Every illness and every disease has two types of causes, only one of which cures.

Every illness has Past Causes

Epidemiological researchers speculate, it seems, that everything causes cancer. Even the simplest diseases, like scurvy – easily cured in theory – can have many different past causes. Past causes causes are speculative, sometimes long complex chains of possible cause, like the famous example: “for want of a nail... the kingdom was lost“. Studying past causes is useful for prevention, but not to cure. Continue reading →

The University of Ottawa suggests three views: illness, disease, sickness. What’s the difference? Which is cured?

The illness is what the patient perceives, sickness is what their communities perceive, and disease is what the medical community diagnoses (perceives). There are, of course, many issues. Patient’s can be misled by their senses, by their communities, and by their doctors. Each patient lives in many communities, which can have different views and different opinions. A single patient might visit several doctors, possibly different types of doctors, and receive different diagnoses. Continue reading →

Illness Types

An illness is a negative condition existing in the present, a hole in healthiness. Only a present illness can be cured. A present illness has present causes. A curable illness is a present illness that can be cured.

This post is a summary of concepts presented in the paper A Theory of Cure.

To cure is to successfully address the present cause(s) of an illness.  It is not possible to cure by addressing past nor future causes.

An illness element has a single cause. Each present cause of an illness creates an illness element, an elementary illness.

An elementary cure addresses a single cause, curing an element of illness. Continue reading →

We might like, or wish to believe that when a cure is found in a clinical study, big pharma swoops in and takes it to market. Or perhaps, when  big pharma discovers a cure, they hide it away because cures are not profitable. The truth is not obvious, but much simpler.

Suppose, just suppose for a moment, that a double blind placebo controlled clinical study of a treatment for arthritis, or back pain, chronic disease, cancer, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, gout, hypertension, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), jaundice, kidney disease, lupus, mental illness, nutritional diseases, obesity, Parkinson’s, tinnitus, ulcers, or perhaps vision impairment – myopia or farsightedness,  finds a patient cured. What happens next? Continue reading →

I have just published the paper A Theory of Cure on Academia.edu. The paper is a concise summary of the concepts of cure published in the book: The Elements of Cure.

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
— SOCRATES

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Scientific definitions, in conventional medicine, are few. Historical medical dictionaries abound, describing signs, symptoms, diseases, and treatments in detail, while medical definitions of illness, disease, sickness, and disorder are poor and poorly distinguished… Continue reading →