By considering different diseases, we develop skill in tracing from cause to effect. Every condition here is told the same way, so once you learn the pattern, you can read any illness the same way.
- The body starts at ease. Every disease story begins with a healthy, normal design.
- A cause prepares the way. Something is introduced against the laws of health.
- Effect follows, step by step. The body adapts, then inflames, then — if the cause remains — its cells change.
- There is a point of no return. Early injury is reversible; past a point, it is not. Prevention outranks treatment.
- Remove the cause and assist nature. Correct the habit, rest, and supply the true remedies — and the body rebuilds itself.