Need of Education in Health Principles

Education in health principles was never more needed than now. Notwithstanding the wonderful progress in so many lines relating to the comforts and conveniences of life, the decline in physical vigor and power of endurance is alarming. It demands the attention of all who have at heart, the well-being of themselves, and their fellow men. {MH 125.2}

Our artificial civilization is encouraging evils, destructive of sound principles. Custom and fashion are at war with nature. The practices they enjoin, and the indulgences they foster, are steadily lessening both physical and mental strength, and bringing upon the race, an intolerable burden. Intemperance and crime, disease and wretchedness, are everywhere. {MH 125.3}

Many transgress the laws of health through ignorance, and they need instruction. But the greater number know better than they do. They need to be impressed with the importance of making their knowledge a guide of life. {MH 126.1}

A practice that is laying the foundation of a vast amount of disease, and of even more serious evils, is the free use of poisonous drugs. When attacked by disease, many will not take the trouble to search out the cause of their illness. Their chief anxiety is to rid themselves of pain and inconvenience. So they resort to patent nostrums (ineffective remedies/treatments), of whose real properties they know little, or, they apply to a physician for some remedy to counteract the result of their misdoing, but with no thought of making a change in their unhealthful habits. If immediate benefit is not realized, another medicine is tried, and then another. Thus the evil continues. {MH 126.2}

People need to be taught that drugs do not cure disease. It is true that they sometimes afford present relief, and the patient appears to recover as the result of their use; this is because nature has sufficient vital force to expel the poison, and to correct the conditions that caused the disease.

Health is recovered in spite of the drug. But in most cases the drug only changes the form and location of the disease. Often the effect of the poison seems to be overcome for a time, but the results remain in the system, and work great harm at some later period. {MH 126.3}

By the use of poisonous drugs, many bring upon themselves lifelong illness, and many lives are lost that might be saved by the use of natural methods of healing. The poisons contained in many so-called remedies, create habits and appetites, that mean ruin to both soul and body. Many of the popular nostrums, called patent medicines, and even some of the drugs dispensed by physicians, act a part in laying the foundation of the liquor habit, the opium habit, the morphine habit, that are so terrible a curse, to society. {MH 126.4}

The only hope of better things, is in the education of the people in right principles. Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health. In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system. {MH 127.5}

Natural Remedies

Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in divine power, these are the true remedies.

Every person should have a knowledge of nature's remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick,and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge. {MH 127.2}

The use of natural remedies requires an amount of care and effort, that many are not willing to give. Nature's process of healing and upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient, it seems slow.

The surrender of hurtful indulgences, requires sacrifice. But in the end, it will be found that nature, untrammeled, does her work wisely, and well. Those who persevere in obedience to her laws, will reap the reward in health of body, and health of mind.

Too little attention is generally given to the preservation of health. It is far better to prevent disease, than to know how to treat it when contracted. It is the duty of every person, for his,or her own sake, and for the sake of humanity, to inform himself, or herself, in regard to the laws of life, and conscientiously, to obey them. All need to become acquainted with that most wonderful of all organisms, the human body. They should understand the functions of the various organs and the dependence of one upon another, for the healthy action of all. They should study the influence of the mind upon the body, and of the body upon the mind, and the laws by which they are governed. {MH 128.1}

Thanks and God Bless, Anthony

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