Originally Posted by HerPimp

Your body is designed to heal itself.

If you cut your hand ? it will heal automatically, unless you deliberately put dirt in it, or you keep picking it open, or if your immune system is severely suppressed by the way you have been eating and living resulting in some very serious illness that causes delayed healing.

If you smash your thumb with a hammer, it will eventually heal, unless you keep smashing the same thumb with a hammer - EVERY DAY!

The point is that your body WILL heal itself UNLESS you keep injuring it.