Why the holistic healers are against modern medicine.

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Dear Dr Raman,Your post is one of the most sympathetic and understanding that I havereceived from any mainstream doctor. All the others who have picked fault withmy posts have either threatened me, made fun of me, or said that my allegationswere baseless and also that I was not qualified to make any comments.I do know that modern medicine is indispensable in certain conditions, mostlyemergency ones and injury related, but what I object to is its application tochronic cases.Many of your points are valid today after gathering experience of many yearsbut we must realise that the early doctors were definitely wrong in theirmeddling with acute disease forms that have today led to the epidemic of chronicdiseases that we see all over the world.Sir, the job of a doctor is not really to treat disease but to prevent it. Theemphasis should be on strengthening the immune system through a healthy,intelligent

lifestyle, clean environment, better hygiene, nutrition, properexercise and the cultivation of superior thoughts. You must admit that all theseareas have been neglected.The over emphasis on germs and viruses have done us in. Today we have anantibiotic for everything without underastanding the true nature of man anddisease. We have failed to listen to Dr Antoine Beauchamp when he protestedLouis Pasteurs germ theory with the words, "The germs cannot be the cause ofdisease, the terrain is everything."You say that homeopaths are not able to tackle pathological changes. Sir, withall respect, pathological changes are the last stage of disease. The disease hastaken root much earlier. Disease has to be tackled at the mental and emotionallevel before it becomes pathological so that the patient enjoys his previousstate of health, both mental and physical, and enjoys the same quality of lifethat they enjoyed

earlier.I have two friends, ex-colleagues really, who are fighting cancer. Both arealive but a burden to themselves and their families. Both were detected at anearly stage, have gone through many stages of chemotherapy, radiation,recurrence and the works. They both feel it would have been better to be deadthan live this life. They both are considering appealing for mercy killing. Theycannot bear the thought of ruining their family finances and being a bother toeveryone.I too am in a similar position but I console myself with the thought that I amable to be of help to others by pointing out the direction to good health. Ihave been brought back to some semblance of normalcy by a homeopath aftersuffering an adverse vaccine reaction 26 years ago.Therefore I have turned into an anti-vaccine activist and try to put somesense into the medical establishment. I had the idea that vaccines could bedangerous but after

studying the phenomenon closely I am apalled that theintelligent doctors could allow this monstrosity under the premise of the"greater good". When you are affected whose good do such procedures do?I have written many times to the higher authorities pointing out that in Indiaas early as the 1950s, well meaning individuals had suggested integratedmedicine with the aim that our traditional, well proven medical base would haveserved its purpose while modern medicine experimented its procedures on thepopulation of other countries.Today many cases are fit only for modern medicine but nobody really puts athought to the obvious fact that it is modern medicine that is behind thepresent state of our health. Pushing chemicals into the body, assaulting it withchemotherapy, radiation, dangerous toxins, unnecessary surgeries is not my ideaof what healing should be.If we observe the world we see that the USA where modern

medicine is at itsbest has the highest incidence of complicated chronic diseases, with moreconditions being added almost on a daily basis. Sadly due to faulty planningIndia too has "progressed" similarly. My brother who is in Germany says peoplethere avoid allopathy, prefer to treat acute illnesses instead of "dealing" withthem through vaccines and are much better off in the process.I do not know how much you will agree with me Sir, but these are my ownconvictions after having seen the medical establishment from up close in thecapacity of a patient. I wish the doctors understood the importance of humanbeings and treated them as such instead of being engrossed in livers, hearts,intestines etc.Respect & Regards,Jagannath.hinducivilization , "Raman Khanna" <rshiyayati wrote:>> Dear Jagannath,>> As a physician trained (and in training) in the traditional allopathic arts,> I take exception to your generalizations in this post. Let me just clarify> them, because I feel that your ideas are widespread but mistaken, and that> part of the reason that many Indians get their medical care so late is> because they believe that allopathic medicine is evil and misguided.>> My response to your specific points:>> 1. The symptoms are NOT the disease in allopathic medicine. Many of the> drugs currently in use, and many of the ones being developed now, aim to> destroy the disease PROCESS, not the disease itself. Cancer is a perfect> example of this--we treat people who are otherwise feeling well all the> time, and make them feel SICKER (for a

little while) so that they may live> longer. In fact one of the most common criticisms of allopathic medicine is> that we ignore symptoms and focus too much on the disease itself, when> patients care more about the symptoms (like pain, nausea, vomiting,> diarrhea, and so on).>> 2. Lack of physical symptoms do NOT denote lack of disease. That is why> allopathic medicine recommends screening measures like colonoscopies,> mammograms, and so on, all with the goal of catching curable disease BEFORE> it becomes symptomatic.>> 3. Germs are not the only main cause of disease. There are many others that> we acknowledge, research, and understand: vascular abnormalities, genetic> defects, congenital malformations, deficient immunity, abnormal cellular> activity, and so on.>> 4. In allopathic medicine, the body CERTAINLY has a capacity to fight> disease entirely

without a doctor's help. That is why there is an increasing> emphasis on watchful waiting for many diseases--almost all colds/flus, some> bacterial infections, most musculoskeletal illnesses. We are taught from> almost our first clinical days that 90% of illnesses improve on their own.>> 6. Disease is NOT static in the allopathic view. If it were, it would be> easy to cure--develop one medicine targeting the specific problem, and the> patient is cured. In reality, allopaths very much understand the dynamism of> heart disease, cancer, bacterial infection; how cancers develop mutations> that make them harder to treat, how infections evolve resistance, and how> hearts accumulate plaque in spite of our best efforts. That is why allopathy> aims to constantly research and find new methods for fixing these problems.>> Some of your criticisms, of course, are valid. Doctors DO often think

they> know better than everyone else, and they often DO neglect the> social/spiritual side of things in their interactions with patients. (Some> are better than others at this.) They also need to do a better job of> understanding the whole patient and his/her priorities--is it getting> better, controlling symptoms, dying at home, etc? Regardless, such a> negative view of what allopaths do can cause serious problems for people. I> was recently in India and saw patients who came to the hospital with very> advanced diseases (cancer, heart disease, you name it). They had been> treated only by homeopaths with no training in modern medicine, and in the> process their diseases had not been helped. Even more tragically, many were> now beyond the point of being helped by modern medicine, too.>> Raman>> --> Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah> --Those who defend righteousness

are themselves defended by it.> Mahabharata, Shantiparva>> Raman Khanna> Northwestern University> www.ramankhanna.sulekha.com "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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