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Namah Natural healing — in theory and practice

• The symptoms are considered as the disease, to be cured again and again, and yet again.
whereas the symptoms are only the effects of
a diseased state. From the holistic point of view the solutions
• The causes of a disease are sought in external that emerge from a fragmented perspective,
agents like germs and bacteria, whereas the themselves become problems for the whole!
true cause is due to toxaemia — a ‘diseased In other words, when you aim to give
state’ that arises due to the accumulation of some temporary relief by suppressing the
toxins in the body at the cellular level. symptoms, you can in the process create
• When the treatment focuses on merely bigger and long-term problems for the person
relieving symptoms, the cause continues. as a whole. Further, when you resort to
Then the ailments become chronic or newer ‘quick-fix’ cures, you also disturb the natural
disorders continue to arise. Hence, the feedback mechanism that the body uses to
patient is never really healed. heal itself. In this way you create obstacles
in the processes of natural healing.
4. The holistic and the specialised
approaches 5. A disease in terms of toxaemia and the
vital force
When symptoms are seen in the context of the
whole person, they take on a totally different In natural healing the primary disease
significance than when they are seen in the factor in the body is called toxaemia. It is
context of an ailing part of the body. When experienced as irritation, pain, restlessness,
you think analytically, you simply reduce indigestion or sluggishness. The deeper
the level of the insight from the whole to causes of the toxaemia usually lie inside the
the part. Then you only see the disorder in person — in his or her lifestyle, diet, emotions
the parts, the symptoms, as the disease. As and constitution. Let us perceive how this
a result your treatment will be directed to diseased state arises.
suppressing the symptoms or to surgically cut
up the part. However, when the underlying Natural healing systems explain healing
cause is elsewhere in the system (as in an in terms of the vital force. It is something
eating habit), then you miss it completely. subtle, like electricity, which circulates in
This is precisely what happens when a and around the body and the body organs,
health problem arises due to a disorder in the and keeps them working as ‘a whole’. This
functioning of the whole person, as in a faulty vital force regulates all the functions of the
lifestyle or a psychosomatic disorder. The body and it has the power to restore the body
disorder simply shows itself as symptoms in illness. When the vital force is abundant
in the parts. Then, if your treatment aims this energy flows smoothly and the body
at curing the part without attending to the functions properly. Then we feel light and
deeper causes, you can only provide some alert. When the vital force becomes weak, the
temporary relief. The underlying ‘disease flow of this energy is disturbed and the body
factor’ will continue. Then the symptoms will functions get disordered. Then we experience
continue to play hide and seek; and you will sluggishness, irritation and an upset feeling.
keep going from one specialist to another, The vital force carries out the functions of

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