In the USA all official medical treatments that have been approved by the medical bureaucracy, the US/FDA, including: lab tests, vaccines, and medical procedures that a marketers claims can prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure a disease are called drugs.
All treatments that are not approved are officially “not” drugs. The US/FDA does not use the word medicines nor alternative medicines. Continue reading
Yesterday I walked over to the public library in Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, and spotted a medical dictionary I hadn’t seen before: Black’s Medical Dictionary, 37th Edition, published in 1992.
I eagerly turned to the letter “C” to look up the word “cure“. But it wasn’t there. I then turned to the letter “I”, looking for “incurable“. Not there either. Continue reading
When we develop an illness we might try dietary changes – organic, non-processed foods, herbs, and possibly supplements. These attempts are often random guesses, not directed to specific nutrient or dietary needs. Our dietary needs for optimal healthiness are poorly studied and poorly understood. Guesswork is often the best an individual can do to avoid the drug paradigm with its associated side effects. When there is no diagnosis or no clearly successful treatment, a doctor might even say “try this prescription, and see if it helps“.
Don’t get me wrong. When we have an illness that is best treated by drugs – I’m all for them. But when we have an illness that is best treated by healthicines – a drug does little, and can even make it worse. All drugs have side effects. Why? Continue reading
The stranger arrived, out of breath, at the deserted medical clinic entrance. Sweating and extremely tired from the journey, and from his illness, he mopped his face with a handkerchief, shading his eyes from the glare, he looked at the locked doors, waiting for them to open. Discouraged and pensive, he checked his watch – it was time for the clinic to open.
Someone, from heaven knows where, gently tapped him on the shoulder. As he turned around, he saw a short elderly woman, with the vague appearance of a nurse. On her shoulder she fondled a red cross patch. Smiling, she looked at the stranger, who anxiously asked her.
“Excuse me, is the clinic closed?”
“You’ve been only a short time in this country?” Continue reading
Cure, the word cure, has disappeared from conventional medical practice. Many medical dictionaries do not contain the word cure. No authoritative medical text contains a definition of cure, cures, curing, nor cured – much less a scientific medical definition.
Most standard dictionaries treat cure as a noun. A cure is described as a medicine that ends an illness or a case of disease. It’s a simplistic and often incorrect assumption.
Cure is a verb. Continue reading
