{"id":5158,"date":"2018-01-15T01:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T01:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2018-02-04T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T11:27:43","slug":"which-medicine-does-not-cure-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/which-medicine-does-not-cure-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Medicine &#8220;does not cure&#8221; Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which medicine, &#8220;<strong>does\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>not cure better<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_8205-WhichMedicines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5165 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_8205-WhichMedicines-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_8205-WhichMedicines-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_8205-WhichMedicines-768x601.jpg 768w, http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_8205-WhichMedicines.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> &#8211; a conventional medicine, prescribed by your doctor and purchased at a pharmacy, or<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; an alternative medicine, purchased at a pharmacy or health food store, or<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a homeopathic medicine, purchased at an alternative health clinic or<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a placebo?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Does it make sense to ask &#8220;<strong>which does not cure better?<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0 No, it does not.\u00a0 But this is often the question asked by today&#8217;s medical researchers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most of today&#8217;s clinical studies do not contain a definition of &#8220;cured&#8221;.\u00a0 As a result, if the treatment cures, cured cannot be detected, much less documented. Most clinical studies measure &#8220;which medicine does not cure better&#8221;. Nonsense?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 But truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are there any medicines that cure?\u00a0 Are there any diseases that can be cured?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, yes.\u00a0 Cured is possible for diseases caused by a parasite.\u00a0 We can sometimes cure an infection caused by bacteria, with an antibiotic. Sometimes, we can cut of an infected limb or organ, creating a surgical cure.\u00a0 But most diseases cannot be cured.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization top 10 causes of death, causing over 50% of all deaths worldwide: heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, diabetes, dementia and Alzheimer&#8217;s, lower respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, and tuberculosis, and road accidents. USA, the top causes of death are heart disease, cancers, chronic lower respiratory disease, accidents,\u00a0 stroke, Alzheimer&#8217;s, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide.\u00a0\u00a0We should not expect any medicine to cure car accidents, stroke, or suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The following list of diseases most important to cure: heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancers, diabetes, dementia and Alzheimer&#8217;s, lower respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia, and kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p>Which can be cured by medicines? Only infections. We might cure respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, and pneumonia with antibiotics.\u00a0 The rest?<\/p>\n<h2>Incurable Diseases<\/h2>\n<p>Cured is not defined for heart disease, chronic respiratory pulmonary disease,<a href=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/cancer-cure-catch-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> cancers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/diabetes-cured-healthicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diabetes<\/a>, dementia and Alzheimer&#8217;s, influenza, kidney disease. All are considered incurable by today&#8217;s medical sciences. If one of these diseases is cured, by medicine, by non-medicine, or by accident, it is not possible to detect a cure, not possible to prove a cure, because cured is not defined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/disappearance-cure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cure is not in many medical dictionaries.<\/a>\u00a0 Incurable is defined, in some medical dictionaries, using the word cure, which does not appear in the same dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>Cured is not defined for the common cold. <a href=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/why-cant-we-cure-scurvy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cured is not defined for simple diseases like scurvy.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/curing-chronic-illness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every chronic disease, from arthritis to obesity to varicose veins is incurable<\/a> in today&#8217;s medical science. Cured is not defined for these diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Cures don&#8217;t count.\u00a0 Cures are not counted. There are no statistics for cures, for any disease. Cures exist, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/diy-causal-cures-books-that-cure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many books that describe cures, and document cures<\/a>, but most do not dare to use the word &#8220;cure&#8221; because cured is not defined in medicine.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s a Medical Researcher\u00a0 to do?<\/h2>\n<p>Today&#8217;s medical researchers design and test &#8220;treatments&#8221;, medicines that don&#8217;t cure.\u00a0 Researchers debate which medicines &#8220;do not cure&#8221; better.\u00a0 Of course no one argues that their medicine &#8220;<em>does not cure better<\/em>&#8221; than other medicines, they argue that it &#8220;<em>works<\/em>&#8221; better. Sometimes, they test &#8220;<strong>which medicine does not cure better than a placebo does not cure?<\/strong>&#8220;, demonstrating clearly that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/ignorance-causes-placebo-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">placebo effect is caused by ignorance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;works&#8221; in medicine means &#8220;does not cure&#8221;.<\/h2>\n<p>If a medical treatment cures, we might argue that it &#8220;cures&#8221; better than the other medicine.\u00a0 When an antibiotic cures an infection, we seldom ask which might cure better. Sometimes, we should. But, when it doesn&#8217;t cure, we can debate, and design scientific studies to measure how well it &#8220;works&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Do conventional medicines &#8220;work&#8221; when <strong>they don&#8217;t cure<\/strong>?\u00a0 Do alternative medicines &#8220;work&#8221; when <strong>they don&#8217;t cure<\/strong>?\u00a0 Do homeopathic medicines &#8220;work&#8221; when <strong>they don&#8217;t cure<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0 a nonsense debate.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to study cures.\u00a0 Time to define cured for every disease. There exist people who have cured their diseases, who have cured their cancers, but they are ignored. We must begin to search for people who have been cured, and understand how they were cured, and learn to cure from that research.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no interest.\u00a0 Cure is not defined in prestigious medical reference tomes like\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/disappearance-cure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (not manual of cures).\u00a0Harrison&#8217;s Principles of Internal Medicine does not defined cure, and does not contain any principles of cures.\u00a0Lange&#8217;s Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment does not defined cure, and does not discuss current medical cures, only diagnosis and treatments. The\u00a0Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM\u20135), likewise, does not define cure<\/a>, and thus, by lack of definition, all mental disorders are &#8216;incurable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>So we study, and report, and argue about &#8220;<em><strong>Which medicine does not cure better?<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someday&#8230;. we will find our way through the nonsense&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>to your health, tracy<br \/>\nFounder: Healthicine<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" 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