organs should have complete rest from digestive
labour for a few hours at some time or other every
day. This is the main idea underlying the NO
BREAKFAST PLAN advocated by Dr. Dewey.
ACUTE INDIGESTION
Acute Indigestion is characterised by the
complete breakdown of the digestive function
accompanied by acute discomfort of some kind.
This is very easy to cure, but a genuine case of
acute indigestion rarely comes for treatment at the
hands of a Naturopath. We generally meet with
an acute phase of the disease with a background
chronic of ill health
It is not difficult to distinguiih between these
two conditions. A gfenuine acute disease has no
history behind it. It is possible, only when the
person enjoys a fair degree of health. Hence it is
to be found only in younger persons.
In a genuine acute disease acute distress will
be easily relieved with in a day or two by fasting and
water-cure methods When these measures fail
to give relief, the inference is that the disease has
a background of chronic ill health-
Acute indigestion is generally associated with
all kinds of fevers. Fasting is the rule in such
cases. For more details regarding treatment in
such cases/ the reader is referred to the Practical
Nature-Cure of which mention has so often been
made in th^se pages.
Fasting alone will suffice to cure acute indiges-
tion. But for affording immediate relief from
distress/ some other measures are also necessary*
Ihdtioed vomiting; Vomiting induced in
9 »pp-vibl$nt way is v$ry .'iwtful in relieving acut$