In fact all medicine can be reduced to the balancing of two conditons, hot or cold_systemic or otherwise. Alakaline is cold, acid is hot. Avoiding the extremes of either is the most useful. Without getting into the debate realm it is sufficient to say D. C. Jarvis, knew more than most, what he was talking about. In almost every instance he studied the animal knigdom first and applied his observations to helping humanity_with success. He observed that illness occured on an alkaline background when testing the urine with nitriazine paper. He also makes the following statement,
"All the old remedies do not do any harm if they do not do any good" . Modern allopathic medicine can not make such a claim.