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Hygienic Review

Vol. XXXI May, 1970 No. 9

Intestinal Parasites

Herbert M. Shelton

Noise and numbers are barriers to the march of truth. Add to these money and the

prestige that comes with great age and you have a barrier to genuine progress

that is difficult to overcome. Greater, perhaps, than all these combined is the

profit that is made out of the exploitation of ancient error. Vested interest

neither surrenders its advantages in the interest of truth, nor investigates new

truths. Organized opposition to and brutal suppression of everything that

threatens the position and profit of vested interest must always be expected.

Thus it is that, in this year 1970 A. D., the approved method of combating

intestinal parasites is the same as that used a hundred or two hundred years

ago.

Recently, for a considerable period of time, I observed birds and small animals

drinking water from a cess pool and none of them became ill. I began to think on

the matter and I ran my mind over the fact that animals have no sterilized foods

and drink. The cow or horse grazing in the pasture, the dog gnawing a fresh bone

on which are still particles of flesh, the cat eating a freshly killed mouse,

the opossum devouring the carcass of a horse that has been dead for several

days, the buzzard eating a dead animal on the highway that is run over every few

minutes by a car or truck—none of these animals know anything of the science of

bacteriology and the need to sterilize what they eat. What protects these

animals; what keeps them in health?

How truly did Dr. Tilden declare in 1930 that, " Mascerated flies, cooked flies,

flies in all kinds of foods, milk with barnyard fertilizer strained out; dried

fruit peppered with fly excreta and filth galore; have been taken into the

stomach of mankind for ages; yet the human race has multiplied in spite of wars,

contraceptives, abortion, and the lethal influence of stupid as well as

scientific medical treatment and prophylactics. " Tilden was not thus advocating

the eating of filthy foods or the drinking of unclean milk; he was pointing out

that man, as well as animals, possesses strong defense forces that render our

cultivated fear of bacteria ridiculous. Not vaccines and serums, but our own

normal means of defense protect us from all possible bacterial and parasitic

inroads.

Parasites along with their larva and eggs are almost as ubiquitous as bacteria.

We come in contact with them daily and in a hundred ways. It is probably

impossible to avoid taking them into our bodies in some form. We must,

therefore, possess a very adequate defense mechanism that protects us from their

infestation so long as we do not break it down.

It is common to think that there are parasitic diseases and the textbooks list a

whole catalogue of these., It is the Hygienic view that the parasites are merely

incidental and adventitious elements of disease and not cause. Wrong habits of

body and mind reduce the powers of the body and make it possible for parasites

to live in its cavities. To repeat, the parasites are not the cause of the

disease, but incidents of the disease. When you start homesteading parasites you

may know that your tissues and secretions have become so impaired that the

parasites find residence in them possible. Parasites of all kinds must find

favorable habitats if they are to set up housekeeping.

Intestinal parasites do not trouble those of normal digestive powers; those who

have normal resistance. After they have impaired their digestive system and

broken down their resistance, parasites can live in the intestines and colon. An

intestinal tract that does not harbor decomposition and putrefaction will

successfully resist an invasion of parasites and bacteria. Intestinal catarrh

permits the inroads of parasites. When the intestinal catarrh has reach the

ulcerative stage it becomes a serious menace to the life of the patient.

So-called amoebic dysentery is not caused by the amoeba, but by the factors of

life that break down resistance and provide a favorable habitat for the amoeba.

Drugs to kill the amoeba add to the systemic impairment and do not restore the

health of the patient. Patients with so-called amoebic dysentery suffer more

from the treatment administered to them by the specialists than they do from the

dysentery. If they were let alone they would not suffer as much as they do under

orthodox or regular treatment. Not only do the specialists rob these people of

health and money, but they rob them of precious time that might be spent in

finding a way back to health. Amoebic dysentery ends in recovery in two to three

weeks if the patient is cared for properly and no amoebicides are given by mouth

or by enema. These drugs cause inflammation building ulcerative colitis and

proctitis. The ulceration is then credited to the parasites.

It is commonly thought that the Rockefeller millions annihilated the " hookworm

disease. " A drug was given that temporarily relieved the patient, but

palliation of symptoms is not restoration of health. A drug that occasions bowel

action temporarily relieves the person who has constipation; a drug that kills

or " drives out " hookworms may temporarily relieve a symptom, but it will not

restore health.

What causes " hookworm disease? " The kindergarten answer is that the hookworms

are the cause. But is this answer correct? The cause lies back of the hookworm

in those factors that sufficiently impair secretion and excretion and make it

possible for hookworms to live in the digestive tract. If the digestive ferments

have lost their parasitidal power, to merely expel the worms (and this is a

continuous process, even in the absence of treatment—worms are passed out with

each stool) leaves the patient liable to infestation by more worms. No so-called

disease is ever remedied until its cause is understood and removed.

Hookworms cannot thrive in a normally functioning digestive tract; only those

with impaired digestion give hostage to hookworms. The poor anemic victims of an

unwholesome and deficient dietary are the victims of hookworm invasion. Killing

the hookworms does not restore health to these people. Killing the worms does

nothing to restore man's self-protective powers. On the contrary, drugs

administered to kill hookworms further impair the digestive organs. They help to

prepare the alvine canal for a greater invasion of pests.

Our " scientists " and " scientific " physicians make war on hook-worms. They go

after them with parasiticides and destroy them in hecta-combs. They never

restore the patient to health. If the patient is provided with a short period of

freedom from hookworms, it is not long before he is infested again and the

killing has to be done all over. Why? Because no cause has been corrected. The

patient is the same invalid after the frenzy of killing has ended that he was

before the hookworms came along. He is fertile soil for the next hookworm he

encounters.

These hookworm hatcheries have unwittingly prepared in their digestive tracts a

fascinating habitat for the hookworms. By wrong living they have built

gastro-intestinal catarrh and reduced the digestive power of their digestive

enzymes. They thus become hosts for hookworms. The hookworms, rather than being

cause, are simply incidental. Restore the patient to health by correcting his

mode of living and the hookworm finds other pastures.

It is well to know that parasites do not thrive in an empty colon and when

deprived of the decomposing food supply upon which they live, they perish and

the patient lives. This means that the surest and safest way to free the

digestive tract of parasites is a fast. This also aids in freeing the patient of

his gastro-intestinal catarrh, after which digestion becomes normal. Thereafter

a correct mode of living and sane eating will maintain a digestive tract in

which parasites can find no lodgment. This plan of care works as effectively

with tape worms as with amoeba and hookworms. Not drugs to kill the parasites,

but stopping their food supplies, frees the digestive tract of them without harm

to the patient.

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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. ~Jean

Baptiste Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire

The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb

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