Disease a Self-Healing Process

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Nature Cure and Medical Science

It is because they understand this fundamental oneness and unity of

all disease that practitioners of Nature Cure are enabled to secure

such seemingly miraculous results in the treatment of disease. For

instead of being appalled by the intricacy, vastness, and hopeless

complexity of the spectacle of disease, opened up to the mind by the

study of pathology along orthodox medical lines, and spending time in

vainly endeavouring to grasp the significance of these merely

superficial and extraneous manifestations of disease, which through a

total lack of understanding of the matter, the medical profession

calls disease—a thousand different symptoms—the Nature Cure

practitioner gets directly to the root of the trouble (the

fundamental causes of which are the same in every case), and by

rectifying these, is enabled to effect a permanent cure. Whereas,

medical confreres aimlessly flutter about the surface of the matter,

attempting to patch up or get rid of symptoms, which are really the

superficial effects of disease, and not the real trouble at all!

 

The Nature Cure practitioner deals with fundamental, unchanging

causes, and pays very little heed to symptoms, except as they may

guide him in locating the actual seat of the trouble (which is always

very deep within the system). The medical practitioner deals merely

with the symptoms themselves, looks to externals for causes, and

remains blissfully unconscious as to the very existence of the real

underlying factors involved. The result is that under orthodox

medical methods of treatment, not only is such a thing as real cure

impossible in any given case, because of the neglect of the chief

factors concerned, but the underlying disease-condition is yet

further intensified and aggravated by this tampering with symptoms.

For, not only does medical science mistake symptoms for diseases, but

these self-same superficial symptoms and manifestations—which the

Nature Cure practitioner uses only as guides to locating disease, and

which he leaves quietly alone because he realises that they are not

harmful in themselves, but really Nature's attempts at self-healing

and self-cleansing—are suppressively treated with drugs and surgery,

and irreparable harm is thus done to the system by this " thwarting "

of the body's natural attempt at healing itself.

 

 

 

 

Disease a Self-Healing Process

What the medical profession calls a " cure " is merely the suppression

of superficial symptoms, to cause further and more serious trouble

later on! What the medical profession never understands is that in

every case disease itself, with all its varied multiplicity of

expression, is merely Nature's attempt at self-healing, and must

never be thwarted, fought against, checked, or suppressed, but helped

(as it were) out of the system by an understanding of the real causes

at work, and by active or passive collaboration, as the case may be.

 

" The Nation's Fighters Against Disease " —that is the proud title of

the medical profession, and in it is expressed all their failure to

understand the real essential nature of disease!

 

Disease is not inimical to the system, something to be fought

against; but it is a self-healing crisis brought about by factors,

already described, which the system finds a hindrance and impediment

to proper functioning!

 

Disease, in short, is the result of man's own follies and mistakes,

which Nature is doing her best to rectify for him!

 

In effect, therefore—and if the reader can follow this clearly, he or

she would be forever emancipated from the universal besetting fear of

disease—disease is nothing more or less than Nature's blind attempts

at cure. [Editor' Note: As a whole, I do not believe that most Nature

Cure practitioners would agree with the author's expression, " blind

attempts " , but would consider them as manifestations of " right

action " on the part of the organism as it heals itself.] It is the

system's attempt to deal as effectively as it can under given

conditions which, through man's ignorance, folly, and self-

indulgence, are causing impediment of function!