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right, and would resort to the simple means they have neglected—
the use of water and proper diet, nature would have just the help she
requires, and which she ought to have had long before. If this course is
pursued, the patient will generally recover without being debilitated.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1906 (Healthful Living,
248.2)
The question of health reform is not agitated as it must be and
will be. A simple diet and the entire absence of drugs, leaving nature
free to recuperate the wasted energies of the body, would make our
sanitariums far more effectual in restoring the sick to health.
The Ministry of Healing, 127
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.
The Ministry of Healing, 263-264
And so far as possible, all who are seeking to recover health should
place themselves amid country surroundings, where they can have
the benefit of outdoor life. Nature is God’s physician. The pure air,
the glad sunshine, the flowers and trees, the orchards and vineyards,
and outdoor exercise amid these surroundings, are health-giving, life-
giving.
Physicians and nurses should encourage their patients to be much
in the open air. Outdoor life is the only remedy that many invalids need.
It has a wonderful power to heal disease caused by the excitements