Headache & Migraine
Discovering the ICV in Melbourne

The ileocecal valve (from here on referred to as the ICV) is the EXHAUST valve of the Body/Mind protein-based computer engine. It governs the flow of exhaust gases and fecal matter out of the Body/Mind. If it doesn’t work properly, then the gases and fecal matter will go back into the body, causing every known dis-eased condition. Little things govern big things. Little malfunctions can cause MASSIVE problems.

I am in Melbourne. I feel great. I am staying here with my Touch for Health instructor, David Bridgeman, who is a vegetarian and eats tofu...Well, I suppose I can tolerate tofu for 8 days while I complete my Instructor Training Workshop with Bruce Dewe, the Instructor Trainer for the South Pacific. Prior to this I had studied with David who taught me the basic and advanced classes in Touch for Health (from here on referred to as T.F.H.).

On the third day of the T.F.H. Instructor Training Workshop I go for a walk at lunchtime. Borne on the zephyr breeze is the irresistible invitation of succulent spit-roasted chicken! For three days I have existed on salad, tofu and mainly raw vegetables. I buy the chicken and gratefully demolish it on my way back to the workshop. About 3:30 PM I get a headache. I never get headaches. I go back to David’s home, get to bed, and then get back up with a headache that by this time feels like a ten-pound hammer in my head. Back at the workshop, where there are some 25 professionals from all walks of the natural healing fraternity, I ask for help to get rid of my headache. They all tried applying pressure to the Hoku acupuncture point, between the thumb and first finger, until finally the pain there was worse than my headache! They pressed on all the joints of my toes, all to no avail. Then they held the bridge of my nose and the back of my head. Nothing worked.

I returned home to David’s house with my headache and tell him, “David, I have the mother and father of all headaches and nobody at the workshop knows what to do to fix it.” David says, “Oh, that must be your ICV” and with that he pushed his fingers into the right side of my abdomen between the navel and pubic bone. MY HEADACHE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. In disbelief I ask, “Do you mean to tell me that I have completed Basic Touch for Health, Advanced Touch For Health and now I am taking the eight-day Instructor Training Workshop and I have not been taught about this ICV function?”

David informed me that this was only taught as part of Advanced Techniques class, which follows the Instructor Training. That was when I realized that in spite of the valuable curriculum, which in every way warrants the name “Touch For Health”, it was also understandable why it became known as “Clutch for Wealth” in Australia. David took his fingers from my side and the headache started again but with less pain. So he showed me how to regulate the valve. With that, the headache left for good and I have never had one since. Using muscle testing to determine what caused my ileocecal valve to become incompetent, I found it was the chicken. So now I am very careful with chicken...I love it and I eat it but I know it can cause the ICV to become incompetent to open and close on demand as required. You must pay extra attention to your ICV if your diet includes a lot of chicken. Mama’s chicken broth, however, is fantastic. But the flesh is not a good idea. A porcupine can drink prussic acid like water, but if we tried that we would be dead. This indicates that there are different kinds of flesh. Some are more digestible than others. I have eaten fish and beef all my 65 years of existence and will continue to do so. My friend Mike Daily tells me that “Vegetarian is not an English word...it is an old Patawotomi Indian word meaning lousy hunter. I did not reach the top of the food chain to become a vegetarian!”

A diet consisting mainly of raw vegetables will grievously aggravate the ICV and upset the pH of the bowel. Eating warm steamed vegetables with the raw ones will maintain the integrity of the ICV. No, I didn’t say boiled to death, nor lightly blanched either. Steam them so that the cores of dense vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower are just soft. Until the ICV is restored to competency, it is best to avoid eating nuts, chips or coarse grains.

You will know when someone has a chronic ICV problem because their breath will smell like a rotting garbage dump. Sometimes you can smell their breath all the way across the room. If your husband, boyfriend, wife or girlfriend seems to avoid kissing you, ask them if your breathsmells bad. They may be too shy to tell you.

Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Everyone’s breath smells at one time or another but nobody says anything because they don’t know what to do about it and they don’t want to hurt someone they love...and there aren’t any mints handy. Now you know what to do. Tell them to rub their valve. The smell of rotting garbage is rising from the colon, so putting breath sweeteners or mints into the mouth is treating the wrong end of the problem. I am not talking about the smell of onion or garlic breath, which is localized in the mouth. If everyone eats onion and garlic, no one will be offended. However, if your partner doesn’t partake, agree to avoid breathing on them for a day! Communicate! It could mean the difference between divorce and a successful, happy marriage.