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“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.
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.
Continue reading “Dry Eye Cure: What kind of cure is this?”Yesterday, I took some time to ask Microsoft’s BING AI and Google’s ChatGTP about “theory of cure“. I have copied their responses in full at the bottom of this post.
Apparently, Microsoft’s Bing AI knows who I am. Google’s ChatGTP? Not at all.
Continue reading “Theory of Cure: Bing vs ChatGTP”“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?
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.
How many cures do we know or know of? It’s an interesting question. When we search the labels in our medicine cabinet or our local pharmacy, we might be surprised to learn – there are few, if any ‘cures.’ How many cures do our medical systems recognize? Do the cures we know fit the medical definition of a cure? Do real cures actually occur? What do we know about what we know? On February 12, 2002, Donald Rumsfeld famously said:
Today, after several months of writing and editing, I published a new version of the Theory of Cure on Academia.edu and also on Researchgate.net, titled Theory of Cure – 2023 Update. I have opened discussion on Academia.edu, such that anyone registered can access and comment and discuss the material.
Continue reading “Theory of Cure – Update”
Have you ever had an illness, and then it was cured? Has anyone ever cured your illness? Can you prove you are cured? Can you prove you’ve been cured?
I’ve had many colds – all cured. Officially, “there is no cure for the common cold.” I can’t prove I had a cold, nor that I’m cured – although both claims are obvious and trivial.
Several years ago, I had a hernia, cured by surgery – but my doctor never used the word “cure.” Am I really cured? Did she really cure me? How can I tell? Where’s the proof?
Continue reading “Have you ever been Cured?”We might easily be led to believe that cures are rare, even impossible. After all, “there is no cure for the common cold.” However, after studying the concepts of cure for several years, I made an interesting discovery:
“Most illnesses are elementary, having a single cause, at least in the first stages, and thus most cures are simple, so simple that they are generally ignored.”
– A New Theory of Cure.
Can this be true? The book A New Theory of Cure explores cure from several angles. What are the most common illnesses? Probably minor injuries. This post looks at injury illnesses – and the trivial nature of most cures. The next post looks at infectious illnesses – and we can easily see that most infectious illnesses too are easily cured.
“Most injuries* are trivial, cured without access to a doctor – it has always been so.”
– A New Theory of Cure
Think about it. We get a minor cut, maybe a paper cut. It heals, cured. We get a small or large bruise. It heals. Cured. We burn our finger on the stove – and unless it is serious, we lick our finger and it heals. When cut is larger, we might apply an bandage, perhaps an antibiotic. And it heals. Cured. Most injuries are minor, cured without even consulting a doctor, much less any medical treatment. Someone who suffers serious a serious cut or burn needs medical attention, but most burns are not serious. Small injuries (and our communities) teach us to avoid more dangerous ones. We only seek medical attention when the cut is so serious that we need stitches.
When we think of diseases – we might not think about injuries. But, the emergency entrance is the busiest place in a hospital, and most hospital and medical clinic admissions are injuries. In war and in peace, most illnesses are injuries, many self-inflicted, most easily cured. The World Health Organization maintains disease codes, and tracks disease statistics for injuries worldwide. Injuries are diseases.
However, once an injury is diagnosed and documented as a disease – in medical theory (or the absence of medical theory), it can’t be cured. Cured is not medically defined for injuries – no matter how trivial, or how serious they might be. A doctor might say “all better“, or “you’ve recovered“, but only rarely, if at all, “you’re cured.“
Although we have no medical or scientific studies of ALL injuries, this graph is a useful representation of the frequency of different severity levels of injuries.
We might get hundreds of minor cuts and bruises, without ever seeing a doctor, for every broken bone or severe injury. It is also likely that most moderate injuries, like many minor bone fractures, are never diagnosed, much less treated by a doctor, much less cured. We often minimize our own injuries and illnesses – and in most cases, we survive, our bodies, minds, spirits, and communities step up to cure them. Note: In the new theory of cure, injuries – not the patient – are cured.
A few illnesses are actually healthy. That might seem counter-intuitive, but it’s not hard to think of a few examples. When we are about six years old, our teeth fall out, our gums open up, sometimes even minor bleeding, as our adult teeth grow. When we go back farther, it’s common for babies to cry a lot when baby teeth start to push through the gums. We just don’t call “teething” and injury. But it breaks the skin, and the skin heals. Healthily.
The pain of minor injuries is often a healthy lesson. When we get a minor burn, we learn to not touch the stove. Most burns are minor. It’s harder to get a serious burn. Our communities protect us in many ways. In addition, to live well, we need to take risks – we need small injuries, for the health of it. We cannot excel without risk, without injury.
It’s not just physical injuries that are easily cured. Even the proverbial “whack on the the head” might be an injury in the short term, healthy in the long term.
As with physical injuries, we often suffer minor injuries to our mind or to our spirits. However, modern medicines treat the body – most illnesses in our minds and spirits are simply ignored, even by psychologists. Most are cured naturally, easily, and the cures are ignored.
In addition to physical symptoms like hangovers and loss of sleep, we might suffer from minor anxiety, depression, psychosis, or attention deficits due to stress, lack of sleep, or overuse of drugs from alcohol and caffeine to more powerful medical and recreational products. We withdraw from our communities, often avoiding those that might even support or cure us. In most cases, the cure comes easily when we address the cause – intentionally or not. Most mental injuries are minor, easily cured.
However, if a disease is diagnosed, a cure becomes theoretically impossible. Cured is not defined medically for depression, psychosis, attention deficit disorder – not defined for any diagnosable mental disorder.
Our current medical systems treat injuries. The word cure is. rarely used. We get a cavity or perhaps a broken tooth. The dentist repairs it with a filling, but doesn’t say “cure“. We get a cut that requires stitches. A doctor or nurse sews the skin together – and it heals. The word cure is rarely, if ever, used.
Patients with serious injuries are often patched up at the hospital and sent home to recover. Even in cases where medical assistance – physical rehabilitation – is required and fully or partially successful, the word cure is not used. At home recovery is rarely tracked, unless it fails. When the injury or injuries are healed – cured – the doctor might not see the patient until the next visit. Many patients don’t have a family doctor – and never return after a cure. Like minor injuries, the cure is forgotten. Not documented. Not studied.
We have hundreds of cases of injures for every one that is treated by a doctor. Most are cured – out of sight of medical practice and medical theory. Hippocrates said “What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.” Nonsense. Most illnesses are easily cured by our healthy bodies, minds, spirits, and communities – outside of the sight of medical doctors and researchers.
The cure is ignored. It makes no difference if the cure was caused by a doctor, a nurse, an alternative medical practitioner, a grandmother, or the patient. We ignore cures of injures – and get on with life.
Most cures are easy, trivial – and ignored. This is true for all types of diseases, not just injuries. Modern medicine suffers from cure denial.
When we fail to study the easiest, the simplest, the most trivial cures, we view many curable conditions as incurable. Today, we have no scientific studies of healing – the curing of injuries. They are not medical cures.
Health is whole.
An illness is a hole in health.
A cure fills the hole.
It’s time to study cure.
The book A New Theory of Cure explores the concepts of cure, beginning with elementary illnesses, easily cured, which when uncured can grow to more complex and compound illnesses, more difficult to cure.
* In the book A New Theory of Cure, and in this post, I take care to distinguish between illness, disease, and sickness.
There is one kind of cure that is largely invisible to current medical theory and practice. How can a cure be invisible?
There are exactly two fundamental types of cures, based on cause – attribute cures and causal cures. Current conventional and alternative medical theories only recognize attribute cures.
Causal cures are invisible.
What’s the difference between an attribute cure and a causal cure?
All cures are transformations. There is sometimes debate about curing the patient, the disease, or even the symptoms. Many medical theories see the patient as transformed to cured.
An illness consists of its present cause and it’s ongoing consequences. The present cause is the cause that is presently, causing signs, symptoms, and damage. It is the cause which, when successfully addressed – transformed – the illness has been cured. Of course, the actual cure process might take time to complete and heal.
The present cause of the illness is transformed and the illness is cured. – we had a cut, now it’s gone. Healed – a form of cure. We had a cold, now it’s gone. Cured. We were depressed – now we’re upbeat. Cured. An attribute cure occurs when we transform an attribute, or noun cause of an illness to produce a cure.
Surgery modifies, transforms, – cures – a cleft lip. Our immune system kills and removes the bacteria causing an infection. An addition of supplemental Vitamin C cures the scorbutic state by addressing, removing the Vitamin C deficiency.
Cure: “To remedy or eradicate, to cure a bad habit” (Funk and Wagnel, 1989)
Cure: “To get rid of or counteract (an ailment, evil, bad habit, etc.)” (Merriam-Webster, 1997)
What is a causal cure? A causal cure is a process cure. It occurs and continues to exist when we transform a process. A causal cure, a process cure, is ongoing – not a one-time action. A process transformation must be maintained – to maintain the cure. Causal cures are works in progress – like life.
A process that is causing illness might be modified by adding, changing, or removing some aspect of the process to produce a cure. When we change an attribute in the process – that’s an attribute cure. When we change the process, it’s a causal cure. A causal cure requires ongoing maintenance of the change.
When we are not ill, preventative cures prevents illness. After we are cured, they must be maintained to prevent illness. When we are ill – they cure. But, we must not confuse a causal cure with statistical preventatives, like seat belts, or bike helmets, that do not cure. When we are sick, cures are better than non-curative preventatives.
The scorbutic state of scurvy is cured with supplemental Vitamin C. However, Vitamin C does not address the cause of the scorbutic state. The cause is usually a process, not a Vitamin, not an attribute.
When the patient has a temporary Vitamin C deficiency or scurvy, Vitamin C supplementation will cure. When a baby has scurvy because the foods they are eating don’t contain Vitamin C, supplemental Vitamin C cures – later, their dietary processes change, providing the permanent cure.
However, when a patient has scurvy because they are alcoholic or addicted to drugs, or too old, or too poor to buy, prepare, and eat health healthy foods, supplemental Vitamin C will not cure. Not only that – those patients probably have other nutritional illnesses as a result of poor diet. Vitamin C cannot cure these either.
An addict suffering from scurvy has two illnesses:
A cure of scurvy, in an addict, requires an attribute cure – to transform the scorbutic state – and also a causal cure – that ensures the patient’s diet improves on an ongoing basis. Our current medical theory ignores the causal cures. They’re invisible.
Any illness with an ongoing cause can only be cured with causal cure. We might transform the illness state – but it will often reoccur. Many chronic diseases are what we call lifestyle diseases, caused by faulty life processes. The only cure is to transform the faulty process, an ongoing cure, a causal cure.
In our current medical systems, all cures are considered one-time. The concept of an ongoing cure action, of a preventative cure, a causal cure, simply does not exist. An addict’s scurvy might be cured by curing their addiction – but that cure is not recognized as a cure of scurvy. All causal cures are invisible in current medical theory.
Once we understand the concept of a causal cure, it’s easier to see them.
All cures are transformations. Some are transformations of things. Some are transformations of life processes.
An attribute cure occurs when an attribute, or its absence, causing an illness state is transformed such that it no longer causes illness.
A causal cure occurs when a life process, or its absence, is transformed – added, changed, or removed – on an ongoing basis, such that it no longer causes the illness.
I cured my smoker’s cough by using a dishrag to STOP myself from smoking. Sometimes, stopping a process cures. But the stopped process must be maintained. Of course, if I smoke one cigarette, I won’t get smoker’s cough. But if I begin a daily smoking process again, I will.
An addict’s malnutrition illnesses might be cured by curing their addiction, or by providing healthy meals every day – which, by the way, might also cure their addiction.
A severe case of depression, caused by a constant negative frame of mind, might be cured by daily meditation. Over time, that meditation, that causal cure, might shrink and become a natural part of the patient’s life – invisible to doctors
We tend to dismiss cures that are not permanent, a simplistic view. A cure might be partial or complete, temporary or permanent – it can even be repeating or chronic.
A cure exists when we have successfully addressed the cause. If the cause occurs again – a new, although similar case of a illness might occur. It’s a new case, because the original cause was addressed, the original illness was cured.
Illnesses and cures only move forward in time, not backwards.
In a case of an attribute cure, if the same or similar causal attribute occurs again, a new illness will occur. It’s a new illness because the original illness was cured. Colds and flu don’t go into remission. They are cured. Later, we might get a new cold or a new case of the flu.
Likewise, with each causal illness cure, if the process is changed again, either back to the problem state or forward to a new problem state, a new case of illness can occur. It’s a new illness because the original cause was addressed. The original illness was cured. Of course, proving a causal illness cured is more difficult than proving an attribute illness cured, but once we understand the concept of causal illness and causal cure – we can do it.
To understand causal cures, preventative cures, we first need to recognize the concept – and then to study it in detail. There is a transition, a gradation between attribute cures and causal cures, based on our perception of the specific illness and the cure applied. Today, however, all causal cures are ignored, dismissed, invisible.
to your health, tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure.