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Many definitions in the field of medicine are vague and complex, often for historical reasons.\u00a0 No medical system has a scientific definition of health, disease, nor of cure. Definitions are often circular, to the extent that the World Health Organization’s ICD11, the latest edition of the International Classification of Diseases<\/strong><\/em>, claims to be “The global standard for health<\/strong> data.<\/em>” The word cure<\/strong> is not defined in any authoritative medical reference, and does not appear in many medical dictionaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Healthicine is a new science. This provides the opportunity and the necessity to provide clear, useful definitions, from a healthicine perspective.<\/p>\n

Healthicine<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0– the arts and sciences of health and healthiness.<\/p>\n

Hierarchy of Healthicine<\/strong>: comprised of genetics, nutrients, cells, tissues, organs, bodily systems, body, minds, spirits, and communities. Each transition upwards in the hierarchy can only come about from a community of individuals in the prior layer.\u00a0Primary disciplines<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0genetics, nutrition, cytology, histology, anatomy, systemic anatomy, physiology, cognitive physiology, spiritual studies and community studies.<\/p>\n

Health <\/strong>(noun)\u00a0\u201ca measurable\u00a0 state of physical, mental and social well being.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0It is important that health is measurable. \u00a0Health is whole – and therefore any measure of healthiness is a percentage measurement. Health includes\u00a0measures of healthiness, and the inverse of healthiness – unhealthiness.<\/p>\n

Health:<\/strong> (verb) to improve healthiness.<\/a><\/p>\n

Healthiness<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>– a specific measure of health, measured on a percentage scale.<\/p>\n

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Unhealthiness<\/strong> – the inverse of a measure of healthiness. Healthiness is never perfect, and unhealthiness is always present. Unhealthiness can also be described\u00a0as ‘potential for improvement in healthiness’.<\/a><\/p>\n

Illness<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0an illness is a hole in health, a hole in a healthiness<\/a>. An illness is the intersection of a cause and the negative consequences, including signs and symptoms. There are two basic types of illness, based on the present cause, the cure cause of the illness.<\/p>\n

Attribute illnesses are caused by the deficiency, excess, absence or presence of a noun, a thing. They are cured by transforming the present cause, the noun such that the illness is no longer present. Attribute illnesses include infections, physical illnesses like cataracts, hernia, and injuries.<\/p>\n

Causal illnesses are caused by the deficiency, excess, absence or presence of a verb, a process. They are cured by transforming the process cause such that the illness is no longer present. Causal illnesses include arthritis, diabetes, scurvy and obesity.<\/p>\n

The distinction between attribute illnesses and causal illnesses is defined by the cure. When an illness is cured by a process, it was a causal illness. When it is cured by an attribute change, it was an attribute illness. Until it is cured, the type might be speculated, but cannot be proven.<\/p>\n

Note: our medical systems often classify diseases into acute – eg. dangerous, and chronic, but this classification is often weak from a perspective of health and cure.<\/p>\n

Cure:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0A cure is the end of an illness. There are two basic types of cures, based on the cure process.<\/p>\n

Injury illnesses are cured by healing. When an illness is cured by healing, it was an attribute illness, caused by the attribute that was transformed by the healing.<\/p>\n

Non-injury illnesses are cured by addressing the attribute or process cause.\u00a0 There are two basic types of non-injury illness cures:<\/p>\n