TRUTH ABOUT HEALTH AND DISEASE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 23 May 1936, Page 14

TRUTH ABOUT HEALTH AND DISEASE

— (To the Krtitor; Sir.--Quite frequently wc road in the headlines news of some amazing new enre for disease. Cures have been announced for rheumatism, cancer, tuberculosis. asthma, colds, etc. In spite of these alleged cures disease is still very much with us as is evidenced by the large number of hospitals, and always more in the course of construction. Now, from the standpoint of the science of natural healing, these various cures are little less than folly; or, in other words, want of understanding of ihe true ease of* disease. Jhe obvious weakness of these so-called cures is that the probable cause of disease is seldom considered or even mentioned. If the cause were discovered and eliminated there would he no need for a cure; but (he usual me 1 hod of treatment does not bother about causes, being apparently content lo deal with ettects. Let us try to get a clear idea of what disease really is. Health is harmony, wholeness, ease. Disease is dis-ease, absence of ease. Diseases is simply that the |,ndy is working under handicap, due to lowered vitality and abnormal composition of blood and lymph. Health means that the vital force is doing its work of properly driving the body and also providing sufficient energy for the brain to think, plan, reason and will. In disease the bodily functions arc still going on but with insufficient energy. This is caused by pest violation of one or more of nature's laws on Hie physical, mental or emotional planes. Therefore, that which we call disease is really the body trying to right itself, whatever the name we give our particular trouble. There is a law of the natural school of healing which says that, “Every acute disease is tiie result a healing and cleansing effort on the "part of nature.” It is therefore self-limited and will cure itself with a little patience and common sense. The usual treatment given for an acute disease, whether it be influenza, cold, fever, an active catarrh or a skin eruption, is to suppress the symptoms with drugs as quickly as possible; and the disease is said to be “cured.” A disease suppressed, by such means is still in the body, and will return some time later in the same or a different form ; if it does not do this it will mature into a chronic disease with a different label from the first manifestation. That is, acute dispenses which are suppressed eventually return as chronic diseases. There's no "if’s” "amTs” and “mayhe’s” about it.

Obviously the right course is to so live that the vital force is increased and the tissues purified. If that is done no (iiscase can develop, simply because the soil is not suitable,for disease. But suppose one has unwittingly sinned in the past and the body is in the process of a healing and cleaning effort. What then? The natural treatment, is to withhold all food with, the exception of water and fruit juices for a few days, also rest. The idea that one must eat when sick “to keep up the strength” is a first class fallacy. This treatment is nothing more limn common sense as it gives the vital force a chance to clear the waste —which is really the disease—from the system. An animal would do the same thing instinctively. Nature's healing power is ever present in the body and if given a. chance will heal disease just as it heals a cut huger or broken bone ; and no one lias the ghost of an idea how Nature does it. A man who lias spent a lifetime studying the structure and, functions of the body and who probably knows more about it than most authorities has truthfully said. “Only Nature can repair the machines which Nature lias made.” Because ol the truth about health and disease being so simple is the very reason why some people fail to grasp it. They would sooner applaud something they did not understand ; many otherwise intelligent people still prefer to worship at the shrine of the goddess humbug. Someone is bound to say. “But what about germs.?” The answer is that germs only lodge and thrive in bodies where the soil is suitable for them. The main thing about germs is that one must not he afraid of them; a healthy person is not afraid of germs or anything else. There, exists a big pile of books dealing with the behaviour of germs. All of Ihese (with possibly one or two exceptions) would make a good bonfire. Anyone with an unshackled mind gels the impression that the men who wrote such books became so engrossed in the contemplation of disease that they delevoped a disease consciousness; they looked on tiie body as something most likely to go wrong at any moment. There is another school of thought which approaches -the subject from a different angle, and which looks on the body as something most likely to go right. This attitude is responsible for the health-consciousness which is dawning throughout the world to-day. My sympathies go out to the native tribes living on nature’s foods in natural environment. 'these poor people must lead miserable lives doing nothing else but spending their time hunting, feasting, dancing, swimming and sunbathing.. They re not yet enlightened about disease, germs, modern methods ol treatment, or the very latest amazing, discovery lor the cure of the pip. Let’s go and convert these savages to the joys of civilised ways.—l am etc 11. ALFRED B LAX ALL. Nelson, 19th May.