Andreas Moritz
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 This "throwing off of an illness was considered a natural healing response expected to return the body to a state of balance or equilibrium. Hippocrates perceived this labor as a cooking and digesting (pepsis) of our inner poisons during an inflammatory illness. It was also observed that immunity to or protection from an illness arose when a person had that illness before. Today we consider a disease as being an enemy that we need to battle against. |
| When seen in the context of physical cleansing and healing, I consider this healing approach to be a profound addition to all other natural healing methods in facilitating a more successful outcome..
When chi flows properly through the cells of the body, the cells can more efficiently remove their metabolic waste products, they more readily absorb all the oxygen, water, and nutrients they need, and they conduct any necessary repair work more swiftly. The body can restore its health and vitality much more easily when there is constant, unrestricted availability of chi. |
| Whenever I refer to disease or illness I actually mean "toxicity crisis," which is the body's natural healing response to an unnatural situation.] To provide you with a clearer and more comprehensive picture of the disease process, I have included some of the basic insights of Ayurvedic Medicine, which is the most ancient and complete system of natural health care. Once you know how to "create" illness, you will also know how to reverse it. Such is the purpose of this chapter. |
| But those who are cured by their body's natural healing powers are more likely to recall their illness as an experience of great emotional and physical release, which greatly increased their self-confidence and well-being. Having recovered their health by trusting and supporting their body's own healing ability, they may also have made a quantum leap in personal development. Many patients report that their natural recovery from an illness led to major improvements in their attitude toward life in general and their relationships with others. |
| Disease manifests itself when the body's natural healing responses are weakened or suppressed. The body has a constant tendency to return to its normal state of equilibrium, which is perhaps the real power behind healing any condition. Sometimes the belief in a particular treatment or medicine (placebo) can serve as a trigger for the body to restore equilibrium—an effect that is often wrongly attributed to the treatment rather than to the energies of trust and perseverance that it may be generating in the patient. |
| A naturopath has become a symbol for natural healing. Even if his methods may not be very effective, the symbol may still be powerful enough to trigger a good placebo response.
In every medical treatment, the placebo is actually the main determinant of the degree of success the treatment has. The results of every controlled study ever done confirm this statement. If any other treatment administered in the medical system proved to be as effective and consistent as the placebo effect, it would most certainly have been heralded as one of the biggest medical breakthroughs of all times. |
Ray D. Strand
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 But this natural healing ability has been there all along. We have been marvelously and wonderfully made. Medical science is now just showing us that we have to optimize these natural healing systems that are already present. We must take advantage of humanity's most tremendous asset in healing, "the host," which is our own body.
Sometimes the physician has a tough time getting any healing to occur. Nothing frustrates a physician more than dealing with a compromised immune system. |
Cynthia A. Foster, M.D.
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 By then, I had already heard numerous accounts of how licensed physicians had switched over to natural healing methods, and had their licenses revoked as a result. I learned medical doctors carry even more risk than other practicing naturopaths because the licensing boards keep track of their member physicians, ready to revoke licenses at the slightest perception of using an unapproved method. It is easier for these physicians to lose their licenses than it is for psychiatrists who get caught having sex with their patients. |
| And the only reason I discovered natural healing was because my own health began to fall apart as soon as I began medical school. Healing a body naturally never entered my mind.
As far as I was concerned, every time I or a member of my family got sick, we immediately went to the doctor. There was no way to prevent or to do anything between doctor visits that would guarantee we would remain healthy, or that would give us the sadsfacdon that we could be doing something to keep ourselves healthy — other than taking pills. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 I medical pathologist and co-founder and co-director of Uchee Pines In-1 stitute, a natural healing center in Seale, Alabama. Enemas are also used in 1 conjunction with fasting to encourage the ehmination of toxins released I during the fast. ji... =_
To prepare an enema, fill an enema bag (available in most pharmacies) I with lukewarm water—from lA to 1 quart for a child ten years of age or 1 older to no more than 2 quarts for an adult, suggests Dr. Thrash. Use one :; pint for younger children. |
| And here in the States, hydrotherapy is still practiced in places such as the Uchee Pines Institute, a natural healing center in Seale, Alabama. Founded in 1970 by Agatha Thrash, M.D., a medical pathologist, and her husband, an internist, Uchee Pines helps patients rebuild their health with hydrotherapy, exercise, dietary changes and other simple remedies.
By the late 1960s, years of practicing pathology and internal medicine had left the Thrashes disillusioned with conventional treatment. "It began to seem to us that nobody ever really got well," recalls Dr. |
Mark Bricklin
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 At the same time, the osteopath has first-rate medical training, which other practitioners of natural healing techniques may
But the dangers are just as real as the promise. Recent reports indicate that osteopathic physicians are using slightly more drugs than their medical brethren. Osteopathic physicians are not supermen: Time, as Dr. Bollman acknowledged, is a factor. This might mean that eventually the D.O. will spend no more time than the M.D. on the musculoskeletal system. |
| The primacy of the bathtub flows naturally from the fact that mineral water, or mineralnaya voda, as they say, is considered the ultimate natural healing agent. The minerals in it—magnesium, calcium, sulfur and others—are valued in their own right. But so is the unique balance of constituents in the water of each spring, down to the last molecules, nearly.
The natural carbonation is also prized. |
Bottom Line Health
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| He is author of numerous books on natural healing, including The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies. Bottom Line, www.bottomlinesecrets.com.
Fasting can be an effective way to detoxify the body and, subsequently, improve energy levels. It works by giving the organs and cells of the body a rest from some of the metabolic functions they perform every second of the day. This rest allows the body to expel toxins and cleanse the tissues.
During the first day of a fast, the body burns stored sugar, known as glycogen. |
Mark Bricklin
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| And in natural healing behind the Iron Curtain, we look at some spas in the Soviet Union that are larger and more elaborate than anything to be found in North America, with the possible exception of the famous Golden Door in Escondido, California. But the classic spa is to be found in Europe, where these institutions originated many years ago, and where they're still going strong today. So in this section we will look to Europe to see just what spas are all about and how they go about making people healthier. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Medical science is now just showing us that we have to optimize these natural healing systems that are already present. We must take advantage of humanity's most tremendous asset in healing, "the host," which is our own body.
Sometimes the physician has a tough time getting any healing to occur. Nothing frustrates a physician more than dealing with a compromised immune system. This happens frequently with people suffering from full-blown AIDS or those who have been taking chemotherapeutic drugs.
The infections these patients get are severe and sometimes remarkably unusual. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| I You will find a complete listing of organizations, sources of mail-order j products and books for each of the 16 natural healing methods that are | covered in this book. ¦i74-l- ','
I And here's a final "instruction" for using New Choices in Natural I Healing: Use it in good health! . •;if,f"~('" doctor with a victim mentality: 'Here, I'm a body, take care of me.' Instead, we want them to ask how they can take care of themselves."
Alternative practitioners admit that this approach isn't for everyone. "There are plenty of people who think 'I don't want to change my life. |
Cynthia A. Foster, M.D.
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| I have spent most of my time educating people on the dangers of Western Medicine and on the benefits of natural healing. Most of us don't realize how many rights have been taken away from us and also from our children. Mandatory immunizations are a perfect example. We've been taught to think that if we are sick, it is someone else's responsibility. We forgot that we actually have the power to heal ourselves. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| Uchee Pines Institute, a natural healing center in Seale, Alabama. Add one cup of baking soda to a tub filled with lukewarm (94° to 98°F) water and soak for 30 minutes to an hour, using a cup to pour the water over any part of the body that isn't submerged in the bath. Pat dry.
Vitamin and Mineral Therapy
After a sunburn, taking these supplements for a few days can speed healing, says Julian Whitaker, M.D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Although it is not a cancer treatment, it has so many anti-cancer nutrients that it offers a healthy nutritional base for supporting the patient's natural healing process and overcoming cancer. (And despite what oncologists still mistakenly believe, antioxidants do not interfere with chemotherapy. They only protect healthy cells, not cancer cells.)
Anyone taking prescription drugs, especially statin drugs for high cholesterol, needs to be taking a superfood supplement like LivingFuel Rx Super Greens. Why? |
Mark Bricklin
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| Three hundred years ago, the great Elizabethan herbalist Nicholas Culpeper listed comfrey among the most effective natural healing agents.
About three years ago, a women in Veneta, Oregon, decided to apply a comfrey dressing to painful varicose veins that had troubled her for 13 years, threatening to immobilize her. Where countless doctors and remedies had failed, the herb succeeded. Happily back on her feet, the woman told Prevention that comfrey truly "worked wonders."
During the Middle Ages, comfrey was a popular remedy for mending broken bones and battle wounds. |
| To get a better perspective on the importance of natural healing alternatives, it helps to take a closer look at exactly what these concerned physicians are talking about.
Iatrogenic illness—that is, illness caused by medical procedures or drugs—has been with us since the first ancient herbalist gave someone an overdose of ground roots. We might logically assume that iatrogenic illness is becoming less and less of a problem as medical care becomes more sophisticated. But that might not be the case. |
| Note that in each case, the natural healing approach is conservative. It says, "Let's not do anything drastic until we see if something simpler, cheaper, and safer works."
Simple. Cheap. Safe. More and more people these days are looking at modern technological medical practice as the precise opposite of everything those words imply. Novelist Robert Gover has said that "A doctor is happiest when he can jump on top of a disease and stomp it to death with his bare feet. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 The newer drug-eluting stents (coated with drugs to lessen the body's natural healing response to the injury caused by the stent's insertion) may also suddenly block after a few years because a clot forms where the endothelium was injured; the drug in the stent that prevents inflammation also inhibits the endothelium's capacity to heal.
We can do better. We can go right to the source of the disease. We can cut off the supply of fatty substances that accumulate in the arteries to such catastrophic effect.
We can go directly to the bottom line. |
Bottom Line Health
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| He is author of numerous books on natural healing, including The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies. Bottom Line, www.bottomlinesecrets.com.
The chronic condition known as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects up to 20% of the US population. Symptoms include diarrhea and/or constipation, abdominal pain, cramping, gas and nausea.
In 2002, tegaserod (Zelnorm) was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the short-term treatment of IBS in women who experienced constipation. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 The European hydrotherapy tradition had a strong influence on the development of naturopathy, and by the end of the nineteenth century, Benedict Lust, a physician trained in the water-cure methods of Europe, came to America and began using the term naturopathy to describe an eclectic combination of natural healing principles and methods.
The first college of naturopathic medicine in the United States opened in New York City in 1902. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| To receive the natural healing properties present in lemons, it's important to use whole, fresh, organic lemons. Lemons from a grocery store are usually not as "pure" as you might believe due to over-processing, early picking, pesticide spraying, or being grown in nutrient-depleted soil.
Using fresh squeezed, organic lemon juice helps you eliminate more toxins on a daily basis. The more toxins you can flush out of your system, the more your colon will be receptive to your cleansing efforts.
Fig. XI: Oxygen Colon Cleanser Breaking Down Toxic Buildup
Why Are Oxygen-Based Colon Cleansers Used? |
Anne Harrington
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 All the healings at Lourdes, extraordinary as they were, were simply evidence that the natural healing powers of the mind were far more extensive than the medical profession had previously appreciated. Why had it taken Lourdes to reveal this? Charcot focused on the remarkable features of Lourdes as a site. Its remoteness meant that all pilgrims underwent a long, arduous journey to reach it (the train trip from Paris at that time took twenty-two hours). When they finally arrived, they were exhausted and their critical faculties were diminished. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Besides anthocyanins, cherries have three other compounds in them that are of great interest to the field of natural healing: quercetin, ellagic acid, and perillyl alcohol.
Quercetin has been found to be a potent anticancer, as well as a powerful anti-inflammatory, agent (see page 101, allergies and asthma). And in animal research, ellagic acid inhibits the growth of certain tumors. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 Balch and Balch, Prescription for natural healing. placebo effect
A placebo ointment applied daily for 24 days produced a reduction in night cramps (by 66 percent), leg heaviness (by 69 percent), tiredness from standing (by 62 percent), and itching (by 45 percent). Conclusion: Varicose vein symptoms show a strong response to placebo ointments.
E. Ernst et al., "The Powerful Placebo," Lancet 337 (March 9, 1991): 611. c o n t r acupuncture
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