FOR NERVOUS DEBILITY
Those who have faceache should prove it for themselves, sitting in a
sunny window where the warmth falls full on the cheek.
For nervous debility and insomnia the treatment of all others is rest
in sunshine. Draw the bed to the window and let the patient lie in the
sun for hours.
There is no tonic like it--provided the good effects are
not neutralized by ill-feeling. To restore a withered arm, a palsied
or rheumatic limb, or to bring a case of nervous prostration up
speedily, a most efficient part of the treatment would be to expose
the limb or the person as many hours to direct sunlight as the day
would afford. With weak lungs let the sun fall on the chest for hours.
If internal tumor or ulceration is suspected, let the sun burn through
the bear skin directly on the point of disease for hours daily. There
will be no doubt left in the mind that there is a curative power in
the chemical rays
of the sun.
For the chilliness which causes blue hands and bad color, resort to
the sun; let it almost blister the skin, and the circulation will
answer the attraction. It is a finer stimulous than wine, electricity
or massage, and we are on the verge of great therapeutic discoveries
concerning it.
Some years ago a London surgeon, by using the sun's rays (presumably
with a lens), removed a wine mark from a lady's face, and destroyed a
malignant growth in the same way.
Says Dr. Thayer, of San Francisco:
"During a practice of more than a quarter of a century I have found no
caustic or cautery to compare with solar heat in its beneficial
results. Unlike other caustics, it can be applied with safety on the
most delicate tissues and the system receives this treatment kindly.
The irritation and inflammation following are surprisingly slight and
of short duration, the pain subsiding
immediately on removal of the lens. There is a curative power in the
chemical rays of the sun yet unexplained."
Women especially need to make systematic trial of the sun's healing
and rejuvenating rays. The woman who wants a cheek like a rose should
pull her sofa pillows into the window and let the sun blaze first on
one cheek and then on the other, and she will gain color warranted not
to wash off.
Thus it will be seen that the curative properties of sunlight are in
nowise overestimated, but in cases of sickness its beneficial action
is purely supplementary. The system must first be thoroughly cleansed
by "flushing the colon," then, the ground work of improvement being
laid, Fresh Air and Sunlight will prove themselves worthy and
efficient colleagues in the task of restoring health.
Singly, each is of intrinsic value, but inadequate to cope with
disease single-handed (although they may mitigate it), but combined
they form a Trinity so powerful that disease can never successfully
oppose them.
The other two factors in Nature's great Health curriculum, namely,
Exercise and Diet, will be considered under separate headings.
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