Naturopathy

Naturopathy does not deny the existence of bacteria; they are inhaled from the air and ingested through contaminated food and water. But the presence of germs in human body is merely a symptom of a disease, not its cause.Naturopaths believe that it is the vital force in the body which fights the bacteria which need a breeding ground. And what better breeding ground could they find than a dirty, ill-kept body? One of the cardinal principles of naturopathy is that bacteria need a happy hunting ground of an ill-kept and ill-looked-after body. Injections administered to destroy them merely add to the poisons already accumulated in the body which have given birth to the bacteria in the first place. Naturopaths believe that bacteria help in fighting diseases and not in causing it. Bacteria are nature's scavengers; they would infest only that organism which is rotten. Injected into a healthy organism they would die of starvation since they cannot eat anything that is healthy. The only sane way to deal with disease is the naturopathic way. The vital force of the patient has to be augmented to make him well. That is the only way to eternal health.ARE HEIGHT-WEIGHT CHARTS BAROMETERS OF HEALTH? A thin, but sprightly lad may be told by the doctor that he is under-weight since his height and his weight do not measure upto the chart the doctor has before him.The height -weight charts are not, in fact, barometers of health; they are merely averages drawn from a mass of data. Their construction is defective, since nobody has bothered to relate the weight with the state of health. The fallacy lies in taking the average as the ideal. The moment a person's weight goes above the average, he is advised to reduce it without going into the state of his health. A person having a weight over the average indicated by the actuary's chart may be in bad health but to take the weight as the criterion of health is wrong. It may be an indication, but not the sole criterion. A healthy man should not, normally speaking, worry about obesity unless it gets out of hand. Nor should a lean, under-weight person lose sight of the need to maintain this condition.Bodily weight is the result of the cells, muscles, glands, the circumstances in which a person lives, and his heredity. If the glands and the cells do not misbehave, a person must attain a particular weight. Every person has his own weight; no objective standards can be laid down for universal application. A lean and this person can be as healthy as one who looks like a mound of flesh and bones.THE HEALING POWER OF NATUREEvery ill person wants to rid herself of the disease but indiscriminate use of drugs and medicines is likely to cause irreversible deleterious effects. Quick cures may suppress the symptoms of disease, but at the cost of permanent injury to the human body. The sick have a tendency to try one drug after the other in their eagerness to regain lost health.Practitioners of nature cure who prescribes fasting, the right food, hydropathy and other instruments of naturopathy, know that some patients on the road to recovery suddenly fall victim to an acute disease. That is nothing but aggravation of the malady, even if its form is a little different. The comprehensive treatment prescribed by the naturopath would sometimes produce rashes or boils on the skin. If the course of treatment is continued, they automatically disappear and the patient feels healthier than he did before the onset of the disease. It only means that the body reacts to the course of treatment by trying to expel the morbid matter. The expulsion of the morbid matter sometimes creates aggravation.When the natural diet - water, sunlight, fruits and vegetables- is prescribed t deal with an ailment, it helps the body to expel the morbid matter from the various orifices.NATURE CURE AND SURGERYThere is no need for surgery according to the naturopathic system of treatment. Many people who are unable to find relief after surgery take to nature cure. Even the largest boil can burst or dry up without the knife. Nature itself is the healer since it has given us the capacity to fight disease. Diet alone can cure many disorders which surgeons fail to ameliorate.