![]() ![]() The current obesity crisis is an obvious example. (Homeopathic medicines “work” by being too weak to suppress the body’s efforts to heal itself.) ![]() To suppress symptoms is to suppress healing. Few people-and few doctors-understand the meaning of symptoms, that symptoms are part of the healing process. People run to doctors at the first sign of a symptom doctors then suppress that symptom with powerful drugs. Harness that instinct and remarkable things can happen. ![]() Every cell in the body is endowed with an instinct for self-preservation. All it asks is non-interference in its processes. Shelton asks, how did prehistoric peoples fare before doctors and medicines became available? How did they care for their sick? He concludes that they did very well, until their “fatal breach with nature.” Because nature heals. In his book, “Rubies in the Sand,” Herbert M. Medicines rarely remove causes–they suppress symptoms, thus converting acute illnesses into chronic illnesses. There will always be a role for doctors, but the majority of illnesses are preventable and curable without them, simply by removing causes. Americans think that doctors and medicines are the only options for the sick. The controversy over health care in America misses an important point, that the human body is a self-healing organism. The Fabric of the Human Body, by the great Andreas Vesalius ![]()
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