Chapter 34—Rational Remedies for Disease
Efforts of Nature to Resist Disease
951. Nature alone possesses restorative powers. She alone can
build up her exhausted energies, and repair the injuries she has received
by inattention to her fixed laws.—
How to Live, 57
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952. Nature alone is the effectual restorer.—
How to Live, 60
.
953. Nature, to relieve herself of poisonous impurities, makes an
effort to free the system, which effort produces fevers, and what is
termed disease.—
How to Live, 60
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954. Nature bears abuse as long as she can without resisting, then
she arouses, and makes a mighty effort to rid herself of the incum-
brances and evil treatment she has suffered. Then come headache,
chills, fevers, nervousness, paralysis, and other evils too numerous to
mention.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:69
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955. Nature is loath to give up her hold on life. She is unwilling to
cease her struggle.—
How to Live, 63
.
956. Give nature a chance, and she will rally and again perform
her part nobly and well.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:549
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957. Nature was doing her best to rid the system of an accumulation
of impurities, and could she have been left to herself, aided by the
common blessings of Heaven, such as pure air and pure water, a speedy
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and safe cure would have been effected.—
How to Live, 60
.
958. All the credit should be ascribed to nature’s restorative
power.—
How to Live, 50
.
Assistance We May Render Nature
959. Only seek to assist nature in her efforts, by removing every
obstruction, and then leave her to recover the exhausted energies of
the system.—
How to Live, 54
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960. There are many ways of practising the healing art; but there
is only one way that Heaven approves. God’s remedies are the simple
agencies of nature, that will not tax or debilitate the system through
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