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Namah Holistic healing and alternative therapies

the level of the insight from the whole to of the disease are merely expressed in a part; or it
the part. Then you only see the disorder in is the ‘weakest link’ in the body that has broken
the parts, the symptoms, as the disease. As down.’
a result your treatment will be directed to
suppress the symptoms or to surgically cut When you think of the problems of health
out the part. in this way, you treat the disease factor and
do not seek to suppress the symptoms of the
However, when the underlying cause is disease. In addition, you try to correct the
elsewhere in the system (as in an eating errors in the lifestyle and habits that have
habit), then you can miss it completely. given rise to the disease factor.
This is precisely what happens when a
health problem arises due to a disorder Most holistic therapies have a very simplistic
in the functioning of the whole person, as diagnosis for the most complex health disorders.
in psychosomatic disorders. The disorder For example, Eyurveda talks in terms of
simply shows itself as symptoms in the Tridossa; Naturopathy talks in terms of Toxaemia;
parts. In such a case, if the treatment aims Water Cure talks in terms of Dehydration, Psychic
at curing the part, then it will only provide Healing talks in terms of Prana deficiency,
some temporary relief. The underlying Homoeopathy talks in terms of Constitutional
‘disease factor’ will continue. Then the remedy, the Biochemic system talks in terms
symptoms will continue to play hide and of a deficiency of inorganic salts in the body
seek and you will have to go from one tissues, etc. However, the simplicity in their
specialist to another to be cured again and diagnosis should not be mistaken for a lack of
again. sophistication or effectiveness. The remedies
they provide are effective and the results they
From the holistic point of view the solutions show are consistent.
that emerge from a fragmented perspective
themselves become problems for the whole! However, if you are looking for a one-to-one
They aim to give some temporary relief, but correspondence between a disease and a remedy,
in the process they create bigger and long- you are unlikely to find it here. For example,
term problems for the person as a whole. the holistic systems cannot have a cure for
Further, the ‘quick-fix’ cures always disturb baldness, asthma, diabetes, etc. These therapies
the natural feedback that the body uses to do not work like that. They look upon the
heal itself. And that makes it more difficult symptoms of a disease as merely the results
for the vital force to do the healing. of an imbalance in the body. Hence, their
focus is on restoring the balance. Once the
f. What is holistic about healing? balance is restored, the natural intelligence
In holistic healing you treat the patient in of the body will take over and do the healing.
terms of a perceived imbalance in the body. Many symptoms will clear up; and if some
This imbalance is not in a part, but in the symptoms still remain, they will respond to
functioning of the whole. The saying is: almost any kind of treatment. So, although
holistic therapy cannot have a specific cure for
‘You are not ill or diseased in a part. The symptoms a specific disease like asthma, it can always

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