The Nature and Cause of Disease-Tilden

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The Nature and Cause of Disease

From The Hygienic Dictionary

Toxemia. [1] " Toxemia is the basic cause of all so-called diseases.

In the process of tissue-building (metabolism), there is cell-

building (anabolism) and cell destruction (catabolism). The broken-

down tissue is toxic. In the healthy body (when nerve energy is

normal), this toxic material is eliminated from the blood as fast as

it is evolved. But when nerve energy is dissipated from any cause

(such as physical or mental excitement or bad habits) the body

becomes weakened or enervated. When the body is enervated,

elimination is checked. This, in turn, results in a retention of

toxins in the blood--the condition which we speak of as toxemia. This

state produces a crisis which is nothing more than heroic or

extraordinary efforts by the body to eliminate waste or toxin from

the blood. It is this crisis which we term disease. Such accumulation

of toxin when once established, will continue until nerve energy has

been restored to normal by removing the cause. So-called disease is

nature's effort to eliminate toxin from the blood. All so-called

diseases are crises of toxemia. " H. Tilden, M.D., Toxemia

Explained. [2] Toxins are divided into two groups; namely exogenous,

those formed in the alimentary canal from fermentation and

decomposition following imperfect or faulty digestion. If the

fermentation is of vegetables or fruit, the toxins are irritating,

stimulating and enervating, but not so dangerous or destructive to

organic life as putrefaction, which is a fermentation set up in

nitrogenous matter--protein-bearing foods, but particularly animal

foods. Endogenous toxins are autogenerated. They are the waste

products of metabolism. Dr. . H. Tllden, Impaired Health: Its

Cause and Cure, 1921.