The following will explain this more fully.  We have learned that so-called acute diseases are Nature’s cleansing and healing efforts.  All acute reactions represent increased activity of vital force, resulting in feverish and inflammatory conditions, accompanied by pain, redness, swelling, high temperature, rapid pulse, catarrhal discharges, skin eruptions, boils, ulcers, etc.

Allopathy regards these violent activities of vital force as detrimental and harmful in themselves.  Anything which will inhibit the action of vital force will, in allopathic parlance, cure (?) acute diseases.  As a matter of fact, nothing more effectively paralyzes vital force and impairs the vital organs than poisonous drugs and the surgeon’s knife.  These, therefore, must necessarily constitute the favorite means of cure (?) of the regular school of medicine.

This school mistakes effect for cause.  It fails to see that the local inflammation arising within the organism is not the disease, but merely marks the locality and the method through which Nature is trying her best to discharge the morbid encumbrances; that the acute reaction is local, but that its causes or feeders are always constitutional and must be treated constitutionally.  When, under the influence of rational, natural treatment, the poisonous irritants are eliminated from blood and tissues, the local symptoms take care of themselves; it does not matter whether they manifest as pimple or cancer, as a simple cold or as consumption.

The Law of Dual Effect

Everywhere in Nature rules the great Law of Action and Reaction.  All life sways back and forth between giving and receiving, between action and reaction.  The very breath of life mysteriously comes and goes in rhythmical flow.  So also heaves and falls in ebb and tide the bosom of Mother Earth.

In some of its aspects, this law is called the Law of Compensation, or the Law of Dual Effect.  On its action depends the preservation of energy.

The Great Master expressed the ethical application of this law when he said: 

“Give, and it shall be given unto you. . . .  For with the same measure that ye mete it shall be measured to you again.”—­Luke 6:38.

In the realms of physical nature, giving and receiving, action and reaction balance each other mechanically and automatically.  What we gain in power we lose in speed or volume, and vice versa.  This makes it possible for the mechanic, the scientist and the astronomer to predict with mathematical precision for ages in advance the results of certain activities in Nature.

The great Law of Dual Effect forms the foundation of the healing sciences.  It is related to and governs every phenomenon of health, disease and cure.  When I formulated the fundamental Law of Cure in the words, “Every acute disease is the result of a healing effort of Nature,” this was but another expression of the great Law of Action and Reaction.  What we commonly call crisis, acute reaction or acute disease is in reality Nature’s attempt to establish health.