Have You Had Your Cold? - Dr Herbert M. Shelton

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Have You Had Your Cold?

Herbert M. Shelton

Dr Shelton's Hygienic Review

 

What is a cold? If we ask the so-called scientific world this question

they answer: " we do not know. " If again, we interrogate them, asking what

causes a cold? We get a similar reply. They say we do not know; we think it

is canned by some as yet, undiscovered germ, or by a virus by which we mean

an ultra-microscopic organism.

 

Again we ask them: How may a cold be cured? They reply: we have no cure

for colds. They run their course in about nine days, although some colds last

longer than this. Our best advice is " go to bed, keep warm, and eat plenty of

good nourishing food. "

 

How may colds be prevented?, we ask By building up your resistance, they

say. When we want to know what we are to resist, we get back again to that

undiscovered germ or to that hypothetical virus. A cold results from an

" attack " that must be resisted. A cold is an " infection " and may be

transmitted from one to another. It is something we " catch " or that " catches "

us. But having a cold does not establish " immunity " so we may have a rapid

succession of them. We may have hundreds of them during a life time. In colds

the whole elaborate theory of immunity comes crashing down about our

shoulders.

 

All of this attitude towards the common cold represents a curious mixture

of ancient notions and modern superstitions. We do not believe that an iota

of truth can be found in the whole elaborate and complex theory of colds.

 

We class the cold, as we do the other so-called diseases, as a process of

compensatory elimination. We view all that mass of mucus that is leaked out

through the membranes of the nose, mouth and throat and declare that instead

of catching something, the sufferer is getting rid of something and that it

is too hot and feverish to be called a cold.

 

Why is a cold? Mental and physical excesses use up nerve energy, producing

enervation. Enervation inhibits (checks or impairs) excretion - elimination.

Waste is retained, producing toxemia.' The retained toxins, in turn, over

stimulate, resulting in more enervation.

 

When the toxemia becomes great enough to occasion reaction, acute

so-called disease results. This represents the requisitioning of some part of

the body to do vicarious or compensatory duty - to assist the overburdened

organs of elimination in expelling the accumulated toxins.

 

Usually the first, and certainly the most common, form of compensatory

elimination is the cold. The first cold usually develops in fancy and signals

an established toxemia that commonly persists, in spite of frequent crises,

throughout life.

 

Toxemia becomes chronic - toleration is established just as it is

established for nicotine, morphine, etc. When toleration is established

crises occur only when the toxemia is pushed above the point of toleration.

The eliminative crisis lasts until the toxemia has been reduced to the

toleration level or slightly below and then subsides.

 

When the crisis has ended, when the symptoms have subsided, and the

sufferer is again comfortable, he is said to have been cured. This is a

fallacy. The so-called disease of which he is said to have been cured, was

the process of cure. But it is not radical, it stops short of the complete

eradication of toxemia and it does not correct the life of the sufferer so

that no more toxemia develops.

 

The toxemia persists and its causes continue to produce more toxemia,

calling a little later, for another crisis - another disease. Perhaps it will

be " another cold. " Perhaps the individual will have a series of colds in

rapid succession. As fast as he is " cured " of one, lie develops another.

 

Any unusual strain or any unaccustomed amount of usual strain may place

sufficient added check upon elimination to run the toxemia above the level of

toleration and precipitate a crisis. Getting the feet wet does not cause a

cold; but in the heavily toxemic this may be the last straw that, added to

the total load of straws, breaks the camel's back. It may place enough check

upon elimination to increase the toxic load above the toleration point.

 

Exposure to cold is often - perhaps, once in a hundred times - followed by

a cold. But exposure to cold does not cause colds. It may place sufficient

check upon elimination to run the toxemia above tine toleration point and

precipitate a crisis. Getting overheated may precipitate a crisis in the same

way as readily as exposure to cold. Nerve force is used up in resisting both

heat and cold.

 

Exposure to heat and cold, getting the feet wet, and other such popular

causes for colds, do not produce colds in the healthy, in those of pure blood

and full nerve force. The first cold spell of the winter season does not send

- thousands of healthy people to the drug stores for cures for colds. Only

the toxemic have their toxemia pushed above the toleration level by this new

stimulation. When, under mass stress, many toxemic individuals develop a

cold, they are foolishly said to catch it from each other.

 

Many people who are " apparently healthy " are, in reality, living

sepulchers.. They are profoundly enervated and so thoroughly toxemic that but

little added stress is required to send them post-haste into the henceforth.

These are the first to develop colds in the winter season and are most likely

to develop more serious crises, which may fail, due to the profoundness of

their enervation, and death result.

 

An unusually hard or long days work, worry or grief, an unusual meal - as

at Thanksgiving or Christmas - may check elimination sufficiently to bring on

a cold or a more severe form of crisis. Much protein poisoning, from the

Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, added to the toxemia, and measles or

diphtheria or scarlet fever may result.

 

Those " apparently healthy " big feeders with wonderful appetites, full, red

faces, well rounded abdomens, and excessive weight, who are so commonly

thought of as " pictures of health " are subject to frequent colds just as are

those thin, anemic, weak " nervous " individuals who, though protesting that

they don't eat much, are always nibbling food and always eating beyond

digestive capacity. "

 

Overeating with checked elimination from whatever cause, is the most

frequent influence that induces an eliminating crisis called a cold. In

winter, when we tend to eat more and eat heavier foods with less fruits and

vegetables, to clothe ourselves heavier, get less sunshine and fresh air and

are less active, we have more colds than at other seasons.

 

A common contributing cause to summer colds is the frequent intake of cold

drinks - so-called soft drinks. Perhaps worse in this particular, even than

the popular poison-drinks, are the milk drinks - malted milk, milk shake, ice

cream, etc., - so freely imbibed in the summer season. In winter, while less

of the milk drinks are taken, there is a tendency to take more coffee, more

alcoholic drinks and to eat a much more concentrated fare

 

We do not need to build resistance to colds. for, indeed, colds arc a form

of resistance - resistance to toxins. \1 'e need only to cease building

toxemia if we wish to avoid colds The prevention of colds is simplicity

itself. just stop producing them. They are not outside forces or entities

that " attack " us. flow to cure colds? Don't do it . You may kill yourself in

doing so. The cold is a process of cure. It is not a radical cure, but it is

a cure, nonetheless.

 

Shall gilds be allowed to " rum their course? " Why not? If they are

processes of elimination. they should certainly be allowed to consummate

their work. They must either " run their course " or lie suppressed. If they

are suppressed, this means that the compensatory eliminative process is

forcibly stopped and the toxins that should be eliminated are allowed to

remain in the body. Efforts at suppression either fail and prolong the cold,

or succeed and result in serious trouble.

 

Is there nothing we can do except grin and bear it? Yes, there is much we

can do. We can stop the things that have produced the toxemia that occasioned

the crisis. We can cease the use of stimulants; we can cease overworking; we

can cease worrying; we can cease overeating. We can relax and rest.

 

If we stop eating (fast), go to bed and keep warm, the work of elimination

will be completed much earlier. If we do neither of these, the cold will last

longer, but it (we) will get " well " just the same.

 

It is not the cold we need to cure. We need to cure ourselves of our bad

habits. Good habits are the basis of good health and these do not produce

colds at any season of the year.

 

If you have not had your cold this season and are enervated and toxemic,

don't rail against fate when you do develop a cold. Welcome it as a process

of cure and take a philosophical attitude toward it. Keep in mind that if you

have a cold, it is because you need it, and have built the need for it

yourself.

[Guest guest]

Impressive reading.

 

For what it is worth, at school, I recall a history master saying that

he had had a cold for nine months. I also recall that a number of us

were

in small heated rooms and " caught " the colds from each other! " There is

a lot of it about. " , people would say. Am I muddling it up with

influenza or was this " catching a cold " from another person an illusion?

 

My own cure was simple - I was in the cross country running team. I

found that when I went running in the biting cold for half an hour or

more, the cold was gone on my return. |Also I could catch a cold in

summer with the same result on the cure side. Elimination had taken

place, I guess. Such might lead to a thesis that a cure for a cold is to

stop eating drink water and take exercise. Or as expressed below - step

up the elimination

 

PG

 

 

carlo7 [carlo7]

vendredi 10 janvier 2003 20:05

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[Raw Food] Have You Had Your Cold? - Dr Herbert M. Shelton

 

 

Have You Had Your Cold?

Herbert M. Shelton

Dr Shelton's Hygienic Review

 

What is a cold? If we ask the so-called scientific world this

question

they answer: " we do not know. " If again, we interrogate them, asking

what

causes a cold? We get a similar reply. They say we do not know; we think

it

is canned by some as yet, undiscovered germ, or by a virus by which we

mean

an ultra-microscopic organism.

 

Again we ask them: How may a cold be cured? They reply: we have no

cure

for colds. They run their course in about nine days, although some colds

last

longer than this. Our best advice is " go to bed, keep warm, and eat

plenty of

good nourishing food. "

 

How may colds be prevented?, we ask By building up your resistance,

they

say. When we want to know what we are to resist, we get back again to

that

undiscovered germ or to that hypothetical virus. A cold results from an

" attack " that must be resisted. A cold is an " infection " and may be

transmitted from one to another. It is something we " catch " or that

" catches "

us. But having a cold does not establish " immunity " so we may have a

rapid

succession of them. We may have hundreds of them during a life time. In

colds

the whole elaborate theory of immunity comes crashing down about our

shoulders.

 

All of this attitude towards the common cold represents a curious

mixture

of ancient notions and modern superstitions. We do not believe that an

iota

of truth can be found in the whole elaborate and complex theory of

colds.

 

We class the cold, as we do the other so-called diseases, as a

process of

compensatory elimination. We view all that mass of mucus that is leaked

out

through the membranes of the nose, mouth and throat and declare that

instead

of catching something, the sufferer is getting rid of something and that

it

is too hot and feverish to be called a cold.

 

Why is a cold? Mental and physical excesses use up nerve energy,

producing

enervation. Enervation inhibits (checks or impairs) excretion -

elimination.

Waste is retained, producing toxemia.' The retained toxins, in turn,

over

stimulate, resulting in more enervation.

 

When the toxemia becomes great enough to occasion reaction, acute

so-called disease results. This represents the requisitioning of some

part of

the body to do vicarious or compensatory duty - to assist the

overburdened

organs of elimination in expelling the accumulated toxins.

 

Usually the first, and certainly the most common, form of

compensatory

elimination is the cold. The first cold usually develops in fancy and

signals

an established toxemia that commonly persists, in spite of frequent

crises,

throughout life.

 

Toxemia becomes chronic - toleration is established just as it is

established for nicotine, morphine, etc. When toleration is established

crises occur only when the toxemia is pushed above the point of

toleration.

The eliminative crisis lasts until the toxemia has been reduced to the

toleration level or slightly below and then subsides.

 

When the crisis has ended, when the symptoms have subsided, and the

sufferer is again comfortable, he is said to have been cured. This is a

fallacy. The so-called disease of which he is said to have been cured,

was

the process of cure. But it is not radical, it stops short of the

complete

eradication of toxemia and it does not correct the life of the sufferer

so

that no more toxemia develops.

 

The toxemia persists and its causes continue to produce more toxemia,

 

calling a little later, for another crisis - another disease. Perhaps it

will

be " another cold. " Perhaps the individual will have a series of colds in

 

rapid succession. As fast as he is " cured " of one, lie develops another.

 

Any unusual strain or any unaccustomed amount of usual strain may

place

sufficient added check upon elimination to run the toxemia above the

level of

toleration and precipitate a crisis. Getting the feet wet does not cause

a

cold; but in the heavily toxemic this may be the last straw that, added

to

the total load of straws, breaks the camel's back. It may place enough

check

upon elimination to increase the toxic load above the toleration point.

 

Exposure to cold is often - perhaps, once in a hundred times -

followed by

a cold. But exposure to cold does not cause colds. It may place

sufficient

check upon elimination to run the toxemia above tine toleration point

and

precipitate a crisis. Getting overheated may precipitate a crisis in the

same

way as readily as exposure to cold. Nerve force is used up in resisting

both

heat and cold.

 

Exposure to heat and cold, getting the feet wet, and other such

popular

causes for colds, do not produce colds in the healthy, in those of pure

blood

and full nerve force. The first cold spell of the winter season does not

send

- thousands of healthy people to the drug stores for cures for colds.

Only

the toxemic have their toxemia pushed above the toleration level by this

new

stimulation. When, under mass stress, many toxemic individuals develop a

 

cold, they are foolishly said to catch it from each other.

 

Many people who are " apparently healthy " are, in reality, living

sepulchers.. They are profoundly enervated and so thoroughly toxemic

that but

little added stress is required to send them post-haste into the

henceforth.

These are the first to develop colds in the winter season and are most

likely

to develop more serious crises, which may fail, due to the profoundness

of

their enervation, and death result.

 

An unusually hard or long days work, worry or grief, an unusual meal

- as

at Thanksgiving or Christmas - may check elimination sufficiently to

bring on

a cold or a more severe form of crisis. Much protein poisoning, from the

 

Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, added to the toxemia, and measles or

diphtheria or scarlet fever may result.

 

Those " apparently healthy " big feeders with wonderful appetites,

full, red

faces, well rounded abdomens, and excessive weight, who are so commonly

thought of as " pictures of health " are subject to frequent colds just as

are

those thin, anemic, weak " nervous " individuals who, though protesting

that

they don't eat much, are always nibbling food and always eating beyond

digestive capacity. "

 

Overeating with checked elimination from whatever cause, is the most

frequent influence that induces an eliminating crisis called a cold. In

winter, when we tend to eat more and eat heavier foods with less fruits

and

vegetables, to clothe ourselves heavier, get less sunshine and fresh air

and

are less active, we have more colds than at other seasons.

 

A common contributing cause to summer colds is the frequent intake of

cold

drinks - so-called soft drinks. Perhaps worse in this particular, even

than

the popular poison-drinks, are the milk drinks - malted milk, milk

shake, ice

cream, etc., - so freely imbibed in the summer season. In winter, while

less

of the milk drinks are taken, there is a tendency to take more coffee,

more

alcoholic drinks and to eat a much more concentrated fare

 

We do not need to build resistance to colds. for, indeed, colds arc a

form

of resistance - resistance to toxins. \1 'e need only to cease building

toxemia if we wish to avoid colds The prevention of colds is simplicity

itself. just stop producing them. They are not outside forces or

entities

that " attack " us. flow to cure colds? Don't do it . You may kill

yourself in

doing so. The cold is a process of cure. It is not a radical cure, but

it is

a cure, nonetheless.

 

Shall gilds be allowed to " rum their course? " Why not? If they are

processes of elimination. they should certainly be allowed to consummate

 

their work. They must either " run their course " or lie suppressed. If

they

are suppressed, this means that the compensatory eliminative process is

forcibly stopped and the toxins that should be eliminated are allowed to

 

remain in the body. Efforts at suppression either fail and prolong the

cold,

or succeed and result in serious trouble.

 

Is there nothing we can do except grin and bear it? Yes, there is

much we

can do. We can stop the things that have produced the toxemia that

occasioned

the crisis. We can cease the use of stimulants; we can cease

overworking; we

can cease worrying; we can cease overeating. We can relax and rest.

 

If we stop eating (fast), go to bed and keep warm, the work of

elimination

will be completed much earlier. If we do neither of these, the cold will

last

longer, but it (we) will get " well " just the same.

 

It is not the cold we need to cure. We need to cure ourselves of our

bad

habits. Good habits are the basis of good health and these do not

produce

colds at any season of the year.

 

If you have not had your cold this season and are enervated and

toxemic,

don't rail against fate when you do develop a cold. Welcome it as a

process

of cure and take a philosophical attitude toward it. Keep in mind that

if you

have a cold, it is because you need it, and have built the need for it

yourself.