"The Mistreatment of Acute Disease"

The events of the last year or so have clearly shown that our health care system is dysfunctional, and likely creating even more problems.  One example is the overly aggressive treatment of acute illnesses.  Dr. Thomas Cowan is one of the few medical doctors who have realized that modern medicine, like most of our health care system, is not designed to make people healthier.  The country that spends the most on health care is also arguably the unhealthiest.  I read his book, entitled "Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness,"  while my body was detoxing.  Most doctors would have called it the flu or covid.  I was due for a good detox, as I hadn't had a prolonged fever in about 10 years.  This book made what I was experiencing make even more sense and also made me appreciate that I haven't had any vaccines or taken any medication in over 20 years.  The wisdom of our innate intelligence is far superior to anything that is designed in a lab or a board room.

 According to Dr Cowan, on page 21, "Whatever it was needed to be flushed out of the body.  The "flushing" is what we today call "acute illness."  We (modern doctors), however, have forgotten (or never learned) that acute disease - disease that is typically self-limiting and usually accompanied by fever, rash, and pus - is the primary way the body rids itself of unwanted toxins or other substances.... The mistreatment of acute disease is a fundamental mechanism for chronic disease.  In order for a disease to become chronic, there needs to be an insult, often a toxic exposure, and then a suppression of the body's attempt to detoxify."  We have all recently seen the mistreatment of acute disease on a global scale, fueling the irrational fear of millions of people, and creating distrust of our body's innate ability to keep us safe and well.  It is very sad to see, because millions more will likely suffer needlessly...

by DR SJ NANA, DrNana.co.za

For more information:

• Over 500 Reviews of "Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness" by Dr Thomas Cowan
• A Guide to Home-Based COVID Treatment- PDF Booklet
• Perspective: Look Up Your Risk of Dying of COVID-19
• Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison
• THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND POLICY RESPONSES ON EXCESS MORTALITY
• The Vitamin D Deficiency - COVID Link
• Corticosteroids Weaken The Whole Body
  
• "Suppression of Symptoms Drives Disease Deeper"
  
• Can Chiropractic Help Prevent and Improve Recovery from COVID?
  
• What Does It Mean To Test Positive?
  
• The Ignored Efficiency of the Immune System
  

Chiropractic is 126 Years Old

On 18 September, the chiropractic profession celebrated its 126th birthday.  The following is an article by Dr Frank M. Painter, describing the beginning of a profession that is helping millions of people around the world to function better naturally:

"The year was 1895, the same year that x-rays were discovered.  At that time, Health Care was provided by a diverse group of unregulated and unlicensed professions, including osteopaths, magnetic healers, and "medical" doctors.  In those days most medical education consisted of working as an "apprentice" for a medical doctor. and learning the craft by observation. 

D.D. Palmer the Father of Chiropractic, was a magnetic healer, with a huge practice in Davenport, Iowa.  He had doubts about the "germ theory" as the complete explanation of all disease.  After all, if germs kill... shouldn't we all be dead?  He asked "how it was that 2 brothers could work in the same shop, eat the same food, sleep in the same bed, and that one would sucumb to a disease while the other wouldn't?"

His answer was that it was not the "seed" (or germ) which was the cause of dis-ease.  He felt that the "soil," or the recuperative power of the body (which he later referred to as "innate intelligence," and we now call homeostasis) was the missing component of the health equation, which defines the conitinuum between health and "death."

One day, D.D. was talking with Harvey Lillard, the man who owned the janitor service in his building.  Harvey was deaf.  He mentioned to D.D. that years before, while lifting a heavy weight, he felt something "snap" at the base of his neck.  Shortly thereafter his hearing started to fade.

D.D. was intrigued, and asked Harvey if he could have permission to examine his back.  What D.D. "felt" (we refer to this art as "palpation") was that one of the upper thoracic bones was sticking out much more that the one above or below it.  He explained to Harvey that he felt that this "bone out of place" could be causing pressure on his spinal cord, and that this could be the reason that Harvey was now deaf.  He convinced him to lie down on the couch, and placed his hands on the transverse processes of  the bone, as D.D. explained, "wracked it back into position."  When Harvey got up, he stated he could hear a horse drawn cart down in the street!  This was the first thing he had heard clearly in 17 years!

Although D.D. thought he had found (one of) the causes for deafness, what he found over time was that when he corrected mis-alignments in the spine (what he termed "subluxations"), where they happened to be, it improved the nerve supply, thus the function, of whatever tissues and organs that nerve supplied.

What an auspicious way for a profession to be born.  Our "no drugs, no surgery" approach has remained true to D.D.'s philosophy of the "seed and the soil."  What a chiropractor accomplishes with the adjustment of the spine, is to remove the impediment to the brain's control of the body.  We call that impediment, which impinges the nerves, a spinal subluxation."

For more information:

• How It All Began: The First Adjustment
• Video: The Chiropractic Story
  
• The Story of Chiropractic