Traditional Medicine (Approach AND Practice Part 1)

We have diseases and we have treatments but we haven’t got either any scientific research or any explanation as to how the phenomenon of disease occurred in the world. In our century, the diseases with the highest mortality rate are: tuberculosis, myocardial infarction, obesity, cancers, schizophrenia and depression of various types. The last two ones existed in the past, too; they have existed since the beginning of human evolution. Most often genetic mutations are the triggering factors of various affections. The external factors causing genetic mutations are cosmic phenomena, major climatic changes and so on. The internal factor is considered to be the structure alteration of leukocytes and erythrocytes.There are other hypotheses, too, such as: the human being has been born (and used to be) perfectly healthy and indestructible. Searching and searching, the human being found that he had a spirit; ever since then there has been an incessant war fought between soul and spirit; either they managed to become one or they would rot. In the course of time, body began to lose battle to soul.Or: in the way they are viewed, diseases are the expression of a person’s different approaches which are born out of a person’s various conceptions, namely the pragmatic and the spiritual one.

In different ages, civilizations like the Assyrians, the Mayans and the Greeks stated that the various diseases were a consequence of people’s mistakes; they were gods’ punishment for people’s shameful acts. As, from various reasons, the human being lost his independence, the gods were born. With the gods, were born the ruling factors of the human civilization, namely: FEAR, OBEDIENCE AND SLAVERY. Thus being dominated by force, the human being lost the war and the certainty that offered him stability; the strong and independent human being no longer existed; only the human being turned into obeisant and vulnerable individual did. The above-mentioned civilizations accepted as hypothesis the idea that diseases are accidental but necessary for the human being; if the human being were not dejected and broken down, that would help him change, evolve and adapt to the environmental changes.

In old times, they thought that falling ill was accident, fate and destiny at the same time and that you could prevail by your own force alone; you could recover your health with the help of nature and of its produces and change your destiny.The human being may choose between contending with his condition and with his subduing affections or wondering where the affections have come from; why they have occurred to him of all people; how long he were to put up with the situation and whether he should put up with it at all. A disease doesn’t just happen to strike out of clear blue sky. It settles little by little by little, like an avalanche gathering the small mistakes we accumulate and never treat along time. The avalanche once settled, it is hard to undo it. However it is possible, provided that we should know how to do it.