Why holistic medical systems oppose modern medicine.

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Dear Friends, I am enclosing a comparative analysis of the modern medical view of disease vis a vis the holistic or alternative medical system view which is more spiritual in origin. I had prepared this for another group and have retrieved it from my "sent" box. The modern medical principles may be surmised as under; 1. The symptoms are the disease. Therefore efforts should be made to destroy the symptoms to destroy the disease. 2. Lack of physical symptoms or "negative test results" 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. Problems at the physical level is the

last stage of disease. 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 severely 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. All alternate methods recognise the life force, the vital energy

that maintains life, and say that dis-ease occurs when the normal flow of the life force is disturbed by physical, mental, emotional or spiritual anomalies. There is also an attempt to recognise man as a part of nature, both sustaining it and being sustained by it. It is only recently that streams of medicine like eco-medicine and many branches of psychiatry (body-mind medicine) are peeping into the complex nature of disease and unravelling the time-tested truths that have always been a part of our grandmother recipes. By following the principles of alternative healing methods we don't "fall back into superstition" but uncover our roots, our connection with nature and the Universe. Alternative medicine is based upon harmony unlike modern medicine which harps on enmity and fear. I think now the position of modern medicine vis a vis alternate medicine is somewhat clear. Keeping in view the new paradigm of interconnectivity being advocated by

scientists (new to the modern, not the ancient), the purely physical and reductionist views of modern medicine seem crude and primitive. Merely flashing gadgets or diagnostic tools do not lead us closer to good health. The ultimate reality is a subject of intuition and personal realisation. Health is thus a personal matter. It is the adoption of faulty methods that has brought us to a stage where even normal and instinctive bodily functions cannot be performed without medication. Regards, Jagannath

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