Avoid the Use of Poisonous Drugs
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Restorative Power in Nature
The only hope of better things is in the education of the people
in right principles. Let physicians teach the people that restorative
power is not in drugs, but in nature. Disease is an effort of nature
to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the
laws of health. In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained.
Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected.
Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to
re-establish right conditions in the system.
Natural Remedies
Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the
use of water, trust in divine power—these are the true remedies. Every
person should have a knowledge of nature’s remedial agencies and
how to apply them. It is essential both to understand the principles
involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training
that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge.
The use of natural remedies requires an amount of care and effort
that many are not willing to give. Nature’s process of healing and
upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient it seems slow. The surrender
of hurtful indulgences requires sacrifice. But in the end it will be found
that nature, untrammeled, does her work wisely and well. Those who
persevere in obedience to her laws will reap the reward in health of
body and health of mind.
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