Dr. Michael Murray The IMMUNE FA CTOR - Natural MediFAQS

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T H E I M M U N E F A C T O R substances that would kill infecting organisms. Pasteur and others who pioneered effective treatments of infectious diseases have given us a great deal, for which we should be grateful, however, there is more to this equation than the nature of the “beast”. Another 19th century French scientist, Claude Bernard, also made major contributions to medical understanding. Only Bernard had a different view of health and disease. Bernard believed that the state of a person’s internal environment was more important in preventing or responding to disease than the invading organism (commonly called a pathogen). Bernard believed that the susceptibility of the host to infection was more important than the nature of the germ. Logically, he believed that physicians should focus more of their attention on making this internal terrain a very inhospitable place for disease. Bernard’s theory led to some rather interesting studies, including some that would seem pretty crazy to any advocate of the germ theory. One of the most interesting studies was conducted by a Russian scientist named Elie Metchnikoff, the discovery of white blood cells. He and his research associates consumed cultures containing millions of cholera bacteria. Yet none of them developed cholera. The reason? Their immune systems were not compromised. Metchnikoff believed, like Bernard, that the correct way to deal with infectious disease was to focus on enhancing the body’s defenses. 18
A Vision of the Future During the last part of their lives, Pasteur and Bernard engaged in scientific discussions comparing the virtues of the germ theory and Bernard’s perspective on the internal terrain. On his deathbed, Pasteur said: “Bernard was right. The pathogen is nothing. The terrain is everything.” Unfortunately, Pasteur’s legacy, the obsession with the pathogen, has become predominant in modern medicine and the importance of the “terrain” has been forgotten by many. But the perspective is slowly changing. This book looks at the role echinacea can play in enhancing immune function to make your body’s terrain extremely inhospitable to infecting organisms. 19
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