Have you ever noticed when the dog is ill, what would it do? I am sure that you would have noticed that when the dog gets sick, it lies down to rest and looses appetite. With this inference, you conclude that a dog that is active and vibrant, one that is full of energy and playful is a healthy dog. Otherwise, it is not healthy.
What about children? How does a sick child behave? How do you judge a healthy child? Is there a connection? If you became ill, what would be your first reaction? Obviously you’ll want to get better. And how would you get better? Do you go to the medicine cabinet, pharmacy or even the doctor and get medicines, take them and hope the sickness will go.
Forgive me at this point. I am not saying that the dog smarter than the child or even you. I am not alluding to anything of that nature. I just want to see if there is a connection.
Ask any honest medical doctor how they cure diseases, and they will tell you that most diseases will, given time, get better all by themselves.
From a hygienist’s perspective, almost all diseases are simply the body’s attempt to handle a crisis of toxemia. (Toxemia is simply the buildup of harmful substances or toxins in the body by way of eating, drinking or inhalation.) For two reasons this will probably go away by itself:
1. The positive reason is that the toxic overload will be resolved: you change your eating habits or get rid of the stress that caused it.
2. The negative reason is that the energy level drops so low that the symptoms appear to go away because a new, more serious disease is developing.
Normally one conceives healthy living as when you are strong and full of energy, or, you possess a high level of vital force. Your body is able to eliminate toxins effectively. However, as your vital force drops, the body changes its routes of elimination from the secondary organs and begins to deposit the toxins in the more centrally located vital organs and systems. This is where the complications begin.
When you are young and vigorous, your body possesses a large degree of vital force and you will normally eliminate the toxins primarily through the liver and kidneys. If toxemia builds up and overloads these organs, then the surplus toxins are passed through skin tissues and skin-like mucus membranes, producing repeated bouts of mild infections such as sinusitis, asthma, colds, or a combination of these. Your body will cure itself naturally in time. But with constant overloading, the body’s vital force drops. The aggressive cleansing phenomena are reduced causing the toxemia to go deeper.
When you go to the doctor complaining of sinusitis, for example, the doctor knows your body will eventually cure itself.
Your doctor’s main job should be to get you to rest, to wait until your body corrects itself and stops showing the undesired symptom. This is Ideal. Unfortunately, you are “plagued” with the modern lifestyle – you cannot afford to rest, you have too much work, you are too busy. Common sense instinctively tells you that your body is in a crisis, but the pressures of your lifestyle dictate a greater crisis if you rest. The Real compromise is then made:
o You are not happy about your condition, and demand relief, a cure.
o In fact, if you understood your own body’s signals, you would not have to consult a doctor in the first place.
o So if your doctor wants to keep you as a patient and make a living he must do something.
o If that something produces little or no harm and better yet, can also alleviate the symptoms, then your doctor is good.
So you give credit to the doctor and the medicines. You had a pain and it is gone. Relief.
Let us now go back to the dog. Do you now see the connection?
The dog’s body is connected to its mind. When the body is sick, the mind responds in the manner seen. The dog goes to rest and stops eating. The dog did not lose appetite, but instead is re-directing its body’s energy towards the healing process. Digestion uses a lot of energy. That is natural. It’s only a dog, you think. All animals react this way instinctively.
Doesn’t the same happen with the child – loss of energy and no interest in food? Do you not now classify and label the child’s problem as suffering from general lethargy and has loss of appetite, symptoms that something is not normal? And because you are concerned about the child’s health, you seek medical advice. And the child gets better, so naturally the doctor was responsible for this recovery. We do not give the child credit for this – no, no; the child is a child and does not know any better. But, wasn’t the child’s body connected to his mind? Was not nature taking its course?
What about you?
For centuries people have been living healthy naturally. We must give them credit. That is why we are here today. Unfortunately the natural way of life that has prevailed is being lost and replaced by other “modern and scientific” ways of life. This is why it is a fact that over 97% of the population is no longer enjoying a healthy living, and that unhealthy lifestyles are being promoted as normal today.
Melvin Manoo – Melvin has been a Senior Teacher for many years. His training in Science and Agriculture and his love for plants and animals has led him …