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Handbook of Nature Cure Volume One: Nature Cure vs. Medical Science | by John L. Fielder |
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Dr Fielder eschews the use of all forms of medication whether they be
so-called 'natural' or otherwise, including supplementation. He
believes solely in the self-reparative nature of the organism and its
ability to heal itself given the necessary care, attention and
environment. The only exception being in the case of major trauma
where reparative surgery is necessary.
| Title | Handbook of Nature Cure Volume One: Nature Cure vs. Medical Science |
| Author | John L. Fielder |
| Publisher | Academy of Natural Living |
| Year | 2001 |
| Copyright | John L. Fielder |
| ISBN | 0 9586611 4 6 |
Academy of Natural Living © John L. Fielder, dc, do, nd (adel)
PO Box 901 • Cairns
Queensland 4870 Australia
Contact: www.johnfielder.com.au • email.
All Rights reserved. No Part of this book may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, recording,or by any information retrieval
system, without the express written permission of the publisher
DISCLAIMER: The information in this book is not intended as medical
advice. The author does not recommend standard medical practices. The
authors, publishers and/or distributors will not assume responsibility
for any adverse consequences resulting from adopting the lifestyle
described herein.
Chapter One: That Fallacious Germ Theory- by Harry Benjamin ...
- The Unity of Disease
- The reader will now be fully ready for acceptance of the cardinal principle of Nature Cure, which is, that although, thanks to the pedantry and misconceptions of the leaders of medical science, ...
- Nature Cure and Medical Science
- It is because they understand this fundamental oneness and unity of all disease that practitioners of Nature Cure are enabled to secure such seemingly miraculous results in the treatment of ...
- Disease a Self-Healing Process
- What the medical profession calls a cure is merely the suppression of superficial symptoms, to cause further and more serious trouble later on! What the medical profession never understands is ...
- Two Completely Divergent Philosophies
- All too often the great surgeon or physician, and even the general practitioner, vainly imagines that he or she can cure disease by suppressing symptoms and thwarting Natures work. The ...
- The "Fruits" of the Old Philosophy of Disease
- Every tree is known by his own fruit, said Christ to his disciples. Let the men and women of today see for themselves the fruits of orthodox medical philosophy! They are before our eyes! ...
- Chapter Two: What is Fever?
- by Louis Kuhne ...
- Fever Is Fermentation Going On In The System
- We shall best comprehend the symptoms exhibited by fever by forming a correct picture of the processes of fermentation, as they may frequently be observed outside of the human body. For instance, ...
- Chapter Three: How Does Disease Arise?
- by Louis Kuhne ...
- Disease Is The Presence of Foreign Matter In The System
- For the correctness of this definition there is an infallible test. If after that which we have designated as morbid matter has in a suitable manner been removed from the system, the disease ...
- Chapter Four: Racial Memory
- by James C. ...
- Symbiosis
- Now let us look at symbiosis. Probably most of you have heard that more honey can be obtained in an area where there are many old maids? The argument runs that unmarried ladies keep cats, and cats ...
- Fallacy of "Cures"
- Leaving the directly harmful effects of drugs aside for the moment, we do not believe in the possibility of a cure in the ordinary acceptance of the word. You can no more undergo a ...
- Learn From Your Dog
- To see how essentially unnatural is that teaching, watch your dog. When he is sick he goes away by himself into a corner, and refuses to look at food. Leave him to himself for some hours, or even ...
- Safety Valves
- Now let us look into a common statement made by mildly ailing people. I am very well, except for my rheumatism, or My health is very good except for my cough, or I am in splendid form except ...
- How Chronic Disease is Initiated
- According to our idea, if during an illness, the impurities stirred into the circulation are not allowed free exit from the system, the usual result is that they become deposited somewhere in the ...
- And How To Clear Chronic Disease Up
- So, if you are determined to build high level health so that you can go through almost anything and still remain vigorous and alert, wholesome, undamaged and healthy, you must learn to cooperate ...
- Tilden’s Rule Number One
- If, for example, you go weak at the knees from missing a cup of tea or a meal, it means that you should omit several more cups of tea or meals. It means that you have been overloading your ...
- The Nature Cure "Crisis"
- Health is not quite what people think it is. It is vastly more than a mere absence of symptoms and discomforts. Like your garden, your body calls for a degree of intelligent attention and ...
- To Build Serious Disease
- Now a few words more from Dr Tilden: Years ago when I gave salicylates with the superstitious idea of curing rheumatism, I succeeded in establishing a heart involvement in nearly every ...
- Miracle Drugs
- It is not by accident that all medicines are poisonous. Only that way can they be made to work. But there is also the patients imagination. During the war we were told that a marvellous new ...
- Illness for All
- People who equate everything in terms of cash should be satisfied with health service. It is decidedly expensive. But money costs do not tell everything. In this case not only the means but the ...
- An Experiment
- One of my good friends died just a few weeks ago as a result of what he intended to be an amusing experiment. A month ago he sent for me to visit him at an Edinburgh hospital, and he explained, ...
- Arthritis
- I have at the moment at least a dozen patients in Edinburgh with arthritic rheumatism. In each case, before we saw them they had had medical treatment over a long period of years, during which ...
- Self Responsibility
- For real health attainment you must take the responsibility upon yourself. Practically any ailing person who is willing to do the right thing can get well, but instead most patients ask, Can you ...
- The Stupefied Invalid
- How many of you have read or known about someone in a hospital who has been burned with a hot water bottle? Could you imagine any healthy child or grown up person lying still long enough for real ...
- Somatic Sense
- For example, here is an inadvertent experiment I am in the process of completing. About two months ago I drove a spike of wood under my nail. The splinter of wood went down under the nail to ...
- Body Wholeness
- Disease is never only local. Your body is either all healthy, or all unhealthy. It mayindeed it usually doesexhibit its distress more in one part than in another, but quite often ...
- Your Daily Bread
- Now let us see why such deposits arise even in people who have become health-conscious and who are doing their utmost to live simply and naturally. Take our staff of life. How many people make a ...
- Bread and Convulsions
- When dogs ate agenised bread they became dizzy, they staggered about, and before they died they went into convulsions. Human bodies stand up to a great deal more abuse than do the bodies of dogs. ...
- Chapter Five: Questions and Answers
- by James C. ...
- Can you cure rheumatism by diet alone, or must one also have treatment?
- I can cure my rheumatism if I do the right things. The whole idea of Nature Cure is self-help and wholesomeness. That contains the real meaning of cure and it is a very good technique; but you ...
- If Nature by itself, cures the body, why do you wear glasses?
- I am not a perfect specimen. I make no such claim, but I am not the weakling I was fifty years ago. Eyesight, to be perfect, would call for Nature Cure living over about three generations, as the ...
- Can a person cure himself of tuberculosis?
- James Thomson referred to his own experience, having been discharged from the Navy as a young man, with this complaint. He mentioned that the doctor came to his bed in hospital and informed him ...
- Do you disbelieve in all forms of inoculation, including the vaccination infants which is compulsory in Northern Ireland?
- Dont do it. Far fewer people are vaccinated today than are unvaccinated. The unvaccinated are greatly the majority. Vaccination was initiated by a man called Jenner who was a rogue and a ...
- Do you think well of raw molasses?
- I believe in honey and in some hundreds of other honest food stuffs, but the question smacks of remedies, which we do not advocate. I believe in wholeness of diet rather than in single items.<...
- Is it possible to cure bowel obstruction without operation?
- If it cannot be cured without operation, it cannot be cured. With few exceptions bowel obstruction arises from hysteria, panic, intense jitters. Certainly a diseased organ may be cut away, and a ...
- Will you please give a cure for depression?
- First thing, begin full deep breathing as soon as you awake. Most civilised people are unhealthy in one way or another, and a high proportion are suffering from a lack of fresh air. When you awake ...
- Have you anything to say on the question of heart trouble?
- The heart is the central organ of the body, and if it begins to manifest distress, there is trouble for the whole body. A great deal of what passes for heart trouble is actually mental distress. A ...
- Is alcohol good or bad for a person?
- Your body manufactures approximately 2gs of alcohol daily and it is not wise to add to that quantity. ...
- Is there a point at which hardened arteries cannot be cured?
- Unquestionably, there is. Had I been forty years older, instead of still in my teens when I developed tuberculosis so seriously, I do not believe anything could have saved me. Similarly there ...
- Diabetes is on the increase. Can anyone cure himself by taking insulin?
- Diabetes, like all other degenerative diseasehigh blood pressure, Brights disease, cancer, arthritis, disseminated sclerosis and the restis on the increase throughout the ...
- Chapter Six: Light And Air
- by Adolf Just <...
- Light-And-Air Huts and Cottages
- One great benefit to health comes from sleeping in huts and cottages situated entirely in the open, and which at all times offer free access to light and air. We call them light-and-air ...
- Chapter Seven: The Earth-Power
- by Adolf Just <...
- Chapter Seven: The Earth-Power: Part 2
- Following the lead of Nature, man lived originally in perfect sinlessness in the enjoyment of purest happiness, in a state of unclouded bliss, such as the myths of paradise current among all ...
- Chapter Eight: Vital Economy
- by K. Lakshmana ...
- Chapter Eight: Vital Economy: Part 2
- Now we come to the true principle, namely Vital Economy. That which maintains health, and restores it when lost, is life. The fivefold food-medicine furnishes only the needed repair ...
- Chapter Nine: But Is It Nature Cure?
- by C. Leslie ...
- Forward
- Many of our longer-established adherents will recognise this as an augmented revisal of the statement first published eight years ago. The need for its message has not diminished in that time. ...
- Words Out of Place
- Very few of those who resort to Nature Cure have any previous understanding of the principles involved. It is therefore not surprising that the average layman is unable to distinguish between ...
- True Treatment Is Training
- That reference to mere hard cash is not so smug as it may sound. We are up against the essential deceit of the great majority of orthodox and unorthodox treatmentsthat the patient can be ...
- Carefully Hidden Help
- Many of the more intelligent vendors do make some attempt to show the patient a better way of living. It may be camouflaged as a condition for producing the best effects of the remedy; ...
- Different Standards
- In this country today we find two groups of people, with different motives, persuading the public that all unorthodox healers, their philosophies and their practices, must sink or swim together. ...
- How the Press Is Tied
- The topical press does not assist the layman to distinguish between the various unorthodox systems. Now and then some newspaper columnist, knowing that most readers mildly question current medical ...
- Homeopathy
- Let us now consider, individually, a few of the therapies most commonly confused with Nature Cure. The following is typical of many enquiries: I should be much obliged if you would ...
- Behind the Drug
- The philosophy of homeopathy is probably its own worst enemy, so we need waste no further time on that aspect. The important thing is that people treated by homeopathy mostly fare better than they ...
- Unorganised Minerals
- Tissue Salts are in a way related to the homeopathic method. The general idea is that the more finely a substance is divided the more likely it is to affect or be of use to the cells of the body....
- Solutions Are Finer
- The manufacturer of tissue salts claims that the only difference between inert minerals and organised salts is in the fineness of the particles: that and nothing else. So he grinds up the material&...
- Herbalism
- Both homeopathy and tissue salts have the negative virtue of being practically incapable of real harmalmost a positive virtue by comparison with orthodox medication! But the same cannot ...
- Patients Have Duties
- The ethics of being a patient are rarely emphasised, but they are almost as important as those of the practitioner. For example, a new Nature Cure patient may be required to produce a medical ...
- Extracts and Irritants
- Health Foods appear to many people to be in the same category as herbs but, although there are some borderline cases, in the main there is a clear distinction. Herbs are plant tissues which have ...
- For Beginners
- Many so called health foods are, of course, simply attractive and palatable concoctions of perfectly wholesome and natural foodstuffs. There can be very little objection to these, so long as ...
- A Warning
- An extract or concentrate is always to be treated with suspicionit can so easily upset the balance of an otherwise reasonable dietand it may be a concentrate of the wrong part of the ...
- Electronic Magic
- Black Boxes are scarcely in the same category as the products discussed so far, but they also are often wrongly attributed to Nature Cure. A Dr Abrams of California started the ball rolling in ...
- A Federal Inquiry
- Within recent years there have been further attempts in the States to make capital out of the popular respect for, and ignorance of, electronic apparatus. The first of these was exposed by a ...
- "Urine Therapy"… An Ancient Fallacy
- Emotional perversions are strange. They seem to give the unfortunate victim an uncanny power to influence others who may be hovering on the brink, and drag them down into the pit. To any healthy ...
- Pro Tem "Cures"
- Again, such treatments brings results. It would take a very bovine constitution not to react violently to such an affront. The symptoms of the original disease may ...
- Brutalising the Body
- Glandular extracts, although a source of much excellent ammunition for the opponents of vivisectional experiments, do not appear to the layman as very dangerous substances. They are, after all, ...
- Insulin
- A very different sequence occurs if a glandular extractin this case, insulinis administered. (Particularly if the orthodox dietetic changes are made, since these increase enormously ...
- False Promises
- Insulin is only one of a large variety of glandular extracts, but the effects are typical. They seem to produce wonderful results, but these are only obtained by a sort of chemical hypnotism&...
- How to Destroy Nature Cure
- A final word about the risks, from the practitioners point of view, of dabbling in near-medicine. This can probably best be exemplified by what has happened in the USA, where true Nature ...
- Nature Cure or Not Nature Cure?
- Summarising this catalogue of disclaimers, it may be said that the true Nature Cure Practitioner does not make use of any poisons to produce physiological reactions: neither poisons which are ...
- Vital Reserve
- But what about the man so ill that all his confidence is lost? Surely it is right to start him on the road to health by stimulant or other reassuring means? If the means is genuine and ...
- Dr J H Kellogg MD, Battle Creek Sanatorium:
- There is healing power in obedience, just as there is destruction in disobedience. When the evil-doer ceases to sin and enters upon a life of obedience to the natural laws, the curative forces ...
- Chapter Ten: The Divine Science of Health
- by K. Lakshmana ...
- Chapter Ten: The Divine Science of Health: Part 2
- One of the reasons for this state of things is that medicos as a rule are not interested in our health, but only in our ill-health. The average medical man, when driven into a corner in private ...
- Chapter Ten: The Divine Science of Health: Part 3
- One of the grievous shortcomings of medicine is the one to be mentioned here. If a patient, suspecting that he has some disease, such as gastric ulcer, goes to a doctor, the latter makes a ...
- Chapter Eleven: What is the Cause of Disease?
- by Kenneth S. ...
- Chapter Eleven: What is the Cause of Disease? Part 2
- All organs and consequently all functions are under the control of the nervous system. The efficiency of our organs is dependent upon the supply of nerve force, so it is essential that the nervous ...
- Chapter Twelve: What is Nature Cure?
- by Kenneth S. ...
- Dietetics
- This subject covers everything which is consumed by the mouth. Nothing but food should ever pass the lips. There is never a time when a poison or non-food has any value. Dietetics is the ...
- Light
- This subject covers sunlight, chromotherapy, infra-red, ultra-violet and other forms of light radiation. It is very doubtful if any of these methods, except sunbathing, has any value beyond what ...
- Air
- Air bathing, breathing, hot-air baths, ozone and oxygen therapy have all been used. Air bathing is most beneficial in that it tones up the muscles and develops efficient skin reaction. Breathing ...
- Exercise
- Under this heading we find physical culture, weight lifting, sports and gymnastics. Running, Jogging, Swimming and all non-violent sports are the ideal form of exercise. Violent movements should ...
- Physical Therapies
- Under this heading we can group all of the mechanical treatments, those which study and treat the body as a mechanical contrivance. The philosophy behind all of these treatments can be stated as ...
- Massage
- Under this heading we have manual rubbing, stroking, kneading and vibration, as well as ultra-sonic, electrical vibration and concussion of the spine. Massage and vibration can best be described ...
- Electrotherapy
- This includes Diathermy, Short-wave, Galvanic, Faradic and all other methods of applying electricity to the body. Except for the slight psychological help they may give some suggestible people, ...
- Psychology
- Under this heading we have many schools of thought. All claim to teach the patient how to correct his mental faults and to give him the right approach to the problems of life. The system which has ...
- Hydrotherapy
- This is the use of water. Many modern Naturopaths have now discarded the use of water and so in recent years this cheap, efficient and safe health aid has been neglected. Some people claim that ...
- Semi-Medical Treatments
- Herbal remedies, Biochemic tissue salts, Homoeopathic drugs, and the thousands of remedies sold as natural remedies are all almost valueless. They have no place in a natural system of healing. ...
- Fasting
- I have left the most important and least understand subject until the last. Fasting can be described as Natures own method of healing. Not that there is any healing power in the act of ...
- Chapter Thirteen: Everybody’s Guide to Nature Cure
- by Harry
- The Three Fundamental Principles
- The philosophy and practice of Nature Cure is built upon three fundamental principles. It must be fully understood that these principles are not the outcome of mere theorising into the nature and ...
- Chapter Fourteen: Mental Therapeutics
- by Henry
- Positive Affirmations
- The foregoing explains why affirmations of health are justified in the face of disease. The health conditions must be first established in the mind before they can be conveyed to and impressed ...
- On Rules for Maintaining Health and Prolonging Life
- by Luigi
- Man May By Dint of Art Mend His Infirm Constitution and Live to Old Age
- My treatise on a sober life has begun to answer my desire in being of service to many persons born with a weak constitution, who, every time they committed the least excess, found themselves ...
- Man May, by Taking Thought of His Diet and Habits, Change His Disposition and Better His Temper
- For man, it is not to be doubted, may by art exempt himself in part from the influence of the heavens, it being the common opinion that the heavens give an inclination by do not impel us, for ...
- Less Food Is Required As Man Grows Older
- This retrenchment is necessary, nor can it be avoided, since it is impossible for an to live foreve; and as he draws near this end, he is reduced so low as to be no longer able to take any ...
- Two Mistakes Many People Make When Assessing Longevity
- Some allege that many, without leading such a life, have lived to be a hundred, and that in constant health, and though they ate a great deal and used indiscriminately every kind of viands and ...
- The Two Rules For Maintaining Health and Prolonging Life
- This sobriety is reduced to two things, quality and quantity. The first, namely quality, consists in nothing but not eating food or drinking wines prejudicial to the stomach. The second, which is ...
- On Positive Affirmations
- The foregoing explains why affirmations of health are justified in the face of disease. The health conditions must be first established in the mind before they can be conveyed to and impressed ...
- Bibliography
- Benjamin, Harry. 1967. Everybodys Guide to Nature Cure. 16th ...
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