Do we have a science of medicine today? Today’s (so-called) medical sciences don’t even have an agreed upon name.
Too much of modern medicine is based on exclusion, not inclusion. There are lots of names for “not real medicines” and “not real medical practices“, generally bunched under the “alternative medicine” moniker, but there is no inclusive name for medicine today. And there’s also much nonsense about so-called alternative medicine.
Alternative medicine is also not defined medically, not defined scientifically. As a result, neither is CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine). The US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) tried to define alternative medicine, in a 2006 ‘draft guidance’ on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. They failed. They even failed to name modern medicine, referring to it as “conventional” or “allopathic” medicine. The draft was updated in 2007, but today it’s still a draft, unchanged 13 years later. Why? It’s still a draft, because there is no legitimate way for the FDA to discriminate between modern and alternative medicines, much less all of modern medicine and all so-called alternative medical practices.
“And still another feature in cures is mystery. The commercial and therapeutic value of a “patent medicine” is secrecy as to its ingredients. Tar water was too plain and simple to live long. If it had had an incantation said over it, if it had had to be concocted at the conjunction of some planet with the moon, if it had had some high-sounding name, like Golden Discovery or Sanatogen, it might be alive today. This is true not only of medicines, but also of other methods of cure.” – Credulity and Cures, FREDERICK PETERSON, M.D., published in the The Journal of The American Medical Association, 1919.
How little has changed in 101 years. Today’s latest medicines fashioned for COVID-19, for example, have names like REMDESIVIR, a nucleotide analogue prodrug that inhibits viral RNA polymerases (but makes no claim to cure any disease), CORONAVIR, to treat outpatients with mild to moderate infection (while making no claim to cure) and of course HYDROXYCHLORIQUINE which our officials claim cannot cure and is dangerous, while many modern practitioners and many patient’s claim it cured for them – and it is regularly prescribed for other conditions.
It should be no surprise that today, all the talk of COVID s about prevention, not cure. There’s no need to prove a preventative worked. It’s impossible to do so. We act as if masks “work” even when there is no possibility of SARS-CoV-2 infection, as we drive down the freeway, alone in our cars. We have no need to define works, and no definition of and no theory of cures.
Although the word cure appeared often in 1919, it rarely appears in medical publications today. In 1919, despite many cure claims, cured was never defined by the The Journal of The American Medical Association, nor any other medical association.
Little has changed. Today, cured is still not defined for most diseases, not defined for COVID-19. Most medicines make no claim and no attempt to cure. No medicine dares claim to cure COVID-19.
What happens after a COVID-19 cure? Nothing.
It’s not difficult to define cured for any disease. But if we define cure for COVID-19, we might learn that:
- cure is a verb, not a noun; a process, not a substance
- cures don’t need fancy names, incantations, or patents
- most patients are cured by health, not medicines
- most medicines don’t cure
The cure for scurvy is simple, well known, obvious to many doctors and many non-medical people – but at the same time, no modern medical reference text correctly defines scurvy’s cure.
The book: The Elements of Cure< provides a solid foundation of the concepts of illness and cure, beginning with simple diseases like minor infections, scurvy, and dislocated bones – to complex cases, requiring multiple cure actions, where one illness causes a second and compound illnesses, where multiple causes are active. It clearly defines concepts like partial cure, temporary cure, and distinguishes clearly between remission and cure. Cured is also defined for chronic diseases and mental disorders, both considered incurable in today’s medical theories.
to your health, tracy
Author: The Elements of Cure
