Elementary Illness: Elementary Cure

An illness consists of a set of present causes and the negative consequences of those causes, the signs and symptoms of the illness. Causes, in themselves are not an illness. They might not be causing any illness. Consequences, negative signs and symptoms, might be perceived as an illness, or might be several illnesses. An illness cannot be a cured and known to be cured without knowledge of its causes.

A curable illness is an illness that can be cured. It is cured by addressing its present causes.

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Why Conspiracy Therapy doesn’t Cure

Conspiracy therapy is a treatment (not a cure) invented by US military intelligence, to treat victims of war (actual and virtual), terrorizing, physical and mental abuse, intentional misinformation, cognitive dissonance, and mass formation psychosis, resulting in Stockholm syndrome. The patient is trained that when any inconvenient truth is presented, by anyone, they need only accuse the speaker of being a conspiracy theorist. The result is a Dunning-Kruger effect, where the patient acquires a sense of power and control such that they immediately feel better. As a result, the treatment is self-reinforcing as well.

This treatment, by intention, does not cure. Military intelligence forces have no desire to cure, only to maintain disorder and control. This therapy has been tested and found effective in every country and almost every language around the world.

cross-posted on TheoryofCure.com at http://theoryofcure.com/why-conspiracy-therapy-doesnt-cure/

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The Nobel Cure Problem

Imagine for a moment, that you have cured disease considered to be incurable today. You have discovered a powerful new cure. Where might your dream lead? Perhaps a Nobel Prize in Medicine? Does that seem possible. Take a moment to think about it.

Can you name a single cure that won the Nobel Prize in Medicine? Maybe you can – perhaps penicillin. Yes. Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases” in 1945.

Can you name the second cure that won the Nobel Prize? No you cannot. Over 130 Nobel Prizes have been issued in Physiology or Medicine. How about these? Which won for a cure?

Who won the Nobel Prize for their cure?

  1. 2015, 2015 to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura “for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites” and to Tu Youyou “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria” (the curative properties of Ivermectin)
  2. 2005, Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren “for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease” (curing ulcers)
  3. 1990, Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas “for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease” (curing by transplantation
  4. 1952, Selman Abraham Waksman “for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis” (curing tuberculosis)
  5. 1948, Paul Hermann Müller “for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods” (curing lice infections)
  6. 1945, Henrik Carl Peter Dam “for his discovery of vitamin K” and Edward Adelbert Doisy “for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K” (curing Vitamin K deficiency and subsequent bleeding)
  7. 1939 Gerhard Domagk “for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil” (curing gram-positive cocci infections)
  8. 1929, Christiaan Eijkman “for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin”Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins “for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins” (curing beriberi)
  9. 1923, Frederick Grant Banting and John James Rickard Macleod “for the discovery of insulin” (widely reported in the media as a cure for diabetes)
  10. 1901, Emil Adolf von Behring “for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths” (curing diphtheria)

All of the above? Some of the above? None of the above?

The correct answer is NONE OF THE ABOVE. All of the above were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the reasons listed, but

NONE for cures.

The cure phrases were added by me, to describe their discoveries from a cure perspective. But the Nobel Committee did not use the word cure for any of them.

The only Nobel Prize, in it’s entire 133 year history, awarded for a cure. Flemming for the antibiotic penicillin.

The Nobel Prize has not recognized a single “cure” before or since 1945. Their only, and the last award for a cure was almost 80 years ago. The Nobel Prize in Medicine, apparently, does not recognize cures. Does not award prizes for cures.

So, if you find a cure – it seems – they don’t care? Or is it just that there haven’t been any cures found since 1945?

Have any cures been discovered since 1945? Do any of the above awards go to someone who discovered a cure? Of course. Even insulin, now widely recognized as “not a cure for diabetes” was widely published as a cure when it was isolated.

The Nobel Prize in 2005 was given to “Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren” The Nobel Prize page for Barry J Marshall says: “Warren and Marshall proved in 1982 that patients could only be cured if the bacteria were eliminated.” But the prize is for “for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.” Not for curing any disease.

And in 1952, the Nobel Prize was given to Selman Abraham Waksman, and the Nobel Prize page on Walksman says “the hunt for a cure began” in 1939. But the prize does not mention cure, instead it says “for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.” and “which proved an effective medicine against tuberculosis.” The word cure is not used. No credit is given for any cure.

In 1948, the Nobel Prize was given to Paul Hermann Müller and his page on the Nobel Prize Website says that with DDT, “people could curb the spread of malaria and halt an epidemic of typhus,” but the word CURE is not used. There is also a note that DDT was discovered to have many dangers.

In 1945, the Nobel Prize was awarded to Henrik Carl Peter Dam with the information that “This knowledge became especially important in treating bleeding among small children.” The word “treatment” is used, but not cure.

In 1929, Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins‘ work on beriberi led to an understanding of the cause and subsequently the cure. But the Nobel Prize does not use the word cure in the prize description nor in the individuals detail pages.

In 1923, Frederick Grant Banting and John James Rickard Macleod discovered of insulin which revolutionized the treatments for diabetes. Insulin was reported by many to be the “cure” for diabetes – a claim that is debated today, although without a definition of diabetes cured. The Nobel Prize descriptions do not use the word cure.

Why doesn’t the Nobel committee use the word cure? I suspect it’s because they want to appear authoritative and scientific. And that’s the problem. Cured is not defined scientifically. Cured is not defined medically. Modern medicine has no general theory of cure and no test of cured for most diseases. It’s not hard to define cure clearly. I have studied the word cure, and the meanings of cure, cures, curing and cured since 2016 – and searched extensively for a medical or scientific definition. None exits. My most recent paper on Academia.edu Theory of Cure – 2023 Update provides a comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of all cures of any curable disease. But no such theory exists in the sciences or practices of medicine today. There is no interest in cure.

So, the Nobel committee has a problem, which they solve by avoiding the word “cure”.

So, if you discover a cure for an incurable disease – you might win a Nobel for your discovery, but not for your “cure”.

to your health, tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure

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Cure: illness, disease, sickness, epidemic, pandemic, and DISEASE

The book A New Theory of Cure clearly is about curing “curable illnesses.” But what if we want to cure a disease, a sickness, stop an epidemic, a pandemic, or even eradicate a DISEASE?

In the theory, a cure is not a thing, not a medicine, not a potion, drug, nor a food. A cure is an action that addresses the cause of a case of illness or disease.

Curing a case of Illness

An illness, in the theory of cure, is cured when its present cause has been successfully addressed. If there is more than one present cause – the illness is partially cured when one or more of the present causes are addressed and completely cured when all present causes are successfully addressed.

There are two basic causes of illness; and therefore, two basic types of cures. An illness might be caused by an attribute of diet, body, mind, spirit, community or environment that is either deficient or excessive. Attribute illnesses are cured by one-time transformations of the attribute cause – for example, by killing a bacterial parasite. Or, an illness might be caused by a process of diet, body, mind, spirit, community or environment, in which case the cure requires an ongoing transformation of the process cause, like the cure for obesity, which requires an ongoing cure process.

The temporal attribute of a cause of a curable illness might be temporary, repeating, ongoing, or chronic. If it is permanent – the illness is not curable. The illness caused is thus correspondingly temporary, repeating, ongoing, or chronic, matching the type of cause. Causes can change over time.

Illnesses cured by healing – the common cold, minor cuts and bruises, and COVID are temporary. Of course, each might be deadly in specific cases. Famine causes ongoing malnutrition – just as too much food causes a different kind of malnutrition we call obesity. In the 1500s, scurvy was sometimes a repeating illness because the cause arrived every winter. Depression might be temporary, repeating, ongoing, or chronic – depending on the cause. However, temporary or repeating depression is not recognized as a disease, only as a symptom – according to the medical definitions of mental disorders.

As we study cures of illness, we might notice that most cases of illness are easily cured. We suffer many minor cuts, bruises, sprains, as well as colds, flu, minor infections, and even indigestion, food poisoning, headaches and more throughout our lives. Most are cured in a relatively short time by our healthy bodies, minds, spirits, and communities.

Curing a case of Disease

What about a case of disease? What’s the difference between a case of illness and a case of disease? What’s the difference between curing an illness and curing a disease?

A disease, technically, requires a diagnosis. Diagnosis requires a disease definition by the prevailing medical system. When there is no diagnosis, even if a disease is present, no disease can be cured. Sometimes, a diagnosis can be made retroactively, although this is rare.

Some cases of disease are curable illnesses. some are not. Some curable illnesses can be mapped to diseases. Some cannot. Sometimes, a curable disease like pneumonia matches a curable illness; like pneumonia. However, most diseases cannot be cured medically, even if the illness can be cured. Medical authorities often claim “there is no cure for the common cold.” The same is true of many diseases, from influenza, measles, and COVID, to physical diseases like plantar fasciosis and vertigo; and so-called mental disorders like depression and bipolar.

Not only is “there no cure for the common cold… (influenza… measles…. COVID and more), there is no medical test for the common cold (and most other diseases) “cured.” Even though most cases of the common cold illness are easily cured – no common cold cured can be proven medically. There is no test for common cold cured – so it is not possible to claim a case of the common cold is cured by a treatment. Linus Pauling tried for years to prove Vitamin C cured many diseases, including the common cold and influenza – but without a test of common cold cured, much less a clear definition of common cold “cured by,” the task was impossible.

Of course, some diseases can be cured medically, and proven to be cured. Which ones?

A case of infectious disease can be cured medically, documented, and proven as cured when an approved medical treatment (drug or surgery) successfully addresses the infectious cause. That’s it. No other disease cures can be proven medically. No other tests for cured are generally recognized and accepted as medical proof of a cure.

Surgery is often classed as a cure. There’s just one small problem. There is no recognized “test of cured” for any medical surgery except for infectious diseases. Non-infectious diseases cured by surgery simply cannot be officially documented as cured. A surgeon might cure a hernia, or replace a knee joint, or even perform a heart transplant – but the word “cured” is not used. Surgical treatments are not counted as cured. Government and corporate medical insurance, for example, will pay for surgical treatments, but not for “cures.” Surgical cures are rarely recognized by any medical authority. The 1899 medical reference: Merck’s Manual of the Materia Medica, 1899 says “Iridectomy; the only cure” and Dictionary of Visual Science says, “A therapeutic iridectomy is the surgical removal of a portion of the iris for the cure or prevention of an ocular disease.” But – there is no medical test for ocular disease cured. It might be obvious, but it’s not scientific. Surgical cures are often subject to the standard joke “the surgery was a success, but the patient died anyway.” The word cured is omitted in favour of the success of the medical system.

Curing a Sickness

We often use words like illness, sickness, disease, disorder, medical condition and more without clear definitions, much less distinctions. However, there are generally recognized distinctions in medical theory.

A patient goes to the doctor with an illness; and goes home with a disease.
– source unknown

An illness is what the patient has. A disease is what the doctor diagnoses, which might be aligned with the illness; or not. In North America, a disorder is the word used for what a psychiatrist diagnoses. A sickness is a community view of the illness or disease, which might align with illness or disease, or sometimes not. In this image, all three are aligned.

An employer might agree that a sick worker diagnosed with a disease, needs time to recover. On the other hand, a religious leader (and their followers) might judge a normal behaviour or the person who undertakes a specific behaviour as “sick,”

As a result, we might say that a case of sickness is only cured when the community’s perception changes. There is no medical test for a sickness cured.

Curing an Epidemic

Curing a case of an epidemic can be technically easier than curing a case of disease – although the word cure is not used. An epidemic is a situation where a number of patients – who might be people, animals – like chickens – or even plants suffer from the same illness or disease. An epidemic does not require a disease, does not require a medical diagnosis. The claim of an epidemic might be made by a business owner, the media, or a government official with no medical expertise. For example, we might have an epidemic of violence, or vandalism, or even a plague of “dancing.

Epidemiologists study causes and consequences of medical epidemics and recommend actions to address them. Epidemiology does not need, and does not have a definition of “cure” or “cured.” Timmreck’s 1998 An Introduction to Epidemiology says “Epidemiology is more interested in prevention and control of diseases than secondary and tertiary curative approaches.” What that means is not clear, but in general, dictionaries of epidemiology do not contain a definition of cure.

But epidemiologists cure epidemics. They just don’t use the word cure when they recommend that all chickens in a barn be killed and the barn be burned down or sanitized to cure the epidemic. Sometimes, it goes beyond surgery, where the “operation was a success, but the patient died anyway” to “all of the patients were killed so the epidemic could be cured.” Of course most epidemic cures don’t require killing all of the patients.

Curing a Pandemic

According to the World Health Organization, “A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease.” This is a political definition. How political? The WHO Pandemic prevention, preparedness and response accord says “It could be anticipated that a new accord could define the term “pandemic” as part of its terms.” It’s official, pandemic is not officially defined.

We might ask, as well, when does a pandemic become “not a pandemic?” When is a pandemic cured? That, too, is a political definition, not a medical one.

We can’t “cure” a pandemic. We take actions, and time passes. Over time, the pandemic fades away. The disease might become endemic, like HIV, or it might disappear like the disease that caused 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Is the pandemic cured? It depends not on the pandemic, but on how we define cure.

Curing a DISEASE

The word disease has two meanings. although the second is generally ignored by dictionaries, even medical dictionaries. Merriam-Webster defines disease as “a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms.” That is to say, a “case of disease.” However, when we speak of “searching for a cure of cancer, or AIDS, or arthritis, or when we say “there is no cure for the common cold (disease),” we are speaking about the general collection of cases of diseases or a set of diseases. The entry for disease in Mosby’s Medical Dictionary 9th Edition makes this distinction clear, defining disease as:

  1. a condition of abnormal vital function involving any structure, part, or system of
    an organism. (a specific case of a disease)
  2. a specific illness or disorder characterized by a recognizable set of signs and symptoms attributable to heredity, infection, diet, or environment. (the medical definition of a disease used for diagnosis, a DISEASE)

We don’t cure DISEASES, only cases. We might search for a cure for pneumonia – we have found many cures for pneumonia – but none of them cures “the disease pneumonia” – they only cure some specific cases of pneumonia.

Sometimes, we eradicate a disease. According to OurWorldInData, we have eradicated exactly two diseases: smallpox and Rinderpest. It’s interesting to search OurWorldInData for “cure.” There are no statistics for cures, only for “acute care beds.” In addition, the first two references to cure are “no cure exists” and “can no longer be cured…

Theory of Cure

There is plenty of nonsense, and not much sense, said about cure, cures, curing and cured. Only when we study the theory of cure, can we begin to understand.

The book A New Theory of Cure is about curing individual cases of illness, which can sometimes be applied to curing cases of disease and might be logically extended to cure disorders, sicknesses, and even epidemics and pandemics.

to your health, tracy

Author: A New Theory of Cure (there is no “old” theory of cure in today’s modern medicine)

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The CURED Problem

Have you ever been cured? Have you ever gone to a doctor, been diagnosed with a disease – and later been cured? Does your medical record show “cured?” Do you know anyone who has been cured of any disease? Do their medical records show their disease is cured?

Have you ever been cured of a disease where the government or the medical systems maintain statistics about cured? Are any of disease cures monitored and documented statistically?

Yes, you have been cured. No. It has not been documented. Yes, members of your family and friends have been cured. No, their cures have not been documented. Medically, cured is rarely defined, cures are rarely documented, and not counted except in specific limited instances like clinical studies.

Cured is not medically defined for most diseases. Cured is defined scientifically and medically for an infectious disease cured by an anti-infectious approved drug or surgery that kills, removes or disables the infectious agent. Cured is not medically defined for any non-infectious disease. In addition, cured is not medically defined – cannot be proven – for any non-approved treatment. As a result, most cases of cured are simply ignored.

Have you ever had a cold? Cured? Influenza? Cured? Food Poisoning? Cured? Measles? Cured? COVID-19 or any variant? Cured? Cured is not medically defined for any of these diseases. Almost everyone is cured. Every cured case is simply ignored. “There is no cure for the common cold.” So, no cases are cured.

But wait, there’s more. much more. Have you ever had a wart? Is it gone? Cured? Does anyone exist who has never had a wart? Is there anyone who has never had a wart cured? I don’t think so, not any adult.

We all know people who have been cured. But our medical systems and governments have no statistics for cured. Cured diseases are not important. Maybe they’re just trivial? Or are they?

Do you know anyone who has been cured of cancer? Do their medical records show cured? No, they don’t Doctors are allowed to tell patients they are cured – although most cancer doctors refuse to use the word cure and advise their staff to avoid the word cure, some actually say “You’re cured.” But there is no record. There is no proof. Individual patients cancers, individual cancers are cured. We can’t cure breast cancer, or skin cancer, or prostate cancer, we can only cure individual cases. Cancer cured is not medically defined on an individual basis. But in individual cases, cancer cures are only monitored statistically using measures of cure-rate. Cure rate is the percentage of cases we believe were cured by an approved medical treatment because the patient is still alive and has no cancer X years later. Thus we have 5 year cure rates and 10 year cure rates. But no individual case of cancer can be documented as cured. Cancer cured is not defined medically – there is no medical test, no scientific test for cancer cured. None. It is interesting to note that CANCER.GOV reports, in 2020, there were over 1 million 800 thousand new cases of cancer. At the same time, the American Academy of Dermatology claims there are over 3 million 400 thousand new cases of skin cancer. Twice as many skin cancers as CANCER.GOV cancers. Were those missing cases actually cured? A search for cure on the Academy of Dermatology webpage brings, as the first reference, “Dermatology is a great field — you don’t cure anybody, so they keep coming back!”

When we search Amazon.com for cancer cure, it shows “over 2,000 results.” A search for diabetes cure shows over 7000 books. Back Pain cure, over 4000. Heart disease cures, over 4000. Depression cure, over 1000. Common cold cure, over 1000. Autism cure, over 800. Chronic Disease cure over 800. Addiction cure, over 700. Parkinson’s cure, over 700. Arthritis cure, over 600. Epilepsy cure, almost 500. Alzheimer’s cure, over 400. Crohn’s cure, o ver 300. Influenza cure, over 200. Hypertension, almost 200. Bipolar, over 100. Schizophrenia cure, over 100. A search for books about “cure” shows over 20,000 results, although many of these are fiction. Are they all fiction?

Every one of these books contains numerous case studies of cured, claims of patients and diseases cured. Were any cases actually cured? Nobody cares. Medically, these diseases are incurable. Cures don’t count. Cures are not counted.

A search for scurvy cure shows over 50 books , but. No authoritative medical text documents a cure for scurvy. Instead, medical texts recommend treatments and preventatives for scurvy.

Worldmeters shows over 600 million people have RECOVERED from COVID. The word cured is not avoided. Doctors have been die-licensed for claiming to cure COVID. Claiming COVID cured is forbidden. I have found, in my constant ongoing research into cured, I have found some, but less than 100 cases of COVID cured recognized scientifically. I challenge anyone to find them. Good luck. Officially, no cases of COVID have been cured. Therefore, there is no cure for COVID.

It is possible to study cures. It is possible to understand cured. The science is trivial. Develop a scientific theory of cure. Define cured scientifically. Test for cured. Document.

There is no interest. Our current medical systems have no theory of cure, no theory of cured. So no cured are seen. No cured are possible. No cured are documented. No cured can be proven.

We will not find a cure for cancer until we can recognize the cured. We have a long history of cancer cure claims. All are simply dismissed. Claims that patients were cured are dismissed.

We will not find a cure for the common cold, until we can recognize the cured. Only after we can recognize the cured. It’s interesting to read Linus Pauling’s books about curing the common cold. Pauling did not have a test for “common cold cured.” So he could not prove any patient was cured. So he couldn’t come close to proving “the cause of the cured.

The Theory of Cure, as published in the book A New Theory of Cure and the paper Theory of Cure, 2023 Update provides a foundation for understanding all cures of all illnesses and diseases – diagnosed or not. It’s time to study cure.

To your health, tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure

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