Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-04
GOOD HEALTH
QUESTION BOX
BY JOHN HARVEY KELLOGG,
NASAL cstarrh Is due to lowered
M. D., LII. ID.

| HSHiS uuc W lVWS'N'
AN vital resistance. II you ever took
hard cold YOU know how II began
Perhaps YOU remember the carly sylnp-
toms. At first you began to feel little
cold and sbivering and then pretty soon
You began to sncezc. then after a little
while came the cold In the head. as we
call II, or cold In the nasal cavity
n coryza OF the nose. In which u little
water began TO run from the nose that
Is, serum or salt water coming from the
nose.
Now this salt water pouring out from
the nose IN natures mode Of defensc
she IL trying TO protect herself against
IN" germs that are seeking entrance to
I the body through the nasal mucous
membrane. When a person takes cold
| In the nose there Is congestion Of the
mucous membrane Of these congested
vessels and when the blood stops and
stagnates In the vessels there is a loss
OF defensive power: the germs begin to
swarm In and take possession OF the
blood vessels. and nature pours out this
serum because It contains substanceo
which destroy germs. The serum Of the
blood contains antidotes against germs,
germicides that destroy germs.
Now. IL you have a sufficient amount
Pof resistance against these germs that
produce colds you will have 10 further
trouble. The running of the nose will
disappear after awhile and the cold will
be at an end. But IL the resistance is
low, then In the course of a day or two
this discharge will become, first, "a
whitish discharge, then after while o
yellowish discharge, and then IT may
continue Tor months and months n yel-
lowish or a greenish discharge.
III
tinues is because you did not have re-
sistance enough TO fight off those germs
before they got possession of the nose
| They colonzed there and began to
grow.
The first thing TO do IN curing catarrb
is 10 call on a nose specialist and have
/ him see what the situation Is Every
/ thing depends upon what the special
individu Al requirements are. People do
not have nasal catarrh on general prln.
! ciples One person who has nasal
catarrh requires one remedy, and an
other with perhaps another condition
requires different remedy
II is safe to say that every case of
nasal catarrh is durable. but II requires
something moro than treatment of the
nose. II is generally most important Of
all to treat the colon. That is the place
to begin treating the nasal catarrh be-
cause the mucous membrane of the nose
very often has been reduced simply to
the status of an excretory organ.
The purpose of the nose. one of its
purposes at my rate. is to enable us to
enjoy delicate and delightful perfumes
that we gather from flowers and de-
licious foods that Nature serves to ,is.
But when a person allows the colon TO
become the hold of every unclean and
hateful "A
80 that the germs are being created
there by millions and millions and tril-
lions-when person allows himself TO
get into that condition, the mucous mem
brane OF the nose becomes a channel, an
outlet. for horrible poisons which ought
TO go out through the colon instead of
being discharged through the nose.
constipated person simply changes the
outlets. He allows the backing UP CT
NTH until the whole body is polluted.
It Is like the backing up Of I sewer. 70
tlat the sewerage comes backing up into
the house and fills the kitchen and dining
room and gets into the pantry and the
china closet. and the whole house is
hlled with the filth from the backing ue
| Of the sewer
! That Is exactly what has II hlppened 10
person who has backing up OF the
colon. There Is a damming back and ac-
cumulating In the body of all these hor-
rible stenches borne down In the colon ::
and they get out through the breath and
the nose. which adds to the odor of the
breath. The breath Of a person with
chronic catarrh is very offensive.
When a person begins to follow good
habits OF living-when he exercises. eats.
sleeps and bathes correctly--his organs
VIII function normally and his vitil re-
sistance VIII rise to cope with any dis
ease germs ana he cannot have catarrh