What Is Natural Hygiene?
Natural Hygiene philosophy teaches that it is natural to be healthy. We believe that human beings, like animals in their natural state, are normally healthy, and should be healthy.
We believe that behind every ache, pain, illness or disability there is a cause. We also believe that to gain freedom from sickness we need to first remove the cause, and then give the body an opportunity to heal itself. We believe that the body is self-repairing and self-regulating.
Natural Hygiene does not prescribe drugs or medicines, vitamin preparations or herbs or food supplements as medicines or curative agents, or use electrical machines or operations. It uses only such methods as are natural to the body. Natural Hygiene teaches that illness is caused by an infringement of natural laws. It teaches that the only way to regain health is to return to an observance of natural law. In other words, humans are encouraged to live naturally, and therefore maintain natural health.
In order to be healthy, humans need clean fresh air, pure water, suitable food, sunlight, warmth, exercise, rest, cleanliness, wholesome mental and emotional influences, and correct living habits. When a person is ill, the same factors are necessary as in health, but in different proportions.
The treatments used are not treatments in the usual sense of the word. Natural Hygiene treatments are used only to achieve normality. When the body is normal, it repairs itself automatically.
So, a Natural Hygiene Practitioner is not a medical practitioner, or "Alternative Medicine Practitioner" or "Complimentary Medicine Practitioner" (modern "naturopath"), does not supply medical or surgical advice, treatment, or operations. Natural Hygiene is devoted wholly to the achievement and maintenance of normal health by natural means. It seeks to provide the correct environment and conditions so the life force within the body will restore and maintain normal health.
Natural Hygiene has no religious affiliations. It has no use for gimmicks. It is a purely natural approach to health. The following natural factors are used: natural foods, therapeutic fasting, pure water, fresh air, sunlight, appropriate exercise, relaxation, and counselling.
No Medicines - No herbs - No drugs - No colon cleansing ("Colonic Irrigation")
