THE PROBLEM WITH SYMPTOM SUPPRESSION
How come the US medical system has such terrible statistics? (see Medical Stats)
Many centuries ago, superior Chinese physicians were only paid when their patients
were well and not paid when they were ill. So they treated combinations of symptoms
in such a way that, rather than suppressing them, they worked to re-
Imagine if US medical doctors were held to the same standard -
So, what are the major errors that US medical doctors routinely make, as a direct result of the extraordinarily blinkered and narrow band of healing knowledge in which they are trained, that result in so many people becoming medical wreckage with bodies plagued with increasingly degenerative diseases?
These days the three major areas that US medical doctors specialize in are a) prescribing drugs, b) surgery and c) radiation.
The primary error behind each of these (putting aside their often extraordinary destructiveness, for the moment) is that they attempt to suppress symptoms instead of looking for, finding and treating causes so that the innate healing abilities of the body can come into play to fix itself, as it is fully capable of doing unless damaged by any of the above 3 activities.
Unfortunately the "symptom-
But the synthetic vitamins (nutraceuticals) that currently make up 95% of the vitamins
sold in health stores have been found to create numerous problems of their own due
to their missing so many of the essential co-
And even alternative health practitioners can cause significant further long-
SYMPTOM SUPPRESSION
So why is addressing symptoms so destructive?
Because addressing symptoms usually leaves the cause both undiscovered and unhandled.
And it forces the body to create other symptoms and side-
Imagine a dam where a feeder pressure valve breaks and causes water to be pumped
through the dam with so much pressure that leaks occur in the dam wall. The symptom
is the leaks and if these are shored up and the dam is made leak-
No, because the cause is still unhandled and
eventually will cause enough pressure to be created to blow up the dam. Thus it is
with symptom-
Imagine also a nuclear power plant where an instrument panel has a section that goes into the red when dangerous levels of radiation are present and where instead of handling whatever is causing the radiation levels to rise too high, the engineer just covers up the instrument panel so that the red warning can’t be seen. Not exactly smart, but this is exactly what is being done when you suppress or mask symptoms and leave the cause unhandled.
But it goes deeper than this because more times than not the location of the symptoms is NOT the location of the cause of those symptoms. Yet many medical doctors insist on trying to "handle" the symptoms at their location.
A classic case is an enlarged prostate. Many times what is causing the prostate to
be stressed to the point of enlarging is a problem in the kidney -
But doctors rarely do this, instead they usually try and address the location of
the symptoms -
Another simple example is so-
The medical approach is to give drugs (with all their attendant side-
One also has to then go further and ask why did the person's heart become weak and
also fix that (often it turns out to be the typical American diet and getting them
off that can often fix their heart fully). But it will be whatever it will be -
Another typical example of symptom rather than cause-
Logic dictates that one would investigate to find out WHY the thyroid is pumping too much thyroxin into the system but instead most doctors prescribe drugs to suppress the amount of thyroxin being produced (causing the body to then have to find some other way to get relief) and when that doesn't work (because it's handling the wrong problem), they resort to burning it (radiation) and even removing some or all of the thyroid! (bodies happen to need thyroid glands)
Unfortunately, alternative health practitioners also often put the patient on thyroid supplements which, while usually being somewhat safer than harmful medical drugs, are again addressing the wrong problem and will over time create their own problems, as they leave the cause undetected and unhandled.
Since the thyroid is part of a system that includes the adrenals and the heart, the
patient can end up with undue strain on the heart which can lead to much more serious
problems, as an all-
In their inability to find actual causes, they resort to instead creating lists of
symptoms and labeling them to the point that if you look up on the web the various
symptoms of hyperthyroidism you'll actually find the cause listed as "Graves Disease"
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There are also many such lists of symptoms/names that mimic MS, and of course harmful
drugs for all of them, and once again all these symptoms can be eliminated by finding
the true causes (often food – especially diet sodas -
Acute diarrhea is the body's way of getting rid of toxins/poisons (guess why so many
drugs have diarrhea as a side-
Trying to treat joint problems, as another location example, with topical or herbal supplements targeted at that specific area, while they may bring temporary relief in some circumstances, will have little long term beneficial effect if the problem is coming from a malfunctioning organ or gland or even from eating wheat, as is sometimes the case.
I could list hundreds of such examples. but you get the point (I hope).
Sometimes the situation is simply that the person’s body is blocked from healing
itself (by such things as heavy metals, chemicals -
So, for those who still go to medical doctors. I challenge you next time to ask them when they give you a "diagnosis", "Yes, but what is the actual *cause*? And can we treat that instead?" and see what they say!
A good test of a health practitioner's real understanding of physical healing is to ask them something like, "What's good for (fill in the blank)?" and see what he/she says. If he/she says, "It depends upon what's causing it.", you've found yourself a jewel.
Fortunately the human body can put up with a lot of abuse, especially while it's
younger, and many of the above medical errors can be reversed given time and good
well-
There are a number of other key errors that I will explain in the next article but
the above is the key reason why a wholistic approach that looks at the totality of
what is happening with a body and its interconnected systems is so necessary to true
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