by Natural Cowgirl
This article is one of my attempts to distiguish the difference
between and natural, holistic approach and a conventional medical
approach. A natural, holistic approach is about supplying nutrition to the body so that the body can heal itself. Our
current health care system is one of disease management that is
governed by expensive pharmaceutical drugs and insurance companies.
(Note that I still don’t understand why these drugs are so expensive.)
Our current health care system will never be affordable based on this model.
Health tends to be greatly misunderstood. Either that or most people
do not think of health like I do. One of the first ways that people
think when they want to restore health is allopathically. Allopathic
means that a disease or condition is treated with a substance that
causes the opposite effect of the symptoms – as in modern conventional
medicine.. Examples of allopathic remedies include antibiotics,
anti-inflammatories, beta blockers, proton pump inhibitors, calcium
channel blockers, COX-2 inhibitors, etc. If you are over 50, chances are
you are on one or more of these allopathic remedies also known as
pharmaceutical drugs.
Allopathy works to address symptoms. Symptoms are
the body’s way of reporting an imbalance. Merely treating the symptoms
does not address the cause of the imbalance. Treating just the symptoms
tends to result in greater imbalance sometime in the future. Yes, I did
say that treating just the symptoms tends to lead to greater imbalance
in the future – meaning that you are not getting well by taking an
allopathic medicine. Now there are cases where the allopathic medicine
helps you have the quality of life you want and it can hold life
threatening symptoms at bay, but allopathic medicines do not restore
true health. If you follow my column, or have visited with me, surely
you know that I am interested in why your body is functioning the way it
is and what is causing that – ie. finding the underlying cause. In
searching for answers, I always think of the confession in the Episcopal
prayer book. What has been done that should not have been done and what
should have been done that was left undone? I tend look at issues
nutritionally, because that is what make sense to me. (If I were a
surgeon, I might have a completely different approach.) The answer for
most health problems typically involves more than just one simple pill. The issues tend to be complex and unique for each individual. MORE
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