As we begin to talk about disease the first question is, what is disease? Very simply it is a process of eliminating impurities that should not be in the physical body, Without any impurities, blood circulation would be excellent and one would enjoy perfect, vigorous health and be able to live a fully active life throughout the year. What, then, are these impurities? They derive from substances such as medicines and other chemicals taken into the body, When they become old, they change into impure toxic blood or pus. What originally caused man to take medicines and in so doing, to bring disease?

In the primitive ages as populations increased, natural food supplies grew more and more inadequate People had to eat anything they could find that was edible. Since early methods of hunting, fishing and farming were very simple, they ate any food they found in. forests, rivers and fields, without distinguishing between the good foods and those that were harmful to the system. Because they wanted only to satisfy his hunger, they were frequently poisoned; they became ill and suffered pain. This they began to call disease. To alleviate pain, people began to experiment with various things, such as roots the bark of trees and other kinds of plants. By chance so the of them proved effective and were much in demand. These were called “medicine”.

It is impossible to indentify any particular individual, but every culture has its god or hero of medicine – often a legendary figure to whom the origins of the particular medical traditions of the culture are attributed. In the case of China, for example, it was Shen Nung, an emperor who is believed to have reigned in the third millennium B.C. These traditions grew and were accepted as it was found – that certain medicines could alleviate the pain of common discomforts, such as food poisoning, that were caused by purification, These medicines worked by suppressing the process of cleansing. The erroneous belief that when the symptoms were gone disease was cured grew virtually immovable No one knew that it was suppression of purification that had taken place. What is surprising is that this misconception has been perpetuated for thousands of years. Human intelligence has actually advanced little beyond the thinking of ages long-past. People still take medicines made from herbs, bark, and other substances besides chemicals, holding on to the old Idea that medicine heals disease, even in this modern world.

In explaining disease I will take the common cold as an example, as almost everyone has had a cold at one time or another. The first symptom is usually an increase in body temperature. After that, other symptoms appear, such as headache, coughing, phlegm, night sweat, lassitude or pain in the joints. These are all caused by the body’s action to rid itself of some accumulated toxins. Medical science, unaware of purification, tries to suppress the symptoms, the very processes that will eliminate the toxins. As toxins accumulate, the bodily functions are progressively impeded. Therefore, at a certain point, nature begins to eliminate some of the toxins from the system. Fever works to dissolve congealed. toxins arid eliminate them from the body in nasal or oral mucus, perspiration, urine, or diarrhea, This process is usually painful, and uncomfortable.

If the individual will patiently permit the process of purification to continue unobstructed, the toxins will decrease unimpeded and the health will steadily improve. Medical theory, however, dictates that pain or discomfort indicates damage to the internal functions and doctors therefore make every effort to suppress it. Purification can take place more easily when the vitality of the body is high. Medical treatments, contradicting this basic principle, are designed to lower the vitality, thereby suppressing purification. As vitality decreases, symptoms diminish, so it is easy to understand why medicine is so convincing. Medication, however, is the most effective way possible not to heal but to debilitate it is one of the worst things you can do, for it literally injects poison into the body.

To the detriment of human health, people have completely misunderstood the natural process of the dissolution of toxins by fever followed by discharge. Because the cleansing action irritates the nerves and causes discomfort, it has been misconstrued as a deteriorating condition. The customary remedy is to try to prevent dissolution of the toxins with icepacks, poultices, antipyretics and the like. The temporary alleviation of pain is interpreted as recovery, simply out of ignorance. Thus, methods of alleviating pain themselves cause further disease. Failing to understand heaven’s gift of good health, people destroy and reject it. This is what we call medical science.

A victim of a cold thinks he is being healed if his discomfort is temporarily relieved. He simply does not realize that the natural elimination of toxins is being suppressed and medicinal toxins are entering his body. Suppressing purification and adding more toxins will always produce much more severe purification later. Consider, from example, those who treat colds with medication; they generally suffer continuing recurrences of the same ailment. Colds are common when seasons change, sometimes becoming chronic. But having a cold is something we should actually be grateful for, since it is the simplest form of cleansing for the body. Efforts to prevent or cure colds by using suppressive methods of treatment only harden the toxins in the body instead of allowing their natural expulsion. That results in more intense purification, which appears in the form of TB or other very serious conditions. The best method of prevention is to encourage occasional colds and let them run their course. If that were done, half the battle of disease would he won. As it stands, however, medicine takes the oppositemeasures and serious diseases are in fact increasing.

There are two kinds of toxins that accumulate and cause disease. The first is congenital, inherited medicinal toxin, and the second is acquired after birth. They gather and solidify around areas where the nerves are more active. The busiest nerves are in the upper part of the body, particularly in and around the brain – the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and so on. Toxins tend to move toward those regions, concentrating at first in the neck area, congealing and forming hard lumps. Very few people have no lumps formed by toxins around the neck and shoulders. A slight fever is almost always present in those areas, due to minor purification taking place. Headaches, a dull feeling in the head, stiffness of the neck and shoulders, ringing in the ears, discharge from the eyes, nasal mucus, phlegm and alveolar pyorrhea are all caused by this purification.

Purification occurs naturally when the hardened toxins exceed a certain amount. It also takes place when vitality is raised by physical exercise or other activity, or when a sudden change in the weather forces the body to adapt to it. Both are manifested in the form of stiff shoulders or other symptoms, usually followed by a cold. Coughing is a pumping action by which liquefied toxins are removed. Not only are the toxins around the neck eliminated this way, but those in other areas as well. Sneezing is another kind of pumping that removes liquefied toxins from the region behind the nose, around the top of the spinal column (medula oblongata.)

A cold, then, is a rather intense form of purification primarily in the upper half of the body centering around the brain. Understanding this, we should all.w nature to take its course without anxiety, even when we catch cold. The body will become cleaner and normal health wilt return without too much trouble. Man’s happiness could be so much greater if he only knew this truth.