Toxemia Explained - Preface

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PREFACE

FROM time immemorial man has looked

for a savior; and, when not looking for a savior, he is looking for a

cure. He believes

in paternalism. He is looking to get something for nothing, not knowing

that the

highest price we ever pay for anything is to have it given to us.

Instead of accepting salvation, it

is better to deserve it. Instead of buying, begging, or stealing, a

cure, it is better

to stop building disease. Disease is of man's own building, and one

worse thing than

the stupidity of buying a cure is to remain so ignorant as to believe

in cures.

The false theories of salvation and

cures have built man into a mental mendicant, when he should be the

arbiter of his

own salvation, and certainly his own doctor, instead of being a slave

to a profession

that has neither worked out its own salvation from disease nor

discovered a single

cure in all the age-long period of man's existence on earth.

We hear of diet cures, dietitians,

balanced rations, meat diets, vegetable diets, and other

diets--chemically prepared

foods of all kinds. The reading public is bewildered with hundreds of

health magazines

and thousands of health ideas. There are thousands writing on health

who would not

recognize it if they should meet it on the street. Fanaticism, bigotry,

stupidity,

and commercialism are the principal elements in the dietetic complex

that is now

belaboring the public.

Cures are what the people want, and

cures are what doctors and cultists affect to make; but at most only

relief is given.

The periodicity which characterizes

all functional derangements of the body lends color to the claims of

cure-mongers

that their remedy has cured their patients, when the truth is that the

so-called

disease "ran its course." The truth is that the so-called disease was a

toxemic crisis, and when the toxin was eliminated below the toleration

point, the

sickness passed--automatically health returned. But the disease was not

cured; for

the cause (enervating habits) is continued, toxin still accumulates,

and in due course

of time another crisis appears. Unless the cause of Toxemia is

discovered and removed,

crises will recur until functional derangements will give way to

organic disease.

The entire profession is engaged in

doctoring crises of Toxemia--curing (?) and curing (?) until overtaken

with chronic

disease of whatever organ was the seat of the toxin crises.

THERE ARE NO CURES

Nature returns to normal when enervating

habits are given up. There are no cures in the sense generally

understood. If one

has a tobacco heart, what is the remedy? Stop the use of tobacco, of

course. If the

heart is worn out from shock, as we see it among gamblers, or among men

who are plunging

in the stock market, what will cure? Drugs? No! Removing the cause.

Every so-called disease is built within

the mind and body by enervating habits. The food and dietetic insanity

that constitutes

the headliner on the medical stage just now is causing the people to

demand a diet

that will cure them of their peculiar maladies. The idea prevails that

some peculiar

diet will cure rheumatism or any other disease. Diet or food will not

cure any disease.

A fast, rest in bed, and the giving-up

of enervating habits, mental and physical, will allow nature to

eliminate the accumulated

toxin; then, if enervating habits are given up, and rational living

habits adopted,

health will come back to stay, if the one CURED will "stay put." This

applies

to any so-called disease. Yes, it fits your disease--you who write to

find out if

the Tilden system of cure applies to your case. Yes; cannot you realize

that law

and order pervades the universe? And it is the same from nebula to

stone, from stone

to plant, from plant to animal, from animal to man, from man to mind,

and from mind

to super-mind--God. To use a blanket expression: Law and order pervades

the universe,

the same yesterday, today and forever, and is the same from star-dust

to mind--from

electron to mind. Toxemia explains how the universal law operates in

health and disease.

One disease is the same as another; one man the same as another; one

flower the same

as another; the carbon in bread, sugar, coal, and the diamond is the

same. Yes, one

disease can be cured (?) the same as another, unless the organ acted on

by toxemic

crises is destroyed.

For example: If wrong eating is persisted

in, the acid fermentation first irritates the mucous membrane of the

stomach; the

irritation becomes inflammation, then ulceration, then thickening and

hardening,

which ends in cancer at last. The medical world is struggling to find

the cause of

cancer. It is the distal end of an inflammatory process whose proximal

beginning

may be any irritation. The end is degeneration from a lack of oxygen

and nutriment,

and, in degenerating, the septic material enters the circulation,

setting up chronic

septic poisoning called cancer cachexia.

Disease is a common expression of universal

enervation. An understanding of physiology and pathology necessitates a

firm grip

on evolution as expressed in biology; or reasoning will go astray

occasionally.

Modern cures and immunization are vanity

and vexation; they are founded on the foolish principle of reasoning

from effect,

is disease, to cause. The organ which is suffering from many crises of

Toxemia is

discovered--it may be ulcer of the stomach, then the ulcer is cut out;

it may be

gallstone, then the stone is cut out; it may be fibroid tumor of the

womb, then the

tumor or womb is cut out. The same may be said of other effects--the

medical armament

is turned loose on a lot of effects. This is accepted by the public

mind as efficient

treatment of disease, when in fact it is a stupid removing of effects.

And that is

not the worst of such blundering. The operators have not the slightest

idea of the

cause of the effects they so skillfully remove.

In other derangements the same lack

of knowledge of cause prevails. In the treatment of deficiency

diseases, the lacking

element is supplied from the laboratory; but nothing is done in the

line of restoring

the organ to normality. Why? Because medical science has not discovered

why organs

fail to function properly; and until this discovery is made, scientific

blundering

will continue.

THE WORLD NEEDS THE SCIENCE OF SURGERY

If mutilation (unnecessary surgery)

is required in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases to perfect the skill

required in

the thousandth case, the question of the need of high-class surgery

must be answered

by the mutilated or vandalized class.

Is war necessary? What would be the

answer of the 7,485,000 who were killed in the late World War, if the

question were

submitted to them? Estimate $5,000 as the man-power loss for each man;

then the world

lost $37,425,000,000 in this one item alone. Surgery costs the world,

in vandalizing

the bodies of men, women, and children, as much every year. Is it worth

that much

for all the real good it does? Why is so much surgery thought to be

necessary? Because

of the ignorance of the people, egged on by a science-mad or selfish

profession.

It is more spectacular to operate than to teach people how to live to

avoid chronic

disease and operations.

ARE PALLIATIVES EVER NECESSARY?

It is doubtful if the palliation which

doctors and cultists give is worth the disadvantage that the sick habit

taught the

patients by their doctor brings them.

The drug habit taught the thousands

certainly overbalances any relief given. Drugs to relieve pain are

never necessary.

Twenty-five years in which I used drugs, and thirty-three in which I

have not used

drugs, should make my belief, that drugs are unnecessary and in most

cases injurious,

worth something to those who care to know the truth.

YES, VENEREAL DISEASES CAN BE CURED

WITHOUT DRUGS

I make no exception of syphilis, and

stand ready to demonstrate the truth of what I say at any time and

anywhere to a

committee of doctors.

Nature cures--nature can eliminate

syphilis, or any type of infection, if all enervating habits are given

up and a rational

mode of living adopted.

STIMULANTS ARE SUBTILELY UNDERMINING

So insidious in their action are all

stimulants that the unwary are surprised by finding themselves more or

less slaves

to them when they are not conscious of using them to excess.

The coffee headache is an example.

A time comes when it is not convenient to get the usual breakfast cup.

A dullness

or languid feeling appears three or four hours after breakfast, that

cannot be accounted

for until some friend suggests that perhaps it is due to missing the

coffee; but

the victim is not convinced until he proves it true by trying it out

several times.

Some develop a headache, and still others are troubled with gaping or

yawning and

a feeling of oppression, due to heart enervation brought on from the

use of coffee.

At first stimulants gently remove

awareness--remove

tire and actuate the mind and body. It should be obvious to reasoning

minds that

borrowed activity must be paid for sooner or later.

Using nerve-energy in excess of normal

production brings on enervation. Few people waste nerve-energy in one

way only. Food

is a stimulant. Overeating is overstimulating. Add to this excess one

or two other

stimulants--Coffee or tobacco--excessive venery, overwork and worry,

and one subject

to that amount of drain of nerve-energy will become decidedly

enervated. Elimination

falls far short of requirements; consequently toxin accumulates in the

blood. This

adds a pronounced auto-toxin stimulation to that coming from

overstimulating habits,

and completes a vicious circle. This complex stands for a

disease-producing Toxemia,

which will be permanent except as toxin crises--so-called acute

diseases--lower the

amount of toxin, again to accumulate and continue until the habits that

keep the

body enervated are controlled. Perfect health cannot be established

until all enervating

habits have been eliminated.

DEFINITION of Toxemia and crises of Toxemia:--In the process of tissue

building--metabolism--there is cell building--anabolism--and cell

destruction--catabolism. The broken down tissue is toxic and in

health--when nerve energy is normal--it is eliminated from the blood as

fast as evolved. When nerve energy is dissipated from any

cause--physical or mental excitement or bad habits--the body becomes

enervated, when enervated, elimination is checked, causing a retention

of toxin in the blood or Toxemia. This accumulation of toxin when once

established will continue until nerve energy is restored by removing

the causes. So-called disease is nature's effort at eliminating the

toxin from the blood. All so-called diseases are crises of Toxemia.

-- Peace be with you,

Don "Quai" Eitner

"Spirit sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, dreams in the animal and wakes in man."

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. ~Baptiste Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire

The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb