1. The modern approach in medicine
2. What is so wrong with treating symptoms?
3. Where exactly is the problem?
4. The holistic and the specialised approaches
5. A disease in terms of toxaemia and the vital force
6. Aren’t germs and bacteria the causes of disease?
7. The fundamental steps of natural healing
8. If natural healing is so simple, why isn’t everyone doing it?
9. How to detoxify the body
10. How to avoid generating toxins
11. Some good eating habits
12. Why have other causes like stress, emotions and karma not been discussed?
1. The modern approach in medicine
The modern approach is to classify a disease as a collection of symptoms and then to treat the symptoms with powerful drugs. This method is very useful in treating life-threatening diseases and stubborn infections. However, most of our everyday illnesses are only functional disorders such as respiratory disorders like the common cold and cough; skin disorders like rashes that itch, dandruff and foul odour; pains like headache, stiff-joints and back pains; and digestive disorders like irritable bowels, constipation and flatulence. And for such ailments the modern medical science has no effective remedy. They only try to manage or relieve the symptoms of the disorder so as to provide some temporary relief.
2. What is so wrong with treating symptoms?
When you habitually treat the symptoms of the common functional disorders with drugs, you only modify the symptoms without removing the causes. And when the underlying causes continue, the disease develops further and becomes chronic. It gives rise to annoying symptoms like headaches, stuffed nose, acidity, gas trouble, rheumatic pain, skin rash, respiratory allergy (like asthma, wheezing), blood pressure, etc. Such chronic disorders are less intense in their effects, but they harass more since they last for a long time and recur periodically.
And for such chronic conditions there are ‘no outright cures’ — there are only medications that temporarily manage or relieve the symptoms. Hence, you are never healed; and you may be put on medication that has to be taken for the rest of your life! Further, since the cause continues, newer symptoms keep on arising from time to time and the treatment you get only keeps on suppressing them.
However, in the early stages, a disease is always just a functional disorder. If you choose to suppress the symptoms at this stage, you bypass the healing that should happen at this stage and allow the disease to become internalised. Then it develops further and becomes chronic; and ultimately it becomes degenerative wherein the structures of the organs like the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, etc. begin to break down. However, it does not bother the advocates of modern medicine since now they can show you the ‘wonders of surgery’. And of course, you have to pay the price.
The basic problem with the modern approach is that they focus only on relieving symptoms (the localised manifestation of the dis
