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Oliver Wendell Holmes, MD |
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I firmly believe if the whole materia medica
as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the
better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes. |
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Henry G. Bieler, M.D. |
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People came to me who were disappointed in orthodox medical
treatment-especially the stimulation drugs with which they were
whipping the tired horses imprisoned in their bodies. They came
to me for dietary reform usually because they had found out as
they went along that food had something to do with their
disorders and symptoms. |
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Herbert Ratner,
M.D. |
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Modern man ends up a vitamin-taking,
antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated,
Benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically diseased, surgically despoiled
animal. Nature's highest product turns out to be a fatigued,
peptic-ulcerated, tense, headachy, over-stimulated, neurotic,
tonsil-less and appendix-less creature. |
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Seven levels of medicine based
on their depth and effectiveness |
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1. Symptomatic |
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This is medicine that is treatment only to remove
the symptoms with the use of chemical drugs and surgery, without getting to the root
causes of an illness. This is the way of most of traditional western
treatments. When an organ is diseased and causing pain or has toxic
accumulation, it is removed. Gallbladder, tonsils, uterus, breasts,
ovaries, appendix etc.
This is why in modern medicine so
many illnesses are
called "incurable". Just as examples:
arthritis,
multiple sclerosis,
cancer,
HIV AIDS,
hepatitis A B C,
herpes,
migraines,
psoriasis and
Vitiligo,
MS.
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2. Prophylactic |
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This is the way of preventive medicine. Which is the
art of inoculations and vaccines. This is a higher part of western
medicine. It is less harmful, but yet not ideal.
Some vaccines have been
known to cause many illnesses. |
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3. Art of health |
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This is the study of ways and means to acquire and
maintain physical health. The study of nutrition falls under this
category but not western style nutrition sciences. It looks at human
beings abstractly. It is like studying the chemical composition of water
but forgetting how to enjoy a good swim. |
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4. Macrobiotics |
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This is the way of rejuvenescence and longevity
through right living habits that include eating, sleeping, thinking,
breathing, etc. This is a much higher form of medicine as it looks for
the source of all ills, physical, psychological, environmental and tries
to restore them to natural harmony and balanced. It looks at human
beings as part of nature and their surroundings and looks at a person as
an integrated unit of body, mind and soul. |
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5. Socio-moral and
educational medicine |
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This medicine establishes health, freedom and
justice in society. It goes beyond the health of any one individual to
the health of human beings as a whole. |
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6. Philosophical
medicine |
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This medicine is directed to thought, mind and
judgment. It goes beyond all bodily medicines to the root cause of all
ills that strike humanity as a whole. Environmental movements aspire to
this ideal.
Example, Pasteur in traditional medicine defined the cause
of many illnesses like
typhoid as the presence of germs.
But in this
medicine,
it is recognized that the cause of illness is not the germs that entered
the body, but that the body's immune defenses are down which allowed the
germs that entered the body to multiply and cause disease.
Read about
natural antibiotics. |
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7. The supreme
medicine |
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This is the educational, biological, physiological
and dialectical technique. It aims to permit the ailing person to
discover, all by himself, the constitution of life and the world. It cures
not only all the diseases of the present and future, but every
misfortune too. |
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