Opioids (Synthetic)
Pharmaceutical pain suppression interferes with the body's own detoxification mechanism. Pain signals swelling that delivers nutrients to damaged tissue; blocking it leaves toxins in place, allows disease to progress, and introduces new chemical burdens requiring their own clearance.
Aajonus Vonderplanitz viewed opioid painkillers, along with the broader class of pharmaceutical painkillers including morphine, codeine, and similar drugs, as deeply harmful substances that suppressed the body's natural healing processes while destroying appetite, damaging organic tissue, and ultimately leaving the person worse off than if they had endured the pain without chemical intervention. His core position was that pain itself is not the enemy. Pain is the body's signal that something requires attention, and suppressing that signal with drugs does not address the underlying cause but instead allows toxins and damage to accumulate further while introducing new chemical burdens into the body.
From his own experience as a child, Aajonus was given codeine for pain management, and he vomited from it every time. His mother tried various medications to help him, but each created new problems. This early direct experience shaped his lifelong opposition to pharmaceutical pain suppression. He recognized that the medical approach to pain was built entirely around suppressing the symptom rather than supporting the body's ability to resolve the cause, and that every medication administered for pain carried its own set of toxic consequences that the patient then had to manage on top of the original condition.
His rejection of opioid painkillers was not based on a preference for suffering but on his detailed understanding of what these drugs do biochemically and physiologically. He saw them as part of a pharmaceutical system designed not to heal people but to keep them dependent and returning for more treatment.
Morphine and Appetite Suppression
One of the most specific and consistent observations Aajonus made about opioid painkillers concerned morphine and its destruction of appetite in seriously ill patients. He described repeatedly encountering terminal cancer patients who had been placed on morphine or similar opioid medications and who, as a direct consequence, were completely unable to eat. He framed this as one of the most destructive aspects of conventional cancer treatment, because his entire approach to reversing serious illness depended on getting nutrients into the body through raw foods.
He stated plainly that he would typically lose terminal patients because they were on morphine or similar medications, which destroyed their appetite so completely that they could not eat. Without eating, they could not receive the raw fats, proteins, and other substances that he believed were necessary for the body to detoxify and rebuild. The drug that was supposedly managing their pain was simultaneously removing the very mechanism through which he could help them.
He contrasted this with a specific case involving a patient with advanced cancer who was given fecal matter as a nutritional and microbial intervention. That patient, unlike others who were on morphine, retained an appetite and was able to eat. Aajonus noted this with explicit surprise and emphasis, stating that the patient had "appetite, appetite, appetite" and was eating, in direct contrast to what happened when patients were on morphine. The implication was clear: the opioid medication was the primary obstacle to any nutritional intervention, and its removal from the equation made the difference between a patient who could engage with healing protocols and one who could not.
Painkillers, Sedatives, and Hospitalization
Aajonus described his own experience of being hospitalized after injuries, during which medical staff administered continuous rounds of painkillers, muscle relaxants, sedatives, antibiotics, and other medications. He described the escalating spiral that resulted: the drugs did not resolve his pain, the antibiotics caused severe allergic reactions including explosive diarrhea and total body swelling, and the sedatives were given specifically to keep him unconscious and non-complaining rather than to address any underlying condition.
He described being in excruciating pain even while on these medications, to the point where "not even the painkillers would work or the anesthesia would work." The drugs had been layered so heavily and continuously that his body was in systemic chemical crisis while simultaneously being denied any ability to heal through its natural processes. He was bruised and swollen across his entire body from the injection sites, which progressively moved from his arms to his buttocks to his thighs as each area became too damaged for further injection.
His response was to refuse additional treatment. He began knocking trays away from nurses when they approached with syringes. He described physically using his remaining energy to knock a syringe out of a nurse's hand when she attempted to inject him while he was semiconscious. Within 24 hours of refusing all further medication, he was able to leave the hospital, though not fully recovered. He framed this directly: the cessation of pharmaceutical treatment was what allowed his body to begin functioning again, and the drugs themselves had been the primary source of his deteriorating condition.
Adrenaline's False Recovery Mechanism
Aajonus explained that many pharmaceutical drugs, including painkillers and stimulants like cocaine and speed, worked by poisoning the body in ways that triggered massive adrenaline release. He stated that cocaine causes the body to dump eight times the normal amount of adrenaline into the bloodstream, far beyond what fight-or-flight response would produce. He framed heroin as doing essentially the opposite, suppressing hormonal levels and keeping adrenaline flat, but both approaches shared the same fundamental problem: they were manipulating the body's chemistry through a poison rather than supporting the body's own biochemical processes.
He described the "quick fix" logic directly: "The quick fix, all that does is poison your blood, poison your intestinal tract, raises your adrenal level. All you think, oh, it's working. Nothing to do with that pill. Directly, it's the adrenaline, the poisoning that's happening in your body." He extended this analysis across the spectrum of drugs and supplements, noting that cocaine itself could make a person happy and eliminate pain, but no one would argue this made it healthful. The feeling of relief or improvement produced by pain suppression drugs was not a sign of healing; it was a sign of adrenal excitation or neurological suppression, both of which came with downstream costs.
He noted that hormones themselves, because they are approximately 60% fat, functioned as toxin containers, meaning that when the body dumped excessive hormones in response to drug-induced poisoning, it was actually attempting to use those fat-rich hormone molecules to bind and contain toxins. People experiencing this process perceived increased energy and felt they were improving, but the body was actually in a state of chemical emergency, and the long-term deterioration of organic tissue was the eventual outcome.
Psychotropic Drugs And Withdrawal Violence
While Aajonus's comments about psychotropic medications extended somewhat beyond opioids into a broader category of pharmaceutical psychiatric drugs, he made observations directly relevant to opioid painkiller withdrawal and the systemic effects of these drug classes on behavior and neurology.
He described laboratory research in which animals placed on psychotropic medications would, upon withdrawal, become homicidal. He stated that even bald mice, which he described as extremely gentle animals that could be tortured without biting, would rip each other's throats out during withdrawal from these medications. He connected this directly to cases of mass violence in American schools, stating that he had received documentation from medical doctors confirming that every perpetrator in the major school shootings he referenced had been on psychotropic medications, had stopped taking them in the weeks before the violence, and had been given no warning that withdrawal from these drugs could cause homicidal and suicidal behavior.
He stated that pharmaceutical companies and the government were both aware of this withdrawal violence profile in laboratory animals but that no action was taken because of the extensive financial entanglement between government officials and pharmaceutical stockholding. He framed this not as negligence but as a deliberate structural arrangement that kept people chemically dependent while concealing the known consequences of the drugs.
He also stated that psychotropic medications appeared to alter the RNA and DNA of the neural synapse in ways that were very difficult or impossible to reverse, and that violent behavior conditioned by these drugs could persist for years after the drugs were discontinued. He described this as "almost irreversible in some situations."
Novocaine and Dental Anesthetics
Aajonus used dental anesthetics, particularly Novocaine and Xylocaine, as a repeated and detailed example of how a pharmaceutical painkiller creates damage that far exceeds the pain it prevents. This is distinct from systemic opioid painkillers but follows the same logical framework.
He described his own experience of accepting Novocaine after severe dental injuries from an assault. He stated that allowing the injection was a decision he regretted, because the Novocaine caused prolonged detoxification, multiple abscesses at the injection sites, and hardening of tissue in the jaw. He described dealing with "quite a few abscesses up here where they did a lot of injection and hardening of the tissue, which results from Novocaine." He contrasted this with the nature of the pain that would have occurred without the injection, stating that the acute pain from dental work was momentary, measurable in seconds or minutes, while the Novocaine's consequences could produce pain lasting "two years from having one injection."
He articulated the trade-off explicitly: he would have preferred three hours of excruciating acute pain over the year-long off-and-on suffering that resulted from the Novocaine's chemical damage. He noted that Novocaine and similar agents stop circulation into the bone, harden the gums and surrounding tissue, and cause ongoing gum and bone degeneration, making them "the worst chemical on the planet" for dental tissue specifically.
He also stated that Novocaine is chemically related to cocaine in terms of the neutralization protocol, noting that avocados are the appropriate food for removing cocaine including Novocaine from the body. This places dental anesthetics within the same chemical family and clearance challenge as cocaine.
The Medical System's Incentive Structure
Aajonus consistently framed opioid painkillers and pharmaceutical pain management within the context of an industry that profited from keeping people in a treatment cycle rather than getting them well. He stated that people who have headaches "take more medication than anyone else" and that the pharmaceutical industry was well aware of this, which gave them a strong incentive to ensure that headache treatments were drugs rather than the non-pharmaceutical alternatives he described (primarily lying down with a hot water bottle and consuming his pain formula).
He described the entire model as one built on "planned obsolescence," where medications were designed to treat symptoms without correcting their causes, ensuring that patients would continue consuming medications and medical therapies indefinitely. He stated that this was the same structural logic as designing products to break down rather than last. In the context of opioid pain management specifically, this meant that patients were given drugs that suppressed their pain signal without addressing the toxicity or tissue damage producing that pain, which meant the underlying condition continued to worsen, which eventually required more treatment.
He described doctors as being trained and constrained by pharmaceutical industry-authored manuals, meaning that their prescribing behavior was not the result of independent medical judgment but of pharmaceutical house guidelines embedded into the procedural structures of medical practice. His view was that following medical advice in the area of pain management was, with approximately 99% reliability, the wrong course of action.
Aajonus's Pain Formula Alternative
Aajonus developed and refined a specific nutritional formula for pain management that he positioned as a direct replacement for pharmaceutical painkillers. The formula's core components, as presented across multiple sources, were raw eggs, fresh bee pollen, raw milk or cream, lemon or lime juice, and unheated honey, combined and consumed at regular intervals with raw no-salt-added cheese eaten simultaneously.
The specific formulation he described most frequently was: 2 eggs, 3 to 4 ounces of raw cream, 1 teaspoon of lemon or lime juice, and 5 to 6 heaping tablespoons of fresh soft bee pollen, blended together for 30 to 50 seconds. This was to be consumed with a piece of cheese described as approximately 1 inch by 1.5 inches by the thickness of a brick. He stated that drinking 2 to 4 ounces immediately and then sipping 1 to 2 tablespoons every 20 minutes until pain subsided, and not going more than 5 to 6 hours without another dose, was the correct protocol.
He stated that the original formula from his book worked 85% of the time, and that adding the cheese brought effectiveness up to 95%. He described it as working for many kinds of pain including menstrual cramps and migraines, and gave the specific case of a woman who had suffered debilitating menstrual cramps since age 12, rendering her bedridden for three days each month, who drank the entire batch at once along with one-quarter to one-third of a brick of cheese and experienced complete resolution of her cramps within 20 to 40 minutes for the first time in her life.
For severe or persistent pain such as dental pain, he described a person potentially needing two full batches per day. He also noted that in periods of extreme pain, he personally had to stay completely away from fruit and be careful with eggs, because eggs could sometimes increase detoxification and temporarily intensify pain. If pain increased rather than decreased within 20 minutes of eating eggs, he recommended stopping eggs until the pain had ceased, then waiting 2 days before resuming.
A variant formula he described for a specific patient named Tom consisted of 3 eggs, 4.5 tablespoons of butter, 1.5 teaspoons of coconut cream, 3 tablespoons of milk, 1.5 tablespoons of lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of honey, and 2 tablespoons of cheese, consumed as a rotating protocol with cheese and butter or cheese and honey every hour around the clock, eggs 10 minutes after each cheese serving, and the pain formula 15 minutes after each egg serving.
He also described simpler pain reduction options including eating honey and cheese together, dates and cheese together, butter with dates and cheese, cheese with banana, cheese with butter and banana, or butter with banana. The moisturizing lubrication formula with bee pollen and cheese eaten alongside it was his highest-rated option for the most pain reduction sustained over the longest period of time.
Pain as Swelling and Endurance
Aajonus framed pain fundamentally as the result of swelling caused by the body detoxifying industrial chemicals from tissue. He stated: "Whenever you have pain, it is always swelling from detoxifying industrial chemicals from the area. Swelling provides increased nutrients to the painful area to allow for proper detoxification and healing. Heat applied to the area allows tissues to relax and expand with swelling so that less pain is experienced. When toxins have been removed, swelling reduces. When healing has been properly initiated and balance restored, pain subsides."
From this framework, suppressing pain with opioids or other pharmaceutical agents was not neutral. It was actively counterproductive, because the swelling the drugs were designed to reduce was the very mechanism through which the body was delivering nutrients to the damaged area and executing the detoxification process. Interfering with that process through drugs caused toxins to remain in the tissue, which meant diseases would continue to progress even if pain was temporarily absent.
He stated that "the objective should be to manage and endure pain until the body finishes its tasks. Otherwise, toxins remain in the tissue and diseases progress." This was the philosophical foundation of his entire approach to pain: it was not something to be eliminated but something to be supported through adequate nutrition, heat application, and specific formulas until the body completed the process that was generating it.
Iceberg Lettuce And Food Opiates
Aajonus noted that iceberg lettuce contains opiates naturally and recommended it for people who were feeling "a little down and under the weather," saying it would help "pick you up." He framed this in the context of aluminum interfering with brain activity, with the natural opiates in head lettuce helping to restore normal function. This is the only naturally occurring opiate-containing food he addressed positively, and the dosage and application were entirely different from pharmaceutical opioid use: eating iceberg lettuce occasionally as a food, not as a chemical intervention.
Drug Neutralization and Clearance
For people who had already received pharmaceutical drugs including opioid-class substances, Aajonus provided specific guidance on how to begin clearing those chemicals from the body. His general framework for drugs in general was to consume smoothies made with raspberries. For cocaine specifically (which shares chemical properties with Novocaine), he recommended avocados as the binding and clearance food. He also described a protocol of consuming approximately 9 eggs per day for 5 days before and 9 days after receiving anesthesia, specifically to ensure that anesthetic compounds did not remain stored in the body's tissues.
