Why holistic healers are against modern medicine.

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Dear Friends,Many people fail to understand why the holistic healers have a quarrel withthe allopaths. Modern medicine with all its fancy drugs, swanky research andglistening gadgets seems almost invincible and more than sufficient to conquerdisease. But once you have been in the receiving end of this "science"especially while suffering from a chronic disease, you realise that all thatglitters may not be gold.The allopathic principles may be surmised as under;1. The symptoms are the disease. Therefore destroy the symptoms to destroy thedisease. 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 hisskills. 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 forms of holistic healing are of the opinion that;1. Symptoms are the body's language trying to point out the source of theproblem or trying to let the body/mind/intelligence complex know that someanomaly 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 processestaking place within the body which is trying to throw away toxins of theprocess. 5. The patient knows best, the physicians job is to assist the patientin 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 aninternal error has ocurred laying down the foundation of disease. In some casesthe germs also may be the scavengors trying to remove the waste productsgenerated 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 theinherent idea is to achieve equilibrium and not to lead to further chaos. Theposition changes only at advanced old age when the soul starts preparing to shedthe 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/vitalforce in the first place.I think now the position of modern medicine vis a vis holistic medicine issomewhat clear. I would love the distinguished members of the list toadd/distract to/from what I have tried to

discuss.Love & Regards, Jagannath. "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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