Signs of Nature

THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES

DID YOU KNOW THAT NATURE GIVES US CLUES ABOUT THEIR HEALTH BENEFITS? WE CAN SEE THEM VISUALLY AT A GLANCE. IT IS CALLED THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES.

It is the embodiment in the features of a plant’s appearance or behavior that corresponds to what it acts upon in the human body or how it cures. You can even break the word up and you get this formula.

“Sign of Nature” = Signature

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“SIGN OF NATURE” = SIGNATURE

I like to refer to it as nature’s look-a-likes. Others have termed it “Nature’s Pharmacy.”

From head to toe, we will take a look at those foods that resemble our bodies’ organs which give us clues where they nutritionally benefit.

I hope you will join me in discovering these secrets of nature. Today we have effective modern tools to evaluate the efficacy and healing properties of plants, animals, minerals, and synthetic substances, but how did people in earlier times evaluate the natural resources available to treat their illnesses?

For hundreds of years, healers and medical practitioners relied on the doctrine of signatures to signal the potential healing effects of plants. In the 1st Century AD, the Greek physician and author of Materia Medica, Pedanius Dioscorides, described medicinal plants according to a divine intention. His belief was that God marked objects with signs, or “signatures”, of their purpose.

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