| How to Learn and Understand Holistic Medicine |
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To understand alternative medicine in its entirety, you need a completely different way of thinking. All diseases have their purpose. Symptoms are information the body uses as signals to regulate its health. The whole body continually seeks to regulate itself in relationship to its internal and external environment. Seen in this light, symptoms are never diseases but rather signs of the body’s process of adjustment. The human being is part of nature and reacts like everything else in nature. This holistic and biological approach to medicine is so completely different from standard allopathic medicine that it is hard to imagine it ever being taught in medical schools. The biological doctor must train his ability to sense analogies, referred to as correspondences, in order to understand the close relationship between nature and the patient’s symptoms. Biological medicine supports the body’s reactions and never suppresses them because these reactions always have meaning. Listening to the body and understanding this meaning is at the heart of biological medicine. Each person’s body is unique. Holistic care does not treat symptoms as defined diseases but rather supports specific responses from different constitutional types. Being a biological doctor means understanding that conventional allopathic medicine is always complementary and secondary to biological medicine. Basic to the thinking is that everything human is dynamic, every changing and reacting. It reminds us that we are an integral part of the earth and nature out of which we develop and live, and to which we return. Bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms, commonly thought to be the causes of disease, develop within us. They are normally in the form of proteins, part of all our cells. To emphasize: only our internal terrain – which we ourselves have created through diet, exercise, thinking – changes that microorganisms, and by doing so alters what is described as disease. When biological medicine is subjected to the “scientific” methods commonplace today, with their statistical studies and control groups, it will always fail. This gives the appearance that holistic treatments do not work well. Actually, we can be proud of the fact that biological medicine fails these studies because the studies are based on the wrong assumptions about the human body’s relationship within nature. They do not reflect the reality that human beings exist on a more complex level, integrated with nature, than that which is statistically controllable by standardized studies. Therefore, if we really want to know about the effects of our treatments, we should ask patients about their change in attitude towards life, their understanding of their symptoms, and their intent towards personal change. Studying homeopathy gives you deep insight into the human character, its archetypal reactions, and the meaning and structures of personalities. This study takes you to a deeper level of understanding into those dimensions that make human beings individuals. Homeopathy must therefore always be an important part of the education of a holistic doctor, in part because the study of homeopathy also educates the doctor’s own character. Learning biological medicine involves a commitment to personal change and a new way of thinking with new ideas and new interests.
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