Natural health versus the Disease Perspective
I thought I would pass on a table given to me by email that shows the difference in perspective between the natural health movement and the medical system as we know it today. It’s a sad state of affairs when the healing arts lead to the recommendation of multiple addictive drugs that may have compounded significant side effects, or to a recommendation to remove an organ because it is almost dead, but not quit. Where is the law to first do no harm rule? At what point do you give up on Gods ability to heal the body with natural products and adopt a philosophy that allows doctors to play god by calculating your odds of survival against the know side effects of a proscribed poisonous drug?
It seems completely unscientific to me to cut out parts of the body that were once working and throw them out instead of focusing on ways to improve their function (e.g. tonsils / adenoids). I’m concerned about the medical schools, drug makers, and doctors who choose to focus on the profit associated with drugs instead of working with nature remedies that are statically as effective, but which cannot be patented and profited from their use. If money more important to life, and is that a crime against society? Is it just me that finds the current medical system sicker than its patients? Do you have an opinion you can share?
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Always love’n your health,
Johanna
Natural Health Perspective Vs. Disease Perspective (Specialty Driven)
| ‘I have within me the ability to heal myself’ | Healthcare System is Symptom Model, Promotes outside intervention |
| Facilitate the body’s ability to heal itself. Set the proper environment to improve health through diet, exerciseHelp patent keep a healthy self image and mental state which can lead to a better quality of life | Prescribe drugs to suppress symptoms, ie, immune system, etc.Design drugs to block normal body functions and process instead of finding ways to make these metabolic pathways work betterRemove organs that are not functioning |
| Eliminate toxins (retracing) | Introduce toxins (chemical soup) into body’s systems |
| Improve quality of life long-term | Symptom relief – no regeneration of systems |
| Healthy ‘terrain’ is Immune to disease | Mechanistic, military view, ie, replace parts, destroy disease. (cut, burn, poison) |
| Individual is responsible to support his/her own body | Doctor created illnesses, treating one condition, can create another challenge |
| Less need for health insurance | Increases need for health insurance |
| Compensates for stress | Stressful, trauma around disease |
| ‘Work through’ a condition of imbalance | Identify with the disease (e.g., he’s diabetic or ‘a cancer survivor’) |
| Supports energy flow, the body knows best, | In the standard model, drugs designed for adults (e.g., studies done on men, also applied to women or children) |
| Do natural approach first, nutrition works, the body only uses what’s needed and directs residual | Hit it hard. Rebuild later |
| Works with the body | Overrides the body |