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 pertaining to medicines

It is part of the theories of Natural Hygiene that drugs and medicines are poisons to the human body and have no healing properties. Natural Hygiene maintains that drugs have the effect of masking symptoms or changing symptoms, but not for the better.

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It is a principle of Natural Hygiene that for each action to the body caused by a drug, the body reacts producing an equal and opposite reaction. So that often a drug may appear to produce a good effect, but that is later followed by a worse condition. Then there is the added burden of removing the poisonous medicine from the body, which the body must do or else it may eventually succumb to iatrogenic disease (disease caused by medical practices).

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