Herbert M. Shelton

We cannot be damaged into health.

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

There are no healing agents.

There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

Health and disease are the same thing__ital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid__he only asks that you cease interfering.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.