THE LEGACY OF DR HAZEL PARCELLS
Frisky enough to follow me to San Francisco? Don’t miss Wise Traditions 2008 where I’ll introduce the original Naughty Nutritionist, the incomparable Dr. Hazel Parcells (1889-1996).
Dr. Parcells was a feisty redhead whom I’m doing my very best to emulate. A total original with a talent for chopping and slicing through nutritional dogma, she had little patience with most health “experts,” saying that they were unteachable because their cups were already full. She broke the rules of establishment nutrition by recommending red meat, raw milk, butter, no soy and no margarine. And she understood body/mind/spirit medicine long before it became popular. Dr. Parcells liked to say that “If you want to be healthy, you need to trade your wishbone for a backbone and get to work.” That’s excellent advice on many levels, including broth making!
I am deeply grateful to The Doctor because I took her advice and became healthy. I noted that she earned several advanced degrees after the age of 50 and gathered the strength to go for my own PhD. I was so intrigued by her findings about the health problems caused by soy protein and soy margarine that I researched and wrote The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food. As for her naughtiness, she set a high bar for wit and wisdom delivered with a wide smile, knowing winks and infectious laughs.
It is her story, however that is most inspiring. The verdict Hazel Parcells heard in 1931 was not good. Incurable tuberculosis, a collapsed lung, a hemorrhaging kidney and an enlarged heart. Curable, said the learned MDs, only by death.
She responded by firing the doctors whose 18 years worth of efforts had left her with a deteriorated body and depleted bank account. “They told me there was nothing more they could do for me, and I took them at their word,” she said. Though only given a few months to live Parcells looked forward to the chance to experiment on herself and learn what her body needed. “One thing was certain, I wasn’t going to get any worse.”
Sixty four years later Parcells died in January 1996 at the age of 106 years young. She was, according to Joseph Dispenza, author of Live Better Longer: The Parcells Center Seven-Step Plan for Health and Longevity (Harper San Francisco, 1997) “vibrantly and vigorously alive.” A sharp dresser who favored bright colors, she was proud of her curly red hair and patronized a beauty shop just a few days before her death, enchanting all who were there.
When Parcells began her healing journey in 1931, she was very much on her own. Few alternative therapies existed and there were few health books to read. “Out of necessity, to keep yourself well, I began to study the chemistry of food,” she told Dispenza. First, she tuned in to her own body.
Listening to her inner voices, and hearing the words “fresh” and “green,” she began eating the only green vegetable available in quantity in Colorado at that time — spinach. Though her consumption rivaled Popeye’s she rejected the canned variety for raw, steamed and juice.d parsley and other greens followed and six months later Parcells was perky enough to report back to Fitzsimmons Army Hospital near Denver to show herself off to the doctors who had condemned her to death.
Her energy soaring and mind wide open to possibility. Parcells made it her life’s work to explore the field of health and healing. Drawn to many ideas that appeared — and perhaps still appear– improbable or impossible to establishment scientists, she ran her own laboratory and also explored homeopathy, light and color therapy, radionics, Bach Flower Remedies and other modalities. She earned four advanced degrees, including doctors of chiropractic and naturopathy and PhDs in nutrition and comparative religions.
In time, word of the Doctor’s unusual methods and miraculous healings spread. “From the first, I recognized her as a master healer and pioneer, far ahead of her time,” said Ann Louise Gittleman, author of Beyond Pritikin (Bantam, 1988), Guess What Came to Dinner: Parasites and Your Health (Avery, 1993) and other books. Parcells introduced Gittleman to many of the underlying causes of disease and malnutrition in the late 20th century, including parasite infestation, pesticide poisoning, mineral deficiencies, radiation sickness and aluminum and other heavy metal toxicities.
“I never heard of her methods not working,” said Sam Berne, O.D., the Santa Fe-based author of Creating a Personal Vision: A Mind/Body Guide to Better Eyesight (Color Stone Press, 1994). “Her reputation was impeccable. She didn’t work with disease. She just cleaned up the body.” And she never spoke of “cures.” “Only taxidermists and undertakers do curing,” she told Dispenza. “As for miracles, no it’s just nature’s way.”
The doctor’s most frequently used methods included fasts and bowel cleanses, parasite riddance programs, therapeutic baths and food cleansing baths. Food cleansed using the Doctor’s special methods gain levels of freshness and energy that belie that reality of long transports and extended stays on supermarket shelves. According to Parcells’ measurements, untreated foods — whether commercial or organic — generally rate so low in life energy that they can scarcely support health The same foods cleaned with the Clorox bath, however, become health promoting. Parcells also designed special lights incorporating magnets that help clear foods of negative energies — including the “fear” energy left in the flesh of slaughtered animals. Known as Thea Lites or Balancing Lites, they also raise the energy of foods — such as milk, salt or Chinese takeout — that could not survive a Clorox soak.
Radiation was another of her deepest concerns. She said she found it everywhere in America, even in remote, beautiful locations such as Sapello, NM, where she lived during the last few years of her life. Accordingly, she recommended that people clear themselves several times weekly with sea salt and baking soda baths and as soon as possible after X rays or plane trips. “She would say, “You can’t stay dry if you keep going out in the rain,” said Larry Martin, a friend and follower who worked closely with her during her last few years of life. “You clear it but it comes back because you are exposed.”
“Doing this work, you start to really know what the environment is like,” said Terry Kast, who followed Parcells for two decades learning her methods and who teaches workshops in Albuquerque. “She found high readings nearly everywhere of dioxins, arsenic trisulfate, cobalt 60, you name it.” In her final years, the doctor also began detecting mutant viruses, mutant fungi and other microbiological alients. Night after night she worked in her laboratory seeking and praying fo remedies, only to catch yet another mutation a few months later.
Over her 65 year career, Parcells recognized many of her peers but esteemed very few. She especially admired Weston Price and illustrated points with tthe photographs in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Parcells was also drawn to another dentist — Royal Lee (1895-1967) a nutritionist, inventor and forward thinker who exposed the adulteration and commercialism of our food supply.
Despite her long career and unquestionable success, Parcells was little known to the general public. One reason was that she preferred to work in peace. Another, she did not want to butt heads with the FDA, the AMA and other medical police. “She kept a low profile because of her unorthodox work,” said Gittleman. “She was very, very careful. She had students, not clients or patients. She didn’t want to be made a spectacle of like Ruth Drown, Max Gerson or Royal Lee.” All three were persecuted for their pioneering work. Indeed when Dispenza first discussed a book, Parcells resisted saying that the world wasn’t ready and her message would be misconstrued and mocked. She agreed to work with him, however, when her spirit guides told her to get the information out to as many people as possible.
© Copyright 2008 Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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I suffer from psoriasis, and it is very prevalent on my arms and legs. My dermatologist wants me to go on the prescription methotrexate, and I really don’t want to take it. She thinks that I could develop psoriatic arthritis in the future if I don’t get the psoriasis under control now. There are many severe side-effects associated with this drug and my gut is screaming to me not to start it. Would you have any suggestions as to what I can do to get my psoriasis under control in a natural, homeopathic way? I would very much appreciate any information that you could share with me. Thank you very much. Marcia
Hi Marcia
I have a friend who gets psoriasis on her fingers, splits and cracks. She puts emu oil (Montana ranch) which you can get at vitamin cottage on it and it heals right up. In addition, she takes thunder ridge emu oil soft gels (Amazon) and swears by them. One of her friends who has it told her about the emu oil.
I just want to support my skin so I either take the soft gels or put one drop of the emu oil on my tongue. I had a dark flat spot on my leg that started getting lighter after I started doing the drop on my tongue. Once my soft gels are finished I’m going to start the drop again.
Good luck!
Marcia, I have seen videos of people curing various types of psoriasis by following the Carnivore Diet. My first reaction to the thought of eating meat, fat and salt was repugnance! Especially since the high carb load of the SAD had gotten me to stage 3 Kidney failure. The vids of people who had been in Stage 4 and brought themselves back to Stage 2, convinced me to go Carnivore. Kidney Doctors, Heart Surgeons and a number of G.Ps, were instrumental in leading me to Carnivore, as was my 55-year-old, on Carnivore for the last 4 months. “I never felt better in my life!”
I AM NOT suggesting you go Carnivore! What I AM suggesting is you DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, there are many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Carnivore videos. Best wishes for your healing, whatever path you choose.
Addendum: My doctors, including my nephrologist, strongly cautioned me against high protein, fat AND ESPECIALLY salt!
Doctors will caution a person against anything that doesn’t fasten their wallets.
Jacquelyn, This is so true. If our bodies don’t consume enough good fat our body wont let go of visceral fat that keeps us fat in the mid section, and causes disease. We have been lied to for a very long time. Sick people keep big pharma and doctors in the business of illness, period.
I resolved a part of my psoriasis stopping to eating something that rots in your gut. It’s a bad advice. Our body can’t catabolize or better, broke meat proteins and fats and all the enzymes are destroied as microbiota. I studied Biology and study Medicine so if you want to have psoriasis, you continue to eat cancer and mutagenes processed food. Instead, I say this from my psoriasis personal and medical experience, you clean the gut first. After you can sooth your mucoses and rebuild the microbiota but your diet (intended also as natural non processed food and a good hydration) and your lifestyle MUST be coerent with the steps you take and always be coerent. I advice to inform on this well.
In my own healing, it wasn’t necessarily a carnivore diet, but an anti-glyphosate diet that cured my health anomalies. So when you go on a carnivore diet, that inherently eliminates glyphosate, or at least at the levels that are present in dry-harvested crops. Probably impossible to get away from glyphosate entirely, but I now believe my psoriasis, hypothyroid, gerd, and dysautonomia were directly reversed within a week of switching to a low-glyphosate diet. It collects in the bones of animals, but since bone broth also contains the gut-repairing elements to address the gut permeability caused by glyphosate, it is still effective to drink bone broth.
I was just reading about the benefits of spirulina and chlorella for psoriasis!! Theres a company called organic burst and there was some recommendations on there. Check it out!
Go carnivore. 30 days beef butter and water period, then expand. That cleared all my skin issues. I continued on after 30 days and added berries and eggs, and 6 months in all my inflammation is almost gone. Allergies & Asthma diminished significantly, skin is healing and thicker, energy is off the charts and my weight has dropped 20 lbs. I’m 61. I got on this diet after I was poisoned by Levofloxacin and couldn’t walk. I was healed of all symptoms in 4 months but reeped the benefits of the total eradication of my eczema and skin issues, and the healing of my inflammation and fatigue. This coupled with Dr Parcells medicinal baths & remedies, you’ll get well. Try it.
I pick dandelions about 2 cups worth and slow boil them in coconut oil for 3 hrs. i strain the dandelion and this helps with my friends eczema and my brothers psoriasis 🙂 it also helps heal things like facial acne if you pick it fast etc any abrasions.
Hi
Any book you recomend about dr Parcell
I am looking for information on Dr Parcells directions for liver cleanse using olive oil & fresh grapefruit juice. I have unfortunately lost the copy that I had. It’s not an easy liver cleanse but I felt profoundly better after the cleanse. It’s been years & I would like to do another cleanse.
Dr. Linda Lancaster was a student of Dr. Parcell’s. She just wrote a book called Light Harmonics. The polarity cleanse is in the book
thank you for sharing, I have been looking for something like this book you mentioned here.
Dr Linda Lancaster’s book harmonic healing has all Dr Parcells therapeutic baths and cleanses included with her work
What about arthritis? Is there any thing for that?
I think diatomaceous earth works for arthritis.. use Food Grade, only though. But, I’m not an expert, you can look it up.
For Arthritis look into the borax protocol on Earthclinic (for women it’s 1/8 tsp of borax dissolved in a liter of good quality water taken throughout the day; double for men).
I am trying to get in touch with Terry Kast, she was my mentor on Dr Parcells energy lamp. Can you please provide me with a phone number or email for her? She is in Albuquerque NM
In 1975 I took two weeks of training under Dr. Parcells. She taught radiesthesia, and the correct understanding and use of the pendulum, for diagnosis and treatment. All of the people who took the classes with me have passed on; and I am the last in the Idaho Falls area to have completed the courses. She made it plain that no two people are alike, and no two treatments are equal and specific for two different people. If you want to find out what your issue is and what the correction is, you have to get trained in the proper use of the pendulum!
Hello, are you talking about a crystal pendulum? How does that work? I’m very interested. Thanks!
Val are you interested in teaching this virtually so that Dr. Parcells ways can be kept alive? As a functional nutritionist & fan of her “natures way”principals, I’m very interested.
I am interested
Please contact with me
klaudiac1987@gmail.com
Me too. I am a Natural Therapist in Australia. I’m very interested if you would consider online teaching.
Would you be willing to pass on the knowledge that you received from Dr Hazel, so that it’s not lost?
I would like to lean an keep it going
Where can you buy a Thera lite?
I would love to know more about Alzheimer’s, Asthma and acid reflux attacks
There is a doctor who healed her husband from Alzheimers with coconut oil. You can find her video on YouTube under “Can Alzheimers be treated with the keto diet? “
Look up Dr. Francisco Gonzalez-Lima and Mthelene Blue. This Dr is a neuroscientist and is doing research in this arena.
I have been taking it for 3 months due to long CoVid which led to neurological issues and has had wonderful results. M B is an over the counter product and must be USP grade to be consumed. Dosing is important as well.
Blessings.
BB
Wondering if Parcell has mentioned a cure for kidney stones?
I don’t know if Parcells had a cure, but we used Chanca Piedra drops to dissolve the stone and added daily Potassium Citrate keep them from forming in the future. My husband never fully passed the stone. It just dissolved or became really small and he couldn’t feel it go. We had to go to the emergency room when it happened and they sent him home to pass it! Also, beware of grapefruit juice! My husband had gone on a bit of a kick with it and figured that is what caused it. No problems since three years later!
Does anyone know if raw milk is a high histamine food? There seems to be lots of confusion on this topic.
-Histaminehangover- Instagram page very helpful site
-bethohara-mass cells 360
Incredible, detailed information
Warm regards
Has a cure for Crohn’s been developed as a friend of mine
contracted it at age 40 years and gets regular mouth ulcers.
Grateful thanks
Crohn’s disease: a friend of mine contracted it
and gets regular mouth ulcers.
Has the Parcels centre in Sante Fe closed? Because in the book it says at least 5 times ‘”if you are interested in this (particular protocol/ product to use/to know which brand Dr Parcels recommends/ed etc) contact the Parcels Centre. How does one get this info?! By the way, someone asked here about raw milk- isn’t it that raw milk is not homogenised, therefore the proteins are not broken down, therefore they do not pass directly into the bloodstream which is what causes the body to react /makes the immune system attack as they are foreign objects?
Hello, I am also interested in learning how to do the pendulum. Please contact me via my email.
psoriasis Hint – start looking at it’s cause from virus .. may help some … did you have mono as a kid … Ebstien Bar virus …also any oils processed with HEAT are rancid .. I use to consume olive oil . I quit .. psoriasis decreases by at least 40% – I still have it can’t knock it .
THanks
My daddy has Parkinson’s disease! It’s one of the most terrible diseases I have ever seen with absolutely no cure! Not even close! Did Dr Parcell ever research anything on this? I am about to start researching all this info! Can someone please help me? A book? Anything? Please