Reasons For Renewed Interest

In Once Discarded Common Remedies

Roughly speaking, there are several reasons for the present rapidly increasing interest in herbal (organic) medicines:

First, may be the fact that it is becoming more and more difficult for the ill to obtain medical attention, during the night, on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, even if living in towns or cities. Hence, a return to home (common) remedies.

Secondly, the fact that serious, highly legitimate newspapers are publishing lengthy articles on the revival of the interest of physicians in such remedies. In its October 28, 1959 edition, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy article on the discovery that Snakeroot has great value in the treatment of high blood pressure, a condition that in one form or another is killing millions. Snake root is found in many states in America. Strangely enough, many whiskey drinkers placed the roots of this herb into their whiskey and drank it regularly. This was done in my early years and I know of none of these who died either from high blood pressure or heart disease.

Another lengthy article on the use of blueberry leaf tea, or tincture in diabetes, was published in the National Weekly, March 17, 1928. Undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of diabetics had recourse to this tea. Many continue to use it regularly. The Physio-Medicalist and Naturist prescribed the tincture, the fluid extract or tea made out of the leaves, in association with other natural remedies.

Vegetables are not merely vegetable, herbs there are none, or fruits simply fruits. They are what they are and serve their actual purpose, because of the organized mineral and vital (vitamin) elements they contain, and the various combinations of these elements as found in each separate specimen of plant life.

The Naturist or Natural physician studies each fruit and vegetable, learns to know its contents and then instructs in the combining of two or more of them in order that the need may be supplied in each individual case. The Naturist is an investigator, an analyst and a logician in arriving at his conclusions.

The Statement Of Spirit

"And God said [the Law functioned], Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat [food].

"And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given green herb for meat: and it was so."-Genesis l -.29,30.

This is part of the online book, the Thomsonian System of Herbal Medicine. It is an historical text. For the index, please see this page: History Of Herbal Medicine