"Natural Hygiene's Basic Tenets" as stated just are based on The Truth. These Basic Tenets are a verbal rendition of "The Natural Laws of Life," of the physiological realities of bodily functioning. These Natural Laws are stated below. Stay within these Laws, and you will StayWell!
THE NATURAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF LIFE
1. Life's Great Law: Every living cell of the organized body is endowed with an instinct of self-preservation, sustained by an inherent force in the organism called "vital force" or "life force." The success of each living organism whether it be simple or complex is directly proportional to the amount of its life force and inversely proportional to the degree of its activity.
2. The Law of Order: The living organism is completely self-constructing, self-maintaining, self-directing, self-repairing, self-defending, and self-healing.
3. The Law of Action: Whenever action occurs in the living organism, as the result of extraneous influences, the action must be ascribed to the living thing which has the power of actionand not to the lifeless, the leading characteristic of which is inertia.
4. The Law of Power: The power employed, and consequently expended, in any vital or medicinal action is vital power, that is, power from within and not from without.
5. The Law of Distribution: The power of the body, whether that power is great or little, is distributed in a manner proportionate to the importance and needs of the various organs and tissues of the body.
6. The Law of Conservation also termed "The Law of Autolysis": Whenever nutritive abstinence is affected, the living organism's reserves are conserved and economized: living structures are autolyzed in the inverse order of their usefulness, while toxic substances are being eliminated. This Law refers to Hygienic fastin; it can apply to starvation situations, too.
7. The Law of Limitation: Whenever and wherever the expenditure of vital power has advanced so far that a fatal exhaustion is imminent, a check is put upon the unnecessary expenditure of power; and the organism rebels against the further use of even an accustomed stimulant.
8. The Law of Special Economy: The vital organism under favorable conditions stores up all excess of vital funds above the current expenditures as a "reserve fund" to be employed in time of special need.
9. The Law of Vital Accommodation: The response of the vital organism to external stimuli is an instinctive one, based upon a self-preservative instinct which adapts or accommodates itself to whatever influence it cannot destroy or control.
10. The Law of Stimulation or Dual Effect: Whenever a toxic or irritation agent is brought to bear upon the living organism, the body puts forth vital resistance which manifests itself in an action at once accelerated, but also impaired. This resistance diminishes the bodily power precisely to the degree to which it accelerates action. The increased action is caused by the extra expenditure of vital power called out, not supplied, by the stimulatory process. In consequence, the available supply of power is diminished by this amount.
11. The Law of Compensation, also termed "The Law of Repose": Whenever action in the body has expended the substance and available energy of the body, rest is induced in order to replenish the body's substance and energy.
12. The Law of Selective Elimination: All injurious substances which gain admittance by any means into the living organism are counteracted, neutralized, and expelled as fully as the bodily Nerve Energy supplies allow by such means and through such channels as will produce the least amount of harm to living structure.
13. The Law of Utilization: The normal elements and materials of life are all that the living organism is ever capable of constructively utilizing, whether it is well or sick. No substance or process that is not a normal-factor-element in physiology can be of any value in the structure of the living organism; and that which is unusable in a state of health, is equally unusable in a state of illness.
14. The Law of Quality Selection: When the quality of nutriment being received by the living organism is higher than that of the present living tissue, the organism will discard lower-grade cells to make room for appropriating the superior materials into new and healthy tissue.
15. The Law of the Minimum: The development of living organisms is regulated by the supply of that element or factor which is least abundantly provided or utilized. The element or factor in shortest supply determines the amount of development.
16. The Law of Development: The development of all or any parts of the living organism is measured in direct proportion to the amount of vital forces and nutritive materials which are directed to it and brought to bear upon it.
