Alternative approach to common ailments
By Eye Magazine published 2 June, 2010 No CommentsWhen we trudge off to our GP for some help with some common ailment, we go with full expectation that we are going to be given something that will cure it. If that doesn’t work we go back for something different or stronger, and if that also doesn’t work we are referred to a specialist etc. We know this system works because it has been proven to save lives.
If we ask “Why have I got this —-?”, we may well be told that there is a lot of it about, it’s just one of those things, it’s stress, a virus or even your age! In fact we are told everything except why we have it! Just try asking your doctor “Why don’t you have it then?” The fact is that there is always a cause or reason why we are poorly. Nothing happens for no reason. Here’s where we start looking for something else to blame, so we start accusing viruses, bacteria, fungi, foods, pollens or even the weather! If it were these things, everyone would be affected by them. These things can trigger things off, but they don’t necessarily cause. Let’s try to understand that health is not the absence of disease, but rather the ability to withstand disease. Even viruses, bacteria and fungi are opportunists. They only manifest themselves in someone whose health is physically, mentally, spiritually or environmentally compromised. How is it that we can see this in the case of a pot plant, but not within ourselves? If the plant is struggling in some way, it could be because of its water, the pot, the food, the light, other gases or even accompanying plants. We find out which of those it is, make the appropriate changes, and lo and behold the plant starts to thrive again and become more resistance to disease, and funnily enough we haven’t used any drugs on it!. We are also a living thing and have similar needs. The problem is that unlike the pot plant, we don’t like changes, but sometimes a change is all that is needed. Not drugs.
A symptom is a result of the manner in which the body is trying to sort the problem out for itself. Most drugs are given to combat those symptoms, but they still leave us with the reason why we got it. A physician’s true purpose is to observe the manner in which the body is trying to help itself, and to help it if needed. This is why we refer to mainstream as allopathy, because it is doing the opposite to that of the body.
As Holopathic Practitioners, we are concerned with finding out the reason for disease in each individual and to advise what appropriate changes are needed, and to give appropriate stimulus to the body’s own healing mechanism to enable it to get better.
By Prof. Steve Russell for The Restoratory
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