What Is a Dis-ease

In modern medicine, the concept of disease is used to describe the end result of various complex processes which result in one or more usually distressing symptoms in the human body. The tendency is to label diseases with names and categorise them, presumably to allow for quick, standardized diagnoses and treatments. A troublesome organ may be removed surgically, without sometimes telling the patient about any possible consequences. Most of the time treatment is designed to get rid of the symptoms, and the patient is assumed to be well as soon as he/she can return to his usual way of life.

The problem is, 90% of the patient is on the other end of any disease. We can't simply treat the disease and neglect the 90% of the individual without taking the risk of overlooking the source of the problem. A symptom is the end result of something that has happened inside the body. The important question is, what has been going on to cause the particular symptom?



To be able to effectively assist anybody in recovering health, we need to know how an abnormal condition develops in the body and we need to evaluate the state of the various organs and physiological processes which are contributing to the problem. Then we are in a position to help that person doing something about it.



The term etiology refers to the origin of a disease. Modern medicine, most of the time, elects to trace the etiology of a particular disease to microrganisms such as bacteria and virusses, only rarely contributing an etiological status directly to imbalance of homeostasis in the human body. In natural healing, etiology of many so called disease states is related directly to violations of tissue integrity due to overloads of metabolic or other toxic wastes, excess acidity in the body, nutritional deficiencies and other sources of imbalanced homeostasis, most frequently in relation to inherent weaknesses or congenital anomalies which require special attention and care.