...Kuhne and Just without knowing that they had done so, provided the template for the naturopathic movement to emerge with a much needed theoretical and philosophical foundation and framework. Lust explains: "Return to a natural diet, allow water, light and air to influence your system and all ailments will disappear, as well as all misfortune and discontent"2 Just concluded that people, like animals in nature, could recover from illness if they would "heed again the voice of nature, and thus choose the food that nature has laid before him from the beginning, and to bring themselves again into the relation with water, light and air, earth, etc., that nature originally designed" 1 Just came to the conclusion that "all healing is done by nature and that science can only assist nature. Just saw men merely as highly evolved "moving plants," still needing to draw strength from the earth.13 He observed that animals in the wild following instinct would "remove all the leaves and branches when lying down, to be in immediate connection the earth in their repose"3 Just recognized that there was an electrical current inherent in the earth and that "this electrical connection is much more complete when the entire body is in direct contact with the earth"14 Dr. C. W. Young, an Osteopath who was endeared to the Just earthen cure comments, writes in this regard, It is indeed a fact that the effect which the forces of the earth have upon man during the night is quite incredible.