TREATMENT FROM A NATUREOPATH
As yet, treatment from a natureopath is not recognized as treatment by a “qualified” medical practitioner; and this has reduced the ranks (and the incomes) of many men and women dedicated to healing. It has also reduced the numbers of their patients, as many who would like to have the benefit of this type of medicine cannot afford to pay the costs. Surely, these are two branches of the same science and should be recognized as such; one using artificial means and one natural means.
Theoretically (and logically) those using artificial methods should be tagged as “witch doctors” if that title is to be placed anywhere. Please don’t think I have any grudge against medical practitioners. I believe only that they have been misled by the man-made “wonder drugs” of the last half-century, and by their patients’ demand that the symptoms of illness should be cured as quickly as possible. Suppressing the symptoms only aggravates the body’s inability to expel any disease-caused poisons. A runny nose is not pleasant, but it is the body’s way of freeing swollen tissues from the waste matter accumulated in them.
Perhaps we ourselves are to blame. No one likes to be sick, and if illness strikes we would all like a magical potion to make us instantly well again. Tackle it from the other angle: use the goodness of herbs and natural foods to build up resistance and vital health, and disease will have trouble gaining a foothold. If it does lay you low, try rest, patience and Nature’s remedies, and the cause of the illness should soon disappear.
On the lighter side, herbs can be fun. If you like to practise oneupmanship, do it with a drop of this and a sprig of that in your food when friends and relatives come for a meal. Keep them guessing, and surprise them with your skill.
So all I can add now is the phrase with which I ended my Introduction to these pages about the fascinating world of over twenty centuries of herbal lore:
Bon appetit, good health, and happiness!
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