Medicine is broken. Fractured. We need medicine based on love, on caring, on helping each other. Instead, much of modern medicine is based not just on competition, but on hatred. Of course it’s not everyone, and for the most part, I don’t believe it’s personal. Few, doctors, hate other types of doctors. It’s the system. The so called ‘conventional medicine’ system. It’s a paradigm that hates other paradigms. Continue reading
Note: This post has been updated to coordinate the ideas herein with the concepts published in the paper A Theory of Cure and the book: The Elements of Cure.
What is the theory of medicine? Is there a fundamental theory of medicine?
Yes there is. It’s simple, and important.
Historically, there are many different theories about illness. But, when we view them together, we can find one simple, fundamental theory. Do you know it? Continue reading
If a super-intelligent alien was to visit our planet and search for a scientific theory of illness, she might conclude the our prevailing theory consists of “sell the drugs” and “damn the consequences”. She might also know that the scientific theory of illness consists of:
Illness Theory #1: Every illness has a cause.
It is useful to view each life entity as a whole, and to view health as whole. From this perspective, health is whole and illness is a hole in health, an absence of health.
ELEMENTARY ILLNESS is an illness with a single cause and its negative consequences.
There are three basic types of illness elements: causal illness, injury, and attribute illness. An causal illness consists of the signs and symptoms resulting from a process cause. An injury illness consists of the injuries resulting from a cause, often in the past. An attribute illness is caused by the presence or absence of a thing or attribute necessary for or blocking healthy flows of life.
COMPLEX ILLNESS is an illness with more than one element arising from a single cause or causal chain. For example one cause might result in signs and symptoms and also an injury.
COMPOUND ILLNESS is an illness consisting of two or more elementary illnesses, of an illness with two or more causes.
Does our medical system have a theory of illness? You might be surprised to learn that there is no prevailing scientific theory of illness. There are many so-called theories of illness, but none that achieve the simplicity of a scientific theory. Illness seems to be everywhere in practice, but nowhere in theory.
Why is there no scientific theory of illness? Continue reading
There is no such thing as natural health. There are natural medicines, and unnatural medicines.
Health comes from nature.
It makes no sense to add the adjective “natural” to nature.
To do so is nonsense, because it implies that there is such a thing as “unnatural health”.
“Health is whole. Health is slow and steady.
Health is wide and deep. Health is honest and true.
…. an illness is a hole in your health.”
– The Healthicine Creed.
There is no such thing as “unnatural health“.
Therefore: There is no such thing as natural health.
to your health, tracy
Much of today’s medical practice ignores the concept of cure, has no clear definition of cure, no understanding of cure for most illnesses. In healthicine, we recognize that cure is critical to health improvement and maintenance. What is cure? Before we can understand the concept of cure, we must first consider the concept of illness. Continue reading
