Healing methods are as old as human beings. And for us in Africa traditional healing methods are not new, they’ve been around before the advent of Pharmaceutical and orthodox medicine. But today we are experiencing a new surge or interest in natural healing methods.
There are so many acclaimed natural healers today that some are just disgusted when you mention natural healing. Their minds go to the white haired old man or woman, to hawkers in the buses, in markets and along the streets who carry many colorful concoctions claiming to cure everything from fever to hemorrhoids to just everything you call sickness. How do you know if what you are doing in the name of natural cure is really right for you?
Are there methods of healing that have stood the test of time?
Yes, there are methods that have remained useful and valued over a long period of time, even to our time, and you should know and understand these methods of healing. The procedures in these methods if learnt and followed can help you and your loved ones for the rest of your lives. That is how important they are.
Let's find out what’s involved in this method...
Basically, it's the importance of proper care and diet! These might seem commonplace, –proper care? Diet? And that’s why you may take this for granted. You may imagine that whatever you put into your mouth does not really matter as long as you feel satisfied. But let's reason together – look at flowers, fruits and vegetables grown in good soil. Don’t they always come out superior to those grown in depleted/poor soils. Every experienced farmer knows that proper nourishment of livestock and crops is vital to good production. Those who raise show dogs are very careful to give them balanced nutriments, supplemented by significant amount of vitamins and minerals. But generally human nutrition is almost completely ignored in everyday feeding of children, as well as of teenagers and adults. You can build good health and prevent disease only by eating right and taking proper care of your body. Your mind will be vigorous and achieve its greatest development when the body is well.
Once you have nourished your body well, will it take care of itself?
Yes, the body has self-healing mechanism. It is indeed a remarkable fact that with the help of God, the body can heal itself. God made our bodies with built-in ways to process the food and keep us well if we feed it with good natural food. The best food that the Master designer gave man immediately He created man is found in Genesis 1:29 "…every herb bearing seed… every tree, every fruit of tree yielding seed…” This is the original best diet.
The human body is subject to wear and tear and we get sick since we are in this body that is subject to death in the long run. But this can be postponed
When disease strikes as a result of wear and tear the regular functions are temporarily set aside and the body goes to work to regenerate itself. Instead of using energy food for digestion and muscular activity, it switches over to cleansing, repair and rebuilding.
When you are sick know that your organs have become weary and overloaded with toxins. The word “Dis ease,” is what the word says: The body is no longer at ease. Disease is actually an effort of nature to cleanse the body of the toxins; to let the body rest awhile, and to rebuild the organs. Disease is meant to be a friend, not an enemy. It is at this time that you must help the body cleanse the system of impurities and restore itself to health. When sick, there’s need to rest in bed while receiving minimum of the most nourishing and most digestible food. It is then that your body turns its attention to carrying on the healing process. When you do this the results can be amazing. What the sick need is pure air, wholesome food, and gentle help by attendants, rest and pure water. You should not load your body with impurities, with chemicals that are known to be poisonous to your body system. If you choose this method then the body stops the natural healing and must fight the poison you put into your body.
Your body will fight hard to deal with the poison. Then the sickness will apparently end or you may get sicker some other way- called side effects-. Perhaps surgery will be the next step. But true healing has not taken place. Additional poisons are in the system, which will only weaken the body in subsequent years. You will still have to deal with it at a later time.
You can once and for all break this cycle of sickness, seeming healing and recurrences by following these simple procedures:
Go on a wholesome food, which consist of fresh, raw fruit juices and raw vegetable juices. The best fruits are citrus, i.e., oranges, lemon, lime, grape fruits, tangerines and pineapples.
When distressed, physically, mentally, or emotionally this juice diet will bring you back to normal far better than other procedures.
Sometimes a longer cleansing program is needed and a rotation diet maintained for a time. This may involve several days of water-lemon fasting, juice fasting with 1-3 days of light meals, rotational fast if there’s need for long fasting.( For more on healthy fasting click here)
Very carefully, for instance the kind of protein food included in such program depends on the type of ailment, the age of the person, his weight and other factors. And some may need enemas or colonics to help in the elimination of waste from the system. For degenerative diseases it may take time to restore the body to normal but if patient and persistent in following the regimen it will give lasting and true healing.
Once you have the disease resolved you then need to adopt the best post-recovery diet.
A whole food plant-based diet! It is good to use this type of fasting as a method of preventing disease for a person in good health. Once or twice a year, an adequately managed fast of 3-10 days can do wonders for you especially when you have reached 35-40. Fasting once or twice a year is a powerful tool to help the body cleanse itself of accumulated wastes. Fatigue, constipation, premature aging, and sclerotic changes of the arteries (ie. Hardening of the blood vessels supplying the heart and feeding all other body cells with oxygen), nerve damage etc. Occasional fasting, followed by correct dietary programs, can prevent health problems. Everyone over 35 years of age should do this. If properly done tumors in their early degenerative condition may be reabsorbed by the bodily reconstructive changes and cleared up before they are established and growing to deadly stages.
Many in developed countries and developing countries like ours are now making earnest efforts to adopt this natural method of caring for the body. It demands properly understanding this method and not just to swallow anything that comes up on the Internet. You will agree with me that whatever is true always has a counterfeit. There are many counterfeit natural healers and you need to apply knowledge from the creator found in the Creator's manual- The Bible. And you will see that these eight laws- Proper Nutrition, exercise, adequate water intake, self control, pure fresh air, sunlight, physical rest of 7-8 hours of sleep at night and reliance on God totally, are the true remedies for prevention, maintenance and recovery of health.
