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can create problems of its own. The conventional
approach is to stop the process, that is, give a
medicine to bring down the fever. This action will
unfortunately shut down the healing process and
prevent the individual from being able to rid itself
of the pathogen. The holistic approach is to try to
figure out why the body was unable to finish the
healing process on its own and help it to do so. In
chronic disease situations this approach can often
take longer than the conventional approach, but
the individual will be healthier for finishing the
process on its own. It has “learned” how to effect a
curative reaction from start to finish.
Our knowledge of the details of healing are
not yet complete, so the attempt to micromanage
the process tends to perpetuate the state of
ill-health and although those particular symptoms
may be resolved the individual tends to continue
to have problems that recur or manifest elsewhere.
This is not another disease, just another manifestation
of the state of ill-health.
The individual often presents with acute
symptoms that are not a disease itself, but simply
an acute manifestation of a chronic disease state.
That is, the individual is never well, they continually
manifest symptoms that may or may not occur the
same way time after time.
In conventional medicine we tend to believe
that if one is not sick, that they must be healthy.
The symptoms are seen as the problem and once
the symptoms are under control, the patient is no
longer sick. Medication is chosen that can help
control any symptom of a disease process. The
Holistic approach views symptoms as the body’s
attempt to return itself to a state of health, not just
a state of “not sick.” Therefore the therapies are
directed at aiding this process, not just removal of
symptoms.
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