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Your Symptoms Are Your Friends
by Lonny Brown, HHc.
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WWhen it comes to promoting healing, contemporary Western allopathic medicine has it all wrong, and so do most health care "consumers." Over the last half-century, we have thoroughly misapplied too many remarkable scientific advances in bio-chemistry to suppress the symptoms of disease, while ignoring the causes. The vast majority of those causes of disease are life-style related, preventable, and treatable with natural therapies.
To put it bluntly, if you are one of the tens of millions of Americans who believe that the best (or only) remedy for headaches, digestive problems, hypertension, muscle and joint pain, allergies, acne, rashes, sleep disorders, fatigue, fever, or chills is a pill or injection, you are the victim of a massive indoctrination that has perpetrated untold suffering to young and old for generations, and brought the nation's economy to its knees.
Money Medicine
The unquestioned public assumption that there is a preferred pill for nearly every known ailment stems from our collective complacency, exploited by a market-driven drug industry long out of control. The pharmaceutical companies and their lobbies have succeeded in selling us speed and convenience over cure and healing, side-effects be damned. We now have drugs that instantly kill pain, stimulate weakened organs, keep us running, and otherwise effectively mask potentially serious ailments, and often exacerbate or cause them. The dispensing of this ever-growing multitude of chemical concoctions now passes for "health care." The very name for the ancient healing arts - medicine - has become synonymous with drugs.
The term "side-effects" was coined by big pharma to trivialize and legally excuse the human body's predictable negative reactions to foreign, synthetic compounds. In a few short years, we have been completely indoctrinated to accept a wide array of dangerous unintended consequences as the necessary trade-off for the elimination of some other unwanted discomfort. The deal a marginalized FDA is: We give the public "fair warning" about the sometimes even lethal toxicity of our products and you grant us immunity from prosecution. Yes, you can be legally slowly poisoned.
Through relentless saturation advertising, the public is trained to accept serious side-effects, and "ask your doctor" if a drug is "right for you." By trusting drug companies and their salespeople, MD's too have become implicit in this shady, lazy bargain. It's the opposite of scientific, evidenced-based medicine: Neither the medical establishment nor the government knows which, how, when, or even if prescription and over-the-counter medications work. Even more unknown and dangerous is the is the vast potential for harmful drug interactions.
Listen to Your Body
Symptoms - from mild anomalies to severe pain and incapacitation - are the natural, lawful consequences of imbalances, deficiencies, toxins and other stresses to the system. Generally, the worse the symptom, the longer the underlying causes have been ignored or overlooked. Symptoms are "smart discomforts;" immensely valuable navigation markers in the quest for and maintenance of good health. As early warning signals from our own body-wisdom, we ignore them at our own peril. Repressing symptoms only delays their re-appearance as more serious disease.
The increasing successes of holistic, naturopathic, and homeopathic medicine prove nearly all common ailments are correctable through natural, safe, and low-to-no-cost self-care methods. Their benefits range from personal self-empowerment and wellness to national health care savings that could make the difference between systemic bankruptcy or solvency. Predictably, the entrenched commercial medical/pharmaceutical/insurance establishment has proven notoriously resistant to such profitless trends. Don't let that keep you from declaring your own health freedom.
Take Care of Yourself
Given a fair chance, living organisms are remarkably resilient and self-healing. The next time you don’t feel well and are about to reflexively reach for that magic pill, think about the implications and alternatives. When it comes to healing, faster is not better, particularly if more negative reactions result. Experienced doctors admit that most aches and pains clear up on their own. A bit of natural wisdom I gleaned from my father says wait three days before doing anything. To be proactive, ask yourself, why is this problem appearing in this organ or physical location at this time? What was going on when it happened? Does this dysfunction have meaning or message for me? What can I change in my life to make it better? Better nutrition? More exercise? Stress reduction?
No medicine exists that can rectify poor health habits. Along with self-care, consult people experienced in overcoming similar conditions. Compare and consider a holistic range of remedies. Seek out benign, natural therapies that have proven the test of time. Most of all, have faith and patience. The same innate living super-intelligence that grew your body is constantly maintaining and repairing it. Indeed, it's the only thing that can. |
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Lonny Brown,
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Lonny J. Brown, HHC is the author of "Self-Actuated Healing" (Naturegraph, Publ.), and "Enlightenment In Our Time," (BookLocker.com/
LonnyBrown).
His writings on holistic health have appeared on AOL's Alternative Medicine Forum and in Alternative Health Practitioner, Yoga Journal, and many other progressive publications.
Lonny Brown teaches holistic health, mind/body healing, and stress reduction courses at hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the US. His Web site also features essays, tapes, books, and links to a variety of integrative health sources.
holistic.com/lonny
lonny@holistic.com
lonnybrown@aol.com
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