「文明の創造、科学篇」昭和27(1952)年執筆
単に小児病といっても、その種類の多い事は良く知られているが、小児病は突如として発病するものが多く、しかも物心のない赤ん坊のごときはただ泣くばかりで、何が何だかサッパリ判らないので、母親としてただ困るばかりである。まずそれからかいてみるが、生まれたての嬰児に多いのは、消化不良という青便や泡便が出る病だが、これは消化不良というよりも、母親の毒素が乳に混って出るので、つまり親の毒が子を通して浄化される訳だから、実に結構なのである。従って、放っておけば出るだけ出て必ず治るものであるが、それを知らない医療は乳児脚気などと称し薬毒を使うから、反って弱ったり、発育不良となったりする。これが将来虚弱児童や腺病質の因となり、年頃になると結核になり易いので、近来結核の増えるのも、右のような誤りが大いに原因しているのである。
また生後間もなく、種痘をしたり、何々の予防注射とか、栄養のためとかいって注射をするが、これがまたすこぶる悪い。何しろまだ体力が出来ていないから、注射などは無理である。このため多くは発育不良の原因となり、よく誕生すぎても首がグラグラしたり、歩行が遅れたり、智能も低かったりするのはみなこれがためで、医家に対しこの点一層の研究を望むのである。またこういうものも偶(たま)にはある。それは生後一、二ケ月経った頃吐血する幼児で、医診は胃潰瘍などというが、これは滑稽である。何となれば胃潰瘍は消化薬連続服用の結果であり、こちらの原因は出産前後、母親の古血を呑んだのを吐くのであるから、その後食欲も増す事である。
それから少し大きくなってから、発り易いものとしては百日咳、ジフテリヤ、脳膜炎、麻疹(はしか)、日本脳炎、猩紅熱(しょうこうねつ)、疫痢、小児麻痺等であろう。それについてこれからかいてみるが、まず百日咳であるが、この原因はヤハリ出産前母の悪露(おろ)を呑んだためで、それが一旦吸収され保有していたものが、時を経て浄化によって出るので、何よりもこの病に限って、猛烈な咳と共に、必ず泡を吐くのである。そうして百日咳の特徴は、咳する場合必ず息を引く音がするからよく分る。つまり右の泡を出し切るまでに百日くらいかかるから、その名がある訳だが、浄霊によれば発病後間がなければ三週間くらいかかり、最盛期なら一週間くらいで全治するのである。急所は胸が第一、背中が第二、胃部が第三と見ればいい。すなわちその辺に泡が固まっているのである。この病はよく肺炎を起し易いがこれは咳を止めようとするからで、溶けた泡が一旦肺に入り、咳によって出るのが順序であるのに、その咳を止めるから泡が出ず肺の中へ溜り固まるので、溶かすための高熱が出る。それが肺炎であるから、言わば百日咳だけで済むものを、誤った方法で肺炎という病を追加する訳である。
次にジフテリヤであるが、これは喉に加答児(カタル)が出来、その部が腫れて呼吸困難になり、ついに窒息するという恐ろしい病気である。医学は臨床注射や予防注射をするが、これは一時的浄化停止で、相当効果はあるにはあるが、この注射薬は猛毒とみえて、悪性の病気が起り易く、しかも非常に治り悪いので、生命に及ぼす場合さえよくある。ところが吾々の方ではこの病気は特に治り易く、浄霊するや早いのは十分、遅いのでも三、四十分くらいで全治するので、実に奇蹟的である。しかも薬毒などの副作用がないから安心である。ジフテリヤの原因については霊的が多いから後に譲る事にする。
次に脳膜炎であるが、この症状は発病するや前頭部に火のような高熱が出ると共に、割れるような激痛で、眩しいのと眩暈(めまい)で、患者は目を開けられないので、これだけで脳膜炎とすぐ判るのである。この原因は毒の多い子供が、物心がつくに従って、頭脳を使うから、頭脳に毒素が集注する。それが前頭部であって、学校へ行くようになるとなおさらそうなるから、事実、その頃起り易いのである。ところがここに見逃し得ない問題がある。というのは熱を下げようとして極力氷冷するから、せっかく溶けかかった毒素を固めてしまうので、頭の機能の活動は阻止され、治っても白痴や片輪になるので、特に恐れられるのである。ところが浄霊によれば毒素が溶けて、目や鼻から血膿になって沢山出てしまうから、頭の中の掃除が出来、反って頭脳は良くなり、例外なく子供の学校成績も優良となるのである。従ってそこに気が付きせめて氷冷だけでも廃めたら、いかに助かるであろうといつも思うのである。
麻疹(はしか)は衆知のごとく、生まれてから罹らない人は一人もあるまい程一般的の病気であるが、この原因は親から受継いだ毒血の排除であるから、実に有難いもので、むしろ病気とは言えないくらいである。それを知らないから、無暗に恐れ当局なども予防に懸命であるが、全く馬鹿々々しい努力である。ゆえに麻疹は何らの手当もせず、放って置けば順調に治るものである。それを余計な事をして、反って治らなくしたり、生命まで危なくするのである。ただこの病気に限って慎むべきは、発病時外出などして、風に当てない事である。というのは麻疹の毒が皮膚から出ようとするのを止めるからで、昔から言われている風に当てるな、蒲団被って寝ておれとは至言である。というのは発疹を妨げられ毒が残るからで、再発や他の病原となるので注意すべきである。
そうして麻疹は人も知るごとく肺炎が最も発り易いが、これは氷冷など間違った手当をするためで麻疹は外部に出ず、内部を冒す事となり、肺胞全体に発疹するためで、肺の量が減るから、頻繁な呼吸となるが、その割に痰が少ないのはそういう訳である。この肺炎も何ら心配せず、放っておけば二、三日で必ず治るものである。また麻疹が治っても、よく中耳炎や目が悪くなる事があるが、これは毒の出損なった分が、耳や眼から出ようとして、一旦その部へ固まり、高熱で溶けるのだから、放っておけば日数はかかっても必ず治るものである。
次は日本脳炎であるが、この原因も簡単である。子供が夏日炎天下に晒されるので、頭脳は日光の刺戟を受けて、背中一面にある毒素が、後頭部目掛けて集中する。その過程として一旦延髄部に集結し、高熱で溶け液体毒素となり、後頭部内に侵入する。そのため眠くなるのであって、その他の症状も多少はあるが、右の液毒は脳膜炎と同様、目と鼻から血膿となって出て治るのである。何よりも発病するや、たちまち延髄部に棒のごとき塊が出来る。これはいくら溶かしても、後から後から集注して来るから、浄霊の場合根気よく二、三十分置きくらいに、何回でも浄霊するのである。すると峠をすぎるや、目や鼻から血膿が出始める。それが治る第一歩で、驚く程多量な血膿が出て治ってしまう。まず数日間と見たらよかろう。これで見てもこの病気は何ら心配は要らないのである。ところが医学は原因も判らず、毒を出す方法もないから、無暗に伝染を恐れる。これも脳膜炎と同様、氷冷が最も悪く、そのため長引いたり、命に関わったり、治っても不具になるのである。近来医学で蚊の媒介としているが、これは怪しいものである。しかし吾々の方では簡単に治るのだから、そんな事はどちらでもいい訳である。
猩紅熱(しょうこうねつ)もヤハリ簡単な病気で、原因は先天性保有毒血が、皮膚から出ようとするもので、一時患部の皮膚は真っ赤になって、細かい発疹が出る。重いのは全身にまで及ぶが、大抵は局部的か半身くらいである。これも放って置けば治るが、医療は氷冷や色々の手当をするので、長引いたり危険になったりするのである。この病気は治りかけた時、毛細管から滲出する毒が、乾いて細かい瘡蓋(かさぶた)になり、これが伝染の危険多しとして非常に恐れるが、浄霊によれば二、三日ないし一週間くらいで全治するのだから問題ではない。
疫痢は割合多い病気で、かつ死亡率も高いから、最も恐れられているが、この症状は最初から頻繁な欠伸(あくび)が特色で、全然食欲もなく、グッタリして元気がなく、眠りたがる等で、それらの症状があれば疫痢と見ていい。この原因は上半身にあるほとんどの毒素が、浄化によって胃へ集まり、それが脳に反映し、脳症が起り易いので、医師は恐れるのである。しかし浄霊によれば実に簡単に治り、一日か二日かで全治する。
小児麻痺も、近頃は仲々増えたようで、当局が最近法定伝染病の中へ入れたくらいである。しかしこの病気は日本よりアメリカの方が多いようで、これも人の知るところである。この病原は霊的と体的とあるが、霊的の方は滅多になく、世間一般小児麻痺というのは体的の方で、言わば擬似であり、必ず治るものである。症状は足が満足に歩けないとか、片手が利かないとか、腰が動かない等であるが、なかんずく足の悪いのが一番多いようである。この原因は遺伝薬毒と、生後入れた薬毒のためで、どちらにしろその毒が、足の一部に凝結するので、足を突いたり、動かしたりすると痛むのである。特に足の裏が多いが、この診断は訳はない。足や手全体を順々に押してみれば、必ず痛い所があるから、そこを浄霊すればズンズン治ってゆく。ところが医療では一耗の毒も除る事が出来ないから、苦し紛れに色々な手当をするが、まず気休め程度で、本当に治るのは一人もないという訳で、世界的恐るべきものとされているのである。
そうして霊的の方は真症で、仲々深い意味があるから、これは後の霊的事項中に詳記する。以上のごとく小児に関した病気は大体かいたつもりであるが、追加として二、三の心得おくべき点をかいて見よう。
まず子が生まれるや、淋毒を予防するためとして眼に水銀注射をしたり、昔からよくマクニンなどを服ますが、これも異物であるから止した方がよい。乳もなるべく親の乳を呑ませるようにし、母親の乳だけで不足する場合は牛乳やミルクを呑ませてもよいが、親の乳が出ないという事はどこかに故障があるからで、それは毒結が乳腺を圧迫している場合と、胃の付近にある毒結が胃を圧迫し、胃が縮小しており、そのため食事は親の分だけで子の分まで入らないという、この二つであるから、どちらも浄霊で速やかに治るのである。それからよく赤子の便が悪いとさきにかいたごとく、母親が乳児脚気のためなどと言われ、乳を止めさせるが、これは誤りで親の毒素が乳に混じって出るのであるから、むしろ結構である。次によく微熱が出ると、智慧熱とか歯の生えるためなどというが、そんな事はない。ヤハリ毒のための浄化熱であるから差支えない。また乳は誕生頃まででよく、誕生過ぎても平気で呑ませる母親もあるが、こういう児童はどうも弱いから注意すべきである。また良く風邪を引いたり、扁桃腺などで熱が出るが、これも浄化であるから結構で、それだけ健康は増すのである。それから寝冷えを恐れるが、寝冷えなどという言葉は滑稽である。下痢などの場合、真の原因が分らないから作った言葉であろう。だから私の子供六人あるが、生まれてから一人も腹巻はさせないが、十年以上になった今日、一人も何の障りもない。また私も三十年来腹巻をしないが、今もって何ともないのである。
Main Disease: (11) Children’s Diseases
Creation of Civilization, written by Mokichi Okada in 1952
When we simply say children’s diseases, you know that there are many types of them. Most of them suddenly occur and a baby, who hasn’t begun to understand things yet, just keeps crying. One’s mother cannot understand what’s going on her baby and she is in trouble. Then I will describe diseases related to new bone babies first. A newborn baby often has green or foamy faeces. This symptom is called indigestion but it should be rather called purification. It is because breast milk is mixed with toxins in one’s mother’s body, which comes out through the baby. This is very fine. Therefore, when the baby has such faeces, you should leave them. The baby will be surely cured after such faeces completely come out. However, its cause is unknown in medical science. It is called infantile beriberi or so instead, and medicine is provided for its remedy. Consequently, the baby becomes weak or poor growth, which causes the baby to become a physically weak or delicate child in the future. When growing up, one is prone to tuberculosis. Therefore, such fallacy greatly affects the increase in tuberculosis patients.
Soon after birth, a baby is vaccinated, inoculated or injected for nutrition. They are also terribly bad. The baby doesn’t have enough physical strength for injections. They can’t be injected. Those injections are highly possible to become the cause of one’s poor growth. The baby might not hold up one’s head even after becoming one year old, can hardly start to walk and has less than normal intelligence. All of them are caused by such injections. I do expect that doctors continue further research on them. It might sometimes happen that about a one or two-month-old baby vomits blood. A doctor diagnoses one with gastric ulcer or so. That is ridiculous. Gastric ulcer is caused by taking digestive medicine continuously. The truth is that the baby vomits mother’s old blood which ingested before or after childbirth. After vomiting it, the baby gains appetite.
When a baby has grown a little more, one would be prone to whooping cough, diphtheria, meningitis, measles, Japanese encephalitis, scarlet fever, children’s dysentery, infantile paralysis and so forth. I will explain these symptoms in order. As for whooping cough, it is caused when a baby ingested one’s mother’s lochia before birth. The lochia is once absorbed and accumulated in the baby’s body and excreted by purification as time passes. Whooping cough is distinguished by the symptom of foaming at the mouth along with severe coughing. It is characterised by the breathing sound when coughing. Whooping cough literally means one hundred day cough in Japanese. As this name implies, it takes about one hundred days to discharge all of this foam. If the baby receives Johrei soon after suffering from this disease, it takes about three weeks to cure. In the case of the heaviest time of the disease, it takes about one week. The vital points to receive Johrei would be firstly the chest, secondly the back and thirdly the gastric region. The foam must be accumulated on those parts. This disease is often complicated by pneumonia as people try to stop the baby from coughing. The dissolved foam once enters the lung and then it is discharged from the lung. This is the order. Nevertheless, people try to stop the baby from coughing. Consequently, the foam is not discharged, accumulated and solidified in the lung instead. To discharge this solidified foam in the lung, the baby has high fever. This symptom is called pneumonia. In a word, this wrong treatment causes pneumonia, even though the baby should only suffer from whooping cough.
The next disease is diphtheria. It causes catarrh in the throat, where swelling forms, and causes difficulty breathing and suffocating in the end. What a terrible disease it is! A child has clinical or preventive injection in medical science. They temporarily stop purification. They might be quite effective in some way but seem to be very poisonous. They easily cause malignant diseases. Worse still, they make the disease become hardly recovered and the disease consequently becomes life-threatening. As for us, this disease is thought to be very easily cured. When we perform Johrei, it takes ten minutes at the earliest or thirty to forty minutes at the latest to cure diphtheria. That is miraculous. Furthermore, there are no side effects of toxic medicines. What a relief it is! Diphtheria is often caused for the spiritual reason so that I will explain it later.
Then I move to meningitis. When a child suffers from meningitis, one has high fever like fire on one’s forehead. Besides, one has a splitting headache and feels dazzling and dizzy so that one cannot open eyes. When a child has such symptoms, you can easily find one must suffer from meningitis. It is caused when a child, who has lots of toxins in the body, uses one’s head as one is reaching the age of discretion. Then the toxins concentrate in a certain part of the head or a forehead. When a child goes to school, it more often happens. Many children actually suffer from meningitis at that time and here is a problem we cannot overlook. That is what people try to cool the head as much as possible to reduce fever. Cooling the head solidifies toxins which are about to be dissolved, and disturbs the brain activity. Therefore, the child becomes dull or disabled. This is the reason why people particularly fear for meningitis. When the child receives Johrei, however, toxins are dissolved and discharged as a lot of pus from one’s eyes and nose. It means that Johrei cleans the brain and the child becomes smarter than before. There is no exception that school grades become excellent. Therefore, if only they stop cooling the head, how much it would help children. I always hope so.
As you know, measles is one of the most common diseases. There would be no one who has never suffered from measles. It occurs to excrete toxic blood inherited from parents. Therefore, we should rather not call a disease as it is grateful. However, people blindly fear for it and authorities give their best to prevent it. What a waste of time! For this reason, measles will be steadily cured if it is left as it is without any treatments. Nevertheless, they do extra works. As a result, measles contrarily becomes incurable or life-threatening. There is one thing you must not do for measles. That is you don’t expose a patient to the wind, for example, not letting one go out. It is because the air stops the toxins of measles from coming out of the skin. As an old saying goes, “Don’t expose to the air but sleep under the duvet.” That is truly said. The air stops forming rash, and as a result, toxins remind in the body. It might cause other diseases. You should notice it.
As you know, a child who suffers from measles might be complicated by pneumonia. It frequently happens. It is because one is provided wrong treatments such as a cooling method or so. Consequently, the rash doesn’t come out, penetrates and forms inside of whole alveoli instead. As a result, the area of the lung is reduced, which causes frequent breathing. For this reason, phlegm is unexpectedly less discharged. When a child suffers from such pneumonia, you should also leave it without worrying about it. Then, it will be cured in a few days. After curing of measles, the child might have otitis media or one’s eyesight might get worse. It is because toxin didn’t completely come out. Therefore the rest of them is once solidified in the ears or eyes and then melted by high fever to discharge from them. When you leave it, it will be cured although it might take times.
Then I explain Japanese encephalitis. The cause of this disease is also simply toxins that children have. When a child is exposed to a burning sun in summer, the sunlight stimulates one’s head and toxins, which are accumulated all over one’s back, concentrate on the back of one’s head. In this process, toxins are once accumulated in the medulla oblongata and dissolved by heat. Then the dissolved toxins penetrate the back of the head, which makes the child feel sleepy. There are also other minor symptoms. As well as meningitis, the dissolved toxins are discharged as bloody pus from one’s eyes and nose. Then Japanese encephalitis is cured. When a child suffers from Japanese encephalitis, the lump of toxins like a stick immediately forms in the medulla oblongata. No matter how much toxins are dissolved, they concentrate there one after another. When you perform Johrei, therefore, you do every twenty to thirty minutes as many times as possible. When the symptom gets through the worst of it, bloody pus starts to come out of the eyes or nose. This is the first step of curing the disease. Then a surprisingly large amount of bloody pus comes out and Japanese encephalitis is cured. It would take a few days. As I described above, you don’t have to worry about Japanese encephalitis at all. On the contrary, medical science blindly fears for its infection as they can neither find its cause nor know how to discharge toxins. As well as meningitis, the cooling method is the worst thing to do for it. If doing so, the disease becomes prolonged, life-threatening or disabled even though it is cured. Medical science recently says that Japanese encephalitis occurs through mosquito transmission. I doubt it but it doesn’t matter what they say as the disease is easily cured by Johrei.
Scarlet fever is also easily cured. It is caused by inherited toxic blood in the body which is about to come out of the skin. The affected skin once becomes bright red and has a fine rash. If the symptom is severe, the rash appears on the whole body, but usually on the part or half of the body. When you leave it as it is, the disease will be cured. However, a patient is given medical treatment such as a cooling method or so. Consequently, the disease becomes prolonged or life-threatening. When the patient is recovering, toxins exuded through capillaries get dry and become fine scabs, which are said to be highly infective and feared very much. However, it is not a problem as it will be completely cured by Johrei in a few days to about one week.
Children’s dysentery is relatively common and the most feared disease as it has a high mortality rate. Its distinctive symptom is frequent yawning from the beginning. If a child has no appetite, looks exhausted, feels sleep and so on, one is supposed to suffer from children’s dysentery. It is caused by toxins in the upper part of the body. Most of them are concentrated on the stomach by purification, which reflects on the brain and easily causes encephalitis. Therefore, doctors do fear this disease. By performing Johrei, however, it will be easily cured. It will take one or two days to be completely cured.
The patients of infantile paralysis are recently increased so that authorities designated as a legal infectious disease. As you know, this disease is more common in the U.S.A than in Japan. The causes of infantile paralysis are divided into two types; the spiritual and physical cause. Generally speaking, it rarely occurs spiritually. Most of the infantile paralysis occurs for a physical reason. In a sense, it is suspected infantile paralysis and surely cured. The symptoms of infantile paralysis are such as walking difficulty, no strength in one hand, unable to move the lower back and so on. The most common symptom of them would be walking difficulty.
It is caused by toxic medicine which is inherited and taken after birth. Either of toxins accumulates and solidifies in the part of the foot. When the affected part is poked or moved, it hurts. A sole would be most often affected. You can easily find the affected part if you press the whole hands and feet in order. There must be a part which hurts. Then you perform Johrei there, infantile paralysis will be getting better and better. Since none of the toxins is removed by medical treatment, a variety of treatment is given for one’s excuse. Those are a kind of self-satisfaction and no one will be cured. Therefore infantile paralysis is regarded to be one of the most dreadful diseases in the world.
As for spiritually caused infantile paralysis, it is a genuine one. Its cause has deep meaning and I will describe it in detail at the part of Spiritual Diseases. As I explained above, I intended to describe most of the diseases related to children. Then I describe a few additional things to know.
When a baby is born, one has mercury injection in one’s eye to prevent gonorrhoea, or often has Macnin from a long time ago. Since they are foreign substances, you should not give them. The baby should have breast milk as much as possible. You may give cow milk or powdered milk if the mother cannot have enough breast milk to give. In this case, however, something is wrong with her. The toxins in her body must press the mammary gland, or toxins around the stomach must press it, which consequently becomes shrunken. Therefore, the stomach can only accept the meal for the mother. The meal for her baby to produce milk is not accepted. These two are the causes that the mother has insufficient breast milk for the baby. However, both of them are promptly recovered by Johrei. As I previously explained, when a baby has unusual faeces, one is diagnosed with infantile beriberi. Then the mother is stopped to give breast milk to the baby. It is wrong. Since the breast milk is mixed with toxins in one’s mother’s body, which comes out through the baby. This is rather fine. When a baby has a fever, it is for wisdom fever or teething. They are not the case and no problem as purification action requires fever. Then a mother should not give breast milk after the baby becomes one year old but some mothers do. If doing so, the baby becomes weak somehow. Please notice it. A baby often has cold or fever due to tonsillitis or so. These symptoms are caused by purification and, therefore, very well. The more often purification occurs, the better the baby becomes. People are afraid that a baby catches a chill during the night. It sounds rather funny. This is supposed to be said so as the cause of symptom such as diarrhoea is uncertain. I have six children who never have had a belly band for more than ten years but none of them becomes bad in health at present. As for me, I have had no belly band for more than thirty years, I have no trouble even now.
Translated by N.H.
You can read the other teachings in English on Johrei.