For the next half century, Lust dedicated his heart and soul for the promulgation of naturopathy. Lust returned to New York City with a commission from Kneipp to introduce Kneipp’s water cure therapies in America. The water cure treatments that Lust received from Kneipp, though, saved his life and launched his lifework. At the turn of the 20th century, tuberculosis was a death sentence for most.

We are very familiar with Benedict Lust’s story and know that his serendipitous introduction to naturopathy arose from treatment for tuberculosis by an amazing mentor, Fr Sebastian Kneipp. He was an entrepreneurial new immigrant to America who had to learn English to publish that first journal in English in 1902, and who did so for the next 5 decades.

When he was 30, he founded the first Naturopathic Society of America in New York City and had already faced numerous judges for the unthinkable crime of administering baths in a city where, at the same time, an MD named Simon Baruch had been lobbying for public hygiene facilities for almost 2 decades, with impunity. In 1896, when he was 24, he had already begun publishing in German ( Amerikanische Kneipp-Blätter), had established a school for healing in New York City, was practicing nature cure in a clinical setting, and had opened one of the nation’s first health food stores. In 1902, Benedict Lust was 30 years old, and he already had a long list of achievements, despite his youth. Today, our existence can be traced not only back to this pioneering attempt to give the profession a collective voice, but in turn to one man who dared to navigate the complicated terrain of biomedicine 111 years ago. Before 1902, we did not exist as a collective group of healing professionals, much less document our travails. In 1902, the first naturopathic journal was published! I want to repeat this statement out loud, and loudly. Wounds quickly close if aloe-powder is used. Ulcers covered with aloe-powder will soon heal.

The greatest importance should be paid to keeping the wound perfectly clean. By these ulcers nature indicates her desire to excrete impure matter, and she only requires a little help.

The herb book by john b lust