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of the imbalance. Once the internal causes This trend has become set in modern times
are corrected, the vital force of the body will due to the commercial interests of the
become active and do the healing. The term healthcare industry. Hence, hypertension
‘healing’ is used when the treatment is given is not healed; it is treated with BP pills that
only to facilitate the process of natural healing have to be taken for a lifetime. Asthma is not
in the body. healed; inhalers are constant companions
of the afflicted. Osteoarthritis is not healed;
d. The issue of treating symptoms the ultimate remedy is sought in knee
From The Medicine Show (A Consumer Union replacement. Allergies are not healed; the
of U.S. Publication): victim becomes increasingly dependent on
medication. The list is endless.
“The public has grown accustomed to thinking
of a doctor’s job as curing of diseases by finding Further, when the patient continues to use
and removing their causes. We tend to forget a medicine, the response to the medicine
that, historically, the greater part of the physicians diminishes. However, that does not trouble
efforts have gone towards relieving symptoms the advocates of drug therapy. Instead,
with little knowledge of their causes, and that the pharmaceutical companies keep on
today’s most prevalent illnesses, many of rejuvenating their business by creating a
them chronic illnesses, still must be treated demand for the newer drugs and procedures
symptomatically (3).” that are poured into the market every day.
You may think that someday ‘scientific
The modern trend is to treat the symptoms of research’ will develop a lasting cure for your
a disease with drugs. It is certainly useful in disease. However, that day is certainly not
treating acute diseases — when the symptoms going to come. There will be newer cures,
are severe or life-threatening. However, when but they will not be lasting. To have a lasting
you habitually treat ordinary ailments with cure, you have to look elsewhere.
drugs, the symptoms themselves get modified
and develop as chronic disorders such as Today people are deceived into believing
headaches, stuffed nose, acidity, wheezing, that their disease is merely an effect on
rheumatism, eczema, allergy, blood pressure, the physical body that can be removed by
etc. These disorders are less intense in their external means like drugs or surgery. This
effect, but they harass more since they last belief has distracted people from looking
longer and recur periodically! for the true cause of their disease and from
searching for the remedy in the right places.
For such chronic disorders there are ‘no
outright cures’ — there are only medications e. The difference between the holistic and the
that can temporally relieve or suppress the specialised approaches in healing
symptoms. The patient is put on medication When symptoms are seen in the context of the
that has to be taken for the rest of his life! whole person, they take on a totally different
Thus, the patient is never healed. Treatment significance than when they are seen in the
is only directed to controlling some irritating context of an ailing part of the body. When
symptoms. you think analytically, you simply reduce

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