…animals have never studied medical science, nor carried on
researches into diseases or medicines, treatments or cures — even so, when one
of them falleth a prey to sickness, nature leadeth it, in fields or desert
places, to the very plant which, once eaten, will rid the animal of its
disease. The explanation is that if, as an example, the sugar component in the
animal’s body hath decreased, according to a natural law the animal hankereth
after an herb that is rich in sugar. Then, by a natural urge, which is the
appetite, among a thousand different varieties of plants across the field, the
animal will discover and consume that herb which containeth a sugar component
in large amounts. Thus the essential balance of the substances composing its
body is re-established, and the animal is rid of its disease.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
