Why are childhood illnesses so important?
Just as everything in life has a certain meaning when you look at it closely, childhood illnesses also have a deeper meaning. Unfortunately, this understanding has largely been lost in today's fast-moving times.
Our ancestors knew, based on their extensive observation and their intuitive understanding of nature, that every child who goes through a so-called childhood illness successfully completes a comprehensive maturation process at the same time. This development covers several areas: the physical, mental and spiritual areas.
In this context, I would particularly like to focus on the physical maturation process. At birth, the baby's own defenses are still relatively weakly developed and are usually compensated for and ultimately strengthened by the forces contained in the mother's milk. However, if this comes from a mother who is herself weakened, then the infant's immune system needs to receive additional support in other ways. It is crucial that this is not only well-intentioned, but actually good! Anything that can have a disruptive effect on the baby's natural balance as a whole should be avoided as much as possible. Any kind of chemical intervention for coughs, colds, stuffy noses, etc. should be viewed with extreme caution, as the natural control behavior of physical processes is not yet sufficiently stable, especially in early childhood, and can very quickly be overwhelmed.
That's why it's important to have a real, profound understanding of the true connections between health, illness and nature. Every naturopathic therapist knows that childhood illnesses are more than just a nuisance, but that they are a necessary “evil”. For example, he can observe that so-called cry children often cry less after a successful recovery from a childhood illness and that the child's sleep needs often change. After a child's illness has been overcome naturally, mindful parents can see that their little ones have become more robust in terms of health and, above all, much more mature in their behavior. This developmental step, a gift from nature, can usually be clearly recognized a few weeks after the illness has been overcome. However, this is not the case with stalled childhood illnesses. This is probably the first reason why the pharmaceutical industry tends to suppress the symptoms with its medications, people are largely reduced to consumerism and the question of a deeper meaning of life is hardly asked anymore.
It was known even earlier that there was an herb to combat every disease. This gave rise to herbal medicine, which was committed not only to healing, but above all to never doing any harm. It was recognized that the healthy development of body processes from infancy onwards requires sufficient time and that this can be optimally supported by the etheric powers of plants.
Since the immune defenses of parents, children and even infants are often very weakened and disturbed these days due to chronic exposure, particularly through radiation and the diverse use of chemicals in food and healthcare (see, among other things, the large number of allergies), medicinal herbs are often no longer effective work as effectively as before and therefore, in addition to special knowledge, they also require a much longer application time. If this is understood, then the conditions for our child's recovery are much better. Because then we understood that childhood illnesses are very important for the entire development and maturation of our children and that it is particularly important that we lovingly accompany our little ones through these illness processes with the appropriate understanding and behavior.
It should be carefully considered to use chemical drugs that only suppress the disease. These are certainly justified if the child's self-healing powers are overwhelmed and no longer work. As a rule, however, this is rarely the case and usually only occurs when the useful immunological defense processes and self-healing powers are irritated, suppressed or even destroyed due to a lack of understanding of the body's natural processes and subsequent hasty intervention.
In summary, it can be said that the forces of nature can undoubtedly promote and support the healthy development of our children.