Here we are at the beginning…discovering and using natural cures has been a habit, a lifestyle in my home.  At first it was because we couldn’t afford insurance or doctor’s fees for all the many ills a large family has.  I dabbled in using herbs and alternative healing practices for several years, learning to trust the innate intelligence of the body.

It wasn’t long before I came to believe that natural cures were what the Creator intended for us to use as a part of keeping the body in balance. 

I will state up front that I believe there is a time and a place for doctor visits.  I recently heard the following comment and that is that doctors are excellent body “mechanics” - that is that they really do shine in fixing what we have broken.  Bones can be set and pinned.  Cuts can be mended.  They are so good at fixing but when they extend their skills to replacing “sick” body parts & organs, rather than attempting to work with and help the body to heal itself, here is where I believe they leave their skills behind.  Here is where they truly “practice” medicine.

Not all physicians are guilty of this, I admit.  I really believe most health care professionals mean to treat/cure their patients.  But they come at it from the point of view that this body of ours is more mechanical than dynamic, living entity.  It seems they are taught in med school that disease is the enemy that must be cut out, poisoned, irradiated – eliminated by force.

Natural cures as a part of alternative healing comes with point of view that the body is intelligent.  More than that it acts on one thing – to stay in a healthy balance.  Thousands of processes happen at any one time, interacting one with the other all with one purpose in mind and that is to repair and replace cells, tissue, organs as they die or become diseased.

Think for a minute about the simple healing of a cut.  Many processes happen as the body senses a “problem”.  Blood acts to bring the repair team to patch up the cut from the inside.  The blood itself thickens or clots as it reaches air.  Meanwhile, white cells sense intruders that took advantage of the opening into the body and immediately begin to attack and destroy them.  The skin itself, always repairing and replacing anyway, simply goes about filling in and closing up the wound till 7 to 10 days later, depending on the depth and size of the wound, there is but a silvery pink scar as the only reminder.

If this happens for a simple cut we must conclude that similar processes happen all throughout the body.  And in fact it does!  We are bombarded daily with potential pathogens – some cause a cold or flu; some cause TB or malaria; some cause cancers of all kinds.  For all intents and purposes we should be dead from the day we were born.

But no.  We are blessed with this amazing complex body machine that will stay healthy at all costs.  It is only when it is deficient in certain necessary elements that it begins to weaken and break down.  Over time the lack of proper nutrients due to poor diet or careless sleeping habits or stress all begin to take their toll.  When the body’s stores become depleted disease takes it opportunity.  It moves in and takes over.  Eventually, the tired malnourished body succumbs.

As an intelligent owner of this beautiful creation, we must respect the instruction manual.  What instruction manual!?  Well, there isn’t one per se although the Bible and other ancient books leave specific instructions that kept other people from other times healthy when nations around them died.  We also have a God-given brain with the ability to think and reason. 

Many thanks to others from times past as well as current who believe the body is supremely intelligent and have observed over the years and recorded the actions of certain herbs or therapies and how they positively or negatively affect the body. 

I hope to share what I have learned using natural cures as well as share new remedies and therapies that work with our body to stay well.