Ever since Louis Pasteur invented the germ theory of disease, we have been at war with germs and have developed more and more antibiotics and other things to kill them. We thought this would get rid of disease, but what has happened is that we now have disease-resistant bugs, and new forms of disease that have arisen and become rampant
A contemporary of Pasteur, Antoine Bechamp, put forward a different theory of disease. He demonstrated that diseases arise when the “terrain” or environment in the body favors disease. He showed that germs are not the causes of disease, but are actually effects or symptoms of disease, and that natural means are sufficient to get rid of them
Pasteur eventually conceded that Bechamp had in fact got in right. He wrote in his private journal, which was not published until long after his death, that: “It is not the germ that causes disease but the terrain in which the germ is found.” However, Pasteur’s ideas had tremendous commercial potential and gave rise to a huge pharmaceutical and medical industry that has no interest in the work of Bechamp.
Bechamp’s theory supports the approach taken by natural medicine doctors such as myself. We believe that the way to good health is by creating conditions in the body that support vitality and well-being, understanding that the body knows how to heal itself once it is given a chance. There is no need to wage war against this or that disease. Our nature is wise and powerful, and when we cooperate with it, so-called “miracles” can occur.
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