From a cure perspective: there are two fundamental types of illness cause: those that “do you,” and those that “you do.”
Cause is the key to cure, and to cures.
There are two fundamental types of causes of illness, causing two types of elementary of illness, requiring two types of cures. The two types of causes are
- those that do you, and
- those that you do.
Is your illness doing you, or are you doing it?
Noun Causes – Do You Harm- cause Status Illnesses
Status illnesses have noun causes, attribute causes, causes that are things. Status illness are caused by things that “do you.” Things that are stressing you, harming you, eating you, killing you. The cure is to address the cause, to remove it, disable it, or kill it, so that it is no longer “doing you harm.” Remember, sometimes a status illness is caused by the absence of a noun cause.
A nutrient deficiency might be causing damage and holding back healing. A poison might be damaging you. Any essential nutrient might be deficient or toxic. A bacteria, a tapeworm, or a tiger might be eating you. Too much hard work, or too much stress might harm you or even kill you. The illness caused by a noun cause is a status illness.
To cure is to change the cause. With the right change to the attribute, the status, the present cause, the cause is neutralized and the illness will be cured.
Hippocrates advised: “Diseases which arise from repletion are cured by depletion; and those that arise from depletion are cured by repletion; and in general, diseases are cured by their contraries.” – he was speaking of attribute caused diseases – disease that DO YOU.
Noun cures are one-time cures. After the cure, if the cause occurs again, a new case of illness might occur.
Verb Causes – You Do Harm – Cause Lifestyle Illnesses
Process illnesses have verb causes, process causes. Process illness are caused by things that “you do.” Life processes that are stressing you, harming you, killing you. The cure is to address the cause, to remove it, disable it, or kill it, so that it is no longer “doing you harm.” Like noun causes, sometimes, a deficiency or absence of a verb or process can cause illness.
Illnesses that have process causes, verb causes, lifestyle causes are illnesses causes that “you do.” They are only cured by changing what “you do.”
Unfortunately, from Hippocrates medicine to modern medicine, there is no recognition of illnesses that are cured by changing “what you do.” Legally, according to FDA rules, a cure must be a “product.” Lifestyle changes are promoted as preventatives – but ignored as cures.
Smoking too much can cause smoker’s cough. Coughing from a single inhalation is a status illness, easily cured. But an ongoing process of smoking — causes an ongoing cough, that persists even when not smoking. A lifestyle of eating too much and exercising too little can cause obesity. An illness caused by a verb cause is a process illness. With the right change to the process, the verb cause, the lifestyle cause, the illness will be cured.
Verb cures need to be ongoing. Skipping a meal, or a cigarette does not cure. Once cured, the curative action is a necessary preventative. If the process cause occurs again, a new case of lifestyle illness might occur.
Examples – Noun Causes: Causes that “do you”
Elementary dehydration is a status, a noun cause, a deficiency of water. It might be mild, moderate, or severe enough to cause an illness that is easily cured by drinking water. If the cause occurs again, a new case of illness might also occur.
A bacterial infection is an attribute, a noun cause, creating an infection that might be mild, moderate, or severe, judged a disease. It is cured by killing, removing, or disabling the bacteria. A new exposure to the bacteria might cause a new case of illness or disease.
Examples – Verb Causes: Causes that “you do”
Smoking is a process that can cause smoker’s cough. The cough will persist until the lifestyle, the process, is stopped – or at least diminished enough to facilitate a healing cure. If the causal process is renewed, a new case of illness might occur.
Gingivitis can be caused by an unhealthy diet, a diet lacking in nutrients essential to gum health. When the diet is healthed, the gingivitis will heal – cured. The healthy dietary process must be maintained to maintain the cured status, to prevent new cases of gingivitis. If the diet fails – a new case of gingivitis might occur.
In many cases, a lifestyle illness cannot be diagnosed until damage occurs. Most cases of lifestyle illness require at least two cures – a status cure to address the status illness and a process cure to address the lifestyle illness.
Injuries “do you”
Injuries are noun causes, attribute status causes that are present and causing signs, symptoms, and possible negative consequences. Injuries can be caused by external forces, or by internal forces including life processes. The injury persists until the cause – the injury is healed. Simple injuries have past causes – but those causes cannot be accessed to cure. An injury caused by a process illness might re-occur unless the process illness is also cured.
Injuries are cured by healing. We can improve the cures for our injuries with actions that health the injured area as well as our diet, body, mind, spirits, communities and environments – make us healthier, enhancing our ability to heal. However, these actions are not drugs, so they are generally ignored by medical practitioners.
“You do” Chronic Injuries
Sometimes, an injury is chronic because it does not heal. But, that’s a special case, a complicated case.
Most chronic injuries, like plantar fasciitis, shin splints or tennis elbow, are injuries are caused by a process, by a lifestyle, by what you do (or what you don’t do). The cure is to health the process. Once the causal process is changed – the injury can heal, cured. If the injurious process occurs again, a new case of the illness might occur.
Each Illness Element is cured by a Status or a Process
Which illnesses are status illnesses, cured by changing a status or attribute? How many illnesses are status illnesses? How many illnesses are lifestyle illnesses, only cured by ongoing processes, requiring ongoing curative actions?
We have no idea. At present, our medical systems ignore all cured cases. Modern medicine, often promoted as science based, ignores individual illnesses and individual cures. We can’t tell the cause of the cured, unless we study every cured case.
Domains of Cause
In life, for any life form – not just humans, there are six domains of cause. Elements or processes in these domains can cause healthiness, or when deficient, excessive, or inharmonious, might cause illness. Usually we are healthy – because life intentionally uses causes to improve healthiness. Sometimes we become ill. Sometimes even a cause of healthiness causes illness.
The six domains of life causes are diet, body, mind, spirits, communities, and environments. These domains overlap – environments overlap the most, so much so that our external environment includes our communities and our dietary environment, and our internal environments include our body, mind, and spirits.
To cure, we must identify individual causes – and the six domains provide a powerful framework to identify, isolate, and address causes of illness – to cure.
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An illness element, an elementary illness might be caused by the presence or absence of a cause, or perhaps the deficiency or excess of a cause in any of the six domains. The cause might be a noun, an attribute, or a deficiency, or it might be a failure caused by a process or the absence of a process. Let’s look at some examples:
Diet
We can suffer an illness due to a dietary status – deficient in Vitamin C, dehydrated, malnourished, or perhaps overweight, even poisoning, from a dietary excess. These are status illnesses, cured with the contrary, by consuming what is necessary, or by clearing the poison, often by the vomiting – an important detox cure.
Or, we might suffer from an ongoing deficiency of a Vitamin, an essential nutrient, more difficult to diagnose, or an ongoing general excess leading to obesity. Consuming a small amount of many poisons will not cause illness, but if a dietary life process contains a poison that accumulates – the illness will grow. These are cured by contrary processes.
Body
There is a gradation between a dietary cause and a bodily cause. When we are poisoned, the cause begins in our diet (although it might also occur on our skin) and affects the body, causes a status change in the body. How do we know if the cure-cause is in the body or the diet? If a dietary action cures the illness, the cause was in the diet. If a bodily action cures the illness, the cause was in the body. The cure proves the cause.
Our body can cause injuries or illnesses when we take risks – but once the illness is present, these are often past causes, which cannot be accessed to cure.
Body, Mind, Spirits, Communities
Bodies, minds, spirits, and communities can suffer injuries – cured by the natural forces of healing. In many cases, we can aid or promote the healing by improving our healthiness in many different ways. Sometimes, exercise intended to help the body grow stronger also heals the mind, the spirits, or our communities.
Our bodies, minds, spirits, and communities need exercise and rest. A temporary deficiency or excess of either can cause a temporary status illness. If we don’t sleep for many hours, sleep is the cure. If we work to hard, rest is the cure. When we rest too much, exercise is the cure. This can occur for physical work, mental work, spiritual work, and community work, leading to sloth or stress. Burnout, for example, might be mental, spiritual, or a result of overcommitting ourselves to our communities.
Mind
When the present cause of the illness is in the mind – the cure is a change of mind. Sometimes, a whack on the side of the head processes a cure. The mind changes, and an illness might be cured. Some mind cures are much more subtle. We go to the doctor and ask about a strange new appearance on our body, and the doctor says “Oh, that’s normal. Nothing to worry about.” There was no disease, but the illness is cured. When an alcoholic or drug addict makes up their mind, changes their mind, they can cure an illness that may have persisted for decades. This is a negative process cure. The individual STOPPED a process that was causing illness, and the stopped process must be maintained. If the process stop fails, a new case of illness might occur.
Spirits
When we lose our motivation, when our spirits fail, we might suffer illnesses of depression – might even give up and die. When our illness is cured with a change in life spirits, the cause was in the domain of spirits. This can also occur when our spirits become too powerful and we are consumed by mania. A spirit rest is necessary to cure. Spirit causes, like all causes of illness might be specific, individual occurrences, or they might be chronic, lifestyle causes. How can we tell? By the cure. When the cure is a result of a single action than changes a temporary spiritual deficiency or excess, the cause was a spirit attribute. On the other hand, when the cure requires an ongoing spirit action, the cause was an ongoing deficiency of spirit health. The cure proves the cause.
Communities
Communities are powerful causes of health and healthiness. Caring comes from communities – we naturally help each other when they are healthy and when they are ill. On the other hand, communities, and our participation in our communities can also be causes of illness. We might suffer community isolation – leading to depression, or community abuse leading to injuries of body, mind, spirits, and also our communities. How can we know if the cause is in the domain of community? By the cure. If changing our communities, or our interaction or participation in communities, and the result is a cure – that was the cause.
Like all causes – a community cause of illness can be an attribute, or a process. Being ejected from or rejected by a community might lead to mental or spirit illness – but it might also lead to physical abuse. On the other hand, an abusive family or marriage environment can be an ongoing process creating an ongoing illness. In these cases, we might be challenged to understand the cause and the cure. The abuse might be cured by a separation from the community, a one time status cure, or it might be cured by learning to stand up for ourselves, addressing the community cause on an ongoing basis.
Environments
Our environment might suffer a one-time, temporary change, creating an illness that is cured by a one-time cure action. Perhaps our office building has a faulty airflow, causing many staff to suffer headaches. When the airflow is cured – the illnesses disappear. This is a one-time cure. If the airflow fails again a year or a decade later, a new set of illnesses might occur.
Or, the environment might be very unhealthy, dirty, conducive to the growth of bacteria, causing ongoing infections. The cure is not a simple cleanup. The environment must be cleaned on an ongoing basis – a lifestyle cure. The cure must be maintained.
Status Cures
Modern medicine is largely devoid of cures. Technically, an infectious illness is cured medically when the infectious agent, the infectious cause is killed, disabled, or removed by an approved medicine or surgery.
All other cures of infectious diseases are simply ignored. They have not been medically approved – and cannot be proven medically. But we should be aware that even cures that can officially recognized are rarely documented as cured. No doctor, no clinic, no hospital, no insurance company documents cured cases. Treatments can be billed -whether they cure or not. Cured cannot be billed.
Lifestyle Cures
Even when a lifestyle cure is obvious, it is generally ignored by medical practitioners. Nobody cares if you cure your smoker’s cough by stopping smoking. Officially, there are no cures for ANY non-infectious disease. If your arthritis is cured with diet and exercise – no cure can be prove.
Cured Cases are Ignored
Modern medicine has no test of cured for arthritis. The same is true of many illnesses. When a chiropractor, an osteopathy, or a physical therapist cures a person’s back pain or frozen shoulder with a one-time adjustment, we know it is a cure. But modern medicine cannot recognize the cured status, much less the cause of the cure.
Trivial cures cannot be recognized medically, much less the cause of the cure.
More complex cured cases cannot be understood without a basic understanding of simple cures.
It’s Time to Study Cures, Curing, Cured
We can create a science of cure from these fundamental concepts. We know how to cure the common cold, influenza, COVID, and measles. We know how to heal a broken arm. So we ignore these cures.
When we study cured cases we can learn to improve them, but only when cure is the goal. As we begin to understand simple cures, we can build our understanding to cure more compound and more complex cases of illness.
How can we know the cause of an illness? Only by a cure.
Health is the best preventative, the best cure.
The cure proves the cause.
to your health, tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure