As the current system of healthcare continues to price itself out of most people’s budgets AND with the continued health information increasing on the Internet, there will be a shift away from the pharma-based healthcare to the “organic” based healthcare. Hospitals will still be needed to 1) handle patients who resist the change and 2) handle acute cases such as accidents.
In Switzerland, the pharmacies are much different than those in the U.S. When you enter, the associate interrogates you to determine your purpose for entering the store. Based on your symptoms, the associate will direct you to a homeopathic remedy first. Only by your insistence with the associate assist you in obtaining a pharma-based remedy. This is true for much of the European mainland.
In China and other Far Eastern countries, acupuncture and other “energy-based” therapies are accepted and successful in treating various illnesses and diseases. The economies require an effective but inexpensive means of treating the population. After all, who can afford $500 per month medical premiums in lesser developed economies where the average worker may only make an equivalent $200 per month?
It would appear that the Western economies have created the problem and in response, created an expensive solution to the problem. Hmmm, sounds lie a political subtlety. If growth in complexity is left unchecked, it will collapse under its own weight.
It’s time for a couple of definitions:
Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies health science, biomedical research, and medical technology to diagnose and treat injury and disease, typically through medication, surgery, or some other form of therapy. The word medicine is derived from the Latin ars medicina, meaning the art of healing.
Orthodox: Adhering to whatever is traditional, customary or generally accepted
Society is influenced by the use of words. For example, “Orthodox Medicine” sounds like the norm whereas “Alternative Medicine” sounds like a less than desirable, sub-par methodology thus placing a stigma on those who practice it. In the early 1900’s pharma-based medicine was the “Alternative Medicine”.
The human body contains an electrical grid that passes information from one system to another. The heart is a great example:
The natural pacemaker of the heart is called the sinoatrial node (SA node). It is located in the right atrium. The heart also contains specialized fibers that conduct the electrical impulse from the pacemaker (SA node) to the rest of the heart (see Figure 4).
Figure 4
The electrical impulse leaves the SA node (1) and travels to the right and left atria, causing them to contract together. This takes .04 seconds. There is now a natural delay to allow the atria to contract and the ventricles to fill up with blood. The electrical impulse has now traveled to the atrioventricular node (AV node) (2). The electrical impulse now goes to the Bundle of His (3), then it divides into the right and left bundle branches (4) where it rapidly spreads using Purkinje fibers (5) to the muscles of the right and left ventricle, causing them to contract at the same time.
Your nervous system sends electrical impulses to your brain to provide the status of your various organs and extremities. Your various organs and systems have electrical pathways or channels that pass by or to the skin.
The cell is a complicated entity in which thousands of activities take place and the electrical potential of the cell is what we want to focus on. The body of a cell is enclosed by a membrane, and in a nerve cell the electrical potential is minus ninety millivolts, relative to the outside of the cell. The reason there is a negative potential is because of a disproportionate amount of substances inside the cell relative to outside the cell—particularly sodium and potassium. The very thin membrane can sustain an electrical tension better than most insulators. The insulation strength is high. There are billions of cells in the brain—each with an electrical potential. In nerve cells the speed of impulse transmission varies from one hundred meters a second to three meters a second. All the cells in the human body, although they do not have the same amount of electrical potential, work on the same principle.
What if we could use the electrical system of the body to analyze the “status” of the various organs and systems, similar to placing an analyzer on an automobile engine’s electrical system? What if we could measure “interference” and identify it against a known table of chemicals, toxins, bacteria, allergens, cancers, viruses, etc? We can!
This field of “Energy Medicine” will be the next topic in this series.
PS. If medicine means “art of healing”, have the “treaters” lost sight of their primary mandate? Shouldn’t they consider any alternative that might further their mandate?