Healing principles, iatrogenic diseases

[Guest guest]

The simplicity of language and clarity+force of expression in post by Mr.

Jagannath Chaterjiis tempted this author continue the subject further. Some

background is given in post #3441 and present post is an extension of ideas

expressed in post 3441.

 

Healing principles and incurable diseases - 1

 

An internet tour of many well known sites belonging to

societies/associations for various diseases and those created by Govt

health departments, NLM, NLH, CDC, FDA etc reveals that causes for

various diseases are unknowns. Further, from a modern medical

standpoint many diseases are incurable and only symptoms can be

managed or controlled. The only reason they are deemed incurable by

the medical profession is because they have yet to get out of the

body's way and let it work in restoring itself to health. They have

yet to learn about removing the cause. The medical profession is bent

on "curing" the body. This is done by providing symptomatic relief.

In so doing, they not only hinder all or most healing activity of the

body, but actually produce a more stressful condition for the body,

lowering its immune system, leading to a more serious diseased

condition. Many diseases belonging to "Auto-immune" class can be

mentioned as examples.

 

Human body is not designed nor programmed to be diseased. It does not

know how to be diseased. The only thing the body knows is survival.

Disease is the body's effort at surviving in the face of violations

of natural laws that govern the body. Furthermore, body does not

know how to die also. You can die by denying food to body and it may

take 20-30 days to end. One 18 year old patient of this author was

vomitting out everything for 1 month, till he started ayurvedic

approach. For a quicker death you can deny water to body and you may

die in 4-5 days. But it is not possible to stop breathing and

produce instant death. Go ahead. Try it! Such is the self defence

mechanism and strong desire to live built in the body.

 

If the body has the intelligence to produce a disease, it is capable

of reversing the process to return to health once the cause is

removed. Disease is a reaction to a violation committed, and

continues in order to survive in the face of the violation of a

natural law which continues to be committed. The removal of the

violation - physical or emotional - then would allow the body to

withdraw its survival mechanism and return to health. The longer the

body remains in a survival mode, the longer it will take to return to

health.

 

Since the body is programmed and knows only health, it is absurd and

narrow-minded to state that the body cannot return to health (that a

disease is incurable). The only limitation to the body's return to

health is the limitations we put on the body, both out of ignorance

and indifference. Another problem may be introducing virus in the

program stored in our nervous system by way of various toxins of

modern fast world. They are too many and include radiations out of

compute monitors and cell phones.

 

All diseases are curable by the body by adhering to natural healing-

principles. Some people find themselves diseased, change to a natural

living lifestyle and do not gain total health, some even die of the

disease. This is for one or both of two reasons: in attitude they

were not ready for the responsiblity of health, were not willing to

learn the lesson for which the disease was a symptom.

The disease process had such a momentum going that not enough time

was available for the sick, toxic, inefficient body to utilize the

newly introduced nutrients and energies for reversing the disease

before the disease killed the body. Remember it is the body's action

or utilization of the nutrients for healing, not the nutrients'

action on the body.

 

All the theory given in earlier discussion can be illustrated by

taking an example of this author's aunt, narrated to him by elder

brother. She was struck with a very severe form of a kidney disease,

while in her twenties. This was during the 1940's when very little

was available to treat kidney disease. As told by the doctor, the

immune system attacks the tubules of the kidneys causing widespread

kidney inflammation and blood and protein in the urine. She was truly

at death's door when the hospital told uncle that there was nothing

further they could offer to save her life. Uncle was a man ahead of

his time.He took aunt home and started a program of fresh juicing. He

gave her a glass of raw vegetable juice made alternatively from a

vegetable growing above the ground and from a vegetable growing below

the ground every hour. A miracle then started to occur, and over the

next 6 weeks aunt gradually regained her health. Her kidney

inflammation settled down and her kidneys regained normal function.

The concentrated vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants in the juices

had calmed down her immune system and put out the fire of

inflammation. She was a wonderful woman and lived to the ripe old age

of 82 years. Several such miracle stories can be read in many

naturopathy books, wherein cancers are also cured.

 

In this technological age where computers diagnose diseases and

perform surgery, we tend to under estimate natural therapies. It seems

incredulous that the simple act of drinking fresh juices along with

self urine or cow urine distillate could turn around severe diseases.

This author has seen several such cases in cancer camps. Juices are

easily digested and absorbed and are superb for those with a poor

appetite, nausea, digestive problems and an inflamed stomach or

intestines. It is so much easier to drink a juice than chew your way

through large amounts of fibrous raw vegetables, especially if you

are feeling fatigued and disinterested in food.

 

Modern day medicine is focused on treating the symptoms of disease

with suppressive drugs. Sometimes this is necessary when a disease is

very aggressive and acute in onset, however alternative therapy is

something that should always be used, even in conjunction with drug

use. Author has seen many patients recover from chronic diseases

after they started simple juices and this has been after they have

tried many other things. People can benefit from natural juices,

especially the very young and old, or those with serious diseases

such as cancer, immune dysfunction and liver problems.

 

Often, in Ayurvedic treatment, patients wish to take only medicines

without adhering to food constraints or Anupana. Natural Juices and

milk, buttermilk, honey etc are a perfect medium in which to mix and

dissolve ayurvedic powders/tablets, and will enhance their healing

powers. The nutrients and herbs in powders are better absorbed than

tablet forms of the same ingredients, and mixing them in anupana

juices enhances their solubility, digestion and absorption. The

juices bring the healing nutrients to the cells in the surface of the

mucous membrane of the gut in an easily absorbed form. This requires

much less energy to assimilate than solid tablets, especially in

people with inflamed mucous membranes in the intestines. Such juices

are termed `Yogavahi' by ayurveda. They enhance healing oower of the

medicine.

 

There are so many patients searching for lasting solutions to their

health problems. Furthermore, some of the drugs used to treat common

ailments, can themselves cause diseases, and we call this drug-

induced disease "iatrogenic disease". For example, NSAIDS can damage

the stomach, kidneys and the liver, if they are taken on a long-term

basis. The cholesterol lowering drugs known as "statins" can cause

severe muscle diseases. Some of the drugs used to lower blood sugar

levels can cause liver disease. Author also suspects, based on

several diabetic patients with kidney problem across which he came,

that many anti-diabetic medicines finally propel the patient to renal

diseases.

 

A patient, a technical instructor by profession, was taking anti-

inflammatory drugs for several months to reduce the back pain

problem. After several weeks he found himself depressed and unable to

remember the things he needed to be able to teach well. He was about

to start anti-depressants, when he came over to ayurveda. He was

asked to stop the anti-inflammatory drugs and given liver rejuvenator

medicines along with natural juices. Within 2 weeks, his memory and

mental abilities had returned and he could cope easily. He had been

told he was suffering with stress!

 

Long-term antibiotics can cause severe liver damage, which can lead

to immune dysfunction resulting in allergies and autoimmune diseases.

Steroids like cortisone may lead to weight gain, high blood pressure,

diabetes and osteoporosis. Also, these drugs become increasingly

ineffective over long periods of time.

 

The incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes has tripled in the last

40 years because we are not in tune with our body's natural needs. It

is true that "the food keeps getting faster and faster and we keep

getting slower and slower"! You may be aware that in the early part

of the year 2000, there was an emergency recall in the USA of a drug

called "Rezeulin". Rezeulin had been initially released onto the

market for diabetics to lower their blood sugar levels. Rezeulin

caused severe liver damage in a significant percentage of diabetics,

and some of these cases were fatal. Similar mishaps with COX-2 class

medications have recently occurred.

 

We often tend to panic when we become sick and rush into taking drugs

or having surgery. It is often better to sit down, relax and think

for a while, so we can look at more natural alternatives.

For the sake of compactness and crispness, the post is truncated

here. This is the first one in series. The subject will be

continued in few more posts in next few weeks. Future posts will

address the issue of pain management also.

Dr Bhate

 

ayurveda, Jagannath Chatterjee

<jagchat01> wrote:

> I too have gone through a lot of suffering in life. Only I found

out that it was modern science that had led me to a state of limbo

and made me face death for seventeen long years. It was an extremely

horrid time I assure you.

>

> The problems I am left with now are a result of nearly 30 years of

using allopathic drugs. This condition is known as iatrogenic illness

(I hope I have got the term right) and is the name given to illnesses

resulting from side effects of allopathic drugs, injections and

vaccinations. But I am still fighting and Sri Ramakrishna willing I

will be out of the woods.

>

> Today it is widely recognised that many of the chronic diseases we

all suffer from today are a result of allopathic intervention. I have

given this example before but I give it again now;