Healthicine

The cause is proven by a cure.

In 2016, I was working to update the book Healthicine, the Arts and Sciences of Health and Healthiness, which had been published several years before when I realized I could not find a useful definition of cure. I was distracted by cure – and hope to get back someday to the theories of healthicine.

Today, we have no recognized theory of cure, thus, we have no history of any theory of cure. We have no medical nor scientific definition disease, much less of cured for all diseases. As I became aware of this, in mid-2016, I embarked on a mission to define cure, cures, curing, and cured – to create this theory of cure.

“In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice, they are not.” – unknown theorist.

Theory of Cure

An illness consists of a set of present causes and the negative consequence of those causes.

An illness element consists of a single present cause and the negative consequences of that cause.

“Treat symptoms, Improve Healthiness, Cure Illness”

The suggestion that the government bureaucracies should regulate supplements like they regulate drugs. This concept can be caused by simplified view that often leads to misunderstanding:

Usually, we think of curing an illness or a disease, but we often use the word cure for other problems. We might wish to find a ‘Cure’ for Turkey’s Ills, or claim that Rube Goldberg found the cure for self-isolation boredom  or cure the quarantine blues, or Cure Our Wanderlust, or even to cure your desktop audio ills. Or maybe we need to cure our car? Are these really cures?

To have, or to be, that is the question. Do communities have spirits? Or are they spirits?

Image from the book by Zygmunt Bauman.

What is a community? What is “not” a community? Is there a “black community” in the USA? Or are there many black communities, or none? Is there a Muslim community? A Jewish community? Are anthills and beehives communities? What about trees?How small can a community be, and still be a community? A family is a community, right? An extended family? A couple? A single person? How big can a community be, and still be a community? Is life on the planet earth a community?