That modern medicine actually causes deaths is a reality. This is in utter contrast to the principles and dedicated classical role of those who have traditionally taken the Hippocratic Oath of healing.  Things have changed.

Iatrogenic is the term now used to define human ill health, diseases and even fatal consequences of medical mistakes made in clinics, hospitals, surgeries, and through erroneous medical treatment or advice.  The term is all embracing and includes all examples of deaths of patients that are proven to result from medical action or neglect.  It also opens an opportunity for considerable compensation claims and a great deal of litigation as time goes by.

The fact that the term ‘iatrogenic’ exists is an indictment of the wrongs of our western medical system that departed from the simpler, traditional customs, with use of herbs and natural elements, to take a path that challenges nature and seeks to understand and to command its processes.

Medicine today is analytical, experimental in all spheres of the chemical and biological sciences. Its focus depends upon human knowledge and insight, practical experimentation and manipulation of matter rather than in exploring the subtle healing powers and miraculous energies of nature itself that function regardless of any human intervention or understanding of the processes.

In the comparatively recent history of medicine as we know it, there was a dramatic parting of the ways in the choice of philosophic ideology. This was defined when western medicine accepted the work of Pasteur, but also his attendant philosophy, a philosophy based upon the fundamental, principle cause of disease being bacterial invasion that threatened physiological processes.

The path defined by his colleague and contemporary, Bechamp, was very different and required, rather than a defensive stance against unknown and invisible agencies, confidence in the role that we play in our responsibility to build and maintain good health through our actions and efforts. To do this requires singular effort as we well know, in acquiring physical fitness and health through exercise, restricted dietary regimes, conscious respiratory exercises, and study of and co-operation with the laws and demands of nature.

We adopted Pasteur’s path and developed most extraordinary technology that allowed us to see the previously invisible life forms and bacteria through microscope. We encouraged abundant use of chemical antiseptics and defences that enabled surgery to develop beyond any foreseen prediction, not only to mend broken bodies, but through internal surgery and transplanted replacements for  diseased organs. There is no doubt of the seemingly endless examples of knowledge and techniques that offers extension of an individual’s life once accident or disease has claimed them.

In all this time however, there was little attention given to construct a system of defence built upon a base of prevention of disease through the direct involvement of the individual. This was left to the arm of medicine neglected by the accepted orthodox medical profession, but to which others remained faithful.

Bechamp’s insights may have been rejected  and even scorned by some but his discoveries concerning the origin of disease offered an answer to many of the complexities regarding human health and disease. Yet the very core of his scientific discoveries was to emerge as a ‘new’ science much later.

Bechamp believed that if we can keep our bloodstream clear and our tissues nourished by the natural exercise and respiration of the body that the balance between the creation and the destruction of body cells would be maintained.  When the exhausted or lifeless cells are outworn and elimination from the body is retarded for any reason and cannot be eliminated, these cells attract outside agencies that feed upon them. But he also observed that these very cells had the capacity to transform into the bacteria under stress or toxic environment.

This philosophy and the building of natural health through attention to the fundamental rules of nature is now attracting great interest in the community and given various names that are familiar as fringe doctors, naturopaths, alternative healers, herbalists, and now also given to include eastern modalities such as acupuncture, Ayurveda, etc. from different cultures and nations.

The personal choices and conviction of individuals has helped to alter the whole approach to health and a stronger say in health matters where freedom of choice is a primary consideration as also choice of any therapy.

The natural practices and techniques of many are now not only adopted by an increasing number of individuals who have perceived the weaknesses in the established medical system and seek for a new approach to health that is based upon the best of the sciences, an intelligent appreciation of Nature, a regard for the welfare of individuals and that defends our freedom of choice in health matters including those matters perceived by the individual to be detrimental to his or her quality of life.

These ideas are no longer scorned and this movement is ever growing, along with the organic movement that encourages organic gardening, forestation, and all environmental issues that are components in the overall wholeness of the natural world in which we live and move and have our being. It is the youth of today who must become the creators of a healthier, more ideal human existence on our beautiful planet.

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