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About Natural Healing
(From Chapter X. "Dare to be Healthy.") -
By Dr. Louis Dechmann
Part 2
For more than two thousand years it has been, in fact, as it is to a
great extent today; the physician prescribes to the best of his
knowledge, medicines compounded according to certain rules dogmatically
laid down in the schools.
Here we have at once the fatal mistake at a glance.
Instead of studying nature and the laws of nature, instead of using
natural means to heal disease, they administer deadly poisons to allay
suffering, poisons, which doubtless may be able to repress pain or to
temporarily suppress the symptoms of disease; but can never remove the
cause, which alone may rightly be called healing.
The drugs prescribed by thousands of physicians today, with but a
casual acquaintance with their action, are bound by their nature to
produce evils worse than the disease itself.
To cite an instance:
Physicians prescribe creosote in cases of consumption to stop the
expectoration of blood.
Creosote will do this, and may suppress the cough, as well as the
accompanying pain; but will it cure consumption or destroy or remove
the cause of this deadliest of diseases?
On the contrary, it inevitably produces laryngeal phthisis after a very
short time. It destroys the head of the windpipe and the patient dies
in consequence of the destruction of one of the most important organs
of the body.
In most instances the physician is either oblivious or unaware of these
facts. He follows those old-standing doctrinal sophisms laid down by
human "science" but discredited by nature.
His courage is called "audacity" by those who have not lost all feeling
for humanity.
Meanwhile, those who regard medical science from a business standpoint
only, are very quick to pronounce judgement upon any natural treatment
of disease and to condemn the most successful natural physicians as
charlatans and frauds.
In order to be competent to decide upon a correct course in the
treatment of disease the physician must possess a thorough chemical
knowledge of all the fundamental substances of which the human organism
is constructed. With the patient therefore rests the responsibility of
choosing his physician, since no physician can be of any assistance who
cannot define what substances are deficient in the blood, and who does
not possess the requisite technical knowledge to supply this deficiency
by adequate dietetic means.
In my nutrition cell-food therapy for constitutional diseases, I have
followed consistently upon the lines of one of the greatest masters of
physiological chemistry that the world has known, who, in one of his
medical colloquies spoke as follows: "In order to thoroughly understand
any form of sickness or disease, so as to undertake the cure of the
same, it is first of all necessary to picture before one's mental
vision the ways and means of its inceptive formation, and by degrees to
trace its origin, step by step, before one is enabled to decide upon
adequate remedial measures conformable to the individual stages of the
same."
In this sense it has ever been my strenuous endeavor to fathom the
secret of the inception of constitutional diseases; but the entire
medical literature did not advance me further than pathological
anatomy, which informs us that the original cause of disease is a
change in the form of the cellular elements of different digestive
organs,—in explanation of which the customary technical terms are used,
such as "atrophy," "degeneration," "metamorphosis," etc. But, I
reasoned with myself, this surely cannot be seriously regarded as the
origin of disease!
The cause of the visible changing of the cellules must be sought in the
conditional interstitial substances which cause the invisible changes
or shiftings of the cellular forms, and which are scientifically termed
"Changed nutritional conditions."
By the aid of physiological chemistry I was successful in finding a
pathway to the centre of those mysterious occurrences of life.
And this was my course of reasoning: As the cellules, which are the
smallest individual elements of the human system, are only products of
the blood, and for their composition require the different chemical
substances in sufficient quantities, it is obviously necessary to
fathom what those chemical elements of the cellules may be, what form
they take in their mutual relation to the separate parts of the body,
and in what way they enter the organism.
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