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Toxemia Explained:
PART 2 of 2
The Medical World Is Looking For Cures
The medical world has been looking for a remedy to cure disease,
notwithstanding the obvious fact that nature needs no remedy--she needs
only an opportunity to exercise her own prerogative of self-healing.
Cancer is the culmination of years of abuse of nutrition, and years of Toxemia
from faulty elimination.
The most powerful eliminant is a fast. In other words, give nature rest, and she
needs no so-called cures. Rest means: Stay in bed, poise mind and body,
and fast.
Nature then works without handicaps, unless fear is created by all the old fear-
mongers, professional and lay, sending to the patient the warning:
"It is dangerous to fast; you may never live through it."
These wiseacres do not know that there is a vast difference between fasting
and starving.
Germs As A Cause Of Disease
Germs as a cause of disease is a dying fallacy. The bacteriological death
march is on, and those with their ears to the ground can hear it.
Toxemia accepts the germ (organized ferment) as it does the enzyme
(unorganized ferment). Both are necessary to health.
What more can be asked by any doctor than a philosophy of cause that gives a
perfect understanding of the cause of all so-called diseases?
To know cause supplies even the layman with a dependable cure and an
immunization that immunizes rationally.
Dependable knowledge is man's salvation; and when it can be had with as
little effort as that required for a thorough understanding of the Philosophy of
Toxemia there is little excuse for any man, lay or professional, to hazard
ignorance of it.
Toxin--the designating poison in Toxemia--is a product of metabolism. It is a
constant, being constantly generated; and when the nerve-energy is normal, it
is as constantly eliminated as fast as produced.
The body is strong or weak, as the case may be, depending entirely on
whether the nerve-energy is strong or weak.
And it should be remembered that the functions of the body are carried on well
or badly according to the amount of energy generated.
Importance Of Nerve Energy
Without nerve-energy the functions of the various organs of the body cannot
be carried on. Secretions are necessary for preparing the building-up material
to take the place of worn-out tissue.
The worn-out tissue must be removed--eliminated--from the blood as fast as it
is formed, or it accumulates, and, as it is toxic, the system will be poisoned.
This becomes a source of enervation.
Elimination of the waste products of tissue building is just as necessary as the
building-up process.
As these two important functions depend on each other, and as both depend
on the proper amount of nerve-energy to do their work well, it behooves all
people who would enjoy life and health to the full to understand in what way
they may be frugal in using nerve-energy so that they may learn how to live
conservatively or prudently, thereby enjoying the greatest mental and physical
efficiency, and also the longest life.
To the ignorant, thoughtless, and sensual such suggestion and advice will
seem unnecessary, or perhaps the whims or preachments of a crotchety
person, or the qualms of a sated sensualist; but it is the writer's belief that the
more sober and thoughtful will welcome a knowledge that will help them to
become masters of themselves.
So far the masses have trusted their health and life to a profession that has
failed to make good. I say this advisedly; for now the supposed masters in the
profession are looking for the causes of disease, and it should be obvious to
any thinking mind that, until the cause of disease is found, certainly no
dependable advice can be given as to how to avoid disease.
Fifty-eight years of independent thinking, unbiased by sect or creed, have
enabled me to discover the true cause of disease; and it is so simple that even
a child can learn to protect itself against the said-to-be "diseases peculiar to
children."
Nerve-energy and good money are the commodities that are spent very
rapidly these days. Chasing the dollar causes great waste of energy; and the
dollar has been chased so much that it has developed wanderlust to such a
degree that men enervate themselves catching up with a few, but prostrate
themselves endeavoring to break them of their wander-habit.
There are many ways to use up nerve-energy. It should be the ambition of
everybody to conserve all the nerve-energy possible for the extraordinary
amount required to keep the speeding-up necessary to adjust humanity to the
automobile pace. This will come in time.
Without nerve-energy the functions of the body cannot be carried on
properly. The present-day strenuousness causes enervation, which checks
elimination, and the retained toxins bring on Toxemia.
Everything that acts on the body uses up energy. Cold and heat require the
expenditure of nerve-energy to adjust the body to the changes.
Now that I have found that enervation is the source of the cause of the only
disease (Toxemia) to which mankind is heir, it is easy to see that the so-called
science of medicine, as practiced, is an ally extraordinary of all the causes of
enervation, and becomes a builder of disease instead of curing or ameliorating
man's sufferings.
Every so-called cure in its very nature causes enervation. Even the drugs
used to relieve pain end in making a greater pain, and sometimes kill.
The drugs to relieve cough in pneumonia sometimes kill the patient.
Removing stone from the gall bladder does not cure the cause, and more
stones form.
Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put nature in line for curing.
Sleep and rest of body and mind are necessary to keep a sufficient supply of
energy. Few people in active life rest enough.
Why Enervation Is The Cause And Not The Disease
Enervation per se is not disease. Weakness, lost power, is not disease; but,
by causing a flagging of the elimination of tissue-waste, which is toxic, the
blood becomes charged with toxin, and this we call Toxemia--poison in the
blood.
This is disease, and when the toxin accumulates beyond the toleration-point, a
crisis takes place; which means that the poison is being eliminated.
This we call disease, but it is not. The only disease is Toxemia, and what we
call diseases are the symptoms produced by a forced vicarious elimination of
toxin through the mucous membrane.
When the elimination takes place through the mucous membrane of the nose,
it is called a cold--catarrh of the nose; and where these crises are repeated for
years, the mucous membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones enlarge,
closing the passage, etc.
At this stage hay fever or asthma develops. When the throat and tonsils, or
any of the respiratory passages, become the seat of the crises of Toxemia, we
have croup, tonsilitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia,
etc.
What is in a name? All are symptoms of the expulsion of toxin from the blood
at the different points named, and are essentially of the same character and
evolving from the one cause namely, Toxemia--crises of Toxemia.
This description can be extended to every organ of the body; for any organ
that is enervated below the average standard from stress of habit, from work
or worry, from injury, or from whatever cause, may become the location of
crises of Toxemia.
The symptoms presented differ with each organ affected; and that gives color
to the belief that every symptom-complex is a separate and distinct disease.
But, thanks to the new light shed upon nomenclature (naming disease) by the
Philosophy of Toxemia, every symptom-complex goes back to the one and
only cause of all so-called diseases--namely, Toxemia.
The symptoms that are called gastritis (catarrh of the stomach) are very unlike
the symptoms of cystitis (catarrh of the urinary bladder); yet both are caused
by crises of Toxemia--both become the locations for the vicarious elimination
of toxin from the blood.
It should be obvious to the discerning how extraordinarily illogical it is to treat
catarrh of the nose as a local disease; or, when crises are repeated until
ulceration takes place, and the mucous membrane becomes so sensitive that
dust and pollen cause sneezing and watering of the eyes--symptoms called
hay fever--to treat these symptoms as a distinct disease caused by pollen.
Rest and total abstinence from food, liquid and solid, and reforming all
enervating habits, will restore nerve-energy; the elimination of toxin through
the natural channels will take place, and full health will return.
This state will remain permanent if the erstwhile victim of hay fever, or any
other so-called disease, will "stay put."
The first elimination of toxin through the nose is called a cold. When this
elimination is continuous, with exacerbation--toxin crises (fresh colds)--
occasionally, ulceration takes place, bony spurs form, and hay fever
develops.
These are all symptoms of toxin elimination. The cause is the same from the
first cold to hay fever.
The catarrhal discharge that continues throughout the interims of fresh colds
(crises of Toxemia) is chronic catarrh, named such in medical nomenclatures,
and treated locally as though it were an independent, fiendish entity; when the
truth is that the victim of so-called chronic catarrh keeps his system enervated
by tobacco, alcohol, sugar and sweets of all kinds, coffee, tea, excessive
eating of butter and bread, too much rich cooking, excessive eating of all
foods, excess of sensual pleasures, etc.
Keeping the system enervated prevents the reestablishment in full of
elimination through the normal excretory organs.
In catarrh of the stomach the mucous membrane takes on thickening,
hardening, ulceration, and cancer--all described in the nomenclature of
medical science as so many distinctive diseases.
Every so-called disease has the same inception, evolution, and maturity,
differing only as the organic structure involved differs.
All diseases are the same fundamentally.
The cause travels back to Toxemia, caused by enervation, which checked
elimination; and enervating habits of body and mind are the primary causes of
lost resistance enervation.
Every chronic disease starts with Toxemia and a toxemic crisis. The crises are
repeated until organic changes take place.
The chain of symptoms range from cold or catarrh to tuberculosis, cancer,
syphilis, ataxia, and other so-called diseases; all, from beginning to end,
symptoms of the cumulative effects of crises of Toxemia.
Enervation Is General
When nerve-energy drops below normal, the elimination of toxin--a natural
product of metabolism is checked, and it is retained in the blood, bringing on
Toxemia--the first, last, and only efficient cause of all so-called diseases.
It should be obvious to discerning, minds that the amount of toxin in the blood
must vary with each individual, and that the degree of resistance also must
vary with each individual.
The amount of harm done by vaccination and re-vaccination will never be
known. No words can describe the harm that immunizing with vaccines and
serums has done and is doing, except wholesale vandalism.
The average doctor cannot think, and the others do not dare to think except
conventionally out loud. I do not know where to place the men of the medical
profession who are capable of thinking, but who refuse to allow reason to
guide them in their thinking in the matter of so-called immunization.
It has been said of me, because of my stand against the germ theory and
vaccination, that I have "peculiar views" by some, that I am "an ignoramus."
It is held that the immunity produced by vaccination implies some change in
the components of the body--a necessary assumption.
But now, if the substances composing the body, solid or liquid or both, have
been so modified as to leave them no longer liable to smallpox, is the
modification otherwise inoperative?
Will anyone dare to say that it produces no further effect than that of shielding
the patient from a particular disease?
You cannot change the constitution in relation to one invading agent and
leave it unchanged in regard to all other invading agents. What must the
change be?
Hence, as a constitution modified by vaccination is not made more able to
resist perturbing influences in general, it must be made less able.
Heat and cold and wet and atmospheric changes tend ever to disturb the
balance, as do also various foods, excessive exertion, mental strain.
Interfering with the order of nature is a vast subject--one without end; but
nature "comes smiling through" except when overwhelmed.
Health--good health--is a greater force than bad--than every interference--and
can correct every evil effect that is not fatal, if the influence is removed.
Stimulants, continued over a long period, cause a gradual deterioration, and
finally, unless the habit is stopped, end fatally.
Toxin is a stimulant and a natural product of metabolism. When the body is
normal, the toxin is removed as fast as generated; but when any enervating
habit is practiced beyond the power of recuperation, the toxin accumulates,
and Toxemia is established--which means that the body has lost its protecting
power.
Now, if vaccine or any infection gains entrance into the blood, "there is no
knowing where the effects will end."
When toxemic subjects are infected, the infection will never be eliminated
entirely until enervation and Toxemia are overcome.
Unless patients of this character are put to bed and fasted until elimination is
completed, then fed properly, and taught how to eat within their limitations,
and unless they are willing to give up all enervating habits, there is no hope of
their ever getting well.
These subjects often develop tuberculosis, and other lingering so- called
diseases.
Nature's order is interfered with by enervating habits until Toxemia is
established; then a vaccination, or an infection from any source, acts sooner
or later as a firebrand in causing the most vulnerable organ to take on organic
change.
The organ, however, has nothing to do with cause, and directing treatment to
the organ is compounding fallacy. Types of such nonsense are blood-
transfusion for pernicious anemia; gland treatment for gland impotency;
cutting out stones, ulcers, tumors, etc.
There is no question but that one of the most pernicious practices in vogue
today is treating so-called disease with disease, and immunizing with the
products of disease.
One of the first things to do to get rid of any so-called disease is to get rid of
Toxemia, for it is this state of the blood that makes disease possible.
Infection, drug-and food poisoning may kill; but if they do not, they will be
short-lived in a subject free frown enervation and Toxemia.
Conversely, the poisoning will linger in the system until Toxemia is overcome;
then elimination will remove all traces of infection.
Remove Toxemia, drugging, fear, and vile eating, and there is little left. What
there is can easily be thrown out by nature.
Poise
Contentment comes with striving, not with possession. Apparently this is not
always true; for we see people very dissatisfied and unhappy who are busy.
No man is satisfied with work that has nothing in it but the dollars he gets out
of it. Nothing but creative work satisfies the mind.
What is there in it? Advancement, self-development, and a chance in the
future to do good are about as little as will satisfy ambition.
To make for contentment, the work must occupy and satisfy the mind.
Those who find a life of service to take the place of ambition's jilts have made
no mistake in the selection of the Great Physician; but those who seek cures
outside of self are hunting cures in a Fool's Paradise.
Cures. There are no cures. The subconscious builds health or disease
according to our order. If we send impulses of irritation, discontent,
unhappiness, complaining, hate, envy, selfishness, greed, lust, etc., the
subconscious builds us in the image of our order.
The truth is that we are not needing a doctor at all. We need a physician who
will erect a reconciliation between our subconscious maker and ourselves.
What we need is to be taught self-control, poise equanimity, repose. And
when these impulses are sent over the sympathetic nerves to our
subconscious maker, we shall begin to receive images of a more man, until an
approach to perfection is attained.
Poise of mind and body should receive attention early as well as late in life.
Good health late in life indicates self-control, moderation in all things, and
equanimity--poise.
Moderation does not mean the same to all people. Some men call three to six
cigars a day moderate indulgence; others believe that one to six a month is
temperate. Those who have an irritable heart and stomach are immoderate
when they use tobacco at all.
Fortunate is the person who knows his limitations and respects them. Of such
a person it may be said that he is poised.
Immunization
Wouldn't it be incongruous if in the evolution of man such an important
element as autoimmunization should be left out?
No animal has been forgotten in the great scheme of creation. Powers of
offense and defense have been wisely provided, and to suppose that king of
all animals--man--should be left defenseless is most absurd.
No, man is provided with a nervous system, at the head of which is a brain
capable of thinking, which can come to the aid of a flagging nervous system
and help to renew it.
When the nervous system is normal--when there is full nerve-energy--man is
normal and immune to disease.
Disease begins to manifest only when environments and personal habits use
up energy faster than it is renewed.
This contingency the properly educated mind begins to remedy at once by
removing or overcoming all enervating influences.
Man's immunization to disease requires a life so well ordered that his nerve-
energy is kept at or near normal.
When nerve-energy is prodigally squandered, he is forced into a state of
enervation; then elimination of the waste-products is checked, leaving the
waste--toxin--in the blood, causing Toxemia self-poisoning--the first, last and
only true disease that man is heir to.
All other poisons are accidental and evanescent, and without Toxemia can
have no entree to the system.
Poisons may be swallowed, injected or inoculated into the body and poison or
even kill; but such an experience is not to be classed as disease, any more
than a broken leg or a gunshot wound.
Toxin is a normal, natural product of the system, always present. Being a
constant, it answers every requirement for a universal cause of all so-called
diseases.
All the different symptom-complexes, which are given special names, take
their names frown the organs involved in the toxin crisis; but they are not
individual--they are only symptoms of vicarious elimination.
For example: Tonsilitis, gastritis, bronchitis, pneumonia, colonitis, are each
and every one Toxemic crises, differing only in location and symptoms.
So-called diseases are just so many different locations where toxin is being
eliminated. All are different manifestations of one disease Toxemia.
Diagnosis A Medical Delusion
Diagnosing according to modern medical science is a scheme of
symptomatology that means nothing except a guide in discovering organic
change--pathological change; and if no change or pathology is found, the
case is sent home, with the advice to return again in a few months; or perhaps
it will be kept under observation for a while.
Diagnosis is so fraught with the element of uncertainty that no reliance can be
placed upon it.
Research occupies an army of laboratory experts in hunting the cause of
disease, and also cures. They are doomed to fail; for how is it possible to find
cause in effects?
All so-called attacks of disease of whatever kind are crises of Toxemia, which
means vicarious elimination of Toxin that has accumulated above the
saturation (toleration) point.
These crises may be symptoms which we call cold, "flu" tonsilitis, gastritis,
headache, or some other light malady. They come today and are gone in a few
days.
If treated, we say they were cured. If they are not treated, we say they got well
without treatment. The truth is that the surplus toxin--the amount accumulated
above the point, which can be maintained with comfort--is eliminated, and
comfort returns.
This is not a cure; it is one of nature's palliations. When the cause or causes
of enervation are discovered and removed, the nerve-energy returns to
normal.
Elimination removes toxin as fast as developed by metabolism. This is health--
this is all there is to any cure.
In a few words: Stop all enervating habits; stop eating; rest until nerve-energy
is restored to normal. When this is accomplished the patient is cured.
A short or long fast is beneficial to most sick people. Those who are afraid of
fasting should not fast. All other so-called cures are a delusion, and at the
most a passing palliation; but enough such cures are performed daily to keep
a large army of doctors and cultists in bread, butter, and a degree of
respectability.
The cured patients, however, glacier-like, move steadily down to the river Styx
--thousands and thousands of them years before their time, many even before
their prime, and all maintaining a false belief concerning what disease is, and a
more foolish notion concerning cures.
When a child shows symptoms of high fever, pain, and vomiting, what is the
disease? It may be indigestion frown overeating or eating improper food.
It may be the beginning of gastritis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis,
infantile paralysis, or some other so-called disease.
The treatment, according to the Philosophy of Toxemia, may be positive and
given with confidence. There need be no waiting for developments, no
guessing, no mistakes. What is done is the correct treatment for any so-called
disease, named or not named.
Get rid of the exciting causes, whatever they are.
Provide plenty of fresh air and water, and keep the patient quiet. See to it that
nothing but water goes into the stomach until the fever and discomfort are
entirely overcome; then give very light food at first.
A child that is given meat and eggs and an excess of milk is liable to develop
putrefactive diseases. I believe it is impossible for any child brought up on
fruit, whole wheat and other grains, and vegetables can ever evolve
diphtheria, scarlet fever, or smallpox, or develop septic fever--typhoid.
The regular profession believes in antitoxin, vaccine, and autogenous
remedies; and these remedies fit the psychology of a mode of living that leads
to vicious types of disease.
Most people are in sympathy with impossible cures--cures without removing
causes.
All so-called cures will some day be proved a delusion. Remember that
children will not be sick if they are not toxemic.
Doctors will say: "Suppose it is a case of diphtheria? Antitoxin should be
used, for it is a specific."
What is diphtheria? A toxemic subject with gastro-intestinal catarrh becomes
infected from decomposition of animal food eaten in excess of digestive
powers.
The symptoms are those of tonsilitis, showing a grayish exudite covering the
tonsils or other parts of the throat, accompanied by a disagreeable, pungent,
fetid breath.
There is great prostration. Subjects developing these symptoms have been
living haphazardly. Their eating has been too largely of animal foods and
starch--the conventional mixtures--and devoid of raw vegetables and fruit.
In some cases the physical state is so vicious that a severe development of
gastro-intestinal putrefaction may end fatally in from one to three days.
These are the cases supposed to be overwhelmed by the diphtheritic toxin,
which means an acute protein poisoning--intestinal putrefaction--in a subject
already greatly enervated and toxemic.
Malignancy occurs in toxemic subjects who have been carrying continuously
a state of gastrointestinal indigestion from a surfeit of food, in which animal
substances, possibly only milk, predominated.
The entire organism is more or less infected by the protein decomposition.
A feast-day comes along; excess produces a crisis; and the organism, which
is enervated and toxemic to the point of no resistance, is overwhelmed by
septic poisoning.
What Causes Fatality
Fatal cases in all epidemics are food-drunkards who are very much enervated,
toxemic and infected from putrescence in the bowels.
It is a crime to feed anything to the sick. No food should be given until all
symptoms are gone; then fruit and vegetable juices (never any animal foods
not for weeks).
All epidemic diseases are wholesale food-poisonings among people who are
pronouncedly enervated and toxemic. The poisoning by food is on the order
of poisoning by chemicals.
Those who have least resistance (are most enervated and toxemic) suffer
most and succumb the easiest; for the poisoning brings on a crisis of
Toxemia, and the two nerve-destroying influences overwhelm the reduced
resistance, and may end in death unless wisely treated.
All acute diseases are gastro-intestinal infections acting on toxemic subjects.
The more enervated and toxemic the subject, the more severe the crisis.
Keep the patient warm and quiet, and in good air. More treatment is
meddlesome. Getting rid of putrefaction is most important.
Such diseases develop only in those of pronounced enervation and toxemic,
and those of very bad eating habits.
To sum up briefly the difference between the toxemic methods and "regular
medicine": Toxemia is a system based on the true cause of disease--namely
Toxemia.
Before Toxemia is developed, natural immunization protects from germs,
parasites, and all physical vicissitudes.
Toxin is a by-product as constant and necessary as life itself. When the
organism is normal, it is produced and eliminated as fast as produced.
From the point of production to the point of elimination, it is carried by the
blood; hence at no time is the organism free from toxin in the blood.
In a normal amount it is gently stimulating; but when the organism is
enervated, elimination is checked. Then the amount retained becomes
overstimulating--toxic--ranging from a slight excess to an amount so profound
as to overwhelm life.
The treatment is so simple that it staggers those who believe in curing. Heroic
treatment is disease building.
Find in what way nerve-energy is wasted, and stop it--stop all nerve-leaks.
Then returning to normal is a matter of time, in which nature attends to all
repairs herself. And she resents help--medical officiousness.
The Causes of Enervation
To understand disease, it is necessary to know cause; and, as Toxemia is the
cause of all diseases, and as enervation--an enervated body and mind--is the
cause of Toxemia, it behooves those who are sick and want to get well, and
who want to know how to stay well, to know what causes enervation.
A normal, healthy person is one who is poised (self-controlled), and who has
no nerve-destroying habits.
A self-controlled man is a man who is not controlled, kicked, cuffed, or driven
by habits.
Excesses transform a man into a disgusting brute. The word "brute" is used
here to express the state of one being devoid of self-control.
Those of fine constitutions are often converted into neurotics, who have left
health and comfort far behind. Many know comfort only for short periods, and
then at the instigation of drugs or stimulants.
The very young are made sick by too much excitement of all kinds. Very
young children should be kept quiet enough to favor sleep all the time, except
when bathed and when clothes are changed.
They should not he taken up every time they do any fretting. All that is needed
is to make them dry and change their positions.
Children of school age are enervated by being urged in schoolwork, exercise,
and all kinds of excitement. Play should he limited. When hysteria shows up,
stop the play.
People are sick from wrong living. Stop the cause, and disease goes away.
Nature cures, when allowed to do so, by removing the causes of enervation.
Many of the older children use tobacco, coffee, and an excessive amount of
sweets and pastry. Self-abuse begins early in many, and is the cause of
stomach symptoms.
Adolescence comes with excessive dancing, loss of sleep, smoking, drinking,
lasciviousness, venereal disease, and the fear springing from the
contemplation of the consequences.
Fear is the greatest of all causes of enervation. Children are subject to many
fears. They are educated to fear the dark, the bogyman, and punishment.
There is much fear and anxiety in a child's life. No child can thrive living in a
state of fear in home, school, or church. Discipline taught by respected
parents brings love and not fear.
Adults, too, have much fear in their lives. The bread-and-butter problem gives
anxiety; but when enough has been accumulated, so that fear along this line
is unnecessary, fear is felt that something may happen that will put them back
in the breadline.
Business worries are a source of enervation. Business--any business--is not
the cause of worry. Business is what a man makes of it. A thorough
understanding of business, with honesty and industry, removes all worries
and saves nerve- energy.
Worry does not build efficiency; neither is inefficiency removed by worrying.
Worry, lack of control over the emotions, improper eating, stimulants, all build
disease.
Housewives who carry a burden of worry become enervated and lose health.
The cause of their worry is lack of control of eating, lack of control of the
emotions, lack of care of the body, and lack of efficiency.
Self-indulgence in the use of stimulants, even in moderation, is a constant
drain on the nervous system; and a time comes when the last cigar, the last
cup of coffee, the last hearty meal, snaps the vital cord; and the contingency is
always unexpected and a surprise.
Overwork is said to enervate; but this is an excuse behind which are hidden
many bad habits that kill, rather than the work.
Work without pleasure in the work is enervating and disease building; an
unsatisfied mind--a desire to engage in some other work before efficiency has
been attained in the work engaged in; more desire for pay than to do good
work.
A work is never well done until it takes on the individuality of the worker. We
should work with the creative instinct.
Dissatisfaction and overworked emotions are enervating. Worry, fear, grief,
anger, passion, temper, overjoy, depression, dissatisfaction, self-pity, pride,
egotism, envy, jealousy, gossip, lying, dishonesty, failing to meet obligations
and appointments, taking advantage of misunderstandings, abusing the
credulity of friends, abusing the confidence of those who confide in us--all
enervate and in time build incurable disease.
Grief is enervating. Those who are very enervated and toxemic will be
prostrated by grief, and, unless put to bed and kept warm and quiet, and
without food, may die. Food eaten under such circumstances will not digest,
but acts as a poison. Some people are made invalids for life by a great grief.
Shock, mental or physical, may enervate so greatly as to kill by heart failure, or
be followed by permanent nervousness.
Wrong eating or overeating may prevent a return to health.
Anger is very enervating. A daily shock of anger will build profound
enervation. A temper that flies at the slightest provocation ruins digestion and
builds nervousness.
The chronic grouch is liable to build ulcer or cancer of the stomach. Those
who cannot control their temper often build rheumatic arthritis, hard arteries,
gallstone, and early old age.
The systematic poisoning of overwrought emotions has been known since
reasoning began; but, aside from knowing that a poison is generated in the
system from great anger, love, jealousy, hate, and grief, just what the poison
is, and the modus operandi of its production, have never been satisfactorily
explained until made clear by the Philosophy of Toxemia.
Excessive emotion--jealousy, for example, or great anger-- precipitates a
profound enervation, which inhibits elimination.
Overeating is a common and universal enervating habit; eating too much fat--
cream, butter, fat meats, oils, rich pastries, sweets; eating too often; eating
between meals, and checking digestion with water-drinking between meals.
Food-inebriety is more common than alcohol-inebriety. The subconscious is
as busy as a hive of bees substituting, antidoting, and in reparation work;
substituting one stimulating excess for another--demanding whiskey,
tobacco, opium, etc., for gluttonous eating; thrills, shocks, sensual excesses
for food-poisoning.
Ungratified sense-demands are appeased by food excesses or other
stimulants; and when nature is balked in her demands, the victim runs amuck.
Psychological, like physical, cyclones are out of the regular order, yet they are
obeying the laws of their nature. They have no scruples to gainsay, but tear
through order as ruthlessly as fiends.
Every human being should know that such phenomena are potential to him,
and that the road to such catastrophes is enervating habits.
Insatiable desire for food and stimulants means an enervated state of the body
brought on from overindulgence--over stimulation.
A driving desire for food three times a day means enervation; trouble is only a
little farther on. The wise will get busy and correct appetites.
Perverted appetites are built by overeating; eating rich food until enjoyment is
lost for staple or plain foods; excessive use of stimulants--alcohol, tobacco,
coffee, tea; excessive use of butter, salt, pepper, and rich dressings, eating
without a real hunger (real hunger will take the plainest foods with a relish);
eating when sick or uncomfortable; eating at all hours, between meals; eating
until uncomfortable.
If Toxemic get rid of enervating habits. Cures--prayers, drugs, and surgery--all
honest or dishonest cures--will not cure. Get rid of cause and stay rid of it,
then health returns and abides perpetually.
Retrospection
Autonomy or self-government is met at the threshold of life by all the
conventional superstitions, and educated into a lot of habits, such as curing
without removing cause.
This, combined with man's inclination to hedonism (the doctrine that pleasure
is the only good), leads to a life of failure, in spite of man's potential desire to
rise above the forces that hold him down.
"Toxemia Explained" will help all who study it carefully to understand what
disease is, and how it is brought on.
This knowledge will help the wise and self- controlled to sidestep disease, and
the medical octopus that unwittingly vandalizes the sick.
All I ask of laymen or the profession is honestly to put my philosophy to the
acid test. Yes, prove, if possible, that I am mistaken, and then give me what is
coming to me.
Man makes his own diseases. This book tells how he does it. And he is the
one who can bring back health.
He and his subconsciousness alone can cure. Doctors cannot cure. Only
very rarely is surgical vandalism a dernier resort, unless bad treatment forces
unnecessary emergencies.
The body is strong or weak, as the case may be, depending entirely on
whether the nerve-energy is strong or weak.
And it should be remembered that the functions of the body are carried on well
or badly according to the amount of energy generated.
A Few Suggestions
The first thing on awaking in the morning, the Tilden system of tensing
exercises should be practiced for from fifteen to thirty minutes.
Eat three healthy nutritious meals a day and no more, no eating nor drinking
between meals.
A child that is given meat and eggs and an excess of milk is liable to develop
putrefactive diseases. It is doubtful (and I believe impossible) if any child
brought up on fruit, whole wheat and other grains, and vegetables can ever
evolve diphtheria, scarlet fever, or smallpox, or develop septic fever--typhoid.
Subjects developing diptheria (sore throat) symptoms have been living
haphazardly. Their eating has been too largely of animal foods and starch--
the conventional mixtures--and devoid of raw vegetables and fruit.
In a few words: Stop all enervating habits; stop eating; rest until nerve-energy
is restored to normal. When this is accomplished the patient is cured.
A short or long fast is beneficial to most sick people.
This was an excerpt from what is considered a classic masterpiece in the
world of Natural Hygienics.
“Toxemia Explained”
By: J. H. Tilden, M. D. 1935
Complete Book Online Free:
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PART 2 of 2
The Medical World Is Looking For Cures
The medical world has been looking for a remedy to cure disease,
notwithstanding the obvious fact that nature needs no remedy--she needs
only an opportunity to exercise her own prerogative of self-healing.
Cancer is the culmination of years of abuse of nutrition, and years of Toxemia
from faulty elimination.
The most powerful eliminant is a fast. In other words, give nature rest, and she
needs no so-called cures. Rest means: Stay in bed, poise mind and body,
and fast.
Nature then works without handicaps, unless fear is created by all the old fear-
mongers, professional and lay, sending to the patient the warning:
"It is dangerous to fast; you may never live through it."
These wiseacres do not know that there is a vast difference between fasting
and starving.
Germs As A Cause Of Disease
Germs as a cause of disease is a dying fallacy. The bacteriological death
march is on, and those with their ears to the ground can hear it.
Toxemia accepts the germ (organized ferment) as it does the enzyme
(unorganized ferment). Both are necessary to health.
What more can be asked by any doctor than a philosophy of cause that gives a
perfect understanding of the cause of all so-called diseases?
To know cause supplies even the layman with a dependable cure and an
immunization that immunizes rationally.
Dependable knowledge is man's salvation; and when it can be had with as
little effort as that required for a thorough understanding of the Philosophy of
Toxemia there is little excuse for any man, lay or professional, to hazard
ignorance of it.
Toxin--the designating poison in Toxemia--is a product of metabolism. It is a
constant, being constantly generated; and when the nerve-energy is normal, it
is as constantly eliminated as fast as produced.
The body is strong or weak, as the case may be, depending entirely on
whether the nerve-energy is strong or weak.
And it should be remembered that the functions of the body are carried on well
or badly according to the amount of energy generated.
Importance Of Nerve Energy
Without nerve-energy the functions of the various organs of the body cannot
be carried on. Secretions are necessary for preparing the building-up material
to take the place of worn-out tissue.
The worn-out tissue must be removed--eliminated--from the blood as fast as it
is formed, or it accumulates, and, as it is toxic, the system will be poisoned.
This becomes a source of enervation.
Elimination of the waste products of tissue building is just as necessary as the
building-up process.
As these two important functions depend on each other, and as both depend
on the proper amount of nerve-energy to do their work well, it behooves all
people who would enjoy life and health to the full to understand in what way
they may be frugal in using nerve-energy so that they may learn how to live
conservatively or prudently, thereby enjoying the greatest mental and physical
efficiency, and also the longest life.
To the ignorant, thoughtless, and sensual such suggestion and advice will
seem unnecessary, or perhaps the whims or preachments of a crotchety
person, or the qualms of a sated sensualist; but it is the writer's belief that the
more sober and thoughtful will welcome a knowledge that will help them to
become masters of themselves.
So far the masses have trusted their health and life to a profession that has
failed to make good. I say this advisedly; for now the supposed masters in the
profession are looking for the causes of disease, and it should be obvious to
any thinking mind that, until the cause of disease is found, certainly no
dependable advice can be given as to how to avoid disease.
Fifty-eight years of independent thinking, unbiased by sect or creed, have
enabled me to discover the true cause of disease; and it is so simple that even
a child can learn to protect itself against the said-to-be "diseases peculiar to
children."
Nerve-energy and good money are the commodities that are spent very
rapidly these days. Chasing the dollar causes great waste of energy; and the
dollar has been chased so much that it has developed wanderlust to such a
degree that men enervate themselves catching up with a few, but prostrate
themselves endeavoring to break them of their wander-habit.
There are many ways to use up nerve-energy. It should be the ambition of
everybody to conserve all the nerve-energy possible for the extraordinary
amount required to keep the speeding-up necessary to adjust humanity to the
automobile pace. This will come in time.
Without nerve-energy the functions of the body cannot be carried on
properly. The present-day strenuousness causes enervation, which checks
elimination, and the retained toxins bring on Toxemia.
Everything that acts on the body uses up energy. Cold and heat require the
expenditure of nerve-energy to adjust the body to the changes.
Now that I have found that enervation is the source of the cause of the only
disease (Toxemia) to which mankind is heir, it is easy to see that the so-called
science of medicine, as practiced, is an ally extraordinary of all the causes of
enervation, and becomes a builder of disease instead of curing or ameliorating
man's sufferings.
Every so-called cure in its very nature causes enervation. Even the drugs
used to relieve pain end in making a greater pain, and sometimes kill.
The drugs to relieve cough in pneumonia sometimes kill the patient.
Removing stone from the gall bladder does not cure the cause, and more
stones form.
Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put nature in line for curing.
Sleep and rest of body and mind are necessary to keep a sufficient supply of
energy. Few people in active life rest enough.
Why Enervation Is The Cause And Not The Disease
Enervation per se is not disease. Weakness, lost power, is not disease; but,
by causing a flagging of the elimination of tissue-waste, which is toxic, the
blood becomes charged with toxin, and this we call Toxemia--poison in the
blood.
This is disease, and when the toxin accumulates beyond the toleration-point, a
crisis takes place; which means that the poison is being eliminated.
This we call disease, but it is not. The only disease is Toxemia, and what we
call diseases are the symptoms produced by a forced vicarious elimination of
toxin through the mucous membrane.
When the elimination takes place through the mucous membrane of the nose,
it is called a cold--catarrh of the nose; and where these crises are repeated for
years, the mucous membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones enlarge,
closing the passage, etc.
At this stage hay fever or asthma develops. When the throat and tonsils, or
any of the respiratory passages, become the seat of the crises of Toxemia, we
have croup, tonsilitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia,
etc.
What is in a name? All are symptoms of the expulsion of toxin from the blood
at the different points named, and are essentially of the same character and
evolving from the one cause namely, Toxemia--crises of Toxemia.
This description can be extended to every organ of the body; for any organ
that is enervated below the average standard from stress of habit, from work
or worry, from injury, or from whatever cause, may become the location of
crises of Toxemia.
The symptoms presented differ with each organ affected; and that gives color
to the belief that every symptom-complex is a separate and distinct disease.
But, thanks to the new light shed upon nomenclature (naming disease) by the
Philosophy of Toxemia, every symptom-complex goes back to the one and
only cause of all so-called diseases--namely, Toxemia.
The symptoms that are called gastritis (catarrh of the stomach) are very unlike
the symptoms of cystitis (catarrh of the urinary bladder); yet both are caused
by crises of Toxemia--both become the locations for the vicarious elimination
of toxin from the blood.
It should be obvious to the discerning how extraordinarily illogical it is to treat
catarrh of the nose as a local disease; or, when crises are repeated until
ulceration takes place, and the mucous membrane becomes so sensitive that
dust and pollen cause sneezing and watering of the eyes--symptoms called
hay fever--to treat these symptoms as a distinct disease caused by pollen.
Rest and total abstinence from food, liquid and solid, and reforming all
enervating habits, will restore nerve-energy; the elimination of toxin through
the natural channels will take place, and full health will return.
This state will remain permanent if the erstwhile victim of hay fever, or any
other so-called disease, will "stay put."
The first elimination of toxin through the nose is called a cold. When this
elimination is continuous, with exacerbation--toxin crises (fresh colds)--
occasionally, ulceration takes place, bony spurs form, and hay fever
develops.
These are all symptoms of toxin elimination. The cause is the same from the
first cold to hay fever.
The catarrhal discharge that continues throughout the interims of fresh colds
(crises of Toxemia) is chronic catarrh, named such in medical nomenclatures,
and treated locally as though it were an independent, fiendish entity; when the
truth is that the victim of so-called chronic catarrh keeps his system enervated
by tobacco, alcohol, sugar and sweets of all kinds, coffee, tea, excessive
eating of butter and bread, too much rich cooking, excessive eating of all
foods, excess of sensual pleasures, etc.
Keeping the system enervated prevents the reestablishment in full of
elimination through the normal excretory organs.
In catarrh of the stomach the mucous membrane takes on thickening,
hardening, ulceration, and cancer--all described in the nomenclature of
medical science as so many distinctive diseases.
Every so-called disease has the same inception, evolution, and maturity,
differing only as the organic structure involved differs.
All diseases are the same fundamentally.
The cause travels back to Toxemia, caused by enervation, which checked
elimination; and enervating habits of body and mind are the primary causes of
lost resistance enervation.
Every chronic disease starts with Toxemia and a toxemic crisis. The crises are
repeated until organic changes take place.
The chain of symptoms range from cold or catarrh to tuberculosis, cancer,
syphilis, ataxia, and other so-called diseases; all, from beginning to end,
symptoms of the cumulative effects of crises of Toxemia.
Enervation Is General
When nerve-energy drops below normal, the elimination of toxin--a natural
product of metabolism is checked, and it is retained in the blood, bringing on
Toxemia--the first, last, and only efficient cause of all so-called diseases.
It should be obvious to discerning, minds that the amount of toxin in the blood
must vary with each individual, and that the degree of resistance also must
vary with each individual.
The amount of harm done by vaccination and re-vaccination will never be
known. No words can describe the harm that immunizing with vaccines and
serums has done and is doing, except wholesale vandalism.
The average doctor cannot think, and the others do not dare to think except
conventionally out loud. I do not know where to place the men of the medical
profession who are capable of thinking, but who refuse to allow reason to
guide them in their thinking in the matter of so-called immunization.
It has been said of me, because of my stand against the germ theory and
vaccination, that I have "peculiar views" by some, that I am "an ignoramus."
It is held that the immunity produced by vaccination implies some change in
the components of the body--a necessary assumption.
But now, if the substances composing the body, solid or liquid or both, have
been so modified as to leave them no longer liable to smallpox, is the
modification otherwise inoperative?
Will anyone dare to say that it produces no further effect than that of shielding
the patient from a particular disease?
You cannot change the constitution in relation to one invading agent and
leave it unchanged in regard to all other invading agents. What must the
change be?
Hence, as a constitution modified by vaccination is not made more able to
resist perturbing influences in general, it must be made less able.
Heat and cold and wet and atmospheric changes tend ever to disturb the
balance, as do also various foods, excessive exertion, mental strain.
Interfering with the order of nature is a vast subject--one without end; but
nature "comes smiling through" except when overwhelmed.
Health--good health--is a greater force than bad--than every interference--and
can correct every evil effect that is not fatal, if the influence is removed.
Stimulants, continued over a long period, cause a gradual deterioration, and
finally, unless the habit is stopped, end fatally.
Toxin is a stimulant and a natural product of metabolism. When the body is
normal, the toxin is removed as fast as generated; but when any enervating
habit is practiced beyond the power of recuperation, the toxin accumulates,
and Toxemia is established--which means that the body has lost its protecting
power.
Now, if vaccine or any infection gains entrance into the blood, "there is no
knowing where the effects will end."
When toxemic subjects are infected, the infection will never be eliminated
entirely until enervation and Toxemia are overcome.
Unless patients of this character are put to bed and fasted until elimination is
completed, then fed properly, and taught how to eat within their limitations,
and unless they are willing to give up all enervating habits, there is no hope of
their ever getting well.
These subjects often develop tuberculosis, and other lingering so- called
diseases.
Nature's order is interfered with by enervating habits until Toxemia is
established; then a vaccination, or an infection from any source, acts sooner
or later as a firebrand in causing the most vulnerable organ to take on organic
change.
The organ, however, has nothing to do with cause, and directing treatment to
the organ is compounding fallacy. Types of such nonsense are blood-
transfusion for pernicious anemia; gland treatment for gland impotency;
cutting out stones, ulcers, tumors, etc.
There is no question but that one of the most pernicious practices in vogue
today is treating so-called disease with disease, and immunizing with the
products of disease.
One of the first things to do to get rid of any so-called disease is to get rid of
Toxemia, for it is this state of the blood that makes disease possible.
Infection, drug-and food poisoning may kill; but if they do not, they will be
short-lived in a subject free frown enervation and Toxemia.
Conversely, the poisoning will linger in the system until Toxemia is overcome;
then elimination will remove all traces of infection.
Remove Toxemia, drugging, fear, and vile eating, and there is little left. What
there is can easily be thrown out by nature.
Poise
Contentment comes with striving, not with possession. Apparently this is not
always true; for we see people very dissatisfied and unhappy who are busy.
No man is satisfied with work that has nothing in it but the dollars he gets out
of it. Nothing but creative work satisfies the mind.
What is there in it? Advancement, self-development, and a chance in the
future to do good are about as little as will satisfy ambition.
To make for contentment, the work must occupy and satisfy the mind.
Those who find a life of service to take the place of ambition's jilts have made
no mistake in the selection of the Great Physician; but those who seek cures
outside of self are hunting cures in a Fool's Paradise.
Cures. There are no cures. The subconscious builds health or disease
according to our order. If we send impulses of irritation, discontent,
unhappiness, complaining, hate, envy, selfishness, greed, lust, etc., the
subconscious builds us in the image of our order.
The truth is that we are not needing a doctor at all. We need a physician who
will erect a reconciliation between our subconscious maker and ourselves.
What we need is to be taught self-control, poise equanimity, repose. And
when these impulses are sent over the sympathetic nerves to our
subconscious maker, we shall begin to receive images of a more man, until an
approach to perfection is attained.
Poise of mind and body should receive attention early as well as late in life.
Good health late in life indicates self-control, moderation in all things, and
equanimity--poise.
Moderation does not mean the same to all people. Some men call three to six
cigars a day moderate indulgence; others believe that one to six a month is
temperate. Those who have an irritable heart and stomach are immoderate
when they use tobacco at all.
Fortunate is the person who knows his limitations and respects them. Of such
a person it may be said that he is poised.
Immunization
Wouldn't it be incongruous if in the evolution of man such an important
element as autoimmunization should be left out?
No animal has been forgotten in the great scheme of creation. Powers of
offense and defense have been wisely provided, and to suppose that king of
all animals--man--should be left defenseless is most absurd.
No, man is provided with a nervous system, at the head of which is a brain
capable of thinking, which can come to the aid of a flagging nervous system
and help to renew it.
When the nervous system is normal--when there is full nerve-energy--man is
normal and immune to disease.
Disease begins to manifest only when environments and personal habits use
up energy faster than it is renewed.
This contingency the properly educated mind begins to remedy at once by
removing or overcoming all enervating influences.
Man's immunization to disease requires a life so well ordered that his nerve-
energy is kept at or near normal.
When nerve-energy is prodigally squandered, he is forced into a state of
enervation; then elimination of the waste-products is checked, leaving the
waste--toxin--in the blood, causing Toxemia self-poisoning--the first, last and
only true disease that man is heir to.
All other poisons are accidental and evanescent, and without Toxemia can
have no entree to the system.
Poisons may be swallowed, injected or inoculated into the body and poison or
even kill; but such an experience is not to be classed as disease, any more
than a broken leg or a gunshot wound.
Toxin is a normal, natural product of the system, always present. Being a
constant, it answers every requirement for a universal cause of all so-called
diseases.
All the different symptom-complexes, which are given special names, take
their names frown the organs involved in the toxin crisis; but they are not
individual--they are only symptoms of vicarious elimination.
For example: Tonsilitis, gastritis, bronchitis, pneumonia, colonitis, are each
and every one Toxemic crises, differing only in location and symptoms.
So-called diseases are just so many different locations where toxin is being
eliminated. All are different manifestations of one disease Toxemia.
Diagnosis A Medical Delusion
Diagnosing according to modern medical science is a scheme of
symptomatology that means nothing except a guide in discovering organic
change--pathological change; and if no change or pathology is found, the
case is sent home, with the advice to return again in a few months; or perhaps
it will be kept under observation for a while.
Diagnosis is so fraught with the element of uncertainty that no reliance can be
placed upon it.
Research occupies an army of laboratory experts in hunting the cause of
disease, and also cures. They are doomed to fail; for how is it possible to find
cause in effects?
All so-called attacks of disease of whatever kind are crises of Toxemia, which
means vicarious elimination of Toxin that has accumulated above the
saturation (toleration) point.
These crises may be symptoms which we call cold, "flu" tonsilitis, gastritis,
headache, or some other light malady. They come today and are gone in a few
days.
If treated, we say they were cured. If they are not treated, we say they got well
without treatment. The truth is that the surplus toxin--the amount accumulated
above the point, which can be maintained with comfort--is eliminated, and
comfort returns.
This is not a cure; it is one of nature's palliations. When the cause or causes
of enervation are discovered and removed, the nerve-energy returns to
normal.
Elimination removes toxin as fast as developed by metabolism. This is health--
this is all there is to any cure.
In a few words: Stop all enervating habits; stop eating; rest until nerve-energy
is restored to normal. When this is accomplished the patient is cured.
A short or long fast is beneficial to most sick people. Those who are afraid of
fasting should not fast. All other so-called cures are a delusion, and at the
most a passing palliation; but enough such cures are performed daily to keep
a large army of doctors and cultists in bread, butter, and a degree of
respectability.
The cured patients, however, glacier-like, move steadily down to the river Styx
--thousands and thousands of them years before their time, many even before
their prime, and all maintaining a false belief concerning what disease is, and a
more foolish notion concerning cures.
When a child shows symptoms of high fever, pain, and vomiting, what is the
disease? It may be indigestion frown overeating or eating improper food.
It may be the beginning of gastritis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis,
infantile paralysis, or some other so-called disease.
The treatment, according to the Philosophy of Toxemia, may be positive and
given with confidence. There need be no waiting for developments, no
guessing, no mistakes. What is done is the correct treatment for any so-called
disease, named or not named.
Get rid of the exciting causes, whatever they are.
Provide plenty of fresh air and water, and keep the patient quiet. See to it that
nothing but water goes into the stomach until the fever and discomfort are
entirely overcome; then give very light food at first.
A child that is given meat and eggs and an excess of milk is liable to develop
putrefactive diseases. I believe it is impossible for any child brought up on
fruit, whole wheat and other grains, and vegetables can ever evolve
diphtheria, scarlet fever, or smallpox, or develop septic fever--typhoid.
The regular profession believes in antitoxin, vaccine, and autogenous
remedies; and these remedies fit the psychology of a mode of living that leads
to vicious types of disease.
Most people are in sympathy with impossible cures--cures without removing
causes.
All so-called cures will some day be proved a delusion. Remember that
children will not be sick if they are not toxemic.
Doctors will say: "Suppose it is a case of diphtheria? Antitoxin should be
used, for it is a specific."
What is diphtheria? A toxemic subject with gastro-intestinal catarrh becomes
infected from decomposition of animal food eaten in excess of digestive
powers.
The symptoms are those of tonsilitis, showing a grayish exudite covering the
tonsils or other parts of the throat, accompanied by a disagreeable, pungent,
fetid breath.
There is great prostration. Subjects developing these symptoms have been
living haphazardly. Their eating has been too largely of animal foods and
starch--the conventional mixtures--and devoid of raw vegetables and fruit.
In some cases the physical state is so vicious that a severe development of
gastro-intestinal putrefaction may end fatally in from one to three days.
These are the cases supposed to be overwhelmed by the diphtheritic toxin,
which means an acute protein poisoning--intestinal putrefaction--in a subject
already greatly enervated and toxemic.
Malignancy occurs in toxemic subjects who have been carrying continuously
a state of gastrointestinal indigestion from a surfeit of food, in which animal
substances, possibly only milk, predominated.
The entire organism is more or less infected by the protein decomposition.
A feast-day comes along; excess produces a crisis; and the organism, which
is enervated and toxemic to the point of no resistance, is overwhelmed by
septic poisoning.
What Causes Fatality
Fatal cases in all epidemics are food-drunkards who are very much enervated,
toxemic and infected from putrescence in the bowels.
It is a crime to feed anything to the sick. No food should be given until all
symptoms are gone; then fruit and vegetable juices (never any animal foods
not for weeks).
All epidemic diseases are wholesale food-poisonings among people who are
pronouncedly enervated and toxemic. The poisoning by food is on the order
of poisoning by chemicals.
Those who have least resistance (are most enervated and toxemic) suffer
most and succumb the easiest; for the poisoning brings on a crisis of
Toxemia, and the two nerve-destroying influences overwhelm the reduced
resistance, and may end in death unless wisely treated.
All acute diseases are gastro-intestinal infections acting on toxemic subjects.
The more enervated and toxemic the subject, the more severe the crisis.
Keep the patient warm and quiet, and in good air. More treatment is
meddlesome. Getting rid of putrefaction is most important.
Such diseases develop only in those of pronounced enervation and toxemic,
and those of very bad eating habits.
To sum up briefly the difference between the toxemic methods and "regular
medicine": Toxemia is a system based on the true cause of disease--namely
Toxemia.
Before Toxemia is developed, natural immunization protects from germs,
parasites, and all physical vicissitudes.
Toxin is a by-product as constant and necessary as life itself. When the
organism is normal, it is produced and eliminated as fast as produced.
From the point of production to the point of elimination, it is carried by the
blood; hence at no time is the organism free from toxin in the blood.
In a normal amount it is gently stimulating; but when the organism is
enervated, elimination is checked. Then the amount retained becomes
overstimulating--toxic--ranging from a slight excess to an amount so profound
as to overwhelm life.
The treatment is so simple that it staggers those who believe in curing. Heroic
treatment is disease building.
Find in what way nerve-energy is wasted, and stop it--stop all nerve-leaks.
Then returning to normal is a matter of time, in which nature attends to all
repairs herself. And she resents help--medical officiousness.
The Causes of Enervation
To understand disease, it is necessary to know cause; and, as Toxemia is the
cause of all diseases, and as enervation--an enervated body and mind--is the
cause of Toxemia, it behooves those who are sick and want to get well, and
who want to know how to stay well, to know what causes enervation.
A normal, healthy person is one who is poised (self-controlled), and who has
no nerve-destroying habits.
A self-controlled man is a man who is not controlled, kicked, cuffed, or driven
by habits.
Excesses transform a man into a disgusting brute. The word "brute" is used
here to express the state of one being devoid of self-control.
Those of fine constitutions are often converted into neurotics, who have left
health and comfort far behind. Many know comfort only for short periods, and
then at the instigation of drugs or stimulants.
The very young are made sick by too much excitement of all kinds. Very
young children should be kept quiet enough to favor sleep all the time, except
when bathed and when clothes are changed.
They should not he taken up every time they do any fretting. All that is needed
is to make them dry and change their positions.
Children of school age are enervated by being urged in schoolwork, exercise,
and all kinds of excitement. Play should he limited. When hysteria shows up,
stop the play.
People are sick from wrong living. Stop the cause, and disease goes away.
Nature cures, when allowed to do so, by removing the causes of enervation.
Many of the older children use tobacco, coffee, and an excessive amount of
sweets and pastry. Self-abuse begins early in many, and is the cause of
stomach symptoms.
Adolescence comes with excessive dancing, loss of sleep, smoking, drinking,
lasciviousness, venereal disease, and the fear springing from the
contemplation of the consequences.
Fear is the greatest of all causes of enervation. Children are subject to many
fears. They are educated to fear the dark, the bogyman, and punishment.
There is much fear and anxiety in a child's life. No child can thrive living in a
state of fear in home, school, or church. Discipline taught by respected
parents brings love and not fear.
Adults, too, have much fear in their lives. The bread-and-butter problem gives
anxiety; but when enough has been accumulated, so that fear along this line
is unnecessary, fear is felt that something may happen that will put them back
in the breadline.
Business worries are a source of enervation. Business--any business--is not
the cause of worry. Business is what a man makes of it. A thorough
understanding of business, with honesty and industry, removes all worries
and saves nerve- energy.
Worry does not build efficiency; neither is inefficiency removed by worrying.
Worry, lack of control over the emotions, improper eating, stimulants, all build
disease.
Housewives who carry a burden of worry become enervated and lose health.
The cause of their worry is lack of control of eating, lack of control of the
emotions, lack of care of the body, and lack of efficiency.
Self-indulgence in the use of stimulants, even in moderation, is a constant
drain on the nervous system; and a time comes when the last cigar, the last
cup of coffee, the last hearty meal, snaps the vital cord; and the contingency is
always unexpected and a surprise.
Overwork is said to enervate; but this is an excuse behind which are hidden
many bad habits that kill, rather than the work.
Work without pleasure in the work is enervating and disease building; an
unsatisfied mind--a desire to engage in some other work before efficiency has
been attained in the work engaged in; more desire for pay than to do good
work.
A work is never well done until it takes on the individuality of the worker. We
should work with the creative instinct.
Dissatisfaction and overworked emotions are enervating. Worry, fear, grief,
anger, passion, temper, overjoy, depression, dissatisfaction, self-pity, pride,
egotism, envy, jealousy, gossip, lying, dishonesty, failing to meet obligations
and appointments, taking advantage of misunderstandings, abusing the
credulity of friends, abusing the confidence of those who confide in us--all
enervate and in time build incurable disease.
Grief is enervating. Those who are very enervated and toxemic will be
prostrated by grief, and, unless put to bed and kept warm and quiet, and
without food, may die. Food eaten under such circumstances will not digest,
but acts as a poison. Some people are made invalids for life by a great grief.
Shock, mental or physical, may enervate so greatly as to kill by heart failure, or
be followed by permanent nervousness.
Wrong eating or overeating may prevent a return to health.
Anger is very enervating. A daily shock of anger will build profound
enervation. A temper that flies at the slightest provocation ruins digestion and
builds nervousness.
The chronic grouch is liable to build ulcer or cancer of the stomach. Those
who cannot control their temper often build rheumatic arthritis, hard arteries,
gallstone, and early old age.
The systematic poisoning of overwrought emotions has been known since
reasoning began; but, aside from knowing that a poison is generated in the
system from great anger, love, jealousy, hate, and grief, just what the poison
is, and the modus operandi of its production, have never been satisfactorily
explained until made clear by the Philosophy of Toxemia.
Excessive emotion--jealousy, for example, or great anger-- precipitates a
profound enervation, which inhibits elimination.
Overeating is a common and universal enervating habit; eating too much fat--
cream, butter, fat meats, oils, rich pastries, sweets; eating too often; eating
between meals, and checking digestion with water-drinking between meals.
Food-inebriety is more common than alcohol-inebriety. The subconscious is
as busy as a hive of bees substituting, antidoting, and in reparation work;
substituting one stimulating excess for another--demanding whiskey,
tobacco, opium, etc., for gluttonous eating; thrills, shocks, sensual excesses
for food-poisoning.
Ungratified sense-demands are appeased by food excesses or other
stimulants; and when nature is balked in her demands, the victim runs amuck.
Psychological, like physical, cyclones are out of the regular order, yet they are
obeying the laws of their nature. They have no scruples to gainsay, but tear
through order as ruthlessly as fiends.
Every human being should know that such phenomena are potential to him,
and that the road to such catastrophes is enervating habits.
Insatiable desire for food and stimulants means an enervated state of the body
brought on from overindulgence--over stimulation.
A driving desire for food three times a day means enervation; trouble is only a
little farther on. The wise will get busy and correct appetites.
Perverted appetites are built by overeating; eating rich food until enjoyment is
lost for staple or plain foods; excessive use of stimulants--alcohol, tobacco,
coffee, tea; excessive use of butter, salt, pepper, and rich dressings, eating
without a real hunger (real hunger will take the plainest foods with a relish);
eating when sick or uncomfortable; eating at all hours, between meals; eating
until uncomfortable.
If Toxemic get rid of enervating habits. Cures--prayers, drugs, and surgery--all
honest or dishonest cures--will not cure. Get rid of cause and stay rid of it,
then health returns and abides perpetually.
Retrospection
Autonomy or self-government is met at the threshold of life by all the
conventional superstitions, and educated into a lot of habits, such as curing
without removing cause.
This, combined with man's inclination to hedonism (the doctrine that pleasure
is the only good), leads to a life of failure, in spite of man's potential desire to
rise above the forces that hold him down.
"Toxemia Explained" will help all who study it carefully to understand what
disease is, and how it is brought on.
This knowledge will help the wise and self- controlled to sidestep disease, and
the medical octopus that unwittingly vandalizes the sick.
All I ask of laymen or the profession is honestly to put my philosophy to the
acid test. Yes, prove, if possible, that I am mistaken, and then give me what is
coming to me.
Man makes his own diseases. This book tells how he does it. And he is the
one who can bring back health.
He and his subconsciousness alone can cure. Doctors cannot cure. Only
very rarely is surgical vandalism a dernier resort, unless bad treatment forces
unnecessary emergencies.
The body is strong or weak, as the case may be, depending entirely on
whether the nerve-energy is strong or weak.
And it should be remembered that the functions of the body are carried on well
or badly according to the amount of energy generated.
A Few Suggestions
The first thing on awaking in the morning, the Tilden system of tensing
exercises should be practiced for from fifteen to thirty minutes.
Eat three healthy nutritious meals a day and no more, no eating nor drinking
between meals.
A child that is given meat and eggs and an excess of milk is liable to develop
putrefactive diseases. It is doubtful (and I believe impossible) if any child
brought up on fruit, whole wheat and other grains, and vegetables can ever
evolve diphtheria, scarlet fever, or smallpox, or develop septic fever--typhoid.
Subjects developing diptheria (sore throat) symptoms have been living
haphazardly. Their eating has been too largely of animal foods and starch--
the conventional mixtures--and devoid of raw vegetables and fruit.
In a few words: Stop all enervating habits; stop eating; rest until nerve-energy
is restored to normal. When this is accomplished the patient is cured.
A short or long fast is beneficial to most sick people.
This was an excerpt from what is considered a classic masterpiece in the
world of Natural Hygienics.
“Toxemia Explained”
By: J. H. Tilden, M. D. 1935
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