Monthly Archives: February 2016

What is Healthicine? What is the theory of Healthicine? What is the philosophy of Healthicine?

What is healthicine? Is it a word? (it’s not in the dictionary). Is it theory? Is it a practice?  Philosophers contemplate the difference between theory and reality – and wonder if reality is just another theory. Mathematicians and scientists define everything as … Continue reading

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The Three Cures and their Two Dimensions

Can you name the three basic types of cures?Every illness can be cured. If we are to cure every type of illness, we need to study three categories of cures. Some illnesses need only a single type of cure.  Some need two types … Continue reading

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Why Medicine gives up on Cures

Can you see the owl, hiding in the pepper tree?  It’s not that hard, once you know what you’re looking for. But if you weren’t looking for an owl, it’s just a tree. Medicine, has given up on cures, given … Continue reading

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Defining Health, to Improve Healthiness

For centuries, medical experts and philosophers have attempted to define health, with little success. We might forgive Hippocrates for describing health “as a delicate balance of four fluids: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm, with imbalance leading to illness,” or … Continue reading

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Mr President: “America Can’t Cure Cancer”

President Obama, I applaud your initiative to cure cancer. Joe Biden is a very capable person.  However, it is not possible for America to cure cancer today.  It is much less possible, yes, less than impossible, to cure cancer within the … Continue reading

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