Lungs

The lungs absorb oxygen and release what Aajonus called carbon dioxide, though he was careful to distinguish between true carbon monoxide produced by combustion at high temperatures and the carbon dioxide that results from normal cellular chemistry. He said carbon dioxide is "just from a transference of chemistry" and is only toxic if it accumulates because it then causes lactic acid buildup in the muscles, producing stiffness and systemic illness. The white blood cells have two jobs in the lungs: bringing oxygen in and taking waste out.

He described the lung as gravity-dependent in its behavior. When a person lies flat, gravity pushes the lungs shut, and if the muscles and glandular tone that normally hold the lungs open are already compromised by illness, the lungs will collapse under their own weight. Conversely, when a person sits upright or at an angle, gravity pushes the lungs open. He was emphatic that during any respiratory illness, pneumonia, cold, or flu, the patient must never lie down. Sitting, even at a reclining angle in a leisure chair, keeps the lungs mechanically open in a way that lying flat does not permit.

The lungs are protected and supported by the major lymphatic networks located in the chest, armpit, and groin areas. He said women have more lymph glands than men because they have more anatomical space for them, and these lymph glands in the chest region are the primary handlers of anything toxic that enters the lungs. When those lymph glands are removed surgically, as in lumpectomy or mastectomy, the lungs are left without their primary cleaning support and will, in his view, almost certainly develop cancer.

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Aajonus identified a wide range of inhalation sources as damaging to lung tissue, and he was detailed about the specific mechanisms of each.

Cigarette smoke, which he knew from personal experience having smoked two packs of Lucky Strike non-filter daily from approximately age 13 to 24, deposits tars throughout the bronchials and lungs. He said the temperature at which smoke travels through the cigarette when puffed hard can reach approximately 1,250 degrees Fahrenheit at the burning end, with tars sometimes reaching the lungs at around 900 degrees. These temperatures burn the bronchial tissue and deposit crystallized tars throughout the lung structure. He observed that when the lungs of a smoker are examined, they show actual crystals formed from the hardened tars, especially in menthol smokers. He said that the ash is normally expelled, but some smokers retain the ash along with the tars and therefore accumulate heavier metals from the burned material.

Marijuana tars he identified as 16 to 20 times more concentrated than cigarette tars, and he said they burn at 1,250 to 1,400 degrees, behaving like amber resin, hardening throughout the system. He observed in iris analysis that marijuana tars tend to stay in the brain and in the clavicle area on the left side rather than in the chest, which is where regular tobacco tars accumulate most heavily, primarily in the right side of the chest and some in the left.

Synthetic clothing was one of his most specific warnings about lung damage. He described the situation in Vietnam, where 90 percent of women wear synthetic polyester garments as everyday clothing, as the most extreme real-world example of this damage. The friction of synthetic fabric against skin releases plastic polymers, PCBs, and dioxins as airborne lint that is breathed in constantly. He said the rate of lung cancer among Vietnamese women is "unheard of anywhere in the world," while the men who rarely wear synthetic clothing do not show the same disease rates. The plastic lint breaks down in the body into dioxins and other heavy poisons. He connected the same principle to synthetic bedding, carpets, and rugs as ongoing sources of airborne plastic inhalation.

Theater and nightclub smoke produced from vaporized hydrogenated oils, which replaced the earlier dry ice method, he considered acutely dangerous. He said this vaporized liquid plastic is inhaled directly into the lungs and sinuses, and described a woman who had been a nightclub singer and developed cancer partly from years of breathing this material. He stated he will not attend any performance where these plastic oil vapors are used and will leave immediately if they appear.

Cement dust and construction materials were another specific source he addressed in detail. He described cement dust as causing gangrenous tissue in the lung region and said that breathing cement dust, mortar dust, and similar materials while working in construction creates serious congestion. He recommended wearing a mask whenever mixing concrete or working in a dust cloud, waiting for dust to settle before resuming work, and adjusting equipment to blow dust away from the body. He said that ordinary soil dust is not dangerous and may even be beneficial, but cement and mortar are categorically different.

Muriatic acid exposure, which he described as producing complete scar tissue in the bronchioles with not a single live cell remaining, he considered one of the most extreme chemical lung injuries he had observed in iris analysis. He equated this level of damage to what he saw in children with asthma who had been on inhalers and prednisone for extended periods.

Inhalers and prednisone (prednisolone) themselves he described as damaging to lung tissue. He said he believed all inhalers harm lung tissue, and he noted that children who had been on inhalers and prednisone showed the same complete bronchiolar scar tissue he otherwise associated only with muriatic acid exposure.

Airplane air and airport environments were mentioned as sources of metal poisoning affecting the lungs, and he recommended wearing a mask throughout airports and during flights to minimize inhalation of benzene and other industrial compounds circulated in cabin air.

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Aajonus read lung conditions through iris analysis, identifying the lung zone in the iris as located in the lower portion of the iris band going into the finger, with the bronchials and trachea occupying the region near the base of the finger and sinuses slightly further up toward the last joint. He said that swelling and inflammation in this iris zone indicates active infection in the respiratory area, increasing likelihood of allergies. White swelling he associated with emphysema, smoking history, or poor circulation.

Through iridology he was able to observe: scar tissue in the bronchioles and lungs; smoke tars hardened throughout the lung tissue; metallic toxicity accumulating in lung lobes; crystalline deposits from tars; gangrenous tissue indicating advanced damage or rapid-onset cancer risk; fibroid activity in the bronchi; and tumorous activity that had not yet manifested as a solid mass. He was specific in his readings, identifying which lobes were affected, whether the damage was in the upper or lower lung, which side was more compromised, and whether the adjacent bronchus was involved.

In one reading he observed that the right upper two lobes were full of heavy metals and crystals from smoking, and that the person had stored ash along with tars, accumulating heavier metals than a typical smoker. In another he saw dangerous tumorous activity in the lower left lung area with fibroid activity in the right bronchus, and he recommended the person ferment raw green tobacco juice and add a few drops of vegetable juice daily to begin clearing the danger before it solidified.

He noted that gangrenous tissue visible in the lung region in the iris typically indicates a cancer that can develop and kill within six months if the person continues to inhale the source toxin. He told one man working in construction who showed this pattern: "That just usually means, what I've seen in the past, lung cancer that comes so fast you're gone in six months."

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Aajonus described tars as hardening in the tissue over time into a leathery or crystallized material. He said tars that are not expelled accumulate throughout the system and cause lymphatic congestion, poor circulation, and eventually cancer-like tissue changes. He observed in iris analysis that tars stored in the lung area often come not from the individual's own smoking but from maternal transfer, where a mother who stopped smoking during pregnancy or while nursing dumps her accumulated tars directly into the developing child through the placenta or breast milk.

He described one patient who had never smoked but showed smoke tars "hardened all throughout the system, everywhere," and traced this to the patient's mother who had smoked before the pregnancy, stopped when pregnant, and thereby began dumping tars that transferred directly into the baby.

He also described his own experience of smoke tars exiting through the skin during a detoxification episode. He said he was able to smell and taste the smoke toxins coming through his chest and skin, and that this was the body routing the breakdown of tar residues from 16 years of smoking (ages 8 to 24) out through the skin rather than through the lungs. He said this was fortunate because if the same detoxification had happened in the lungs, the lungs would have filled with water and created serious respiratory crisis.

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Pneumonia, in Aajonus's framework, is not a disease but a radical and necessary method of detoxification. He defined it as inflammation of the tiny air sacs in the lungs that fill with fluids and mucus, and explained that this happens when a severely stressful detoxification or medical procedure has consumed all available nutrients, leaving the body unable to construct proper protective mucus. At that point, even a particle of dust or lint in the lungs triggers fluid accumulation as the body attempts to cleanse itself.

He said pneumonia is always associated with internal or airborne toxins that irritate the lungs, and he was emphatic that the pneumonia itself is doing necessary work. He told patients and workshop attendees to "rejoice, have a party, be happy" when they develop pneumonia, because pneumonia is "about the only way you're going to break up that kind of scarring" in heavily damaged lungs. He described his own progression through enough pneumonias and bouts of spinal meningitis to clean his lungs out to approximately 90 percent clear after years of heavy smoking.

He presented a case of a woman who went through two severe bouts of pneumonia within a few months. During the second episode she was bed-bound and extremely ill, with itching in the sternum area, pain in all her lymph nodes when coughing, mucus production, inability to lie down without coughing, and extreme soreness throughout the chest and lung region. He said three days later she was out of bed and "fully functional" in a way she had not been in the three months since the first pneumonia, precisely because the pneumonia completed its cleansing work.

His instructions for managing pneumonia were specific. Never lie down, because the gravity collapses the lungs. Sit upright or at a reclining angle in a leisure chair. Eat cheese throughout the day to help absorb and contain the toxins being released. Take hot baths. Do not panic. He said the body knows what it is doing and suppressing the process medically keeps toxins trapped in the tissue.

He said that a person with heavy scarring in the lungs from smoking or other damage should expect two to three episodes of pneumonia in their lifetime to clear that scarring. He said "that kind of gangrenous look" typically means two or three pneumonia spells are coming, and that if the person took antibiotics during a prior episode that would have become pneumonia, those future episodes might be less traumatic because the body will have partial prior progress to build on.

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Aajonus described emphysema as the deterioration and destruction of the sacs in the lungs, brought on by airborne pollution including tobacco smoke, secondary smoke, smog, and prolonged inhalation of dusts such as lint from synthetic fibers in bedding, clothing, carpets, and rugs, and coal dust. He said the lungs become loaded with garbage they cannot easily detoxify and discharge.

He said that if a person stops smoking, stays away from airborne toxins including synthetic fibers, and eats a raw diet with plenty of raw fat and raw meat, they may have a good chance of living with emphysema. He did not claim the condition would fully reverse but framed it as manageable under those conditions.

In correspondence he addressed a patient who had been diagnosed with emphysema in 2001, had been on prednisone and inhalers, and began the Primal Diet in August 2003. By a 2005 X-ray there were marked bronchitic changes but no scarring. By a 2011 X-ray the lungs were clear though mildly hyperinflated with no pleural abnormality, and a specialist said he could not see that the person had emphysema and thought it might be only blocked bronchioles. Aajonus told this patient that the X-ray was a good indication of good constitution, and that localized heat is the best method for clearing the bronchioles. He recommended hot water bottles applied to the upper chest during sleep to cleanse and heal bronchioles, and daily hot baths to move lymphatic waste and congestion so the body can clean itself more efficiently. He also said to consume an egg and a little cheese 5 to 10 minutes before using any inhaler medication, since he acknowledged the patient could not yet function without it.

He said chest circumference expanding (this patient reported a 4-inch increase) indicates trapped air, and he addressed questions about whether collapsed bronchioles versus true emphysema was the correct diagnosis.

Regarding CT scans to diagnose emphysema, he acknowledged the patient's desire for certainty but noted that the radiation exposure from CT scans is extreme and introduces new burdens even as it clarifies diagnosis.

He also noted in iris analysis that white swelling in the lung zone of the iris, especially in known smokers, can indicate emphysema.

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Aajonus repeatedly described what he observed in iris analysis as looking "a lot like people that I've seen who've had lung cancer," and he was careful to state he was not diagnosing cancer but describing what the tissue patterns resembled. He observed in multiple people very advanced scar tissue, hardened tars, heavy metal accumulation, and gangrenous tissue patterns that he associated with rapid-onset lung cancer. He said that in construction workers breathing cement dust, the pattern he observed was consistent with a lung cancer "that comes so fast you're gone in six months."

He said that when the lymph glands in the chest area are removed through lumpectomy or mastectomy, the body loses its primary handlers for lung toxicity, and the lungs will then go into cancer. He said the esophagus and the tissue under the arms are also likely cancer sites when those lymph glands are eliminated. He connected the extremely high rate of lung cancer among Vietnamese women directly to the plastic clothing they wear constantly, saying the body's lymph glands attempt to handle the inhaled plastic but become overloaded, and the toxins end up in the breast and lung tissue.

In one reading of a young 26-year-old smoker who also used marijuana, he observed signs that he said were consistent with "pretty advanced lung cancer at a young age." He said the tars from regular tobacco had hardened in the right side of the chest and some in the left, while marijuana tars had accumulated in the brain and left clavicle. He estimated recovery might take 10 to 12 years given the degree of damage, and said the process would not be overnight.

He said the gangrenous appearance in lung tissue in iridology specifically is what makes him nervous, because it is associated with the fastest-developing forms of lung cancer he has observed. He described seeing tumorous activity that "doesn't manifest solidly" in the lung but fibroid activity in the bronchus, and in that case he recommended fermenting raw green tobacco juice and taking a few drops of it with vegetable juice daily to begin clearing the activity before it solidified into full cancer.

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He described bronchitis as an inflammation or cleansing of the air passages to the lungs, caused by toxin-damaged bronchial cells. He said it is exacerbated by suppressed emotions, particularly things that need to be expressed but are withheld, because the resulting chest tension spends fat in the bronchi, drying them, which makes it difficult to produce the protective mucus that keeps the bronchi from being irritated by airborne substances. He said smoking and other airborne pollution worsen this condition.

He described his own bronchials as having been 90 percent scar tissue from his years of heavy smoking, persisting even after his lungs cleared substantially through repeated pneumonias. He said that a bronchial cold he experienced while working with parasites began clearing 40 percent of that scar tissue within a month, which he observed through before-and-after iris photographs.

For bronchial conditions he recommended eating raw fats especially unsalted raw butter, raw cream, and raw eggs, drinking fresh raw carrot juice mixed with raw cream or raw eggs to soothe and nourish the bronchi quickly, and finding artistic expression to release suppressed emotional content.

For scarring and plaque in the bronchioles specifically from nightclub or smoking exposure, he recommended the sport formula with a tablespoon of vinegar and three to four ounces of milk, taken once every other day around 6 PM. He also recommended hot tubs, not bathtubs, saying the person "absolutely must" have a hot tub because the lymphatic congestion in the area is not moving and needs the heat and pressure to mobilize it.

He described one case where muriatic acid exposure over ten years left bronchioles as "complete scar tissue, not a live cell in them," and compared this to the bronchiolar destruction he observed in children who had been on inhalers and prednisone. His remedy for this type of destruction was butter above all else, saying the person needed butter and not cream because cream does not penetrate to the deeper tissues, and that without butter the tissue would deteriorate further.

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Aajonus recommended eating raw animal lung as a targeted food for healing lung tissue. He described eating buffalo lung blended with milk and a little teaspoon of salsa, calling it "the best gland I've ever had" and saying that the day after eating it he "felt like I was absorbing and utilizing all of the oxygen I was breathing" in a way he said he had "probably never" experienced. He described the buffalo lung as "pink and lavender and mauve" and said it was "the most beautiful gland in a healthy animal."

He said that for a person with gangrenous tissue or scar tissue in the lungs, eating chicken lung is "the best way to remedy that," and that such a person should expect two or three spells of pneumonia as part of the healing process. He recommended the lung as a principle that like tissue feeds like tissue, meaning eating the lung of a healthy animal helps rebuild damaged lung cells in the person consuming it.

For rebuilding lung cells more generally, he recommended always eating red and white meat together in a ratio of 60 percent red to 40 percent white, saying the white meat provides the materials to replace the cells in the lung as they are hardening. He paired this with a large lubrication formula of four eggs, four and a half ounces of butter, two and a half tablespoons of lemon juice, and one tablespoon of honey, taken with each meat meal.

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Mucus, in Aajonus's framework, is a critical protective substance for the lungs as well as for the intestinal lining and sinuses. He said that wheezing sounds in the lungs mean the person has too little fat and the mucus is not forming properly, and the primary remedy he gave for this was eggs, recommending quantities such as 8 to 12 eggs per day depending on the individual's needs. He said milkshakes are the primary food he found for producing healthy mucus.

He described the orange Julius formula for lung detoxification: milk, egg, honey, cream, and an orange blended with the rind removed (not orange juice from a carton but a whole blended orange), taken once a day. He said this combination helps detoxify the lungs.

He noted that pollen and dust entering the tissue without adequate mucus causes allergies, and that mucus is needed "not just for lungs but everywhere inside the body."

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Aajonus described the lungs as an alternative exit route for toxins when the skin is unable to handle the load. He said if a person's body is breaking down old deposits somewhere internal and discarding toxins out through the lungs instead of through the skin, the experience includes coughing, mucus production, and unusual breath. He recommended hot baths, cheese, and the supporting dietary measures to assist this process rather than suppress it.

He noted that toxins released through the lungs that are not fully neutralized before they leave the bronchioles produce "very bad breath," and he said that many cases of foul breath are caused by this mechanism.

He described his own experience of smoke tar detoxification occurring through the skin rather than the lungs, which he said was fortunate because if the same chemical breakdown had happened in the lungs, they would have filled with water and he would have had serious respiratory complications. He said the body, when given adequate support through raw fats and the primal diet, routes these detoxifications to the skin where they can be handled more easily.

Ice cream, he said, if eaten by someone with a severe lung condition, triggers a lung detoxification response within 10 to 15 minutes, causing coughing and bringing material up. He said this can be used deliberately to clean the lungs faster, but cheese must be eaten along with the ice cream and throughout the day afterward to absorb and contain what is being released.

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Aajonus was very specific about posture during respiratory illness. He said the lungs cannot collapse forward (toward the front of the body) but can only collapse downward. When a person lies flat, gravity pushes the lungs shut, and a person whose respiratory muscles are already weakened by illness cannot hold them open against that pressure. When sitting upright or reclined in a chair at an angle, gravity pushes the lungs open.

He said this applies during any respiratory condition: a cold, flu, pneumonia, or any situation where breathing is difficult. The instruction was never to lie down, and to sleep sitting at an angle in a leisure-type reclining chair if necessary. He described this as a simple mechanical solution: "the lungs will be pushed more open than closed."

He said he personally used this method when he went through serious respiratory illness, and that managing the gravitational mechanics of the lungs allowed him to survive bouts that might otherwise have been fatal.

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For smokers dealing with crystallized tars in the lungs, he recommended including cucumber in vegetable juice because the silica in cucumber helps bind with the crystals forming from tars. He said smokers' lungs show actual crystallization, especially in menthol smokers, and that the silica from cucumber can help bind those crystals so the body can clear them. He recommended hot baths lasting up to an hour and a half followed by slow movement, warming up, resting briefly, and then taking a walk, saying the heat is necessary to soften the tars so they can be cleared from the system, otherwise they remain and cause "leathery tissue" in the lung.

He also mentioned raw green tobacco juice, fermented, with a few drops added to vegetable juice daily, as a specific remedy for tumorous or fibroid activity beginning in the lung tissue, saying it would start clearing the danger before it solidified.

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He described fluid accumulation in the lungs as one of the most difficult situations he encountered in practice. When the lungs fill with fluid continuously, conventional management involves repeated tapping to drain the fluid, and patients fear being bed-bound because fluid in the lungs prevents proper oxygen utilization, leaving them unable to gather enough strength or health to function. He observed that people in this situation go to the doctor, get tapped, receive medication, and often continue to do so even while attempting the diet.

He described this, along with an extremely narrowed esophagus that begins choking off breathing, as among the "two very difficult" situations he had seen, meaning difficult even within his framework. He acknowledged that the esophageal narrowing sometimes requires surgical intervention because the airway becomes so blocked that the person cannot breathe.

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Beyond smoking, Aajonus identified industrial air pollution, building materials, paints, and synthetic environmental materials as ongoing causes of lung loading. He said that living in an industrial society means the body is always dealing with inhaled toxins, and the lymph glands of the chest are in a constant state of managing this burden. He said building dusts and paint particles, when they fall from surfaces or are disturbed during cleaning, should be handled with a mask to prevent inhalation.

He told workshop attendees: "If you think you can walk through a smoke and none of it's going to touch your lungs, you're different than me. Particles are airborne. You breathe them in. Your body has to deal with it, period."

He connected SARS and similar acute respiratory syndromes to air pollution at the cellular level, noting that in heavily polluted cities something in the air may be damaging cells and producing disease conditions, while internal health determines who succumbs.

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Beyond the general zones, Aajonus described several specific observations in his lung readings. He saw "nasty tars in the upper left lung, lower lung" with "danger in the tumorous activity" that had not yet manifested solidly, and fibroid activity in the right bronchus. He saw "gangrenous tissue from here to here" encompassing the entire chest region in a construction worker, which he associated with a six-month fatal cancer risk. He observed metallic toxicity accumulating in the right lung that improved in terms of biological waste but retained metallic deposits after a pneumonia episode. He observed the left lung improving with more cellular life after pneumonia but also retaining metallic toxicity.

He described reading one person's iris and observing "lots of metals in the brain, especially in the left right ear, lots of metals all over here, right bronchialis, right bronchialis, the eraser in the smoker, some pretty nasty tars in the upper left lung, lower lung," and "danger in the tumorous activity there." He recommended raw fermented green tobacco juice with vegetable juice for that case.

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Cross-References

- Pneumonia - Emphysema - Bronchitis - Mucus - Hot Baths