The study of chiropractic is not unlike the search for diamonds in South Africa. At first people found a few diamonds in the yellow clay, and they were delighted with their good fortune, even while they supposed that this was to be the full extent of their find.
Then, upon digging deeper, they came upon the blue clay, and, to their amazement, they then found as many precious stones in a day as they had previously found in a year, and what had formerly seemed like wealth faded into insignificance beside the new riches.
In your exploration and understanding of chiropractic truth, see to it that you do not rest satisfied in the yellow clay of a few health miracle discoveries, but press on to the rich blue clay underneath. Chiropractic, however, differs from the diamond field in the sublime fact that beneath the blue clay there are more and still more and richer strata.
The yellow clay represents chiropractic as a treatment for musculoskeletal disorders. The blue clay represents chiropractic as a treatment for certain organic disorders, then chiropractic for the prevention of disease, then on to chiropractic as the maintenance of health.
But far below the blue strata is the pinnacle of what the purest approach (the non-therapeutic apprach) to chiropractic is truly all about: the correction of vertebral subluxation in all people.
The objective of the non-therapeutic approach is not to treat or cure anything, but to maintain the spinal integrity of all people, sick or well, throughout life.
Non-therapeutic chiropractic holds that every human being, under every circumstance, functions better at all levels if the integrity of the nerve system is maintained.
