{"id":3736,"date":"2016-08-18T17:42:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2019-03-24T01:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T01:44:33","slug":"each-illness-has-a-single-cause-every-cause-has-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/each-illness-has-a-single-cause-every-cause-has-a-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"An Illness Element has a Single Cause; Each Cause has many Cures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhereIsTheInvisibleIllness\"<\/a>Medicine has a problem, and it’s getting worse, not better. The problem is disease. The more we study diseases, the more contributing factors we find. Cancer, the most extreme example, is caused by everything<\/a>, and at the same time, prevented by everything – a statement supported by our best scientific research, but at the same time, it’s cured by nothing.<\/p>\n

We no longer search for cures. \u00a0Five recently published medical dictionaries do not contain the word ‘cure’<\/a>. \u00a0Ridiculous, but true. Medical reference books like MERCK, Lange’s, and Harrison’s do not define cure, avoid the word cure, or do not use the word cure consistently.<\/a> Now that’s just silly. This leads to treatments that ‘do not cure’; to encouraging patients to learn to ‘live with their disease<\/a>‘; to chronic disease. Ridiculous. But true. Gradually, more and more diseases are becoming incurable<\/em> and chronic<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a path out of this dark forest. It’s almost trivial. \u00a0We need to simplify.<\/p>\n

An illness element has a single cause, and a single cure. <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Each illness element has a single cause.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Can this be true? Yes, it can. We can make it true, by definition. We can define an illness element as a part of any illness that has a single cause.<\/p>\n

The difference between an illness and a case of disease is well defined in the field of medicine\u00a0and understood by every doctor.<\/p>\n

An illness is what the patient has, what the patient brings to the doctor.\u00a0A case of disease is what the doctor diagnoses, treats, and sometimes – cures. They might be the same.. they might not be the same.<\/p>\n

\"InvisibleIllness\"<\/a>An illness\u00a0element is a concept, the intersection of a single cause, and a set of consequences and symptoms.<\/p>\n

Where is the illness? Every\u00a0illness is invisible. We see the symptoms first. We can track the symptoms back to the cause, although in some cases this might be difficult – in some cases it is trivial.<\/p>\n

When we identify the cause, and link it to the consequences, we have identified the illness. But the illness is not a thing, it is not something we can see or touch.\u00a0 We see the signs and symptoms.\u00a0 Sometimes we can touch the cause.<\/p>\n

Causes are not trivial. It is possible to experience many causes, without symptoms, without illness. There are causes of healthiness as well as causes of illness.\u00a0 Sometimes, a cause of healthiness is excessive or overextended, or perhaps deficient or under-utilized, resulting in illness.<\/p>\n

Every cause has a cause.\u00a0 Every cause of a cause has a cause. It sounds complicated, but remember, every illness element has a single cause, which might have a single cause, which might have a single cause – creating a long train or chain of causes.<\/p>\n

In most\u00a0cases, the doctor treats symptoms of disease. \u00a0The illness is diagnosed, but only the disease is treated. In most cases, cures are not attempted. If you are diagnosed with hypertension, depression, arthritis – and more – symptoms will be treated with little attempt to identify, much less address any\u00a0cause. There will be no attempt to cure. Cured is\u00a0even defined for these diseases according to the bureaucracies of modern medicine.<\/a> \u00a0As a result, if one is cured, it’s not possible to recognize, much less to prove, the cure. Cancer researchers study cause to death, in statistical studies. But when\u00a0you have a cancer diagnosis, cause is ignored – treatment proceeds directly against the symptoms, the cancer cells.<\/p>\n

Many diseases once considered curable in most cases, like depression, are now considered treatable, but not curable. Many cures have been lost.<\/a> Medicine, the practice of medicine and the science of medicine, is broken.<\/p>\n

There is a simple way\u00a0out. We need to\u00a0move in the opposite direction, to search for causes, to search for cures.<\/p>\n

Each illness element has a single cause. \u00a0Successfully addressing cause cures.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Can this be true? We can make it true. We have many illnesses to use\u00a0as models.<\/p>\n