FOUNDERS OF NATURE CURE
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Kevin Hinton
(1945-2017)
Katy Hinton
(1951 – present)
We believe that it is natural to be healthy and that to remain in a state of health we must live within an environment that provides the essential ingredients for health and happiness.
This unique philosophy is not new. The practice of Natural Living and Natural Healing, known as Nature Cure, has a modern history spanning the globe for over 200 years and we are guided in our actions by the scientific principles that govern all life on earth.
Kenneth S. Jaffrey
1909 – 1998
Kenneth
S. Jaffrey was arguably one of the most prolific health educators
of the past two centuries. At the age of 23, he was diagnosed by three eminent
Sydney physicians with ‘cancer of the liver’. Providence directed Mr. Jaffrey
to a copy of Professor Edmond
Bordeaux Szekely’s book Cosmos, Man and
Society. Following Szekely’s instructions for natural healing, Mr. Jaffrey cured
himself of his cancerous condition.
Upon
realizing his good fortune at being given an opportunity to live again, he determined
that he would devote the rest of his life to teaching the science of Natural
Living and Healing, known as Nature Cure. In his lifetime, K. S. Jaffrey wrote
25 books on natural health and trained over 30 students. He has left a legacy
that will not only endure but must become the foundation for the future health
of civilization.
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Edmond Bourdeaux Szekely
1905-1979
Professor Szekely scientifically QUANTIFIED Naturopathy. He turned the philosophy of
Nature Cure into a science based on Cosmotherapy.
“…if we appropriate the best from nature – we will have the best of health.”
He categorized foods into the following:
- Biogenic: life renewing – germinated cereal seeds, nuts, sprouted baby greens.
- Bioactive: life sustaining – organic, natural vegetables and fruit.
- Biostatic: life slowing – cooked, stale foods (but legumes must be cooked after sprouting first).
- Biocidic: life destroying – processed, irradiated foods and alcoholic drinks.
Herbert Shelton
1895 – 1985
“Briefly stated, health consists in the correct conditions and action of all the vital powers andproperties of the living body, and this necessitates the proper development and vigorousfunction of all the organ and tissues of the body and a close adherence to the laws and requirements of life.”
What Shelton was saying in this precise statement was based on the law of – STRUCTURE GOVERNS FUNCTION that if you live properly and you keep your structure in good health then your body will function properly
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Sarma K. Lakshman
(1879 – 1965)
- One of India’s first Naturopaths.
- He was a solicitor and a very sick man. He studied the precepts outlined by Louis Kuhne in “The New Science of Healing”
- He partnered with another Indian Naturopath; Venka Tarall who had published a magazine entitled
‘The Indian Naturopath.’ - When Tarall died, Lakshman took it over and changed the name to
‘The Life Natural.’ - His son took over the publication after his death and may even be in publication still today.
- Lakshman paid particular attention to Hydrotherapy
John H. Tilden
1850 – 1940
In the process of tissue building metabolism there is cell building (anabolism) and cell destruction (catabolism.) The broken-down tissue is toxic and in health, when nerve energy is normal it is eliminated from the blood as fast as it is evolved.
- When nerve energy is dissipated from any cause physical or mental or bad habits -the body becomes enervated.
- When enervated, elimination is checked, causing a retention of toxin in the blood or Toxaemia.
- This accumulation of toxin, when once established, will continue until nerve energy is restored by removing the causes.
So called disease is Nature’s effort at eliminating the toxin from the blood.
All so called diseases are crises of Toxaemia.”
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Florence Nigtingale
1820 – 1910
Shall we begin by taking it as a general principle that all disease at some period or other of its course, is more or less a REPARATIVE PROCESS – not necessarily accompanied with suffering – an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed…”
Louis Kuhnez
1823 -1907
Took the teachings of Priessnitz to Germany where he turned his boot factories into sanitariums –
He proclaimed his theory of the UNTIY OF DISEASE – when he stated:
- “There is only one disease and there is only one cause of disease which shows itself under different forms”
- There are not thousands and thousands of different disease forms/symptoms but in reality – there is only one – Toxemia
- Kuhn wrote The New Science of Healing - a masterful treatise on Natural Healing which was translated into 23 languages
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Vincent Priessnitz
1799 – 1852
Regarded as the founder of Nature Cure.
Priessnitz operated a sanatorium at Gräfenberg in Hungary during the middle of the 1800s where he taught the principles of Natural Living and Healing. He stated:
“Various causes engender vicious juices; the principals are; food of bad quality, the excess of good food, suppression of perspiration, the want of exercise and mental affliction acting violently upon the system, such as anger, sorrow, care and melancholy”
Thomas Sydenham
1624-1689
The English Hippocrates
“In matters of Acute Disease such as fevers and inflammations – we must regard them as
wholesome conservative efforts or reactions of the organism.”
“Fever is Nature’s engine which she brings into the field to remove her enemy.”
The Acute Disease of which Sydenham is speaking is the HEALING CRISIS – A PART OF THE CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS and… it is initiated by a FEVER – and… it is an effort of the body to heal itself.
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