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The general doctrines of naturopathy follow the general criteria of "societal" intoxication and "natural" detoxification buy 300 mg trileptal with amex. W e poison ourselves: - At skin-level discount trileptal 300mg on line, with certain alkaline soaps, beauty creams, and deodorants; - At the lungs through smoke, tobacco, pollution, emotional tight- ness, lack of exercise; - In the liver and intestines, through alcohol, tobacco, drugs, cof- fee, sugar, drugs, fat, additives; - In the kidneys, through excessive salt, lack of water, chemical drugs, excessive meat; 81 Healing or Stealing? The detox cure consists in adopting a lifestyle that accentuates the normal elimina- tion of toxins accumulated in the organism at the level of the four emunctories which are: the skin, the lungs, the liver and intestines, the kidneys. You can start your detoxification with a monodiet in which you eat only one kind of food (depending on what disorders you are experi- encing) for a certain length of time, or you can fast for a certain pe- riod — this is the most effective means of cleaning out the organism. The fasts can be wet (drinking nothing but water) or dry (the patient takes no solid food nor liquid food). Except for emergency cases, in the event of feverish or nonfeverish disease, we prepare for this cure by gradually eliminating from our food: first, animal products; then stimulants; then fats and crude oils, cooked grains, cooked vegetables and fruits; and finally the mixtures of raw cereals, vegetables and fruits. After this cure we begin to eat again, and start the cure of revitaliza- tion; foods should be added back into the diet progressively (a mono- diet is recommended). Finally, the stabilization cure enables us to find the correct food com- binations and to avoid disastrous associations, although the various schools do not agree on which food associations are those are. In spite of the success of Kousmine’s works, his regimen has never, so far, saved a single cancer patient, and it represents one of those dead ends into which patients are lured when they are under stress from having the disease diagnosed and under a psychological burden induced by the treatments. Montain on dental naturo-therapy; it ap- peared in the International Review of Unconventional Medicines, and it pre- sents both the technique and its limitations. Respecting the Hippocratic principle, Primum non nocere, the naturo- therapist will be careful not to poison the organism of his patient. Any time that this becomes necessary, he will cleanse it, using the natural methodology and applying the principles of the hygiene of life, in an individually-tailored way. Toxic metals such as mercury, copper and silver contained in the fillings will be removed. Even with these, prudence is required; some alloys contain only very little gold, and the tests that we have conducted with our Geiger 7 counter reveal that many ceramics are radioactive! It is true that dental naturo-therapy aims at restoring the wave and vibrational balances of which pataphysicians are so fond. Montain poses a fundamental problem in patamedi- cine, that of good faith and of how open to critical judgment an expert can be who is convinced of a technique that he intellectually believes in and wants to believe in, but that is not backed up by any technical and scientific arguments that can make it credible. Admittedly, heretics have often been the ones who stimulated of the development of sci- ence — Galileo stating that the earth revolves around the sun, Einstein working out the theory of relativity — but unfortunately for humanity, heresy is more often the bearer of errors than of truth. Colonics Hydrotherapy of the colon occupies a prime spot in the array of bizarre treatments offered in naturopathy. The first goal of colonic hydrotherapy is to deeply cleanse the intesti- nal mucous membrane. But it is also, and perhaps especially, a diag- nostic method that enables us to check the functional state of the large intestine and to make connections between the patient’s symp- toms and any disturbances in the large intestine’s functioning. This method enables us to determine the presence of intestinal gases as well as the size, the concentration and the location of accumulated feces, as well as the density and the color of intestinal mucus, signs that can help us to determine, for a given person, which types of food encourage the accumulations and thus what kind of diet must be fol- lowed throughout the cure, and for the entire period of detoxification 8 of the organism. The technique: colonic hydrotherapy is a process of cleansing the 84 Go for What’s Natural large intestine; it consists in bathing it with fresh, tepid, purified water, without the addition of chemicals or drugs. Successive baths are car- ried out, with water introduced and eliminated via a double nozzle in- troduced into the rectum. Colonic hydrotherapy claims many and varied beneficial effects: weight loss, prevention of colon cancer, treatment of cystitis, ovaritis and dysmenorrhea, improvement of renal function, recovery after gen- eral anesthesia, rejuvenation, treatment of paraplegias and quadriple- gias, treatment of low fertility, clearing up skin problems, and a wide range of pulmonary, gynecological, vascular, neurological, and psychiat- ric disorders. In short, hydrotherapy is a universal and beneficial practice that Molière and his doctors would have loved. Unfortunately, it seems that the arguments of the colo-therapists have not succeeded in convincing the infamous technocrats of the Health Ministry, for a decree banned the marketing of colonic hydrotherapy devices in France in 1993. STEINER’S HEIRS Rudolf Steiner was born in 1861 in what was then the Austrian Empire. He very early discovered the works of Goethe and became a passionate admirer; he later named his research center Goethanum. He joined the Theosophic Society in 1908 and quickly became General Sec- retary of its German section. Steiner gradually moved away from the- osophy and began to study Christian esotericism.

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