Category: Specific Disease Conditions

Septicemia, sepsis, going septic, septic shock

If Germs Don’t Kill, What About Septicemia?

People often ask: “If germs don’t cause disease, then what about septicemia (sepsis, going septic, septic shock)?”

From a Natural Hygiene perspective, septicemia is not some rogue bacterial invasion that mysteriously overpowers the body. It is the body’s own healing effort that has been complicated, obstructed, and driven into a life-threatening stage, almost always by well-meaning but harmful interventions.


A wound becomes septic when its natural drainage and cleansing process is interfered with. The body wants to drain toxic waste, dead cells, and debris out through the wound. This discharge is part of the eliminative process, Nature’s way of cleansing the injured area and preventing internal poisoning. When that natural outlet is blocked, the waste is forced to remain inside, reabsorbing into the bloodstream and overwhelming the system.


How this happens in practice:

  • Bandaging wounds – Wounds require airflow and the ability to drain; placing a bandage on the wound impairs the elimination of waste products, reduces airflow, and, if the bandage is too tight, blood flow and lymph flow are also impaired. Blood flow brings repair materials, the lymphatic system eliminates waste products, and constricting the flow of either results in impaired healing.
  • Closing the wound with stitches – Stitches force close a wound, impairing the elimination of the waste the body requires to drain.   While there are times of serious major injury that might require stitching, care must be taken to allow proper drainage.  If drainage is not allowed, septicemia may be induced by the trapping of waste internally.
  • Packing or covering the wound with antiseptic chemicals, antibiotics, salves, herbs or ointments that damage healthy cells and impair the body’s healing.  Bacteria are put in place by the body, for the benefit of the body, at the site of all injuries.  These bacteria are part of the cleaning and repair process.  By applying antibacterial substances, we kill the body’s own repair team, impairing healing, and because these substances are injurious to the body, the body is forced to rapidly close the wound.  Wounds are meant to close slowly so they can drain properly and eliminate poisons.   If they are forced to close rapidly due to more poisons being applied externally, then the cellular waste which is a result of the wound becomes a poison trapped internally.

When we intervene in the healing processes with bandages, stitches, ointments ,or other salves, the toxic material, which includes the body’s own waste, cell debris, and by-products of bacterial breakdown, accumulates faster than the body can remove it. This is classic toxemia, the true cause of all disease.

As Shelton explains, bacteria do not initiate disease; they arrive after the fact, when waste material is present, and assist in breaking it down for elimination.  Bacteria are a symptom of disease and tissue injury, not a cause.  In septicemia, these symbiotic bacteria are present in large numbers because there is an abundance of cellular waste, toxins, or debris for them to work on. But the danger does not come from the bacteria themselves; it comes from the toxic condition of the internal environment caused by the interference in normal healing processes.

Fasting: the emergency measure
 If someone reaches a true septic state, complete physiological rest (fasting) offers the best chance for recovery. Fasting frees up nerve energy, stops the intake of new toxins, and allows the body to concentrate all available resources on neutralizing poisons, breaking down dead tissue, and restoring balance. But more important than knowing how to recover from septicemia is knowing how to avoid it entirely.

Prevention according to Natural Hygiene:

  • Allow wounds to remain open to the air when possible so they can drain naturally. If a wound must be covered to protect it for a time, keep the bandage loose to allow airflow and remove the bandage frequently to avoid excess moisture building around the wound, injuring the tissues surrounding the wound.
  • Support the body’s eliminative effort instead of suppressing it with drugs or antiseptics.  Fast, or eat only very lightly, of foods natural to the human diet – fruits, salads, nuts, and seeds – until the healing has been completed.
  • If the wound must be cleaned of debris, use only pure water, never chemical disinfectants that injure cells and impede healing.
  • Rest the body and avoid overfeeding, especially on protein-heavy or processed foods that create more toxic waste.   Avoiding animal proteins and secretions is most important, as these are the heaviest burdens of an unnatural diet.

When the body’s needs are met, fresh air, pure water, adequate rest, wholesome food, it is fully capable of cleansing itself without complication. Septicemia, like all advanced disease conditions, is not caused by the germ but by the accumulation of poisons (cellular debris, waste, drugs, herbs, etc.) and the obstruction of the body’s natural avenues of elimination. Remove the obstruction, stop adding to the toxic load, and the body will finish the healing work it started.

As Dr. Shelton wrote:

“Disease is a remedial effort, a struggle of the vital powers to purify the system and recover the normal state. This effort should be aided… but never suppressed.”


In the case of septicemia, the tragedy is that it almost always results from preventable suppression/intervention, turning the body’s cleansing process into a closed trap. The real cure lies not in killing bacteria, but in restoring the free, unobstructed flow of Nature’s healing work.

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Healing Lazy Eye, Crossed Eyes and Other Eye Disorders

Healing Strabimus or Lazy eye by returning to the natural human diet. A reader Q&A.

Question:

Can we heal strabismus (crossed eyes) or lazy eye on the natural hygiene lifestyle or natural human diet?

Answer:

Yes, this is a nerve and muscle disorder, both of which are healable. Nerves malfunction when the body is under a heavy acid load and muscles become weak due to the body needing to pull the alkaline minerals from the muscles to neutralize the acids.

When we return to our natural diet and eat abundantly of salad greens in particular, the body is able to replenish those alkaline minerals, resulting in increased strength to the muscle tissues. In addition, the body becomes rehydrated, which corrects deformities of the eye and also leads to weakening of muscle tissues and connective tissues.

Some eye exercises would be beneficial to go along with the correction of diet to help rebuild eye strength. If the person is using eyeglasses, they should work to minimize the time each day they are using their glasses until they are no longer needed. Glasses make the eyes weaker over time.

I would recommend they practice the Bates Method of eye exercises. You can find a copy of the book at the bottom of this article – https://www.therawkey.com/repairing-our-vision/

Learn more about The Natural Human Diet – Like all other species, humans have a specific set of foods which are appropriate to our physiology and when we consume only these foods, our body maintains a state of pristine health. The further we stray from our natural foods, the more disease we create in our body. To heal, we must return fully to our natural foods, all other foods injure and impair the body, leading to disease.

Other articles that you may find helpful:

One Disease – Two Types of Symptoms – The medical industry labels thousands of diseases, but did you know these are all just collections of symptoms, and that there truly is only one disease – cellular malfunction. When we correct our understanding of what disease is, then we can correct the conditions that lead to disease occurring in the first place!

The Nature and Purpose of Disease – Learn why we get disease conditions and how to reverse them. Disease serves a purpose; when we understand what that purpose is, we can correct the conditions that lead to disease and return our body to a state of health.

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Rabies – The Manufactured Disease

How superstition, pseudoscience, and profit turned a non-existent condition into one of medicine’s most enduring myths

For more than 150 years, we’ve been told that rabies is one of the deadliest diseases on Earth. The official story goes like this: Rabies is a viral disease that attacks the central nervous system of warm-blooded animals, including humans, and it kills nearly 60,000 people every year, mostly children in poor, rural communities in developing countries, mostly in Asia and Africa. We’re told it exists on every continent except Antarctica, that it’s most often transmitted through a dog bite, and that it can only be stopped by vaccination.

The World Organisation for Animal Health ( WOAH, formerly OIE) and the World Health Organization (WHO) claim the rabies virus sits at the bite site before travelling along the nerves to the brain, causing inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. They describe two forms — one called furious rabies, with hyperactivity and fear of water, and another called paralytic rabies, with progressive paralysis.

We’re told the bite from an infected animal requires immediate vaccination, and rabies is one of the only diseases for which the vaccine can be given after exposure. We’re told that vaccinating 70% of dogs will eradicate rabies.

But this narrative is full of contradictions. If rabies truly exists everywhere, why is it supposedly concentrated among poor rural children? If it’s carried by many different species, including dogs, bats, raccoons, and cats, then why would vaccinating only dogs stop it? And if viruses are inert outside a living cell, how can one travel through the body on its own?

Also, did you know that the father of germ theory, Louis Pasteur himself, is the first person credited with creating a rabies vaccine?

Before Pasteur: Rabies Was Folklore

Before the late 1800s, rabies was not a proven disease; it was a mere superstition. People believed in what they called royal cures – the kiss of a king would cure rabies. It was later discovered that a piece of the king’s garment would be as efficacious. Other cures included magical “mad stones” pressed to the bite, chewing hair from the dog that bit you, or swallowing bizarre concoctions like ground-up jawbone of an ass or dog, colt’s tongue, and green rust from old coins.

These weren’t science. They were cultural rituals built on fear and misunderstanding. Eventually, Louis Pasteur came along to give a scientific veneer to some of these traditions, but contrary to popular belief,  he didn’t replace actual superstition with genuine science.  He simply gave the old fears a new, scientific costume.

Pasteur’s Brutal Quackery

Pasteur had no medical degree. His rabies experiments were nothing more than animal torture. He bored holes into rabbits’ skulls and injected decomposing matter directly into their brains. This method guaranteed brain damage and neurological symptoms, but it had nothing to do with how a real-life dog bite would happen in nature.

He never isolated a rabies virus, never proved transmission from a naturally bitten animal to a human, and never showed that his vaccine could prevent anything. However, the spectacle of his supposed cures won him fame, and his rabies vaccine became one of medicine’s most celebrated and profitable creations.

Contemporaries Who Called It Out

Not everyone bought the story. Many of Pasteur’s own contemporaries accused him of fraud and incompetence:

  • Dr. William A. Bruette — Showed rabies vaccine was a fraud that spread disease, calling its sale “an out-and-out racket.”
  • Dr. Matthew Woods — After 25 years at the Philadelphia dog pound, handling 150,000 dogs with frequent bites, reported zero cases of rabies. Concluded so-called rabies in animals was due to maltreatment or malnutrition.
  • Dr. George Wilson — President of the British Medical Society. Dr. Wilson called Pasteur’s anti-rabies vaccine “a piece of deception.”
  • Dr. Charles W. Dulles — Investigated for 16 years and concluded “there is no such specific malady” as rabies.

The Missing Virus

Even decades after the invention of the electron microscope, no one, not Pasteur, not the Pasteur Institute, not any successor, has ever identified a rabies virus. No isolation means no proof of viral causation. Without that, the entire claim of rabies as a contagious viral disease collapses.

The Negri Body Problem

For years, Negri bodies in brain tissue were called proof of rabies. However, these formations are not specific to rabies as they can be found in healthy animals. Even the Pasteur Institute admitted this. The diagnosis was based on interpretation, not hard evidence.

The Historical Record Tells a Different Story

When you look at actual records, the rabies scare falls apart:

  • London Hospital — 2,668 dog-bite patients, zero rabies without treatment.
  • St. George’s Hospital — 4,000 “mad dog” bites, no rabies.
  • Philadelphia Dog Pound — 150,000 dogs in 25 years, no rabies despite frequent bites.
  • Dr. J.W. Hodge — Documented over 2,500 deaths from Pasteur’s treatment — many in people never bitten.

Fear as a Cause: Lyssophobia

Natural Hygiene teaches us that fear itself is a poison to the body. History is full of cases where the belief in rabies caused symptoms and death:

  • A man lived 15 years after a dog bite but died within weeks after hearing his friend, who had been bitten by the same dog, had died.
  • A woman died after rabies treatment, later found to have been bitten by her boyfriend, not a dog.

This fear-induced condition was once called lyssophobia or “imaginary hydrophobia.”

Animal “Rabies”: What’s Really Going On

Animals labeled “rabid” are usually suffering from:

  • Parasitic infestations due to malnutrition and toxemia (i.e. heartworms)
  • Malnutrition (weakening the nervous system)
  • Poisoning (pesticides, environmental toxins, abuse)

None of these are contagious viruses.

The Vaccine Problem

Pasteur’s rabies vaccine, and all that followed, rests on the same flawed theory. It injects poisons into healthy bodies based on an unproven contagion. The results?

  • In animals: vomiting, fever, lethargy, severe allergic reactions, and death.  All of these are acknowledged by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
  • In humans: pain, dizziness, nausea, breathing difficulty, swelling of the throat, and post-vaccine encephalitis.

Yet the World Organisation for Animal Health(WOAH) still recommends vaccinating 70% of dogs worldwide, while also claiming other species spread rabies. That’s not disease prevention — that’s a business plan.

The Natural Hygiene Perspective

The science of Natural Hygiene has no use for germ theory myths. Scientific rigors must be adhered to, and laws of nature must be observed in all claims.  Rabies, all of the other so-called infectious diseases, are not a single, contagious entity but a label for various states of body breakdown. The real causes are:

  1. Toxic injury — from cooked foods, processed foods, toxins, or vaccines themselves.
  2. Enervation — loss of nerve energy from fear(chronic stress), injury, or chronic poor living habits.
  3. Malnutrition — starving the body of the materials it needs to function.
  4. Suggestion and hysteria — the mind triggering the body into crisis through fear and stress.

When we remove the causes, the symptoms vanish. No vaccine required.

The Bottom Line

Rabies is not a lurking killer waiting in an animal’s bite. It’s a manufactured disease that was born from superstition, dressed in Pasteur’s pseudoscience, and kept alive for over a century by fear and profit.

There has never been proof that rabies exists as a specific contagious disease. There has never been proof that a rabies virus has been isolated. What has been proven, over and over, is that the vaccine harms both humans and animals, and that the symptoms attributed to rabies are fully explained by poisoning, malnutrition, abuse, or fear.

Rabies is a ghost story in a lab coat. The only way to end it is to stop believing in it.

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Does sugar ‘feed’ cancer?

The claim that sugar feeds cancer is a misunderstanding of how the cells function. Every cell in the body runs on sugar for energy.  Dietary sugar or glucose stored in our fat cells is converted inside the cell into ATP, which is cell energy.  If you try to starve the cancer cells of sugar you starve all the cells in the body not just the cancerous cells.   

A cancer cell uses more fuel because it is a cell that is under distress. If you think about how exhausted you feel after enduring a stressful situation you can understand how much energy you burn when operating under stress versus when you’re calm.   The cancerous cell is a cell under severe stress from the conditions of disease present in the body.  Since the cancer cell is under severe stress the cancer cell is burning through more sugar than the other cells in that area of the body due to the stress it is operating under. 

The sugar feeds cancer narrative was created because there was a study that measured the amount of sugar being burned in these cancerous cells and compared it to healthy cells.  The conclusion that they drew was that the sugar was feeding the cancer cell because they were starting from the false assumption that a cancer cell is something that attacks the body from without, rather than being a process of the body.   In reality, a cancer cell is a healthy cell in distress and because of the distress, the cell is utilizing more energy than the other cells that are not in distress.  

So as a result of this, the myth of sugar-feeding cancer came about. This myth is founded upon the germ theory narrative that cancer is an outside invading entity that is attacking the body. In the medical narrative, cancer is a mystery, we are just unlucky when we fall upon it, they don’t understand that it has known causes and in many cases, cancer is labeled a virus that is said to attack the body, often lying dormant for years before doing so. 

The medical theory is this cancer virus is attacking the body. The person has acquired this virus by mysterious means, not by their own mistakes in living, not by their dietary indiscretions but by pure accident. Since this is a separate entity attacking the body it is said to be stealing sugar from the other cells. None of this narrative is in alignment with what the science of cellular biology shows us, but this is the medical narrative.   

A cancer cell is a cell that is drowning in a backlog of waste and as a result of this, the normal healthy cell converts itself into a bacterial cell, a more simple life form to survive the harsh conditions that are being provided.   A cancer cell is different from a tumor.  A tumor is a pocket of damaged cells, cellular waste, toxins, and debris that the body has walled off and creates a pocket of scar tissue around to separate the toxic material from the surrounding healthy cells.   A tumor is an induration, stage 6 of disease.

The cells inside the tumor are often cancerous, which means that rather than acting in concert with the other cells in the body they are instead acting for their own survival.  This is why the medical industry says these cells have “gone rogue”.   In the medical narrative the “rogue” cell is attacking the body and the cancer expands because the rogue cells are multiplying out of control.   

In biological reality, the cell is trapped in a very toxic environment and is no longer working to complete its normal functions and instead is just working to survive.   The toxicity of the environment turns off the normal self-destruct program that a damaged cell would activate to recycle itself. The cell keeps itself alive burning up sugar, but incapable of performing its other duties or recycling itself.  As the backlog of waste grows the area of injured cells continues to expand.  The causes of disease are not addressed and corrected, the patient’s diet is not corrected, and the medical industry adds additional poisons to the body during this time leading to an ever-expanding waste backlog.  The medical narrative then says that the cancer is spreading.   In biological reality, the waste material damaging the normal healthy cells is spreading, creating additional unhealthy, damaged cells.      

In regards to your question, “is it possible and true that the dead cells, existing in a tumor at the last stage, are thriving on sugar and its fermentation? If the body is choosing to convert only some sugar to energy from fruit and lets the rest to ferment.”    The body does not choose to allow fermentation.  Fermentation is a process of the fruit itself.  When digestion is impaired, either due to overeating, poor food combining, ingestion of inappropriate substances, illness, fatigue, or emotional distress then the body is unable to work on the fruit fast enough to break it down before the fruit’s natural fermentation recycle process begins.   Fermentation is a process that creates alcohol.  When we ferment food in our digestive tract we are subjected to that alcohol as a by-product and we are poisoned by that alcohol.  When humans consume animal tissues and secretions these materials putrefy instead of fermenting and their byproduct of putrefaction is ammonia, a much stronger poison.    As these poisons are introduced to the body they increase the disease load on the body.   Since most people who have Cancer have not corrected the damaging dietary habits that led to the cancer in the first place their digestion is damaged and operates poorly resulting in more fermentation and putrefaction, which continuously poisons the body.   

Fermentation is not feeding the cancer cells but is expanding the horizon of waste, which creates cancer cells by turning normal healthy cells into diseased cells that are struggling to survive in the dirty environment that has been provided.    

For cancer cases, it is typically advised for the person to first transition back to their natural diet before attempting any fasting.   This is especially true if the person is showing signs of muscle wasting.   Since digestion has been so badly impaired it is difficult for many cancer cases to maintain weight and regain weight, so fasting may result in difficulty in recovering that weight. By giving the body some time on the natural diet to slowly repair digestion some they are often able to retain weight easier when fasting later.    The body is also severely dehydrated, so a period of fruits and salads is advisable before the first fast to allow the body to rehydrate some.    

In most cases, it would be best to feed a cancer patient the same way we would feed a healthy human, with a balance of sweet, acid, and sub-acid fruits along with an abundance of greens.  However, if the person is fermenting sugary fruits, resulting in gas, bloating, or burping then we would want to eliminate those foods and focus more heavily on salads until the digestion improves, at which point the more sugar-rich foods could be incorporated again.   

As Warburg stated, cancer can only exist in a high-acidity environment.    Therefore, an abundance of leafy greens is key to healing cancer because those greens are mineral-rich providing an abundance of alkaline minerals to neutralize the acids.  But balance is always the path to health.   If we wish to return the body to health we must provide the same conditions that keep an already healthy body in a state of health. 

Aside from the diet, water intake is of paramount importance, the solution to pollution is dilution.   Fresh air, sunshine, plenty of rest, and moderate exercise when energy is present are also important, but prioritizing rest is much more important in the early stages of healing.

– L. W.

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