The difference between Neo Natural Hygiene (NNH) and Modern Medical Science (MMS)
“For natural hygienists, there are not 20 000 diseases (authors note: and rising), but many local states growing out of a common systemic derangement. We do not seek to cure disease, but to remove the causes of impairment and to afford the sick organism every natural and hygienic advantage that will facilitate its own spontaneous return to biological and physiological equilibrium.“
182 Herbert Shelton,
The Science of Fasting.
The hygienic system is not a system of treating and curing disease and disorder. It doesn't recognize the existence of hundreds of thousands of diseases, but regards all of these many so-called diseases as expressions of the same thing. Hygienic methods are methods of caring for the body. By these we seek to place the body under the most favourable conditions for the prosecution of its own healing activities. Rest and sleep, exercise and cleanliness, water and sunshine. We also employ these in all forms of impaired health. We do not regard them as cure alls or cure at all. There are no diseased conditions in which fresh air is not helpful, but it is no cure all. In fact, it is no cure at all. There are no diseased conditions in which rest is not helpful, but rest is no panacea. Why then accuse natural hygienists of regarding fasting as a cure? All because with it, with rest, sunshine, fresh air, exercise, sleep, quiet, etc. Is found useful in all so-called diseases.
In the human body as well as in a nation or city, the welfare of the entire community depends upon the well-being of its individual members. In the case of the body, it is our cells. If governing bodies would realize and apply these truths and pay more attention to providing wholesome surroundings and proper living conditions for their subjects to an adequate supply of pure food and a normal combination of work and rest, instead of concentrating their best efforts upon restrictive and punitive measures, such as the allopathic treatment, there would be no social problems to solve. Consider the following:
Does nature cure vomiting or does she use vomiting as a means of ejecting unwanted materials from the stomach? Does the body cure coughing or is a vital act by which irritants and obstructions are expelled from the Respiratory Tract. Does diarrhea need to be cured or is diarrhea a process by which obnoxious materials are rushed out of the digestive tract? Does nature cure inflammation, or is inflammation A reparative and defensive process by which broken bones are in it, lacerated flesh is healed and foreign bodies are removed from the flesh. Is there a need to cure fever, or is fever part of the body's own healing activities? Does not coughing automatically and spontaneously seize when there is no longer any need for it? Does no diarrhea seize when it has freed the digestive tract of all offensive materials? Does not inflammation subside when the bone has knit or the wound healed? What is there to cure about various processes of the body that are collectively labelled disease?
Through our lifestyle choices, we inhibit the body’s natural elimination capabilities, forcing our body to retain even more of this material which in its nature is toxic, therefore detrimental to our organic system. Since it cannot be offloaded fast enough, the toxic waste material will be stored in various locations and eventually start to pressure internal organs, even nerves thereby obstructing the natural flow of energy. This is one of the reasons obese people get easily tired. In the end, this toxic waste material will begin to fester, imposing the body to expend even more energy in negating this effect.
Assuming we are in good shape, we will have sufficient reserves to combat these changes. However, if we do not recharge sufficiently and should we continue with the lifestyle that has brought us into this situation, not only will the daily recharge be smaller and the transmission weaker, but due to the additional tasks that we compel our body to execute, we will be having much less energy for the rest of our activities we are so used to be doing. All the internal processes of the body also consume energy and due to the aforementioned expenditure, these processes will be executed imperfectly, as well.
The body will then try to force the material out of the system through a health crisis, which may take on many forms, depending on age, health, energy levels, etc. Should this crisis be interfered with in any way, especially through the allopathic treatment (i.e. medicinal drugs, operation, etc.) which in essence will only smother the outward manifestations of a systemic poisoning of the organism. In other words, the body’s effort to relieve itself of the poison will be suppressed. This is what modern Medical Science calls a cure…
The toxic waste material is then returned inside of the organism and the body has wasted further energy in a futile effort. Now it will have to wait for another favourable opportunity to try to get rid of the poison it carries. On top of that, the medicinal drugs are in their very nature highly toxic, so by applying them, we are not only not allowing the body to throw off the already present material, but we introduce more of it, depleting the body`s energy levels even more. Does this make any sense to you?
The next effort of the body will be much stronger and so will also be the manifestation of the system poisoning, leading to what is referred to as chronic health crisis. Which will either be completed favourably or again forcibly subdued. This cycle is what the current Medical Science calls fighting disease. Nature tries to heal, man counters her and tries to bend her to his will. In this whole process, the body is constantly in a poisonous state wasting living energy in trying to maintain equilibrium and trying to eject the toxic material, but instead of being supported, is always compelled to retain it.
Herein lies the vital difference between the attitude of natural hygiene and that of the allopathic school (authors note: Modern Medical Science) towards disease. The latter spends all its efforts in fighting the disease symptoms while the former confines itself to creating health conditions in the habits and surroundings of the patient from the standpoint of the disease symptoms or if they take care of themselves that they will disappear on the count of non support. Under the influence of wrong habits of living in the suppressive treatment of diseases, all forms of waste and morbid matter, AKA the faeces of the cells, together with food, drink and drug poisons accumulate in the system, affect the cells and obstruct the tiny spaces between them. These morbid encumbrances impinge upon and clog the blood vessels, the nerve channels and other tissues of the body. This is bound to interfere with the normal function of the Organism and in time lead to deterioration and organic destruction.
Essentially, if our body is not able to eliminate the accumulated encumbrances (i.e. dead morbid material or toxic waste material), it will have to store it and if we continue on the same path more and more of this material will be in our system clogging it. There are then several immediate effects that will take place. Without going into too much detail and by simple deduction or using our common sense, we can immediately identify them
- Blood pressure will rise due to clogging of veins and arteries
- We will carry excess weight, which will be a strain for our joints
- Organic changes of our organs will take place if the unnatural habits are continued over a longer period of time
- Our body will need to maintain this effete material (i.e. Toxic waste material), which means additional expenditure of living energy
- Distribution of the living energy within the body is inhibited due to the pressure upon the nerves, meaning not all the body parts have all the living energy required
- Not only more living energy is expended then in normal condition, not only is the distribution limited, but mainly the access to the living energy source is courbed. Due to the obstructions, we don’t receive the same daily allowance of living energy.
This is a man's state of being brought about by life, labors, pleasures and griefs. Here is where he parts company with the normal comfort and begins to cultivate abnormal, artificial or toxic comfort. It is here that more food than is needed for health and well-being is taken. From this point, food develops acid, alcohol and toxins. It is at this stage that the Caucasian seeks relief in Alcoholics, tobacco, coffee, tea and a few of the various palliative remedies of the world, while the China man begins to woo his white lady, the extract of the poppy flower, the East Indian to chew his bang, the West African his Scola, the Yemen Arab his hash and other people's resort to some sort of anesthesia. Since the world began, man has endeavored in some way to secure relief from his discomforts by resorting to ecstasy, incantations, drugs, hypnotism, or any unnatural palliation rather than earnestly to search for cause and remove it.
If we don’t have sufficient energy to begin our day as we were used to, our whole bearing and internal state is impacted. This can manifest in many ways depending on the individual, such as tiredness, boredom, short temper, tiredness and others. We all have been there and each of us assigns the manifestation to a different reason / source. Yet, the way we try to overcome these low energy levels is surprisingly quite universal. We can sum it up in one word, Stimulants. Which will be our next topic.
