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Chapter 11
When Disease Heals
(The Healing Crisis)
Author's Note: In order to be rightly
understood, this chapter needs to be studied in conjunction with the three
previous chapters.
As you work at
strengthening and cleansing your body, your system will regain its vitality.
Then, as your vitality improves, your body will sense that it finally has the
energy and the ability to engage in certain housekeeping tasks that it never
quite had the vital reserves to carry through in the past. As the naturopathic
writer, George Teasdale, tells us, . . .
`By the time a man
reaches forty years of age living on a civilized diet, he may have stored away
in his body upwards of twenty pounds of mucous. When he discontinues the intake
of catarrh forming foods, the life forces within him commence to break down and
eject this large accumulation of virus.' (Nature Heals!, p. 29).
And just how will the
body `eject this large accumulation' of virus/mucous/impurities? By way of a
cold, a cough, sneezing, short-lived skin blemishes, etcetera. What this means
is that just when most people would think that they should feel better than ever
before, they might just find themselves experiencing a sudden upsurge in the
frequency of their acute ailments - but only for a short while. As Dr. Jensen
explains . . .
`In the nature cure
way of treating [disease], a discharge that is dormant in the body may again
become active, and the patient may become alarmed, but when nature is cleaning
house she stirs up latent, encapsulated conditions that will gradually eliminate
themselves through the bloodstream and the eliminative organs. In the process of
cleansing, Nature is breaking down the stored-up toxic material that has
developed in the body from the use of drugs, vaccines, injections, and generally
bad living habits. Those who do not understand nature's way of ridding the body
of toxins through a discharge, do not understand that when a drug is given to
suppress this discharge, they are interfering with nature's way of ridding the
body of toxic waste. The elimination of toxins by the body is referred to as,
"the Healing Crisis." ' (Bernard Jensen D.C.,N.D., The Science and Practice
of Iridology, p. 164 )
Once we understand
the true nature of disease, those who wish to improve their health will
understand that a short spell of suffering might well be unavoidable. In fact,
the healing crisis is often a rocky path that we simply have to climb if we wish
to reach the summit of good health.
So what can you
expect when you first start following the Nature's Way programme?
The healing crisis
can manifest itself in various ways, but there is usually catarrhal elimination,
accompanied by any of the following: headache, boils, skin rash, sore joints,
retention of water (edema), mild fever and/or stiff muscles. In fact we might
even relive some of our old ailments and pains, especially those that were
suppressed by drug medications. Diarrhoea, bad breath, and minor skin blemishes
can also present for a short while as the body seeks every means possible to
cleanse itself.
If you have lived a
reasonably healthy, active life, and your body is in a fairly good condition,
chances are you will not experience any undue discomfort when you start out on
this programme. If you have lived intemperately in the past, however, and you
have been in the habit of taking drugs to suppress your acute ailments, your
system is likely to be burdened with a considerable level of toxic impurities.
If this accumulation is more than your eliminative organs can cope with, then
Nature will have to call to her aid her good and faithful housemaids - namely,
the common cold, the cough, etcetera, to assist her in her cleansing efforts.
Those younger in
years may develop inflamed tonsils. But here we need a special note of caution.
We must remember that the tonsils are important components of the lymph system
and that, as such, they play
a vital role in the cleansing processes of the
body. When they are inflamed, it is a sign that the body is backed up with toxic
impurities and, as such, inflammation of the tonsils is not necessarily an
indication that the tonsils should be surgically removed. In most cases it is
simply sure proof that something in the lifestyle and/or diet needs changing. As
Dr. T. Hartley-Hennessey, A.R.C.A., tells us . . .
`In many countries
enjoying modern civilization, almost every law of nature is now violated. Under
modern conditions, if a child is taken to hospital suffering from inflamed and
discharging tonsils, not only are the tonsils, which are doing their job
magnificently, amputated, but the child is returned home in the same condition
of life which produced the disease. No change is made.' (Healing
by Water, p. 186)
So the message here
is that if a child has inflamed tonsils, our first need is to seek by every
means possible to detoxify the child's body - a process that will certainly
include the drinking of lots of water in-between meals, hot baths followed by
skin rubs, a mild herbal laxative or enema for four or five days, a daily drink
of activated, granulated charcoal, a liberal daily dose of vitamin C and other
anti-oxidants, and a switch to high-fibre natural foods - preferably vegetarian.
Then the parents need to ensure that sweets, refined junk foods and sugary,
preserved drinks are totally excluded from the child's intake. By removing the
cause, and cleansing the system, the inflammation should soon subside - and
expensive, painful surgery will thus be avoided.
At first the Healing
Crisis may sound like a cruel quirk of Nature, but once we understand the true
nature of disease, and how the body, in its all-wise economy, is always looking
for opportunity to cleanse itself, and how it will only do this when it has the
vital reserves to carry it through, we come to realize that there are times in
life when we have to get `sick' in order to get well. Quite simply, we cannot
expect to get well for as long as excessive toxic impurities are backed up in
the system - and very often the only way that the body can eliminate this
encumbrance is through the process of acute `dis-ease.' This is why, as George
Teasedale suggests, . . .
We need to `be
patient with Nature, even though her efforts at house cleaning are disagreeable.
By persistent continuance in well doing the body will be cleansed of its toxic
accumulations, and the discharges will finally and permanently cease.' (Nature
Heals!, p. 29).
Under normal
circumstances, wisdom, perseverance, and sometimes a few natural remedial
agencies, are all that are needed to aid in our recovery from a healing crisis.
At such times there is usually no need for alarm for, as Dr Jensen assures
us, . . .
`It takes a reserve
to go through a healing crisis, and the body will not produce a crisis unless it
is able to go through with it.' (The Science and Practice of Iridology,
p. 33)
Yet we should still
be cautious, especially if we suspect that our immune defenses are low, and
especially if we have lived a very intemperate life in the past. If at any time
you feel even slightly alarmed at the symptoms that you are experiencing, do not
hesitate to seek counsel from a naturopath or a suitably qualified,
diet-oriented health
professional. Do mention to him or her that you have recently improved your
living habits and that you suspect that you might be experiencing a healing
crisis.
Proceed To Chapter 12:
In the next chapter we will be considering another medical tragedy - this time
in the field of dentistry. (Please fasten your seat belts :-))
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