Health Rules

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Health Rules by

Alan M. Immerman,

Rule number one: The foundation of health philosophy, is that healing is a process accomplished by the body and only by the body.

 

We live in a world of supposed cures. One pill will cure headache, another an upset stomach. One will cure a skin disease, another a sore throat. But external substances cannot exert curative actions on the body. Drugs are lifeless and therefore cannot act. When such substances are taken the body acts on them. In our confusion, we usually say that the drug acted on the body and that the body reacted. But this is impossible: a lifeless drug cannot act. Only a living being can act. When you take a drug, the body will act on the drug. One of two things will happen when a drug is ingested: the body will either speed up or slow down the pace of a normal activity. When either of these two changes takes place, a sick person will feel different. But this does not mean that the health condition has been cured. All that results is a change in symptoms and not a resolution of the cause of the symptoms. Body actions that make up the process of true healing are completely different from the body actions that follow the ingestion of a drug. Health problems cannot be cured by swallowing foreign chemicals. The body is the only source of healing. When an illness develops the body will automatically and spontaneously takes steps to heal itself. Though you may feel better when you take drugs, your health has not really improved.

 

 

Let's consider some examples. It is common for a person suffering from constipation to take a laxative. The laxative is a powerful chemical irritant, so irritating that when it finds its way into the intestine the body will feel insulted and will vigorously eliminate the irritant along with all the contents of the intestinal contents. Would it be accurate to say that the laxative cured the constipation? No. The constipation developed because the

 

intestine had been overworked and exhausted. The laxative did not make the intestine stronger or healthier in any way. In fact, since the chemical irritation of the laxative provoked the exhausted intestine to work very hard, the problem of constipation will be more severe following the use of the laxative. The intestine will ultimately be weaker, not stronger.

 

 

Patients with heart failure often take digitalis. After the patient swallows this drug, the heart will suddenly begin to beat with greater strength. Is the heart failure cured? No. The heart had failed due to exhaustion and digitalis cannot recharge the heart. Imagine a farmer using a horse to plow his field. At the end of the day the horse is exhausted and lies down in the field. The farmer wants to finish the plowing, so he whips his horse into action. The horse gets up and finishes the task of plowing. Did the whipping strengthen the horse? It may seem so since the job did get finished. But no whip can strengthen a horse. More work may get done by using a whip, but the exhausted horse will only get more exhausted and weak. Months and years of such treatment will reduce the overall amount of work which the horse will be able to accomplish. Giving digitalis for a weak heart is the same as whipping a tired horse in the field. The whip does not strengthen the horse nor does the digitalis strengthen the heart