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and ir,ay partly also be due to malnutrition arising
from indigestion. Neither food nor medicine can
restore vital vigour-to these vital organs. That is why
allopathy woefully fails in al] cases of dyspepsia*
There is one medicine which can restore vital
vigour to the nerves and that is Life itself. Life is
not something which can be bought in the market
in beautifully sealed bottles; it is in us. All we can
do is to remove the impediments which prevent
Life from doing its work; we can cleanse the body ;
we can also shut out all channels of vital waste and
economise Life. Indeed Nature-Cure aims at doing
only these things and no more. Vital Economy
and Positive Diet, these two things sura up the
whole of Nature-Cure.
But when dyspepsia is treated medically to the
very end/ the nervous affection becomes serious/
and then the disease is given the high-sounding
name, Neurasthenia- An honest medical authority
defined neurasthenia as follows : When a^ patient
conies to you with a long- tale of woe, and after
examining- him thoroughly, you find there is noth-
ing- wrong with any of his organs, particularly,
then you can say he is suffering from neurasthenia.
Probably because they do not want to face the
fact that neurasthenia is/ more often than not, the
result of medical bungling in the treatment of
dyspepsia, medical men try to make it out that
neurasthenia is not a disease of the body, but of the
mind. In a case reported by my father in his Cons-
tipation and Dyspepsia, a neurasthenic patient
under medical treatment " took generous rations
of highly nourishing foods, but this had no effect
upon his disease, and when he complained of this
want of improvement, ha was told that as his