Nature's Healing
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HUMAN RECONSTRUCTION
Personally, I do not profess to cure disease. In fact, no man, whatever his system, can do that. Nature alone is capable of curing (eliminating) disease, and She only can do so when the proper elements are supplied with which She can rebuilt the part of the body which has become weakened by disorganization.
All that I, or any other man, however great he may be, can do is to seek the cause of the weakness, learn what the deficiencies are that brought it about, then proceed to supply the essential substances. Nature can then do the rebuilding—the reconstructing. There is no such thing as a physician as the word is commonly understood. The true physician is a teacher, one who includes the laws of life—a regimen of correct living, and who, if need be, supplies the substances required to eliminate the deficiencies of the ailing body.
The essential materials are not medicinec, but organic (organized) substances which we know as food (material ingested) that can be digested and assimilated by the hungry cells of the body. Drugs, those unorganized (non-organized) substances'so constantly prescribed, cannot be digested nor assimilated. They may be absorbed by the cells just as dyes are absorbed by cotton, woolen or silk goods, but assimilation is not possible. As a result hungry cells are not supplied with the foods for which they are crying. Such agents are of no actual value, except in rare instances when they stimulate weakened (hungry and starved) cells to make greater effort to establish their lost balance.

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