Minor Ailments
Probably, nowadays, nearly everyone is concerned about germs; but few people are concerned enough about minor ailments—such as colds, indigestion, that “tired feeling,” etc. —which pull down the vital resistance and make for general inefficiency and maladjustment. It is in dealing promptly with such conditions that the home treatment may be most useful. For none of these happens without a cause. They are danger signals that indicate something wrong within the body. A cold is the beginning of a complaint that often be¬comes serious, so it is desirable to give it the attention neces¬sary to modify or definitely cure it. Similarly, a pain any¬where in the body is a warning that something is wrong. There is always a reasonable excuse for the existence of pain. In nearly every case it assists in a needed physiological process that is curative. The greatest objection to drugs which kill the pain is not that drugs always do great harm in themselves, but that they keep the sufferer from ascertaining and re¬moving the physiological cause.