{"id":4458,"date":"2017-04-25T13:47:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2017-04-26T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:59:45","slug":"healthicine-illness-injury-disability-and-cures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/healthicine-illness-injury-disability-and-cures\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthicine: Illness > Injury > Disability and Cures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In medicine, everything is a \u2018medical condition\u2019 and sometimes, even more than ‘everything’ is a disease.\u00a0 Medical conditions and diseases are defined (or not) by medical authorities and by diagnosis.<\/p>\n

In healthicine, need to distinguish between illness, injury, and disability.<\/p>\n

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Illness<\/h1>\n

An illness has an active cause. Every illness is a\u00a0connection of cause and consequences, of a cause with signs and symptoms of illness.\u00a0 An element of illness, or an elementary illness, has a single cause, although it might have many signs, symptoms, and consequences.<\/p>\n

An illness might\u00a0affect the body, the mind, the spirits, and the community of the patient. Illnesses are based\u00a0in the body \u2013 when the cause is in the body.\u00a0 Illnesses are based in the mind when the cause is in the mind. An illness of spirit has a cause in the spirits of the patient.\u00a0 An illness can also be based in the community, when the cause is in the community, not in any individual.<\/p>\n

An illness has negative signs, symptoms, and consequences. Signs, symptoms, and even consequences, are not in themselves negative \u2013 they might\u00a0indicate healthiness as easily\u00a0as illness.<\/p>\n

Illness is defined as ‘negative’, and this is an important concept and distinction. \u00a0Many of today’s diseases are healthy reactions to negative situations, and many of today’s diseases can result in increased healthiness in the long term. Life, health, and illness are not simple.<\/p>\n

Injury<\/h1>\n

An illness can cause injury. In many cases, the cause of an injury is gone, but when an illness causes injury, the injury can be ongoing, or increasing. \u00a0Injuries can come from illness of the body, of the mind, of the spirits or of the community, and can exist in the body, the mind, the spirits and\u00a0the communities, and can cause damage to each layer. Injury to the body is physical damage; \u00a0injury to the mind is mental damage;\u00a0 injury to the spirits is spirit damage; injury to the community is community damage. Take care. Injury to the brain is physical damage, which might also cause mental damage.<\/p>\n

Injuries can, of course, have sources other than illness. A bone can break due to a fall, or a gunshot. A bruise can occur as a result of playing hard in sports or other activities. Injuries can even increase healthiness, in some cases – as we shall see when we consider\u00a0disability.<\/p>\n

Disability<\/h1>\n

A disability results when an injury cannot be healed. Like injuries, disabilities can result from illness, or from other events.\u00a0 A leg, or even an internal organ, might be lost due to an accident, or even due to a surgical procedure. Disabilities can exist in the body, the mind, the spirits or the communities.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, it\u2019s useful to view a disabilities as a \u2018blockage\u2019.\u00a0 Blocking the person\u2019s body, mind, spirits or communities from healthy actions \u2013 sometimes, even blocking potentially unhealthy actions. Many blockages are healthy. We fall down the stairs, and learn to not ‘run’ down the stairs, or perhaps how to run down the stairs more effectively, more carefully, more safely, less\u00a0randomly. We block dangerous actions deliberately. \u00a0But many blockages are simple errors. I’m afraid of bees, because I was badly stung when I was 7 years old. \u00a0It has taken me many years to lost much, but not all, of this mental blockage.<\/p>\n

Types of Cures<\/h1>\n

What are the basics of ‘cure’?\u00a0You won’t find the answer in any medical dictionary. In fact, many recently published medical dictionaries do not contain the words cure, cures, cured, nor incurable – such is the paucity of cures in medicine.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, we can find the cures by analyzing illness, and the effects of illness: injury and disability. \u00a0Illness causes injuries, which can lead to disabilities. There are cures that address illness \u2013 before, during and after.\u00a0 There are cures that address injuries caused by illness or other factors, and there are even cures, in many cases, for disabilities caused by illness or other factors.<\/p>\n

We can expand the Illness>Injury>Disability diagram, adding information about cures.<\/p>\n

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This diagram shows three aspects of cure \u2013 stopping the cause of an illness, healing damage done by illness or injury, and repairing a disability.<\/p>\n

Curing Illness<\/h1>\n

An illness is cured when the cause is successfully addressed. In theory then, every illness can be cured. It’s a trivial concept in theory, complex in practice. How can we be certain of the cause of an illness? By curing it.\u00a0 How can we know we have cured the illness \u2013 because we addressed the cause.\u00a0 This\u00a0 logical circle only ends when the illness is ended.<\/p>\n

In most, perhaps all cases, there are many cures for an illness, and the best cure for a specific case depends on the circumstances of the case, not on the ‘diagnosis of a disease’.<\/p>\n

Healing: Curing Injury<\/h1>\n

An injury is cured by healing.\u00a0 However, healing is seldom perfect, and many injuries can hardly be healed at all. When an injury is not healed, the result is a disability.<\/p>\n

This is the area where modern medicine excels, especially in emergency situations. Dangerous injuries are the reason for Emergency Wards, the busiest place in most hospitals. However, I believe we can do better, even here. \u00a0Many injuries can be healed better than we are doing today – avoiding many disabilities.<\/p>\n

Curing Disability<\/h1>\n

Disabilities are cured by removing the blockage, which requires manipulation of body, mind, spirits, or community. \u00a0Curing a disability also also requires healing, which, as noted, is seldom perfect.<\/p>\n

Modern medicine often forgets that disabilities can be cured – except for surgeries. \u00a0We know that cleft lip is cured by surgery. \u00a0But we don’t seem to understand that a blocked tendon can be cured by massage, or that a blocked mind can be cured by experience, or that a blocked spirit can be cured by work that healths the spirits.<\/p>\n

Preventative Cures<\/h1>\n

There is a fourth, important aspect of cure \u2013 prevention. Prevention of causes of illness, prevention of injuries and prevention of disabilities. Prevention of causes is an indirect cure, often presenting its own risk, as is prevention of injury.\u00a0 Prevention of disability requires curing illness before injury and disability arise, or ensuring adequate healing such that disability does not arise.<\/p>\n

Illness > Injury > Disability > Cures<\/h1>\n

When we entirety of medicine, and categorize every medical problem into illness, injury, and disability, we can find our way to the best cures for each problem. \u00a0However, we need to practice with this lens, this viewpoint. \u00a0Illness is complicated, and a disease often seems to have no cause, or many causes, creating confusion.<\/p>\n

How can we simplify the situation? \u00a0We need to begin with illness, to create the concept of a ‘simple’ illness. What is a simple illness?<\/p>\n

Elementary Illness<\/h1>\n

An elementary illness has a single cause. It is cured by addressing the elementary cause.<\/p>\n

Compound Illness<\/p>\n

A compound illness is comprised of two or more elementary illnesses, with similar signs, symptoms and consequences. \u00a0A compound illness can only be cured one elementary illness at a time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0About this Post<\/h1>\n

The author of this post, Tracy Kolenchuk, is not a doctor. It is perhaps unfortunate that ‘modern’ medicine makes no attempt to understand the theory and practice of ‘cures’, and has even gone so far as to remove definitions of cure, cures, cured and incurable from many medical dictionarie.<\/a>\u00a0It is perhaps strange, but true that in order to understand cures, we need to step out of the medical spotlight, away from the medical viewpoint, to find a healthy view – a healthicine view.<\/p>\n

This post is a portion of a new book about Healthicine, Illness and Cures. The book title is still a work in progress. \u00a0If you have thoughts or comments that will help contribute to the material, please leave a comment, or drop me a note at: tracychess@hotmail.com<\/p>\n

to your health, tracy
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