ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS
Sand, sunlight and sea water!
What a fine combination for curative action for both Man and Beast!
Sand can be a efficient abrasive, speedily removing dying cells from the body surface, the warming sun beams of seek out impurities above and beneath that surface and eliminates their powers to harm the body, and sea water, with its saline additives is, in itself a remedial substance which washes away impurities and salves the affected area with a thin crust of protective salt.
It is unfortunate that this package Nature provides for our good health coincides with Nature's own schedule of disruptive hurricanes and tropical storms which inhibited the use of the health package. It can be argued that the distribution system in at fault because those of us who live far from the seashores do not have this sand, sun and sea water advantage readily available. Instead, we in the mountains are recipients of yet another such natural package of healthful ingredients good to the soul-side of Man. We are blessed with endless flows of fresh, mountain air; with a wide variety of visits without borders overlooks viewing places where one can see forever, and there is a impressive setting on which an expanse of trees, mountains, valleys, and hints of kindred folk such as ourselves living in a vast, free and every expanding setting in which our lives are nurtured, blessed and made fruitful. Flat-landers ...sea-siders will cry “Unfair” because they lack so much of that which we consider essential to living.
Wherever we live there are natural advantages which make it better - even “best” - for you and your family. It is more difficult for us to appreciate that which we have close by and to long for the type of natural inducements offering better health in some other section. All areas, oddly enough, find favor in the eyes of some, especially if they are forced by economic necessities or for other reason, to be absent from their native surroundings.
We hear more these days a of the use of “alternative” type of treatment in matters of public health. Who we are, where we came from, where we have been and doing what, all seem to join in creating our individual panacea for treating so many maladies. I won't say that any one of them is better than any of the others, but I will point out that the vast majority of people, when asked to write down a list of our most-used “alternative” treatments fail to mention one of the most natural of them all.
So few people realize that the number one choice is “prayer.”
A. L. M. August 17, 2004 [c457wds]
