Infection

by The ABC Herbal

April 2007

Infection is a major concern for most people, because we have been taught that “germs” (i.e. bacteria and viruses) cause disease. However, our belief is that bacteria and viruses attack weakened and diseased tissue, just as flies are attracted to garbage piles and mosquitoes are attracted to swamps. The flies do not cause the garbage piles and the mosquitoes do not cause swamps. One can spray these environments with pesticides to kill the insects, but when the pesticides wear off the insects will return. Furthermore, those vermin which survive the poisoning are those which are most resistant to the poisoning. So, we breed stronger and stronger bugs. The same has been happening with antibiotics.

It has been our observation that the sickest children are often the ones receiving the most medications. Furthermore, the medications do not make them stronger, but actually seem to make them less resistant to disease. Continued use of antibiotics breed stronger and stronger strains of bacteria. It seems that children (and adults) get to the point where their natural resistance is completely gone, so that every time they quit taking antibiotics, within a few weeks they have another (usually worse) infections.

One of the most popular explanations for this problem is that antibiotics kill not only the harmful bacteria, but the friendly bacteria which live in our colon as well. These lactobacillus bacteria actually help to protect our body against harmful bacteria and yeast infections. This is why children who are constantly using antibiotics often wind up with thrush (yeast infection).

We have only given a child an antibiotic once. We gave it to our oldest daughter when she was just one year old because she got an infection in her gums. Fortunately, even though we didn’t know how to naturally treat the infection, we did know enough to feed her yogurt with live bacteria cultures to restore the friendly bacteria in the colon. This probably helped us avoid more serious infections in the future. Today, you can get lactobacillus and other friendly intestinal flora in both capsule and powdered form. This can be put into some juice or sprinkled on some food and fed to a child after he has had antibiotics.

However, I think that there are enough reasons why antibiotics tend to make the immune system weaker. First of all, antibiotics are poisons. Many children experience side-effects from these drugs. They have been known to kill people. Even the name suggests the toxic nature of these compounds – “anti” means against and “biotic” means life. So, antibiotic means “against life.” Think about it.

Furthermore, when we use antibiotics we are trying to do something for the body which the body ought to be doing for itself – fighting the infection. I feel that doing things for the body which it is capable of doing for itself makes the body lazy. Furthermore, as mentioned earlier, antibiotics do not remove the real underlying cause of disease – the waste material which these scavengers feed on.

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