Understanding The Nature of Poor Health and Disease
Modern Medicine--Flawed Origins
Lyle Loughry 05/22/2004
The entire approach and foundation of Orthodox (Modern, Traditional, Allopathic) Medicine is based on a flawed concept, Luis Pasteur's Germ Theory. According to this theory, a disease condition is viewed as an isolated event, and confined to the specific area in which it manifests itself. Examples of this would include an ear, eye or gum infection, lung cancer, skin cancer, etc. Under this theory, for unknown reasons, microbes or tumors indiscriminately grow in the patient and must be cut out of the body (surgery), burned (radiation), or poisoned (drugs). In other words, the solution is sought through mechanical and chemical means. Attempts to understand WHY the infection or disease condition appeared in the first place, are seldom explored. Resorting to the "quick fix," with a prescription for drugs to smother the symptoms, is the typical orthodox answer. This process CANNOT bring health to a diseased body, and more often than not, friendly bacteria that promote and support health are killed off, and diseased-oriented microorganisms assume control, because the actual cause of the disease has been left untreated.
This was the opinion of Antoine Beauchamp, a contemporary of Pasteur. Beauchamp believed that the ENVIRONMENT, or the ECOLOGY of the blood played the critical role in deciding whether disease conditions would manifest, or not. This alternative approach explores the stressors (biological, chemical, emotional, environmental and psychological) in a patient's life that would cause a weakening of a particular energy field, and would, in turn, allow the manifestation of a disease condition in a weakened area. Beauchamp believed that all energy systems within the body need to exist in a state of balance or equilibrium. It is imbalance that leads to conditions of discomfort (dis-ease) which eventually spirals into illness, if not corrected. This was not a new theory that Beauchamp was promoting at the time. Ayurvedic medicine, practiced by both the Chinese and Indians, had proven this practice for thousands of years.
Modern, or Orthodox medicine chooses to utilize poisonous substances (chemical drugs) in non-lethal (hopefully) dosages in order to suppress symptoms in an affected area. This approach neither addresses the cause of the disease condition, nor is it responsible for healing the patient. Rather the use of the drugs often will temporarily mask the outer symptoms of the malady, while at the same time, drive the disease deeper into the body . . . only to reappear at a later date as a more serious, chronic health condition.
One of the many flaws of this "orthodox" approach is that it focuses on the disease condition itself, rather than the patient. The term wholostic (or holistic) originated to distinguish those physicians whose diagnostic process takes into consideration all of the physical, emotional and spiritual energies enterracting with the patient.
This honest difference of opinions in the philosophies and views on the origin of disease is not the only difference between Orthodox (allopathic) and alternative medicine. Truth be known, there is a concentrated, organized agenda, apart from the practitioners, that has been concocted, planned, and contrived by the international pharmaceutical companies and organized medicine to suppress any and every alternative, non-drug therapy that actually works. Why? he answer is ugly, but true--MONEY! Simply put, the pharmaceutical companies want people to keep coming back for more treatments, which benefits the physicians, and more drugs, which benefits the manufacturer of those drugs.
A "cured" patient is a lost source of income, whereas a sick patient who is marginally "improved" is a manageable patient (asset). Managing patients means routine office visits and renewing of drug prescriptions. Therefore, a "manageable" patient is an ongoing source of income, for both; a cash cow if you will. Multiply that by a few hundred million people and you can begin to see why this deceit is being perpetrated. The profits from this so-called "healthcare" industry are staggering. Now, and this is really sad; we have more than 40 percent of the American population on prescription drugs, almost 120 MILLION people, many of them being children. God only knows how many prescriptions that represents, since most people take more than one, nearly all of which are medically unnecessary, and two-thirds of which are prescribed to cover up side-effects from previously written script. In addition to spending billions on advertising, the pharmaceutical industry utilizes an additional tool to promote drug "sales." A recent ABC report that said pharmaceutical companies spend over two billion dollars, sending doctors to more than 314,000 events every year. Let's be honest, while doctors are riding the dollar of pharmaceutical companies, enjoying all the many perks of these "events," how likely are they to question the validity of drug companies, or their products?
To summarize, the thrust of the "orthodox" (modern, allopathic, traditional) pharmaceutical agenda is to provide temporary relief, while never addressing the case of the disease condition, insuring regular visits to the doctor's office, and requires the patient to routinely return to the pharmacy to refill his or her prescriptions. Whether you choose to believe it or not, this is what the game is all about folks, plain and simple. Deny it or deal with it . . . Stick with it or get out . . . YOUR choice.
Alternative, Natural Healing:
Your immune system, and your immune system, alone, is responsible for healing, and recovery from ill health! The use of chemical drugs and vaccines represent an assault on your immune system. In some instances, the use of a particular drug might be an appropriate choice to speed healing, but the use of natural therapies and substances normally found in nature that can more effectively address the cause of the disease condition should be considered first, because natural substances work in harmony with nature, not fight against it. These natural substances assist and stimulate the body to truly cure itself, as the Creator intended, without the terrible, sometimes devastating side-effects.
The human body is predisposed to heal itself and to exist as a healthy, thriving organism. We inhibit this process by ingesting unhealthy, processed, enzyme-dead foods, fouling our inner-environment with toxins, and then relying on poisonous substances to treat the conditions that arise from such behavior. Additionally, the environment has grown increasingly hostile to anyone who lives in the industrialized world, and those to whom most look for help and balance are increasingly unable to cope with the challenges. It is for these very reasons that anyone wanting to change the odds in their favor needs to take seriously their "pursuit of wellness," and become increasingly more responsible for their own health. It is very unlikely that you will find similar information in the mainstream media, or from your Primary Caregiver, or from the drug companies, because they're part of the problem, not the solution. Your being well and healthy does not serve their financial bottom line. However, you can still glean helpful information if you know where to look. This website is dedicated to helping you do just that.
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