Erectile Dysfunction: Six Steps To A Natural Cure
How was erectile dysfunction treated a century ago? Before the era of Viagra, Cialis, and genetic transfer therapy?
In the early 1900’s Chas. A. Tyrrell, M.D. published a best selling book entitled “The Royal Road To Health, or The Secret of Health Without Drugs.”
An advocate of the natural hygienic approach to life, Tyrrell was strongly opposed to the use of drugs and medications.
He cautioned his readers “do not be deceived by the lying advertisements of unprincipled charlatans, that any drug can help you.”
Instead, he favored a lifestyle that promoted clean living and purity of mind. This included adequate sleep, fresh air and sunshine, moderate eating, daily exercise, and focusing on spiritual thoughts.
“The treatment must be hygienic and thorough, and may necessitate a change in your whole mode of life,” Tyrrell wrote.
His book includes descriptions of numerous diseases and natural methods of treatment. Amongst these is a section on “Lost Manhood.”
“Lost Manhood” was the term used for impotence in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. He blamed this ailment, as was common in his day, on “conjugal excesses” and “the baneful widespread practice of masturbation, or self-pollution.”
Tyrrell outlined a six step program for regaining one’s vitality and sexual virility. These included:
1. Firstly, the colon must be kept clean, as faecal accumulations there irritate the sensitive nerves.
2. Secondly, practice breathing and bodily movements and take all the exercise you can in the open air, as these things are important factors in strengthening the nervous system and hastening a cure.
3. Thirdly, special attention must be paid to diet. If you can practice vegetarianism for a time, so much the better, choosing those articles most easily digested.
Only plain toast or boiled beef should be eaten (if any meat be taken at all) shun all hot condiments, also tea, coffee, tobacco and alcohol – especially the latter, for nothing can help you while you use these articles.
4. Fourthly, after flushing, take a cold bath every night, or, if this is impracticable, bathe the genital organs, and the spine (up to the base of the brain) in cold water, and rub down vigorously with a crash towel.
5. Fifthly, resolutely form cleanly habits of mind, as well as body; take up a course of good reading to occupy the mind, and divert it to healthy channels, and shun all reading of a sensational nature.
6. Sixthly, avoid thinking impure and lascivious thoughts, and do not allow your mind to dwell upon your condition, but cultivate self control.
In conclusion, to offer his readers positive reinforcement, he wrote:
“The above treatment has cured hundreds of bad cases, and will cure you, if steadily persevered in, but a strict abstinence from sexual indulgence, and an absolute abandonment of the pernicious vice is an indispensable condition.”
To those who followed his advice but were still not cured, he added:
“Frequently, quite aged men write us, complaining of their sexual disability – to all such, we say that the restoration of lost power after fifty years of age is in the highest degree improbable, and after the grand climacteric (63) is passed – it is practically impossible.”
“My system of treatment is true in philosophy, in harmony with nature, and thoroughly rational in practice.”
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