Allopathy or Naturopathy?

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Below is a snippet from a very insightful book about human health entitled " The

Owner's Manual For The Human Body " written by Dr. Saul Pressman. It can be read

in its entirety online here:

 

http://www.o3center.org/Articles/TheOwnersManualForTheHumanBody.html#protocols

 

 

 

In my work as a health educator, one of the phrases I often use is " Your body

does not come with an owner's manual " . Then, one day as I prepared to go to

another public speaking engagement, I had a thought: " Why not write an owner's

manual for the human body? " Out of that idea has come this book.

 

After some research, it became clear to me that the basic recommendations boiled

down to two things: Cleansing and Nutrition. These two, combined with moderate

exercise, clean water to drink, clean air to breathe, a positive mental attitude

and a reason for living, I believe are the keys to health and longevity. This is

a simple idea, but it seems to get overlooked in our headlong search for magic

cures and silver bullets.

 

Allopathy states that disease is caused by invading agents labeled bacteria,

viruses, parasites and fungi. Naturopathy states that if there are no toxins in

the body, there will be no disease.

 

The analogy I like to use is that of the garbage strike. When the workers are

off the job, the garbage piles up and up, and soon attracts flies and then rats.

You can go in and kill all the flies and shoot all the rats, but if the garbage

is not cleaned up, there will soon be more flies and more rats, and nothing will

have been gained.

 

Are the flies and rats the root of the problem? No. They are simply nature's way

of cleaning up a mess -- just part of a team that will eventually turn the

garbage into fertile soil so that the cycle can begin again. It is pointless to

blame them for anything, because they had nothing to do with creating the

original problem and, in fact, are part of the solution.

 

Similarly, in our bodies, if toxins are allowed to build up, eventually yeast,

bacteria, viruses and parasites will move in to clean up the garbage, resulting

in what we call disease. These agents of nature are not the cause of disease.

Rather, they are the cleanup crew.

 

Allopathy treats symptoms with antibiotics, radiation, and poisonous chemicals,

all of which suppress the body's natural immune system. When these fail, the

last resort is amputation of body parts. Naturopathy states that the way to

treat and prevent any disease is the same: clean out all toxins from the body.

And once these causes of disease are removed, nutrition will supply the building

blocks the body requires to rejuvenate the system.