Yours for Health: The Life & Times of Herbert M. Shelton

by Jean A. Oswald

The biography of Dr. Herbert Shelton. Inspiring story! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096204900X
• ISBN13: 9780962049002
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Franklin Pub.
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good Overview

This is a good overview of the life and work of a great man. I would call him a great healer, but he would reject that. The body does the healing, he always insisted. He never claimed to be a doctor, only a hygienist and health educator, but he was a licensed doctor of naturopathy. He taught Natural Hygiene, a philosophy of health very much opposed to that of the medical establishment. Shelton warned against the use of drugs, medicines, and medical procedures, which made him an outlaw to the medical business and a quack to many people. But he was not deterred, despite relentless persecution and poverty. He pursued truth, not money, with remarkable integrity. His philosophy was based upon what he called the laws of life. He taught clients how to take responsibility for their own health. "The living organism is active," says Shelton. "Every particle of living matter in the body is endowed with an instinct of self-preservation, sustained by an inherent force called vital force or life force." When you take drugs, says Shelton, "The body acts upon the drugs; the drugs cannot act upon the body." This is the reverse of medical orthodoxy, which says that the medicine does the healing. No, says Shelton, the body does the healing. Give a laxative to a dead person and it will not induce a bowel movement. The body is the thing. "Vital force is the cause of the action and the dead person has none." On page 48 of this book are Shelton's "Ten Laws of Life." They will introduce you to a radically new way to look at healing, one solidly based on science. Its implications are exciting.