A chemical change in the system
is always required before health can be restored.
Medicine, of any material substances
can produced certain definite effects
upon the chemical life of the body;
therefore those substances do have the power
to change physical conditions,
and accordingly promote cures,
when those particular changes are needed
for the welfare of the system.
The attitude of the patient's mind
at the time the medicine is taken
will modify the usual effect of that medicine.
That attitude can and frequently does
neutralize the expected effect of the medicine;
and in many instances the effect desired by the medicine
is produced wholly by the mind through expectation and faith.
When a patient deeply believes
that a certain agent has remedial powers,
benefit will be derived from applying that agent,
even though it may have no remedial virtue whatever.
The action of the mind
for or against any mode of treatment
will assist or retard that treatment as the case may be.
The more faith you have
in the medicine, in a physician or in a certain form of treatment,
the better the results.
Whenever you take something for your ailments
or resort to outside help physically or metaphysically,
you depend upon something else instead of upon yourself;
and accordingly you ignore, in a measure,
the power of self-control.
The subconscious forces in the mind
can produce chemical changes in the body
with far greater rapidity and certainty
that any drug taken into the system.
Impress your subconscious with the conviction
that you will never require medicine any more.
