Human Reconstruction

Personally, I do not profess to cure disease. In fact, no man, whatever his system, can do that. Nature alone is capable of curing (eliminating) disease, and She only can do so when the proper elements are supplied with which She can rebuilt the part of the body which has become weakened by disorganization.

All that I, or any other man, however great he may be, can do is to seek the cause of the weakness, learn what the deficiencies are that brought it about, then proceed to supply the essential substances. Nature can then do the rebuilding-the reconstructing. There is no such thing as a physician as the word is commonly understood. The true physician is a teacher, one who includes the laws of life-a regimen of correct living, and who, if need be, supplies the substances required to eliminate the deficiencies of the ailing body.

The essential materials are not medicinec, but organic (organized) substances which we know as food (material ingested) that can be digested and assimilated by the hungry cells of the body. Drugs, those unorganized (non-organized) substances'so constantly prescribed, cannot be digested nor assimilated. They may be absorbed by the cells just as dyes are absorbed by cotton, woolen or silk goods, but assimilation is not possible. As a result hungry cells are not supplied with the foods for which they are crying. Such agents are of no actual value, except in rare instances when they stimulate weakened (hungry and starved) cells to make greater effort to establish their lost balance.

The mistake of the modernists has been that they mistook absorption for assimilation. The human body is kept alive, normal and active only by the elements which the cells of the body can assimilate and build into themselves. Inorganic cannot be assimilated, although they may be absorbed.

Consequently they do not become part of the cells and give neither life not strength to the cells. They may help in the elimination of congestions and in the reestablish-ment of equilibrium. In the Natural or newer science of medicine, when any abnormality, now known as a disease, manifests itself in an individual, the physical self will be examined carefully and scientifically and the lack-cause of the disease-discovered. The physician will then be able to know, as a result of his diagnostic analysis, which of the many known elements are missing and how to supply them.

The constituents (organic, mineral and vitamin) of every vegetable, including herbs, roots and barks, and even the grasses, are now well known and the physician will prescribe them, either singly or in combination, in their natural state and this will quickly and naturally tend to supply the need, the lack of which is the cause of the illness, or lack of balance.

The coming enlightened practice, because of its Naturalistic basis, will gradually replace all forms of serums and toxins(*) now used in the field of theraputics, Nature and Nature alone, will be the basis of all curative agents. This may appear to be a sweeping statement, but indications are already apparent that the change is taking place. (*)

*No condemnation of any one prescribing serums, toxins or synthetics is here intended. However, investigation quickly makes apparent that more and more people are accepting the Biblical concept that there shall be no blood pollution in any manner.

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