Nature Cure - Part 2

In nature cure, it is believed that given the proper conditions, the body always tends to heal, to correct itself. It follows that this treatment will vary in many respects from that of the ordinary medical treatment, because in the latter, medication is used largely in conjunction with rest, to bring about more favorable conditions of pressure.

In Nature Cure, the patient himself is responsible for regaining and maintaining health. Certainly, the path can be made clear and guidance can be given on the various steps by a Nature Cure practitioner, but the actual healing force within our bodies is the one essential to good health. No one can give this healing force, although the practitioner may be able to make it more vital and enable it to flow more freely. Every treatment must fail if the healing force within the body is not brought into action. By doing so, the greatest of all factors in the restoration of health if being employed. Without it, healthy on any level is impossible; and yet it is common finding of most Nature Cure practitioners that people are so unaware of the healing force which lies within the body that they do everything, or seemingly everything, to destroy it or to reduce its potentiality.

We are trying, in everything we do, in our change of diet, exercises, care of the skin, and in our mental and emotional outlook, to release the vital healing power. Nature alone heals, and she heals through this inherent power that is present in greater or lesser degree in every one of us. The people who suffer from high blood-pressure are usually those who have a certain amount of nervous and physical vitality; indeed, in many cases it is said that they have too much vitality. This means, of course, that these people, if they follow the Nature Cure system, become well fairly quickly, because the healing force is at high level. In most cases, Natural Healing means a reduction in the amount of expendable vitality; in other words, these people are slowed down by this method and so are enabled to live much longer and in considerably greater degree of health than would normally have been their lot.

This slowing down of their activities comes naturally with the reduction in the energising foods on which these people live mainly. This must not be regarded as a sign that the treatment is not being successful, because the reverse is true. Whenever sufferers from high blood-pressure undertake treatment which reduces the pressure, they tend to become tired and listless. The explanations is that the body is carrying out mush of its own cleansing and, while it is doing so, it does not want to expend energy on physical needs.

The rest - and the Nature Cure treatment is based on rest, physical, emotionally and mentally -- has for a considerable period been recognised as beneficial by physicians of every school, although the medical school concerns itself mainly with actual physical rest rather than in the initiation of any great changes in the dietetic and other  habits of living. The Nature Cure school believes that rest in every aspect of living is an essential at the beginning of the treatment of high blood-pressure, and that the digestive system is that main part of the body which should receive a great measure of this treatment. It is usually more beneficial to rest the digestive system, i.e. to fast or to take a very much reduced diet, than it is to rest the body completely while still maintaining a very heavy diet.

Nature Cure treatment, if followed assiduously, will result in a slow drop in the blood-pressure, but it is impossible in every case to promise that the normal pressure for the patient will be obtained. Most people take up Nature Cure when all other methods have failed, and in some chronic cases a full recovery may be very difficult to achieve. In nearly every case, however, a reduction of blood-pressure becomes slowly apparent, and disastrous end-effects, such as cerebral haemorrhage or severe arterial sclerosis, are very largely avoided. On the other hand, if the patient becomes aware early that he or she is suffering from hypertension, the methods outlined in most Nature Cure treatment will bring about a rapid recovery without any complications whatsoever.