“We might wish to believe that when a medical condition judged to be incurable or a disability is subsequently cured, the curative action has changed it to a curable condition, and the cure is documented. However, most such cases are ignored or actively dismissed.” — A Theory of Cure
Searching for a cure is a myth. There have always been and continue to be many cure claims for arthritis, back pain, depression, diabetes, even cancers. All are ignored medically and scientifically.
Not one can be validated scientifically. Not one can be disproven scientifically either, in a medical system where cure is without a definition. We don’t study cure. So we cannot study cures.
In the history of medicine, there are many theories of disease, none which are adequate to produce cures consistently. There is only agreement on a single fact:
Every illness is caused by …
In ancient Greek medicine, illness comes from an imbalance of the four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), illness is caused by unhealthy yin/yang; heat/cold; interior/exterior; and excess/deficiency. In Ayurveda, the three basic humours Vata, Pitta, and Kapha govern health and illness is caused when they are out of alignment. In modern medicine, infectious illnesses are caused by the infectious agent. Non-infectious illnesses seem to have have statistical innumerable causes but no cure causes.
All theories agree is that “Every illness is caused by (something).
Every illness is cured by?
In ancient Greek medicine, the cure is a rebalancing. In Traditional Chinese medicine, the cure is to address the yin/yang, hot/cold, deficiency/excess. In Aurveda, the cure is to address the issues in Vata, Pitta, and Kapha.
However, all of those theories are ignored by today’s conventional medicine. An illness caused by an infectious agent can be cured by killing or removing the infectious agent.
In today’s conventional medicine, there are no other cures. None. It seems obvious that “scurvy is cured with Vitamin C“. Unfortunately, it’s obvious and wrong. No current medical text claims that Vitamin C can CURE scurvy. Scurvy cured is not defined medically.
In today’s conventional medicine, “there is no cure for the common cold.” Nor is there a cure for influenza, mumps, measles, nor covid. Even as millions, billions of cases are cured, our medical systems deny them – they are not “medical cures.“
Medically, Cured is Undefined for Most Diseases
Medically, cured is undefined for all non-infectious diseases. There is no medical test of cured for arthritis, back pain, Crohn’s, cancer, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, gout, hypertension… and many more.
There is no cure, and no test of cured for the common cold, influenza, and any disease cured by natural healthiness.
There are no cures and no test of cured for any mental disorder.
There are no cures and no test of cured for any chronic disease.
As a result, there can be no cures of any disease cured by any alternative medicine or alternative medical treatment. No cures can be proven in conventional medicine, therefore no cures are possible, therefore no alternative cures are possible either.
How Might we Find Cures?
To find cures, we need a comprehensive definition of cure, cures, curing and cured that covers every illness (diagnosable as a disease or not) and every disease. Is that possible? Of course it is.
A Theory of Cure, provides a comprehensive definition of cure for any illness, based on cause. When an illness is present, the cause of the illness is also present. Past causes cannot be accessed to cure. The cure is to address the PRESENT cause of the illness. There are two basic types of causal elements – only two. There are two basic types of cures. The theory can be aligned with every historical and present theory and practice of medicine. It simply fills in the theoretical blanks.
Curing vs Healing
What’s the difference between healing and curing? They use the exact same principles, addressing the same two causes – in each case the present cause of the illness must be addressed. Understanding the difference between curing and healing is trivial. Both are cures.
Curing consists of conscious, intentional actions that cure.
Healing consists of unconscious intentional actions that cure.
Curing is not So Hard
When we study cure, seriously, scientifically, we might notice something interesting.
Most illnesses are trivial. We get a small cut, a bruise, an upset stomach, a mosquito bite. We hardly consider them to be illnesses. The cures are trivial. Some are a bit harder – influenza is normally healed within a few days. The common cold is easily healed in a week, but we search for faster cures, ignoring the actual cures. We don’t visit a doctor, and if we do, the advice is “take two aspirin (or the latest patented painkiller) and call me in the morning.” We visit the doctor when we can’t cure it ourselves, when it is not trivial. Doctors also ignore the trivial illnesses.
As a result, we fail to notice that:
Most Cures are Trivial
We ignore most cures, we fail to understand cures, and therefore we cannot develop any comprehensive theories of cure – so cures are ignored. Gradually, we have progressed to fearing cures. We fear bogus cures, fake cures, quack cures, and alternative cures. They can’t be true, because modern medicine cannot cure. If our powerful medical sciences cannot cure the common cold, how can chicken soup cure?
A Theory of Cure
The book, A Theory of Cure, provides a comprehensive theory of cure, ranging from simple cures of minor cuts and bruises to complex cures like a heart transplant. The underlying theory is the same in all cases.
to your health, tracy
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Today, there is no recognized theory of cure, so we have no history of any theory of cure. There is no medical nor scientific definition of cured for all diseases. As I became aware of this, in mid-2016, I embarked on a mission to define cure, cures, curing, and cured – to create this theory of cure.
As I completed more than 5 years of research into cure, I have published a series of smaller and smaller books, aiming to get to the clearest possible definition of cure. TLDR? Here are the key points of the theory of cure:
An elementary illness has a single cause.
The cause of a present illness is present, not a past cause.
An elementary cure addresses a single cause.
Illness is a judgement. Cured is a judgement.
Curing is intentionally addressing present causes of illness.
Healing is unconsciously addressing present causes of illness.
The first, A Calculus of Curing published in June 2018 and also published a colour edition under the name Cure, contains almost 300 pages in a rambling conversational mode, switching between discussions of medical theory, viewed by patients and practitioners in conversation. It is a light hearted and also a serious look at the concepts of cure, cures, curing, and cured.
The second, The Elements of Cure published in January 2019 and also published under the name The Science of Cure is more scientific and theoretical with less conversation – and as a result is less than 150 pages.
In November 2019, I published a 27 page paper summary of the theory of cure, freely available on Academia.edu and Researchgate.net. These papers were updated as a result of further research and analysis on March 23, 2020.
This refinement process led to the publishing of the book A Theory of Cure, a more precise summary in just under 50 pages.
At each stage of this process, my understandings of cure were challenged and updated – often requiring significant changes to material that had been previously published.
After publishing A Theory of Cure, I started a process to create a one-page summary of the theory of cure. I wondered – is it possible? It turns out, no – not quite, or at least, not yet. Even this work forced me to refine and redefine some concepts.
I have prepared a one-page summary of the elementary theory of cure, the theory of curing elements of illness. Illness and disease are complex. A second page is needed to expand the theory to cover compound, complex, and chronic diseases. This summary continues to evolve, but the foundation is quite clear and solid. You can find it here:
Unfortunately, my work to date has been entirely solo. I have a few supporters, but no real collaborators. Most people, on seeing my work assume it is about alternative medical practices, which is not true at all. The theory makes no reference to different medical practices. As a result, when it is viewed by alternative medical practitioners – they often come away baffled, having no definition of cure either.
If you are interested in working with me to further our studies of the theory of cure, drop me a note: tracychess@hotmail.com
to your health, tracy Founder: Healthicine
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According to the statistical 7 day average for last week – ending March 12th, almost 370,000 new cases of COVID were diagnosed and about 8500 people died every day. How many people were cured?
There are no statistics of CURED for COVID-19. Why not? Actually, it’s not hard to create them. First, lets look at New cases.
The online graph of new cases is updated adding day, using data from the previous week. The above image shows the graph as of March 13, 2021. It’s a familiar image.
We can change the view, to show COVID-19 deaths, by simply clicking the New cases arrow and selecting Deaths.
The page also shows statistics for total cases RECOVERED, 67,000,000 but there is no graph for RECOVERED.
But, there are no statistics and no graph of CURED. Can we create one?
Where to start? First we need to normalize the two graphs. The scales used to display the graph for CASES and the graph for DEATHS is dramatically different, potentially giving a strange impression. This next image maps both into a single graph with DEATHS normalized to the same scale as CASES.
That thin black line at the bottom, is the number of deaths, scaled to match the number of cases. It is a thin unchanging line because the number of deaths is too low in comparison to cases, to show any changes. The line is actually to thick to be accurate – but it gives a useful view.
Now, we need a definition of CURED for COVID-19. Have you seen a definition of COVD-19 cured? There doesn’t seem to be one anywhere.
Is COVID-19 like the common cold, as in “There is no cure for the common cold“? I’ve had lots of colds. All cured. When I’m healthier, I get fewer colds and cure them faster, when I’m not so healthy, I get colds more often, and they last longer. Obviously, people are cured of the common cold – even though there is no medical cure. And COVID?
We can find a medical definition of cured for COVID. We just need to know where to look. ClinicalTrials.GOV lists over 370,000 clinical trials for COVID, about one for every ten people who have died from the disease. However, when we limit our search to trials containing the word CURED, there are only 19 . We can study these trials to find a scientific medical definition of COVID-19 cured? Yes. But, although we will find several different definitions, for good reasons. COVID-19, like cancer, is not well defined. It is defined for diagnosis and treatment purposes, not for curative purposes.
STUDY: Effectiveness of Ivermectin as add-on Therapy in COVID-19 Management defines cured according to a treatment, “Primary outcome {cured} is assessed by calculating the number of patients who had symptoms free(*1) and two successive readings of negative PCR swab.” The patients studied were “with age above 18 years and any gender with definite Dx of covid19 and pneumonia.” and “Excluded:Patient with covid 19 positive and mild no pneumonia“. Normal COVID-19 patients are not studied. It appears, but is not reported directly, that all 16 patients were cured, in an average of 7 days. Patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were judged cured only if: 1. They were also diagnosed with pneumonia and 2. the treatment was administered and 3. they were shown to be symptom free and 4. able to pass a PCR test.
However, we can see that each of these patients actually had TWO diseases. The World Health Organization has a disease code for COVID-19 (U07.1 COVID-19) infection, and another for COVID-19 Pneumonia (J12.82 Pneumonia due to coronavirus disease 2019)(*2). Note: There is no code for the SARS-CoV-2 infection, only a code for exposure to SARS-CoV-2 (Z20.822 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19). Can a person be cured of “contact with and suspected exposure to ..”? Each patient was cured once – 16 cures; but two (or was it three?) diseases were cured – 32 or more possible disease cures. It gets more complicated. It is possible that the SARS-CoV-2 infection was cured before the pneumonia was diagnosed. Also, pneumonia can be caused by many different bacterial or viral infections in addition to the SARS-CoV-2 infection. No wonder cured is not defined.
If we defined CURED by disease, it’s very confusing and probably not worthwhile in the bit picture. It makes more sense, in these cases, to define cured by patient.
Treatment of Acute Severe 2019-nCoV Pneumonia With Immunoglobulin From Cured Patientspresents a different view. It studies a potential medicine extracted from cured patients. How are cured patients defined? Unfortunately, the study does not present a definition of cured other than “immunoglobulin in 2019-ncov pneumonia cured patients.” It is clear that normal COVID-19 patients are excluded, because normal cases of COVID-19 do not get 2019-ncov pneumonia. How were the study cured patients cured? Not specified. How were they tested as being cured? Not specified. Perhaps the assumption is that “cured” is obvious – and a scientific definition is not required. Note: This study is in Wuhan, China. It was defined in April 2020, and the Estimated Completion Date was May 31, 2020. As of March 2021, according to ClinicialTrials.GOV, recruiting has not yet started and no results have been posted for this study. Sometimes, science is crap, or perhaps just our tracking of science is crap?
However, we can use the study design to define CURED as – no longer infected. The restriction of 2019-ncov pneumonia is an added constraint for the study, but not required for a definition of COVID-19 cured. Most COVID-19 patients do not get COVID-19 pneumonia.
STUDY:Study for Quantitative Analysis of the Recovered COVID-19 Patients by 18F-FDG-PET/CTstudied three groups of subjects (not just patients). Two of which are considered cured: 1, “clinically cured patients with severe COVID-19; 2. clinically cured patients with mild COVID-19; and 3. healthy people who are not infected with COVID-19.”
Clinically cured is not defined explicitly, but is stated for both groups as “Patients with COVID-19 cured were determined based on nucleic acid tests, CT examinations, and clinical criteria. The age of patient were between 18 and 85 years, meanwhile in Zhuhai they were confirmed as COVID-19, cured and all received by COVID-19 drug therapy.” Like much of conventional medicine, cures don’t count unless the patient is treated with a drug. Note; Cured is defined at the beginning of the study, and goals are to study consequences of the illness, not of the cure. No results have been posted.
STUDY:Efficacy and Safety of Anti HCV Drugs in the Treatment of COVID-19 measures cured as “Virological cure using the triple therapy as compared to mono hydroxychloroquine treatment.” Again, cured is not defined except in patients who are treated with a medicine, but once treated, cured can be documented. No results are posted. This study was prepared in Cairo and appears to have been stopped due to the anti-hydroxychloroquine movement.
Cured is not defined explicitly, but appears to be defined as tested by a negative PCR test, as a “positive reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain- reaction (RT-PCR) assay for SARS- CoV-2 in a respiratory tract sample” is an eligibility requirement. Patients who are no longer infected by SARS-CoV-2 are cured.
STUDY:Post-intensive Care Follow-up of Patients Hospitalized for an Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Caused by COVID-19 (RE-CoV-ERY) is a study of post COVID, post ARDS, patients who might also suffer from PTSD. The word cure is used with reference to preventing PTSD, not to curing COVID, “to screen the complications after intensive-care with, find solutions to cure them or decrease their impact on patient’s life to improve quality of life and prevent the post-traumatic syndrome disorder PTSD.”(*3) There is no discussion of the cured, or not cured status of patients in this study, they are simply referred to as post-intensive care patients. Cured and not cured PTSD status are both ignored.
In summary:
There are different types of cured related to COVID-19.
First: are natural cures of the Sars-CoV-2 infection. These are generally considered unimportant and excluded from clinical studies, because they were not treated with drugs. They were not clinically cured. These cures are not counted.
Second: Patients who are cured of the infection with a medical or non-medical treatment are generally ignored unless they were hospitalized. Patient’s whose doctors recommend hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D, zinc, or any other treatment might be cured, or die. Deaths are counted. These cures are not counted.
Third: Patients who acquire ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome), were hospitalized and treated with a drug that gets credit for the cure. These patients can be considered clinically cured, and are eligible for studies of clinically cured patients. However, these are not tracked statistically. In these cases, cured patients are cured of two diseases, the SARS-CoV-2 infection and of COVID-19 ARDS.(*4) However, there are no statistics for these cures.
Fourth: Patients who advance to COVID-pneumonia require three cures, one for the Sars-CoV-2 viral infection, one for ARDS, and another for the COVID-pneumonia. However, these are typically treated as a single cure “of the patient.” They can also be classed as clinically cured, but only if they were treated with a drug in a clinical study. These cures are not counted, and there are no statistics for individual diseases cured, nor for patients cured.
Fifth: Patients who suffer severe consequences of treatment for COVID-19 ARDS, and suffer COVID-PTSD. Cured is not defined for PTSD. These patients might be cured of COVID-19 PTSD at a later date, but because cured is not defined, these cures cannot be recognized, much less counted.
Clinical cures occur in clinical studies after treatment with a drug, and can be documented as cured. They are not counted as part of our COVID-19 tracking. Natural cures are simply ignored. When is no medical treatment, no studies are undertaken for these patients. Because no medicine is required, there is no medical nor scientific interest in any “cause of a cure” for these patients.
Who is cured?
Basically, everyone who doesn’t die is a cured patient. Some might have only been cured of the infection. Some, who developed more severe symptoms, were cured of COVID-19. Survivors who were hospitalized for ARDS were cured of ARDS – although the cure might not be perfect. No cure is perfect. Patients who acquired COVID-19 pneumonia either died, or were cured. Patients with COVID-19 PTSD were cured of the infection, cured of ARDS, possibly cured of COVID-19 pneumonia. Some might also be cured of PTSD, but there is no definition of PTSD cured, much less a test, so these cures cannot be recognized.
We can count cures by patients: a patient who has been cured of any COVID-19 diseases (Sars-CoV-2 infection, ARDS, COVID-pneumonia, COVID-PTSD) has been cured. Or we can count by disease. Patients who are cured of the infection, the ARDS, and COVID-pneumonia might be viewed has having three cures. Some, those who suffer ARDS, or acquire disabilities like PTSD, might not be completely cured, but if they are not dead, the infection has been cured, and the ARDS has at least been partially cured.
So…. Back to the chart. Where are the cured? If everyone who is not dead is eventually cured, the graph changes when we add CURED in green. Like deaths, cured lags behind New Cases.
Most cases of COVID-19 are cured. Most are cured naturally, not hospitals, because most COVID-19 patients are not hospitalized. Very few patients are cured in clinical studies, because clinical studies only study small numbers of patients at a time, and in general, only study severe cases. Most cases of COVID-19 are not severe.
RECOVERED?
Maybe you’ve noticed, if you view the worldwide COVID statistics, the statistic for RECOVERED. Is RECOVERED the same as CURED? No. Although RECOVERED patients are cured, but not all cured patients are listed as RECOVERED. Many countries, including the USA, the United Kingdom, and Spain do not report recovered. Why not? I suspect it’s because, in addition to the fact that reporting of deaths by COVID-19 can be inconsistent from area to are, hospital to hospital, country to country, reporting of RECOVERED is known to be even less consistent. Patients who are recovered, like patients who are cured, are simply ignored.
When we look at the big picture, the RECOVERED numbers don’t make sense. There is, probably for good reasons, no graph for RECOVERED. This graph shows the hypothetical addition of RECOVERED, as currently reported.
The Best Cures:
Where are all the COVID-19 Cured patients? They’re everywhere, but our medical systems, our bureaucrats, and our media are blind to them.
If we want to find the best cures for asymptomatic cases, we need to study the people who are cured, and determine why they were cured without a medicine.
If we want to find the best cures for patients who suffer mild cases of COVID-19, we need to study those who are cured, to determine why they were cured without a medicine.
To find the best cures for patients with moderate cases of COVID-19, we need to study those who are cured to determine how they were cured.
If we want to find the best cures for patients who are hospitalized, but don’t advance to ARDS, we need to study the ones who are cured, to determine the causes of their cures.
To find the best cures for patients who suffer ARDS, we need to study those who are cured, not just the drugs they were treated with, to determine the causes of their cures.
To find the best cures for patients who suffer COVID-19 pneumonia, we need too study those who are cured and determine the causes of their cures.
To find the best cures for patients who suffer COVID-19 PTSD, we need to define PTSD cured, so we can study those who are cured and learn the best causes of their cures.
This image shows what our COVID-19 cured statistics might look like, worldwide, if we actually track cured patients. Unfortunately, we don’t track cured patients, so we cannot create this graph. Note: The numbers for COVID-19 pneumonia and COVID-19 PTSD, and possibly even the COVID ARDS cases are probably so low that they are inside the black line at the bottom.
If we want to find cures, we need to study cured patients more than we study drugs that don’t cure.
*1 – many clinical study documents in ClinicalTrisls.GOV are from other countries, translated into English, and the translations are often poor English. This study was approved by the IRB of Baghdad Teaching Hospital of The General Directorate of Medical City.
*2 – COVID-19 pneumonia can be pneumonia caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, or it can be pneumonia that results from ARDS and a different bacterial or viral cause.
*4 – COVID-19 ARDS is not listed in the World Health Organization’s list of diseases, although it is recognized by the National Institute of Health in the USA. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7361309/
No current medical text defines a scientific, medical, or philosophical theory of cure. I have just published the book, A Theory of Cure on Amazon in print and Kindle format. The theory covers the three fundamental or elementary types of illness elements and their associated cure actions.
As I wrote it, over a period of 5 years, I gradually became aware that cures are everywhere. Why don’t we already know this? I’ve had dozens of colds. All cured. I’ve had measles twice. Both cured. I’ve had influenza, appendicitis, and mumps. Cured. But cured is not defined. As I grew older, I had a hernia. Cured. Cures are everywhere – if we know how to look for them. Is it any wonder we can’t find a cure for cancer? No. We can’t even recognize a common cold cured. Millions of people are “RECOVERED” from COVID-19. But, not one is cured?
The book A Theory of Cure has a long history, It is a result of a long series of blog posts, research articles and books:
In early 2015, while working on an update to the book Introduction to the Arts and Sciences of Health and Healthiness, I realized that I did not have a useful definition of cure or cured. I began to search through many medical texts, including the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Harrison’s Internal Medicine, and Lange’s Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment. Not one contains a medical definition of cure. I began collecting definitions of cure from dictionaries, but there was little consistency.
In June 2016, I was in the basement of a local used bookstore when I noticed a used copy of Webster’s New World Medical Dictionary 2008. I turned to the letter C and quickly saw there was no medical definition for CURE. The next day, I visited a local Chapter’s bookstore, where I checked five different medical dictionaries. Two had definitions of cure – those matched definitions from their non-medical editions. Three did not contain a definition of cure. One of them defined incurable, using the word cure, but did not define cure.
I began an in-depth search for a medical definition of cure. In my local university, I examined the Merck Manual, 8th edition from 1950. On the internet, I found the first edition of the Merck Manual, published in 1899, the Merck Manual of Materia Medica. While in Australia, I sought out and collected definitions of cure from the Oxford Nursing Dictionary (not present), Barron’s Dictionary of Medical Terms, Black’s Medical Dictionary. I could not find a useful medical definition of cure. I also searched through more medical references, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and Ferri’s Clinical Advisor. Neither defines cure. I went back in time to search the writings of Hippocrates, and forward to WEBMD.COM – both via the internet. It gradually became clear that no scientific definition of cure exists.
So I began to write one. At first, I worked to summarize and understand what I did have – not much.
In June 2018, after extensive work while travelling in Peru, I published A Calculus of Curing: Cure, Cures, Curing, and Cured. It took about 8 months of writing, researching and editing – almost 300 pages. Too big. I needed a smaller version.
In January 2019, I published The Elements of Cure, a smaller book, based on the same concepts, with some additional analysis and research. I managed to get it down to half the size – just over 150 pages. Due to what I had learned in the interim, I had to go back and update A Calculus of Curing.
In November 2019, I published the paper A Theory of Cure, a much more concise and comprehensive theory of cure, with many research references, also available for free on Academia.edu. I continued to blog and explore the concepts of cure, leading to a clear concept of “present cause“. To cure is to address the present cause of an illness. Past causes cannot be accessed to cure. This knowledge forced me to go back and update each book and paper.
Then… COVID struck. I spent 8 or 9 months researching COVID-19, from a cure perspective – something no-one else was working on. Cured is still not medically defined for COVID-19. I set out to better understand the concepts of cure, by relating them to a complex disease. This work led to a better understanding. The paper A Theory of Cure and the book The Elements of Cure needed to be updated again with a new understanding. Unfortunately, Amazon blocked publication of the COVID book, rationalizing that I was not “an authority on COVID.” They didn’t notice that there are no “authorities on cure“. This blockage frustrated me, and gave me some time to think. I did publish the book: COVID-19: Defining Cured, on Google Play books. I also re-re-published the book The Elements of Cure on Google Play books and on Amazon, under the title A Science of Cure, in early 2021, with some changes to match the new title, in hope that the new title would gather more attention.
This work and research prompted me to go back and analyze the paper A Theory of Cure. I realized it needed a re-working. A lot of what I learned since it’s initial publication was missing or poorly explained. I decided that the re-write was too big to be a paper, and began work on the book A Theory of Cure.
A Theory of Cure has now been published as a book, on Amazon, in print and Kindle formats. It is the summary I tried to write from A Calculus of Curing in 2018. At just under 50 pages, it clearly defines the concepts of cure, from a general perspective, not limited to medicine. The same concepts can be applied to studying cures of flat tires, trees, and our economy. In summary, “break the illness down into curable elements cure each element one at a time by addressing its present cause“. In theory, it’s almost trivial.
To learn the truth about cure, we need to practice curing.
Placebo effects are real, by definition. Placebo effects are improvements in the condition of a patient ranging from very weak effects that make the patient feel better, to cures. What is their cause? Is it the mind of the patient? No.
Placebo effects are caused by spirits. Not evil spirits, good spirits. Only some spirits cause placebo effects. Which spirits? Spirits of intention. Only intentionally good spirits. Continue reading →
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