The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-07-20
Author Of Eating for Purpose. etc.)

You say, Cooperate with nature in
her healing efforts" Please explain. II
l have a severe headache, shall think
the headache does not exist, or shall
think 1t does exist and that l ought
to keep 1t as long as possible because
Mature knows what she Is about?'
Ans.-A headache, is not a thing, but
a subjective state. 1t exists, in other
words, in your subjective mind. To
change the state of the mind with
reference to the pain, would remove
it. The hypnotist induces toothache
in his subject, and removes 1t at will,
by controlling the subjective mind.
Nostrums are advertised that will
stop any headache in few minutes,
by deadening the sensbility 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 ef
feet, and so has the antagonistic sug
gestion whether 1t be called Faith
Movement" or Science" You
would not say to 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 1t
again. Now lie down, and | will ease
the pain for you, the apples will soon
pass of and then you must rest your
Cfn hot <jyou VT
don't worry, we will soon have you all
right again. That pain Is a 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 1t is necessarily
due to condition Of the nervous sys-
tenn, 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; vigorous man Is rarely
! so affected. One who is well 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
anord prompt relief, but such cures
are superficial. The blood is more or
less impure from the deposit of
waste matter, coming from poorly d.
gested food, or wrong food, or exhaus-
ton 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
cause and remove 1t, as soon as
practicable; nature requires time for
cure. Pain points to cause of injury
to the organism as when you tread
upon q tack-remove it. The cause
Is not always so easily found but we
can study natures laws and learn her
normal ways of being, then conform.
The thought should harmonic with
the effort, never antagonize it, as is
done in denying the effect, the pain.
Pain works to stop the action Of the
cause; objective intelligence goes a
step further and removes the cause. or
obviates it. This gives us the rational
OF scientific surgery, of public SAM
tation, of preventive medicine in gen
eral and of rational diet
Mrs. ]. H., Berkeley, Cal, Diet En-
ciente.
Mrs. H. kindly gives me full report
OF her very interesting case in which
the question of diet for mothers is
concerned. In her remarkable case
(Mrs. H. is the mother of three pair.
OF twins, all welD at a critical periot
when proper nutrition was vitality i'm
portant, every food commonly used il
! such cases was tried, but none coul(
be retained. Boiled whole wheat wa,
prescribed, when accidentally she trie,
uncooked wheat and that only PROVED
i satisfactory, through all her irwin,
! experiences. Mrs. II. reports that he
children have shown exemption from
certain abnormal tendencies which
believe, result from prenatal and sui
sequent influences of improper ind
u rect nutrition.
Wheat, If very slowly masticated
> not otherwise, is good monodiet 4
= almost any case Winter wheat &c IA