Biochemical homeopathy
Longer references on the healing by foods in the future[edit]
- 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, chapter 73
- Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, sec. 134, pp. 152-156
Biochemical Homeopathy in conformity with the Baha'i medical concept (but this statement not to be taken in isolation)[edit]
"One of the friends of Persia wrote to Shoghi Effendi and asked this question: "Is it true that 'Abdu'l-Bahá has said that biochemical homeopathy, which is a form of food medicine, is in conformity with the Bahá'í medical concept?" The beloved Guardian's reply to this question in a letter dated 25th November, 1944 was as follows: "This statement is true, and the truth thereof will be revealed in the future." (The question and answer are translated from the Persian.)
- "The Universal House of Justice has also asked us to inform you that it does not wish the above statement to be circulated in isolation from the many and varied other texts in the Writings on medicine. However, you may share it with any of your friends who are interested."
- (12 November 1975, written by the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer; in compilation on Health, Healing, and Nutrition, no. 83)
See also[edit]
- See Medicine on the need not to associate the Faith with a particular field of medicine and need to understand the terms of reference made by Baha'u'llah in His Tablet to a Physician.
'Abdu'l-Bahá's indication of the role for physician to determine imbalances of a patient and for taking foods compensating for an inadequate amount of a healthy component[edit]
"It is the function of a skilled physician to determine which constituent of his patient's body hath suffered diminution, which hath been augmented. Once he hath discovered this, he must prescribe a food containing the diminished element in considerable amounts, to re-establish the body's essential equilibrium..."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, sec. 134, p. 154)
"The outer, physical causal factor in disease, however, is a disturbance in the balance, the proportionate equilibrium of all those elements of which the human body is composed. To illustrate: the body of man is a compound of many constituent substances, each component being present in a prescribed amount, contributing to the essential equilibrium of the whole. So long as these constituents remain in their due proportion, according to the natural balance of the whole-- that is, no component suffereth a change in its natural proportionate degree and balance, no component being either augmented or decreased--there will be no physical cause for the incursion of disease.
"For example, the starch component must be present to a given amount, and the sugar to a given amount. So long as each remaineth in its natural proportion to the whole, there will be no cause for the onset of disease. When, however, these constituents vary as to their natural and due amounts --that is, when they are augmented or diminished--it is certain that this will provide for the inroads of disease."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, sec. 134, p. 153)
(In the same context of food-based remedies, 'Abdu'l-Bahá uses the natural example of animals finding pleasurable constituents)[edit]
"...when the constitution is in a state of equilibrium, there is no doubt that whatever is relished will be beneficial to health...Observe how an animal...consumeth whatever herb is pleasurable to these senses, and benefiteth therefrom. Were it not for this power of selectivity, the animals would all be dead in a single day; for there are a great many poisonous plants, and animals know nothing of the pharmacopoeia."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, sec. 134, p. 155)
See also[edit]
- 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Memorials of the Faithful, pp. 68-69, in which He relates His own prescription for an ill believer, of food agreeable to that believer, and the subsequent death of the believer when the believer mistakenly followed the same prescription as 'Abdu'l-Bahá gave earlier at a time when he had no appetite (and other differences of condition).
