Alternative Medicine vs Conventional Medicine … Why the Controversy?
Pluto isn’t a planet anymore!
Wow! I wonder what happened to Pluto. … Did it disappear? … Was it vaporized by a rogue comet?
As it happens, nothing happened to Pluto – except the rules. Astronomers decided size matters; and since poor ol’ Pluto didn’t measure up – poof, it’s gone. But, it’s still out there – orbiting the sun – in the same place!
Here’s another example of dogma being confused with fact.
In the late 18th century, three scientists fought it out over competing theories of disease – Louis Pasteur, the father of conventional medicine versus Claude Bernard and Antoine Bechamp, proponents of alternative medicine.
One side, Pasteur’s, believed that germs, from outside the body, were the source of all diseases.
The other side felt disease followed imbalances inside the body and that the imbalance triggered a change in a normally symbiotic microbe, contained within the human body, which triggered the decay of tissue, organs and disease.
Dubbed, Zymotic Disease by the proponents of alternative medicine, the latter had a similar fate to that of Copernicus, while Pasteur’s Germ Theory of Disease became the foundation of conventional medicine.
The nature of the competition between these two theories, conventional medicine or alternative medicine, has been dramatized by repeating an anecdotal death-bed statement, by a repentant Pasteur, “It is not the germ that causes disease but the terrain in which the germ is found.”
None the less, building on past success with penicillin’s ability to kill bacteria, practitioners of conventional medicine, today’s physicians, who are supported with pharmaceuticals to “manage” a particular condition, seek external factors that cause a diagnosed condition and substances and use machines and/or medical methods to eradicate that “disease causing factor” – with varying degress of success.
Apparently, the medical controversy about the causes of disease wasn’t settled.
Perhaps it’s time to dust off the old theory and take a closer look.
- Could, as Bernard and Bechamp’s work shows, the inner condition and health of the cells (sometimes described as the “terrain” in works of the time) determine whether disease would manifest or spread in the body?
- Could factors, like poor diet, stress, lack of rest and life style choices, be the catalysts that alter the “internal terrain” of the body that give rise to the conditions that plague the industrialized world?
- Could that “friendly” microbe, the microzyma (named by Bechamp), change into the predator that is decaying the body, little by little – from the inside, be the culprit?
- What if adequate sleep, relaxation, moderate lifestyle choices, mild exercise and a balanced diet is the prescription for a long life and a healthy death?
The inescapable fact is: what we are doing doesn’t alway work.
The chances of succumbing to one or more of the degenerative diseases: Heart and Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Respiratory disease, Stroke, Diabetes, Lung disease, Kidney disease and suicide, is greater than ever before.
Odds are, a person will be a statistic sometime during life – if he or she isn’t now. After spending billions of dollars on the theory of conventional medicine: searching for cures, managing disease, medical treatments with surgeries and machines, poking and proding, enduring the heartache of declining health and financial ruin, people are worse off.
Oddly enough, the factors that may be affecting the internal terrain of the body are manageable. They are simply choices that people make.
People choose:
- Edible substances, masquerading as food (Chemcuisine), that are fast and easy over a balanced diet of real food.
- Anything else, except clean water to drink
- Too much or too little exercise
- Inadequate sleep
- Lack of relaxation
- Risky life styles
People make excuses for their choices. It’s the kids’ schedule … It’s the boss … It costs too much … It’s the commute … It’s the _______ (fill in the blank).
And, just as perplexing, people are dumb-struck when they are forced to confront a very predictable situation – their failed health.
Years ago, the makers of Fram oil filters produced a television commercial that featured an oil soaked mechanic who said “Pay me now, or pay more, later.”, insinuating that investing in an oil change and a $3.00 Fram oil filter, now, is better than replacing the engine in your car – later.
Likewise, treating your body with respect, now, will pay dividends – now and in the future. And, in this case, this body is the only one you’ll ever be issued.
Is that alternative medicine or is it just good sense?
For those of you, who are interested, read: How to Become the Master of Your Health or visit this site.
For the rest of you: Good Luck. You’ll need it.
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