Page 4 - Treating more than just symptoms
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The medical philosophy then followed this example
seeking a drug/biochemical cure for every disease.
The problem here lies in the logic. Penicillin
was so successful because the bacterial infection
was a single cause and the drug could target that
single cause. In cases of the chronic diseases we
see these days such as high blood pressure,
arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, etc, there is
not a single cause. Rather these medical problems
are multifactorial – many things have to happen in
the body for a person to develop these types of
problems. Worse still, because the parts of the body
are so interrelated, when certain areas begin to
malfunction the parts downstream are also affected
and the level of function continues to decline.
Because these problems had multiple factors
