TCM, Science and Healing Series – Diseases are Messages, not Enemies
Do you rush to the drug cabinets to pop a pill whenever you feel ill? Do you start planning all the hospital stays, research out the latest technology and drugs when announced that you have a major illness such as cancer or autoimmune disease?
I believe many will say, “Isn’t that what you should be doing?”
Well, obviously not.
We are living in modern dominator societies that put more value on destruction and violence than the value of peace and nurturance. Medical and pharmaceutical industries have also portrayed our bodies as war zones, instead of natural entities that automatically always tend towards health by itself through a natural process called homeostasis. The disease or cancer is the “enemy” to be eliminated at all costs. The “big guns” such as potent antibiotics, drugs, chemotherapy, radiation, steroids are seen as the “real medicines”. While that which is natural and non toxic such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Energy Medicines etc are seen as inferior and ineffective in comparison, often dismissed casually as unscientific and chucked under the “alternative medicines” category.
From a holistic natural medicine point of view, diseases are messages, waiting to be listened to. They carry deeper connotations of reevaluating your lifestyle or simply give yourself a break. Mindlessly popping the pills or going under the knife or exposure to poisonous chemicals may make it seem like you have “conquer the issue”, but be prepared to deal with the reverberations of the side effects or to suffer relapses. Simply because the root or real issues were simply silenced, not addressed.
Diseases are messages from the body. Yet we are encouraged to try to kill the body – as messenger – along with the message.
