Nature Cure or Not Nature Cure?

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How is Nature Cure different from other treatment - read on...Summarising this catalogue of

disclaimers, it may be said that the true Nature Cure Practitioner does

not make use of any poisons to produce physiological reactions: neither

poisons which are openly admitted as such, nor poisons which masquerade

as natural and vegetable remedies, nor even poisons administered in

doses so fantastically small that they do not even exist. He does not

make capital out of the superstitious belief of the ignorant in magic

symbols—such as bottles of different hues, smells pleasant and pungent,

pills, capsules and powders. He is not interested in shopkeeping—he

does not try to persuade his patients that health depends upon special preparations of foods

and near-foods. He makes it clear that the most healthful foods are

those which have not been prepared or tampered with in any way. He does

not practise the witchcraft of those who feed or inject into their

patients the most filthy, repulsive, stinking, abominable stuffs that

can be found on land or sea. He does not, above all, allow his patient

to believe that he, the practitioner, can cure any disease.

He

does teach the patient how he, the patient, can correct the mistakes

in his way of living. He may help the patient to untie some of the

knots which result from a ravelled existence. He knows, and he tells

his patient, that disease is a thing which occurs only in unhealthy

bodies.

A healthy body can, and does, repair its own deficiencies. That is the essential principle behind all Nature Cure philosophy and practice. Work for a healthy mind in a healthy body and there is no call for remedies, artificial or "natural".

Although

we have discussed a varied list of fads and fancies, one quality is

common to them all: they are unnecessary and have no place in Nature

Cure. In the maintenance of health they are as superfluous as they

are an impediment to its re-establishment. Of a few, it may be

allowed that they do no physical harm—but even these are

guilty of considerable psychological evil. The consumer’s

mental attitude is warped by them. Instead of being made aware of

his own immediate responsibilities he is lulled into a comforting

assumption of childlike innocence and ineffectuality. He is not in

any way to blame for the unwholesome state in which he finds

himself: he cannot be expected to fact the tasks of self-repair and

readjustment. These burdens he hands over the "remedy".

And with them go at least a part of his most valuable

assets—self-respect and self-reliance.

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