Disease Mysterious
The Body a self-Regulating Maxchine. People understand that the ill body, regardless of what treatment may be taken, must be depended upon to cure itself. The most that any physician can do is to aid in bringing about conditions which will enable tlie body to cure itself. The most dependable way to determine the so-called curative treatment of any dis¬ease is to learn its cause. No one knows exactly what a feeling of discomfort or pain may indicate. Sometimes it may be a dangerous symptom; but often it indicates a condition, whether seemingly serious or merely disconcerting in nature, easily corrected in most in¬stances by right living.
If you fear an enemy his power over you is greatly in¬creased. It is the same with disease. If you allow fear to get the better of you when you experience the symptoms of disease, its effects upon you are far more serious. The body at all times is working for itself. It is self-regulating, hence its failures are mostly due to errors for which we, personally, are responsible. Serious diseases are frequently made worse because of the unnatural, hence inter¬fering, treatments administered.
THE NATURE OF DISEASE.—Faith in the magic of drugs is due to general ignorance of the real nature of disease. Once one begins to understand what sickness really is, one has a means of meeting most of the usual ailments when they occur, and of protecting the body against their recurrence.
Symptoms and sickness are the result of abnormal bodily conditions due to failure to obey the laws of life and health. Sickness then intervenes as a physical remonstrance. It brings about compulsory arrest of digestion. It stops the over¬loading process. The body can then eliminate the impurities which, if they continued to accumulate, finally woidd cause death. The ending of sickness in premature death is due al¬most invariably to the ignoring of the signals given by nature to stop over-feeding and other disease-producing practices.
Nature’s Signals
Sickness really may be looked upon as a means which the body adopts to remedy abnormalities within itself. When the exact status of sickness is recognized, when it is properly
treated, and the body is assisted in the eliminating, purifying and really curative processes, recovery usually is rapid and certain.
The right procedure for everyone possessing health-intelligence is to be able to recognize sickness before it appeal’s, to see it far ahead. If one will study his physical welfare sufficiently to be able to recognize its coining, illness, in most of its serious phases, can be avoided.
The ability to see the disease before it actually gets the upper hand is invaluable. It saves an incalculable amount of suffering, since it enables one to depend upon himself in practically every emergency. There is no need to reckon on the burden of sickness—you are able to circumvent it.
Remember, therefore: If you lose your appetite; if you feel dull, lazy, logy; if your bowels are inactive; if you are irritable; if your nerves are shaky; if you suffer from sleep- lessness; if you have dizzy or fainting spells—if you have the slightest signs of such symptoms, then it is your duty to try to learn the cause of your trouble.