Curanoias – Fear of Cures, Curing, and Cured

Modern medicine suffers from many different and severe cases of curanoia, fears of cures, based on failures to understand cure. It’s not cure phobia, a phobia is an irrational fear without blame. Curanoia is easily and often rationalized and curers are often blamed. Curanoias exist in many forms, in every layer of our systems of modern medicine.

Why Curanoia? Why fear of cures?

Modern medicine has no functional definition of cure, no theory of cure, and is simply unable to cure most diseases – unable even to recognize a cure when it occurs. Doctors are often not permitted to cure, restrained to a Standard of Care which makes no attempt to cure. Few diseases or medical conditions have a Standard of Cure.

A cure is a change in status. An illness or disease was present, and now it is not present. We often think of an illness as a thing, but no. An illness is more like the wind. Illness is something we can neither see nor touch – we might only see or touch its causes and consequences.

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Cure-ious Quote: Headache

“However, too many ads continue to promote an overly simplified model of causation. For example, headaches are not caused by a lack of aspirin in the brain; however, taking aspirin often cures a headache.”
– Laura L. Smith, Depression For Dummies, 2021

Is a headache a symptom? or is it an illness, or a disease? Do we cure symptoms? Illnesses? Or only diseases?

Does aspirin cure headaches?

A headache for example might be the result of a cold, a migraine, high blood pressure, meningitis or a brain tumour, each requiring a different treatment rather than a “cure for headache“. – Craig Thornbur – Theories of Medicine

What does the Theory of Cure say?

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101 Ways to Cure a Flat Tire: Illness, Sickness, Disease

I sometimes say “I’m taking my car to the vet“, to get its checkup, to cure its problems. Is a flat tire an illness? A disease? Is a bike, a car, or an airplane sick when it has a flat tire? Do we cure flat tires?

We can compare a flat tire to an illness, and its repair to a cure. Why should we make this comparison?

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Cure-ious Quote: Scientistic Medicine

“It has been observed that scientific medicine is being replaced by scientistic medicine, with an accompanying collapse in the imperative to care as well as to cure, so that the human dimension of medicine is becoming lost and with it the fundamental purpose of medicine.”
J.P. Sturmberg and A. Miles, Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health , 2012

What does the Theory of Cure say?

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Theory of Cure, Care, and Heal

What’s the difference between curing, caring, and healing? Are they the same, different? Sometimes? All the time? Historical and modern medicine have many confusing, sometimes even conflicting definitions of and distinctions between the three. To create a scientific theory of cure, applicable to all curable illnesses, we need clear definitions that aid understanding and facilitate further analysis and success.

Does an aspirin cure a headache? Sometimes? Some headaches? Sometimes? All the time? How might we know? The answer is not found in the aspirin, but in our definition and understanding of cure.

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Cure-ious Quotes: Genetics

Selina and Chris hope that, by studying the activity of genes in mini-brains cultured from the tissues of people with those genetic mutations, they might come to understand more about the causes and ultimately find clues that could lead to possible cures.
Philip Ball, How to Grow a Human:
Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are, 2019

This is one of many quotes by or about well meaning scientists who believe that their research might lead to wonderful new cures for mystery diseases.

What does the Theory of Cure say?

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Dry Eye Cure: What kind of cure is this?

A few weeks ago, I noticed my eyes were itchy again. This problem has appeared on and off over the past few years. When I was in Arequipa three years ago, my right eye was very itchy. I went to an ophthalmologist who said “esta irritado,” – (it’s irritated), prescribed some medicine, mostly vitamin and herbal supplements and sent me on my way. Over a few weeks, the problem faded. I forgot about it.

Now it was back. My right eye was quite itchy. The problem waxed and waned, over a few weeks, never going completely away.

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Curing the Long COVID Demons

In April 2020, shortly after the beginning of the pandemic, anecdotal reports from patients started to emerge that previously healthy individuals were experiencing lingering symptoms and were not fully recovering from an infection with SARS-CoV-2… Long COVID is not one condition. It represents many potentially overlapping entities, likely with different biological causes and different sets of risk factors and outcomes.” – COVID.GOV, What is Long COVID?

Quote Summary:

  • Long COVID is a condition affecting a small number of COVID patients
  • Long COVID patients were considered “previously healthy
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Why Conspiracy Therapy doesn’t Cure

Conspiracy therapy is a treatment (not a cure) invented by US military intelligence, to treat victims of war (actual and virtual), terrorizing, physical and mental abuse, intentional misinformation, cognitive dissonance, and mass formation psychosis, resulting in Stockholm syndrome. The patient is trained that when any inconvenient truth is presented, by anyone, they need only accuse the speaker of being a conspiracy theorist. The result is a Dunning-Kruger effect, where the patient acquires a sense of power and control such that they immediately feel better. As a result, the treatment is self-reinforcing as well.

This treatment, by intention, does not cure. Military intelligence forces have no desire to cure, only to maintain disorder and control. This therapy has been tested and found effective in every country and almost every language around the world.