This week I will not write an original piece.Rather I will paraphrase from the book “One Cause, One Cure” by the late Fred Barge, D.C. on the concepts of symptoms.I think you will find it as useful as I have.Enjoy….
Symptoms are nature’s warning signal, our burglar alarm so to speak.They are to tell us that something is wrong with the body….This quest of pain relief, fostered by medicine, has led to a masking of symptoms that leads to a further advancement of malfunction and pathology.
No one would put cotton on …a burglar alarm so you wouldn’t hear the warning.One wouldn’t put a sponge under a dripping faucet so you couldn’t hear it drip, yet, Mrs. Doe will come into my office and state, “doctor, I have to take four aspirin before I go shopping or my knees just kill me.”“Now Mrs. Doe,” I reply, “you wouldn’t take four aspirin to ease the pain of a bruise…and then beat on the bruise, would you?Think of what you are doing to your knees.”
Yes, pain and symptoms are nature’s warning signals, the Innate Intelligence of your body is sending you a message…we must heed pain as our Innate messenger, our body is trying to tell us something.
“Because illness is a message, if we treat only its physical manifestations, it can linger on or recur until the message is heeded.”- Dennis T. Jaffe, Ph.D.
Symptoms of illness are not the disease itself, nor is the pathology that follows the body’s malfunction, disease…is but a message of body malfunction.
Rather than treating the symptoms…health maintenance and cause correction should be stressed.An ounce of prevention…is worth a pound of cure.When we…cover up symptoms, the body continues in it’s state of malfunction and stress.Until ultimately…loss of vital functioning and death.
As mankind begins to accept sickness is an internal problem…we shall have a different outlook on seeking cures…We will look at our own health habits, our physical more code so to speak.We will begin to realize that when we violate the rules of health we must pay the price (Emphasis mine).This concept is not … new.Many health conscious writers have written on these concepts during the past century.But man’s consciousness has refused, until of late, to accept his own responsibility towards health.
Dr. Nardi:If you haven’t yet, when will you disregard the need to feel good only to cause worse problems for doing it?Have you accepted your role of responsibility in your own health?At what age should one accept it?It’s 16 to drive, 18 to vote, 21 to drink, when for health?In our 40’s or 50’s when it’s nearly too late?Or should we help unlock our children’s innate so they may be blessed with good health throughout their lives?
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