First Four Steps of Healing

IN CASE OF SICKNESS:

1: The cause should be ascertained. 

2: Unhealthful conditions should be changed, 

3: Wrong habits corrected. 

4: Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system. {MH 127.1} 

How Nature Is To Be Assisted

1: FAST A MEAL or TWO or A SHORT PERIOD

“...In many cases of sickness, the very best remedy is for the patient to fast for a meal or two...A fruit diet for a few days has often brought great relief to brain workers. Many times a short period of entire abstinence from food, followed by simple, moderate eating, has led to recovery through nature's own recuperative effort...”  (MH 235.2)

2: FOLLOW AN ABSTEMIOUS DIET

“An abstemious diet for a month or two would convince many sufferers that the path of self-denial is the path to health.” {MH 235.2} 

WHAT IS AN “ABSTEMIOUS DIET”?

“I advise you to make your diet abstemious. Be sure that as a rational Christian sentinel you guard the door of your stomach, allowing nothing to pass your lips that will be an enemy to your health and life...

-Eat much more sparingly, and 

-Eat simple food, which does not require heavy seasoning...” {CD 102.1}  

3: USE NATURE'S SIMPLE REMEDIES, EAT AND DRESS HEALTHFULLY

“Nature will want some assistance to bring things to their proper condition, which may be found in the simplest remedies, especially in the use of nature's own furnished remedies--pure air, and with a precious knowledge of how to breathe; pure water, with a knowledge how to apply it; plenty of sunlight in every room in the house if possible, and with an intelligent knowledge of what advantages are to be gained by its use. All these are powerful in their efficiency, and the patient who has obtained a knowledge of how to eat and dress healthfully may live for comfort, for peace, for health, and will not be prevailed upon to put to his lips drugs, ...If the sick and suffering will do only as well as they know in regard to living out the principles of health reform perseveringly, then they will in nine cases out of ten recover from their ailments.”  {MM 223.4} 

4: FOLLOW OUT HEALTH REFORM STRICTLY

“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 STRICLTY, therefore they cannot be benefited by it...”

(CD 399.1) 

5: USE WATER TREATMENTS

“In health and in sickness, pure water is one of heaven's choicest blessings. ITS PROPER USE PROMOTES HEALTH...The external application of water is one of the easiest and most satisfactory ways of regulating the circulation of the blood. A cold or cool bath is an excellent tonic. Warm baths open the pores and thus aid in the elimination of impurities. Both warm and neutral baths soothe the nerves and equalize the circulation.

“But many have never learned by experience the beneficial effects of the proper use of water, and they are afraid of it. Water treatments are not appreciated as they should be, and....none should feel excused for ignorance or indifference on this subject. There are many ways in which water can be applied to relieve pain and check disease. ALL SHOULD BECOME INTELLIGENT IN ITS USE IN SIMPLE HOME TREATMENTS. Mothers, especially, should know how to care for their families in both health and sickness.”  {MH 237.1-.2}  

6: USE HERBS & ROOTS

“There are simple herbs and roots that every family may use for themselves and need not call a physician any sooner than they would call a lawyer...”  {2SM 279.1}

“...if we understand the nature of these roots and herbs, and make a right use of them, there would not be a necessity of running for the doctor so frequently, and people would be in much better health than they are today.”  --Letter 35, 1890.  {MM 230.3}

Note: If these steps are followed out strictly, nine-out-of-ten of your worse-case-scenarios, those doctors say there is not hope for, will see healing.

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