Nature Cure

[maddie]

I just found this site. Now I know what to call my health care plan. :)


Nature Cure

This site is about Nature Cure, not about medicine or "Alternative Medicine", for which modern Naturopathy is now known. Nature knows how to heal the body. As practitioners, we simply provide the right conditions for Nature to do her work. This site is dedicated to those who want to become healthy and stay healthy, naturally.


Here are the principles of Nature Cure: (from What Is Nature Cure, by Kenneth S Jaffrey)

1. All healing power is within your own body.

2. There is no curative power in drugs, medicines, herbs, foods, electrical apparatus or anything else outside your own body.

3. Nature has not provided cures for disease. Nature has only provided penalties for the breaking of some natural law.

4. Return to an obedience to natural law is the only valid method of cure.

5. Drugs cause disease. If they succeed in "curing" one disease, they cause another. All drugs have two effects. One is that intended to benefit the patient and the other is the side-effect which harms the patient. You cannot have one without the other.

6. Since all drugs are potential causes of disease we should avoid them at all times.

7. Drugs do not act upon the body, as taught in medical schools and in medical textbooks. The body reacts to the drug. The body recognises the drug as unwanted material and makes an attempt to expel it.

8. True medicines are materials and influences which have normal relations to the body. Drugs are all harmful because they are not normal to the body by Nature.

9. Nature's medicine chest contains: Sunlight, air, water, rest, exercise, correct temperature, natural foods, positive mental attitude, and correction of misaligned body joints.

10. Nature Cure consists in supplying the body with whatever it needs, and can use, in the particular circumstances.

11. Nature Cure assists to get well by removing the causes of disease, and by providing the most favourable conditions.

12. Nature Cure is not a one-sided approach to health. It makes use of all non-harmful methods which have as their objective the normalisation of the body.

13. When the body is given its normal natural materials and conditions it maintains health. It will restore health when it has been lost.

(An extract from What Is Nature Cure, by Kenneth S Jaffrey).


Bill Westerman N.D., Dip. App. Sc. (Counselling)
Nature Cure Practitioner - Natural Health Educator
Sunshine Coast QLD Australia

[maddie]

What Is Nature Cure ? by Bill Westerman ND


Nature Cure teaches that it is natural to be healthy. We believe that human beings, like animals in their natural state, are normally healthy, and should be healthy.

We believe that behind every ache, pain, illness or disability there is a cause. We also believe that to gain freedom from sickness we need to first remove the cause, and then give the body an opportunity to heal itself. We believe that the body is self-repairing and self-regulating.

Nature Cure does not prescribe drugs or medicines, vitamin preparations or herbs or food supplements as medicines or curative agents, or use electrical machines or operations. It uses only such methods as are natural to the body. Nature Cure teaches that illness is caused by an infringement of natural laws. It teaches that the only way to regain health is to return to an observance of natural law. In other words, humans are encouraged to live naturally, and therefore maintain natural health.

In order to be healthy, humans need suitable food, pure water, fresh air, sunlight, exercise, rest, a positive attitude to their individual lifestyle and vocations, and correct living habits. When a person is ill, the same factors are necessary as in health, but in different proportions.

The treatments used are not treatments in the usual sense of the word. Nature Cure treatments are used only to achieve normality. When the body is normal, it repairs itself automatically.

So, a Nature Cure Practitioner is not a medical practitioner, or alternative medicine practitioner (modern “naturopath”), does not supply medical or surgical advice, treatment, or operations. Nature Cure is devoted wholly to the achievement and maintenance of normal health by natural means. It seeks to provide the correct environment and conditions so the life force within the body will restore and maintain normal health. Nature Cure recognises nature as the only healer.

Nature Cure has no religious affiliations. It has no use for gimmicks. It is a purely natural approach to health. The following natural factors are used: natural foods, therapeutic fasting, pure water, fresh air, sunlight, appropriate exercise, relaxation and counselling.

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Ok, I'm not giving up my vitamins or my herbs!!! :stir:

[maddie]

Bill Westerman ND Nature Cure

Principal Practitioner: Bill Westerman N.D., Dip. App, Sc. (Counselling)

Bill is qualified as a Naturopath, with over 30 years experience in Traditional Naturopathy or Nature Cure. We use the term "Nature Cure" to differentiate between "modern naturopaths" who use alternative medicines to "cure" disease, and Traditional Naturopaths who do not use medicines. As disease in the body is often affected by the emotions and state of mind, counselling is often used by Nature Cure Practitioners to obtain emotional and mental "poise" or normality. Bill has formal qualifications and experience in counselling, which is used in conjunction with Nature Cure therapy in practice.

The practice is located on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
http://www.vegansworldnetwork.org/nature-cure-topics.html
http://www.vegansworldnetwork.org/nature-cure-resort.html

[maddie]

I thought I'd throw this in too:
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[Gliondrach]

That's very interesting, Maddie. I agree with most of what they say but, like you, I believe there is a place for vitamin and herbal treatments. I understand what they mean about the body healing itself. Of course, it needs the correct nutrients to do that. Herbs provide nutrients and phytochemicals. These help the body to help itself but, ultimately, the body makes the new cells and the cells of the immune system. What we put into our bodies is used by the body to make what it needs.

I also believe that in serious cases certain drugs are necessary but only as a last resort. If they can be avoided they should be. If they can't be avoided they should be taken. Many of them cause dangerous side effects. Mainly because they are developed from non-human data.

The mind and body are one system and thoughts and beliefs can influence physical health. Very often a change in thinking can have a great effect on the body.

I remember something that Matthew Manning - a healer-type - said many years ago. He mentioned that some people had been prescribed drugs to treat their anxiety. The drugs damaged their kidneys (or was it their livers?) and then they needed more drugs for their kidney trouble. If they had been taught meditation and relaxation techniques they would have been less anxious and wouldn't have ended up with damaged kidneys.

What's this health care plan, you mentioned?

[Keykeypie]

Well that's always worked for me. In the mid 90 I caught Lyme Disease from
ticks on a stray we picked up......

Here's a piece I wrote (http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/James/page100.html)for a Lyme Disease News letter about
10 years ago and I'm totally fine now & have been for years.

[Gliondrach]

That was a well written piece.

And you are completely better now?

[Keykeypie]

Totally.....but I was real sick for about a year+ and here was the strange thing I didn't mention in the article.

The company, United Parcel Service [ UPS ] used to constantly come up in my searches. What I mean is, a surprising number of people who were really suffering very badly from Lyme disease, people who were actually in wheel chairs, you know, really in bad shape, seemed to either work for UPS or be the spouse of a UPS employee.

I could not figure this out. What could the connection possibly be?

Finally I asked my UPS guy if he knew any employees who had Lyme disease
and he said, not that he knew of.

But then he added......quite pridefully. "But if they do, we have the best health care system of any company in the country. We can go to any doctor
and any treatment that doctor orders, UPS pays for NO QUESTIONS ASKED"

2+2 = Mystery Solved

[Gliondrach]

I don't know anything about the disease but it would seem the treatment is often worse than the disease. There do seem to be quite a few nutritional supporting treatments for it.

[maddie]

I remember something that Matthew Manning - a healer-type - said many years ago. He mentioned that some people had been prescribed drugs to treat their anxiety. The drugs damaged their kidneys (or was it their livers?) and then they needed more drugs for their kidney trouble. If they had been taught meditation and relaxation techniques they would have been less anxious and wouldn't have ended up with damaged kidneys.

What's this health care plan, you mentioned?

Yes, most drugs cause one or more side effects. So, effectually you are possibly gaining some relief for one ailment but adding more ailments. That is a scary prospect to me.

The health care I mentioned was just that I know have a name for my health care plan, Nature Care, with the exception of taking vitamins and herbs. I have a doctor yet I don't take prescriptions. I use my doctor for blood work once a year to detect vitamin deficiencies or other problems. So far, I've not had any problems there. I did injure myself a few years back and had to go to physical therapy. My doctor offered me a regiment of narcotics and I turned them down. I took some herbs for that, and though I was in a little pain, I didn't risk liver damage or other potential problems by taking drugs.

My husband told me about a kid in the newspaper who has diabetes, obese and other problems. She recently was diagnosed with liver damage, they think it's from some of her medication. How sad is that, she's only 13! It is appalling that doctors hand out drugs like candy. I heard that prescription drug death is the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S. :rubchin:


Ginger, I'm so glad you came through the lyme disease. I've never known anyone who had it nor do I really know much about it. Your article was enlightening and well written!Thanks for sharing. :)

I wanted to tell you that I'm in the process of moving!! I'm so happy!! I may not post again until I get settled which may be a couple of weeks. I just posted one last thread here (http://www.thenakedvegan.net/showthread.php?t=623). I'm sorry to start several threads and not be able to tend them for a while. I'll talk to you guys soon!!! :hug:

[Gliondrach]

Yes, properly prescribed and properly taken medical drugs are the fourth biggest killer. Over 100,000 people die every year from them in the US. And two million or more suffer less serious side effects. The drug companies tried to prove that these figures were wrong by having other researchers saying that the original research was faulty. This second group of researchers all have close ties with the drugs industry. I know who I believe.