PRACTICAL HOME HEALING
There was a time when folks lived far from towns and doctors were few and far between. Often, in the depths of winter, isolation was made absolute by deep snow or raging floods. Sickness did not conveniently or kindly delay its visitation until these obstacles had passed. Rather, it seemed to prefer to wait until such circumstances had arrived. It was then that parent or child went down with raging fever, measles, mumps, influenza or a thoroughly sprained ankle.
The impossibility of getting a doctor demanded that those present do the best they could. Necessity being the mother of invention, there soon developed a very effective range of home treatments to which many a person owed his life. These treatments were based upon sound principles of healing, providing the body with both the opportunity and the assistance it needed to bring into full play its own healing powers. It is hard to say which was more remarkable the
speed and completeness of most recoveries, or the simplicity of the methods used. It was a drugless program of therapy—natural healing in the truest sense.
It is to the detriment of modern generations that we have allowed these skills to be lost. There is scarcely a soul today in any of the more developed societies such as Australia, America, or Europe, who are ever placed beyond the reach of medical help. Relieved of any necessity to develop a personal and individual capacity to cope with sickness, modern man has learned instead to leave his health problems in the hands of the medical world. This attitude has been further established by the baffling complexity and multiplicity of modern illnesses which he feels are, in any case, beyond his ability to deal with.
However, once again the wheel is turning full circle. Doctors have become so busy that it is difficult to secure home visitation. Also, the cost of medical treatment is becoming so astronomical as to soon discourage anybody but the wealthy from seeking help from this source. Added to this is the growing uneasiness in the minds of many as to the safety and true effectiveness of drug therapy. Just as necessity gave rise to home treatments in the first case, so it is necessity that is calling it forth again in the second case.
It must be emphasized here that this little publication is not intended to attack or disparage the medical profession. The world has been benefited by it in many ways and it has its place. This is, instead, a work intended to serve as an aid to folk who would like to become intelligent in using simple, natural home treatments to help themselves and their families while at the same time, relieving doctors of some of the tremendous burden of having to treat so many ailments which people could look after themselves.
But the advantages to be gained from the practice of these treatments in the home are more than simply a matter of convenience or financial saving. There is great character building value in them, for it is when we must draw heavily upon our own resources that we develop strength of discernment, decision, discipline, courage, and faith in God. Faith must be included here because the full potential of the body’s healing power cannot be brought into play excepting as it is connected by faith to the healing power from above. As these qualities are developed, precious character is strengthened and souls are made glad by the rewards of seeing God, nature, and the home healer all working successfully together to produce life-saving results.
It is the sincere desire of the author that the treatments and principles outlined in the following pages will bring the satisfaction of healing and character building to all who read and practice them.
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