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“Iron Pills”
Medical Science Fragments Twenty-five

     The public is often told that spinach contains iron or that such and such has iron in it and are exhorted to consume iron for the health, but such utterances are peculiar. I say so because although minerals in the human body may not be harmful neither do they provide any benefit. Whenever this subject is brought up, I laugh and tell people that if iron were indeed beneficial to the human body, it would be good to boil nails in water and drink the essence. And recently, a healing therapy that involves drinking a liquid which contains pulverized iron powder seems to have appeared, so in no time, we will hear of recommendations for drinking gun powder in liquid form. To put it in plain and simple terms, God created iron to be used in purposes necessary to transportation such as in ships and train rails, in building materials, for cutting edges, in fixtures for household use, and so forth. That iron was not created to be put in the stomach of a human being is a principle that is more than obvious. It is truth that in all affairs and matters, if you utilize your powers of judgment with common sense, how to use something should be understood.

Eikô, Issue 190, January 7, 1953
 translation by cynndd