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Understanding Basic Healing Principles of Natural Cure

Suppression v/s Healing - The healing crisis

Holistic Health  - Naturopathic Healing

Illness does not occur without cause.  Underlying causes of disease
must be discovered and removed or treated before a person can recover
completely from illness.  Symptoms express the body's attempt to heal,
but are not the cause of disease.  Symptoms, therefore, should not be
suppressed by treatment.  Physicians and surgeons palliate symptoms
instead of removing causes. The elimination of the symptom is not the
same as elimination of the disease. In allopathic medicine a symptom
is usually thought of as the patient's real disease and the goal is to
hold back, decrease or eliminate this symptom. This is often done
without addressing the underlying cause and does not promote a cure.
The naturopathic physician seeks to treat the causes of disease,
rather than to merely eliminate or suppress symptoms.

Health is not the absence of disease ... it is a universal good
condition on all levels--physical, emotional and mental. Naturopathic
Medicine is a distinctively natural approach to health and healing
that recognizes the integrity of the whole person.  Disease or "dis-
ease" is defined as a lack of health. Disease results when any cell is
not functioning 100% of its designed duty whether due to trauma,
toxicity, lack of communication or a combination thereof. Disease is
due to stress. Whether due to ignorance or laziness, exposing the body
to stress will produce a diseased state of the body. Stress is the
only means of tearing down health resulting in disease, our bodies
paying the price for violating the laws of nature (our wrong doings).
We do not "catch" a disease or illness, we earn it. We must "work" for
disease.

Why elimination of the symptom is NOT the same as elimination of the
disease

What is a healing Crisis? Understanding the healing process

Germs: the cause or symptom of a disease?

Nutritional Influences on Illness

Hering’s Law of Cure - Healing occurs in a consistent pattern

PH balance: How it affects your health

Natural Hygiene Teaches Optimum Health, Longevity and the Art of
Living

Toxemia and Internal Cleansing

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its
work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest
force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine
should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your
sickness." Hippocrates, Greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)
Disease is nothing more than the body responding to the wrong we have
done to it. It is the body's attempt at keeping us alive in response
to the wrongs we have inflicted on our bodies. Pathological changes
are the cell's response to stress. These changes or compensations
allow the body to survive - maintain homeostasis - as long as the
stress continues. These tissue changes which result in disease, are
the outward manifestation of internal compensation to stress. Until
the cause is removed, the condition will remain in one form or
another.

The word "holistic" means "whole". In providing holistic care, the
therapist addresses you or your animal not only from the point of view
of its disease, but also considers what may have caused the condition.
There are many levels to look at: lifestyle, dietary habbits,
emotions; these may all have a relationship with the symptoms you
observe. Believe it or not, our body knows how we got sick, why we got
sick and how to heal us. The reason it doesn't do so is because of the
stresses that we put in the way.

Why elimination of the symptom is NOT the same as elimination of the
disease

Physicians and surgeons palliate symptoms instead of removing causes

Jeffrey Levy, DVM - "The greatest harm of drug treatment is usually
not so much the toxicity or side effects as it is the effects of
suppression. Allopathic (conventional Western) medical thinking
generally seeks immediate gratification: just make the symptom go
away. So the patient may be better in the short term, but is usually
worse in the longer term. Homeopathy is just the opposite: sometimes
the symptoms are worse in the short term (such as with aggravation or
the reversal of a previous suppression), but the real benefit is in
the longer term. A symptom, say itchy skin, is the body's response to
a deeper problem. When a symptom is suppressed, it is only the outward
manifestation of the problem that goes away. Since the deeper problem
is still there, the body may, in time, produce the same symptom again.
Another possibility is that, as a result of the suppression, the
deeper problem progresses to the point that a deeper, more serious
symptom is produced. So the itchy skin may go away, but then chronic
diarrhea develops. If the diarrhea is then suppressed as well, it may
lead to, say, liver disease. But hey, at least the skin is cleared up!
I see this pattern, or variations on it, very frequently in reviewing
the medical records of new patients. It is the unrecognized, and often
high, price that we pay for the quick fix, for immediate
gratification, for the shot or pill that seems to make the problem go
away."  Antibiotics and Suppressive Therapies --  Healthy Lifestyle
Choices

Dr. Bernstein DVM - "Modern medicine feels, in most cases, that the
elimination of the symptom is the same as elimination of the disease.
In allopathic medicine a symptom is usually thought of as the
patient's real disease and the goal is to hold back, decrease or
eliminate this symptom. This is often done without addressing the
underlying cause. If your tooth hurts and we inject a local
anesthetic, the pain goes away but that does not mean the problem is
gone! If we use medications to suppress these symptoms then the vital
force tries to create new symptoms to compensate for the imbalance
that is still there. If the vital force is strong then the original
symptom may return. Otherwise, it may be unable to express on the same
level and create a symptom that is more interior and could be much
worse per Herring's Law. One example is a skin rash that is treated
with cortisone. The rash and itching will probably go away quickly.
Later the patient begins to exhibit liver problems that "were caused
by the cortisone". The liver symptoms are actually an expression of
this suppressed imbalance on a deeper more interior level. Many things
can be suppressive. Vaccines and allopathic medications are a major
source of suppression where homeopathy is concerned, but herbs,
acupuncture and incorrect homeopathic remedies can also be
suppressive."

When there is enough wrong with people to produce discomfort of mind
or body, they seek relief instead of seeking for and removing
cause...Physicians and surgeons palliate symptoms instead of removing
causes. "Whenever possible, suppression of symptoms is avoided, as
this may interfere with the healing process. Tolle Causam (Identify
and Treat the Cause). Illness does not occur without cause and
symptoms (nausea, rash, headache) are not the cause. Symptoms are
signals that the body is out of balance. They are an expression of the
body's attempt to heal itself. Causes originate on many levels, but
are more often found in the patient's lifestyle, diet, habits, or
emotional state. When only the symptoms are treated, the underlying
causes remain and the patient may develop a more serious, chronic
condition. Prevention Is the Best Cure. Health is a reflection of how
we choose to live." Dr. Peter A. Martin, N.D. Naturopathy

Herbert Shelton MD - "Why do we expect to get well in a hurry of a
condition that requires a life-time for its development? Perhaps one
is fifty years of age and has had a chronic disease since the age of
thirty-five, the condition slowly becoming worse during this time,
despite (or because of) the faithful employment of the commonly
administered means of palliation. Before the disease became apparent
at the age of thirty-five, there was a long antecedent series of
developments that led up to the disease."   Various articles by Dr.
Shelton