Anesthesia

Aajonus described Lidocaine as a compound specifically designed to enter and alter nerve cells. Because of this design, he argued, Lidocaine carries sugar into the nerves, and that sugar is an acidic compound that even in resilient tissue gradually dissolves structure. He stated plainly that Lidocaine causes numbness and nerve damage. When the body cannot remove Lidocaine, it attempts to neutralize the molecules by surrounding them with concentrations of minerals, and that process hardens the nerves and surrounding tissue. The result, in his framework, is often permanent mild to severe sensory loss, with severity depending on how much of the compound was used and how capable the individual's body was of eliminating it.

He was equally direct about what Lidocaine does not do, refuting a common clinical use case. Lidocaine and sugar, he stated, do not carry toxins out of joints. They contain toxins, and the body responds to them with mineral deposits that harden and damage tissue. He reported having witnessed multiple cases where this sequence ended in joint replacement because the pain that had been managed with Lidocaine injections ultimately resulted in structural joint destruction rather than resolution of the underlying problem.

The same chemistry applies to Novocaine, Xylocaine, and what he referred to interchangeably as Inovacaine, all of which he treated as variations of the same class of harm. He described the swelling caused by a single injection in the gums or jaw as sufficient to produce a toothache that could last two years, whereas the momentary pain of a dental procedure without anesthetic would typically resolve within seconds to perhaps twenty seconds if a nerve were directly struck during drilling. He framed this as a straightforward calculation: a split second of pain versus months or years of toxic residue, swelling, abscess formation, and neurotoxic symptoms.

The most extensively documented case in the source material is Aajonus's own body. He described having received Novocaine injections during dental work over many years, and having later regretted each instance. He stated that the Novocaine tonic solids remained stored in his mouth tissue for decades after the injections, and that eating an avocado or a tomato would cause him to taste Novocaine in his mouth as it leached out through canker sores that would appear immediately. He described getting painful ridges on the sides of his tongue that made eating extremely difficult, as a direct consequence of residual Novocaine mobilizing under dietary conditions.

He also experienced abscesses in the areas where he had received the most Novocaine injections. He described this as a result of hardening of the tissue caused by the Novocaine, and stated that detoxing from a single injection was sufficiently traumatic that he would rather endure the pain of dental procedures directly. His stated policy, which he maintained from at least 1972 onward, was to receive no anesthetic for dental work. He had sixteen amalgam fillings removed in 1978 across two four-hour sessions with no numbing agent, which he described as achievable partly because he took a pain-management formula beforehand, consisting of butter and other raw fats, and because he understood that the drilling pain was momentary and contained.

On one documented occasion, he described accepting Novocaine for a facial bone procedure after an injury in Thailand that required two hours of surgery to reposition bone. He stated that in retrospect he would have preferred to endure the three hours of direct pain rather than suffering the Novocaine detoxification effects off and on for approximately a year afterward. He described this as a case where hindsight clarified the true cost of the injection, and he used it as a teaching example of why even severe acute pain does not justify the use of numbing agents when the body is capable of processing the pain directly.

Aajonus made a direct link between dental anesthesia and cancer development in the oral region. He stated that a lot of dental anesthesia causes tongue, jaw, mouth, and throat cancers. The mechanism he described involved the numbing agents combining with other toxins already present, particularly mercury from amalgam fillings, and vaporized hydrogenated oils from stage smoke machines used in performance settings, to create additional toxic reactions in the tissues of the head and neck. He placed dental injections in the same category of contributing factors to oral cancers that conventional medicine does not acknowledge.

He also described the effect of numbing agents on gum and jaw tissue more broadly. He said that Novocaine causes more teeth degeneration, jaw degeneration, and gum loss than any other chemical on the planet. When a patient asked what Novocaine was, he defined it as a numbing of the nerves, and clarified that Novocaine, Xylocaine, and all variations of dental numbing agents cause the same damage. He did not distinguish between brand names in terms of safety; his position was that none of them should be used.

Aajonus's practical alternative was to find a dentist who used a water jet on the drill rather than a high-speed dry rotating bit. The water jet keeps the bit cool, preventing the heat generation that creates additional pain and dead tissue. He stated that with a water jet drill, a dentist hitting a nerve directly would produce an instant of pain lasting perhaps ten to twenty seconds, after which the pain would be completely gone. He described this as qualitatively different from the prolonged pain, swelling, and toxicity that follow an injection.

He also mentioned sand-blasting drills as an alternative, which clean out decay without high-speed rotation, eliminating the heat problem and producing pain only if a nerve is directly contacted, and even then only for approximately ten seconds. He repeatedly compared this to the consequence of accepting an injection, which could produce a toothache lasting two years from a single treatment.

For extractions, he demonstrated on video that this was possible without Novocaine. He described pulling a loose tooth himself using kite string wrapped around it twice, with strings on both sides, pulled in one motion, because his dentist was unavailable. He characterized this as confirmation that the procedure was manageable without chemical intervention. He also described his Mexico-based dentist as someone who performed extractions without requiring x-rays or numbing agents, and who did exactly what Aajonus wanted without resistance.

For people who genuinely could not manage dental pain and felt they needed something, he mentioned clove oil applied to the gums and cannabis consumed before the procedure as mild palliative options that did not carry the nerve-damaging consequences of injected numbing agents. He also cited acupuncture anesthesiology as a possibility he had heard of for wisdom tooth extraction and other surgical dental procedures, though he was not definitive about its reliability.

For wisdom tooth extraction specifically, where the teeth are embedded under the gum and require cutting to remove, he acknowledged this was a situation where going under anesthesia might be chosen, and stated his protocol for that scenario: nine raw eggs per day for five days before and nine days after the procedure, to ensure that none of the anesthetics remained stored in the body.

The most important structural distinction Aajonus made was between injected or intravenous anesthesia, which he refused absolutely, and gaseous anesthesia, which he permitted under narrowly defined emergency conditions. His personal emergency medical directive, which he described as a laminated card to carry at all times, stated explicitly that absolutely no injected or IV anesthesia was to be used on him under any circumstances, but that gaseous anesthesia may be used for emergency surgery in the cases specified on the card.

He explained the rationale for permitting gaseous anesthesia in emergencies by noting that when a person is under anesthetic they could go into anaphylactic shock, and the only substance he would permit intravenously in that scenario was glucose water with a slight addition of potassium. This was not an endorsement of IV fluids generally, but a minimally acceptable emergency provision to prevent anaphylaxis while unconscious. He was explicit that if he did not need to go under, and could self-hypnotize through a procedure, he would not permit even an IV to be inserted.

He distinguished ether, which he had received multiple times during childhood surgeries, as taking fifteen to nineteen seconds to produce unconsciousness. He used this as a comparison point when describing his experience of being knocked out by what he believed was a military-grade anesthetic applied clandestinely by unknown individuals in a hotel room in the Philippines. That substance, odorless and extremely rapid-acting, produced unconsciousness in a split second, which he described as qualitatively unlike anything he had received in medical settings, and he used the contrast to illustrate both the variation in anesthetic potency and the threat posed by non-consensual chemical exposure.

Aajonus stated directly that many deaths and comas result from anesthesia, placing it alongside medicines and medical procedures as a source of iatrogenic harm. He described personally dying twice on the operating table from anaphylactic shock from the anesthetic or antibiotics, once during appendix surgery as a child at age twelve, and once in another surgical context. He described leaving his body, having no pain, hovering over his body, and being pulled back before going through what he called the tunnel of light. He framed these experiences matter-of-factly as confirmation of both the lethality of anesthesia and the reality of what he observed as near-death consciousness.

He described a patient's account of waking during laser bronchoscope surgery while completely paralyzed and suffocating, unable to communicate with the surgical team because the procedure had involved administration of a paralytic agent to prevent throat reflexes from causing damage during the laser work. The anesthesiologist had to manually control breathing, and the surgeon and anesthesiologist alternated access to the airway because the laser and the presence of oxygen together would create fire in the throat. The patient described this experience as extremely painful and emotionally traumatizing, and cited it as a reason for dreading repeat procedures.

Aajonus also described waking during one of his own broken-nose reconstruction surgeries while a surgeon was chiseling the overgrowth of bone between his eyes. He reported that the pain shot into his brain and that he fell unconscious again after approximately one minute of excruciating pain. He offered this not to argue for better anesthesia management but as part of his broader account of the inherent risks of surgical procedures and anesthetic use.

In a specific documented incident involving one of his own surgeries, Aajonus described telling the anesthesiologist before the procedure that he would not accept anything in his IV except anesthesia and glucose water. As he was becoming sedated from the anesthesia, the anesthesiologist injected something additional into his arm. Aajonus, doped and already losing clarity, demanded to know what was in the injection. The anesthesiologist smiled and said only "Medicine," then left. Nurses wheeled the gurney before Aajonus could investigate further, and the nurses said they did not know what had been injected. He believed it was an antibiotic. The anesthesiologist later denied giving any injection, but the injection mark remained visible on Aajonus's arm for the next twenty-four hours. He did not pay the anesthesiologist's eight-hundred-dollar bill.

This account was offered as a direct illustration of his broader warning that medical personnel will defraud patients, lie to them, and override their stated wishes even while those patients are conscious, let alone when they are sedated and unable to advocate for themselves. He described this as one of many reasons to prepare written directives in advance and to have people present who can enforce those directives.

Aajonus described a laminated card system that he recommended people carry at all times, containing specific instructions for medical personnel about what was and was not permissible in the event of injury or unconsciousness. The directives relevant to anesthesia and related substances included the following positions drawn from the source material:

Absolutely no medications of any kind except those specifically permitted. Absolutely no antibiotics, vaccines, or antiseptics at any time for any reason. If unconscious without severe injury, no medical procedures of any kind; the person is to be left alone until regaining consciousness, at which point they will decide whether any help is necessary. Non-wood alcohol may be applied sparingly to wounds only, never internally. Pain relievers and narcotics may be used only upon the patient's conscious request. Absolutely no injected or IV anesthesia under any circumstances. Gaseous anesthesia is permissible for emergency surgery in the cases listed. If bones appear broken, only two x-rays may be taken, and surgical repair may only proceed with conscious approval. If dismemberment occurred, reattachment surgery may proceed, excluding tetanus, antibiotics, and antiseptics except for non-wood alcohol applied sparingly.

He also specified blood transfusion rules, limiting transfusions to minimum quantities and requiring blood from pre-named donors where reachable within a reasonable time frame.

When anesthetic use was unavoidable, Aajonus provided specific dietary protocols to minimize the damage and speed elimination. For wisdom tooth surgery or other situations where going under was the chosen option, he specified nine raw eggs per day for five days before the procedure and nine days after, to ensure anesthetic compounds did not remain stored in the body's tissues. He framed raw eggs as the primary vehicle for binding, absorbing, and facilitating the excretion of synthetic chemical residues from nervous tissue.

More generally, he described raw fats as essential to the elimination of any toxic compound that had entered the body via medical procedures. He recommended eating a raw diet high in raw fat for five days before and ten days after any procedure that involved chemical exposure. His reasoning was that raw fats suspended in the blood could arrest released toxins and allow them to be eliminated properly, rather than being redistributed into deeper tissues.

He also described the role of raw milk in pulling metals and chemicals out of the system during detoxification, citing the practice of American Indian tribes who would drink milk from a lactating animal immediately after being bitten by a poisonous insect or creature, to bind the venom and assist its elimination.

The source material contains extensive personal history involving anesthesia across Aajonus's lifetime. As a child he received multiple surgeries under ether anesthesia, including the appendectomy at age twelve during which he died and was revived. He described the childhood medical environment as one of ongoing intervention, including injected antibiotics that he later identified as the origin of his chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, conditions he traced to receiving a second tetanus shot at approximately six months of age.

In adulthood, the facial surgery in Thailand for broken bones required Novocaine he later regretted accepting. He also described surgeries for a broken nose reconstruction during which he woke while the surgeon was chiseling between his eyes. He had a vagotomy and pyloroplasty in his youth for stomach cancer and ulcer complications, which severed the vagus nerve and left him without hydrochloric acid production, with massive scar tissue in the stomach-duodenum junction. A cystoscopy procedure involved metal tubes going through the urethra under anesthesia; he described eating raw eggs up to an hour before despite the twelve-hour fasting instruction, stating his body was already prepared and that he experienced only a few days of hyperactivity and mild disorientation afterward.

Throughout these accounts, the consistent theme was that anesthesia and related compounds produced consequences that outlasted the procedures by months or years, required significant dietary intervention to process, and frequently caused more long-term harm than the conditions they were meant to address during surgery.