symptoms of a disease, which could be a stomach ulcer, cataract of the eyes, stones in the gallbladder, or
a tumor in the uterus. The “treatment” may consist of cutting out the “culprit,” along with the affected
organ in far too many cases. The patient is sent home under the impression that he has been cured. Not
being aware of what has caused his problems in the first place, his body may turn into a living time bomb.
To date, the purely clinical approach of diagnosis has not been able to identify the causal factors for over
80 percent of all diseases. This is perhaps the biggest drawback of today’s medical system.
Searching for the root causes of illness is not a focus in medical training. Hence, we cannot blame
medical professionals for the current crisis in medical care. In addition, doctors are often pressured by
their patients to act as “legalized drug pushers” or “symptom hunters.” Many patients practically demand
that their doctor remove their symptoms of ill health quickly and by any available means, so they can get
on with their lives. They don’t realize that this behavior drives them ever closer to another, more
intensified toxicity crisis. Added to this dilemma, the side effects that accompany most existing
treatments are often so severe that it is questionable whether they are justified at all. This is particularly
true when they are used for relatively minor problems.
Miraculous Infection
The following saying sums up the infection myth: “To declare that bacteria and viruses cause all
disease is tantamount to declaring that flies cause all garbage.” The truth is that microbes actually help
cure disease, or at least prevent its escalation. Infection represents one of the body's most extraordinary
processes of self-defense. During this rescue mission, the immune system fights off invading bacteria or
viruses that have been “invited” by the host’s weakened condition and by the presence of harmful waste
material. This engagement of the immune system via an infection is vital to restoring the body’s
functions. Although these two phenomena appear to be contradictory, they are not. Both are necessary for
healing to occur. The germs break down weak, injured or dead cells and waste material that a congested
body is no longer able to eliminate, and the immune system deals with the toxins these germs produce
when they do their job. The immune system is also essential for keeping germ activity under control and
removing these microbes when they are no longer needed.
Doctors usually try to combat bacterial infections with antibiotic drugs. They believe that the bacteria
involved in an infection are harmful, but this viewpoint is very incomplete and potentially life-
endangering. Germs are naturally “lured” to the scene of a weak organ or injured parts of the body when
the body’s own cleansing and healing systems are overwhelmed. Infectious bacteria or viruses naturally
avoid areas that are clean and healthy, for there is nothing for them to do or live on. For this reason, germs
alone cannot be held responsible for causing disease. This simple truth is confirmed by the fact that if 100
people are exposed to the same cold or flu virus, for example, only a fraction of them will actually get
infected. Modern medical research has never really pointed out or tried to understand what makes one
person immune to a particular virus and another susceptible to it. Otherwise, we all would have been
taught long ago how to stay healthy or how to recover our health if we have fallen ill.
The germ theory of disease upon which almost the entire modern medical system is based, was
postulated by the French chemist Louis Pasteur in the latter part of the 19th century. Although Pasteur
admitted on his deathbed that his theory was wrong, the whole world had already accepted and begun to
perpetuate the myth of the germ theory of disease. Pasteur finally realized that germs cannot cause
infection without an underlying reason. He acknowledged that it is rather the cell environment or milieu
that determined what types of germs and how many of them attached themselves to the cells of organic
matter. This is what a contemporary of Pasteur, Antoine Beauchamp, had discovered and taught long