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December
18, 2010
"Baby, It's Cold Outside!"
On The 5th Day of Christmas,
No Common Cold for Thee...
Deer
livefoodfactorfriends!
THE HIGHJOY HORSE & THE WILDERNESS WOMAN WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU...
THE FOLLY OF COLD MEDICINE
VS.
THE WISDOM OF THE 10 ENERGY ENHANCERS!
The 10 Energy Enhancers
1. Cleanliness & Detoxification
2. Pure Air
3. Pure Water
4. Adequate Rest & Sleep
5. The Ideal Diet of Sun-Ripened
Live-Foods: Fruit & Veggies,
Nuts & Seeds & Sprouts
6. Right Temperatures
7. Natural Light & Sun Baths
8. Regular Exercise
9. Emotional Balance
10. Nurturing Relationships
The Natural Hygiene Care of "The Common Cold"
By Dr. Herbert M. Shelton & Edited by Victoria BidWell
Taken from
Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review
January *** 1955
Disease simply cannot evolve when The Conditions for Health are fully met. It should be understood by all, that influences capable of building disease must be continuously supplied in order to get sick and stay sick! Any continuous irritation or stimulation, any daily enervating habit, any of The 10 Energy Robbers practiced reduce Nerve Energy. This results in Enervation -- becoming too tired for your body to sustain health. When Enervation is established, normal elimination of waste products is checked. These waste-products are toxic and, when retained and accumulated, produce Toxemia. Essential to the building of the one and only disease, of Toxemia we require a continuous cause of Enervation, checking elimination of waste, which is the result of constant, auto-generated and/or ingested toxins. When this toxic event is accumulated beyond systemic toleration, a toxemic crisis develops. The crisis -- so called "Acute Disease" -- is a process of elimination of Endogenous and Exogenous Toxins.
The simplest form of crisis is a term used by those not in the know: "the common cold." When one "gets" or "catches a cold," it means to those in the Natural Hygiene know that the point of toxic saturation has been reached -- "the cold" reduces the amount of toxin in the blood to or below the toleration point, then spontaneously ends. It is said to be "self-limited." Its course is variable, lasting from an hour to 3 or 4 days in the average case, to 2 or more weeks in some cases. "The common cold" thus continues until the toxic saturation is sufficiently reduced for near-normal function to be resumed. The fact that it "spontaneously ends" permits the sellers of cures "to cure the cold" with a wide variety of costly, useless, even harmful medicines and processes! It should be recognized by everyone that the so-called "cold" is a remedial process and is not something to be cured. It is a purifying process. When it has ended, the body is less toxic than before its development.
A "cold" is defined as "a catarrhal fever of the upper respiratory passages, particularly of the nose." A "catarrh" is simply "inflammation of mucous membranes anywhere in the body." There is no difference between an acute catarrh of the nose, throat, bronchial tube, lungs, stomach, color, bladder, or womb. Instead of a medley of names such as "coryza, tonsillitis, pharnyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, gastritis, metritis, cystitis," all of these local Inflammations may as well be called "colds." Fever (a slight rise in body temperature) accompanies all of these toxemic crises. They are all processes of compensatory excretion.
So-called "influenza," which is only a severe "cold," tonsillitis, diptheria, scarlet fever, measles, smallpox, and other so-called "infectious diseases" (The eruptive fevers are intensified by intestinal putrescence.) are toxemic crises. Recovery from these so-called "diseases" is recognized as a "cure." As in "the common cold," the subsidence of acute symptoms simply means that the toxemic saturation, plus, in the case of the eruptive fevers, the putrescent poisoning, have been reduced below the level of established toleration. The symptoms simply cease when the blood has been relieved of its toxic load. If the enervating cause is continued after the cold, the tonsillitis, the scarlet fever, etc., has ended, toxin accumulation is resumed and continues and soon another crisis develops.
In no sense of the term can The Health Seeker be said to have been "restored to health!" He is still toxemic; he is still enervated; toxin accumulation is still going on; the enervating mode of living is still being carried out. He has merely passed successfully through a crisis. What is recognized as a "state of health" is in reality a "state of impaired health." There is but one disease, and its cause is still present. The many and varied crises that manifest during the course of this disease are evanescent, even ephemeral; but they develop at frequent intervals as a means of reducing the Toxemia to or below the level of established toleration.
"Real restoration of health" can follow only when the enervating causes are removed and corrected, only with the institution of The 10 Energy Enhancers into the daily life of The Health Seeker so that Nerve Energy may be restored, full elimination re-established, the blood made sweet and clean, and whatever changes the mucous membranes have undergone from having to serve as a highway of elimination. This means that SUPERLATIVE HEALTH must rest, at all times, upon first class habits of living -- UPON THE 10 ENERGY ENHANCERS -- and that any mode of living that is a mixture of ENERGY ENHANCING and ENERGY ROBBING is a disease-producing way of life. Those many people who write to me, or who tell me that they are living correctly at least 90% of the way and want to know why they are not well, should know that the mode of life that is 10% wrong will build disease and that it will prevent full recovery. So long as they continue to practice one enervating indulgence, they cannot have full Nerve Energy, hence, elimination cannot be fully normal. Besides, compromised genetics and a polluted environment, the extreme daily stresses of life, and a deficient food supply -- these all work as Energy Robbers against us.
It is important to know that after years of repetition of these crises -- particularly if they develop at the same site frequently -- sufficient, organic change occurs to result in the development or evolution of serious, organic, so-called "disease." In the lungs, tuberculosis; in the liver, sclerosis or abscess; in the stomach, ulceration, perhaps cancer; in the colon, ulcerative colitis and cancer; in the womb, ulceration, tumors, cancer; in the breasts, following enlargement and soreness with each menstruation, induration, tumors, and cancer, and so on. The "cold," wherever located, is the starting point of the evolution of the most complex and eventually
fatal, organic maladies. Hardening of the arteries, culminating in cardio-vascular disease, has its beginning with the first "common cold" of infancy. It should be
understood that the first "cold" of infancy represents an established
Toxemia, which, because its cause is never really corrected and removed,
persists throughout the life of the individual. So-called "Acute
Diseases" of all kinds are but crises in Toxemia. So-called "organic
diseases" of all kinds are but end-points in a progressive, pathological
evolution that starts in infancy and persists so long as the chronic
Toxemia is permitted to continue. There is unity and continuity in the
pathological process when one practices The 10 Energy Robbers, just as there is unity and continuity in the get well process when The Health Seeker practices The 10 Energy Enhancers!
From what has gone before, it should be evident that "the common cold" should
not be "treated" with the endless array of cold medicines -- both prescription and over-the-counter. No effort should be made to "cure" it. All
suppressive measures hinder the elimination of toxin and further reduce
Nerve Energy. Their tendency is to prolong, rather than to shorten the
duration of the "cold." The temporary respite that some of them afford
from the discomfort of "the common cold" is out-weighted by the greater length of
time "the cold" is thus made to last. This does not mean that nothing can
be done during this time of toxic elimination and normalizing of body chemistry to make The Health Seeker comfortable and to hasten
termination of symptoms. He or she should be cared for in a manner to conserve
Nerve Energy and hasten the elimination of toxins. The 10 Energy Enhancers must all be put into practice in the right amounts for an ill Health Seeker to recover!
Nothing conserves and permits the accumulation of Nerve Energy like
mental and physical rest. "Go to bed and poise the mind!" is the first
prescription when a toxemic crisis has developed. Nothing hastens the
elimination of toxin like undertaking complete, physiological rest during The Correct Natural Hygiene Fast. The Natural Hygienists' prescription is this: "Cease eating,
take nothing into the mouth but water during the period of the
crisis, thus shortening the time required to complete the reduction of
the toxic load to or slightly below the point of toleration." One must keep hydrated by drinking water throughout the fast. Warmth conserves Nerve Energy and hastens elimination. Being chilled
expends Nerve Energy and checks elimination. Keep warm.
As the symptoms of "the common cold" do not do more than reduce the accumulated metabolites (waste products of metabolism) to or slightly below the level of toleration, this plan of care may profitably be extended beyond the disappearance of symptoms, to the end that more of the toxic load may be dumped and a higher standard of health established. This simply means that if the period of emotional, mental, physical, and physiological rest is prolonged beyond the time required for the crisis to end, added recuperation and housecleaning are secured.
We should not be satisfied with a mere disappearance of symptoms. Nothing short of complete elimination of toxin, full recuperation of Nerve Energy, and a thorough-going correction of the mode of living should satisfy the intelligent! This will result in SUPERLATIVE HEALTH! There is no better way to achieve this result than undertaking The Correct Natural Hygiene Fast!
After all of this is over and a higher standard of health is established, if The Health Seeker returns to his or her former, enervating mode of activity, each will again bring on Enervation, accumulate more toxin, thus precipitating other crises and gradually evolve organic, so-called "disease." Our prescription for "the common cold," then, that "is going around" and is so easy "to catch" is, this: The Correct Natural Hygiene Fast, followed by a thorough-going and lasting revolution in the way of life = THE 10 ENERGY ENHANCERS!
DEER LIVEFOODFACTORFRIENDS! You can find the best extended definition of and description of "The Correct Natural Hygiene Fast" in "Our Very Best Foundational Bedrock Teachings" at Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods website. And you can take a picture-tour of the meals I serve in "Our 40 Fun & Fancy Live-Food Fotos." Finally, the abstract definition of "The Correct Natural Hygiene Fast" is put into the concrete by reading "Our Guests' Best Stories." Do take the live-food picture-tour, if you have not already, and see the adventure feasts we so enjoy:
THE 10 ENERGY EHHANCERS ARE
GOD'S GREAT GIFTS TO US...
THIS & EVERY CHRISTMAS!
WE HOPE YOU START THE NEW YEAR WITH THEM ON YOUR MINDS
& IN YOUR 2011 ROUTINES!
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