"So closely is health related to our happiness, that we cannot have the latter without the former."

- Health Reformer, August 1, 1866 par. 4

Why Many choose drugs?

It is easier to employ drugs than to use natural remedies.
- Healthful Living 247.3

Diet & Health

Our bodies are built up from the food we eat....It is a wonderful process that transforms the food into blood and uses this blood to build up the varied parts of the body

-Ministry of Health 295.1

Healing

Nature's process of healing and upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient it seems slow.

-Ministry of Healing, p.127.3

During Temptation

In Christ, God has provided means for subduing every evil trait and resisting every temptation, however strong.

- Ministry of Healing, p.65.2,3

One of the Nature's Most Healing agents

Invalids too often deprive themselves of sunlight. This is one of nature's most healing agents. It is a very simple, therefore not a fashionable remedy, to enjoy the rays of God's sunlight and beautify our homes with its presence. Fashion takes the greatest care to exclude the light of the sun from parlors and sleeping rooms by dropping curtains and closing shutters, as though its rays were ruinous to life and health. It is not God who has brought upon us the many woes to which mortals are heirs. Our own folly has led us to deprive ourselves of things that are precious, of blessings which God has provided and which, if properly used, are of inestimable value for the recovery of health. If you would have your homes sweet and inviting, make them bright with air and sunshine. Remove your heavy curtains, open the windows, throw back the blinds, and enjoy the rich sunlight, even if it be at the expense of the colors of your carpets. The precious sunlight may fade your carpets, but it will give a healthful color to the cheeks of your children. If you have God's presence and possess earnest, loving hearts, a humble home made bright with air and sunlight, and cheerful with the welcome of unselfish hospitality, will be to your family, and to the weary traveler, a heaven below.

- 2 Testimonies for the church, (yr 1868-1871), p. 527.1

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Ellen White's Home Remedies

  • Water can be used in many ways to relieve suffering. Drafts of clear, hot water taken before eating (half a quart, more or less), will never do any harm, but will rather be productive of good. 
  • A cup of tea made from catnip herb will quiet the nerves.
  • Hop tea will induce sleep. Hop poultices over the stomach will relieve pain.
  • If the eyes are weak, if there is pain in the eyes, or inflammation, soft flannel cloths wet in hot water and salt, will bring relief quickly.  
  • When the head is congested, if the feet and limbs are put in a [hot foot bath like] bath with a little mustard, relief will be obtained. 

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Ellen White's Cough Remedy

Into a tumbler of honey put a few drops of the eucalyptus, stir it up well, and take whenever the cough comes on. I have had considerable trouble with my throat, but whenever I use this I overcome the difficulty very quickly. I have to use it only a few times, and the cough is removed. If you will use this prescription, you may be your own physician. If the first trial does not effect a cure, try it again. The best time to take it is before retiring.

--Letter 348, 1908 (To a worker).

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The Eden Diet

THE EDEN DIET: In order to know what are the best foods, we must study God's original plan for man's diet. He who created man and who understands his needs appointed Adam his food. "Behold," He said, "I have given you every herb yielding seed,. . . . and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food." Upon leaving Eden to gain his livelihood by tilling the earth under the curse of sin, man received permission to eat also "the herb of the field."

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The Best liquid to cleanse the tissues

Many make a mistake in drinking cold water with their meals. Taken with meals, water diminishes the flow of the salivary glands; and the colder the water, the greater the injury to the stomach. Ice water or ice lemonade, drunk with meals, will arrest digestion until the system has imparted sufficient warmth to the stomach to enable it to take up its work again. Hot drinks are debilitating; and besides, those who indulge in their use become slaves to the habit. Food should not be washed down; no drink is needed with meals. Eat slowly, and allow the saliva to mingle with the food. The more liquid there is taken into the stomach with the meals, the more difficult it is for the food to digest; for the liquid must first be absorbed. Do not eat largely of salt; give up bottled pickles; keep fiery spiced food out of your stomach; eat fruit with your meals, and the irritation which calls for so much drink will cease to exist. But if anything is needed to quench thirst, pure water, drunk some little time before or after the meal, is all that nature requires. Never take tea, coffee, beer, wine, or any spirituous liquors. Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.

- R. & H., July 29, 1884

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