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| An introduction to Constitutional Food Intolerance Testing | | | Hippocrates, over 2500 years ago observed that "one man's food is another man's poison." So it should surprise us little that Dr. Carroll, a Naturopathic Physician in the middle of the 20th century pointed out...."Health must at all times come from and be maintained by digested foods. Naturopathic physicians understand this principle and use it to repair the damage done to organs, tissues and cells which have become depleted of the necessary constructive elements. These necessary elements can come only from digested foods. After a food is digested, it goes through the circulation to every organ, tissue and cell. Remember, this process begins first with the digestion of food, and no drug yet offered can rectify damage done by failure of digestion." Dr. Carroll's observations showed that recovery from illness could be aided by eliminating certain "constitutionally intolerant foods" specific to that individual patient. Allopathic medicine, in a patriarchal mode, disregarded this thinking and opted for random control testing that supported hypotheses based on the "groups" out come. Today we realize that in the past, traditional medicine essentially "threw the baby out with the bath water." Dr. Carroll eliminated constitutionally intolerant foods from the patients diet and used constitutional hydrotherapy to re-establish health in the individual. Hydrotherapy improved circulation of blood and lymph, which also aided in the digestion of foods. | | |
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