What The Bible & SOP Says About Physicians/Doctors

“The world has departed far from true principles of restoration and health.” (LLM 72A.5)

 
“…If there was in the land one physician in the place of thousands, a vast amount of premature mortality would be prevented. Multitudes of physicians, and multitudes of drugs, have cursed the inhabitants of the earth, and have carried thousands and tens of thousands to untimely graves.”  {2SM 450.2}
 
 
BIBLE:
1: A physician is to know how to recover the health of God's people:
    “Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?”  (Jer. 8:22)
***A true physician gets to the root of the medical condition without masking it with medication…the person would be healed.
 
2: Many physicians are of no value:
    “But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.” (Job 13:4)
“Many physicians in our world are of no benefit to the human family…” (SpM 137.1)
 
3: We should run to God and not to the physicians first when we get sick:
“And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.”  (2 Chron. 16:12) (2 Kings 20:1-7)
 
4: Most people suffer many things by going to physicians:
    “…had suffered many things of many physicians...” (Mark 5:26)
 
“Physicians, by administering their drug-poisons, have done very much to increase the deterioration of the race, physically, mentally, and morally…” {RH, August 15, 1899 par. 7}
 
5: Most people go to physician after physician, but still with no recovery:
    “Many physicians...was nothing bettered.” (Mark 5:26)
 
6: Most people spend all their money on seeing physicians, but with no recovery:
    “...had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any.”  (Luke 8:43)
 
SOP:
“To educate the human family that the doctor alone knows all the ills of infants and persons of every age is false teaching...”   M.S. 105, (PH144 13.2) (written Aug. 26, 1898)
 
“There are simple herbs and roots that every family may use for themselves, and need not call in a physician any sooner than they would call a lawyer (when is the last time you needed a lawyer?”  (2SM 279.1)
 
“...if every family were educated in how to use these herbs in case of sickness, much suffering might be prevented, and NO DOCTOR NEED BE CALLED...”  1897 (2SM 294.1)
 
“...TRUE EDUCATION will lead us to teach the sick that they need not call in a doctor any more than they would call in a lawyer. They can themselves administer the simple herbs if necessary.”  (SpM 137.2)
 
“He would have us understand that it is a mistake to regard as most essential the education given by physicians who reject the authority of Christ...We are not to accept and follow the view of men who refuse to recognize God as their teacher, but who learn of men, and are guided by man-made laws and restrictions.” {PH049 6.4}
 
“It is not safe to trust to physicians who have not the fear of God before them...The physician may claim to possess great wisdom and marvelous skill, while at the same time his practice contrary to the laws of health...the teaching of these physicians is continually leading away from the principles God has given us in regard to health...Brethren, how can the Lord let his blessing rest upon us when we are going right upon the enemy's ground?”   {CTBH 113.1) (5T 194.3) (CH 456.2) (Read Psalms 1:1)
 
“Angels of God will preserve his people while they walk in the path of duty; but there is no assurance of such protection for those who deliberately venture upon Satan's ground…”   {CTBH 115.3}
 
“Christ will not save from wounds the one who places himself unbidden on the enemy's ground...Then comes suffering...”  (MS 115, 1902) {5BC 1102.7}
 
(Many parents are having their children taken away or are being reported to Children's Services all because they let their Dr.'s know that they don't vaccinate their children or they only eat 2 meals a day, are 100% plant based, etc. Therefore, parents are SCARED into going against their choices and are being led to go contrary to the laws of health in many aspects).
 
““Your question is, . . . “IN URGENT CASES, should we call in a worldly physician, because the sanitarium doctors are all so busy that they have no time to devote to outside practice?”...If the physicians are so busy that they cannot treat the sick outside of the institution, would it not be WISER for all to educate themselves in the use of simple remedies, than to venture to use drugs that are given a long name to hide their real qualities...”  (2SM 289.4)
 
“Appealing to worldly physicians is dishonoring to God. Those who come to God in faith must co-operate with Him in accepting and using His heaven-sent remedies,--water, sunlight, and plenty of air.”  {PC 48.4}
 
“Our people are now being tested as to whether they will obtain their wisdom from the greatest Teacher the world ever knew, or seek to the god of Ekron. Let us determine that we will not be tied by so much as a thread to the educational policies of those who do not discern the voice of God and who will not hearken to His commandments.”  {CT 255.4}
 
“I have heard a mother pleading with an infidel physician to save the life of her child; but when I entreated her to seek help from the Great Physician, who is able to save to the uttermost all who come to him in faith, she turned away with impatience.”  (CH 454.4)
 
“It is the right of every daughter of Eve to have a thorough knowledge of household duties, to receive training in every department of domestic labor...It is her right to understand the mechanism of the human body and the principles of hygiene, the matters of diet and dress, labor and recreation, and countless others that intimately concern the wellbeing of her household. It is her right to obtain such a knowledge of the best methods of treating disease that she can care for her children in sickness, instead of leaving her precious treasures in the hands of strange nurses and physicians.”  {AH 87.3}
 
WE CAN GO TO OUR DOCTORS TO BE DIAGNOSED:
“While you fear to trust yourself in the hands of the physicians, and think that you understand your case better than they do, you cannot be benefited, but only harmed, by their treatment of your case. Unless physicians can obtain the confidence of their patients, they can never help them. If you prescribe for yourself, and think you know what treatment you should have, better than the physicians do, you cannot be benefited. You must yield your will and ideas, and not rein yourself up to resist their judgment and advice in your case.” {3T 78.3}
 
WE MAY BE OUR OWN PHYSICIANS IN A SENSE:
“Again, there may be somebody sick there. You want to know how to use the common methods, the simple remedies of water. It is a simple power. Although my husband and I were not physicians, yet we were. We could go around when the doctors children were cut down, four and five in the families of physicians. We never lost a case. That is in diphtheria, and we used only the simple treatments. In doing this, we gained the confidence of the physicians. When persons would go to the physicians for help, they would say, "If anybody can help you, it is up there at Elder White's. He and his wife go around and help people, I don't know how they do it...”  {SW, January 23, 1902 par. 17}
 
“For her COUGH...eucalyptus and honey...If you will use this prescription, you may be your own physician.”  (2SM300.2) {14MR 339.1}
 
“By practicing temperance in eating, in drinking, in dressing, in labor, and in all things, we can do for ourselves what no physician can do for us.”  {CG 397.1}
 
“…intelligent men and women can be their own physicians…” {2SM 442.4}
 
“There is no treatment which can relieve you of your present difficulties while you eat and drink as you do. You can do that for yourselves which the most experienced physician can never do. REGULATE YOUR DIET...”  (CD 124.1)
 
“If there was in the land one physician in the place of thousands, a vast amount of premature mortality would be prevented. Multitudes of physicians, and multitudes of drugs, have cursed the inhabitants of the earth, and have carried thousands and tens of thousands to untimely graves.”  {2SM 450.2}
 
“Many are unwilling to put forth the needed effort to obtain a knowledge of the laws of life and the simple means to be employed for the restoration of health. They do not place themselves in right relation to life. When sickness is the result of their transgression of natural law, they do not seek to correct their errors, and then ask the blessing of God, but they resort to the physicians. If they recover health, they give to drugs and doctors all the honor. They are ever ready to idolize human power and wisdom, seeming to know no other God than the creature, — dust and ashes.”  {CTBH 112.3}
 
“The sick, the bereaved, the curious, are communicating with evil spirits. All who venture here are on dangerous ground. The word of truth declares how God regards them. In ancient times he pronounced judgments upon one who sent for counsel to a heathen oracle: “Is it not because there is not a God in Israel that thou sendest to inquire to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.”  {3SP 426.3}
 
“Our people are now being tested as to whether they will obtain their wisdom from the greatest Teacher the world ever knew, or seek to the god of Ekron. Let us determine that we will not be tied by so much as a thread to the educational policies of those who do not discern the voice of God and who will not hearken to His commandments.”  (MM 61.5)
 
READ ALSO:
CTBH 113.1-114.1 – “Who among us are seeking help from the gods of Ekron? Look on this picture — a picture not drawn from imagination. In how many, even among Seventh-day Adventists, may its leading characteristics be seen! An invalid, apparently very conscientious, yet bigoted and self-sufficient, freely avows his contempt for the laws of life and health, which divine mercy has led us as a people to accept. His food must be prepared in a manner to satisfy his morbid cravings. Rather than sit at a table where wholesome food is provided, he will patronize restaurants, because he can there indulge appetite without restraint. A fluent advocate of temperance, he disregards its foundation principles. He wants relief, but refuses to obtain it at the price of self-denial. That man is worshiping at the shrine of perverted appetite. He is an idolater. The powers, which, sanctified and ennobled, might be employed to honor God, are weakened, and rendered of little service. An irritable temper, a confused brain, and unstrung nerves are among the results of his disregard of nature's laws. He is inefficient and unreliable. Whoever has the courage and honesty to warn him of danger, thereby incurs his displeasure. The slightest remonstrance or opposition is sufficient to rouse his combative spirit. But now an opportunity is presented to seek help from one whose power comes through the medium of witchcraft. To this source he applies with eagerness, freely expending time and money in the hope of securing the proffered boon. He is deceived, infatuated. The sorcerer's power is made the theme of praise, and others are influenced to seek his aid. Thus the God of Israel is dishonored, while Satan's power is revered and exalted.”
 
“In the name of Christ I would address his professed followers: Abide in the faith which you have received from the beginning. “Shun profane and vain babblings.” [2 Timothy 2:16.] Instead of putting your trust in witchcraft, have faith in the living God. Cursed is the path that leads to Endor or to Ekron. The feet will stumble and fall that venture upon this forbidden ground. There is a God in Israel, with whom is deliverance for all who are oppressed. Righteousness is the foundation of his throne.”  {CTBH 115.1}
 
“When the great question of health reform was opened before me, the methods of treating the sick were plainly revealed to me. The old-school cruel practice and the sure results, where one claimed to be benefited, thousands were made lifelong invalids who, had they never seen a physician, would have recovered of themselves without implanting in their system diseases of a most distressing character…”  {20MR 373.2}
 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/01/16/here-are-the-23-executive-orders-on-gun-safety-signed-today-bythe-president/
 
A few of these orders give control to doctors, allowing them to ask their patients if they own a gun and something to do with Mental Screening.
 
WHY DID I BRING THIS UP?
“The world is a theater; the actors, its inhabitants, are preparing to act their part in the last great drama...God is permitting the elements of confusion and disorder to bear sway for a season.  A power from beneath is working to bring about the last great scenes in the drama--Satan coming as Christ, and working with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in those who are binding themselves together in secret societies. Those who are yielding to the passion for confederation are working out the plans of the enemy...”  {8T 27.4}
 
“The medical fraternity, represented to me as Freemasonry, with their long, unintelligible names which common people cannot understand, would call the Lord's prescription for Hezekiah quackery...”  {16MR 289.1}
 
“God has permitted the light of health reform to shine upon us in these last days, that by walking in the light we may escape many dangers to which we will be exposed.”  (3T 561.1)
 
“As religious aggression subverts the liberties of our nation, those who would stand for freedom of conscience will be placed in unfavorable positions. For their own sake, they should, while they have opportunity, become intelligent in regard to disease, its causes, prevention, and cure…”  {CH 506.1}
 
JESUS TELLS US: “I send ye forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: therefore, be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves.” (Matthew 10:16)
 
MORE QUOTES ABOUT PHYSICIANS:
“Drug medication must be left out of the question if the human physician would receive the diploma written and issued in heaven. There are many physicians who will never receive this diploma unless they learn in the school of the great physician. This means they must unlearn and cast away the supposed wonderful knowledge of how to treat disease with poisonous drugs. They must go to God’s laboratory of nature, and there learn the simplest methods of using the remedies which the Lord had furnished…when GOD’S REMEDIES --sunshine, pure air, water, and good food--are used, there will be far fewer deaths and a far greater number of cures.”  {16MR 247.1}
 
“…The education in drug medication…have brought forth a class of PRACTITIONERS WHO NEED TO UNLEARN MUCH THEY HAVE LEARNED. They need to obtain an altogether different experience before they can say in word and in deed, we are medical missionaries. Till they obtain such an experience, the Great Physician does not acknowledge them as medical missionaries…”  {17MR 91.2}
 
“…let physicians teach the people that RESTORATIVE POWER IS NOT IN DRUGS, but in nature…” (MH 127.1)
 
AND OUR LAST QUOTE:
“Instruction has been given me that physicians who use flesh meat and prescribe it for their patients, should not be employed in our institutions, because they fail decidedly in educating the patients who discard that which makes them sick. The physician who uses and prescribes meat does not reason from cause to effect, and instead of acting as a restorer, he leads the patient by his own example to indulge perverted appetite. The physicians in our institutions should be reformers in this respect and in every other. Many of the patients are suffering because of errors in diet. They need to be shown a better way, but how can a meat-eating physician do this? By his wrong habits he trammels his work and cripples his usefulness.” {CD 290.5-291.1}
 
SOP ABBREVIATIONS:
LLM = Loma Linda Messages
PH = Pamphlet
CTBH = Christian Temperance & Bible Hygiene
5T = Testimonies for the Church, Volume 5
2SM = Selected Messages, Volume 2
SpM = Spalding & Magan
5BC = Bible Commentary, Volume 5
CH = Counsels on Health
MM = Medical Ministry
3SP = Spirit of Prophecy, Volume 3

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Combating Disease

“We have come to a time when every member of the church should take hold of medical missionary work...” (7T 62.1)

“As religious aggression subverts the liberties of our nation, those who would stand for freedom of conscience will be placed in unfavorable positions. For their own sake, they should, while they have opportunity, become intelligent in regard to disease, its causes, prevention, and cure...”  (CH 506.1)

 “…There are those who with a few months’ instruction would be prepared to go out and do acceptable medical missionary work…”  {PC 38.7}

“…Ye must step fast…now time is almost finished, and what we have been years learning, they will have to learn in a few months…” {EW 67.2}

“…Truths that we have been years learning must be learned in a few months by those who now embrace the third angel's message…”  (1MR 33.4)

WE MUST BE INTELLIGENT UPON THE SUBJECT OF HEALTH REFORM:

“…those who go forth to engage in the work of the ministry MUST BE INTELLIGENT upon the subject of HEALTH REFORM…” (MM 238.3)

WHY?

“…Strange things have been done in the medical missionary work…”  (CH 370.3)

“Many have misinterpreted health reform, and have received perverted ideas of what constitutes right living…”  {CD 200.3}

“…They will also have MUCH TO UNLEARN and MUCH TO LEARN again.”  (EW 67.2)

WE DON’T NEED TO GO TO COLLEGES TO LEARN THIS WORK:

“Gather up all the knowledge possible that will help to combat disease. This may be done by those who are diligent students…few can take a course of training in our medical institutions. But ALL can study our health literature and become intelligent ON THIS IMPORTANT SUBJECT.” {MM 320.2-.3}

“Fifty times as much might be accomplished in self-education…education of self means more than the colleges can give you…”  {3MR 363.2}

WHAT IS DISEASE?

“Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health…”  (MH 127.1)

DISEASE:

• Disease is actually our friend, not an enemy
• Disease does not come by chance (Proverbs 26:2/Deuteronomy 28)
• Disease is actually due to violating the laws of health (MH 234.1)
• 90% of disease, no matter how bad the situation may be, can be reversed. Especially those who are sent home to die (MM 223.4; CTBH 160.2)

LEARN HOW TO COMBAT DISEASE:

“Gather up all the knowledge possible that will help to combat disease...” {MM 320.2-.3}

“All gospel workers should know how to give the simple treatments that do so much to relieve pain and remove disease…”  {CME 28.4}

“…Have a practical knowledge of the causes of disease, and…understand how to give simple treatments, that he may relieve the suffering ones…”  {CH 463-464}

“It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge…” (MH 127.2)

WHAT TYPE OF TREATMENTS?

“…Give those who are sick the simple treatments that will relieve them, and then pray with them…”  {CME 9.2}

“God’s people…should know how to give the simple treatments that do so much to relieve pain and remove disease. They should be familiar with the principles of health reform, that they may show others how, by right habits of eating, drinking, and dressing, disease may be prevented and HEALTH REGAINED…” {WM 127.1}

“Always study and teach the use of the simplest remedies, and the special blessing of the Lord may be expected to follow the use of these means which are within the reach of the common people.” {2SM 298.6}

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR HEALING TO TAKE PLACE?

IN MANY CASES, ONLY A MONTH OR TWO. THERE WILL BE SOME THAT TAKE A LITTLE LONGER:

“…An abstemious diet for a month or two would convince many sufferers that the path of self-denial is the path to health.”  {CD 189.3}

• The Two Month Program should be implemented in any disease-reversal program.

WHY MANY DO NOT SEE RESULTS?

“We find in every such instance a good reason why they cannot live out the health reform. They do not live it out, and have never followed it strictly, therefore they cannot be benefited by it…”  {CD 399.1}

“I saw your condition of health, and the ailments you have suffered under so long. I was shown that you have not lived healthfully. Your appetites have been unhealthy, and you have gratified the taste at the expense of the stomach. You have taken into your stomachs articles which it is impossible to convert into good blood. This has laid a heavy tax on the liver, for the reason that the digestive organs are deranged. You both have diseased livers. The health reform would be a great benefit to you both, if you would strictly carry it out.  This you have failed to do. Your appetites are morbid, and because you do not relish a plain, simple diet, composed of unbolted wheat flour, vegetables and fruits prepared without spices or grease, you are continually transgressing the laws which God has established in your system. While you do this, you must suffer the penalty; for to every transgression is affixed a penalty.Yet you wonder at your continued poor health. Be assured that God will not work a miracle to save you from the result of your own course of action…”  {CD 123.4}

There is no treatment which can relieve you of your present difficulties while you eat and drink as you do.  You can do that for yourselves which the most experienced physician can never do. Regulate your diet. In order to gratify the taste, you frequently place a severe tax upon your digestive organs by receiving into the stomach food which is not the most healthful, and at times in immoderate quantities. This wearies the stomach, and unfits it for the reception of even the most healthful foods. You keep your stomachs constantly debilitated, because of your wrong habits of eating. Your food is made too rich. It is not prepared in a simple, natural manner, but is totally unfitted for the stomach when you have prepared it to suit your taste. Nature is burdened, and endeavors to resist your efforts to cripple her. Chills and fevers are the result of those attempts to rid herself of the burden you lay upon her. You have to suffer the penalty of nature's violated laws. God has established laws in your system which you cannot violate without suffering the punishment. You have consulted taste without reference to health. You have made some changes, but have merely taken the first steps in reform diet. God requires of us temperance in all things.“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” {CD 124.1}

TELL THE PEOPLE IF THEY GO BACK TO THEIR OLD LIFESTYLE, THEIR PROBLEMS WILL COME BACK WORSE OFF THAN BEFORE IN JUST A MATTER OF WEEKS OR MONTHS:

“A man may spend all that he has in this world at a health institute, and find great relief, and may then return to his family and to his old habits of life, and in a few weeks or months be in a worse condition of health than ever before. He has gained nothing; he has spent his limited means for nothing. The object of the health reform and the health institute is not, like a dose of “painkiller” or “instant relief,” to quiet the pains of today. No, indeed! Its great object is to teach the people how to live so as to give nature a chance to remove and resist disease.”  {1T 643.1}

WE WILL NOT USE ANY MEDICINE IN OUR TREATMENT OF DISEASE:

• WHY NOT???

“The endless variety of medicines in the market, the numerous advertisements of new drugs and mixtures, all of which, as they say, do wonderful cures, kill hundreds where they benefit one.Those who are sick are not patient. They will take the various medicines, some of which are very powerful, although they know nothing of the nature of the mixtures. All the medicines they take only make their recovery more hopeless. Yet they keep dosing, and continue to grow weaker, until they die. Some will have medicine at all events. Then let them take these hurtful mixtures and the various deadly poisons upon their own responsibility. God's servants should not administer medicines which they know will leave behind injurious effects upon the system, even if they do relieve present suffering.”  {4aSG 139.3}

So MANY RESORT TO DRUGS first, and then when that doesn’t work, then they go to the NATURAL REMEDIES 

*** But listen to what we are counseled in Medical Ministry 14.1

“Those who will gratify their appetite, and then suffer because of their intemperance, and take drugs to relieve them, may be assured that God will not interpose to save health and life which are so recklessly periled. The cause has produced the effect. Many, as their last resort, follow the directions in the word of God, and request the prayers of the elders of the church for their restoration to health. God does not see fit to answer prayers offered in behalf of such, for he knows that if they should be restored to health, they would again sacrifice it upon the altar of unhealthy appetite.”  {MM 14.1}

“There are many ways of practicing the healing art; but there is only one way that heaven approves. God's remedies are the simple agencies of nature, that will not tax or debilitate the system through their powerful properties…drugs are expensive, both in the outlay of means, and the effect produced upon the system.”{CD 301.2}

STEPS TO TREAT DISEASE:

• No matter what the disease is, the first thing you do is have the person fill out the ‘Basic Assessment Form’ first (the detailed assessment form may be done later). In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.
• See which laws of health on that form they are not following(MH 127.1) “Is a man a tobacco user, a tea-and-coffee drinker, a meat eater, taking his three meals? Let him begin with tobacco, and put that away. Then let him leave off the use of tea and coffee, eat less meat, and make his third meal very light…Soon he can dispense with flesh-meats altogether…Next, he leaves off the third meal…” {1890 JW, BHY 223.4}

• Have them do one major thing – Quit smoking, drinking, eat less meat, etc. 
• Have them do four basic/minor things – Deep breathing; walking; sunshine, water; bedtime, etc.
• Depending on the disease, find out what body organs are affected and which are the best foods for those organs
• Find out which are the best poultices for the condition – Charcoal poultices are great for Kidney and Liver conditions, as well as for Breast Cancer, etc.
• Get brother Floyd Mayberry’s laminated health charts for the different body organs
• http://www.thelivingwayministry.org/THE_LIVING_WAY_MINISTRY/Charts.html 
• Put them on an Herbal formula of:
• BLOOD: One Herb – Red Clover, Chaparral, Dandelion, Pau D’ Arco, Yellow Dock, etc.
• LIVER: One Herb – Dandelion Root; Milk Thistle; Barberry, etc.
• MEDICAL CONDITION: Two herbs that help whatever the medical condition is
• Find out which WATER TREATMENTS work best for the medical condition (see Water Treatment handout)
• Assess if there are any wounds

WE HAVE MANY THINGS TO UNLEARN AND LEARN AGAIN:

     “…THEY WILL ALSO HAVE MUCH TO UNLEARN AND MUCH TO LEARN AGAIN.”  (EW 67.2)

THINGS TO REMEMBER:

• Eating fish leads to Congestive Heart Failure
• Having Dental Amalgams can also lead to Congestive Heart Failure
• Drinking coffee and tea, energy drinks, etc. causes arrhythmias
• Drinking any caffeinated product depletes B-vitamins and others vitamins as well, and cause Anemia
• Eating any items containing MSG or Aspartame (see handout on MSG and Aspartame) lead to MS, Lupus, Fibromyalgia
• Lack of Sunshine/Low Vitamin D levels leads to MS, Cancer and almost every disease under the sun
• Lack of Sunshine/Vitamin D can cause Gait Problems
• Lack of Sunshine/Low Vitamin D causes hormonal and thyroid issues
• High Blood Pressure, Heartburn, Low Back Pain, Knee Pain, Muscle Spasms, Headaches are mostly due to lack of water in the body (dehydration)
• Eating Meat, eggs, cheese, fried foods can cause too much estrogen in the body, leading to female problems
• Eating one egg can cause inflammation in the body for up to one month
• 50% of women’s diseases are related to improper dress
• Remind the people if they go back to their old lifestyles, they will get worse off in a couple of weeks to months.  -- “A man may spend all that he has in this world at a Health Institute, and find great relief, and may thenreturn to his family and to his old habits of life, and in a few weeks or months be in a worse condition of health than ever before. He has gained nothing; he has spent his limited means for nothing. The object of the health reform and the Health Institute is not, like a dose of “Painkiller” or
• “Instant Relief,” to quiet the pains of today. No, indeed!  Its great object is to teach the people how to live so as to give nature a chance to remove and resist disease.” {1T 643.1}

SOP ABBREVIATIONS:

1MR = Manuscript Releases, Volume 1

1T = Testimonies for the Church, Volume 1

2SM = Selected Messages, Volume 2

3MR = Manuscript Releases, Volume 3

4aSG = Spiritual Gifts, Volume 4, section a

7T = Testimonies for the Church, Volume 7

CD = Counsels on Diet & Foods

CH = Counsels on Health

CME = A Call to Medical Evangelism

EW = Early Writings

MH = Ministry of Healing

MM = Medical Ministry

PC = Paulson Collection

WM = Welfare Ministry

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Charcoal

“We have come to a time when EVERY MEMBER of the church should take hold of medical missionary work...”  {7T 62.1}

“...It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge.”  {MH 127.2} 

 “...Give those who are sick the simple treatments that will relieve them, and then pray with them. Thus they will open the door for the entrance of the truth...”  {MM 320.2} 

“Let us PRESENT THE GOSPEL TO THE SICK, CONNECTING JESUS, the Great Healer, WITH THE SIMPLE REMEDIES USED...”  MM 29.1} 

“ALWAYS STUDY AND TEACH THE USE OF THE SIMPLEST REMEDIES, and the special blessing of the Lord may be expected to follow the use of these means which are within the reach of the common people.--Letter 100, 1903.”  {2SM 298.6}

“We cannot expect the Lord to work a miracle for us while we neglect the simple remedies he has provided for our use, which aptly and opportunely applied, will bring about a miraculous result. Therefore, PRAY, BELIEVE, AND WORK.” (Letter 66, 1901) {7BC 939.2} 

FEVER & PAIN:

“...pulverized charcoal; make a poultice of it, and lay it over her stomach and sides.” The doctor hastened away to follow out my instructions. Soon he returned, saying, “Relief came in less than half an hour after the application of the poultices. She is now having the first natural sleep she has had for days.”  {2SM 295.2}

PAIN:

“I have ordered the same treatment for others who were suffering GREAT PAIN, and it has brought relief and been the means of saving life...” (2SM 295.3)

SNAKE BITES/STING OF REPTILES & POISONOUS INSECTS:

“My mother had told me that snake bites and the sting of reptiles and poisonous insects could often be rendered harmless by the use of charcoal poultices.” (2SM 295.3)

BRUISED HANDS & LIMBS/INFLAMMATION:

“When working on the land at Avondale, Australia, the workmen would often bruise their hands and limbs, and this in many cases resulted in such severe inflammation that the worker would have to leave his work for some time. One came to me one day in this condition, with his hand tied in a sling. He was much troubled over the circumstance; for his help was needed in clearing the land I said to him, “Go to the place where you have been burning the timber, and get me some charcoal from the eucalyptus tree, pulverize it, and I will dress your hand.” This was done, and the next morning he reported that the pain was gone.Soon he was ready to return to his work. Pulverized charcoal...we have used freely in cases of inflammation...” {2SM 298.5)

INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS/BLOODY STOOL:

“A brother was taken sick with inflammation of the bowels and bloody dysentery. The man was not a careful health reformer, but indulged his appetite. We were just preparing to leave Texas, where we had been laboring for several months, and we had carriages prepared to take away this brother and his family, and several others who were suffering from malarial fever. My husband and I thought we would stand this expense rather than have the heads of several families die and leave their wives and children unprovided for.  Two or three were taken in a large spring wagon on spring mattresses. But this man who was suffering from inflammation of the bowels, sent for me to come to him. My husband and I decided that it would not do to move him. Fears were entertained that mortification had set in. Then the thought came to me like a communication from the Lord to take pulverized charcoal, put water upon it, and give this water to the sick man to drink, putting bandages of the charcoal over the bowels and stomach...the sick man's son went to a blacksmith's shop, secured the charcoal, and pulverized it, and then used it according to the directions given. The result was that in half an hour there was a change for the better...The blessing of God had worked with the simple means used.”  —1899 {2SM 299.2}

SWELLING ON KNEE FROM INSECT BITE:

“On Thursday Sister Sara McEnterfer was called to see if she could do anything for Brother B's little son, who is eighteen months old. For several days he has had a painful swelling on the knee, supposed to be from the bite of some poisonous insect. Pulverized charcoal, mixed with flaxseed, was placed upon the swelling, and this poultice gave relief at once. The child had screamed with pain all night, but when this was applied, he slept. Today she has been to see the little one twice. She opened the swelling in two places, and a large amount of yellow matter and blood was discharged freely. The child was relieved of its great suffering. We thank the Lord that we may become intelligent in using the simple things within our reach to alleviate pain, and successfully remove its cause.” --1899 {2SM 299.3}

SWELLING ON THE KNEE:

"This boy...had been troubled with a knee-swelling for five years. For eleven months he was confined to his bed under the care of a physician. Sister McEnterfer had treated him with water compresses and pulverized charcoal, until the inflammation had been relieved. He was so much better that he laid aside his crutches, and attended to the cooking, as has been mentioned. But this was too much, and the knee troubled him again. It was necessary to give him a thorough course of treatment, so we took him to my own house and gave him constant care. There was a large swelling under the knee, which he called his 'egg.' This swelling was opened and discharged freely, and from it were taken pieces of bone. He improved rapidly...” ({GH, October 1, 1899 par. 6}

INDIGESTION:

"I will tell you a little about my experience with charcoal as a remedy.For some forms of indigestion, it is more efficacious than drugs. A little olive oil into which some of this powder has been stirred, tends to cleanse and heal. I find it is excellent.”  {PH144 24.3}

SEVERE INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES:

“The more severe inflammation of the eyes will be relieved by a poultice of charcoal, put in a bag and dipped in hot or cold water as will best suit the case. This works, like a charm.” {PH144 24.1}

THERE ARE MANY OTHER USES FOR CHARCOAL THAT ARE NOT IN THE SOP.

NAUSEA/VOMITING:

Adults: Take 2-3 Heaping T. Charcoal in water. Take as needed.

Children: You can try 1 T. with them. Wait till after gag-reflux time to give it to them. This will prevent them from vomiting it up.

POULTICES OVER THE LIVER & KIDNEYS HELP IN DETOXIFYING JAUNDICE:

Some charcoal in a baby's bottle, or mixed with some water placed in a baby's mouth along with a poultice over the Liver can help reverse jaundice (be sure to place baby in direct sunlight as well).

METAL TOXICITY:

Activated Charcoal helps remove metal poisoning from the body.

CHARCOAL IS ALSO GREAT FOR:

Rashes (place 2 cups of charcoal in a bathtub and have the person sit in it for at least a half hour...)

SOP ABBREVIATIONS:

2SM = Selected Messages, volume 2

7BC = Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentaries, volume 7

7T = Testimonies to the Church, volume 7

MH = Ministry of Healing

MM = Medical Ministry

PH = Pamphlet

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