Nature-Cure Health and Beauty Book (Photostat)

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Nature cure believes that there is certain force resident within the body called by some as vitality or inherent healing power or vital force which is ever with us and which keeps the body normal and healthy. The health of a person is dependent upon said vital force. This is in fact the protective force of the body and is ultimately responsible for all the reactions induced by Nature Cure treatments for recovery of the body. This is the force that eliminates the toxins from the body. This is the force responsible for the multiplication of the cells. It is the force which directs the law and order within the body so that all the processes are carried on in a systematic manner and not haphazardly. It is due to this force that living creatures develop from an ovum to maturity. The unfailing tendency of the body to return to normal when disturbed or distorted is due to the presence of this force.

The search for beauty and youth brings to mind the many and varied quests of the ancients; for the most part legendary and romantic, they yet expressed the striving of the human entity towards the ideal. In the days of carly Christianity a wave of asceticism spread among the civilized peoples of the earth, bringing with it a spiritual antipathy to worldly pleasures. The solaria, baths, and sports grounds became deserted and were destroyed, with the loss of valuable therapeutic knowledge. It was Rousseau, with his "Back to Nature" propaganda, who again directed attention to the healing value of sun and light, since when natural living and healing have been coming into their own. The most eminent medical practitioners of today arc more and more advocating natural methods of healing and preventive medicine, tracing the origin of disease and disharmony in the body to generations of wrong living, wrong thinking, and unbalance between inherent tendencies and external influences. What we are is to some extent determined by the manner of living of our forbears. The spark of life passed on by our progenitors is imbued with influences and potentialitics that had their rise far back through the generations. It is only by bitter experience that we arrive at the truth and the conviction that "prevention is better than cure." Prevention is the cornerstone of natural healing, which takes as its basic law the irrefutable truth that all disease or disharmony in the body is the result of a violation of the fundamental laws of nature. It would appear to be the common belief that disease and ill health were divinely created to be a burden or a scourge for humanity to battle with and, more often than not, to break itself against. The underlying idea seems to be expressed in the old heathen maxim that " many scourgings are good for the soul." Nothing could be more contrary to reason.

"Personal Purity" really means "Perfect Health," and it is the individual basis from which a perfect humanity must spring. Within us and around us we have all the material necessary for this building towards perfection, and we must closely guard against self-generated poisons and irritants set up by yielding to fear, anger, self-pity, envy, and jealousy. In these days of progress in every branch of true science, it should no longer be true to say, "My people perish for lack of knowledge.