Natural Hygiene

Natural Hygiene is a branch of alternative medicine that claims to provide "all the life requirements brought to bear upon the living organism in due proportion and according to need" of human beings for preservation and restoration of health (see Shelton 1968 Chapter X). It claims that the human body is a self-maintaining and self-healing system who's natural lifespan is between 120 to 150 years old.

Theories of Natural Hygiene

It is characterized by several Theories as follows:

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• The human body contains the power to heal itself (without medicine).
• Disease exists when the body is prevented from healing itself.
• The primary causes of disease are stress, toxemia, over working, over eating, taking unhealthy substances, etc.
• Germs, bacteria, and viruses are not the primary cause of disease.
• Medicines are poisons to the human body and are harmful.
• Vaccinations are not effective, not safe and damage the immune system.

Natural Hygiene claims to enable people to get well by removing the causes of

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disease, rather than by treatment with medicines and other foreign substances. As in all therapeutic systems, determining the true cause of a disease is a vital part of Natural Hygiene. Proponents claim that other health systems begin treatment without knowing the cause, or falsely stating that the cause is unknown, or describing as the cause what is merely a description of the disease, e.g. the cause of arthritis is claimed to be a stiffening of the joints.

Related Topics:
Medicine - Arthritis - Joints

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