Disease is a dynamic force reflecting the dynamism that rules the body. The brand of medicine prevalent today refuses to see and acknowledge this dynamism. It prefers to be mechanical in its approach. This is the most drastic fallacy it suffers from. As a result, doctors are unable to see the disease. They remain busy with the symptoms. They mistake the efforts of the body to establish health for the disease they ought to eradicate.
Disease expresses itself in totality. It affects the individual physically, mentally, morally and spiritually. Instead of seeing the whole picture, the doctors focus on the parts. They think these are separate issues. They believe these require different strategies. Thus the treatment complicates matters and causes untold suffering on the unfortunate being. Chronic disease and organ failures are the direct result of this fallacy.
THE BODY AND HEALER
The body is the doctor and the healer. All its actions are directed towards maintaining health and prolonging life. It relies on nutrition and exercise. It also follows the hunger and sleep cycle and requires exposure to elements. Furthermore, it needs a clean and enabling environment. The doctors duty is to ensure the inputs and facilitate the healing process. The modern doctor concentrates on treating the healing process as disease.
Disease is multi layered. Faulty lifestyle, wrong mentality, and actions contribute to this process. Disease suppression by allopaths also plays a part. The disease forms layer upon layer as it dives inwards. It should use the body’s intelligence to unravel outwards towards a cure. The doctor fails to know this dynamism known to healers who encounters these layers in every sick individual. Medicines given without understanding these layers requires stronger and stronger doses and ultimately the body can tolerate them no longer. This is reflected in the “anti microbial resistance” that is now a global public health concern.
THE TREATMENT
Treatment is about gently nudging the body towards health using the inputs the body requires. Heroic medicine uses an array of drugs, injections, vaccines, and devices. It also involves invasive tests and surgery. The cut-slash-burn approach is the antithesis of what is needed. It has emerged as the most potent threat to health. Known as iatrogenic disease, these are diseases caused due to medical interventions. It is the number one killer today. Medical statisticians have been recording the outcome and sounding the alarm for decades.
A doctors duty is to ensure health. Instead in recent times we have doctors chasing targets and commissions. The industry tells them that their foremost duty is to ensure that the pharmaceutical industry grows and profits. They follow this dictum without considering the consequences. These consequences are seen in the alarming growth of disease conditions and their incidence. The industry conveniently uses the rising disease graph to expand its business. It excels in the art of feeding upon its own failures.
MEDICINE AS AN ART
Medicine is an art; the art of observation, experience, and achieving cures. The present system has converted it to an engineering subject. The human being is a dynamic self healing biological construct and a consciousness driven multi faceted entity. He is now viewed as a machine. Medical personnel must manipulate this machine. They are supposed to wage a constant war against it.
The pharmaceutical industry is worth $9 – 14 trillion dollars. It grows and prospers because it is steeped in fallacies. It is not going to let go and ensure its own demise. The only way to ensure health and well being is to turn away from it.
Medical professionals should study the healing sciences to understand the concept of health and healing. They need to focus on naturopathy, ayurveda, homeopathy, and unani. They should apply these sciences to their lives. Health is about a clean body and mind that enables the healing energy to cruise unhindered throughout the body and mind complex. Detoxification, nourishment, restoration, rectification, and education are the tools required to end the prevalent disease epidemics and ensure a healthy population
(Dr Naresh Purohit is Executive Member of the Indian Medical Academy for Preventive Health. The views and opinion expressed in this article are those of the author)
