The seven levels of medicine

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, MD

The levels of medicine evolve in the following order:

1. Symptomatic

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.

Herbert Ratner, M.D.

This is medicine that is treatment only to remove the symptoms with the use of chemical drugs, 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.

2. Prophylactic

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.

3. Art of health

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.

4. Macrobiotics

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.

5. Socio-moral and educational medicine

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.

6. Philosophical medicine

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 way 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.

7. The supreme medicine

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 curs not only all the diseases of the present and future, but every misfortune too.

Think of illness as only violating the laws of the universe in our living and eating habits. Then curing illness is only restoring harmony and balance to our bodies. In this context, there are no incurable diseases.

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