Dr. Arthur Coca’s wife was suddenly stricken with angina pectoris which incapacitated her for three years. Heart specialists predicted the end of life within five years. Dr. Coca administered a morphine derivative to his wife. This normally quiets the pulse, but is this instance his wife’s pulse jumped over 180 beats per minute—the pulse was so fast it could not be counted. His wife volunteered that her pulse jumped after some meals. Dr. Coca began testing the pulse after single foods. Initially only three foods were found to elevate the pulse above 68 but he soon expanded his list of problem foods. Beef and potato were two of the initial problem foods.
After lengthy testing his wife became completely free from heart pain as long as she avoided foods that raised her pulse. Dr. Coca noted that a number of other problems his wife had suffered with for years also disappeared including “migraine, colitis, attacks of dizziness and fainting, abnormal tiredness and indigestion.” (31)
Dr. Coca found that his patients often suffered with more than one condition associated with allergy indicated by an increase in pulse rate. In most instances these symptoms could be recreated by adding a food back into the diet. Introduction of these foods always caused an increase in the pulse rate.
Dr. Coca’s instructions to patients included the following:
1. No smoking during testing.
2. Count the pulse one minute before each meal and three times after each meal at half-hour intervals. 3. Take pulse just before bed and just after waking in the morning. All pulse counts are made while sitting except for the morning measurement which is made before getting out of bed.
4. All items eaten at a meal are recorded for two or three days with usual meals.
5. Testing of single foods is done for two or more days testing foods hourly for 12-14 hours. Small portions of the single foods are eaten. Do not test any foods that you know you do not tolerate. Record the results of this testing.
6. Evaluation of the results.
Everything that goes into the mouth must be tested. One woman found her migraines were triggered by her toothpaste! (47-49)
References:
Coca, Arthur F., The Pulse Test, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
Journal Article on Pulse Testing:
https://www.jacionline.org/article/0021-8707(61)90005-3/pdf
Download of the book:
https://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/020108.coca_.pdf
