Natural Hygiene What is It

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NATURAL HYGIENE - WHAT IS IT?NSWER 1: (Natural) Hygiene is tat !ran" #$ !i#l#gy tat relates t# te %reser&ati#n an' rest#ratiealt

YGIENE is tat !ran" #$ !i#l#gy tat relates t# te %reser&ati#n an' rest#rati#n #$ ealt.onomy is the science of the laws of living functions; or that branch of biology which treats of habits and

aptation.

thobionomics is a word I have coined to designate the correct adaptation of life and environment to each othe

e ygiene #$ ealt an' te ygiene #$ 'isease is #ne.

wever, for convenience, we divide it into Preventive Hygiene, or the hygiene of healthful maintenance, andmedial Hygiene, or the hygiene of health restoration.

By Preventive Hygiene is meant the intelligent employment of hygienic principles, forces and agencies for theaintenance of functional and structural integrity.

By Remedial Hygiene is understood the intelligent employment of hygienic principles, forces and agencies for thetoration of sound health."

ere must be a way to live exactly right, which, if a man does, he will grow’ into health, said a young school!teachemself some years ago. He was beginning to despair of his life because every doctor to whom he went diagnosed hi

se differently and proceeded to ma#e him much worse than ever. Then began a long series of experiments upon his

dy, and years of study of the sub$ects that relate to health and disease. That man, young Robert %alter, later became

the leaders in the nature cure or hygienic movement. &i#e many others who have turned to hygiene he was forced tudy the matter out for himself because physicians are interested in disease and not in living.

soap!box lecturer was once entertaining a crowd on Broadway in (ew )or# *ity. lie told the following story+ ! Theperintendent of an institution for the feeble!minded sent an inmate into the basement to mop up the water from a fau

at accidently had been left running. &ater in the day the man was found mopping with the water still running full bla

ou darned idiot, why don’t you turn off the faucet,’ shouted the superintendent. - The simpleton grinned and repliedobody’s paying me to turn er off. ’m gettin’ two bits an hour to mop er up. %hen the roar that greeted this $ibe at

edical profession had subsided, the spea#er continued+ The land is flooded with sic#ness which flows from ignoran

ture’s laws. roper instruction would shut off disease at its source, but if doctors turned off the tap, they would putemselves out of a $ob. (obody pays the medical profession to /turn er off, they get /two bits an hour to mop er u

1helton, Human &ife t2s hilosophies and &aws, 3456

NSWER 2: (Natural) Hygiene is a branch of biology & a complete ay of life

Hygiene is that branch of biology hich in!estigates the con"itions upon hich health an" life "epen"# an" the

eans by hich they are sustaine" in their !irtue an" purity$

is a complete ay of life comprising a system of min"bo"y care in health an" in sic'ness. t is based upon themonstrable principle that the same elements re7uisite to maintain vigorous health are essential to a state of sic#ness

ese are modified only insofar as the altered needs and capacities of the sic# organism re7uire, but they superimpose

on the normal elements of living no anti!vital elements.

truly valid system of mind!body care must be coeval with life. t must have a timeless validity that belongs not to thor#s of men, but nature itself. t must be of such a character that it meets ade7uately all needs of the living organism

der any condition of life.

must be the very constitution of things. t cannot grow out of the hapha8ard researches and discoveries of man, but m

part of his life from the very beginning. t will thus be a system that will not, because it cannot, pass away. The face systems that have been of man’s devising pass after a brief day of popularity, reveals that they are not valid. ' vali

stem of Hygiene cannot be artificial. t must meet the elemental demands of living and be based upon the unvarying

nciples of nature. t must harmoni8e in all particulars with all we #now about life, and not fly in the face of a validerpretation of man#ind’s vast experience. t must meet both the simplest and deepest problems by appealing to

monstrable principles.


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e principles of (atural Hygiene must be capable of uniting all the elemental factors of Hygiene and holding them

gether. This constitutes a firm central point upon which man can rely.

ur principles must not be myths# legen"s# assumptions# theories or "ogmas# nor a combination of them$ hey

nstitute more than a staunch con!iction or a popular belief$ hey must be true* if they are not true# they cann

r!e as a !ali" foun"ation upon hich to buil" a true ay of life$

cause the principles of Hygiene grow out of a wealth of related facts, they have their roots in the daily life and realperiences of man. Because they are true, they will apply with full force to other forms of life, and not to man alone.

lid Hygiene must satisfy life, and not merely man or some men. t is a much larger thing than most of us imagine. %

s true that all forms of life obey certain fundamental laws, each type of organism has its own distinct pattern, entireginal and different from that of every other organism."

1helton, Health for the :illions, 34;6

NSWER +: ,Hygiene of the fast,

e term "hygiene" can also be used like this: the fast must be properly conducted. The "Hygiene of the fast" does not differ from the "hygiene of disease".

deed we must learn to regard fasting as Hygienic, not as a therapeutic measure."

1helton, 34 1top the use of tobacco, of course. f the heart is worn out from shoc#, as

e it among gamblers, or among men who are plunging in the stoc# mar#et, what will cure> 0rugs> (o? Removing thuse.

ery so!called disease is built within the mind and body by enervating habits. The food and dietetic insanity thatnstitutes the headliner on the medical stage $ust now is causing the people to demand a diet that will cure them of th

culiar maladies. The idea prevails that some peculiar diet will cure rheumatism or any other disease. 0iet or food wre any disease.

fast, rest in bed, and the giving!up of enervating habits, mental and physical, will allow nature to eliminate the

cumulated toxinA then, if enervating habits are given up, and rational living habits adopted, health will come bac# to

he one *R@0 will stay put. This applies to any so!called disease. )es, it fits your diseaseCyou who write to findhe Tilden system of cure applies to your case. )esA cannot you reali8e that law and order pervades the universe> 'n

e same from nebula to stone, from stone to plant, from plant to animal, from animal to man, from man to mind, and

nd to super!mind Dod. To use a blan#et expression+ &aw and order pervades the universe, the same yesterday, todayrever, and is the same from star!dust to mind, from electron to mind.

xemia explains how the universal law operates in health and disease. Ene disease is the same as anotherA one man tme as anotherA one flower the same as anotherA the carbon in bread, sugar, coal, and the diamond is the same. )es, oease can be cured F>G the same as another, unless the organ acted on by toxemic crises is destroyed. 9or example+ f

ong eating is persisted in, the acid fermentation first irritates the mucous membrane of the stomachA the irritation

comes inflammation, then ulceration, then thic#ening and hardening, which ends in cancer at last. The medical woruggling to find the cause of cancer. t is the distal end of an inflammatory process whose proximal beginning may b

itation. The end is degeneration from a lac# of oxygen and nutriment, and, in degenerating, the septic material enter

culation, setting up chronic septic poisoning called cancer cachexia.

sease is a common e5pression of uni!ersal ener!ation. 'n understanding of physiology and pathology necessitat

m grip on evolution as expressed in biologyA or reasoning will go astray occasionally.


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odern cures and immuni8ation are vanity and vexationA they are founded on the foolish principle of reasoning from

fect, is disease, to cause. The organ which is suffering from many crises of Toxemia is discoveredCit may be ulcer mach, then the ulcer is cut outA it may be gallstone, then the stone is cut outA it may be fibroid tumor of the womb, t

e tumor or womb is cut out. The same may be said of other effectsCthe medical armament is turned loose on a lot o

fects. This is accepted by the public mind as efficient treatment of disease, when in fact it is a stupid removing of efnd that is not the worst of such blundering. The operators have not the slightest idea of the cause of the effects they

llfully remove. n other derangements the same lac# of #nowledge of cause prevails. n the treatment of deficiency

eases, the lac#ing element is supplied from the laboratoryA but nothing is done in the line of restoring the organ tormality. %hy> Because medical science has not discovered why organs fail to function properlyA and until this disco

made, scientific blundering will continue.

-E 2: ,he belief in "isease an" cures stan"s as an effecti!e barrier to a true e"ucation in healthful li!ingygienic Reiewl. !### $uly% &'() *o. &&

ealing !ersus "+uring"

erbert ,. -helton

ealing is a prerogati!e of the li!ing organism$ t is omnipresent and is forever functioning in the body that is not i

alth. 6uring "isease is a !oo"oo game$ ' cure for disease will be discovered simultaneously with the discovery of

rpetual motion. The search for cures should have been abandoned at the same time the search for the hilosopher2s as given up. eople who want to be cured should not consult a Hygienist. Hygienists cannot cureA they have no cure

an can #now what to do to help lagging functionA he can #now much about the creative processes that go on in his bo

d their re7uirementsA but he cannot ma#e bloodA he cannot produce a cellA he cannot #nit a bro#en boneA he cannot rwound. 'll that he may legitimately do is to remove all interfering factors, whether internal or external, and supply t

rmal conditions of this creative wor#A after which the organs and processes of life, under the control of the laws of l

t busy and do the wor# of healing.

e have a great army of invalids and semi!invalids who are going from specialist to specialist, from hospital to hospit

m clinic to clinic, from sanitarium to sanitarium, from one health resort to another, from climate to climate, from thore to the mountains, see#ing, ever see#ing, for health. They go from one school of curing to another school of curin

t they never regain health. They spend time and money in their search for health and never find it. %hat is wrong>

ugs and operations, the sea bathing and sunshine and mountain air and different climates and the specialists and themous hospitals and clinics and sanitariums cannot cure them, what is the reason> f modern medical science, with al

great wealth of cures, fails them and they turn to the lesser schools of curing, and these also fail them, what shall th>

e answers to all these 7uestions are simple ones. These people are not getting well because the causes of their illnes

e not being removed. Their modes of living are not being corrected. @nervating habits are being permitted to cripple

nctioning power so that they remain toxemic. They continue to eat in a manner to maintain the constant and seethingsspools in their digestive tracts. They do not need to change climates. They do not need to go to the mountains or to

a shores. They need to change their modes of life. They can get well as soon as they cease to build disease. %hen th

arn the correct way of life and conform to it, they can have health. ntil then, they are destined to go on suffering anasing cures until the underta#er relieves them of the necessity of further chasing.

he first "e!iation from health is a gra"ually e!ol!ing ener!ation resulting from ener!ating mental an" physicabits. 1o long as enervation chec#s secretion and excretion, there is a general inability of the organs of the body to

nction normally. ' toxemic state of the body develops and slowly devitali8es the tissues for years, resulting in delay

aling and degeneration in in$ured or devitali8ed parts. The varying symptom!complexes, starting with enervation an

ogressing to toxemia, impaired nutrition, with a gradual deterioration of the entire system, and ending, finally, inceration, induration and fungation FcancerG, is a long drawn!out pathological evolution with a continuous degenerati

sue. %hen men live in a manner to maintain continuous toxin saturation, they are in line for the development of any

ease to which diathesis or environment determines them.

may be 7uestioned that this progressive toxemic saturation of the tissues of the body is responsible for the many so!

led diseases with which man suffers. t is commonly thought that each of these so!called diseases is a distinct entity

7uiring a specific cure. This idea grows out of the symptomatic differences noted in the various so!called diseases. %ould not organs differing as much in histology and function as the tonsils and the stomach present different symptom


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hen they are inflamed> %ill it be denied that the cardinal symptoms of inflammation are the same in the two organs>

ll not. But the secondary symptoms will differ and these differences will flow from the differences in structure andnction of the two organs. f pneumonia differs from hepatitis or if nephritis differs from colitis, this is due to the fac

hile inflammation in every possible location is basically the same, the different structures lend their own characteris

atures to the symptoms. But if they are basically and actually one and the same thing, why should they be recogni8efferent diseases and treated differently>

eumonia is a symptom!complex based on inflammation locali8ed in the air cells. %ere the inflammation locali8ed ionchial tubes, it would be called bronchitis. %hen the inflammation is locali8ed in the tonsils, it is called tonsilitisA

e stomach, gastritisA if in the womb, metritisA if in the appendix, appendicitisA if in the colon, colitis, etc., etc.

studying pathology in the text boo#s, it has neither past nor future. t is without beginning and without end. %e stulated fragments of pathological processes. s it atrophy we study> %e never have it connected with preceding states

e body. 0o we study abscess of the liver> %e study the abscess as though it has no connection with the ills of functi

pairment, irritation, chronic inflammation, etc., that have preceded. @nd!points are studied. nfortunately, also, thedifferentiation between what we may term natural pathology and drug!created pathology. (obody ever suspects th

e studying end!products of years of pathological functioning and our pathology is li#e topsyA it was never born, it $u

rowed. t appears without cause, without a history of premonitory symptoms, to be cut out and pronounced cured.

he belief in "isease an" cures stan"s as an effecti!e barrier to a true e"ucation in healthful li!ing. The medical

ofession is not teaching the people how to live, but has opposed every effort at living improvement. The only preven

ey have fostered is that of immuni8ation by means of vaccines and serums.

rong habits of body and mind reduce the powers of the body and ma#e it possible for parasites and germs to live in

vities. arasites and germs are not the causes of disease of the body, but incidents of the disease. Derms are as helplruly healthy body as a feather in a gale. The cause of disease is not the germ that is present, but the mental and phys

bits that have bro#en down the body. &et the office of the germs be what it may, they can no more cause disease tha

e can be #indled in a vacuum. The theory that germs and parasites have to be destroyed in order to cure disease is oe myriads of delusions that collectively constitute what is called scientific medicine.

rasites seem to be almost, if not 7uite as omnipresent as germs, but li#e germs, parasites of all #inds must find favorbitats if they are to begin house#eeping. %hen you start homesteading parasites, you may #now that your tissues an

cretions have become so impaired that the parasites find residence in them possible. "*arriers" of germs and parasitose who have converted their bodies, particularly their digestive tracts, into bouillon cultures, by enervating habits a

oss eating. 'mebic dysentery, a so!called parasitic disease, ends in recovery in two to three wee#s if the patient isoperly cared for and no amebicides are given by mouth or by rectum. These drugs cause inflammation, build ulcera

litis and proctitis.

we ta#e a loo# at the curing process in the case of cancer, we cannot help but be shoc#ed and ama8ed at the pain to

hich people are sub$ected in their effort to regain health without the necessity of removing the cause or causes of the

ffering. The tortures of the orthodox hell are mild compared to the suffering of the cancer patient who has been operon and then given the orthodox treatment that is used as a follow!up. The pain is "relieved" with narcotics given in

creasing doses, with diminishing "relief," until the patient dies in a narcotic drun#. 't no point in the care of a cance

se is any effort made to discover and remove its cause.

ncer does not develop in a normal body. This is to say, a genuinely healthy body will not evolve cancer. *ancers ar

f!caused. t should be understood, then, before any effort is underta#en to treat cancer, that it is necessary to #now w

anges have ta#en place in the body before cancer develops. f these are #nown and corrected, the cancer shouldappear, providing the whole organism is not so greatly devitali8ed that it is not capable of throwing off the evolving

thology. To remove the cancer and follow the removal with !ray and radium certainly does nothing to correct the p

ncerous developments and their causes.

physician is called to see a sic# man. He finds him in severe pain and administers an anodyne. This provides a temp

pite from pain, but it practically suspends the operations of the body in throwing off toxins and repairing damage.

se is one of pneumonia, and the cough is "relieved," the lungs fill with secretion and the patient diesA if it is one ofarrhea in an infant, and the diarrhea is chec#ed, the infant may die of the "relief." :altreated pneumonia may end in


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