Uterus
Serves reproduction and, more critically, detoxification. The uterine and vaginal cavity routes dead cells, fibrous masses, and neurotoxic metals out of the body, sparing vital organs and explaining why women develop fewer systemic cancers and outlive men by roughly twenty percent.
The uterus occupies a central place in Aajonus Vonderplanitz's framework as both a reproductive organ and, critically, a detoxification site unique to the female body. He regarded the uterus not merely as the chamber of gestation but as a biological privilege, a structure that allows women to route dead cells, toxic accumulations, and fibrous masses away from vital organs and out of the body through the vaginal canal. This capacity, he argued, is the primary reason women statistically outlive men, and it is also why women develop fewer systemic cancers compared to men, whose bodies must store similar waste in less convenient locations such as the prostate or other internal tissues.
Aajonus taught that the body's inability to dissolve and eliminate dead cells is the root of cancer and fibroid formation. When cells die and cannot be broken down, the body collects them and builds them into masses. For women, the uterus and the vaginal cavity serve as a preferred repository for these collections, keeping them away from the heart, lungs, and other organs. In men, the equivalent accumulations must settle wherever the body can manage them, which tends to be in functionally significant tissue.
The uterus also participates in the menstrual cycle's detoxification function. Aajonus described menstrual fluid as carrying "massive amounts of metal contamination," including mercury, aluminum, and thallium, metals that poison the nervous system. The ability to discharge these metals through menstrual blood means that women eliminate a category of neurotoxic burden that men cannot shed through any comparable route.
The Uterus And Fibroids
Aajonus explained fibroid formation as the body's response to dead cells that cannot be respired or dissolved. When the lymphatic and cellular systems cannot break down dead tissue, the body collects it and consolidates it into fibroids. Women have the structural advantage of the uterus and vaginal cavity as a location for this consolidation, which means the fibroids can accumulate there without interfering with heart muscle, glandular tissue, or other organs critical to daily function.
He stated clearly that if a woman does not route this material into her reproductive organs, the fibroids will form elsewhere in the body, which he called "mid-air," meaning locations with less tolerance for mass accumulations. The consequence is reduced function of glands and organs throughout the body. Men face this problem without recourse, and so fibroid-equivalent masses may appear in the prostate or in other tissues where the functional cost is higher.
Hydrogenated fats, which Aajonus described as plastic-like substances extremely difficult for the body to dissolve, he considered a major driver of fibroid accumulation. Because these fats resist the body's normal enzymatic and bacterial processes of dissolution, the dead cells coated in or formed from them become especially intractable. This, in his view, generates a large proportion of cancers and fibroids.
He noted that women are "lucky" in this context, because the vaginal area can accumulate fibroids "without affecting anything but their sex life," whereas men may develop tumors in the prostate or elsewhere in the body with far more systemic consequences.
Fibroid Removal and Primal Diet
Aajonus described fibroids as generally difficult to remove and slow to resolve even on the Primal Diet. In one case he observed, a woman had been on the diet for approximately two years when her fibroids disappeared overnight, which he described as sudden and unexpected. He noted that her breast tumor, by contrast, had only shrunk over two and a half years, not disappeared. He stated that normally resolving fibroids takes five or six years.
In a separate case, he described a woman who, after eating seven pounds of muscle meat within a twenty-four-hour period, went into labor-like contractions ten days later. Every contraction was accompanied by blood shooting from the uterus, and she refused to go to the hospital. After three hours, the contractions stopped. She then asked to be placed in a bath with about three inches of water, where she knelt. One final contraction occurred, and a squamous cell tumor approximately four to five inches long shot out of her uterus into the water. Aajonus confirmed it through laboratory analysis. This woman repeated this process eight times over six years, each time expelling tumors through her uterus. He estimated that this mechanism allowed her body to eliminate approximately fifty percent of her total tumor burden by routing tumors into the uterus and discharging them vaginally.
Uterine Cancer and Bleeding
Aajonus described a case involving a Swiss actress who had uterine cancer accompanied by profuse, uncontrolled bleeding. She had spent large sums across European medical institutions, undergone cauterization, received grass treatments, and had tissue surgically removed, but neither the bleeding nor the cancer resolved. She eventually came to the United States seeking further treatment.
In this context, Aajonus introduced his discussion of cabbage juice, specifically noting the difference between red cabbage juice and green or white cabbage juice. He stated that red cabbage juice causes bleeding, while green and white cabbage juice stops bleeding. The implication within his account is that the appropriate cabbage juice represented a dietary intervention relevant to uterine bleeding, contrasting with all the failed medical procedures this woman had undergone.
IUD Injury to the Uterus
Aajonus recounted in detail the case of a woman named Susan, whom he described discovering had an IUD problem through iridology. He observed a blood-red spot in her iris near the area relating to the peritoneum and asked whether she was spotting and experiencing uterine or abdominal pain. She confirmed both. When examined at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, it was discovered that her tissue acids had dissolved the IUD string where it connected to the device, and the IUD itself had punctured through the uterine wall and was floating in the abdominal cavity.
The doctor stated that this posed a risk of peritonitis, which can be fatal, and told Susan she might lose her uterus. Aajonus intervened, arguing that infections are the body's response to foreign or toxic substances, and that removing the IUD would eliminate the primary cause of infection, after which the uterus would have the opportunity to heal. He negotiated a surgical release stipulating that the surgeon was authorized only to remove the IUD and, if necessary, stitch the tear in the uterus, but nothing further. The surgeon initially refused to operate under those constraints, and Aajonus invoked the physician's oath, stating that if any qualified surgeon refused the agreed-upon necessary surgery and Susan suffered peritonitis, pneumonia, or death, he would pursue personal litigation against the surgeon and the hospital. He framed the position as: the uterus does not need to be removed; it needs the foreign object removed and a chance to heal. The surgeon eventually agreed.
Abortifacients and the Uterus
Aajonus described several approaches to inducing abortion that involved direct action on the uterus, providing specific quantities and procedures. He noted that eating moldy blackberries that had been molding for no more and no less than four weeks sometimes caused miscarriage, usually within two weeks of consumption.
He described inserting one teaspoon of cold-pressed pennyroyal tincture through the cervix and rubbing it vigorously onto the uterus as a method that usually caused abortion in pregnancies up to six months along, with the process taking up to twenty-one days with mild cramping before completion.
A stronger protocol involved inserting a mixture of two tablespoons of pennyroyal tincture and one-quarter cup of good mineral water into the uterus, then lying on the back with the buttocks raised and holding the mixture in the uterus for at least two hours. This was described as usually causing abortion in the same manner and was recommended to be performed at bedtime.
He also noted that vigorously rubbing four drops of cold-pressed pennyroyal on the lower abdomen was a related application, though the passage was not fully reproduced in the available sources.
Caesarean Section Uterine Consequences
Aajonus treated caesarean section as a profoundly damaging intervention with long-lasting consequences for the uterus and the broader abdominal region. He described the surgery as severing the connections between the mother's spinal cord and her brain, and as severing blood and lymph circulation to vital abdominal areas, including the uterus, while scarring nerves, veins, lymph channels, muscles, and skin.
The consequences he identified include drastically reduced sensation for sexual pleasure, impaired motor response control, and disrupted hormone production, which he stated usually affects a woman for the remainder of her life. He also described the caesarean cut as disrupting the major lymph gland network that runs through the neck, face, and down into the abdominal region, blocking proper nutrient flows to the entire area from the neck downward.
He stated that in ninety-four percent of caesarean sections, doctors chose the procedure because they did not want to wait the many hours necessary for natural delivery, and that only in six percent of cases were mother or child genuinely in danger and benefited from the surgery. He cited spinal injections and muscle relaxants given earlier in labor as frequent causes of slowed or stopped contractions that then led to caesarean delivery, meaning the intervention itself created the conditions requiring further intervention.
Childbirth and Uterine Function
Aajonus repeatedly described the experience of women who had been on the Primal Diet for five to seven years giving birth with only two contractions, which he contrasted against the hours of painful labor typical in the standard diet population. He described the first contraction as pushing the baby's head through and the second as delivering the rest of the body.
He cited a woman named Sherry Giacchetto by name as one who had this experience, describing the situation where her husband told her the head had already crowned during what she thought was the beginning of labor. One more contraction and the birth was complete. He also described Nicole and her sister's husband Ray having the same two-contraction experience, where Nicole felt what she thought was a strong contraction beginning and Ray informed her the head was already out, followed by one more contraction to complete the delivery.
He used the birthing behavior of gorillas, documented in a film by John Goodall, as a comparison point, describing a gorilla who walked to a corner of her enclosure, had one contraction, and the baby was in her arms, with no vocalization. He argued that this is the biological baseline for mammals eating their appropriate raw diet, and that women on the Primal Diet return to that baseline.
D&C Iodine Uterine Toxicity
In a written response to a woman who had undergone an emergency dilation and curettage following a miscarriage that had gone very wrong, Aajonus addressed the question of whether a strong urge to urinate occurring approximately a year later could be connected to that procedure. He acknowledged that iodine may have been used to clean out the uterus during the D&C and that the body would be detoxifying that iodine.
He stated that it takes forty years on a perfect diet to completely cleanse the body, and that any part of the body where there has been a problem will not have been properly cleansed and healed and will cleanse and heal periodically with old symptoms returning. He identified the additional harm to the area that may have been caused by the iodine used during the procedure as a separate cleansing burden layered on top of whatever initiated the miscarriage.
Ovaries Without Uterus
In one consultation reading, Aajonus noted a woman who still had her ovaries but no uterus. He observed that her ovaries were "very strong" and that she was still forming hormones and building hormone production. He used this as confirmation that having ovaries without a uterus still allows for hormone production, since the ovaries were responsible for that function independently.
Menstruation's Role In Detoxification
Aajonus described the menstrual cycle as producing a discharge of mucus and metals, with laboratory tests on menstrual fluid showing large amounts of metal contamination including mercury, aluminum, and thallium. He framed the menstrual cycle as a significant health advantage for women despite its inconvenience, because it allows elimination of neurotoxic metals through the blood at the time of menstruation.
He stated that women live approximately twenty percent longer than men because they secrete twenty percent more mucus out of the vaginal cavity. He cited Samuel Epstein, M.D., whom he described as internationally considered the greatest expert on cancer, to note that one in three women gets cancer today in the United States compared to one in two men, connecting this disparity to the female body's superior elimination capacity through the uterine and vaginal systems.
