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Dropsy and Night Sweats

     Dropsy, also known as edema, has two causes. In most cases, the causes are constriction of the kidneys or impediments in the urinary bladder. Constriction of the kidneys is generally the cause of dropsy. Serious symptoms can extend over the entire body, and light symptoms are local, as, for example, either on the right side, on the left side, or in the bottom half of the body. But even in some instances where the dropsy is local, as in the face, on the arm, or in a leg, the cause is not from constricted kidneys but from the liquefication of the solidified medicinal toxins in the affected area. In localized cases of dropsy, what must be heeded are the instances of dropsy which break out on the inside of the leg at the same time that the serious symptoms of various other diseases are progressing. Dropsy in either of the legs is a death signal that should warn that recovery may be extremely difficult. In the case of beriberi, dropsy is generally limited to the area below the knees, so a medical diagnosis that unilaterally considers dropsy in the legs to be beriberi is a rather rash decision.
     There is a kind of dropsy that both doctors and members of the general public do not perceive. It is seen most often in female students who are overweight, what most would say merely chubby, who look at first glance to be rather healthy. But the proof that they are not healthy is that they are prone to problems such as tiring easily, having heart palpitations, being often short of breath, and feeling sluggish. The cause of these problems is the excess urine from constricted kidneys that solidifies throughout the entire body in small amounts over a long period of time. The individual in question does not realize what is happening. There are persons who control the intake of food but are still overweight, and they exemplify this condition.
     There are occasions when a calculus, that is, a stone, or a solidified mass of puss blocks the downward flow of urine between the bladder and the urinary tract which thus becomes the cause of dropsy, but these cases as well are easily treated with our healing method.
         I have addressed the issue of night sweats in the section on tuberculosis, so here I will explain the local occurrence of sweat. There are people in which, with some kind of motion, often breaks out sweat in the head, on the face, or under the armpits. The sweat occurs as a result of purification of uric toxins in these areas. The generation of sweat occurs continually everywhere in the body of a healthy person. It is usual even when the individual is apparently healthy, but it is be safe to say that those with localized instances of sweat or who generate no sweat at all will eventually experience some kind of health problem.

Gospel of Heaven, page 134, February 5, 1947
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