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composition of blood and lymph.
Accumulation of waste matter, morbid materials and poisons.

These conditions are identical with disease, because they tend to lower,
hinder or inhibit normal function (harmonious vibration) and because
they engender and promote destruction of living tissues.
(9) What Is Acute Disease?
What is commonly called acute disease is in reality the result of
Nature's efforts to eliminate from the organism waste matter, foreign
matter and poisons, and to repair injury to living tissues. In other words,
every so-called acute disease is the result of a cleansing and healing
effort of Nature. The real disease is lowered vitality, abnormal
composition of the vital fluids (blood and lymph) and the resulting
accumulation of waste materials and poisons.
(10) What Is Chronic Disease?
Chronic disease is a condition of the organism in which lowered
vibration (lowered vitality), due to the accumulation of waste matter
and poisons, with the consequent destruction of vital parts and organs,
has progressed to such an extent that Nature's constructive and healing
forces are no longer able to react against the disease conditions by
acute corrective efforts (healing crises). Chronic disease is a condition
of the organismin which the morbid encumbrances have gained the
ascendancy and prevent acute reaction (healing crises) on the part of
the constructive forces of Nature. Chronic disease is the inability of the
organism to react by acute efforts or healing crises against
constitutional disease conditions.
(11) What Is a Healing Crisis?
A healing crisis is an acute reaction, resulting from the ascendancy of
Nature's healing forces over disease conditions. Its tendency is toward
recovery, and it is, therefore, in conformity with Nature's constructive
principle.
(12) Are All Acute Reactions Healing Crises?
No, there are healing crises and disease crises.

(13) What Is a Disease Crisis?
A disease crisis is an acute reaction resulting from the ascendancy of
disease conditions over the healing forces of the organism. Its tendency
is toward fatal termination, and it is, therefore, in conformity with
Nature's destructive principle
(14) What Is Cure?
Cure is the readjustment of the human organism from abnormal to
normal conditions and functions.
(15) What Methods of Cure Are in Conformity with the Constructive
Principle in Nature?
Those methods which:
Establish normal surroundings and natural habits of life in accord with
Nature's Laws. Economize vital force. Build up the blood on a natural
basis, that is, supply the blood with its natural constituents in right
proportions. Promote the elimination of waste matter and poisons
without in any way injuring the human body. Arouse the individual in
the highest possible degree to the consciousness of personal
accountability and the necessity of intelligent personal effort and
self-help.
(16) Are Medicines in Conformity with the Constructive Principle in
Nature?
Medicines are in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature
insofar as they, in themselves, are not injurious and destructive to the
human organism and insofar as they act as tissue foods and promote the
neutralization and elimination of morbid matter and poisons.
(17) Are Poisonous Drugs and Promiscuous Surgical Operations in
Conformity with the Constructive Principle in Nature?
Poisonous drugs and promiscuous operations are not usually in

conformity with the constructive principle in Nature, because:
They suppress acute diseases or reactions (crises), the cleaning and
healing efforts of Nature. They are in themselves harmful and
destructive to human life. Such treatment fosters the belief that drugs
and surgical operations can be substituted for obedience to Nature's
Laws and for personal effort and self-help.
(18) Is Metaphysical Healing in Conformity with the Constructive
Principle in Nature?
Metaphysical systems of healing are in conformity with the
constructive principle in Nature insofar as:
They do not interfere with or suppress Nature's healing efforts. They
awaken hope and confidence (therapeutic faith) and increase the inflow
of vital force into the organism.
They are not in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature in
so far as:
They fail to assist Nature's healing efforts. They ignore, obscure and
deny the laws of Nature and defy the dictates of reason and common
sense. They substitute, in the treatment of disease, a blind, dogmatic
belief in the wonder-working power of metaphysical formulas and
prayer for intelligent cooperation with Nature's constructive forces for
personal effort and self-help. They weaken the consciousness of
personal responsibility.
(19) Is Nature Cure in Conformity with the Constructive Principle in
Nature?
Nature Cure is in conformity with the constructive principle in Nature
because:
It teaches that the primary cause of weakness and disease is
disobedience to the laws of Nature. It arouses the individual to the
study of natural laws and demonstrates the necessity of strict

compliance with these laws. It strengthens the consciousness of
personal responsibility of the individual for his own status of health and
for the hereditary conditions, traits and tendencies of his off-spring. It
encourages personal effort