General view: ‘Germs do not cause disease but they appear in the same way as flies do when garbage is lying about. Where there is garbage, there are flies and germs. So, if the human body is kept free from any garbage or filth or waste products, then it can remain free of disease.’ This is what Dr. Stanley Davidson has opined about presence and causation of diseases in human body.
If the body is kept free from all sorts of filth, garbage, foreign and toxic matters and if, per chance, there is any accumulation of such harmful toxins in the body and also that certain physical disorders and health hazards have already set in, then the first task is to remove such filth, garbage or toxins or foreign matters. Once the body has been fully ridden of such undesirable elements, the symptoms of the disease will disappear or at least show a declining trend.
Nature has bestowed upon living human beings the mental faculties to distinguish between right and wrong, to give up the harmful objects and adopt the beneficial ones. The patient does know and should know why he has been subjected to a particular disease. The contributory causes could possibly stem from emotional, psychic, physical, psychosomatic, traumatic, social, family or professional, atmospheric and climatic disturbances.
Other causes could possibly be triggered off by dietary indiscretions and certain harmful habits such as smoking, drinking, drug addiction etc. When all these, or some of the said factors, afflict a person, he is bound to have adverse effects which, invariably surface in the form of disease or disorders. Self- regimentation, judicious and proper control over one’s senses, can help a person to overcome many abnormal situations in life. Hence, self-control of body, mind and intellect is of utmost importance.
If the body is ailing, you won’t be able to perform your daily chores and when the body is ailing, mind also can’t remain at peace and rest. Intellect helps a man to discern, to distinguish, to choose between right and wrong but when body is ill, even the intellect’s function is retailed. So, always first of all try to keep your body in good humour.When the body is functioning properly, no germs, insects, garbage and toxins, foreign matters harmful to body, will ever be able to use your body as an abode or provide them a breeding place to spread infections and thus cause surfacing of various body ailments.
Since healthy mind lives in a healthy body, it is the sacred and bounden duty of every living being to keep up the health of this miracle of nature (Body). If you keep it clean, serve it, it will return you the dividends with compound interest but, if you choose to take undue liberty with it and try to abuse it, it will never spare or forgive you and the ravages brought by it cannot be imagined or foreseen by any stretch of imagination.
As indicated earlier, nature’s best gift to this Universe is the human being, in the form of a body which works like a fool-proof computer and to sustain, nourish and fortify it, nature has given another gift in the form of vegetations—vegetables, fruits, herbs, trees, various plantations, grass, greenery etc. If one can abide by the advice of father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, that ‘If anyone can take a glass of musumbi or Narangi (lime or orange respectively) juice once a week in the morning, he can keep himself free from any disease’.
In our opinion, there cannot be any other cheap and easily available device which could provide guarantee for a healthy life and that too, at such a low price. It is hardly important how long one lives. In fact the importance lies in how healthily one lives. Forty years of disease-free life is far better than eighty years of a disease-ridden and chequered life span. There is a mini story in this connection. An old man of eighty was approached by a middle-aged person and, on being asked how is it that he was healthy, agile and youthful at such a ripe age too, the old man laughed and replied that ‘I have lived life for eighty years but you have survived for forty years’.
Here in lies the real difference between living and surviving. Even animals survive but it is the human being who lives and enjoys life in the real sense of the term. Do not drag yourself on rather mould your body in such a way that it should be able to boldly face and withstand even the oddest eventualities in life, because you are not destined to drag and survive only, rather you are destined to live life and enjoy it also.
Just ponder over with full mental indulgence over the remarks of Dr. John B. Lust when he mountains ‘Natural healing is the most desirable factor in the regeneration of the race. It is a return to nature in methods of living and treatment. It makes use of the elementary forces of nature, of chemical selection of foods that will constitute currect medical dietary.’
In his famous treatise (‘The New science heeling’) Dr. Louis Kulne asserts that “Toxic accumulation in the human body is the root cause of all diseases. Such accumulations are reabsorbed in the blood stream and they cause all ailments in the body. So, The proper method to remain free from any disease is to detoxify the whole body by means of consuming fresh fruit or vegetable Juice in the morning “This expression is in perfect hannony and consonance with other experts’ opinions which were quoted earlier. The expressions quoted above, may be a rehash or recapitulation of ideas/opinions expressed earlier but, all the same, their utility and value cannot be denied.
Anaemia: (Lack of Blood)
It is an iron-deficiency disease, mostly found in semile (old) persons, malnutritioned infants, cliildren and pregnant women. Haemoglobin (lib), which imparts red colour to blood is also manufactured by iron, the former acts to move oxygen from lungs to other cells of the body. Juice of beet, spinach, apple, carrot and lime will make up the iron deficiency and, thus, enrich and increase blood volume in the body. These fruits can be juiced together or separately according to individual suitability, convenience and requirement.
Acne: (Facial pimples)
Generally young persons, (both the sexes) are often afflicted with it. It is a skin infection caused to young persons, during puberty, and pimples appear on face. This is an agonising skin eruption (on face). Use mamelos, lime, papaya, cucumber juice. If impurity of blood be the sole cause use, in addition to above blended juice, juice of margosa (neem) and also apply paste of its young and green leaves. If irritation ensues or persists discontinue use of margosa, whether in local and/or oral form.
Its fruit (Nimoli) is also said to be useful, if sucked when it is ripe. Do not apply any anti-acne lotion or cream. It has been observed that persons with oily skin are more prone to acne. So, try to keep your face clean with hot towel nibbing, steam-baths. To date, there is no permanent respite from this disease. Do not pluck skin eruptions on face.