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Regarding Digestion

  
   Medical science makes it a point of advising that such-and-such is good for digestion so it should be eaten, but this is a great mistake. When food is overly processed before digestion, there is no need for the stomach to function, so it gradually weakens. Therefore, if only that which is easily digestible is eaten and digestive medicines are ingested, the stomach dulls and contracts. When this condition worsens, it becomes gastroptosis, so gastroptosis is a disease created by mistaken medical science. Medical science also holds that it is good to masticate one’s food thoroughly, but this advice is also in error and following it only weakens the stomach.
     Therefore foodstuffs that are easily digestible and those that are not so should be skillfully combined and eaten which is what God intended and created, so I guarantee that by not making a big issue of digestibility, eating whatever delicious food you like, and masticating only halfway, diseases of the stomach will not occur. 

Kyūsei, Issue 50, page 2, February 18, 1950
translated by cynndd

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“Shōka ni Tsuite” appeared originally on the second page of Kyūsei, Issue 50, February 18, 1950. Although no translations are known to exist, “Shōka ni Tsuite” was reprinted in the anthology Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū (Collected Essays on Medical Science) that did enjoy a limited circulation. Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū contains no publication data, but internal evidence suggests that its editing stopped several months preceding Meishu-sama’s Ascension. Furthermore, since the book lacks publication data, whether the volume had Meishu-sama’s imprimatur or not is unknown, so details concerning this volume are probably impossible to research.