Funny you should say:
"There's even some question as to what a virus really is and whether it actually exists or not."
In Ross Horne's book mentioned earlier (
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020122horne.21stcentury/020122t... he discusses pleomorphism as propounded by Bechamp and Ernst Almquist (1852-1946) of Sweden. From what I gather, instead of bacteria and viruses being separate and unique entities, these gentlemen and others confirmed that what was actually being viewed was the same entity in a different state depending on its current environment. Unlike higher animals which have a fixed form and structure, these microzymas, as Bechamp referred to them, adapted their form and their behavior as needed and would change from benign to pathological in an adjusted environment.
"It was in 1916 while studying typhus that Dr Enderlein [Guenther Enderlein (1872-1968)] observed microscopic living entities in blood samples which he called protits, which could move, unite with other microorganisms and disappear. Later on, using dark field microscopy, he observed that these micro-organisms could change in form through a cycle of countless variations, and he also described how different types of protein-based micro-organisms flourished in blood cells and plasma of all animals, representing an essential part of the normal life process. As part of the normal life process, these microorganisms live together within the body in a mutually beneficial relationship known as symbiosis. However, he noted that with any deterioration of the body's interior environment in which the pH of the blood becomes either acid or strongly alkaline* the normally harmless microbes would begin to change and in stages evolve into forms of a pathogenic nature, just as Bechamp had said. Enderlein recorded these observations in his book Bakterien Cyclogenic (The Life Cycle of Bacteria), published in 1925 (translated from the German by Dr Phillip Hadley), at which time he became a member of the Microbiological Society of Vienna of which he was later to become president."
This is no doubt what conventional, monomorphism-focussed scientists refer to as mutating viruses. Just like M.D.s, these guys are always chasing their tails unable to see the big picture.
"THEN, the germs will simply leave because they can't proliferate on healthy tissue."
Natural Hygiene teaches us that bacteria and viruses live within us in a symbiotic relationship established millions of years ago. We couldn't exist without them and they at all times function for the good of the organism. They're called on to clean up dead and damaged tissue and once that job is done, they're either dispensed with or relocated to another area as needed. We're never in a battle with them but that doesn't mean that they cannot hurt us.
In we're in an unhealthy state, those microbes that are trying to help us will be working overtime and their byproducts are toxic. If the body cannot eliminate those byproducts efficiently then they will add to our toxic load further weakening the system.
I won't hear a bad word said against these little friends of ours. Any unhealthy state will always be down to our lifestyle or living, even if unintentional or accidental. Blaming it on these little guys who are just doing their jobs is just wrong.
I'd be interested in hearing about your long career as you must have several interesting case histories to relate. Please come forward with any other insights that you've picked up along the way.
NH...