No one is suggesting "salt water". It is good to have a dialogue. The ama guards an industry of competitive drug companies. But throwing away essential drugs is not the point. We live in a chemical factory instead of a natural world. Having had ms for almost 2 decades I have done a lot of thinking and reading on the use of drugs and their long-term effects on mind and body. I am ambulant and highly functional against all odds considering the severity of attacks. Sea salt is a crystal full of life-giving electrolytes - like a snow flake that dissolves entirely in the system. Table salt is a hard crystal that does not. It could be categorized as a poison. Before the turn of the 19th century people had access to natural salts. When drinking the amount of pure water needed for a cure to many diseases, you must replenish the body with salt because, as everyone knows, our blood is like the sea - very salty to the taste. Maintaining the chemical balance is vital if you increase fluids. So, the point is not to drink salt water, of course! It is that, should you decide to take the water cure then you must add a little more proper sea salt to your diet, like sprinkling extra on foods. Harmless. See
www.Watercure.Com. Sea salt is the "salt of life".
I have been cured radically of some serious chronic internal problems lasting years within a few months. It is simply the truth that dehydration is the cause of many diseases that then are treated with harsh chemical drugs instead of proper and controlled hydration. Think independently, read and do not believe in everything the drug companies throw at you. They are in business with medical doctors and have a strangle-hold over the health industry and congress. There are many good things that come from internal medicine, but many evils too. I read one report that indicated 1 in 400 people are killed by medical mistakes annually. Check the facts. Look how they are competing like shoe salesmen for ms patients to buy interferon products.
I use two light medications to prolong sleep. One is natural with no possible harm. Hydration protects my liver over time because many drugs are assimilated in the liver. Also, the blood stream clogs up, especially in the brain, which is 80% water, and requires refreshed circulation from proper not extreme hydration.
I used one drug, amitriptyline, on a regular basis for 8 years. This was originally used as a powerful antihistamine that dries up the system. No one told me to drink a few extra glasses of water a day over 8 years of use! Why? Because there is definite idiocy in the system as most of us have experienced. This is one of the serious problems with western medicine: targeting one thing and ignoring the whole. It almost destroyed my kidneys as well as making my moods unnatural, harming relationships. Anyway, the drugged world is not the right way as a whole. They are not only targeting the cns but also every other cell in your body. You may be relieved of a cns problem while having internal discomfort and damage regularly, especially using more than one drug habitually. Moderation in using any prescription is vital and chemical medicines will have 10 times the ill side-effects for every good one. This is a fact we knew in the 60's and it still goes on disregarded.
Again, hydration with pure water is vital, and if you increase your liquid intake by a quart/liter you dilute the bloodstream slightly of essential salts. The replacement salt should be harmless and life-giving unrefined sea salt eliminating table salts. This is logical. You can buy it at health food store in normal dry granule form. And it tastes a lot better! If one is ill or over middle age thennormal thirst is not always sensed except through pain and, therefore, conscious intake of pure water needs to be considered. Does this really sound like threatening nonesense?
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Indeed, some drugs, especially in accute phases, are useful or necessary. But the human body is organic and created to heal itself. Do doctors actually heal or are they there to allow healing? Certain natural means actually cause a cure in you working with the body. They are not mere therapies. And no bad effects. Why be relieved of one thing and be sickened by another? We have become programmed to be drug dependent instead of eating and thinking in harmony with nature. Again, essential drugs are not a part of this argument. I would, however, always research what is considered essential. I purposely did not use "essential" drugs and got over everything just by mind and body control. Not everyone can live like this. But for those who can please do.
Lastly, I have a good general practitioner - we like each other - and see specialists when needed, at least for a good opinion. Western scientific medicine is not to be ignored - you don't see a naturopathe if you get into a car wreck! - but most certainly controlled, and I am not going to take just anything a doctor throws at me! It's all about independence and balance. You have to respect anyone who has gone through md studies. It's tough. But there can be arrogance in medicine - no really? - and a power trip operating with the assumption that only one authority over your health exists. That is why so many counter-movements now are flooding the media and internet. Things will change in time. I recall the days when you hardly ever saw a doctor! My grandmother recently died at 100 and I never saw a pill in her house when growing up. It's an industry now and very much a status and wealth thing. Few greats can be found. They have grave responsibilities, indeed, partially because they deal with potentially lethal products and instruments, but are no more smarter than any other educated or enlightened person, and we need to be independent in our thinking. Sorry for the length of this. I rest my case.