Philosophy of natural therapeutics

Contents

XXXV. The Legitimate Scope and Natural Limitations of Mental and Metaphysical Healing............ 445

XXXVI. The Difference Between Functional and Organic Dinedse wives tec etasisos ele eet e cere acters 454 XXXVII. The Twofold Attitude of Mind and Soul........ . 459 MUX VILL The sSyimphonyrolitouc sc een. oor cee oe rete 463 XXXIX. The Threefold Constitution of Man............. 465 ATi eMtental, Thera peuticsiac seks clew ste pian anne 470 XLI. How Shall We Pray..... walsnrotetalereretoaeeteneioitels 479 XLII. Scientific Relaxation and Normal Suggestion...... 485 XLII, Man’s Demands Are God’s Commands......“. 491 oa alee aE: ‘Ho, ye who suffer! Veco ye liege me cae yourselves. None else compels — no other holds ye that ye live or die,?’— Cie baat

ANNOUNCEMENT

Chapter I

BOUT ten years have elapsed since I began to formulate and give expression to the principles of Nature Cure philosophy in the Nature Cure Magazine and, a few years later, in ‘‘Nature Cure Philosophy and Practice.’’ In the preparation of the present volume, former writings have been carefully re-edited and amplified in many directions. In doing this work I was aided by ten years of added practical experience in an extensive institutional practice and by the labors of a capable scientist recently graduated from one of the best medical colleges in this metropolis.

He brought to bear in his critical examination of Nature Cure philosophy not only his practical experience with Nature Cure gained through many years of faithful work in our institutions, but also his knowledge and experience resulting from intelligent study of up-to-date medical theories and methods. He enjoyed, as I did, the rare privilege of studying side by side the allopathic and the natural methods of healing.

It speaks well for Nature Cure philosophy that, notwithstanding the most careful scrutiny of the early editions, we did not find it necessary to change one single important proposition advanced in these teachings.

However, since producing the earlier formulations, much confirmatory evidence as to their truth and their wonderful simplicity and efficiency has accumulated from many sources. Some of the missing links in the chain of evidence have been discovered.

The fundamental principles of Nature Cure philosophy, which radically differ from allopathic theory and practice, and which are destined to revolutionize the chaotic teachings of the old schools and to establish in their place an exact science of medicine, are the following:

Every acute disease is the result of a purifying, healing effort of Nature.

The inflammatory processes back of all acute and subacute diseases are identical in nature and purpose and in the way they run their courses through the five stages of inflammation.

The bacteria found associated with acute, subacute and chronic diseases are not the primary causes and instigators of these abnormal processes, but rather the product of pathogenic conditions and the agents through which Nature breaks down complex, disease-producing (pathogenic) substances into simpler compounds suitable for neutralization by alkaline elements and for elimination through the organs of depuration.

The primary cause of germ activity is the morbid soil in which bacteria breed and multiply. Basing our practice on these fundamental propositions, we do not endeavor to ‘“kill the germs’’ with poisonous drugs, vaccines, serums and antitoxins, but instead we endeavor through natural ways of living and natural methods of treatment to purify the organism of the systemic waste, morbid encumbrances and disease taints which furnish the soil for the development and multiplication of disease germs.

Many who carefully studied the former editions of these writings were probably not entirely satisfied with the evidence presented in proof of these fundamental laws and principles. When I described the processes of inflammation solely from the viewpoint of the teachings of Pasteur and Metchnikoff, they may have wondered why the white blood corpuscles should destroy the disease germs if the latter were scavengers of morbid matter and disease taints,

As regards another mooted problem, many inquiries, running somewhat as follows, have come to me from readers and from students of the Nature Cure writings:

““You say that scabies (itch), lice, crab lice and many other so-called contagious diseases develop in the form of ‘healing crises’ under circumstances where infection or contagion is improbable or impossible. If this be true, where do the germs or parasites come from? In the case of scabies, lice, crab lice, ete., do you believe in spontaneous generation?’’

In my former writings I anticipated and answered these questions by saying: ‘‘If our bodies contain the morbid soil, we need not worry about the microbes of disease ; they will come from somewhere, because the spores of germs are present everywhere. Our bodies are alive with them.”’

At that time, however, I could not have answered the questions: ‘‘ What are these spores of disease germs, these seed germs of bacteria? Where do they come from?’’

Lately the solution of this problem also has come to me in an unexpected manner. Until a few weeks ago I was not aware of the fact that a French scientist, Antoine Béchamp, as far back as the middle of the last century, had given a rational, scientific explanation of the origin, growth and life activities of germs and of the normal living cells of vegetable, animal and human bodies. This information came to me first in a pamphlet entitled ‘‘Life’s Primal Architects’’, by E. Douglas Hume, of London, England. Thus was I led to an investigation of Béchamp’s work at first hand. Especially have I made a careful study of his last work, entitled ‘‘The Blood’’, in which the master summarizes the microzymian theory of cell life.

The French scientist demonstrated in his lectures at the University of Montpelier and at the Sorbonne, the ancient seat of learning in Paris, as early as 1864, that cells and germs are not the smallest individual living organisms, as taught by Pasteur and his followers, but that they are in turn made up of infinitely more minute living beings which he named microzyma. This term translated into the English vernacular would mean ‘‘minute ferment bodies’’.

According to the teachings of Béchamp, cells and germs are associations of microzyma. The physical characteristics and vital activities of cells and germs depend upon the soil in which their microzyma feed, grow and multiply. Thus microzyma, growing in the soil of procreative germ plasm, develop into the normal, permanent, specialized cells of the living vegetable, animal or human organism. The same microzyma feeding on morbid materials and systemic poisons in these living bodies develop into bacteria and parasites.

I shall cite here only one of the many experiments made by Professor Béchamp and his collaborators, which prove positively the correctness of his deductions. Beer yeast becomes active and multiplies normally only in a sugar solution. While feeding on sugar and digesting it, it decomposes the sugar into alcohol, carbonic acid and small amounts of acetic acid. When Béchamp added creosote or other antiseptic substances to the fermenting fluid the normal activity of the yeast germs gradually subsided. They deteriorated and decomposed, their detritus gradually changing into bacteria.* The bacteria in their turn, when they had consumed the decaying materials on which they had subsisted, disintegrated until there was nothing

; * The experiment was conducted under conditions which made impossible invasion of bacteria from without.

left but the original microzyma. Thus he proved that microzyma are at the beginning and at the end of all organized beings. He found the chalk of Sens and other calcareous rocks alive with microzyma, which started processes of fermentation in blood, milk and other fermentable substances. When we consider that these geological microzyma are the remains of fossil organisms which lived in remote prehistoric ages we must come to the conclusion that these primal architects of life are practically indestructible and must be endowed with life in its most primitive form.

How wonderfully the discovery of microzyma confirms the claims of Nature Cure philosophy, according to which bacteria and parasites cannot cause and instigate inflammatory and other disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to feed, grow and multiply !

The translator of Professor Béchamp’s last book, entitled ‘‘The Blood’’, comments as follows:

‘‘The experimental facts learnedly elaborated by Professor Béchamp and his collaborators make patent the absurdity of all pretended prophylactics against disease save one, and casts all rational minds back to the one sure and only protection—sound hygiene!

‘‘We are mocked by quarantines, vaccines, inoculations and other devices for ‘conveying’ the products of labor into the pockets of official doctors. We are gulled by them to the fullest extent of our willingness to be gulled. The opponents of a truly rational medicine are many and powerful, as evidenced by the suppression, for more than a generation, of Béchamp’s admirable discoveries beneath a ‘conspiracy of silence’, and these opponents of the art of healing are entrenched in nearly all medical schools, in richly endowed research institutes, in expensive manufactories of animal poisons for poisoning men and animals (under the ignorant belief that they are benefiting us), and in all medical officialdom!’’

Knowledge of the researches and teachings of Béchamp came to me but recently, after the manuscript of this volume had been practically completed. It was most gratifying to discover at the last moment this missing

Il link which corroborates so wonderfully my own experience and teachings.

Béchamp’s profound revelations were soon superseded by the plausible theories of Pasteur and Metchnikoff, which fully justified the suppressive poison treatment of the allopathic school of medicine. Pasteur compared the human body to a barrel of beer and pronounced it, like that beverage, at the mercy of extraneous organisms. As these produce good or bad beer—a liquid diseased, as it were, or healthy—so on entering animal bodies microorganisms create disease, each after its own order. It only needed Professor Metchnikoff’s theory of phagocytosis and the alleged discovery of ‘‘obsonins’’ or natural antitoxins in the blood, by Sir Almroth Wright and Dr. Bulloch, to furnish the medical profession with a delightfully simple theory as to the origin of disease comprehensible to the least intelligent. Upon this basis rests the entire structure of modern medical theory and practice.

The microzyma evidently is one of the missing links in the chain of evidence in proof of the Nature Cure philosophy of health, disease and cure. The other one was ‘discovered by Dr. Thomas Powell of Los Angeles. As far as I know, he was the first one to advance the claim that the so called white corpuscles or ‘‘phagocytes’’ instead of being valiant germ fighters and germ eaters are in reality particles of morbid, pathogenic matter; that instead of destroying the disease germs they are, in the inflammatory processes, destroyed by the germs. It is interesting to note that Béchamp already ridiculed the idea of ‘‘phagocytosis.’’? In his book ‘‘The Blood’’ he says: ‘‘—although their master (Pasteur) had declared that the cellules (leucocytes) were not living, his disciples imagined that the leucocytes (under the name of phagocytes) were living like amoeba and able to perform movements called amoeboid. And it was imagined that these phagocytes formed themselves into troops to pursue and devour the microbes. There was thus a phagocytosis, which was trumpeted forth as providential. The precise knowledge of the blood reduces to its just value this latest form of the struggle against the microzymian theory.’’

Later on I shall explain more fully Béchamp’s reasons for opposing the idea of phagocytosis.

Dr. Powell’s discovery of the true nature of the so called leucocyte together with our knowledge of the activity of the microzyma furnishes for the first time in medical history a rational and consistent explanation of the process of inflammation. Inflammation always starts with obstruction in the capillary circulation, caused by ‘‘white blood corpuscles’’ and other colloid or pathogenic matter. The obstruction causes the white blood corpuscles in the blood stream to be forced out into the neighboring tissues (‘‘emigration of the leucocytes’’). Stagnation causes them to disorganize and putrefy. This morbid soil develops the microzyma of the normal cells into various kinds of ‘‘disease germs’’ or bacteria.

According to this theory, then, the microzyma are the spores or the seeds of disease germs which grow and thrive in morbid matter only. Thus the chain of evidence which proves the ‘‘disease germ’’ as constructive and the white blood corpuscle (or phagocyte) as pathogenic material, is complete, and Nature Cure philosophy throughout stands justified in theory and practice.

Dr. Thomas Powell’s theory of the pathogenic nature of leucocytes is absolutely verified by the clinical records of our patients. This conclusive evidence of the true character of the ‘‘phagocyte’’ and of the correctness of natural treatment is given in Chapter IX.

An interesting confirmation of the truth of Nature Cure philosophy and practice comes from the battle fields of Burope. Ever since I began to teach and practice Nature

Cure I have advocated the exposure of wounds to air and light with no antiseptic treatment whatever.

We have cured during the last seventeen years, the worst kind of wounds, many of which under antiseptic treatment had entered upon advanced stages of necrosis. The treatment in’ all such cases consisted of exposing the wounds freely to air and light, and in keeping them clean and fresh by frequent wash with diluted lemon juice.

For many years I have been denounced as a dangerous ignoramous and quack for this and other radical deviations from orthodox theory and practice. During the last few years, however, reports have come from the battle fields of Europe, according to which the wounds of soldiers, who were left exposed out of doors and did not receive hospital care and antiseptic treatment, healed much quicker and more perfectly than those who received the ordinary surgical treatment.

Of late medical men have frequently lectured on this wonderful discovery in several Chicago colleges. This, of course, upsets completely the allopathic theory of the danger of germ invasion and of the necessity of antiseptic treatment, and it confirms absolutely the truth of the. Nature Cure teachings as to the true character of germ activity.

The natural treatment of wounds will be discussed more fully in Vol. II of this Series.

What the Electron Is to the Atom, the Microzyma Is to the Cell

What a wonderful correspondence this theory of the origin of cell life bears to the latest scientific opinions concerning the constitution of the atom! As all elements of matter and their atoms are made up of electrons vibrating in the primordial ether, so all cells and germs are made up of microzyma. As the electrons, according to their numbers in the atom and their modes of vibration, produce upon our sensory organs the effects of various elements of matter, so the microzyma, according to the medium or soil in which they live, develop into various cells and germs, exhibiting distinctive structure and vital activities.

New Light on Heredity

Modern biology teaches us that all permanent, specialized cells present in the complicated adult body are actually contained in the original procreative cell which results from the union of the male spermatazoon and the female ovum. Science, however, has failed to explain this seeming miracle—how it is possible that all the permanent cells of the large adult body can be present from the beginning in the minute procreative cell and in the rudimentary body of the fetus.

Béchamp’s theory of microzyma brings the rational and scientific explanation. If these microzyma are as minute in comparison to the cell as the electrons are in comparison to the atom, and the atom in comparison to the visible particles of matter, then the mystery of the genesis of the complex human body from the procreative cell, as well as the mysteries of heredity in its various vhases, are amenable to explanation.

If the microzyma are the spores, or seeds, of cells, it is possible to conceive that these infinitesimal, minute living organisms may bear the impress of the species and of racial and family characteristics and tendencies, finally to reappear in the cells, organs and nervous system of the adult body.

CHAPTER II WHAT IS NATURE CURE? T is vastly more than a system of curing aches and

pains; it is a complete revolution in the art and science of living. It is the practical realization and application of all that is good in natural science, philosophy and religion.

About seventy years ago this greatest and most beneficent of reformatory movements was inaugurated by Priessnitz in Grafenberg, a small village in the Silesian: mountains. The originator of Nature Cure was a simple farmer, but he had a natural genius for the art of healing.

His pharmacopeia consisted not in poisonous pills and potions, but in plenty of exercise, fresh mountain air, water treatments in the cool, sparkling brooks, and simple, wholesome country fare, consisting largely of black bread, vegetables, and milk fresh from cows fed on nutritious mountain grasses.

The results accomplished by these simple means were wonderful. Before he died, a large sanitarium, filled with patients from all over the world and from all stations of life, had grown up around his forest home.

Among those who made the pilgrimage to Grafenberg to become patients and students of this genial healer, the simple-minded farmer-physician, were wealthy merchants, princes and doctors from all parts of the world.

Rapidly the idea of drugless healing spread over the civilized world. Hahn the apothecary, Kuhne the weaver, Rikli the manufacturer, Father Kneipp the priest, Lahmann the doctor, Adolph Just the teacher, and Turnvater

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Jahn, the founder of physical culture, became enthusiastic pupils and followers of Priessnitz.

Each one of these men enlarged and enriched some special field of the great realm of natural healing. Some elaborated the water cure and natural dietetics, others invented various systems of manipulative treatment, earth, air, and light cures, magnetic healing, mental therapeutics, curative gymnastics, ete., ete. Won Peckzely added the Diagnosis from the Iris of the Eye, which reveals not only the innermost secrets of the human organism, but also Nature’s ways and means of cure, and the changes for better or for worse continually occurring in the body.

In this country, Dr. Trall of New York, Dr. Jackson of Danville, Dr. Kellogg of Battle Creek, and others caught the infection and crossed the ocean to become students of Priessnitz.

Quimby, the itinerant spiritualist and healer, became successful and renowned by the application of the natural methods of cure. At first his favorite methods were water, massage, magnetic and mental treatment. Gradually he concentrated his efforts on metaphysical methods of cure, and before he died he evolved a complete system of magnetic and mental therapeutics.

Quimby’s teachings and methods were adopted by Mrs. Eddy, his most enthusiastic pupil, and by her elaborated into Christian Science, the latest and most successful of modern mental healing cults.

Dr. Still of Kirksville, Missouri, made a valuable addition to natural methods of treatment by the development of osteopathy, a system of scientific manipulation of the framework of the body. Later developments of manipulative treatment are chiropractic, originated by Dr. D. D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa; neurotherapy, evolved by Drs. Arnold and Walter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; naprapathy, founded by Dr. Oakley Smith of Chicago,

Illinois; and spondylotherapy, developed by Dr. Albert; Abrams of Los Angeles, California.*

Thus the simple pioneers of Nature Cure, every one of them gifted by Nature with the instinct and the genius of the true healer, who is born, not made, laid the foundation for the world wide modern health culture movement.

They were neither blinded nor confused by the conflicting theories of books and authorities, nor by the action of a thousand different drugs on a legion of different symptoms, but applied common sense reasoning to the solution of the problems of health, disease and cure.

They went for inspiration to field and forest rather than to the murky atmosphere of the dissection and vivisection rooms. They studied the whole and not only the parts; causes as well as effects and symptoms. Realizing that man had lost his natural instinct and strayed far away from Nature’s ways, they studied and imitated the natural habits of the animal creation rather than the confusing doctrines of the schools.

Thus they proclaimed the ‘‘return to Nature’’ and the ‘“‘new gospel of health’’, which are destined to free humanity from the destructive influences of alcoholism, meat eating, the dope and tobacco habit, of drug poisoning, vaccination, surgical mutilation, vivisection, and a thousand other abuses practiced in the name of science.

When parents learn how to create children in accord with natural law, how to mould their bodies and their characters into harmony and beauty before the new life sees the light of day, when they learn to rear their offspring in health of body and purity of mind in harmony with the laws of their being, then we shall have true types of beautiful manhood and womanhood, then children will

* For details regarding Manipulative Treatment, see Vol. II.

WHAT IS NATURE CURE 21 no longer be a curse and a burden to themselves, to those who bring them into the world or to society at large.

These thoughts are not the mere dreams of a visionary. When we see the wonderful changes wrought in a human being by a few months or years of rational living and treatment, it seems not impossible nor improbable that these ideals may be realized within a few generations.

Children thus born and reared in harmony with the law will be the future masters of the earth. They will need neither gold nor influence to win in the race of life; their innate powers of body, mind and soul will make them victors over every circumstance. The offspring of alcoholism, drug poisoning, and sexual perversion will cut but sorry figures in comparison with the manhood and womanhood of a true and noble aristocracy of health,—an aristocracy, not of degenerated and vitiated blue blood, but of pure and wholesome red blood.

CHAPTER III CATECHISM OF NATURE CURE HE philosophy of Nature Cure is based on sciences

dealing with newly discovered and rediscovered natural laws and principles, and with their application to the phenomena of life and death, health, disease, and cure.

Every new science embodying new modes of thought requires exact modes of expression and new definitions of words and phrases already in common use. Therefore I have endeavored to define, as precisely as possible,. certain words and phrases which convey meariings and ideas peculiar to the teachings of Nature Cure.

The student of Nature Cure and kindred subjects will do well to closely study these definitions and formulated principles, as they contain the pith and marrow of our philosophy and greatly facilitate its understanding.

(1) What is Nature Cure?

Nature Cure is a system of man-building in harmony with the constructive principle in Nature on the physical, mental and moral planes of being.

(2) What is the Constructive Principle in Nature?

The constructive principle in Nature is that principle which builds up, improves, and repairs, which always makes for the perfect type, and which is opposed to the destructive principle in Nature, whose activity in Nature is designated as evolutionary.

(3) What is the Destructive Principle in Nature?

The destructive principle in Nature is that principle which disintegrates and destroys existing forms and types,

CATECHISM OF NATURE CURE 93 and whose activity in Nature is designated as devolutionary.

(4) What is Normal or Natural?

That is normal or natural which is in harmonic relation with the life purposes of the individual.

(5) What is Health?

Health is normal and harmonious vibration of the elements and forces composing the human entity on the physical, mental and moral planes of being, in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature applied to individual life.

(6) What is Disease?

Disease is abnormal or inharmonious vibration of the elements and forces composing the human entity on one or more planes of being, in conformity with the destructive principle in Nature applied to individual life.

(7) What is the Primary Cause of Disease?

The primary cause of disease, barring accidental or surgical injury to the human organism and surroundings hostile to human life, is violation of Nature’s laws.

(8) What are the Effects of Violation of Nature’s Laws on the Physical Human Organism?

The effects of violation of Nature’s laws on the physical human organism are:

1. Lowered vitality ;

2. Abnormal composition of blood and lymph;

3. Accumulation of waste matter, morbid materials and poisons,

These conditions are identical with disease, because they tend to lower, hinder or inhibit normal function (harmonious vibration), and because they engender and promote destruction of living tissues.

(9) What is Acute Disease?

What is commonly called ‘‘acute’’ disease is in reality the result of Nature’s efforts to eliminate from the organ- Vol. 1—3.

ism waste material, foreign matter and poisons, and to repair injury to living tissues. In other words, every socalled acute disease is the result of a cleansing and healing effort of Nature.

(10) What is Chronic Disease?

(a) Chronic disease is a condition of the organism in which lowered vibration (lowered vitality), due to the accumulation of waste material and poisons, with the consequent destruction of vital parts and organs, has progressed to such an extent that Nature’s constructive and healing forces are no longer able to react against the disease conditions by acute corrective efforts (healing crises).

(b) Chronic disease is a condition of the organism in which the morbid encumbrances, having gained the ascendancy, prevent acute reaction (healing crises) on the part of the constructive forces of Nature. .

(c) Chronic disease is the natural consequence of the inability of the organism to react by acute efforts, or ‘‘healing crises’’, against conditions inimical to health.

(11) What is a ‘‘Healing Crises’’?

A healing crisis is an acute reaction, resulting from the ascendancy of Nature’s healing forces over disease conditions. Its tendency is towards recovery, and it is, therefore, in conformity with Nature’s constructive principle.

(12) Are all Acute Reactions Healing Crises?

No; there are healing crises and disease crises,

(13) What is a ‘‘Disease Crisis’’?

A disease crisis is an acute reaction resulting from the ascendancy of disease conditions over the healing forces of the organism. Its tendency is, therefore, toward fatal termination.

(14) What is Cure?

Cure is the readjustment of the human organism from abnormal to normal conditions and functions.

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(15) What Methods of Treatment are in Conformity with the Constructive Principle in Nature?

Those methods which

1. Establish normal surroundings and natural habits of life in accord with Nature’s laws;-

2. Economize vital force;

3. Build up the blood on a natural basis; that is, supply the blood with its natural constituents in right proportions;

4. Promote the elimination of waste material and poisons without in any way injuring the human body;

5. Correct mechanical lesions;

6. Arouse the individual in the highest possible degree to the consciousness of personal responsibility and to the necessity of intelligent personal effort and self-help.

(16) Are Medicines in Conformity with the Constructive Principle in Nature?

Medicines are in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature in so far as they, in themselves, are not injurious or destructive to the human organism and in so far as they act as tissue foods and promote the neutralization and elimination of morbid matters and poisons.

(17) Are Poisonous Drugs and Promiscuous Surgical Operations in Conformity with the Constructive Principle in Nature?

Poisonous drugs and promiscuous operations are not in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature, because:

1. They suppress acute diseases or reactions (crises), the cleansing and healing efforts of Nature;

2. They are in themselves harmful and destructive to human life;

3, Such treatment fosters the belief that drugs and surgical operations can be substituted for obedience to Nature’s laws and for personal effort and self-help.

(18) Is Metaphysical Healing in Conformity with the Constructive Principle in Nature?

Metaphysical systems of healing are in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature in so far as:

1. They do not interfere with or suppress Nature’s healing efforts;

2. They awaken hope and confidence (therapeutic faith), and thereby increase the inflow of vital force into the organism ;

3. They teach the law of cause and effect and thus awaken and strengthen the consciousness of personal responsibility.

They are not in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature in so far as:

1. They fail to assist Nature’s healing efforts, but ignore, obscure and deny the laws of Nature i defy the dictates of reason and common sense;

2. They substitute in the jronialaie of disease a blind, dogmatic belief in the wonder-working power of metaphysical formulas and prayer, for intelligent cooperation with Nature’s constructive forces and for personal effort and self-help ;

3. They weaken the consciousness of personal responsibility.

(19) Is Nature Cure in Conformity with the Constructive Principle in Nature?

Nature Cure is in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature in that

1. It teaches that the primary cause of weakness and disease is disobedience to the laws of Nature;

2. It arouses the individual to the study of natural laws and demonstrates the necessity of strict compliance with these laws;

3. It strengthens the consciousness of personal responsibility of the individual for his own status of health and

CATECHISM OF NATURE CURE o7 for the hereditary conditions, traits and tendencies of his offspring ;

4, It encourages personal effort and self-help;

5. It adapts surroundings and habits of life to natural laws;

6. It assists Nature’s cleansing and healing efforts by simple natural means and methods of treatment which are in no wise harmful or destructive to health and life, and which are within the reach of everyone.

(20) What are the Natural Methods of Living and of Treatment?

1. Return to Nature by the regulation of eating, drinking, breathing, bathing, dressing, working, resting, thinking, the moral life, sexual and social activities, etc., establishing them on a normal and natural basis.

2. Elementary remedies, such as water, air, ight, earth cures, magnetism, electricity, etc.

3. Chemical remedies, such as scientific food selection and combination, homeopathic medicines, simple herb extracts, and the vitochemical remedies.