Natural
Cure - Chapter VI -
The Laws of Cure
This brings us to the consideration of acute
inflammatory and feverish diseases. From what has
been said, it follows that inflammation and fever
are not primary, but secondary, manifestations of
disease. There cannot arise any form of inflammatory
disease in the system unless there is present some
enemy to health which Nature is endeavoring to
overcome and get rid of. On this fact in Nature is
based what I claim to be the fundamental Law of
Cure.
"Give me fever and I can cure every disease." Thus
Hippocrates the Father of Medicine, expressed the
fundamental Law of Cure over two thousand years ago.
I have expressed this law in the following sentence:
"Every acute disease is the result of a cleansing
and healing effort of Nature."
This law, when thoroughly understood and applied to
the treatment of diseases, will in time do for
medical science what the discovery of other natural
laws has done for physics, astronomy, chemistry and
other exact sciences. It will transform the medical
empiricism and confusion of the past and present
into an exact science by demonstrating the unity of
disease and treatment.
Applying the law in a general way, it means that all
acute diseases, from a simple cold to measles,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox, pneumonia,
etc., represent Nature's efforts to repair injury or
to remove from the system some kind of morbid
matter, virus, poison or microorganism dangerous to
health and life. In other words, acute diseases
cannot develop in a perfectly normal, healthy body
living under conditions favorable to human life. The
question may be asked: "If acute diseases represent
Nature's healing efforts, why is it that people die
from them?" The answer to this is: the vitality may
be too low, the injury or morbid encumbrance too
great or the treatment may be inadequate or harmful,
so that Nature loses the fight; still, the acute
disease represents an effort of Nature to overcome
the enemies to health and life and to reestablish
normal, healthy conditions.
It is a curious fact that this fundamental principle
of Nature Cure and Law of Nature has been
acknowledged and verified by medical science. The
most advanced works on pathology admit the
constructive and beneficial character of
inflammation. However, when it comes to the
treatment of acute diseases, physicians seem to
forget entirely this basic principle of pathology,
and treat inflammation and fever as though they
were, in themselves, inimical and destructive to
health and life.
From this inconsistency in theory and practice arise
all the errors of allopathic medical treatment.
Failure to understand this fundamental Law of Cure
accounts for all the confusion on the part of the
exponents of the different schools of healing
sciences, and for the greater part of human
suffering.
The Nature Cure philosophy never loses sight of the
fundamental Law of Cure. While allopathy regards
acute disease conditions as in themselves harmful
and hostile to health and life, as something to be
cured (we should say suppressed) by drug or knife,
the Nature Cure school regards these forcible
housecleanings as beneficial and necessary, so long,
at least, as people will continue to disregard
Nature's Laws. While, through its simple, natural
methods of treatment, Nature Cure easily modifies
the course of inflammatory and feverish processes
and keeps them within safe limits, it never checks
or suppresses these acute reactions by poisonous
drugs, serums, antiseptics, surgical operations,
suggestion or any other suppressive treatment.
Skin eruptions, boils, ulcers, catarrhs, diarrheas,
and all other forms of inflammatory febrile disease
conditions are indications that there is something
hostile to life and health in the organism which
Nature is trying to remove or overcome by these
so-called "acute" diseases. What, then, can be
gained by suppressing them with poisonous drugs and
surgical operations? Such practice does not allow
Nature to carry on her work of cleansing and repair
and to attain her ends. The morbid matter which she
endeavored to eliminate by acute reactions is thrown
back into the system. Worse than that, drug poisons
are added to disease poisons. Is it any wonder that
fatal complications arise, or that the acute
condition is changed to chronic disease?
Why Does the Greater Part
of Allopathic Materia
Medica Consist of Virulent
Poisons?
The statements made in the preceding pages are a
severe indictment of regular medical science, but
they point out the difference in the basic
principles of the "Old School" of healing and those
of the Nature Cure philosophy.
The fundamental Law of Cure quoted in this chapter
explains why allopathic medical science is in error,
not in a few things only, but in most things. The
foundation, the orthodox conception of disease being
wrong, it follows that everything which is built
thereon must be wrong also.
No matter how learned a man may be, if he begins a
problem in arithmetic with the proposition 2x2=5, he
never will arrive at a correct solution if he
continue to figure into all eternity. Neither can
allopathy solve the problem of disease and cure as
long as its fundamental conception of disease is
based on error.
The fundamental law of cure explains also why the
great majority of allopathic prescriptions contain
virulent poisons in some form or another and why
surgical operations are in high favor with the
disciples of the regular school.
The answer of allopathy to the question, "Why do you
give poisons?" usually is, "Our materia medica
contains poisons because drug poison kills and
eliminates disease poison." We, however, claim that
drug poisons merely serve to paralyze vital force,
whereby the deceptive results of allopathic
treatment are obtained.
The following will explain this more fully. We have
learned that so-called acute diseases are Nature's
cleansing and healing efforts. All acute reactions
represent increased activity of vital force,
resulting in feverish and inflammatory conditions,
accompanied by pain, redness, swelling, high
temperature, rapid pulse, catarrhal discharges, skin
eruptions, boils, ulcers, etc.
Allopathy regards these violent activities of vital
force as detrimental and harmful in themselves.
Anything which will inhibit the action of vital
force will, in allopathic parlance, cure(?) acute
diseases. As a matter of fact, nothing more
effectively paralyzes vital force and impairs the
vital organs than poisonous drugs and the surgeon's
knife. These, therefore, must necessarily constitute
the favorite means of cure (?) of the regular school
of medicine.
This school mistakes effect for cause. It fails to
see that the local inflammation arising within 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. When, under
the influence of rational, natural treatment, the
poisonous irritants are eliminated from blood and
tissues, the local symptoms take care of themselves;
it does not matter whether they manifest as pimple
or cancer, as a
simple cold or
as consumption.
The Law of Dual Effect
Everywhere in Nature rules the great Law of Action
and Reaction. All life sways back and forth between
giving and receiving, between action and reaction.
The very breath of life mysteriously comes and goes
in rhythmical flow. So also heaves and falls in ebb
and tide the bosom of Mother Earth.
In some of its aspects, this law is called the Law
of Compensation, or the Law of Dual Effect. On its
action depends the preservation of energy.
The Great Master expressed the ethical application
of this law when he said:
"Give, and it shall be given unto you. . . . For
with the same measure that ye mete it shall be
measured to you again."--Luke 6:38.
In the realms of physical nature, giving and
receiving, action and reaction balance each other
mechanically and automatically. What we gain in
power we lose in speed or volume, and vice versa.
This makes it possible for the mechanic, the
scientist and the astronomer to predict with
mathematical precision for ages in advance the
results of certain activities in Nature.
The great Law of Dual Effect forms the foundation of
the healing sciences. It is related to and governs
every phenomenon of health, disease and cure. When I
formulated the fundamental Law of Cure in the words,
"Every acute disease is the result of a healing
effort of Nature," this was but another expression
of the great Law of Action and Reaction. What we
commonly call crisis, acute reaction or acute
disease is in reality Nature's attempt to establish
health.
Applied to the physical activity of the body, the
Law of Com-pensation may be expressed as follows:
"Every agent affecting the human organism produces
two effects: a first, apparent, temporary effect,
and a second, lasting effect. The secondary, lasting
effect is always contrary to the primary, 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 of blood back to the surface,
resulting in increased warmth and better surface
circulation.
The first effect of a hot bath is to draw the blood
to the surface; but the secondary effect sends the
blood back to the interior, leaving the surface
bloodless and chilled.
Stimulants, as we shall see later on, produce their
deceptive effects by burning up 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 primary effect of relaxation and sleep is
weakness, numbness and death-like stupor; the
secondary effect, however, is an increase of
vitality.
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