Ideas on Healing

Herbert Shelton N.D. who promoted the concept and movement "Natural Hygiene", supervised and assisted in over 40 thousand water fasts during his career. He advocated a basically raw food diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouts eaten in compatible combinations for ease and better completion of digestion. He determined that this diet best fit the human design. Judging by the results that his patients and students experienced, the approach that he used with people to reverse disease and aging was a superior one. He referred to acute disease as "a curative process" that the body conducts to help rid itself of internal de-habilitating toxins and debris. He focused on helping people detoxify through fasting, juicing, and rebuild with a clean and proper diet. Other factors such as exercise, fresh air, natural light, sufficient rest and psychological pluses were also included as beneficial.

Constantine Hering M.D., the most prominent catalyst of early American Homeopathy, was also one of the first to publicize how healing progresses back through past events to a point. Homeopaths refer to his observations as "Hering's Law of Cure".

Hering's Law says that we heal from the inside out, from the head down, and in reverse order from how degenerative conditions progressed. Therefore, on the road to improvement we go back through what we came through, to some extent recognizable.

Note: The mention of Hering's Law Of Cure is not an endorsement of Homeopathy, just that the observation that Hering made of people meeting the past coming the other direction along the path to better health has been a common theme noted by those who observe healing. It's one that I have experienced and encountered with others - Stephen Cochrane