The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-05-19
'Author Of Eating for q Purpose" etc,)

| AOu SOY, cooperate with nature IL
her healing efforts" Please explain. I
l nave severe headache, shall thinl
the headache does not exist, or shall
think 1t does exist and that ough
to Keep it as long as possible because
Mature knows what she is about?"
Ans.-A headache, is not thing, bu
subjective state. 1t exists, in Other
words, in your subjective mind. Tc
cnange the state of the mind with
reference to the pain, would remove
1t. The hypnotist induces toothache
IN mis- subject, and removes it at will
oy controlling the subjective mind.
Nostrums are advertised that will
stop any headache in a few minutes
| Dy deadening the sensibility of the
nervous system. Nothing is gained by
merely stopping the pain, except the
Immediate removal Of the unpleasant
sensation, which is, at times desir-
able; but the drug has an injurious eff
tect, and so has the antagonistic sug-
gest1on, whether it be called Faith"
movement" or Science" You
would not say to a sick child, "You are
not sick, you only imagine it." Much
less would you plunge it into cold wa
ter to drive the pain away by shock.
You would say, "You should not have
eaten those green apples; don't do it
again. Now lie down, and l will ease
the pain for you, the apples will soon
pass off and then you must rest your
stomach before eating anything. Now
don't worry, we will soon have you all
right again. That pain is sign you
are going to be better soon. 1t won't
last long" Right suggestion is always
good, but 1t should not be antagonistic
to truth. Disease should not be de-
MED; physical conditions should not
be ignored though the thought may be
diverted from disagreeable truth.
Pain is the effect of some abnormal
condition, and to attack the effect, in
stead of removing the cause, is no bet
ter than to deny the existence of the
cause. Headache may arise from
many causes-eye strain, worry, auto
intoxication, fatigue, being the COM
monest, but all are due to the same
prime cause, defective nutrition, using
that term in it's broadcast sense. 1t
may not be directly traceable to the
state OF the blood, but it is necessarily
due to condition of the nervous sys-
TEN, and that is due to faulty nutrition,
which has determined the quality of
the blood. A weak, nervous person
acquires headaches by the slightest
excitement; a vigorous man is rarely
so affected. One who is we'll nour-
ished, with consequent strong nerv-
GUS system, will not worry over the
little things that may seem serious to
one who is nervous from impover-
ished blood and therefore weakened
nerves. Mechanical vibration will
usually cure headache in a few min
utes, because by stimulating the circu-
lation the waste matter in the blood
is carried off, abnormal pressure on
nerves due to congestion is dissipated,
and fresh oxygenated blood is sup
piled Improving nutrition) hot and |
cold water, properly applied, will also |
afford prompt relief, but such cures
are superficial. The blood is more or |
less impure from the deposit of |
waste matter, coming from poorly di-
sested food, or wrong food, or exhaus-
ion or wrong thinking or lack of ex-
ercise which supplies fresh oxygenated
blood, carrying the needed nutritious
elements and removing waste-but the
analysis need not be here continued.
How shall one harmonic" with
nature in this case? Recognize the
'ause and remove it, as soon as
practicable; nature requires time for
'ure. Pain points to cause of injury
o the organism as when you tread
lpon tack-remove 1t. The cause
not always so easily found, but we
an study natures laws and learn her
FORMAL ways of being, then conform.
The thought should harmonic with
ne effort, never antagonize it, as is
one in denying the effect, the pain.
Pain works to stop the action of the
ause; objective intelligence goes
tep further and removes the cause, or
bviates it, This gives us the rational
t scientific surgery, of public sani-
alton, of preventive medicine in gen
raj and of rational diet.
Mrs. j. H., Berkeley, Cal, Diet En-
iente.
Mrs. H. kindly gives me a full report
her very interesting case in which
lie question of diet for mothers is
oncerned. In her remarkable case,
Mrs. H. is the mother of three pairs
twins, all welD at a critical period
hen proper nutrition was vitality i'm
ortant. every food commonly used in i
lch cases was tried, but none could
, retained. Boiled whole wheat was +
described. when accidentally she tried I
ncooked wheat and that only proved ,,
'tisfactory. through all her trying ,
iperiences. Mrs. H. reports that her !
lildren have shown exemption from {
'rtain abnormal tendencies which 3
slieve, result from prenatal and sub =
'quent influences of improper indi-
ct nutrition. g
Wheat, If very slowly masticated. I
Vt otherwise, is a good mOnCdiet in 7