Why Alternative Medicine Opposes Allopathy

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Hi everyone...

 

I think this is an important thing to consider- why take an herbal

pill or vitamin pill or homeopathic pill instead of a medical

drug...

 

Now I fully agree that proper diet goes a long, long way... Any car

needs optimal fuel to work optimally... But isn't it possible to

give a car the very best fuel but it still does not run right?

Something goes wrong with the battery or oil pump or tires... There

is more to a car than fuel, and there is more to the human body than

nutrition...

 

So, really, what difference does it make about which form of medicine

one chooses?... For me the fundamental question is how do we view

health, disease and the role of symptoms. Are they the disease

itself or the body saying it is working to re-establish balance. In

other words, is the fever disease or is fever the body healing

itself? Two completely different world views- that to me are

incompatible- and therefore two completely opposite directions to

move in to attempt to restore health and diminish disease.

 

I don't necessarily agree with every sentence of this post {which by

the way I should give credit to the group Alternative Medicine Forum

for posting), but I think it is a great opportunity to raise the

question- what exactly are we doing with alternative medicine and

why...

 

Other comments?

Misty L. Trepke

http://www..com

 

Why alternate medicine opposes allopathy.

 

Dear Friends,

 

Many people fail to understand why the alternate physicians have a

quarrel with the allopaths. Modern medicine with all its fancy drugs,

swanky research and glistening gadgets seems almost invincible and

more than sufficient to conquer disease. But once you have been in

the receiving end of this " science " especially while suffering from a

chronic disease, you realise that all that glitters may not be gold.

 

The allopathic principles may be surmised as under;

 

1. The symptoms are the disease. Therefore destroy the symptoms to

destroy the disease. 2. Lack of physical symptoms denote lack of

disease. 3. The physical body and a part of the mind alone are

susceptible to disease. 4. All disease (or dis-ease) has to be fought

on war footing as it is bad for health. 5. The physician knows best.

The patient should remain a silent spectator to his skills. 6. Germs

are the main cause of disease. 7. The body has no capacity to fight

disease without the help of a doctor. There is no internal correction

system.8. The body/mind complex cannot renew itself. 9. The

external/internal environment is an enemy which is constantly seeking

to destroy the body. 10. Nature is powerless against disease. 11.

Disease is static and it can be fought only by medicines at the

material plane.

 

However almost all other forms of alternate healing are of the

opinion that;

 

1. Symptoms are the body's language trying to point out the source of

the problem or trying to let the body/mind/intelligence complex know

that some anomaly has ocurred. 2. Disease begins at the karmic plane

making its way down through the mental/emotional plane into the

physical body. 3. Only the soul is disease free, man can be diseased

at all other levels. 4. Not all diseases go against the body, many

are a part of the development process (birth-childhood-youth-adult-

old age-death) and indicate correctional processes taking place

within the body which is trying to throw away toxins of the process.

5. The patient knows best, the physicians job is to assist the

patient in his attempts to set right the malady and regain his former

state of health. 6. Cracks in the immune system lead to disease.

Germs cannot thrive unless an internal error has ocurred laying down

the foundation of disease. In some cases the germs also may be the

scavengors trying to remove the waste products generated as the

immune system fights the disease. 7. The body is fully equipped

to fight disease and the physician should interfere with proper life

saving and vitality building exercises only when he feels that the

vital force is loosing against the disease force. 8. The body/mind

complex knows fully well what to do at every stage in case of disease

unless its diagnostic and healing abilities have been compromised by

human and mechanical forces. The inherent healing force of the body

always tries to throw out the disease force from within outwards. 10.

Though the environment and internal system is constantly at a state

of flux the inherent idea is to achieve equilibrium and not to lead

to further chaos. The position changes only at advanced old age when

the soul starts preparing to shed the old body and acquire a new one.

11. Disease is a dynamic force and the physician should be able to

deal with it at a dynamic level. If disease is not dynamic it can not

affect the dynamic life/vital force in the first place.

 

I think now the position of modern medicine vis a vis alternate

medicine is somewhat clear. I would love the distinguished members of

the list to add/distract to/from what I have tried to discuss.

 

Love & Regards, Jagannath.