EPIDEMICS - The Natural Health View

SINCE LOUIS PASTEUR'S (founder of the Germ Theory circa 1965) time, no regard has been paid to the internal condition necessary to evolve "infectious diseases" and medical men have been germ hunting and pushing the idea of the “omni” potency of germ activity into every department of medicine and seeking to attribute to it every dis-ease.

Germs are found everywhere. They are always with us and "carriers" are always present. If germs produce an epidemic, why do they produce an epidemic only at times and not at all times? If they are the cause of the epidemic, why does not everyone come down with the epidemic disease? Why does one have a cold, another pneumonia, another appendicitis, and another remain well during a smallpox epidemic?

Epidemics thrive when conventionality is subjected to unusual depressing influences; wars, rumors of wars, financial depressions, atmospheric and climatic change, etc., and when more than the usual amount of enervation exists. It is then that the shock of a change of a few degrees in temperature, to hot or cold, or prolonged dry or wet weather, overwhelms the most vulnerable. Excitement, fear and immunization measures of all kinds, force a few to go down with the epidemic, who would not do so otherwise, thereby prolonging the epidemic beyond natural limits. For epidemics end, when they reach the resistance and poise of the community. There it stops, there it always has stopped, and there it always will stop. The epidemic ends when there are no more subjects who are sufficiently enervated and toxemic to surrender to the debilitating influences.

In human epidemics, the psychology of fear prolongs and intensifies the epidemic by further enervating, so that many develop the disease who would not except for this last straw – FEAR - that breaks the camel's back - resistance. The fear promoted by the media and “experts” about epidemics, vaccination, daily death rates, new cases, etc., produce panic, and the weaker individuals become ill.

Certain actions of the mind may produce certain conditions of the nervous system, causing corresponding effects on the organs and functions of the body. In some, fear, anxiety and panic are alone sufficient to keep up an epidemic disease.

Fear is a child of ignorance. Knowledge alone can immunize us against fear of disease or of epidemics.