THE SOIL, PLANTS AND THE BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF DISEASE



Summarizing, it must be said that the plant association is a self-contained organism in which each individual plant fulfils a physiological soil purpose. Only when all plants are allowed to grow undisturbed does the soil remain healthy. The plants which are kept separated, by one-sided cultivation, act through their re-union as soil healers. Nature permits here to recognize macroscopically how she is preserved and gives us a hint as to the treatment of one-sided food disturbances.

Hence the animal and therewith man remain healthy provided they are given an opportunity to maintain themselves, with food rich in variation and especially also rich in accompanying plants. From this viewpoint our healing plants are both medicine and physiological food. Since they do not contain foreign bodies or superfluous elements, they conform to the standard laid down by Paracelsus, namely: “Our food should be our remedies, and our remedies our food”.

G. Madaus