Yesterday, I published an update to the 2018 research paper A Definition and Exploration of Cure. When the paper was originally published, I had not yet understood the concept of present cause, that only addressing a present cause can produce a cure. This paper is now aligned with the latest editions of the paper A Theory of Cure and the books A Calculus of Curing, Cure, and The Elements of Cure.
If you are interested in understanding the latest theories about cure, read this paper or the other material. You can search elsewhere for competing theories – good luck. There are no other general theories of cure in today’s conventional or alternative medical practices.
A bit of history of my research into a theory of cure.
In May, 2012 I began to notice huge cracks in the medical concept of cure, and in 2014 published the post Why Can’t We Cure? where I documented my research findings that there was (and still is) no scientific medical definition of the word cure. I noted that of the top ten best selling medicines from 2011, not one could cure any disease – of the top 70 best selling drugs in 2013 none cured any disease.
In 2013, I published The Myth of Alternative Medicines – the myth that alternative medicines actually exist as a scientific concept – which was also published in Spanish as El Mito de las Medicinas Alternatives. The original post was updated in 2016 as I learned more.
As I looked closer, it only got worse. In November 2014, I published a report of Diseases Cured, but not by Medicines, where I noted that most medicines are symptomicines – addressing signs and symptoms of disease – with no attempts to cure.
As I studied chronic diseases, and reported that The Center for Managing Chronic Disease says “Chronic Disease is a long-lasting condition that can be controlled but not cured.” and added, they are simply wrong. What they should have said is: Chronic disease cannot be cured by medicines and I published How Cesar Milan Cures Chronic Illness.
In 2015, I published the A Theory of Cure, a first exploration of the concept of cure, there being no published comprehensive theory of cure in any medical text or reference. I proposed a simple theory of cure based on a tautology “every curable illness can be cured” and a simple concept “an illness is cured when the cause has been successfully addressed.”
In August 2015, I concluded that no-one could find a cure for cancer, simply because cancer cured is not medically defined. I wrote a hypothetical story of two doctors, caught in a Cancer Cure Catch-22, one enthusiastic to find a cure, and the other pointing out that there is no medical test for cancer cured – so no cures can be found, if found they cannot be proven. Since then I learned that not one of the 64000 clinical studies into cancer treatments contains a definition of and test for cancer cured. If a cure occurs in one of those clinical studies, it is out of scope and cannot be documented. I also checked, the multi-billion dollar US 21st Century Cures Project does not contain a definition of cancer cured and does not require one for funding grant approval.
In September, I wrote a hypothetical discussion between two doctors debating the meaning of cure, and being confused when the actually consult medical references like Websters Dictionary for English Learners, which defines CURE as “the act of making someone healthy again after an illness,” as if we only cure after the illness is gone. And a second post, Understanding Medical Cures, where the doctors continued their frustrating exploration of cure in major medical reference texts.
In November 2105, I published Myths and Realities about Cures, where I documented and countered many myths, including:
- most medicines cure any illnesses (most do not)
- most cures come from medicines (most do not)
- there is no cure for the common cold (most colds are cured by health)
- alternative medicine cures better (there is no such evidence)
- clinical studies search for cures (most clinical studies do not define or test cured)
- placebos sometimes cure (placebo cures, if they occur are ignored)
- we don’t know the cure, but we’ll know it when we see it (we have no test for cured)
- many illnesses are incurable (it is not possible to prove any illness incuable)
- medical reference texts document cures (medical texts prefer to document treatments)
- we are searching for a cure for cancer (cancer research studies treatments, not cures)
In December 2015, I explored the issue of anecdotal cures, and came to the simple and obvious conclusion that every cure is a single case, every true cure is an anecdote. I published one of my most popular posts, “I Cured My Plantar Fasciitis and Nobody Gives a Damn“, with a history of medical references to plantar fasciitis – through many name changes, noting that even though most patients were cured, and many non-medical authorities advised correctly how to cure, no medical text documented a cure and many recommended dangerous non-curative treatments.
In January 2016, I published The Cure is the Cause, where I concluded that a cure is the only true proof of the cause of an illness. Epidemiology studies statistical causes – and ignores cures. Statistical causes do not produce cures.
Later that same January, I published The Lost Cures, which was also published in Spanish as Las Curaciones Perdidas, where I noted that all cures not-caused-by-a-medicine are invisible, lost from the views of conventional medicine.
In February, I published a list of reasons Why Medicine has Given Up on Cures, including why modern medical texts ignore cures, why pharmaceutical companies ignore cures, why researchers ignore cures, why medical fundraisers ignore cures, and why the media is giving up on cures – even as it loves to embellish and publish non-cure claims as cures. In April I published The Invisible Cures, documenting various types of cures that simply disappear from medical view. In May I researched scurvy in several authoritative medical reference texts and noticed that not one recommended a cure, leading to the publication of Why We can’t Cure Scurvy – which was updated in 2017 with the latest information on cure.
In July 2016, as I hunted for references to cure in a used bookstore, I noticed a copy of Webster’s New World Medical Dictionary, third edition, and turned to the letter C. The word cure was not defined, and neither was incurable. I wrote a joke post, hypothesizing How Webster’s Editors Removed “CURE” from the dictionary. I quickly learned that many current and historical medical dictionaries do not contain the word cure, even though some use the word cure to define incurable, and that NO MEDICAL REFERENCE contains a definition of cure, leading to the publication of The Disappearance of Cure from Modern Medicine.
In August 2016, I published Searching for a Zipless Cure, pointing out the constant nonsense of searching for a perfect cure for any disease.
In February 2017, I reported How I Cured My Smoker’s Cough – with a Dishrag another true story of a cure – without medicines. In May I published Books That Cure, documenting a few books that actually present cures – all ignored by conventional medicine. This discussion was explored further in the book A Calculus of Curing.
In June, 2018, I self-published the book A Calculus of Curing, a comprehensive exploration of the concepts, causes, and cures of all types of illness and shortly afterwards, The Elements of Cure, a shorter summary of cure. Both books have been updated with my latest findings as I continue to explore the concepts of cure.
I then set out to distill the concepts of these books, and published two research papers, A Definition and Exploration of Cure and a Theory of Cure on Academia.edu.
To date, I have had very little response to my studies. My papers have never been peer reviewed. There is no interest. There are no medical authorities, anywhere in the world, who study the general theory and practices of cure. Someday, I hope to have someone to argue with… As it stands today, I seem to be the only authority on the theory of cure.
to your health, tracy
Author: The Elements of Cure
Author: A Theory of Cure
