for months.
“Feeding the patient to keep up his strength” is the surest way of killing him.
No, your cancer patient is not dying of starvation. And he is not getting weak
because he is eating grapes only. But the cancer is dying. Nature is destroying it.
The vital centers—heart, lungs, and brain—are being nourished to the last
minute by the grape. To change the diet at this moment would compromise
everything. Remember this when you are tempted to administer other foods and
stimulants. His only chance may be the grape. You know the verdict that has
been passed—inoperable cancer, no hope, nothing known to science that can
save this case. Well, then, the grape is the only hope. Until you hear of
something better than grapes, do not let the harrowing sight of the patient’s
weakness and emaciation tempt you to offer other foods. That might rob him of
his only chance.
Give the grape diet a fair chance for a few weeks, not longer, if you are unable
to get reliable advice. Then try some other juicy fruits.
I have seen patients reach the unconscious stage and then recover. Fortunately,
the patients themselves often have a conviction that grapes and only grapes will
save them.
To try them, I occasionally suggest some other tempting food and I have been
impressed by the emphatic replies: “Not for a hundred thousand dollars!” or “I
would rather die on grapes than live as I have been living on other foods.”
The patients sense, before understanding, just what threatens their tortured
bodies.
All this, however, applies only to the first few weeks of the exclusive grape
diet. The danger of staying on grapes too long is that the patient may, in time, be
unable to take any other food.

CURE DURATION
It has come to my attention that many patients overdo the exclusive grape diet.
They seem to think they must continue the grape diet until the growth or other
disorder has disappeared completely.
Experience teaches that scars caused by a malignant growth remain in the

tissues long after the Grape Cure has done its work. Only time will show
whether they will ever be entirely eradicated. The same is true of any injury
done to the body through burns, cuts, fractures, etc. When the grape has purified
the blood of cancer poison, the general condition of the patient steadily improves
in spite of the presence of lumps, scars, or other evidence of the injury done by
the growth.
In my own case, while the poisons of the cancer have been eliminated and the
cancer has disappeared, physical examinations by medical men disclose that
there are numerous adhesions as a result of the malignant growth. One doctor
advances the opinion that it will take at least seven years for these adhesions to
break up. It is useless, therefore, to continue the grape diet in the hope of
completely eradicating the growth within a few weeks, or even a few months.
This treatment is slow, requiring patience and perseverance, but the patient is
improving all the time, frequently able to go about his daily duties. One cannot
expect to rid oneself within a few weeks of poisons that one has been storing up
one’s entire life.
Many patients who are employed and do not wish to become too greatly
weakened take the exclusive grape diet for, say, two or three weeks; then they go
on to the third and fourth stages for equal periods. If, at the end of that time, they
feel that the poisons have not all been eliminated, they repeat the treatment. In
that way, they are able to continue their employment.
The condition of each case should be watched carefully and judgment
exercised. It is obviously impossible to give a set of rules that can be followed in
each case.
The grape contains many of the elements necessary to sustain life and health,
but it does not contain everything. To continue the grape diet beyond a
reasonable time would be to therefore deprive the system of the nourishment
necessary for the maintenance of the body.

DO I NEED THE GRAPE DIET?
This is a question put most frequently. No one can answer it except yourself, and
that is best done by starting right out on the diet. Try it for a week or two and at
the end of that time you will probably know more about your condition than you
ever did before.
The average person has been taught to regard every symptom of disease as an

evil to be suppressed immediately. Nothing can be further from the truth. The
disease is evil certainly, but the symptoms of disease are a curative process—not
to be suppressed. This we find to be true under the fast and under every natural
system of healing, but particularly so under the Grape Cure.
Abnormal growths, cancers, tumors, ulcers, abscesses, and fibrous masses
seem to be dissolved by the powerful chemical agents in the grape. Diseased
tissues and fatty degeneration, every form of morbid matter, is apparently broken
up into minute particles and thrown into the bloodstream to be carried to the
organs of excretion. No wonder, then, that complications arise. To the
inexperienced person, it is disconcerting to find new symptoms of disease
developing under the Grape Cure. He needs someone with experience to explain
to him that poisons, which have been locked up in the system for many years,
have broken loose and are running riot in the blood. Hence, that unusual rise of
temperature, that eruption on the skin, those splitting headaches, those attacks of
retching and purging, that discharge of mucus, that undue sweating. The anxious
mind of the patient should be set at rest by the assurance that all these are highly
favorable symptoms of the process of purification being carried on internally
—proof positive that he is still vital enough to respond to the treatment. The
avenues of excretion—the bowels, kidneys, lungs, and skin—are still in good
working order. Let him then closely examine the stools, the urine, the
perspiration, and let him rejoice with the appearance of every new evidence that
nature is still able to cast out the poisons that have been dislodged by the
magical action of the grape. Pains and ailments are all a sign that nature is at
work, purifying the body.
The patient should remember that every new ache and pain under the Grape
Cure is an expression of life, of renewed activity. Nerves that have been
atrophied for years have been stimulated by the grape.
Physical pain is Mother Nature’s own voice warning us of danger. She speaks
through the nerves, those delicate, watchful, and intelligent protectors of the
human body.
So much depends upon his mental attitude that everything should be done to
enlighten the patient on this most important aspect of the diet.
A volume could be dedicated to the remarkable effect of the grape upon the
nervous system.

HEALING CRISES

No one can heal except nature. It is by the power of Mother Nature that we are
healed. No one can renew the oxygen in one’s lungs except oneself. Ignorance of
these laws of nature keeps the world in the bondage of disease.
Your doctor may be puzzled by the strange actions and reactions—we call
them healing crises—occurring under the Grape Cure. Then ask him to consult
with someone who is experienced along these lines. The grape diet is very
simple, but in cases of real danger, the first reactions may be highly complicated.
Do not treat yourself without reliable advice.
A bad case of cancer of the tongue has been successfully treated, after a fast of
ten days on water only, by the administration of a tablespoonful of grape juice
every half hour.
Grape is the only nourishment prescribed in cases of enteric congestion. After
a period of fasting, during which the system is cleaned and prepared for the
change of diet, grape juice seems to act as a powerful disinfectant. At the same
time, the strength of the patient is maintained by its nourishing properties.
Grapes apparently dissolve the hardened mucus adhering to the walls of the
stomach and intestines. In several cases, along with the fecal matter, there was an
accumulation of stringy, slimy mucus that resembled worms. Sometimes this
occurred in long strings, sometimes in clumps resembling balls of string, and
sometimes like black and green marbles. The grape juice appeared to dislodge
this accumulation from the walls of the stomach and intestines and act as a flush,
carrying it to the rectum. It is therefore considered very important to remove this
accumulation by daily enemas, preferably high enemas (meaning those that
penetrate deep into the colon). When taking only liquids, whether water or fruit
juices, daily enemas are deemed necessary; otherwise, poisons that have been
carried to the intestines by these liquids are likely to be reabsorbed into the
blood.

KNOWING HOW TO INTERPRET PROGRESS
The first results of the diet are different in every case. According to the condition
of the patient, the first effects may be distressing or instantly beneficial. A
healthy person may go on the exclusive grape diet and suffer no inconvenience,
lose no weight, and be able to carry on his usual work without any loss of
strength. Not so the sick. In a diseased body, the complications arising from the
diet may be in exact accord with the gravity of the disease.

This is the perfect form of diagnosis and the most natural. It reminds me of the
primitive test of the temperature of the baby’s bath—when the baby turns red,
the water is too hot; when the baby gets blue, the water is too cold. Poor baby!
And one sometimes feels inclined to say “Poor patient!” when, under the Grape
Cure, slumbering evils and latent diseases begin to manifest themselves. A
seemingly healthy person may set out gaily on a grape diet—merely to reduce
weight, for instance—and at the end of a few weeks, he may be quite a sorry
spectacle. Some deep-seated trouble has been ferreted out into the open, and the
wise thing to do in such a case is to continue the five stages of the diet until
every trace of the disorder has disappeared.

OTHER DISEASES
It is impossible in a work of this scope to enumerate all the diseases that have
been treated by this method. A few, about which special inquiries have come in,
are mentioned below. I am also of the opinion that grapes should be the only
food allowed to be consumed before and after an operation.
Arthritis
It stands to reason that when the bones have become ossified through arthritis
and rheumatism, the Grape Cure will not loosen them up, except when used in
conjunction with other methods of natural healing, such as manipulations, gentle
exercise, and fomentation (the application of compresses). This should not be
done without the supervision of one trained along these lines.
The patient should expect his pains to worsen, especially at the beginning of
the cure. This is a normal reaction and proof that something constructive is
happening.
Diabetes
This method has been particularly successful with diabetes. The grape sugar is
believed to be an organic solvent that neutralizes the sugar deposits in the blood.
Patients used to taking insulin who devote themselves to the exclusive grape
diet should reduce the dose of insulin until they are no longer taking any. One
cannot expect satisfying results from the combination of insulin and grape juice.
[Caution: This should be done only under the supervision of the patient’s
doctor and with his or her consent.]

Gallstones
Gallstones have been cured while the patients were under treatment for more
serious diseases.
Cataract
The same may be said of cataract of the eye.
Ulcerated Stomach
This must not be regarded lightly. Too often gastric ulcers, when neglected,
become cancers. Before the disease reaches this point, it is highly recommended
that the sufferer undergo the grape diet. In cases of this illness, the patient should
not eat skins and seeds.
Pyorrhea Poisoning and Scurvy
The organic acids of the grape are strongly antiseptic and their effect on the
gums is perhaps more valuable than any other result of the diet, for it means
preservation of the teeth, on which mankind is dependent, not alone for health
but for beauty as well.
Would that I had the tongue of a saint to warn against the evil of having sound
teeth extracted because of poison at the roots! It is not always necessary. Every
tooth may be loose in the socket and pus may be pouring from the gums, but
after a few weeks on the exclusive grape diet, it will in time be found that the
teeth are firmly set in the jaws and that every trace of pyorrhea poisoning has
disappeared.
In my opinion, a patient suffering from scurvy should live exclusively on
grapes for a certain length of time. Try it. Prove it. Demonstrate the diet.
Alcoholism and Addiction
The matchless grape is the supreme remedy for the craving of alcoholic liquors.
Supplying, as it does, the purest form of the alcohol, which is indispensable to
the maintenance of life and health, the grape should form the exclusive diet of
our unfortunate fellow creatures addicted to drink as a preliminary measure
before any other recovery methods are attempted.
And in our homes, every member of the family who is addicted to vice, to the
drug habit, and to excessive use of tobacco, tea, and coffee would be persuaded
to undergo a grape diet, without compulsion or threat. This hapless victim of

perverted appetite is eager to be liberated. A sane and simple way of achieving
this appeals to him.

INSTITUTIONS
What we need is an institution in which scientific work can be done along these
lines, for the benefit of the world. To begin with, we need a well-equipped
building in which cancer patients can be treated free of charge.
Does the amputation of a limb or the removal of an organ remove the cause of
a cancer? Often a second operation becomes necessary. The cause of the trouble,
I contend, is still in the blood.
The use of grapes can never restore the loss of limbs and organs, but painful
swellings subside, inflammatory conditions are relieved, and there is an immense
relaxation from nervous strain.
Again I plead for an opportunity to demonstrate these wonders.
Let the medical fraternity continue its research work. It is quite possible that it
may some day hit upon something more effective than the grape diet.

APPEAL
Reader, are you going to do your share toward checking the devastating tide of
disease and premature death that is spreading over the globe? Then do not be
satisfied when, after the grape diet, you have regained perfect health. Your own
freedom from suffering is not enough. Think of the other members of the human
family and pass the message on. Tell your relatives and friends what the Grape
Cure has done for you.

CONCLUSION
Final Thoughts on Brandt’s Grape Cure

Ever since the time of antiquity, books have cited the healing properties of the
grape, but none of these works emphasized the virtues of this fruit as out of the
ordinary, nor did any propose grapes as a cure.
It was not until the second half of the nineteenth century—from 1840 to the
First World War, to be precise—that what is now known as the Grape Cure
experienced a boom in popularity. Health spas were created in the vineyard
regions of Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, among other places. These healing
centers—modeled on the thermal spa—welcomed cure seekers from all over
Europe. Depending on the center and the era, the grape might compose the
exclusive nourishment of people on the cure or it might appear as a complement
to other therapies.
In the 1920s, in South Africa, a mother suffering from an incurable cancer
desperately sought survival, a cure for her disease. Devouring every book on
natural medicine she could find, experimenting on herself with all the healing
procedures she had heard about from others, she eventually stumbled upon the
healing properties of the grape, in the form of a mono diet. This mother was
none other than Johanna Brandt.
Using the Grape Cure, she healed herself once and for all. After that, she took
it upon herself to spread the word about the marvelous effects of this cure.
In her book, she placed the cure within everyone’s reach, explaining how to
follow the regimen. Little by little, her healing system spread; cure testimonies
flooded in from all over, increasing the cure’s renown.
The story of Brandt and the Grape Cure is typical of the empirical discovery
of a healing procedure that becomes an accepted therapeutic system. The annals
of natural medicine contain a host of similar examples. We should be grateful

that new procedures of healing are constantly being discovered, adding to our
therapeutic options. One cannot have enough strings for the bow when it comes
to providing relief and healing! However, we should not lose sight of the fact
that these procedures, even taken together, do not constitute natural medicine,
properly speaking.
They may appear as such to those who are ill informed. In fact, these
empirical procedures—whose efficacy requires no further demonstration, given
the numerous testimonies of healing—are often considered universal healing
techniques. As the testimonies demonstrate, procedures like these have effected
cures for most known diseases, and many can be practiced as preventive
measures, because they are seen as preventive, healing, and valid for themselves.
Yet, a medical system is not a collection of practical methods; it is an
approach to health questions based on a concept of what illness is—a concept
upon which practical procedures are developed. At the base of every medical
system, there is a doctrine by which facts are interpreted and actions are oriented
and directed.
Natural medicine, like all other therapies, has its own approach. The Grape
Cure is not a doctrine, no more so than all the other procedures that have been
discovered over the course of time. However, they are each practical illustrations
of a piece of the doctrine. They demonstrate the soundness of the approach . . .
each in its own aspect of the concept.
The ancient medical concept of health and disease—today called natural
medicine—was formulated by Hippocrates. Despite periods when they fell into
obscurity, the principles of this medical philosophy have survived into the
present. The mind-dazzling progress of modern medicine might lead one to
believe that, thanks to chemotherapy and the introduction of high technology
into allopathic medicine, natural medicine has been struck a fatal blow. Nothing
of the sort has happened. To the contrary, the abuses and excesses of the
allopathic approach have only emphasized the necessity and importance of
naturopathic medicine.
While every person in search of healing by natural means will profit by
reading books like Brandt’s, seekers must not stop there. They must also learn
the basic principles of natural medicine to place such texts in their proper
perspective in relation to the entire system of natural healing. Failing to do that,
they will be walking blind, setting themselves up for failure, and possibly even
destroying their health by misapplying techniques that are otherwise excellent in

themselves.
The foundations of natural medicine as found in the writings of Hippocrates—
who lived in the fourth century BCE—are presented in a manner difficult to
understand in the modern world.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, Dr. Paul Carton
reformulated the foundations of natural medicine, primarily in his Traité de
médecine, d’alimentation et d’hygiène naturiste [Treatise on Naturopathic
Medicine, Diet, and Hygiene], as well as in other works. With simplicity and
logic—his books are written for the mass market—he explains the fundamental
principles with all their implications for prevention and therapy, in domains as
varied as diet, exercise, hydrotherapy, and more.
His expositions are so exhaustive they have become core works in the
discipline. They continue to inspire and serve as references for medical
practitioners the world over to such an extent that Dr. Carton can well be called
the Hippocrates of the twentieth century.
By going beyond popular books on healing procedures and studying the
foundations of natural medicine, you will discover it is more than a hodgepodge
of herbal-tea recipes and miracle cures.
What you will find is a consistent and logical approach to health and disease,
and thereby to humankind and life.

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Footnotes
Introduction
*1. Paul Carton (1875–1947) was a French physician who promoted “naturist
vegetarianism.” His philosophies were shaped by his own experience of
being treated for tuberculosis as a young man. Carton’s ideas about the
importance of purifying diets of natural foods became quite influential
through his writings on the subject.

Chapter 2
*1. See also by Christopher Vasey The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum
Health, Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2003, revised and expanded
edition, 2006.

Chapter 10
*1. [Any chronic illness will take a long time to cure because the illness itself
has been in the body for an extensive period of time. Cures lasting longer
than a month should be taken only under the supervision of an experienced
practitioner. —C.V.]
*2. [Sanatoriums, prevalent from 1840 to 1920, administered therapeutic
treatments. Early sanatoriums were staffed by physicians and other
medical specialists. Over time they evolved into retreats for relaxation,
closer to our modern health spas. —C.V.]
*3. [Brandt is referring to a position in which the knees are brought up against
the chest. Nowadays, colonic irrigation would be administered by a
medical practitioner with modern, specialized equipment. —C.V.]
*4. [Whereas Brandt suggests that a raw food diet should be followed
indefinitely, I recommend staying at the fourth stage for one week. —C.V.]

Chapter 12
*1. [Nowadays, because of our increased knowledge of the potentially harmful
effects of the sun’s rays and the hole in the ozone layer, extra caution
should be taken. Protect yourself by wearing sunscreen. —C.V.]

Endnotes

Foreword
1. Rosette Poletti, Les soins infirmiers [Nursing Care] (Paris: Le Centurion,
1978).
Chapter 1: The True Nature of Illnesses and Therapy
1. American Heart Association, http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?
identifier=4478, accessed April 24, 2006.
2. Complete Works of Hippocrates, French translation by Gardeil, Paris,
volume 2, page 206.
3. Thomas Sydenham, Practical Medicine (n.p., n.d.).
4. Paul Carton, Traité de médecine, d’alimentation et d’hygiène naturiste
[Treatise on Naturopathic Medicine, Diet, and Hygiene] (Paris: Éditions
Maloine, 1924), 129.
5. Complete Works of Hippocrates, French translation by Gardeil, Paris,
volume 1, page 143.

Chapter 2: Fasting
1. William D. Zoethout and W. W. Tuttle, Textbook of Physiology (St. Louis:
The C. V. Mosby Company, 1946).

Chapter 5: The Raw Food Diet
1. Horace Fletcher, The AB–Z of Our Own Nutrition (New York: F. A. Stokes
Company, 1903).
Chapter 6: Indications and Contraindications of the Grape Mono
Diet
1. Paul Carton, Traité de médecine, d’hygiène et d’alimentation naturiste
[Treatise on Naturopathic Medicine, Hygiene, and Diet] (Paris: Éditions
Maloine, 1924).
2. Complete Works of Hippocrates, volume 2, page 32.

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