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 impurities, blood circulation would be vigorous and one would enjoy-full, robust- health and be able to live an active life thr9ughout the year. What, then, are these impurities? They derive in part from substances such as medicines and chemicals taken into the body. When they become old, they change into impure toxic blood or pus. What originally caused human beings to take medicines and in so doing, to bring on disease?
Over the millenia as the human race grew more numerous, natural food supplies were not always adequate. Since early methods of hunting, fishing, and farming were very simple, people ate what they could cull from forests, rivers, and fields, without distinguishing between good foods and those that harm the human system. Eating only to satisfy their hunger, they were frequently poisoned; they became ill and suffered pain. They began to call their ailments “disease.” To alleviate pain, people experimented with various things, such as roots, the bark of trees, and other kinds of plants. By chance, some of these seemed effective and came into popular use. They were called “medicines.’
Every culture has its god or hero of healing – often a legendary figure to whom the origins of the particular healing traditions of the culture are attributed. In the case of China, for example, it is Shen Nung, an emperor thought to have reigned in the third millennium B.C. These traditions spread and were widely accepted as it was found that certain medicines could alleviate common discomforts, such as food poisoning, that were signs of purification. Those medicines worked by suppressing the process of cleansing. The erroneous belief that when the symptoms were gone, disease was cured, became permanently – entrenched. No one knew that what had taken place was suppression of purification. Most surprising is that this misconception has been perpetuated for thousands of years. Human perceptions about health have advanced little beyond the thinking of ages long past. In our times, also, people still take medicines made from herbs, bark, and other substances besides chemicals, holding on to the old idea that medicine heals disease.
In explaining disease I will take the common cold as an example, as almost everyone has had a cold once in a while. The first symptom is usually an increase in body temperature. After that, other symptoms appear, such as headache, coughing, phlegm, nightsweat, lassitude, or pain in the joints. These phenomena are all caused by reactions in the body as it tries to rid itself of some accumulated toxins. Medical science, unaware of purification, works to suppress the symptoms, the very processes that will eliminate the toxins. As toxins accumulate, and the body functions are progressively impeded When the mass of toxins increases to a certain level, nature begins to eliminate some of them from the system. Fever works to dissolve congealed toxins and send them out in nasal or oral mucus, perspiration, urine, or diarrhea, a process that is usually painful or uncomfortable.
If the individual patiently permits purification to continue unobstructed, the toxins will decrease unimpeded, and one’s health will steadily improve. Medical theory, however, dictates that pain or discomfort indicates some internal malfunction, and doctors 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 disrupting purification. As vitality decreases, symptoms diminish, and so it is easy to understand why medical treatment can be so convincing. Using medication, however, is the most effective way possible not to heal but to debilitate – it is one of the most harmful things you can do, for it literally injects poison into your body.
At great cost to their health, people have completely misunderstood the natural process in which toxins are dissolved by fever, and then discharged. Because the cleansing action irritates the nerves and causes discomfort, it has been misconstrued as a negative condition. The customary remedy is to try to prevent dissolution of the toxins with icepacks, poultices, antipyretics, and the like. Temporary alleviation of the pain is interpreted as recovery, simply out of ignorance. Thus, methods of relieving pain themselves cause further disease.
Without fully understanding heaven’s gift of good health, people destroy and reject it. This is exactly what medical science is doing.
Cold victims think they are being healed if discomfort is temporarily relieved. They simply do not realize that the natural elimination of toxins is being suppressed and medicinal toxins are accumulating within the body. Suppressing purification and adding more toxins inevitably produce much more severe purification later. Those who treat colds with medication generally experience continuing recurrences of the same ailment.
Colds are common when the seasons change, sometimes becoming chronic, but we should be grateful for a cold; 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 takes the form of TB or other very serious afflictions. The best way to prevent such diseases is to encourage occasional colds and let them run their course. If that were done, half the battle of disease would be won. As it stands, however, medicine takes the opposite approach and serious diseases are, in fact, increasing.
There are two kinds of impurities that accumulate and cause disease. The first is congenital, inherited medicinal toxin, and the second is acquired after birth. They gather and congeal 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, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and so on. Toxins tend to move toward those regions, concentrating at first in the neck ar9a, congealing and forming hard lumps. Very few people have no lumps of toxin 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 signs of this purification.
Purification occurs naturally once the hardened toxins exceed a certain level. It also takes place when vitality is raised by physical exercise or other activity, or when a sudden change in the weather forces your body to adapt quickly. Both instances of purification are apparent in the form of stiff shoulders or other symptoms that are 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 are also discharged. Sneezing is another kind of pumping that purges liquefied toxins from the is region behind the nose, around the tnedull at the top of the spinal column.
A cold, then, is a rather intense form of purification primarily in the upper half of the body, especially the head and neck. Understanding this, when you catch a cold you should allow nature to take its course. There is no need for anxiety. Your body will become cleaner, and you will regain normal health without experiencing too much discomfort. Our happiness could be so much greater if all of us only knew this.