Questioning The Terrain Theory

By Rosanne Lindsay, Traditional Naturopath| 2022|

A subscriber recently read my article on Is The Terrain Theory Just a Theory? He had two great questions I will share in this Part II, so we can expand the discussion, even though volumes could be written on this topic. My motto?

Question everything!

Subscriber: My problem with terrain theory is that when someone I meet is sick and I get in contact with this person, I get sick too, how
can you explain this?

Too bad “the germ” cannot speak for itself! If the germ was unmasked, would it talk about the Terrain?

The idea of “Terrain” in Natural Medicine, goes back long before “modern science,” to before Hippocrates, a Greek physician of the Classical period.

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. — Hippocrates

Natural medicine was once understood as common sense, at a time when people knew that the innate, immune system is everyone’s natural, internal defense system, a birthright. An understanding of the Terrain was practiced centuries before the Germ Theory was hatched.

If your fish is sick, do you vaccinate the fish or change the water? Natural medicine suggests the fish is only as healthy as the water it swims in… its environment. Germ Theory says vaccinate the fish.

The Germ theory theorizes that certain diseases are caused by the invasion of the body by microorganisms too small to be seen except through a microscope. The theory was developed, proved, and popularized in Europe and North America between about 1850 and 1920. Eventually, the author of the Germ Theory, Louis Pasteur, recanted the Germ Theory, saying what his colleague Antoine Béchamp was saying, “The terrain is everything, the germ is nothing.” This piece of information was relegated as a footnote in the history of medical science.

A 19th century genius, Antoine Béchamp was able to see bacteria, and other nano materials emerge from the cell, as opposed to coming from outside the cell, like most people have been taught. It was Béchamp who suggested that the environment of the body selects what can live and not live. However, history is written by the winners.

Fast forward 200+ years to Anthony Fauci, the expert proponent of the Coronavirus pandemic. Fauci has published in the 2009 NEJMthat the 1918 Pandemic was caused by bacterial pneumonia, not a virus of any sort. The solution one hundred years ago was the same as today: a vaccine. In March of 2020, Fauci again published in the NEJM stating that:

Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.

From Louis Pasteur to Anthony Fauci, only appointed experts are allowed to hold the megaphone and identify the chosen virus, even if the virus is later found to be a bacterium or, alternatively, created in a lab and patented, such as the now infamous SARS-CoV-2. Incidentally, there are thousands of patents related to SARS-CoV2. See a list of 120 patent here. Does that make SARS-CoV-2 a novel or “new” virus. Or a manufactured amalgam?

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool. –Hippocrates

Terrain Theory: Fact, or Fiction?

Any credible investigator looks at both sides of an equation with a magnifying glass and an open mind. So compare Western, conventional medicine, at 200 years old, to Eastern medicine -also called Traditional Chinese medicine, to Greek Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, and Naturopathy, at 5000 years old.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. — Hippocrates

Metaphorically speaking, The Germ vs. The Terraincan be described thusly:

Easter Terrain Theory says: A rotting garbage pile attracts flies as diseased tissue attract microbes. Malnourished plants attract disease.

Western Germ theory says: Flies cause rotting garbage as microbes cause disease. Disease causes malnourished plants.

The Terrain Theory suggests that disease does not find healthy plants or people, while The Germ Theory says it does.

What do you think?

Subscriber : So can people “catch” an STD or the flu?

That depends on which side of the equation you choose…… It may also be important to study the meanings of words. For instance, in Italian, Influenza means influence of the stars, shortened to flu in the first half of the 19th century. But back to the equation….

Western medicine says:

The body is sterile.
Anyone can catch an STD or flu, from a contagion, so protect yourself with vaccines and take prescription meds.
Viruses are contagions.
Louis Pasteur claimed that all microbes, regardless of their type and species, are unchangeable (Monomorphism).
Vaccinated people can shed “virus” from vaccines to others. (see 2021 article published in Clin. Inf. Diseease).
“Iatrogenic disease. is induced in a patient by the treatment or comments of a physician.
The deadly opioid epidemic is caused by prescription western medications for the treatment of pain.
Herd Immunity equals vaccination.
Antibodies are required for immunity via vaccination.

Eastern medicine says:

The body is a milieux of bacteria, exosomes (viruses), yeast, parasites, etc. The human biome is 10:1 bacterial to human cell.
no one “catches” a disease, the contagion is a myth. People, like plants, attract dis-ease, based on the strength of their inner “terrain” and ability to absorb, digest, and assimilate nutrients. Therefore, analyze the strength of your immune system and if you are eating well and absorbing nutrients.
Viruses are natural to the body, also called exosomes. Not contagions.
Antoine Béchamp found that all microbes changed shape and function based on the conditions of their surroundings, (pleomorphism).
Viruses cannot be shed, transmitted, or spread as they are not alive.
Analyze the external environment (food, water, toxic exposures, frequencies (4G, 5G, radio, radioactive, etc) to find a cause for disease.
Herbalism, Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, and Homeopathy do not cause deadly epidemics to resolve pain.
Herd Immunity equals natural immunity, after enough people have survived a natural infection.
Antibodies are not required for immunity.

Everyone Has An Opinion

The WHO warns, there is “no evidence antibody tests can show coronavirus immunity.”

Doctors say, “Coronavirus antibodies do NOT guarantee immunity.”

Experts claim, “antibodies may provide protection against reinfections even if they wane over time.”

In 2020, A UK professor and disease expert claimed, “herd immunity against coronavirus won’t happen until next summer.”

A “new study” says, “coronavirus immunity could last years, maybe even decades.”

Remember that joke: WHO’s on first?

Hippocrates said, “The physician treats, but nature heals.”

Where are you?

Question The Narrative

Germ Theory or Terrain Theory?

This type of medicine, Wholistic Medicine, is opposite in all ways from allopathic medicine, not opposite really but complimentary – as you can’t have one without the other. All polarities are like that, good and bad, love and hate, you can’t have one without the other. This is the yin and yang of it. Putting what is known, together, does create a “New” Biology. – EuroAmericanHealth.com

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About the Author: Rosanne Lindsay, Traditional Naturopath

Rosanne Lindsay is a Traditional Naturopath, Herbalist, Writer, and Author of the books The Nature of Healing, Heal the Body, Heal the Planetand Free Your Voice, Heal Your Thyroid, Reverse Thyroid Disease Naturally. Find her on Facebook at facebook.com/Natureofhealing. Consult with her remotely at www.natureofhealing.org. Listen to her archived podcasts at blogtalkradio.com/rosanne-lindsay. Subscribe to receive blog posts via email using the form at the bottom of this linked page.