Why alternate medicine opposes allopathy.

June 27, 2005

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.

June 27, 2005

Jagannath, thank you. I have been following this issue closely for many years

and I have accumulated a broad range of knowledge, reading and life experience

on the subject.

I have a persistent dream of creating a longitudinal study to compare the

morbidity and mortality rates of people who believe in the rightness of

allopathic medicine and follow their doctors' advice, against people who avoid

doctors or who don't follow the advice of MD's, for whatever reason. It would

have to correct for issues such as diet and lifestyle.

What I don't have is the money, resources or connections to get this project in

motion.

If anybody on this list has those kinds of connections and would like to

collaborate with me at some level, I would love to hear from you.

Thank you all,

Nina

Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01

Jun 27, 2005 8:16 AM

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