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Tilden wrote:
“After years of wandering in the jungle of medical diagnosis-the usual
guesswork of cause and effect, and the guesswork of treatment, and
becoming more confounded all the time-I resolved either to quit the
profession or to find the cause of disease.
To do this, it was necessary to exile myself from doctors and medical
conventions.” Tilden
And one day a flash of enlightenment went off in his head and suddenly he
understood the answer he was searching for, that self induced toxic
overload and not germs is the cause of all disease.
From that point forward Tilden gradually but inexorably embraced the
natural hygienic philosophy. Tilden put it this way:
“Little by little my drug superstition sloughed off.
Not rapidly, but little by little, I learned that the physician is a woefully
deluded man.” Tilden
He was ready to start his own hygienic clinic and in 1890 he decided to
move west to the beautiful, Rocky Mountains and the fresh air of the mile-
high city of Denver, Colorado.
“After years of wandering in the jungle of medical diagnosis-the usual
guesswork of cause and effect, and the guesswork of treatment, and
becoming more confounded all the time-I resolved either to quit the
profession or to find the cause of disease.
To do this, it was necessary to exile myself from doctors and medical
conventions.” Tilden
And one day a flash of enlightenment went off in his head and suddenly he
understood the answer he was searching for, that self induced toxic
overload and not germs is the cause of all disease.
From that point forward Tilden gradually but inexorably embraced the
natural hygienic philosophy. Tilden put it this way:
“Little by little my drug superstition sloughed off.
Not rapidly, but little by little, I learned that the physician is a woefully
deluded man.” Tilden
He was ready to start his own hygienic clinic and in 1890 he decided to
move west to the beautiful, Rocky Mountains and the fresh air of the mile-
high city of Denver, Colorado.
Tilden opened his new facility in the quiet picturesque outskirts of
Denver where he treated patients successfully, using only nature and
pure water as a healing agent.
He now realized that an enervated body due to causes like, emotional
stress too much food or too many stimulants, contributed to what he
called, toxemia.
Tilden believed that when the digestive system is out of balance
nutritionally and becomes more acidic than alkaline, the toxic waste
begins to overflow and exits wherever it can.
This is how symptoms develop, he said, when the body is overwhelmed
and cannot process the excess of toxins quickly enough through normal
channels, illness occurs.
Tilden describes this cleansing procedure as Toxemia. He says:
"The toxin theory of the healing art is grounded on the truth that toxemia
is the basic source of all diseases.
So sure and certain is this truth that I do not hesitate to say that it is by far
the most satisfactory theory that has been advanced in all the history of
medicine.
It is a scientific system that covers the whole field of cause and effect—a
system that synthesizes with all knowledge, hence a true philosophy."
Tilden
Independent of Jennings and Trall he reached the same conclusions
they did, that the body does all the healing and curing and medicine only
interferes with that process. Tilden wrote:
“When this truth first began to force itself upon me, years ago, I was not
sure but that there was something wrong with my reasoning.
I saw that it would bring me very largely in opposition to every established
medical treatment.
I held back, and argued with myself.
I fought to suppress giving open utterance to a belief that would, in all
probability, cause me to be hissed at.
Subject me to the jeers and gibes of the better class of people, both lay
and professional.
I have proved the truth of my theory. I have tried it out daily for the past
twenty years.
Every day this trying-out of the theory has convinced me more and more
that toxemia is the universal cause of disease." Tilden
At first Tilden gave his patients sugar pills, like Jennings did, but soon
eliminated that procedure since he wanted to educate his patients not
deceive them. He said:
"I mentally evolved to the truth that even sugar pills were injurious, in that
the make believe medication educated my patients into believing that their
improvement was due to the supposed drug they were taking.” Tilden
He gives us some insight into what precipitated his search for an
alternative to drug therapy:
“When I practiced the science of medicine and visiting the sick, I had no
idea how I should find them at the next call.
I did not know why people were sick, got well, nor why they died.
I did not know anything that would make me comfortable regarding the
outcome of the disease.
Not one medical practitioner can say with any certainty that the drug he
prescribes to his patient will have the action he hopes to experience.”
Tilden
He describes his theory of how people develop toxemia:
“The habits of overeating and excesses of all kinds use up nerve energy.
When the nerve supply is not equal to the demands of the body, organic
functioning is impaired, resulting in the retention of waste products. This
produces Toxemia.” Tilden
He was now on a crusade against the germ theory and through his book
Toxemia Explained he tells us where the medical profession is going
wrong.
Denver where he treated patients successfully, using only nature and
pure water as a healing agent.
He now realized that an enervated body due to causes like, emotional
stress too much food or too many stimulants, contributed to what he
called, toxemia.
Tilden believed that when the digestive system is out of balance
nutritionally and becomes more acidic than alkaline, the toxic waste
begins to overflow and exits wherever it can.
This is how symptoms develop, he said, when the body is overwhelmed
and cannot process the excess of toxins quickly enough through normal
channels, illness occurs.
Tilden describes this cleansing procedure as Toxemia. He says:
"The toxin theory of the healing art is grounded on the truth that toxemia
is the basic source of all diseases.
So sure and certain is this truth that I do not hesitate to say that it is by far
the most satisfactory theory that has been advanced in all the history of
medicine.
It is a scientific system that covers the whole field of cause and effect—a
system that synthesizes with all knowledge, hence a true philosophy."
Tilden
Independent of Jennings and Trall he reached the same conclusions
they did, that the body does all the healing and curing and medicine only
interferes with that process. Tilden wrote:
“When this truth first began to force itself upon me, years ago, I was not
sure but that there was something wrong with my reasoning.
I saw that it would bring me very largely in opposition to every established
medical treatment.
I held back, and argued with myself.
I fought to suppress giving open utterance to a belief that would, in all
probability, cause me to be hissed at.
Subject me to the jeers and gibes of the better class of people, both lay
and professional.
I have proved the truth of my theory. I have tried it out daily for the past
twenty years.
Every day this trying-out of the theory has convinced me more and more
that toxemia is the universal cause of disease." Tilden
At first Tilden gave his patients sugar pills, like Jennings did, but soon
eliminated that procedure since he wanted to educate his patients not
deceive them. He said:
"I mentally evolved to the truth that even sugar pills were injurious, in that
the make believe medication educated my patients into believing that their
improvement was due to the supposed drug they were taking.” Tilden
He gives us some insight into what precipitated his search for an
alternative to drug therapy:
“When I practiced the science of medicine and visiting the sick, I had no
idea how I should find them at the next call.
I did not know why people were sick, got well, nor why they died.
I did not know anything that would make me comfortable regarding the
outcome of the disease.
Not one medical practitioner can say with any certainty that the drug he
prescribes to his patient will have the action he hopes to experience.”
Tilden
He describes his theory of how people develop toxemia:
“The habits of overeating and excesses of all kinds use up nerve energy.
When the nerve supply is not equal to the demands of the body, organic
functioning is impaired, resulting in the retention of waste products. This
produces Toxemia.” Tilden
He was now on a crusade against the germ theory and through his book
Toxemia Explained he tells us where the medical profession is going
wrong.
Toxemia Explained By, J.H. Tilden, M.D.
Tilden wrote:
“The proper way to study disease is to study health and every
influence favorable or not to its continuance. Disease is perverted
health.
Any influence that lowers nerve-energy becomes disease-
producing.” Tilden
It all became crystal clear to Tilden, disease had nothing whatsoever
to with germs or viruses.
Tilden gives us a further explanation of his remarkable discovery:
“According to the Toxin Philosophy, every so-called disease is a crisis
of Toxemia; which means that toxin has accumulated in the blood
above the toleration-point, and the crisis, the so-called disease-call it
cold, flu, pneumonia, headache, or typhoid fever-is a vicarious
elimination.
Nature is endeavoring to rid the body of toxin.
Any treatment that obstructs this effort at elimination baffles nature in
her effort at self-curing.” Tilden
Tilden is finally happy with the predictability of his natural healthcare
approach to disease.
He no longer had to deal with the frustration and uncertainty of how a
patient’s illness will react to potentially harmful medication?
Tilden said:
"It is a real pleasure for the doctor who knows that he cannot cure
anything, to watch nature throw off all these symptoms by
elimination, if he is willing to do a little watchful waiting and keep
hands off.” Tilden
He admonishes his former brethren in the medical profession for
unnecessarily frightening people about deadly mysterious germs
invisible to the naked eye. Tilden says:
“Those who preach fear of germs today are the mental offspring of
those who have preached fear of God, devil, hell, and heaven in the
past.
They do not know that the fear, which they inculcate, is more to be
dreaded than the object of their warning.
Fear does a thousand times more harm than any other one cause of
Toxemia.” Tilden
Once again Tilden tries to explain to his former colleagues that
external invading germs do not cause disease.
What doctors describe as disease, he says, are just cleansing
symptoms internally generated by faulty living habits. Tilden states:
“When the body is normal, toxin is removed as fast as generated; but
when any enervating habit is practiced beyond the power of
recuperation, the toxin accumulates, and Toxemia is established-
which means that the body has lost its protecting power.” Tilden
Shelton concurs with everything Tilden has to say regarding how
enervation is the real cause of disease and offers his own analysis of
why we become sick. Shelton states:
“What is meant by the term enervation?
It means the reduction of nerve energy.
The nervous system presides over and controls the functions of the
many and various organs of the body, secretion, excretion,
circulation, digestion, etc.
Enervation simply means a reduction of the capacity of the nervous
system below the level required to maintain normal physiological
activity." Shelton
He gives us an extended list of the negative emotions and nutritional
deficiencies that can drain our energy, weaken our system and leave
us vulnerable to illness. Shelton continues:
“Enervation may grow out of any possible combination of practices
and influences.
Such as, emotional stress, anger, irritability, hate, resentment,
jealousy, physical overexertion, surgical operations, loss of sleep,
lack of rest, drug treatments, digestive strain caused by overeating,
wrong food, condiments, exposure to cold and wet, exposure to heat
and humidity; a lack of exercise, of fresh air, of warmth and comfort,
lack of cleanliness, lack of sunlight, these are the most common
causes of enervation.” Shelton
This is what a natural hygienic doctor looks for in their sick patient,
not germs that are powerless against a healthy body.
Now that Tilden understands the cause and remedy for disease he
becomes impatient with those who have not yet grasped the
profound meaning of his new discovery. Tilden says it quite simply:
“So-called diseases are just so many different locations where toxin is
being eliminated.
All are different manifestations of one disease Toxemia.” Tilden
He tells us that a properly nourished individual should never have
any fear of catching a disease. Tilden says:
"There is no such thing as disease per se. Disease is a word that
should not carry other meaning than that a sick man is one whose
health standard has been lowered by some external or internal
influence which has disturbed nutrition.” Tilden
He gives us an example of how the body becomes ill when
overloaded with refined carbohydrates that ferment in the digestive
system and intoxicate the individual. Tilden wrote:
“Food-inebriety is more common than alcohol-inebriety. Grain,
starch, bread, and alcohol are not diseases.
If a man in health takes small portions of alcohol, frequently repeated,
he will gradually lose his power of coordination of mind and body.
If the drunken man is diseased, what is the disease?
As soon as the alcohol is eliminated, the man returns to his former
state-not suddenly, but gradually.
If he eats grain, starch, or bread beyond his assimilative capacity, he
develops certain symptoms of poisoning.
If the drunken state, or the food-poisoned state, is a disease, then
what is disease?
The poisoning by food is on the order of poisoning by chemicals or
alcohol.” Tilden
This obvious analogy of removing the alcohol to restore sobriety also
shows us how reducing the amount of toxic producing foods in our
diet can restore the body to a stable alkaline condition.
Disease, Tilden claims, is merely a warning sign that the body is
unable to process and eliminate the amount of toxins being
consumed.
Tilden assures us that if we obey the simple rules of nature there can
be no disease. Tilden states:
“The human body is fully able to eliminate all infections, if it is given
reasonable care in the lines of feeding and mental poise.
Nature can eliminate and readjust, if permitted to rest physically and
physiologically.” Tilden
He was a strict disciplinarian with his own life and expected his
patients to fellow his recommendations faithfully.
Tilden was also a compassionate doctor with a polite and respectful
bedside manner.
He thought it was important to learn every aspect of his patient’s life
so he could detect which laws of nature they were violating.
Tilden reveals his rapport with the patient:
“It is necessary to know all about the life which the patient is living,
and all about the life which he has lived, if he has changed his style
recently.
It is not only necessary to know the physical habits of the patient, but
his mental habits as well; and, in addition, the physician must have
the confidence of the patient and know his secret life.
The physician must enter into the relationship of father confessor
with every important case that calls upon him.
If he has not the personality to secure this confidence, and draw out
the secrets that are hidden in the occult chamber of the individual's
soul, he is not possessed of those qualities of character, which make
for healing.
The doctor must have sympathy-not, however, without firmness and
sternness, when necessary.” Tilden
Tilden believes that he must delve into the subconscious of his
patients in order remove any aggravating thoughts that might be
contributing to disease or impairing the healing process. He says:
“Lost self-confidence, self-respect, and self-control are the psychical
elements with which the patient contends in chronic diseases, and
which make management of a cure impossible for the unsympathetic
doctor; for only the sympathetic doctor can draw confessions-and
confession is necessary to cure.” Tilden
He realizes that there is a definite psycho-physiological integration
between the mind and body.
Tilden understands that if he wants to return his patient to health he
must put them at ease and remove all debilitating thoughts and
habits. He says:
“Health results from an agreeable adjustment of the body and mind to
natural law and order.
Impaired health-a lowered health standard, called disease-comes from
disagreeable adjustment of the body and mind to natural law and
order.” Tilden
He is annoyed by the fact that drug therapists simply treat symptoms
without ever investigating beyond their germ theory.
The majority of physicians still tenaciously cling to drug treatments,
stubbornly refusing to even consider harmful living habits as a
possible cause of disease. Tilden states:
“Medical science is founded on a false premise-namely, that disease is
caused by extraneous influences, and that drugs are something that
cures or palliates discomfort.
Anything used in a remedial way carries the idea of curing, healing,
correcting, or affording relief, and this doctoring is all done without
any clear understanding of cause.
Nature can eliminate any type of infection, if all enervating habits are
given up and a rational mode of living adopted.” Tilden
Everyday the pharmaceutical industry is trying to discover new cures
for a variety of ailments so they can furnish their distributors with
potent medication to kill various germs, which they believe are the
cause of disease. Tilden says in frustration:
“Research is being carried on vigorously in an attempt to find the
cause of disease; the conception of disease being that it is an
individual.
Here is where investigators meet their Waterloo.
All the so-called diseases are due to repeated crises of Toxemia. They
have no independent existence. As soon as Toxemia is controlled,
they disappear.” Tilden
It is difficult for Tilden to understand why other medical doctors are
not quickly adopting his methods.
He defines his philosophy in the simplest terms possible:
“The commonest cause of disease is, first, last, and always,
overindulgence of appetites and passions.” Tilden
He concentrated on diagnosing the cause of disease not by looking
for a germ or virus but by learning about the patient’s lifestyle and
eating habits. Tilden said:
“Diagnosis is determining the symptoms and learning just what is the
cause of the morbid process, and its effect on the body.” Tilden
He took into consideration everything that might contribute to an
enervated run-down body.
He was not looking for some mysterious germ but rather he was
trying to discover which detrimental lifestyle habit was causing his
patients illness?
Tilden understood that most of his patients did not realize they were
violating nature’s healthcare laws.
He left no stone unturned in his search for enervating factors that
might be contributing to their symptoms.
He even discussed their level of contentment with their jobs.
Tilden said:
“Work, without pleasure in the work is enervating and disease-
building; an unsatisfied mind should do creative work, dissatisfaction
and overworked emotions are enervating.” Tilden
Shelton learned a great deal from Tilden and confirms the fact that a
successful hygienic doctor must learn every physiological and
psychological detail about their patient.
Shelton treated his own patients with the same type of respectful
analytical due diligence. Shelton says:
"We need to know and understand the needs of the body for food, air,
water, light, activity, rest and sleep, warmth or coolness, cleanliness,
peace and poise, hope and cheer, confidence and faith, friendship and
love.
We need to know the evils of excess, the damages of fear, anger,
worry, anxiety, internal conflicts, of the destructiveness of poisons of
all kinds, the impairing influences of deficiencies, the role of sex in life.
We need to recognize and know the sequences of cause and effect
that we may be in a position to remove the antecedent that its
consequence may be ended.” Shelton
When Tilden’s patients developed a severe cleansing symptom,
disease, he simply advised them to abstain from food entirely until
the fever or pain disappeared. Tilden said:
“It is true that the withholding of food from a septic patient ends the
septic fever.
Fasting stops disease, because fuel for fermentation is withheld.”
Tilden
He also understood that the patient must have complete rest both
mentally and physically if they want to recuperate from the harsh
results of toxemia:
“Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put nature in line for
curing.
Sleep and rest of body and mind are necessary to keep a sufficient
supply of energy.” Tilden
His former colleagues were skeptical they could not understand how
if germs were not the cause of disease, then what is the cause of
mass epidemics? Tilden replied:
“All epidemic diseases are wholesale food-poisonings among people
who are pronouncedly enervated and toxemic.
Those who have the least resistance are most enervated and toxemic.
The more enervated and toxemic the subject the more severe the
crisis.
So-called epidemics, contagions, and infections do not influence
normal, healthy people.” Tilden
Tilden gives the devastating effects of World War I as an example of
widespread catastrophic conditions that led to disease like
symptoms.
Mass illness followed that destructive war, not because of
contagious germs, but because of harsh conditions and lack of fresh
fruits and vegetables.
“The proper way to study disease is to study health and every
influence favorable or not to its continuance. Disease is perverted
health.
Any influence that lowers nerve-energy becomes disease-
producing.” Tilden
It all became crystal clear to Tilden, disease had nothing whatsoever
to with germs or viruses.
Tilden gives us a further explanation of his remarkable discovery:
“According to the Toxin Philosophy, every so-called disease is a crisis
of Toxemia; which means that toxin has accumulated in the blood
above the toleration-point, and the crisis, the so-called disease-call it
cold, flu, pneumonia, headache, or typhoid fever-is a vicarious
elimination.
Nature is endeavoring to rid the body of toxin.
Any treatment that obstructs this effort at elimination baffles nature in
her effort at self-curing.” Tilden
Tilden is finally happy with the predictability of his natural healthcare
approach to disease.
He no longer had to deal with the frustration and uncertainty of how a
patient’s illness will react to potentially harmful medication?
Tilden said:
"It is a real pleasure for the doctor who knows that he cannot cure
anything, to watch nature throw off all these symptoms by
elimination, if he is willing to do a little watchful waiting and keep
hands off.” Tilden
He admonishes his former brethren in the medical profession for
unnecessarily frightening people about deadly mysterious germs
invisible to the naked eye. Tilden says:
“Those who preach fear of germs today are the mental offspring of
those who have preached fear of God, devil, hell, and heaven in the
past.
They do not know that the fear, which they inculcate, is more to be
dreaded than the object of their warning.
Fear does a thousand times more harm than any other one cause of
Toxemia.” Tilden
Once again Tilden tries to explain to his former colleagues that
external invading germs do not cause disease.
What doctors describe as disease, he says, are just cleansing
symptoms internally generated by faulty living habits. Tilden states:
“When the body is normal, toxin is removed as fast as generated; but
when any enervating habit is practiced beyond the power of
recuperation, the toxin accumulates, and Toxemia is established-
which means that the body has lost its protecting power.” Tilden
Shelton concurs with everything Tilden has to say regarding how
enervation is the real cause of disease and offers his own analysis of
why we become sick. Shelton states:
“What is meant by the term enervation?
It means the reduction of nerve energy.
The nervous system presides over and controls the functions of the
many and various organs of the body, secretion, excretion,
circulation, digestion, etc.
Enervation simply means a reduction of the capacity of the nervous
system below the level required to maintain normal physiological
activity." Shelton
He gives us an extended list of the negative emotions and nutritional
deficiencies that can drain our energy, weaken our system and leave
us vulnerable to illness. Shelton continues:
“Enervation may grow out of any possible combination of practices
and influences.
Such as, emotional stress, anger, irritability, hate, resentment,
jealousy, physical overexertion, surgical operations, loss of sleep,
lack of rest, drug treatments, digestive strain caused by overeating,
wrong food, condiments, exposure to cold and wet, exposure to heat
and humidity; a lack of exercise, of fresh air, of warmth and comfort,
lack of cleanliness, lack of sunlight, these are the most common
causes of enervation.” Shelton
This is what a natural hygienic doctor looks for in their sick patient,
not germs that are powerless against a healthy body.
Now that Tilden understands the cause and remedy for disease he
becomes impatient with those who have not yet grasped the
profound meaning of his new discovery. Tilden says it quite simply:
“So-called diseases are just so many different locations where toxin is
being eliminated.
All are different manifestations of one disease Toxemia.” Tilden
He tells us that a properly nourished individual should never have
any fear of catching a disease. Tilden says:
"There is no such thing as disease per se. Disease is a word that
should not carry other meaning than that a sick man is one whose
health standard has been lowered by some external or internal
influence which has disturbed nutrition.” Tilden
He gives us an example of how the body becomes ill when
overloaded with refined carbohydrates that ferment in the digestive
system and intoxicate the individual. Tilden wrote:
“Food-inebriety is more common than alcohol-inebriety. Grain,
starch, bread, and alcohol are not diseases.
If a man in health takes small portions of alcohol, frequently repeated,
he will gradually lose his power of coordination of mind and body.
If the drunken man is diseased, what is the disease?
As soon as the alcohol is eliminated, the man returns to his former
state-not suddenly, but gradually.
If he eats grain, starch, or bread beyond his assimilative capacity, he
develops certain symptoms of poisoning.
If the drunken state, or the food-poisoned state, is a disease, then
what is disease?
The poisoning by food is on the order of poisoning by chemicals or
alcohol.” Tilden
This obvious analogy of removing the alcohol to restore sobriety also
shows us how reducing the amount of toxic producing foods in our
diet can restore the body to a stable alkaline condition.
Disease, Tilden claims, is merely a warning sign that the body is
unable to process and eliminate the amount of toxins being
consumed.
Tilden assures us that if we obey the simple rules of nature there can
be no disease. Tilden states:
“The human body is fully able to eliminate all infections, if it is given
reasonable care in the lines of feeding and mental poise.
Nature can eliminate and readjust, if permitted to rest physically and
physiologically.” Tilden
He was a strict disciplinarian with his own life and expected his
patients to fellow his recommendations faithfully.
Tilden was also a compassionate doctor with a polite and respectful
bedside manner.
He thought it was important to learn every aspect of his patient’s life
so he could detect which laws of nature they were violating.
Tilden reveals his rapport with the patient:
“It is necessary to know all about the life which the patient is living,
and all about the life which he has lived, if he has changed his style
recently.
It is not only necessary to know the physical habits of the patient, but
his mental habits as well; and, in addition, the physician must have
the confidence of the patient and know his secret life.
The physician must enter into the relationship of father confessor
with every important case that calls upon him.
If he has not the personality to secure this confidence, and draw out
the secrets that are hidden in the occult chamber of the individual's
soul, he is not possessed of those qualities of character, which make
for healing.
The doctor must have sympathy-not, however, without firmness and
sternness, when necessary.” Tilden
Tilden believes that he must delve into the subconscious of his
patients in order remove any aggravating thoughts that might be
contributing to disease or impairing the healing process. He says:
“Lost self-confidence, self-respect, and self-control are the psychical
elements with which the patient contends in chronic diseases, and
which make management of a cure impossible for the unsympathetic
doctor; for only the sympathetic doctor can draw confessions-and
confession is necessary to cure.” Tilden
He realizes that there is a definite psycho-physiological integration
between the mind and body.
Tilden understands that if he wants to return his patient to health he
must put them at ease and remove all debilitating thoughts and
habits. He says:
“Health results from an agreeable adjustment of the body and mind to
natural law and order.
Impaired health-a lowered health standard, called disease-comes from
disagreeable adjustment of the body and mind to natural law and
order.” Tilden
He is annoyed by the fact that drug therapists simply treat symptoms
without ever investigating beyond their germ theory.
The majority of physicians still tenaciously cling to drug treatments,
stubbornly refusing to even consider harmful living habits as a
possible cause of disease. Tilden states:
“Medical science is founded on a false premise-namely, that disease is
caused by extraneous influences, and that drugs are something that
cures or palliates discomfort.
Anything used in a remedial way carries the idea of curing, healing,
correcting, or affording relief, and this doctoring is all done without
any clear understanding of cause.
Nature can eliminate any type of infection, if all enervating habits are
given up and a rational mode of living adopted.” Tilden
Everyday the pharmaceutical industry is trying to discover new cures
for a variety of ailments so they can furnish their distributors with
potent medication to kill various germs, which they believe are the
cause of disease. Tilden says in frustration:
“Research is being carried on vigorously in an attempt to find the
cause of disease; the conception of disease being that it is an
individual.
Here is where investigators meet their Waterloo.
All the so-called diseases are due to repeated crises of Toxemia. They
have no independent existence. As soon as Toxemia is controlled,
they disappear.” Tilden
It is difficult for Tilden to understand why other medical doctors are
not quickly adopting his methods.
He defines his philosophy in the simplest terms possible:
“The commonest cause of disease is, first, last, and always,
overindulgence of appetites and passions.” Tilden
He concentrated on diagnosing the cause of disease not by looking
for a germ or virus but by learning about the patient’s lifestyle and
eating habits. Tilden said:
“Diagnosis is determining the symptoms and learning just what is the
cause of the morbid process, and its effect on the body.” Tilden
He took into consideration everything that might contribute to an
enervated run-down body.
He was not looking for some mysterious germ but rather he was
trying to discover which detrimental lifestyle habit was causing his
patients illness?
Tilden understood that most of his patients did not realize they were
violating nature’s healthcare laws.
He left no stone unturned in his search for enervating factors that
might be contributing to their symptoms.
He even discussed their level of contentment with their jobs.
Tilden said:
“Work, without pleasure in the work is enervating and disease-
building; an unsatisfied mind should do creative work, dissatisfaction
and overworked emotions are enervating.” Tilden
Shelton learned a great deal from Tilden and confirms the fact that a
successful hygienic doctor must learn every physiological and
psychological detail about their patient.
Shelton treated his own patients with the same type of respectful
analytical due diligence. Shelton says:
"We need to know and understand the needs of the body for food, air,
water, light, activity, rest and sleep, warmth or coolness, cleanliness,
peace and poise, hope and cheer, confidence and faith, friendship and
love.
We need to know the evils of excess, the damages of fear, anger,
worry, anxiety, internal conflicts, of the destructiveness of poisons of
all kinds, the impairing influences of deficiencies, the role of sex in life.
We need to recognize and know the sequences of cause and effect
that we may be in a position to remove the antecedent that its
consequence may be ended.” Shelton
When Tilden’s patients developed a severe cleansing symptom,
disease, he simply advised them to abstain from food entirely until
the fever or pain disappeared. Tilden said:
“It is true that the withholding of food from a septic patient ends the
septic fever.
Fasting stops disease, because fuel for fermentation is withheld.”
Tilden
He also understood that the patient must have complete rest both
mentally and physically if they want to recuperate from the harsh
results of toxemia:
“Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put nature in line for
curing.
Sleep and rest of body and mind are necessary to keep a sufficient
supply of energy.” Tilden
His former colleagues were skeptical they could not understand how
if germs were not the cause of disease, then what is the cause of
mass epidemics? Tilden replied:
“All epidemic diseases are wholesale food-poisonings among people
who are pronouncedly enervated and toxemic.
Those who have the least resistance are most enervated and toxemic.
The more enervated and toxemic the subject the more severe the
crisis.
So-called epidemics, contagions, and infections do not influence
normal, healthy people.” Tilden
Tilden gives the devastating effects of World War I as an example of
widespread catastrophic conditions that led to disease like
symptoms.
Mass illness followed that destructive war, not because of
contagious germs, but because of harsh conditions and lack of fresh
fruits and vegetables.
Farmland became battlefields and crops were either destroyed or
confiscated by invading armies.
Worldwide famine like conditions were taking a heavy toll on the
populace but again not from the spread of germs.
Somehow the dismal global living conditions were overlooked when
doctors were blaming the flu epidemic of that era, on a deadly virus.
It was a perfect opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry to promote
mandatory inoculations and reap a fortune in revenue.
Tilden observed that civilians already highly toxic and weakened from
acidic food and terrorized by the war, became the deadly victims of
vaccines, because the additional poison from the lethal serum entering
their body was too much to process.
Tilden comments:
“When great psychological depression follows a world-crisis, such as
succeeded the World War, an ordinary epidemic of colds becomes an
extraordinary epidemic of flu, from which the chronic food-drunkards,
with enervated hearts from Toxemia, alcohol, tobacco, coffee, and tea,
died when medicated.
Adding drug stimulation to a body already loaded down by an excess of
stimulation gave the coup to thousands of flu victims.” Tilden
He again admonishes the germ hunters:
“The idea that germs unaided cause disease is a delusion which the
medical world must outgrow.
Likewise the idea that a serum can antidote germ influence. Germs have
no influence except as they join other auxiliary influences and break
down resistance. People are sick from wrong living.
Stop the cause, and disease goes away. Nature cures, when allowed to
do so, by removing the causes of enervation.” Tilden
He insists that we simply must abide by the laws of nature to stay
healthy:
"If a given disease-producing influence is experienced, disease will be
established; remove the influence, and health will return.” Tilden
Shelton also expresses his disappointment with the medical profession
for their continual misdiagnoses of disease and their inability to
consider personal habits as well as environmental factors.
Shelton states:
“Say what you like, healthful habits do not cause death. Pure air, pure
water, moderate eating of wholesome foods-these and similar
wholesome things are not disease producing.
Impure air, impure water, excesses of food, unwholesome food,
imprudence in eating, excesses of all kinds, lack of rest and sleep,
inadequate exercise, poisoned drinks, smoking, etc., are all disease
producing.” Shelton
Patients might resist a radical change in lifestyle but he knew they
would find no relief from their chronic illness through the drug
profession.
Shelton continues:
“The physician who thinks that the prevailing habits of eating and
drinking are correct will give no attention to these causes of disease.
He will search for germs or viruses-he will ignore coffee, tobacco,
alcohol, excesses, late hours, sexual over-indulgence, stress, etc., and
lead his patient to believe that his suffering is due to some obscure
something called disease that has seized upon him and must be
destroyed.” Shelton
It is sometimes very difficult to give up pleasurable but debilitating
habits unless sickness forces us to.
Once we are aware of the causes of disease, excreting toxins, we no
longer have to be fearful and confuse this symptom with germs
invading and destroying our body.
We can easily restore our health without harmful drugs by simply
adjusting our lifestyle and eliminating the cause of the toxemia.
However, Tilden warns that we cannot frequently overly abuse our
bodies by returning to debilitating habits after we heal, without paying a
penalty.
Tilden says:
“Correcting disease must have a limit. Where a disease has been
running on until enervation is profound, or until the integrity of a vital
organ is far spent, coming back to normal may be impossible.” Tilden
The early history of the hygienic movement is replete with innovative
thinking and incredible natural healthcare discoveries.
Jennings, Trall, Graham and Tilden made amazing breakthroughs in
unraveling the secrets of nature and finding the cause and the cure for
all disease.
Although the popular scientific community has not yet fully embraced
their discoveries, for various reasons, this does not negate the fact that
hygienics is the true science for human health.
These early pioneers proved beyond a doubt, through personal
experience, irrefutable scientific evidence and pure logic, that disease
is not caused by an invading germ but is merely a symptom of a
detoxifying body.
confiscated by invading armies.
Worldwide famine like conditions were taking a heavy toll on the
populace but again not from the spread of germs.
Somehow the dismal global living conditions were overlooked when
doctors were blaming the flu epidemic of that era, on a deadly virus.
It was a perfect opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry to promote
mandatory inoculations and reap a fortune in revenue.
Tilden observed that civilians already highly toxic and weakened from
acidic food and terrorized by the war, became the deadly victims of
vaccines, because the additional poison from the lethal serum entering
their body was too much to process.
Tilden comments:
“When great psychological depression follows a world-crisis, such as
succeeded the World War, an ordinary epidemic of colds becomes an
extraordinary epidemic of flu, from which the chronic food-drunkards,
with enervated hearts from Toxemia, alcohol, tobacco, coffee, and tea,
died when medicated.
Adding drug stimulation to a body already loaded down by an excess of
stimulation gave the coup to thousands of flu victims.” Tilden
He again admonishes the germ hunters:
“The idea that germs unaided cause disease is a delusion which the
medical world must outgrow.
Likewise the idea that a serum can antidote germ influence. Germs have
no influence except as they join other auxiliary influences and break
down resistance. People are sick from wrong living.
Stop the cause, and disease goes away. Nature cures, when allowed to
do so, by removing the causes of enervation.” Tilden
He insists that we simply must abide by the laws of nature to stay
healthy:
"If a given disease-producing influence is experienced, disease will be
established; remove the influence, and health will return.” Tilden
Shelton also expresses his disappointment with the medical profession
for their continual misdiagnoses of disease and their inability to
consider personal habits as well as environmental factors.
Shelton states:
“Say what you like, healthful habits do not cause death. Pure air, pure
water, moderate eating of wholesome foods-these and similar
wholesome things are not disease producing.
Impure air, impure water, excesses of food, unwholesome food,
imprudence in eating, excesses of all kinds, lack of rest and sleep,
inadequate exercise, poisoned drinks, smoking, etc., are all disease
producing.” Shelton
Patients might resist a radical change in lifestyle but he knew they
would find no relief from their chronic illness through the drug
profession.
Shelton continues:
“The physician who thinks that the prevailing habits of eating and
drinking are correct will give no attention to these causes of disease.
He will search for germs or viruses-he will ignore coffee, tobacco,
alcohol, excesses, late hours, sexual over-indulgence, stress, etc., and
lead his patient to believe that his suffering is due to some obscure
something called disease that has seized upon him and must be
destroyed.” Shelton
It is sometimes very difficult to give up pleasurable but debilitating
habits unless sickness forces us to.
Once we are aware of the causes of disease, excreting toxins, we no
longer have to be fearful and confuse this symptom with germs
invading and destroying our body.
We can easily restore our health without harmful drugs by simply
adjusting our lifestyle and eliminating the cause of the toxemia.
However, Tilden warns that we cannot frequently overly abuse our
bodies by returning to debilitating habits after we heal, without paying a
penalty.
Tilden says:
“Correcting disease must have a limit. Where a disease has been
running on until enervation is profound, or until the integrity of a vital
organ is far spent, coming back to normal may be impossible.” Tilden
The early history of the hygienic movement is replete with innovative
thinking and incredible natural healthcare discoveries.
Jennings, Trall, Graham and Tilden made amazing breakthroughs in
unraveling the secrets of nature and finding the cause and the cure for
all disease.
Although the popular scientific community has not yet fully embraced
their discoveries, for various reasons, this does not negate the fact that
hygienics is the true science for human health.
These early pioneers proved beyond a doubt, through personal
experience, irrefutable scientific evidence and pure logic, that disease
is not caused by an invading germ but is merely a symptom of a
detoxifying body.
| Health For The Millions By: Herbert M. Shelton |
Shelton says with certainty:
"However slow or rapid may be its progress among the people, its
ultimate acceptance by them is as certain as the rising of tomorrow's
sun.” Shelton
These men of science performed numerous trial and error studies
until they serendipitously discovered remarkable healthcare secrets.
Obviously the hygienic doctors have a radical disagreement with the
pharmaceutical industry and their affiliates.
Nevertheless, continuing this controversial debate and the search to
learn the real truth is imperative for the advancement of knowledge.
Like the Greek philosopher Diogenes who was obsessed with the
idea of truth, we continue our journey.
"However slow or rapid may be its progress among the people, its
ultimate acceptance by them is as certain as the rising of tomorrow's
sun.” Shelton
These men of science performed numerous trial and error studies
until they serendipitously discovered remarkable healthcare secrets.
Obviously the hygienic doctors have a radical disagreement with the
pharmaceutical industry and their affiliates.
Nevertheless, continuing this controversial debate and the search to
learn the real truth is imperative for the advancement of knowledge.
Like the Greek philosopher Diogenes who was obsessed with the
idea of truth, we continue our journey.
| Diogenes |
Hygienic doctors believe they have already unraveled the secrets for
extending longevity and increasing the quality of life to the maximum
possible.
They have not discovered Ponce de Leon’s fabled fountain of youth
but rather they have stumbled upon an invaluable cornucopia of natural
laws for maintaining optimum health.
extending longevity and increasing the quality of life to the maximum
possible.
They have not discovered Ponce de Leon’s fabled fountain of youth
but rather they have stumbled upon an invaluable cornucopia of natural
laws for maintaining optimum health.
The reader will find no double blind placebo drug tests or animal
experiments being used by hygienists.
They never prescribe a drug, which means hygienic doctors never have
to test the effectiveness of various poisons on laboratory animals.
They treat their patients hygienically without drugs or interference in
accordance with the laws of nature.
Hygienic doctors would never rely on distorted information obtained
from medicated animals of a different species.
experiments being used by hygienists.
They never prescribe a drug, which means hygienic doctors never have
to test the effectiveness of various poisons on laboratory animals.
They treat their patients hygienically without drugs or interference in
accordance with the laws of nature.
Hygienic doctors would never rely on distorted information obtained
from medicated animals of a different species.
Medical doctors experiment on animals looking for drugs that will
destroy certain germs without killing the human host.
destroy certain germs without killing the human host.
Hygienic doctors realize that they cannot learn anything about
achieving perfect health from studying animals injected with germs
living under laboratory conditions.
The hygienic doctor ignores germs as a cause of disease and
marvels at nature’s self-healing curative ability.
They unobtrusively guide their patient toward a calm, safe, drugless
treatment to restore health.
achieving perfect health from studying animals injected with germs
living under laboratory conditions.
The hygienic doctor ignores germs as a cause of disease and
marvels at nature’s self-healing curative ability.
They unobtrusively guide their patient toward a calm, safe, drugless
treatment to restore health.
The early hygienists believed they had the absolute truth on their side
and the proof they offered was their patients recovering from
incapacitating ailments.
As former medical doctors the pioneer practitioners saw first hand
that prescribed drugs were not working and were instead causing
damage to the human body.
These forerunners of modern natural healthcare came to understand
that the only reliable healing procedure for their sick patients was
complete bedrest and fasting with only water to drink until the
detoxing crisis passed.
and the proof they offered was their patients recovering from
incapacitating ailments.
As former medical doctors the pioneer practitioners saw first hand
that prescribed drugs were not working and were instead causing
damage to the human body.
These forerunners of modern natural healthcare came to understand
that the only reliable healing procedure for their sick patients was
complete bedrest and fasting with only water to drink until the
detoxing crisis passed.
| The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene By: Herbert M. Shelton |
Shelton explains the positive and predictable results obtained from
treating patients hygienically.
He states:
“Ours is a faith in the orderly, invariable laws of nature. All science is
a study of the fixed laws of nature. Faith in the uniformities of nature
is not a mystical conviction that has never been verified, nor is it the
power to say we believe things that are incredible.” Shelton
Phenomenal success with their sick patients is what motivated the
early hygienic doctors to abandon their medical practice and
prescribe only natural remedies for treating illnesses.
When their patients became sick they advised abstention from food,
rest and only water until the crisis passed.
This simple treatment of allowing the body to defend and heal itself
always had the same consistent beneficial results.
treating patients hygienically.
He states:
“Ours is a faith in the orderly, invariable laws of nature. All science is
a study of the fixed laws of nature. Faith in the uniformities of nature
is not a mystical conviction that has never been verified, nor is it the
power to say we believe things that are incredible.” Shelton
Phenomenal success with their sick patients is what motivated the
early hygienic doctors to abandon their medical practice and
prescribe only natural remedies for treating illnesses.
When their patients became sick they advised abstention from food,
rest and only water until the crisis passed.
This simple treatment of allowing the body to defend and heal itself
always had the same consistent beneficial results.
At his clinic in San Antonio, Shelton was able to accommodate up to
40 patients.
During his long and distinguished career Dr. Shelton personally
supervised over 40,000 fasts at his health center.
40 patients.
During his long and distinguished career Dr. Shelton personally
supervised over 40,000 fasts at his health center.
| Fasting For Renewal of Life By: Herbert M. Shelton |
Shelton was able to witness and record first hand the consistency
and predictability of this amazing scientific methodology for healing.
Outstanding success with their patients is the barometer that allows
hygienic doctors to say with confidence that their approach to
healthcare, while difficult to adhere to at times, is always successful
when followed attentively.
Over the course of the last 30 years this writer has practiced the
science of natural hygienics on myself and always with consistent
favorable results.
Throughout the decades I have violated the laws of nature many
times, eating too much of the wrong foods and drinking too many of
the wrong beverages.
However, if I became ill, I always achieved remarkable healing results
whenever I closely followed Shelton’s advise.
Adhering to the philosophy of hygienics has allowed me to stay
healthy and avoid taking any medications for the last 30 years, not
even an aspirin.
And I have always quickly recovered from feverish flu like symptoms
with just bedrest and distilled water.
and predictability of this amazing scientific methodology for healing.
Outstanding success with their patients is the barometer that allows
hygienic doctors to say with confidence that their approach to
healthcare, while difficult to adhere to at times, is always successful
when followed attentively.
Over the course of the last 30 years this writer has practiced the
science of natural hygienics on myself and always with consistent
favorable results.
Throughout the decades I have violated the laws of nature many
times, eating too much of the wrong foods and drinking too many of
the wrong beverages.
However, if I became ill, I always achieved remarkable healing results
whenever I closely followed Shelton’s advise.
Adhering to the philosophy of hygienics has allowed me to stay
healthy and avoid taking any medications for the last 30 years, not
even an aspirin.
And I have always quickly recovered from feverish flu like symptoms
with just bedrest and distilled water.
| Mario Bello Cascade Lake, NY |
I can personally attest to the fact that fasting when ill always works
and can overcome any so-called infectious disease or physiological
ailment without medicine.
I consider myself to be in excellent health at the age of 70 and still
love to garden, hike, bike and kayak.
and can overcome any so-called infectious disease or physiological
ailment without medicine.
I consider myself to be in excellent health at the age of 70 and still
love to garden, hike, bike and kayak.
| Mario Bello Kayaking Adirondack State Park |
I usually fast at least 2 weeks every January just to temporarily shut
down my digestive tract and allow my body to do any repair work
necessary.
In a later chapter on fasting I will cover the details of my 53 day
water-only fast, which I undertook many years ago to relieve a
gallbladder problem.
From my perspective I believe the pioneers of the hygienic movement
have made a monumental discovery that will benefit mankind forever.
These men will stand alongside notable scientists like Isaac Newton
and Charles Darwin for their originality in furthering human knowledge
and understanding.
Achieving a healthy body without any toxic buildup is not always easy
to accomplish.
People are very hesitant about giving up long cherished eating and
drinking habits, especially if they have difficulty believing that
something in their personal lifestyle is a possible contributory factor to
disease.
Whether or not people accept the reality of this philosophy is
inconsequential.
The facts show conclusively, through centuries of experience that
adopting a hygienic lifestyle will prevent disease and keep the human
anatomy strong and robust.
down my digestive tract and allow my body to do any repair work
necessary.
In a later chapter on fasting I will cover the details of my 53 day
water-only fast, which I undertook many years ago to relieve a
gallbladder problem.
From my perspective I believe the pioneers of the hygienic movement
have made a monumental discovery that will benefit mankind forever.
These men will stand alongside notable scientists like Isaac Newton
and Charles Darwin for their originality in furthering human knowledge
and understanding.
Achieving a healthy body without any toxic buildup is not always easy
to accomplish.
People are very hesitant about giving up long cherished eating and
drinking habits, especially if they have difficulty believing that
something in their personal lifestyle is a possible contributory factor to
disease.
Whether or not people accept the reality of this philosophy is
inconsequential.
The facts show conclusively, through centuries of experience that
adopting a hygienic lifestyle will prevent disease and keep the human
anatomy strong and robust.
This type of basic healthy living will always keep an individual at peak
performance in accordance with the laws of nature.
Shelton illuminates what he considers the fundamentals necessary to
sustain optimum health:
“The individual consists of more than a body.
The wholesome, natural and due performance of the functions of the
mind is equally as important as that of the body.
Fresh air, proper food, pure water, sunshine, appropriate exercise, rest,
sleep, cleanliness and mental poise are the great essentials of health and
long life.
Without them, we may poison and carve, dose ourselves with nostrums
and abuse ourselves with all the popular therapeutic modalities and still
remain groaning invalids.” Shelton
Hygienic doctors are offering the world a simple recipe for maintaining
pain-free, vigorous health.
performance in accordance with the laws of nature.
Shelton illuminates what he considers the fundamentals necessary to
sustain optimum health:
“The individual consists of more than a body.
The wholesome, natural and due performance of the functions of the
mind is equally as important as that of the body.
Fresh air, proper food, pure water, sunshine, appropriate exercise, rest,
sleep, cleanliness and mental poise are the great essentials of health and
long life.
Without them, we may poison and carve, dose ourselves with nostrums
and abuse ourselves with all the popular therapeutic modalities and still
remain groaning invalids.” Shelton
Hygienic doctors are offering the world a simple recipe for maintaining
pain-free, vigorous health.
| The Science and Fine Art of Food and Nutrition By: Herbert M. Shelton |
The medical profession rarely suspects nutritional imbalance or
emotional stress as the cause of illness.
Their methodology is to prescribe drugs that hunt down and kill germs
with caustic poisons that are very irritating to the body.
Ultimately this intense debate revolves around the question of cause?
What precisely is the cause of disease?
The conflicting healthcare factions are in the midst of a major
disagreement as to whether a germ causes disease or is disease
simply the natural cleansing process of an overly toxemic body?
Hygienic doctors scoff at the idea of attributing illness to an invading
germ because it defies reason, logic and science. Tilden states:
“The whole germ theory is refined and modernized demonology. It
takes about as much faith to accept the germ theory as the devil theory.
The reason for so much unquestioning acceptance of this great French
germophobiac Pasteur was that the profession was in chaos regarding
cause, and it was ready to accept a savior of any kind without question.
Today the germ theory fits well only with those who take it without
thought. Its popularity comes from numbers, not reason. Once a fallacy
is in the saddle, it rides, for a time, rough-shod over truth.” Tilden
Natural healthcare doctors have proven time and again in their own
practices since the early 1800’s, starting with Jennings, Trall, Graham,
Tilden, and countless others, that treating patients hygienically always
produced predictable beneficial results.
Unlike the drug dispensing physicians, hygienic doctors are never at
war with the human body.
emotional stress as the cause of illness.
Their methodology is to prescribe drugs that hunt down and kill germs
with caustic poisons that are very irritating to the body.
Ultimately this intense debate revolves around the question of cause?
What precisely is the cause of disease?
The conflicting healthcare factions are in the midst of a major
disagreement as to whether a germ causes disease or is disease
simply the natural cleansing process of an overly toxemic body?
Hygienic doctors scoff at the idea of attributing illness to an invading
germ because it defies reason, logic and science. Tilden states:
“The whole germ theory is refined and modernized demonology. It
takes about as much faith to accept the germ theory as the devil theory.
The reason for so much unquestioning acceptance of this great French
germophobiac Pasteur was that the profession was in chaos regarding
cause, and it was ready to accept a savior of any kind without question.
Today the germ theory fits well only with those who take it without
thought. Its popularity comes from numbers, not reason. Once a fallacy
is in the saddle, it rides, for a time, rough-shod over truth.” Tilden
Natural healthcare doctors have proven time and again in their own
practices since the early 1800’s, starting with Jennings, Trall, Graham,
Tilden, and countless others, that treating patients hygienically always
produced predictable beneficial results.
Unlike the drug dispensing physicians, hygienic doctors are never at
war with the human body.
Medical doctors in their attempt to destroy germs are constantly
assaulting the human anatomy with harsh chemicals.
These antibiotics kill friendly microorganisms, overburden the immune
system and create deleterious side effects that obstruct healing.
The astonishing results the hygienic doctors are having with their
patients are so consistent and so predictable that this methodology
can now be classified as a natural law.
We can easily understand the law of gravity because we know that
every time we release a baseball from our hand it will always fall to the
ground, like an apple falling from a tree.
assaulting the human anatomy with harsh chemicals.
These antibiotics kill friendly microorganisms, overburden the immune
system and create deleterious side effects that obstruct healing.
The astonishing results the hygienic doctors are having with their
patients are so consistent and so predictable that this methodology
can now be classified as a natural law.
We can easily understand the law of gravity because we know that
every time we release a baseball from our hand it will always fall to the
ground, like an apple falling from a tree.
