Have you ever been cured? Were you cured by a medicine? or perhaps not?
Can you name a disease that can be cured, but cannot be cured with medicines? Can you name two? Five? More? How many diseases are there that are easily cured – but cannot be cured by medicines?
What is a disease? What is a medicine? Are medicines defined by the diseases they treat? What is a cure? A cure is the end of an illness.
There are many definitions of disease – and many definitions of medicine. For this post, I use a simple clear definition of disease, and the clear legal definition of a drug or medicine.
Disease: a medical condition that can be diagnosed and treated by a doctor. Bacterial infection, cancer, arthritis, Parkinson’s, hypertension, depression, COVID, the common cold.
Medicine: a product approved by the government to treat a disease, recognized as a drug by the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration).
Cancer, arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, hypertension, depression, the common cold, and many other diseases have symptoms that can be ‘treated’ with medicines. But, according to current medical textbooks, none of them have cures.
Are there any diseases that CAN be cured by medicines? Of course. Many bacterial infection, viral infections, fungal infections and other parasitic infections can be cured by medicines that kill the infecting agent. Notice the keyword “infection.”
Can we name a non-infectious disease that can be cured by a medicine? No, we cannot. Cured is not medically defined for any non-infectious disease, from arthritis and autism to cancer, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, gout, heart disease, hypertension, even obesity and scurvy.
Are multivitamins and supplements, on the other hand, ‘no better than a placebo,’ or can multivitamins and supplements actually cure diseases? Let’s look at a familiar example:
Nutritional Diseases
No nutritional disease can be cured by a medicine. Scurvy is severe deficiency of Vitamin C. The only cure for scurvy is a healthy diet, containing sufficient Vitamin C. We can cure scurvy with oranges, lemons, limes – and many other foods containing Vitamin C. We can treat scurvy, (the word cure is not used) according to medical science with Vitamin C in food or supplements. But we can’t cure scurvy with medicines. Treating it with medicines ignores the cause, allows the disease to grow in severity, potentially to kill the patient.
Scurvy is only be cured by healthicines, not by medicines. Vitamin C is a healthicine, naturally present in many foods. It is not a medicine that fights our disease – it’s a healthicine, creating and improving healthiness. When Vitamin C is deficient, our health drops and eventually we can be diagnosed with a disease, scurvy. If our Vitamin C deficiency is extreme for more than a few months, damage to bones and teeth can be so severe that they cannot be healed – even with the best healthicines and medicines. Medicines, in general, do not cause healing, they attack disease.
Scurvy is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C. Vitamin C is not just the cure, it is also the only preventative for scurvy. We cannot prevent it by taking medicines, nor by taking multivitamins that do not contain Vitamin C. Health is the best preventative.
Vitamin C an essential nutrient – a preventative when we get enough, and a medicine when we are deficient. If we have scurvy, or other symptoms of Vitamin C deficiency – do oranges and lemons, spinach, broccoli and tomatoes suddenly become a medicine? No, they are healing foods: healthicines. Such foods, including Vitamin C supplements are legally excluded from being approved as medicines. Medicines, symptomicines, sickicines, and deathicines can be approved as medicines. Healthicines, cannot.
There are many – perhaps most – illnesses and diseases that can only be cured by healthicines.
Vitamin A deficiency can eventually lead to blindness so severe it cannot be cured. Vitamin A deficiency can lead to many other health issues, symptoms, and diseases. If we develop a curable night blindness due to a Vitamin A deficiency, and catch it early, it is cured with Vitamin A. We can’t cure it with a medicine. We can only cure it with a Vitamin A supplement, or foods that contain Vitamin A. Even the ancient Egyptians knew about this, and cured night blindness with liver.
Of course, the disease night blindness not that simple. There are different types of night blindness. Night blindness can have many different causes, from genetics and aging, poisons or toxins (including medicines), vitamin deficiencies, and many other causes. Night blindness can only be cured by Vitamin A – if it was caused by a Vitamin A deficiency. We might, treat 20 cases of night blindness with Vitamin A, and cure four of them, but not rest. The cured cases were night blindness caused by a deficiency of Vitamin A. The cure, not the diagnosis, proves the cause.
Vitamin A illustrates to another class of diseases that cannot be cured with medicines. Vitamin A is toxic. When we consume too much Vitamin A, we develop the disease Vitamin A toxicity, with symptoms of headaches, drowsiness, irritability, vomiting, abdominal pain, nausea, peeling skin – and even death. The solution to Vitamin A toxicity? Stop consuming so much Vitamin A. Medicines can’t help – only healthy actions. Of course, Any complications that occurred from the excess vitamin A, such as damage to the kidney or liver damage, must be cured, if possible, independently.
Now we might see hundreds, possibly even thousands of diseases that cannot be cured by ‘patent medicines’, but can only be cured by healthicines, or by healthy actions.
Each vitamin has one or more corresponding diseases that result when they are deficient, and other illnesses (not all are classed as diseases) that result when excessive amounts are consumed. There are 13 clearly recognized vitamins. Each of the diseases caused by deficiency, or by excesses of vitamin consumption, cannot be cured by medicines – they can only be cured by more, or less of the foods containing the vitamins – by healthy actions.
Vitamins are not the only essential nutrients. There are many other nutrients essential to the health of humans. There are two essential fatty acids, and a few more that are ‘conditionally essential’. When we are deficient, we develop symptoms and diseases of fatty acid deficiency. These symptoms and diseases can only be treated with foods containing the fatty acids – medicines cannot cure. There are also diseases of fatty acid excess or imbalance. There are nine essential amino acids, or proteins, and six more that are essential to health and freedom from disease. Symptoms and diseases resulting from protein deficiencies cannot be treated by medicines, only by foods. Excess protein consumption has been linked to kidney disease, cancers, and osteoporosis.
There are fifteen dietary minerals essential to health. A deficiency of any of these minerals will gradually result in symptoms followed by diseases that cannot be cured by medicines. Only foods, or supplements containing these minerals – can cure these illnesses.
How many other foods are essential to health? We’re not sure. We need water, which does not fit into any of the above categories. A deficiency of water leads to the disease of dehydration, which can only be cured by consuming water. An excess of water can lead to water toxicity – which can lead to death.
There is uncertainty about the total number of essential nutrients – and there is also little science about how our needs for different essential nutrients might change as we grow from a baby to an octogenarian.
In summary, there are at least 40 essential nutrients. Some estimates range to over 100 nutrients essential to health. Deficiencies in any of these nutrients leads to diseases that can be cured – but not by medicines. Excesses of the nutrients can cause different diseases.
Diseases caused by excess – even those caused by excesses of essential nutrients – cannot be cured by medicines. There are also hundreds – thousands, perhaps millions of toxic chemicals in our foods and our environment. In many cases, these chemicals cause diseases with a name, that can be diagnosed – lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, chlorine poisoning – and many more.
Many toxic chemicals cause minor, or even severe symptoms – without the severity of a named ‘disease’. Most medicines are toxic. Most medicines have ‘side effects‘, many of which are symptoms of toxicity- many of which can lead to disease or death in excess. However, side effects, are rarely categorized as diseases, even when they kill. The symptoms of these diseases might be, and often are ‘treated‘ by more, different medicines. These illnesses can only be cured by removing the toxic chemicals from our foods, medicines, and our bodies.
When a toxic chemical is consumed or encountered on an ongoing basis, even in low amounts, it can cause a chronic disease. This chronic disease cannot be cured by medicine – it can only be cured, if it can be cured, by removing contact with the toxic chemical. In some cases, where the toxic chemical has built up in our bodies – it may be necessary to consume another food, or a medicine, that helps remove the toxic chemical.
Our list of diseases that can be cured, but not by medicines, continues to grow. There are clearly hundreds, possibly thousands of diseases we can cure – but not with medicines. Some are cured by healthicines, others are cured by healthy actions of restraint, a variation of fasting.
There are more, we don’t know how many more, diseases that can be cured by healthy actions, but not by medicines. A cure is an action, not a product, not a drug. Even a drug that cures doesn’t cure without the action of taking the drug.
Compound Illness
What about diseases are caused by several minor nutrient deficiencies acting at once? Today’s nutritional science operates, for the most part, using a reductionist methodology, studying one nutrient or toxin at a time. But health is whole. Our bodies and our health are not reductionist – they are holistic. When we have a minor deficiency in several essential nutrients – we might suffer symptoms, illnesses, and diseases that are hard to understand. We might be diagnosed with a disease where the causes are difficult, almost impossible, to identify. In these cases, like night blindness caused by Vitamin A deficiency, we can only prove the cause with a cure.
Cure Cause – Present Cause
There are many diseases that are diagnosed without identification of a cure cause. Cancers, arthritis, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and many more are diseases without a cure cause. We track statistical causes for these diseases but statistical causes cannot be used to cure, they are past causes. It is a failure of medicine that medical textbooks, medical science, has not developed techniques to identify the causes in individual cases, to work towards actually curing these diseases. Instead, medical textbooks and medical authorities recommend treating the symptoms. Even when a case appears to be cured, the cure is ignored. These diseases are considered incurable – so cures are not important.
Many diseases with unknown causes are chronic diseases. This fits perfectly with the types of disease that are caused by ongoing (chronic) nutrient deficiencies or toxicities. These ongoing deficiencies ongoing toxicities might be minor, but damage accumulates gradually, over long periods of time.
How many chronic diseases are caused by minor multiple nutrient deficiencies? We don’t know. How many chronic diseases are caused by long term, minor multiple toxic excesses? We don’t know that either. How many diseases are caused by combinations of minor multiple nutrient deficiencies and minor multiple toxic excesses? We have no idea.
Other Causes of Illness
What about diseases, like depression, that can have causes in the mind, the spirits, even the community? Depression can be caused by many things. It can be caused by nutrient deficiencies, caused by skipping meals and lots of sugary snacks – medicines can’t help. But healthy food can. Solitary confinement can cause and exacerbate depression – should we be surprised? If our depression is caused by social isolation, taking medicines can’t make it better. But, hugs can cure. We might get better results by going out to a blues music bar, listening to someone else complain about their problems in song, and getting up to dance anyway. How many diseases caused by physical or emotional stress, or by physical or emotional abuse, can be cured with a medicine. None. They are cured by addressing the cause. But our modern medical system, with its dependence on medical cures, cannot find any cures, cannot even recognize a case of depression cured.
Any disease caused by unhealthiness, by a deficiency of healthiness or by an unhealthy excess, can only be cured by healthy actions, not by medicines. Each of these diseases can only be prevented by healthy actions, healthicines, but not by medicines.
Incurable Diseases?
How many diseases are identified as incurable by medicine today? Thousands. The ICD, the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases and related medical conditions, has over 70,000 entries. Most are considered incurable. What happens when a cure occurs? What happens when a case of cancer, depression, hypertension, obesity, or even scurvy is cured? Nothing. Nobody cares.
Cures are not counted. Cures don’t count. No doctor dares claim to cure – they would be called a quack. No medical clinic, hospital, or medical system keeps track of cures. We have no statistics for diseases cured.
How many are cured with health? We simply don’t know, we can’t know – because we don’t count cures. Health treatments are not billable. Medical systems (often marketed as health systems), ignore healthy cures because they ignore all cures. In many cases, we don’t know because we are busy searching for a medicine to cure a disease that cannot be cured with a medicine.
A healthicine is an action that increases our health. A medicine is something that fights our disease. Essential nutrients and healthy exercise and rest of body, mind, spirits and community aspects of life are healthicines. They don’t fight disease, they improve healthiness and disease disappears. Antibiotics and painkillers are medicines.
When we treat a disease without finding the cause, we usually reach for an approved medicine. However, approved medicines rarely improve healthiness and most cannot cure any disease.
When we treat a disease that can only be cured with health – with a medicine – it gets continues to grow. In some cases it gets worse, even while the patient feels better. The medicine might be a success, as the patient’s health continues to deteriorate.
To find cures, we need to search for health, and for healthicines.
to your health, tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure
I have had mumps, measles twice, dozens of colds, the flu a few times, and COVID. All are cured. None were cured with a medicine.