BASIC PRINCIPLES OF NATUROPATHY
The approach of Nature Cure to the diseases and treatment is based upon concept of vitality, Vis Medicatric Naturae, (the healing power of Nature) and Non Nocere (treatment measures must not harm). Therefore, before we go into details of basic principles of Naturopathy, it is of prime importance to understand the concept of vitality.
Concept of Vital Force
Nature cure believes that there is certain force resident within the body called by some as vitality or inherent healing power or vital force which is ever with us and which keeps the body normal and healthy. Health of a person is dependent upon said vital force. This is in fact the protective force of the body and is ultimately responsible for all the reactions induced by Nature Cure treatments for recovery of the body. This is the force which eliminates the toxins from the body. This is the force responsible for multiplication of the cells. It is the force which directs the law and order within the body so that all the processes are carried on in a systematic manner and not haphazardly. It is due to this force that living creatures develop from an ovum to maturity. The unfailing tendency of the body to return to normal when disturbed or distorted is due to presence of this force.
It is believed that this inherent power, which has built our bodies from a tiny speck to full grown bodies, is also the power which heals us when diseased without any recourse to outside aids of any sort. It is due to this concept of vitality that in the treatment of diseases what a Nauropath does is simply to allow the natural healing power within the body to assert itself without interference. Health is a natural condition of human body and the result of allowing it to function according to its biological requirement. Disease can not exist when these requirements are not interfered with or disturbed. Therefore, it is logical that all that is necessary in the cure of diseases is for the disturbing cause to be removed. With the disturbing factors removed the inherent healing power will assert itself and re-establish health. All that nature desires from human skill in conditions of disease is the removal of disturbing causes after which she will of her own accord bring the body back to health.
Sneezing is an example how the body reacts to something that is irritating the mucus lining of nasal passage to remove it from causing permanent harm and injury to the delicate lining of the nose, through the prospective force within the body.
Copious flow of tears whenever something enter the eye is also an illustration to show the existence of natural protective force within the body to wash out whatever is threatening to injure the delicate composition of the eye.
In every case of so called diseases the vital force comes at work to correct it. When the toxins collect in the system because the eliminating organs such as lungs, kidneys, bowels and the skin have stopped functioning in the normal way, the vital power makes an effort to eliminate them in her normal way. Skin diseases such as Eczema, running of nose and cough etc are some of the good examples when the poisons could not be eliminated from the system due to some reason despite the best efforts.
There is a tendency to store these poisons in some one spot such as in muscle or in a joint as far away from the vital parts as possible. Rheumatism is a good example. It is when available spots are all used up owing to tremendous accumulation that the poisons begin to come into contact with important organs such as heart and so the force is eventually compelled to give up the struggle and death ensues.
Digestion and Vital Force
It is believed by several authorities that good hunger and good health goes side by side. The digestive power within us or digestive fire (JATHARAGANI), as is called in ancient Indian texts, is related directly to the vital force within. It is also believed that in the creatures having strong vitality exhibited by strong digestive fire (hunger), all the requirements of the body for its existence are made available to it from whatever is taken as food through the mysterious biological processes, which is an act of vitality, the power within.
There are still others who are opposed to the said concept. Modern medical sciences stress for balanced diet having proportionate and adequate amount of carbohydrate, fats, proteins, minerals and vitamins etc. The argument goes on is if the former concept was true, there should have been no deficiency diseases. Protein deficiency is most prevalent in under developed and developing countries. This should not have been there. The counter argument put forth by believers of said concept is that, the amount of protein that may be required for a growing child, herbivorous animals like cow, buffaloes, elephants, camels, Giraffe etc may be logically so high that they may not be getting sufficient quantity of proteins (calculated on proportionate basis) in their diet but they still grow so rapidly to so magnificent sizes and maintain their health. Logically the requirements of the body by these animals might have been manufactured from within, from the material consumed by them through a mysterious biological phenomenon, the mechanism of which is yet to be understood fully by the scientists.
With the passage of time and development of civilization man has by instinct started consuming such food which are required by body necessitating very little effort on the part of the body to provoke this process of manufacturing required food substances as very little or no deficiencies were to be met, thereby gradually making this power to diminish in thousands of years of civilized life resulting in very little part of said power to remain. In emergency conditions even now body provokes such powers e.g. Kidneys manufacture an alkali to neutralize excess of acid brought to them in blood Acidosis.
Corollary to these arguments and counter arguments is whether patients are required to be put on a specific diet or they can be allowed whatever they want to consume. There is a group of Nature Cure Practitioners who are very particular in regard to dietetic prescription to the point of fanaticism. There are still other groups of practitioners who give very little attention to diet prescriptions and stress more to build up the vitality and strong digestive fire. Even when fasting and dietetic changes are prescribed, they are for a limited period for restoring health by exciting and making the eliminative processes function with greater intensity and fitness.
Whatever may be the arguments, it is a common observation that the communities consuming high protein diet patterns with adequate amount of other necessary food items have stronger bodies in compared to those who are deprived of such nourishing foods. In India itself people from Punjab, Haryana and Western UP are having superior body structures and health compared to people of Eastern UP, Bihar and other poor states. Therefore, the importance of nature of food and their effects on the body cannot be ignored. Japan is said to have improved the height of its people by average 8″ after 2nd World War by way of improving food and exercise in the growing children and adults.
May be there exists some mechanism in the body for meeting emergencies However, it remains a truth that balanced and nourishing food is required to the provided to each and every person to maintain and promote his/her health in accordance with the nature of his lifestyle and requirements.. Revoking inherent vital powers again and again may ultimately lead to diminished or decreased vital force. Vital force is required to be economized and built up by way of avoiding all that which may affect adversely.
Adaptability
Before we go into various principles of Naturopathy it should be borne in mind that the body possesses the power of adaptation to different circumstances. Adaptation means the adjustment of an organism, whether a plant, animal or man to its environment. Adaptation also refers to the ability of a part of the body to adjust. For example, the pupil of the eye automatically adapts itself to the amount of light striking it. It does this quickly, so that within a few seconds, a person going from a brightly lit area to semi darkness can see satisfactorily. Humans adapt well, so that they can survive in cold or hot climates, in rainy or dry seasons and under either sparsely populated or crowded condition. They can also adapt to stress. The human organs and glandular system enable people to live and work under different circumstances and to relax when the stress conditions are removed. An entire species, human or animal also may adapt slowly to radically changed circumstances through the process of evolution.
With this background we shall now proceed to fundamental principles of Nature Cure. The three fundamental principles as enumerated in Herry Benjamin’s famous book “Everybody’s Guide to Nature Cure” is reproduced below as it explains in a very simple and lucid language the essence of Naturopathy.
The Three Fundamental Principles
Herry Benjamin in his famous book “Everybody’s Guide to Nature Cure” has mentioned the Fundamental Principles of Nature Cure as given below.
It must be fully understood that these three fundamental principles of Nature Cure are not the outcome of mere theorising into the nature and treatment of diseases, but are logical deductions and conclusions arrived at from nearly a centaury of effective naturopathic treatment of diseases, in Germany, America, India, UK and several other countries and proved over and over again by the results obtained.
(1) The first and most important fundamental principle of Nature Cure is that all forms of diseases are due to the Same cause namely the accumulation in the system of waste materials and bodily refuse, which has been steadily piling up in the body of the individual concerned through years of wrong habits of living, the chief of these being wrong feeding, improper care of the body, and habits tending to set up enervation and nervous exhaustion, such as worry, overwork, excesses and abuses of all kinds.
From this first principle of Naturopathy it follows that the only way in which disease can be cured is by the introduction of methods which will enable the system to throw off these toxic accumulations which are daily clogging the wheels of the human machine; and to that sole end all natural treatment is directed. It must be pointed out for the readers’ guidance that during the vital processes which are going on continuously in our bodies, waste products are always forming; but in the healthy individual they are immediately removed from the system through the medium of the organs of elimination which are the kidneys, bowels, lungs, and skins. But if, as is the case with most people , the waste products accumulate at a rate in excess of the capacity of the above mentioned organs to deal with them, then commences the clogging process which is the fundamental cause of all future ill health.
(2) The second principle of Nature Cure is that the body is always striving for the ultimate good of the Individual, no matter how ill treated it may be and that all acute diseases such as fevers (scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, typhoid etc), colds, diarrhoeas, skin eruptions of all kinds, inflammations etc are nothing more than self initiated attempts on the part of the body to throw off the accumulations of waste material (some of them hereditary ) which are interfering with its proper functioning and that all chronic diseases such as valvular diseases of the heart, diabetes, kidney diseases, rheumatism, bronchitis etc are really the results of the continued suppression of these same acute diseases (or self initiated attempts at body cleansing) by orthodox medical methods of treatments. (Those methods include the administration of poisonous drugs, vaccines, narcotics, gland extracts and X-ray therapy; and the removal of affected parts by means of surgical operations).
From the Nature Cure standpoint, therefore, when a doctor ‘cures’ a patient of an acute disease through the agency of drugs, sera, anti-toxins, etc or through the medium of the ’surgeon’s knife’, what he really does is to force the toxins (waste products), which the body is endeavoring to throw off, further back into the system and it is the concentration of these toxins (plus the drugs, etc administrated by the doctor) in the vital organs and other structures which form the bases of future chronic diseases. Obviously, the form which chronic disease will take in any given individual whether it be rheumatism, Bright’s disease, asthma, diabetes, etc will depend upon his bodily constitution and hereditary tendencies but the main fact to be noted is that according to Nature Cure, all chronic diseases originate in the first place through the suppression, by wrong medical methods of treatment, of acute diseases.
(3) The third principle of Nature Cure is that the body contains within itself the power to bring about a return to that condition of normal well being known as health, provided the right methods are employed to enable to do so, that is to say, the power to cure disease lies not in the hands of the doctor or specialist, but within the body itself.
Within this will be found the source of that healing power which Nature is ever ready to bestow on all who are willing to accept her laws and live in accordance with them.
It is only when we realize that there is no magic in the “Surgeon’s knife” or medicine (Patent or otherwise) and are ready to accept the truth of the above statement which is literally “that the only ones capable of curing them are themselves” that we can hope for a diminution in the appalling and ever growing amount of disease present in all civilized countries at the present time.
What is Unity of Diseases and Treatment?
Unity of Disease
There is only one cause of disease, although the disease may manifest itself in various forms and with different degrees of severity. Barring trauma (injury) and surroundings uncongenial to human life, the primary cause of all disease is violation of nature’s law. Violation of nature’s law in thinking, breathing, eating, drinking, dressing, working and resting, as well as in formal, social and sexual conduct results in certain primary and secondary manifestations of disease. It is the result of transgression, whether such transgression has been done consciously or unconsciously. Whatever be the malady remember that disease is a unit.
All acute diseases are in reality self purifying efforts on the part of nature. Give me fever and I can cure every disease, so Hippocrates formulated the fundamentals law of cure over two thousand years ago. The same law has been expressed by Dr Henry Lindlahr, the pillar of the Nature Cure Movement, in the following statement:
‘Every acute disease is the result of a cleansing and healing effort of Nature’. And he says further that if you suppress the acute condition by drugs or by any other means, you are simply laying the foundation for chronic diseases. Making a general application of this law, we deduce that all diseases, from a simple cold to skin eruptions, diarrhoeas to fevers, represent nature’s effort to remove from the system some morbid matter, some virus or poison dangerous to health or life.
Unity of Cure
The natural state of the human body should be that of perfect health. In every living thing plants, animals or man there is life. What this mysterious ‘life’ is, nobody knows. But the principles of nature cure are that life force, or life energy in every living thing always leads us towards perfect health. The body possesses its own inherent ’self curative force’. Within every living body there are sufficient resources of vitality to overcome temporary disability caused by circumstances. As soon as the materials and other conditions necessary for its restoration to health are provided, the body immediately carries out its plan of reconstruction, and health follows as a natural corollary. Animals instinctively make use of this vital force when they become ill, and work with nature towards the natural restoration of their well being.
Recognizing the unity of Disease and the Unity of Cure, the nature cure system of therapeutics is based on the firm rock of principle instead of the shifting stands of fashions.
The fundamental Principles of Nature Cure Treatment
1. Nature is Healer
The Healing Power of Nature, the essence of nature cure, and the various methods of treatment which spring from it, is the realization and fundamental acceptance on the part of those practicing it of the fact that within himself every individual possesses the power to cure himself of any disease from which he/she may be sufferings provided
(1) The right mans to bring this about are employed;
(2) The vitality of the individual concerned has not sunk so low as to render recuperation impossible.
Although the healing power in question cannot be seen or weighed or measured, there is, nevertheless no doubt as to its existence; for it is the same power within us which is responsible for the carrying on of all the multifarious activities of our bodies. It is the same power which year in and year out, in the deepest unconsciousness of sleep and the greatest height of activity, controls of the functioning of every organ or part of the human organism without our conscious knowledge, or even our realization sometimes.
That power within us, which makes the heart to beat, the blood to flow, the eye to see, the ear to hear, the hair to grow, lungs to breathe, the brain to function will, if given suitable opportunity, renew diseased tissue in an organ or part of the body which is functioning wrongly, cleanse the cells, purify the blood, give new vitality to digestive system, and, in short, make life worth living once again to the sufferer from disease who has the sense to realize the fact and the determination to carry out the necessary measures.
Fasting, Dieting, osteopathy, Chiropractic, Massage, radiant light and heat, electrical treatment, water treatment etc., all play their part and have their value (in greater or lesser degree), but only in so far as they allow the natural forces within the body a fuller opportunity to manifest themselves than would otherwise be possible. To claim for any one of them that it, and it alone, can “cure” disease (as is done in many instances by misguided individuals carried away by a misconception as to the value of the special treatment in question) is as ridiculous an assumption as any of those made by orthodox medical science, and is a negation of the basis upon which all Natural treatment rests – the sovereign Power of Nature herself as the one healer of disease.
Osteopathy cannot cure disease, chiropractic cannot cure disease; massage or artificial sunlight cannot cure disease; even fasting and dieting – the two greatest factors in the scheme of natural treatment cannot be really said to cure disease; yet each and all of them have their rightful position in Naturopathic practice, as subsidiary helpers of the omnipotent healing power of the natural forces latent within the body of each and every individual.
How Nature Heals
It has already been demonstrated that the essence of all disease is the accumulation in the system of waste matter and impurities due to wrong habits of living (especially dietetic), and that their elimination from the body is what Nature is striving for all the time; so that it will surely not be regarded as strange, therefore when it is said that it is through detoxification (through the increase of the powers of elimination of any given individual) that these same healing powers, latent within all of us, can be given a free hand to function and fulfill their self-appointed task.
To introduce what we Naturopaths call a “detoxification regime ” is to increase the individual powers of elimination; is to throw open wide the portals of the organism, as it were, to the healer within; is to allow the accumulated waste matters of years to be swept from clogged and infected tissues, and thus pave the way for that process of regeneration and rebuilding of muscle, nerves, blood, and vital organs which only Nature herself – the creator of all – can accomplish.
Through the introduction of natural treatment in the form of fasting (that is, cessation from food) and/or scientific dieting, conjoined with measures for the increasing of skin and bowel action, exercise, deep breathing etc., this same power within us, which is for ever looking after the body’s welfare to the uttermost of its ability, but is always overworked (in the vast majority of cases), is at last given an opportunity to turn its attention to the work of reconstruction and repairs. It is at last free to cleanse and renovate bodily mechanisms in which all the cylinders (so to speak) are choked up i.e., clogged with impurities and bodily refuse generated in the system through unhygienic ways of livings but which heretofore it has been unable to deal with. It is at last free to rid the body of disease, because at last it is being helped in its work, not hindered.
That is all there is to it; there is no mystery attached to the matter at all (except in so far as it is part of the eternal mystery of life, which will ever remain a mystery, never to be solved even after death). Just as when, after one cuts a finger, it heals of its own accord if the right conditions are permitted, so, when a gastric ulcer is present or a lung is diseased, if the right methods are adopted will the ulcer be reabsorbed and the injured stomach lining repaired or new lung tissue built, as the case may be, by the eternal healer Nature.
Unity of Disease & Treatment
Acute diseases represent Nature’s efforts to purify and regenerate the human organism by means of inflammatory feverish processes, while in the chronic condition the system is not capable of arousing itself to such acute reactions. It must be prepared for this though natural methods of living and of treatment.
Natural treatment of acute diseases tends to relieves inner congestion, to facilitate the retaliation of heat and elimination of morbid matter and systemic poisons from the body. In this way it eases and palliates the feverish processes and keeps them below the danger point without in any way checking or suppressing them.
While our methods of treating acute diseases have a sedative effect, our treatment of chronic diseases is calculated to stimulate, that is, to arouse the sluggish organism to greater activity in order to produce the acute inflammatory reaction or healing crisis.
If the unity of diseases, be a fact in Nature, it must be possible to treat all chronic as well as all acute diseases by uniform methods, and the natural methods must correspond to the primary causes of disease.
(3) Bacteria & Virus Secondary Manifestation of Disease
Bacteria & virus inflammation and fever are not primary but secondary manifestations of disease. No form of inflammatory disease can arise in the system unless there is present some handicap to health which Nature is endeavoring to overcome and to get rid of.
The local inflammation arising with the organism is not the disease, but merely marks the locality and the method through which Nature is trying her best to discharge the morbid encumbrances; – that the acute reaction is local, but that its causes or “feeders” are always constitutional and must be treated constitutionally.
(4) Law of Dual Effect
Every agent affecting the human organism produces two effects, first, temporary effect, and second lasting effects The second, lasting effect is always contrary to the first transient effect.
For instance the first and temporary effect of cold water applied to the skin consists in sending the blood to the interior; but in order to compensate for the local depletion Nature responds by sending greater quantities back to the surface, which results in increased warmth and better surface circulation.
The first effect of a hot bath is to draw the blood to the surface; but the second effect sends the blood back to the interior, leaving the surface bloodless and chilled.
Stimulants, as we shall presently see, produce their deceptive effects by consuming the reserve stores of vital energy in the organism. This is inevitably followed by weakness and exhaustion in exact proportion to the previous excitation.
The first effect of relaxation and sleep is weakness, numbness and death-like stupor; the second effect, however, is an increase of vitality.
In theory and in practice allopathy considers the first effect only and ignores the lasting after effects of drugs and surgical operations. It administers remedies whose first effect is contrary to the disease condition. Therefore, in accordance with the law of action and reaction, the second, lasting effect of such remedies must be similar to the disease condition.
(5) The Law of Crises
Crises in the ordinary sense of the word mean change, either for better or for worse. In medical parlance the term Crisis has been defined as “a decisive change in the disease, resulting either in recovery or in deaths”.
We of the Nature cure school distinguish between “healing crises” and “disease crises”, according to the character and the tendency of the acute reaction. If an acute disease is brought about though the accumulation of morbid matter to such an extent that the health or the life of the organism is endangered, in other words, if the disease conditions are forcing the crisis, we speak of disease crisis. But if acute reactions take place in the system because conditions have become more normal, because the healing forces have gained the ascendancy and forced the acute inflammatory processes, we refer to them as healing crises.
Healing crises are simply different forms of elimination by means of which Nature endeavors to remove the latent chronic disease encumbrance from the system. The most common forms of these acute purifications are acute catarrhal colds and hemorrhoidal discharges, boils ulcers, abscesses, open sores, skin eruptions, diarrheas hemorrhages, abnormal perspiration and all sorts of inflammatory processes.
When the organism is loafed to the danger point with morbid matter, it may arouse itself in self- defense to an acute eliminative effort in the shape of cold, catarrh, fever, inflammation, skin eruption, etc . In these instances, the disease conditions bring about the crisis and the organism is on the defensive. These are disease crises.
Such unequal struggles between the healing forces and pathogenic conditions some times end favorably and sometimes fatally.
On the other hand, healing crises develop because the healing forces are in the ascendancy and take the offensive. They are brought about through natural methods of living and of treatment, and always result in improved conditions.
The possibility of producing healing crises and thereby curing chronic ailments depends upon the following conditions:-
(1) The patient must possess sufficient vital energy and power of reaction to respond to the natural treatment and to a change of habits.
(2) The destruction and disorganization of vital fluids and organs must not have advanced too far.
In fact, Nature never undertakes a healing crisis until the system has been prepared for it, until the organism is sufficiently purified and strengthened to conduct the acute reaction to a favorable termination.
If acute reactions are suppressed, the constructive healing crises may change into a destructive disease crises. Therefore we earnestly warn our patients never to interfere in any way a healing crisis lest the chronic conditions become worse than before.
When Nature, with all the force inherent in the human organism, has finally worked up to the point of a healing crisis, another defeat by a new suppression may be beyond her powers of endurance and recuperation. Fatal collapse may then be the result.
A genuine and truly effective house cleaning must start in the cells and must be brought about through the initiative of the vital energies in the organism, through healing crises and not through stimulation by means of poisonous irritants.
The organism cannot be forced by irritants and stimulants and artificial means, but eliminates morbid matter only in its own natural manner and when it is in proper condition to do so.
We of the Nature Cure School know that this great Law of Crises dominates the cure of chronic disease. Every case is another verification of it; in fact, every decided advance on the road to perfect health is marked by acute reactions.
The cure invariably proceeds through the darkness and chaos of healing crises to the light and beauty of perfect health with periods of marked improvement alternating with acute eliminative activity until perfect regeneration has taken place.
Over two thousand years ago Pythagoras and Hippocrates distinctly recognized and proclaimed the laws of crises and of periodicity in their teachings on the cure of chronic diseases. They taught that alternating well defined periods of improvement and of crises were determined and governed by the law of periodicity or the law of numbers (the septimal law).
In accordance with the law of periodicity, the sixth period in any seven periods is marked by reactions, changes, revolutions or crises. It is, therefore, looked upon by popular superstition as an unlucky period. Friday, the sixth day of the week, is regard as an unlucky day – Friday is “Hangman Day”; according to tradition the master, Jesus, was crucified on Friday.
Counting face the first sixth or Friday period in any given number of hours, days, weeks, months, years or groups of years, as the case may be, every succeeding seventh period is characterized by crises.
This explains why 13 is considered an unlucky number. It represents the second critical or Friday period.
However, there is really no cause for this superstitious fear of Friday and the number 13. It is due to a lack of understanding of Nature’s laws. By intelligent cooperation with these laws we may turn the critical periods in our lives into “healing crises” and beneficial changes.
Therefore we should not be afraid of changes and crises periods but cooperate with them clear eyed and strong willed. Then they will result in improvement and further growth.
(6) Law of seven
The Law of Sevens in Febrile Diseases.
If we apply the law of periodicity to the course of acute febrile or inflammatory diseases we find that the Sixth day from the beginning of the first well defined symptoms marks the first ‘Friday periods’ or the first crisis of the disease, and that every seventh day thereafter is also distinguished by aggravations and changes either for better or for worse.
The Law of Sevens in Chronic Diseases.
Applied to the cure of chronic diseases under the influence of natural methods of living and of treatment, the law of crisis and periodicity manifests as follows:
When a chronic patient, whose chances of cure are good, is placed under proper (natural) conditions of living and of treatment he will, as a rule, experience five weeks of marked improvement.
The Sixth weeks if conditions are favorable, usually marks the beginning of acute reactions or healing crises.
This means that the healing forces of the organism have grown strong enough to begin the work of acute elimination.
By all sorts of acute reactions, such as skin eruptions, diarrheas, feverish, inflammatory and catarrhal conditions, boils, abscesses, muco-purulent discharges, etc., Nature now endeavors to remove the latent, chronic diseases taints from the system.
The allopathic school of medicine looks upon these acute reactions as the disease; we of the nature Cure school recognize them as mile stones on the road to cure.
The character of healing crises and the time of their occurrence in any given case can often be accurately predicted by means of the diagnosis from the iris of the eye.
The timely appearance of healing crises, their orderly development and favourable termination constitute the best criterion of the correctness and naturalness of the methods of treatment employed.
The eliminative processes of the healing crises are often accompanied by great mental depression and a feeling of strong revulsion from the natural regimen and everything connected with it.
The patient may think that, after all, Nature Cure is not for him, that he is growing worse instead of better. In proportion to the severity of the changes going on within him, he may become disheartened and despondent. Often he exhibits all the mental and emotional symptoms of homes sickness.
Frightened and discouraged the patient may return to the “flesh-pots of Egypt’ and to the good old pills and notions and ever afterwards will tell his friends that “he tried Nature Cure and the vegetarian diet, but it was no good”.
Mother Nature remains a “book sealed with seven seals” to those who mistrusts despise and counteract her, who rely on man maple wisdom and the ever changing theories and dogma of the schools.
But on the other hand, every crisis conducted to a successful termination in accordance with Nature’s laws becomes an inspiration to him who follows her guidance and assists her with intelligent effort and loving care.
(7) Failure and Success
The sick, as a rule, does not consider Nature Cure except as a last resort. The methods and requirements of Nature Cure appear at first so unusual that most persons seek to evade them as long as they have the least faith in the miracle working power of the poison bottles, a metaphysical healer or the surgeon’s knife. When health’s wealth and hope are entirely exhausted, then the chronic sufferer grasps at Nature Cure as a drowning man clutches at a straw. But even though ninety percent of the cases which come to us are of the apparently incurable type, our total failures are few and far between.
If there is sufficient vitality in the body to react to natural treatment and if the destruction of vital parts and organs has not advanced too far, a cure is possible. Often the seemingly hopeless cases yield most readily.
Have faith in God. He is Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient. It is HE who rewards. Do your job sincerely to the best of your ability and leave the fruits to HIM. HE will certainty reward the patient as wall as the phys