The Natural Herbalist's Basis Of Procedure

Disease (dis-ease, an un-ease) of whatever nature, is the result of some form of abnormal condition in a certain part, or parts of the body, brought about by a lack of certain elements necessary for proper physical functioning and obtainable from the foods we consume and the liquids we drink, or as a result of congestion due to poor elimination.

It may logically be questioned: Don't indiscretions frequently result in illness; an unnaturalness, unbalance, or lack of equilibrium? Yes! However, the last phrase, lack of equilibrium is the answer.

Indiscretions or exposures use up, burn up, or consume. Life's activities are a process of consuming certain elements in the body. If these elements are not immediately replaced, there will result an unbalance, which we term sickness, illness or disease. The reestablishment of balance demands immediate attention, to supply the system with the elements lacking.

Under the natural, or, if you will, the Divine Plan governing man, he continues strong, physically well and virile by supplying his body with the elements being consumed, but only those required to maintain the balance, the equilibrium. All of these elements are obtainable from the organic (organized) kingdoms, principally the vegetables, this term including the herbs, roots and barks of certain trees. As indicated by Biblical authority, what is known as "herbs" are actually food that will supply the body with elements required to maintain a balance. Fruits, nuts, cereals and even eggs, milk and cheese come under this classification. The latter, milk, cheese and eggs, are merely pre-digested and highly organized (vitalized) vegetables, grasses and grains that have been consumed and converted by the animal into proper food for man.

Certain plant life, classified as herbals, should no longer be known as herbs, but as vegetables rich in food value as so long indicated by the Biblical statement in Genesis, a truth ignored because not generally understood.

Under Natural Law and the Divine Order, un/organic (non/organized i.e. synthetic) products of whatever nature, are abnormal and foreign to the human being (man as a body, mind and Soul), and therefore detrimental. As man becomes conversant with Natural Laws and free from the shackles of ignorance, he will be able to discard synthetics as food and medicine, because he will be conscious that the unnatural and unbalanced cannot bring about order and equilibrium in the economy of man.

Those who themselves follow this Natural and sane Law, as also those (healers, physicians and teachers) who will help the weak and ignorant (the ill and discouraged), might well be classified as "vegetarians" though this term is too limited. Why not then call them Naturists, since they follow the Laws of Nature, harmonize their activities with them and refuse to accept the concepts of those who would set aside God's divine fiats by attempting to substitute abnormal and synthetic compounds in place of the perfect, highly organized and correctly balanced element so freely placed before man for his use and welfare.

Under a New Dispensation, wherein will function God's Law, medicine, as such gradually will become unknown. Fruits, nuts, cereals, legumes and vegetables, because of their contents, will be so combined as to be both food and medicine, and among the now well known and frequently used vegetables will be included all the herbs. The Naturist will be both dietician and herbalist, and be restricted by neither.

Experience taught early physicians the value of many plants. Later the schools of practice commenced sending all plants to the chemical laboratory for experimentation and when no active principle was found discarded them.

The Naturist selects all of his plant life by the organic mineral and vitamin content. These elements are assimilated by the human organism, carried throughout the system to the various cells, and by the Law of Selectivity, chosen by these cells to be used for growth, for rebuilding themselves, and in maintaining or reestablishing health (equilibrium). The Natural herbalist does not attempt to cure, he merely supplies the cells with the food (vegetables, herbs, cereals, legume and fruits i.e. their mineral, vital elements) which they need. By doing this he attempts to eradicate disease (cell weakness or cell congestion) and to establish a state of well-being. This is my plan of operation and the system I personally advocate.

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