Alternative medicine and Holistic therapies are becoming more popular daily. Normally when we visit our local doctor or medical practitioner they tend to ask what is wrong and then prescribe antibiotics or whatever to treat the symptom and from my experience in lots of cases don’t really consider what is causing this symptom.
I am often asked what is holistic … I think if we put a W in front of it and change the word to Wholistic then we think of the word “Whole” and that is exactly what holistic therapies are all about the Whole person “for if we need to find the cure we must look beyond the symptoms”.
There is no effect without a cause and similarly there is no illness without a cause.
When we visit an Holistic practitioner they should take a case study and they will or should look at anything and everything that can be that “cause”.
They will consider our diet and eating habits, what exercise we do, whether we drink or smoke, our work and family situations to ascertain if they are causing any stress (bearing in mind that a lot of illnesses are stress related). They will consider past illnesses, falls or bumps and anything at all that could relate to our present condition. In effect they are looking for the cause of our condition .. oh yes if we have a headache we can take an asprin or paracetamol and the headache may go … for a while. What we have done here is treat the symptom and the relief may be short lived as the cause may not have been corrected. The cause of the headache for instance may be due to spending too long if front of a computer or maybe our eyesight has deteriorated and we need spectacles or it could be something totally different.
We can treat the symptom which will continue to return until we have dealt with the cause of our problem.
There is a saying (I believe by Paracelus the great 16th century physician) which is very true and a good simile “Those who merely treat the effects of a disease (and not the cause) are like those who imagine they can drive away the winter by brushing the snow from the door”
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