Ellen Gould White
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Ellen Gould White über: "Which false health practices did Ellen White reject?"
Answer
Ellen White firmly rejected the use of toxic medications (“Drugs”) and patent medicines, because they do not cure diseases but often only change their form and weaken the body. She also warned against stimulants and narcotics such as tobacco, alcohol, tea, and coffee, which impair both health and spiritual discernment. Instead of relying on chemical remedies, she advocated investigating the causes of disease, a simple diet without meat, and adherence to natural health laws.
Dangers of Toxic Medications and Addictive Substances
»Through the use of toxic medications, many lifelong diseases are brought upon, and many lives are lost that could have been saved by the application of natural healing methods. The poisons contained in many so‑called remedies create habits and cravings that mean ruin for soul and body. Many of the popular home remedies called patent medicine, and even some of the medications prescribed by physicians, contribute to laying the foundation for alcohol dependence, opium addiction, or morphine addiction...«
Medications Do Not Cure Diseases
»People must be taught that medications do not cure diseases. It is true that they sometimes provide immediate relief and the patient appears to recover as a result of their use; this is because nature has sufficient life force to expel the poison and correct the conditions that caused the disease. Health is regained despite the medication. But in most cases the medication only changes the form and location of the disease.«
Rejection of Harmful Stimulants and Unhealthy Diet
»We bear a positive testimony against tobacco, spirituous drinks, snuff, tea, coffee, meat, butter, spices, rich cakes, meat pies, large amounts of salt, and all stimulating substances used as food.«
Weakening of the Organism by Medicines
»You should avoid the use of medicines and carefully observe the health laws. ... The taking of medicines should be abandoned forever; for while it does not cure any disease, it weakens the organism and makes it more susceptible to illness.«
Spiritual Consequences of Unhealthy Habits
»Tea, coffee, snuff, and pork are not nourishing substances... While you use these harmful things, you numb the fine, sensitive nerves of the brain, making it completely impossible to recognize holy things, appreciate the work of reconciliation, and see the need for purity and holiness of life...«
Warning Against Hypnosis
»Ellen White was warned early in her experience about the dangers of hypnosis... She warned of the serious dangers that accompany any practice in which one spirit controls another spirit.«
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