The Eight Basic Tenets of Natural Hygiene

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Here are listed 8 basic tenets of Natural Hygiene:

1 - Natural Hygiene holds that health is the normal state fo all living organisms and that health is maintained through natural, self-initiating, self-healing processes.

2 - Natural Hygiene holds that the one cause of all disease is the toxic saturation at the cellular level of the bodily tissues, bloodstream and fluids brought on by the depletion of "nerve energy" (similar to ideas of "vital force") reserves through wrong living habits. This state of self-poisoning is alternately termed "auto-intoxication", "toxicosis", and "toxemia".

3 - Natural Hygiene views disease as orderly retrograde changes on the cellular level as a result of toxicosis. In order to prevent these retrograde changes and to forestall morphological changes and degenerations for as long as possible, the body attempts to isolate and/or eliminate abnormal accumulations of metabolic waste and ingested poisons. Such bodily attempted actions of elimination may be called "disease" (acute) and serve to prevent the morphological, degenerative changes.

4 - Because toxicosis is "the one cause of all disease", Natural Hygiene refutes the concept that microorganisms or "germs" or "viruses" are the sole, causative factors of disease.

5 - Because only the body is capable of instituting cleansing and healing processes, Natural Hygiene rejects the ingestion of any substances which the body cannot metabolize and assimilate, and which cannot be used in the normal, metabolic processes to thus be appropriated into bodily tissue. Such unnatural substances can only further enervate and poison the body and are not to be considered "food" or "nutrition", in any way. Both medication and "quasi-food" substances typical of of the chemicalized, processed food supply are included in this enervating, poisoning category and are, therefore, considered to be life-threatening.

6 - Natural Hygiene recommends the following as the Ideal Diet and the only foods fit for the highest level of human health and well-being: whole, raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds; prepared in proper combination and eaten in moderation when in a state of emotional balance.

7 - Natural Hygiene employs fasting, which provides deep physical, physiological, sensory, mental, and emotional rest. This deep and almost total rest provides the body with the ideal conditions necessary for the regeneration of "nerve energy" necessary for the repair of damages and for the elimination of toxins.

8 - Natural Hygiene maintains that health is the personal responsibility of each individual and that vibrant health is achieved only by the conscientious application of healthful living practices in all areas of one's own life.

In short, health does not come in a pill, whether chemical or herbal. Health comes only from healthful living practices. The doctor cannot eat properly for you, obtain adequate pure water, fresh air, sleep, exercise, sunshine, etc for you. Only you can do these things, so only you are capable of providing the requisites of life and health for yourself. You are your own best doctor. -The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all- G.K. Chesterton