{"id":5761,"date":"2018-11-26T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2022-02-08T02:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T02:32:38","slug":"whats-the-key-difference-between-a-cure-and-a-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/whats-the-key-difference-between-a-cure-and-a-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Difference between a Cure and a Treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a><\/span>Webster’s New World Medical Dictionary Third Edition uses the word “treatment” 917 times but does not provide a definition for “treatment.” It uses the word cure 7 times, not counting phrases like “incurable”, “no cure”, and “cure-all.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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It does not contain a definition of the words cure,<\/em>
cured, cures, nor incurable. It does, however define “remedy” as a “cure.” There is no scientific definition of cure nor of cured for most diseases.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s the key difference. The word “cure” is missing from many medical dictionaries. How many? It’s hard to keep track.<\/p>\n

The words \u201ccure\u201d and \u201cincurable\u201d do not appear in The Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary, Ninth Edition, 2015. They do not appear in The Bantam Medical Dictionary, Sixth Edition, 2009. Medical Terminology for Dummies, Second Edition, does not contain the word \u201ccure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Not every medical dictionary is missing “cure”. Some define the word cure with a standard, non-scientific definition.<\/p>\n

\u201cCure\u201d does not appear in Barron\u2019s Dictionary of Medical Terms, Sixth Edition, 2013, although \u201cincurable\u201d is defined as \u201cbeing such that a cure is impossible within the realm of known medical practice\u201c.\u00a0The London Medical Dictionary, published in 1819, uses the word cure several times\u00a0but does not provide a definition of cure.<\/p>\n

There is no scientific medical definition of cure.\u00a0No current medical reference text contains the word \u201ccure\u201d in the title, in the index, nor in the table of contents.<\/p>\n

Medical reference texts, on the other hand, often use the word “treatment”, or similar words. Lange\u2019s Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment<\/strong>, Merck\u2019s Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy<\/strong>, and Harrison\u2019s Guide to Internal Medicine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The words \u201ctherapy\u201d, \u201cmedicine\u201d, \u201ctreatment\u201d are common. Used often in conventional medicine theory and practice.<\/p>\n

Cure? Not ok. Over 50% of cancer doctors avoid the word cure with their patients and advise their staff to never use the word cure. If you claim to cure any disease – you are considered a charlatan, a quack. If you actually cure, you’re a miracle worker, a saint.<\/p>\n

Most conventional medicines are designed, tested, approved, manufactured, packaged and sold to \u201ctreat\u201d diseases, not to cure.<\/p>\n

Try this challenge. Head over to your medicine cabinet: find a medicine with the word \u201ctreat” on the package. Easy peasy.<\/p>\n

Now\u2026 Find a medicine with \u201ccure\u201d on the package or insert. Good luck. Try your local pharmacy, look for an OTC (over the counter) medicine with “cure” on the label.\u00a0 Good luck.\u00a0 Do an internet label search.\u00a0 Try to find a medicine, any medicine, that claims to cure any disease. It is possible – but they are few and far between.<\/p>\nThe cure for this ill is not to sit still,Or frowst with a book by the fire;But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,And dig till you gently perspire; Rudyard Kipling <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n

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What’s the difference between treatment and cure. Medicines treat diseases. Most treatments make no attempt to cure because cured is not defined for most diseases. Therefore, when a patient is cured, the cure cannot be tested, cannot be proven. Few doctors claim to cure – and those that do are often shamed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cures cure. But today, the only diseases that can be cured with medicines are communicable diseases, caused by bacteria, fungi, or viruses. All others are incurable. Most medicines do not cure. Most medicines make no claim to cure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Arthritis? Incurable. Depression (and any other mental disorder)? Incurable. Diabetes? Incurable. Heart disease? Incurable. There is no cure for the common cold. No cure for measles.<\/p>\n

No cure for the flu, and no cure for the pandeadly flu – even though over 300 million patients are currently reported as RECOVERED.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s not hard to define cured, but there is little medical difference.<\/p>\n

Health is whole. An illness is a hole in our healthiness. We cure by filling the hole with health. Most illnesses can only be cured with health, not by medical treatments. An illness is cured by addressing its present cause, a cause that is only rarely an absence of medicine or medical treatment.<\/p>\n

To your health, Tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure<\/a> (there is no old theory of cure)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This post was originally written in answer to a question on Quora<\/a>.<\/div>\n\n\n

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