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HOW TO BE HEALTHY THOUGH BROKE

 

When I wrote the first edition of DOCTOR YOURSELF in 1980, Americans spent

something over $100 billion a year attempting to buy health. Today, nineteen

years later, we spend well over $1,000 billion annually and yet we are still

largely an unhealthy society. If you don't agree, consider this: you are not

100% well if you wear glasses or contact lenses, have dandruff, bad breath,

indigestion or stomach aches, constipation, headaches, allergies, aches or

pains, chronic coughs or colds, dental fillings, plates or dentures, braces,

athlete's foot, rashes, pimples, stiff joints or don't sleep well. You are also

not 100% well if you take any medication whatsoever. Since 98% of Americans

have had, do have or will develop tooth decay (and who hasn't taken medicine?)

it is a pretty safe bet that you have an ailment listed above. This does not

necessarily mean you are seriously ill, or that you are inconvenienced in any

major way.

Consider, though, the money spent by 270 million Americans each month on cold

remedies, sleeping pills, aspirin, laxatives, denture cleaners, salves,

ointments, and such. Then think of the number of days lost each year from work

(or recreation) by colds and other minor illnesses. Now think of the millions

of people that daily are resigned to the accepted discomfort of these ailments.

How many people have been told by their doctor that they will " just have to

learn to live with it " or that " you're just getting old " ? Wouldn't it seem that

for all the time and money and comfort lost by these problems that there must be

some way of bettering our health? How about learning to live without it?

If you carry health insurance, visit a doctor or hospital, or pay taxes, you

are paying for health, and maybe not really getting it. Yet you have free,

24-hour access to the world's most sophisticated and priceless diagnostic

apparatus: your body's feelings. If you don't feel well, don't let someone tell

you that you are well. This includes the hypochondriacs, for fear of disease is

itself a disorder that can be cured with something as simple as the vitamin

niacin, or through stress reduction training. You can't fool your body, nor can

you go against nature... at least not for long. Similarly, it's not good to

maintain that there is no need for you to eat better, exercise or learn more

just because you think your health is acceptable for the moment.

The body has ways of letting us know when something is not right. Pain is one

such way of telling us that whatever it is we're doing, it is damaging to us.

To have a pain and then to take a pain reliever so it will go away is like

driving a car with the " low oil pressure " light on and putting black tape over

it so that you won't notice the warning anymore. If you keep driving that way

you can easily wreck your engine, when if you'd stop and look under the hood for

a moment, you could prevent any further trouble. Millions of people every day

drive their bodies without wanting to pay attention to the warning light of pain

or discomfort. Aspirin, Darvon, Tylenol and others are doing nothing to relieve

the source or the reason for the pain. They are just bottles of black tape to

hide the body's warnings with. When such people as use them find themselves on

their backs in a hospital, they wonder why. What happened? The body was not

paid attention to, that's what. No one looked under the hood, so to speak, and

the body was driven into the ground.

Pain is a symptom, and the treatment of the symptom without getting at the root

cause of the symptom is valueless. Pain is not something to be covered over and

stamped out but is rather a clue to tracing back into your body just where and

why it hurts. All the " Ben-Gay " in the country is not going to relieve the real

cause of backache from a vertebra that's out of place. But a chiropractor often

can properly realign the vertebra, relieving both the cause (pinched nerve) and

the effect (pain). This is one example of treating the real cause of a symptom.

It is a corner-stone of allopathic, or drug-oriented medicine, that symptoms

are to be eliminated. Runny noses are stopped up, coughs halted, diarrhea dried

off, fevers lowered, rashes salved over, sneezes ended and upset stomachs

neutralized, and all by medicines. Allopathic medicine holds that each symptom

is in itself an illness, and that treatment for different symptoms is by

different medicines. Naturopathic medicine and treatment ultimately eliminates

symptoms, regardless of their diverse appearances, by total cleansing of the

body from the inside out. All the different expressions of the body's desire to

eliminate wastes or toxic materials, called symptoms, are encouraged and

utilized by naturopathy. Fevers are not repressed, but allowed or sometimes

even created under carefully controlled circumstances. Diarrhea is seen as

nature's enema, and enemas are an important part of bowel cleansing. Sneezing

and coughing are reflex reactions by the body to foreign material or irritation,

and are regarded as inconvenient but desirable. A runny nose or a rash is a

sign that the body is ridding itself of wastes. Since naturopathy allows all of

these symptoms to run their course, it is not at first as comfortable as medical

treatments giving immediate relief. Nature's therapy, however, is more thorough

and longer lasting.

One can see that the first lesson in natural cure is to not do things: to not

take medicines, pain killers, over-the-counter cold remedies, etc. The body is

not an opponent to be battled against with drugs, but is an intelligent,

immeasurably complicated living system that will seek its own best good

automatically. Given the chance, your body will heal itself. This is a

fundamental of nature-cure. All naturopathic treatments are designed to help

the body and to give it the chance to heal itself. Perhaps you aren't confident

that your body will heal without medicines or operations. Think of how you got

here in the first place. Your body is the result of the combination and

multiplication of just two original half-cells called gametes. From the

possibly unintentional and certainly unsupervised combination of only two

microscopic bits came your present body: trillions of highly organized cells.

And how much supervision do you give these trillions of cells daily? Do you

oversee the digestion of food molecules into each cell? Do you control the

proportions of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in each one? Do you have to remind

yourself to breathe or check to be sure you pump blood every second twenty-four

hours a day?

Right now, right where you sit, take a minute and try an experiment. Try to

die. Go ahead, try to stop living. I don't expect that you will have much

success. This tendency of your body to stay alive is called homeostasis: the

natural balance of life forces in you that keeps you going, whether you choose

too or not. In that moment when you stopped to see if you could halt your

body's work by intention alone, perhaps you felt a sampling of the power that

carries on the work inside you. This power is the power behind naturopathy.

The healing power of nature (vis medicatrix naturae in Latin) is behind all

cures, whether with the aid of natural therapies or in spite of medical ones.

Your body will heal itself; again, this is the first rule of nature cure. So

far we have mentioned the importance of " listening " to your body's calls for

aid, such as pains and discomforts, and not hiding or masking over such clues

with drugs. We have said that naturopathic treatment gets to the root of cause

of symptoms through cleansing of the body from the inside out. We have also

said that the tendency of your body is towards health, and this tendency is

automatic and powerful. At this point, though, we can stop and say, " Well, if

the body will heal itself, why are there so many illnesses and diseased people?

Something must be amiss. " That's right, something is.

It is difficult but very important to understand the second principle of

nature-cure. This is that all disease (or dis-ease), all sicknesses, all

illnesses are differing expressions of one root cause of disease which is termed

systemic toxemia. Systemic toxemia basically means " polluted body " . The

underlying factor, the common origin of sickness, is a body filled with wastes,

chemicals, and poisons. Such a garbaged-up body may express its plight as this

disease or that illness, each with its particular set of symptoms. These are

desperate measures on the part of the organism to throw off the accumulated

wastes and toxins, or to cope with its weakened condition. This toxic condition

results from wrong living, meaning eating useless foods, or relying on medicinal

drugs and chemicals, among other things. Over a period of time, often many

years, the body's strength is eroded and its natural defenses weakened such that

it no longer seems capable of healing itself.

It is precisely at this juncture that the biggest mistake in disease management

is generally made. The really sick body is seen as helpless, and seen as such

is given all sorts of drugs and medicines to fight disease for it. Such a noble

and even logical action is, unfortunately, completely wrong. The last thing

that the organism needs is more pollutants and chemicals to live with when it's

fighting to clean itself out. What it does need is to be assisted in its

cleansing and rebuilding work with rest, baths, mineral and vitamin therapy and

whole, unprocessed foods. What's more, a vegetable juice " fast " is used first

to give the body the chance to clean house totally. It is worth reading any book

by Dr. Paavo Airola, such as Health Secrets from Europe (1972) or How to Get

Well (1980) for specific benefits, cures and research references regarding

fasting, plus sensible and detailed hints for directing one's own program.

Fasting works, and many serious illnesses have been known to succumb to properly

supervised fasting treatment. One should consult a physician before commencing

a fast.

When we say that the cause of all disease and all diseases is a body full of

wastes, we will run into direct opposition with the medical profession. When we

maintain that the cure, therefore, of all disease is total cleansing of the

body from inside out, we will again go against the medical, drug-and-surgical

approach to illness. Make no mistake about this: there are two completely

different and mutually exclusive views here. Perhaps the following illustration

will help.

 

The Two Lakes Analogy

Let's assume that there are two identical lakes, Lake A and Lake B. Let's also

assume that there is a city along side of each lake and that these cities are

also identical. We'll cleverly call them City A and City B. Each city has

sewage and other wastes that it pumps into the nearby lake. Each city has

factories and houses and public buildings that for years have used the lake for

their waste disposal, and as a result both Lake A and Lake B are quite polluted.

It is possible to tell how polluted a body of water is by testing for the

presence of coliform bacteria. If such bacteria are present in number, the

water is unclean; ecologists do this test often. Each lake is polluted, and

coliform bacteria turn up in both Lake A and Lake B. At this point, we can

begin the analysis of why the lakes are unclean and what is to be done.

Doctor A (for allopathic) comes in and studies the findings about Lake A, and

Doctor B (for biological) comes in and studies the findings on Lake B. Dr. A

reasons as follows: " We know that Lake A is polluted because of the presence of

coliform bacteria, for coliform bacteria and pollution are generally found

together. Since this is so, it must be the bacteria that cause the lake to be

polluted. Because the bacteria cause the pollution, we can kill all of the

bacteria and thereby eliminate pollution. My prescription, then, is to add

chemicals to the lake to kill all of the bacteria. "

In accordance with Doctor A's instructions, two truckloads of " DRANO " are

dumped into Lake A. This surely kills all the bacteria, for the next time the

water is tested for coliform bacteria, there aren't any. Dr. A then concludes

that the water is now clean.

Doctor B takes a different approach. Says he: " We know that Lake B is

polluted, and we know that there are coliform bacteria in the lake as well.

Bacteria thrive in a polluted environment because waste matter provides their

food. The reason there are so many bacteria is because there is so much sewage

and other waste in the lake for bacteria to live on. So the way to rid the lake

of bacteria is to rid the lake of wastes first. Let's eliminate or at least

greatly reduce the inflow of pollutants into this body of water. Then the lake

will clean itself through natural processes that break down the waste materials,

and without the constant addition of more pollutants, it will become clean

again. As its food supply of waste decreases, the bacteria population will

automatically decrease at the same time. "

In accordance with Doctor B's instructions, sewage treatment plants are

installed and other pollutant-reducing measures taken in City B. This greatly

cuts down on the wastes flowing into Lake B, and the population of bacteria

falls. The next time the lake is tested for coliform bacteria, there are

virtually none. Dr. B concludes that Lake B is now clean.

Here, then, is how things stand: Lake A contains a poisonous chemical in

addition to the original wastes, plus the added pollution from continued sewage

flow into the water every day. Dr. A said this water is clean because of the

absence of coliform bacteria. Lake B contains little or no waste, for inflow of

pollutants was cut way down. What little sewage does get by the treatment

plants is easily broken down naturally by the lake, and the lake contains no

" Drano. "

From which lake would you prefer to drink?

Which lake do you consider to be cleaner? I would say Lake B.

Now Dr. A basically took a medical point of view and Dr. B took a naturopathic

point of view. Dr. A, like a good allopathic practitioner, set out to kill the

" germs " or bacteria that " caused " the pollution or " disease " in Lake A. To back

up his premise that the bacteria caused the problem, he cited the fact that the

bacteria are always found along with pollution.

Dr. B also saw bacteria present with pollution, but did not conclude that

bacteria cause pollution, but that pollution causes bacteria. This is why

naturopaths say that systemic toxemia, or a polluted body, is behind all

infection, disease and illness. Just because germs or bacteria are present at

the scene of disease does not mean that they therefore caused the disease. Just

because police detectives are observed at the scene of a crime doesn't mean they

committed the crime.

When we begin to see germs more as scavengers trying to clean up refuse, as

opposed to being little deadly gremlins out to get us, we can begin to take

confidence that nature does heal and that our body will clean itself of the

roots of illness. If your body is clean and healthy, germs are irrelevant.

There is a lack of conclusive proof that germs are the primary cause of any

disease. The bibliography in this book lists references that show that

malnutrition, medicines and wrong living are more basic, underlying roots of

disease. Germs are everywhere; why aren't we all sick? Right now, on your

tongue and in your mouth, there are enough different types of germs to wipe out

your neighborhood if the germs really could make sickness.

They can't. It is sickness that provides for the proliferation of germs.

So what does eliminate sickness? The promotion of health. Nature-cure

physicians know that adding Drano, or penicillin, or any other drug, chemical or

antibiotic to a living system does not aid the system. Killing germs is not

building health, it's just killing germs. When the germs, like many

agricultural insect pests, become resistant to the poisons being used against

them, new drugs must be developed in an attempt to stay a jump ahead of the

microbial world. Human bodies receive poison after poison, drug after drug,

from doctor after doctor. It's small wonder that we fill hospital after

hospital, nursing home after nursing home with bodies ravaged not by germs as

much as by drugs. Natural treatment offers a completely different approach:

first build health, and illness will automatically decrease.

Copyright C 1999 and prior years Andrew W. Saul. From the books DOCTOR

YOURSELF, QUACK DOCTOR and PAPERBACK CLINIC, available from Dr. Andrew Saul,

Number 8 Van Buren Street, Holley, New York 14470.

 

 

 

 

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Hello Frank

Thank you for all the excellent articles you put on

this group site and on the links. I am fairly new to

this list but so far have found the information great.

 

I hope this list continues to not only give people

information but also gives people the courage to look

at ways to keep themselves well rather than wait

untill they are ill and run to the GP for a sticking

plaster in the form of a drug.It is time the medical

proffession came down from their " We are Gods "

pedestals and opened their eyes to what is in front of

their noses.

Keep up the good work

Chris

 

 

 

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Gettingwell, Chris Garen <chrisgaren555> wrote:

> Hello Frank

Dear Chris,

 

Thank you for the compliments, but it is not I who have done the most.

 

There are some great members here who are very knowlegable and post

and try and help others day after day.

 

This is a group effort and hopefully will continue and grow.

 

regards,

 

Frank

 

 

> Thank you for all the excellent articles you put on

> this group site and on the links. I am fairly new to

> this list but so far have found the information great.

>

> I hope this list continues to not only give people

> information but also gives people the courage to look

> at ways to keep themselves well rather than wait

> untill they are ill and run to the GP for a sticking

> plaster in the form of a drug.It is time the medical

> proffession came down from their " We are Gods "

> pedestals and opened their eyes to what is in front of

> their noses.

> Keep up the good work

> Chris

>

>

>

> Everything you'll ever need on one web page

> from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts

> http://uk.my.

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