http://woowooscience.com/index.php/blog/post/what_is_natural_healing/ in health, homeopathy, and life en john@vitalpatterns.net Copyright 2008 by the respective commenters 2008-04-04T06:58:00-08:00 http://woowooscience.com/index.php/blog/post/what_is_natural_healing/#228 John - two points, first I think that your characterisation of conventional medicine as only occurring at the level of ‘intervention’ is completely false. All the factors that you mention in ‘environmental’ and ‘supportive’ have been recognised by conventional medicine for decades. Moreover, they form a significant part of public health strategies. Anyone who lives in the western world will have been exposed to such government sponsored health messages countless times - don’t smoke, exercise more, eat fresh fruit and vegetables etc etc etc. Furthermore, there are a variety of regulatory initiatives that reduce environmental factors - such as removing lead from fuel. You might not think that they go far enough, but scientific medicine is very aware of how environmental factors can cause ill health. The situation is the same with ‘support’. Psychotherapy and counseling are certainly part of mainstream medicine. You mention stress as a factor - this has of course been recognised by doctors for decades. The only area where conventional medicine disagrees with you is on your ‘root’ level when you write about various ‘energies’. This brings me on to my second point. Most people would accept that there are fundamental factors which predispose people to illness. But these are genetics. Are you suggesting that natural healing can influence genetics? {categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories} 2008-04-06T02:27:52-08:00 http://woowooscience.com/index.php/blog/post/what_is_natural_healing/#230 As I wrote above, lifestyle changes are secondary in conventional medicine. If you want to see medicine really working on an environmental level, go visit a naturopathic physician, or a regular physician who is working with mostly natural therapies. I think you missed something important about what I called the environmental level — it’s the idea that the body can heal itself given the proper resources and not burdened with toxins. It’s not the same as saying that toxin X can make you sick. Public health is mostly concerned with vaccination and germ control. It’s much less “clean water” and much more “get rid of the nasties.” I’m not saying this is unimportant. Don’t misunderstand me. Nor am I saying medical interventions are bad, just only a piece of the desired whole. As for therapy, my opinion is that it can work at all levels, including root healing. But in many cases it’s a combination of a kind of intervention — helping the person manage emotional symptoms — plus an environmental treatment — strategies for dealing with stress — with some supportive thrown in, because talking to someone about your problems is usually a good thing. Lots of people get kind of addicted to therapy, though. It acts like a drug for them, helping them cope but not helping them move on as eventually they should. In my experience, genetics are not the only fundamental factors which predispose people to illness. Homeopaths use the word miasm to talk about the generational effects of infectious diseases. And I have also seen how traumas of the parents can show up in a kind of diffused, …(more) {categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories} 2008-04-19T14:55:43-08:00 http://woowooscience.com/index.php/blog/post/what_is_natural_healing/#231 Somebody off the street wouldn’t understand that, but sometimes a pump in body building is the best feeling you can have as a Natural healing. {categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories} 2008-05-06T22:23:16-08:00