One cause-One treatment
Nature-cure is not something new to the people, though it was in Europe that it received a scientific bias, so as to be made acceptable to the modern man, whose sense of reasoning had considerably awakened with the coming up of renaissance in Europe. Man stopped believing in myths any more and began exploring reasonable background to every natural phenomenon, or happening. During his search for truth, he came upon many discoveries. Even a casual drop of apple from a tree gave a jolt to the awakened mind of Sir Isaac Newton—and in this simple happening he discovered the law of gravitational force and so on.
Nature-cure, in its present scientific form, too, was such a discovery in Europe. It so happened that a German gentleman, Louis Kuhne, in his fondness for hunting, had been to the forest one day, where he shot at a deer. The animal ran away with his wounded leg and went into a pond of cold water, Kuhne observed that the deer kept his leg immersed in the water of the pond for some time and then ran away. The next day, as Kuhne came to the same place, he saw the same wounded deer standing in the pond, before running away after some time. This happening kept Kuhne brooding over. Any other person in his place could have thought of it as a providential or mystic happening. But not so for Kuhne, whose mind was awakened.
Against the present theory of Medical Science that basically a germ is the cause of any disorder or disease in the body, the Naturo-path goes a step further, to establish by reason and example, that not germ, but the accumulated foreign matter in the body, is the basic cause of disease or the germ, whatever. His reasoning is that germs are always present in the air—the Medical Science, too, believes it—then why they don’t affect all people, even during an epidemic, like Cholera, Malaria, etc. The reason with the Medical man is, Resistance. It is the lack of resistance, he tells us, that makes a ground for the germ. It is here that the Naturo-path argues by asking, “What is this lack of resistance, if not, the accumulated foreign or waste matter in the body?” For a naturo-path this lack of resistance’ is a vague term with the medical science. The clear answer is with the Nature-cure, that is, the accumulated foreign matter in the body-system; that is the cause of all ailments in it.