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Open Minds: A New
Perspective on Healing
by Rudi Verspoor, Leonard Levine, Farid Shodjaee, Mary Rothschild,
James Emmett, and Edited by Serena Williamson
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Road Map: Finding Your Way Through the Maze
by Rudi Verspoor
When it comes to understanding the origins of disease, we are
pretty much in the dark. Either we are suffering from some “virus,”
which often remains mysterious and for which there is not much that
can be done, or we are given a “diagnosis” in the form
of some disease name, and then are prescribed one or more drugs
to control the symptoms.
Research money guarantees the search for ever-elusive cures, but
when it comes to treatment, the name of the game is always suppression
of symptoms. Someone once aptly termed the health-care system a
“disease-management system.” So, the blood pressure
pills control the blood pressure (though not always), and the stomach
pills control the acid reflux (though not always), and the painkillers
control the migraines (though not always), and you have to keep
yourself medicated or the problems return.
For those of you with a thyroid problem or asthma, you must take
medication all your life, or so you are told. And although you are
grateful for relief, you will likely suffer from side effects, which
may or may not be worse than your original symptoms. Eventually
you realize that all that is happening is that your symptoms are
being suppressed, but the original cause of these symptoms remains.
It seems that conventional medicine is good at getting rid of the
evidence, but more in the manner of sweeping it under the carpet
rather than out the door.
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