In Sickness

In sickness

Nature has her own ways of repairing and curing bodily damage and disorder, and the only way in which you (and your doctor) can help Nature to cure you is by removing any obvious handicaps, such as toxic waste products in the bloodstream (due to faulty feeding) and incomplete elimination of them.

Nature works slowly. It may be weeks, even months, before you begin to feel better as a result of your efforts to eat right, think right, and live right.

However, gradually, as the blood becomes more alkaline through these efforts, the toxins that have accumulated in the body as a result of long years of wrong eating, wrong thinking, and wrong living will slowly be dissolved by the increasing alkalinity of the blood and will be carried away by it, to be expelled by the excretory system (organs) – provided these organs are working efficiently (more about elimination later).

In sickness therefore – no matter what form the illness takes – aim at correcting blood-acidity by eating nothing but alkaline-forming foods for a few days (or even a few weeks) and, provided your mental and emotional processes are normal, your human body tissues will restore themselves.

They will do so because the body is a self-curing, self-regulating organism, and recovery from illness is a function which only the body itself can perform. The self-curing power of the body is illustrated by the way in which a wound or a cut heals, and the way in which broken bones knit together. The doctor can help only by setting the broken ends together correctly; he cannot make them knit together – only our body’s inherent Life-force can do that. Systems of disease can, of course, be eased by medical and surgical treatment, but they will recur unless the underlying condition (the condition of the blood) is changed. (This statement does not refer to accidents and deformities, which are not diseases.)

The trouble is that, generally speaking, the medical profession treats symptoms rather than causes; it treats them with more and more harmful drugs (indeed, drugs are often the only things prescribed by doctors nowadays), or with surgical removal of what is really the result of an underlying toxaemia.

Such treatments may give temporary relief, but they can never cure because they do not remove the basic cause of the trouble. i.e., the toxic condition of the blood. Only by complete rest (and this should often include rest from solid food), combined with cleansing washes (external, and internal if necessary), followed by correct feeding, can the body be helped to cure itself.

If the blood is in an unhealthy acid condition due to emotional upset or to mental conflict and strain, the resulting illness is more difficult to cure than if it is caused by incorrect feeding or a deficiency diet (or both). Indeed, it will not be completely cured until the mind is again normal and calm. In the meantime, correct feeding — or food, if there is no desire for food — will help to red) blood-acidity to a minimum.