This post is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of The Elements of Cure, which articulates and explores the basic concepts of cure, cures, curing and cured.
Health is honest and true
All cures come from health. We often try to trick a disease. We cannot trick health. Illness is caused by an absence of healthiness, cured by improving healthiness.
Causal cures are healthy cures, improving healthy life processes of the patient. Many causal illnesses are cured by health, naturally, sometimes before we become conscious of them. Sometimes a life process changes, without intention, without awareness, mysteriously curing an illness.
Only healing can cure an injury. Healing is part of growth, always active, even when no illness is present, facilitated and aided by healthiness, by proper diet, by physical, mental, spirit, and community exercise, rest, healthiness, and support. The immune system is also a healing system, a powerful curing system.
Transformation is change. We often fear change, and rightfully so. Change moves us forward in life. Change can cure. But change can also cause illness. Transformations that cure are healthy, but many curative transformations also produce injuries and pain, and require healing. Transformations can be risky. All medical cures are transformations.
Every illness is a consequence of a decrease in healthiness and causes further decreases in healthiness. Healthy change is the best cure. Health is the best preventative.
The cure for any illness is an improvement in health, a specific kind of healthiness for each illness. When we raise healthiness, we reduce unhealthiness, and illnesses are cured.
How many diseases are best cured by health? When we make cures our goal, all of them. Even incurable conditions are often best treated with improvements in healthiness.
We need to spend time, energy, and money pursuing cures, searching for healthier cures, less time pursuing treatments, patents, and profits, with no intention to cure.
At present, health care is often a euphemism for di$ea$e-care, more about dollars than health. No health clinic cares for us when we are healthy. Illness, curable illnesses, might be present long before a specific disease is diagnosed. But no insurance will pay for treatments without a diagnosis of disease. Insurance pays for the best practice treatment, irrespective of whether or not it cures. No insurance will pay for the best cure, when the best cure is not a medicine, but an improvement in healthiness. Will insurance pay for the best preventative? Not unless it is on the list of insurable treatments. They will not pay for cures either – unless they are on the list. With insurance, results do not count. Bureaucracies rule by rules, not by results.
We can visualize the concepts of illnesses and cures in this diagram:
Every illness has a cause.
Every cause is either a process cause (an active process or absence of process over time), a force cause (excessive stress or absence of stress) or an attribute cause (a something or absence of something).
These three types of causes produce three distinct types of illnesses, respectively: causal illnesses, injury illnesses, and attribute illnesses. We cure each types of illness with a different cure action, respectively: causal cures (curing), healing cures (healing), and transformational cures (transforming).
A single causal chain causes a single element of illness. When the cause is repeating, it causes a repeating illness. When the cause is chronic, it causes a chronic illness. Repeating and chronic are attributes of a cause.
Only a specific illness can be cured, in a specific patient, one illness element at a time. Every patient is unique, with unique causal chains of illness. Every illness is unique. Every cure is unique, sometimes even for the same disease in the same patient at a later time in their life. We can study, learn, and understand similarities to find cures, but each cure is a unique success story, an anecdote.
As we study elements of illness, elements of cause, chains of cause, the repeating and chronic nature of causes, and the elements of curing, we will learn to take simple diseases apart, and cure them, in many cases with health, not medicines. We will learn useful truths about curable illnesses, incurable conditions, and come to understand the fundamental difference between an illness and a chronic illness.
We can begin with simple illness elements and simple cures, progress to higher understanding, developing techniques to encompass more complex illnesses and diseases, more complex cures.
It’s time for a science of medicine, time for a science of cures.
to your health, tracy
Author: The Elements of Cure
Author: A Theory of Cure
