Humans can be very wise, especially when you truly see things as they really are. You would probably not go to a library to purchase a new car, nor would you likely ask your dentist to figure your income tax return. In the same way, it is good that you recognize appropriate treatment paths exist within the world of healing.
Principle Number 8: Stream to Appropriate Treatment Paths
While many situations will actually get better on their own, especially if your lifestyle creates a good environment for health and well-being, in Spontaneous Healing, Dr. Andrew Weil makes distinctions between those health issues allopathic medicine is very good at, and those situations in your life where you are wise to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
Allopathic medicine CAN:
- Manage trauma better than any other system of medicine
- Diagnose and treat many medical and surgical emergencies
- Treat acute bacterial infections with antibiotics
- Treat some parasitic and fungal infections
- Prevent many infectious diseases by immunizations
- Diagnose complex medical problems
- Replace damaged hips and knees (I would add organs to this list)
- Get good results with cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
Allopathic medicine CANNOT:
- Treat viral infections
- Cure most chronic degenerative diseases
- Effectively manage most kinds of mental illness (I would highlight anxieties, phobias, and panic attacks, as well as depression)
- Cure most forms of allergy or autoimmune disease
- Effectively manage psychosomatic illness
- Cure most forms of cancer
Church makes a point that the list needs updating, as “more and more conditions are being moved from the allopathic column to the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) column as better research is being published.”
He mentions specifically the current understanding of the risks of conventional hormone replacement therapies.
Most everyone now knows that chronic pain sufferers are finding relief through everything from acupuncture to homeopathic remedies and Zen meditation.
Church closes this section of the book with a very clever cartoon showing a person visiting an allopathic physician. The caption reads, “Doc, I’ve tried everything! Acupuncture, herbs, EFT, Reiki, prayer, yoga… Now I’m ready for drugs and surgery!”
My bias has always been to combine the best of the West with the best of the rest. That is why, even when I chose to have surgery to remove a 21 cm tumor that had formed on my left ovary, I was very intentional to include mind-body tools, such as my own tips for healthy ways to take medication which I used while I was on everything from morphine to Vicodin. I had also used the Imagine Healing process. Let me (debra@scs-matters.com) know if you have questions about these or other possible treatment paths.
The most important thing is—this week—pay attention to the many options that exist and make wise choices as you “stream to appropriate treatment paths.” (edited and reposted from 2010)
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