Page 5 - Understanding How the Body Develops Serious Medical Conditions part 1

Understanding the Cause of Chronic Disease

The following description of how disease

develops in the body can be found both in Asia and

Europe but is rarely discussed or taught in America.

In China, this theory is based off of a book called

the Shang han lun which was written sometime

before 220 AD and has been used as a medical

strategy in Asia for centuries. In Europe, this is one

of the main modern ways medical professionals

effectively treat chronic medical problems.

This approach is not simply to diagnose an

illness and then prescribe someone a drug and keep

them on it forever. The concept here is that the

body moved through a series of progressive stages

where your physiology was more and more

disrupted until the cells were damaged enough that

they could no longer function properly. This is what

led to your medical problem. The treatment is to

move you back through these stages in order to

restore a state of health.

In both the Chinese text and the modern

European theory, chronic diseases can go through

six potential stages. These stages are listed below.