Our behavior when we are faced with illness reveals our increasingly deepening insanity and passiveness. If allopathic medicine has imposed itself in such a dogmatic way, it is because each protagonist - sick person, physician, pharmaceutical industry - knows his own interest in it. Nevertheless two major factors are opposed to the mission of recovery claimed by this therapeutic method. Illness, we persist in forgetting it, reveals malfunctioning. It becomes manifest by symptoms which the physician tries to identify with the help of sophisticated analysis if needed, so as to determine the type of disease and the organs affected by it.

The gap of this real medical doctrine usually comes to light after this first diagnosis. Systematically, once the disease has been identified, the physician intervenes with the help of drugs. The first major mistake is not to pay enough attention to the way the disease has developed in the sick person's life. However this is the only way to be able to understand malfunctioning which is actually the real reason of illness.

The second mistake lies in the treatment of disorders. Prescribed drugs at the best blur momentarily the undesirable effects of disease, but don't heal. Real recovery can only be obtained with understanding and a scrupulous respect of fundamental Laws of life. One can't claim to cure a disease simply by inhibiting its symptoms ! Disease is the expression of a malfunctioning. To remedy it, identifying its perverted effects is not enough, you have to above all find out the reasons for it. We have to identify our deficiencies and overindulgence, actually to call into question our behavior, so as to understand the origins of illness.

Very widespread diseases such as cancer, ulcer, cardiovascular disorders, obesity, high blood pressure,… are mostly the product of our way of life. We are not a "victim" of illness by accident. Quite the opposite : by our behavior, we meticulously pave the way for illness. And taking a collection of medicines or having an operation is not enough to claim to have recovered !

Actually the therapist whose aim is to heal sick persons must act in a totally different way. The approach leading to recovery consists in tackling the real reason of illness, not its symptoms. This implies it is necessary for the sick person to be totally involved. For the therapist, it is often necessary to identify illness and its origins, only the sick man can and must change the way he lives if he truly wants to recover. As we are responsible for our illness, we are also responsible for our recovery.

But in the medical care system of our western societies, co-operation between sick people and physicians is absurd, and is totally negative. It consists in placing the physician in the position of the one who cures whereas the sick person in a passive role simply has to be disciplined and follow scrupulously his prescriptions in order to obtain recovery. Worse, if because of his disorders, he needs traumatizing surgery, he will be asked, at best, to cooperate and to be brave when faced with sufferings. Whereas you have to use positively and dynamically the sick person's energy and willingness so that he can succeed, with the humble help of the physician, in recovering. A quite different vision…

As for medicines, they should only be used secondarily, and with parsimony, if they turn out to be really indispensable. But in institutional medical approach in the West, we have reversed it all. The sick man limits himself to a passive role and contents himself with taking drugs supposed to cure him. The physician as for him, after having identified illness, tries to eradicate symptoms with a more or less important amount of his "miracle products". These ones will not fail to cause more or less "unwanted side effects", speaking the cryptic jargon much used in this profession.

No, identifying someone's illness is not enough to claim to cure him. The therapist must be able to discern the malfunctions which caused it. It means that he knows precisely the fundamental Laws of Life, with which our behavior has to be in perfect harmony, to ensure health. This approach of health encompasses many points.
The most important are our diet, our physical health and our pace of life. Diet includes the type of food we eat, as well as its quality and the way we eat. Physical health concerns internal and external personal hygiene, but also means to be fit in general. Our pace of life includes our different rest phases with our activities in the daytime. Besides, we must take special and continual care to our psychological, emotional balance and to our spiritual growth. Finally, our relationship with our environment - nature and all the living beings - is essential for health and balance in general.

Looking at these different points, one can realize to what extent our "health" system has wandered off its original purpose, which is to cure. And for very good reasons ! The three main reasons of this drift are inherent in every people involved in the medical system : the sick man, the pharmaceutical industry, and the physician.

The first one makes do with this kind of treatment for it does not require much effort. One lets oneself go and, depending on each individual case, lives a totally sedentary life or has a hectic pace of life, and one spends one's time in enjoying the numerous pleasures of the senses. As for the repercussions on health, resorting to medicines of all kinds is the usual approach. The excessive use of allopathy has considerably perverted medicine making it a complice of our malfunctioning. The more we resort to products which inhibit illness effects without changing our way of life, and the more we help the causes of illness growing.

This is the way taking drugs for our overindulgence has become usual! We also swallow pills to be sure to sleep "well" and others to wake up better ! Actually insidiously the drug assumed to fight illness becomes very often its best ally in the long term. Sick people are thus seduced by the easy way out and the short term in this passive therapy.

Financially, health is today more than ever a flourishing industry, a big business, and drug manufacturers aim mainly at profit, not health. They are not sponsor firms. It is obvious, the purpose is not to cure but to sell medicines. As others sell food, cosmetics, travels,… they sell medicines. Sick people are, for these business concerns, nothing more than customers, consumers. That is to say, the more they take medicines, the best customers they are. Consequently therapies which consist in helping sick people to heal, thus in freeing oneself from allopathic medicine's hold, go against the interest of the powerful pharmaceutical lobbies. A society of healthy people is a sick pharmaceutical industry ! And vice versa…

This is for this major reason that these lobbies are so dogmatic and try to use all the possible means so as to marginalize the other forms of therapy which do not resort to them. This hegemonic attitude is motivated by mercantile aims and has not much to do with the noble ideals of the origins of medicine… But the danger as far as health is concerned is truly monumental. For the commercial strategy of these lobbies is dreadfully efficient.

For example, it is known that the more you "train" a consumer to be used to a type of product, the more chances you have to keep him as a client, that is to say : to make him dependent. The big companies of fast food know it very well, they attract kids in their restaurants using the most appropriate means which were carefully examined with thorough market studies. This is why they associate their image with emblematic characters and don't hesitate in offering children all kinds of toys and gadgets to attract them and so that from very young they consume the food and drinks of their heroes !

Cigarettes manufacturers act in the same way. Because young people are more fragile due to their lack of experience and in search of ideals and models, they sell dreams through products which are nothing but legal drugs. But the dream will turn into nightmare, and these dealers do not care in any way about that.

Health system is a similar case. Prescribing, among other things, antibiotic drugs to children from the age of two or three onwards for simple colds and other ordinary disorders has become "normal". One of the most serious consequences is that the child can not develop properly his own immune defences but on the contrary weakens excessively. From then on, disorders become frequent. The child becomes addicted to drugs for life, which is the aim sought by drug sellers ! That's how you prepare the new clientele of consumers for the future…
This criminal behavior, let's not forget it, is made easier by the arbitrary legitimacy and dogmatic position of allopathic medicine.

In this macabre mercantile game, parents are the first ones to be responsible. Selfishness is accredited and praised through our education system, which prompts individuals to opt for comfort given by the medicines which suppress rapidly the inconvenience of a sick child at home. That's true that helping a child to recover naturally needs more care and attention. It causes sleepless nights and requires parents' solicitous care. In short it implies an attitude of responsibility and devotedness. All the contrary of the present trend in our society which preaches a total abdication of one's responsibility and an extreme selfishness.

Pharmaceutical sector, notably in France, has two fabulous assets to optimize its sales compared to other forms of trade, hence its power. On one hand, the partial or total reimbursements of medicines. A godsend, for the physician can prescribe more medicines without any financial compensation for the sick person due to the perverted game of reimbursements. On the other hand the legitimacy of this therapy gives rise to abuse as one can't imagine in other activities.

"Health" lobbies can be compared to the ones organized Churches. With the power of legitimacy, they reinforce their dogmatism, and are always ready to denounce and to fight against different opinion movements. The example of "cults" is eloquent concerning this matter. This word has become pejorative and is used in a very pernicious way to discredit to the eyes of public opinion many associations which are not more sectarian nor intolerant than their "lawful" like, called Churches. Be that as it may be, these "cults" can't compete in the horrible deeds committed in the name of faith, with these official Churches who however claim to be the apostles of Religion and Love.

Our medical system functions on the basis of an abusive legitimacy and monopoly. Its main weapons are money and the active or passive complicity of governments which are subjected to it. Insincere and arrogant, they frequently use disparagement and make accusations against other therapies. They try to frighten people about medicines known as alternative. To do that, they don't hesitate in highlighting some unprincipled charlatans to throw confusion. With much hype, they are shown wrongly as representative of the "other" forms of medicines, the ones which are not considered as "lawful". This is the way they heap opprobrium on other therapies and new paradigms often very relevant and efficient, with the sole aim of preserving a monopoly which is a guarantee of profit for established lobbies.

As for physician's intervention, making a prescription after a quick diagnosis is obviously more profitable for him than looking into the cause of the sick person's disorder and pointing out the necessary changes in his attitude. Moreover, general practitioners and most of the specialists have not been trained for that. They've been taught to make a diagnosis and to prescribe medicines. Even if that's true that some of them secondarily give some advice, it is not their therapeutic approach which consists in prescribing medicines. This method enable them to count more customers during the day and consequently to make a better turnover. Profitability is finally the one which lays down the law.

In this big health market, the physicians are the privileged "salesmen" of pharmaceutical industries. They sell the product "medicine". The laboratories will be responsible for the promotion with the help of "initiatives" often very doubtful, using their influence with the prescribers network of hospitals, clinics, drugstores and independent practitioners.

The core of this perverse situation of Health is precisely money. Money is the one which lays down the law and more generally all men's laws. Have you noticed that the few times in France, and many other countries, when government takes measures to reduce medicine consumption, it is not for health reasons. No, just a question of money. The increasing number of prescriptions surely makes pharmaceutical industries wealthier, but raise the chronic deficit of organisms in charge with the reimbursement of health costs.

Thus it is only for financial reasons that so-called consciousness-raising initiatives were led with physicians to reduce the numbers of medicines in their prescriptions. However, if for other reasons, as cupidity, a more important consumption of medicines becomes again more profitable, they simply do the opposite. As it happened recently. Reassuring, isn't it ?!
Morals in our society, is totally subjected to the power of money.

In front of this hardly glowing situation of our Health system, fortunately there are alternatives all the same. But before resorting to them, I would advice that you carefully look, by yourself and without prejudice, at the way you behave. Open your eyes and "look" at your environment and your behavior. For if awareness can be brought about by other people, it must come from you to be efficient. It must come from your own understanding. Once you get to this awareness, try methodically to change your way of life. Mere common sense and willpower will help you take your first steps.

For the very first thing is to call oneself into question, and not only the "system". It is slightly simplistic and practical an attitude to avoid taking on one's responsibility, but one doesn't heal this way. Truth is completely different. We gave birth to it and thus are individually responsible for our society and all its aberrations. We have to get out of the inertia in which we lazily let ourselves go.

Take on first the responsibility of your health and be the leading man - or woman - of your own recovery before asking for anyone's help !

That's the first step which truly leads to Healing.

Amedee