Mainstream medicine, also known as Western medicine — the true alternative medicine — is pseudoscientific, based entirely upon superstition (the "germ theory"), and merely treats symptoms with its opposite. This is why it is referred to as Allopathic medicine or Allopathy. The word “allopathic” comes from the Greek “allos” — meaning “opposite” — and “pathos” — meaning “to suffer.” All it attempts to do, by most egotistical “doctors” who think they know everything and have all the answers (despite their records of maltreatment and/or malpractice), is treat the symptoms (of which many illnesses share) rather than the patient. It uses Band Aid solutions rather than dealing with the root cause. Allopathic medicine is no scientific medical care.
Real medicine, used for thousands of years before half-wit hacks like Louis Pasteur promoted the unscientific “germ theory” and “contagion theory,” (neither of which has been proven using the scientific method), treated the patient rather than the symptoms (of which multiple illnesses share). It treated like with like. Naturopathic medicine or Naturopathy (“Natura” meaning “nature.”), which includes Homeopathic medicine or Homeopathy (“Homeo” meaning “similar to.”) and Osteopathic medicine or Osteopathy (“Osteon” meaning “bones.”), is the true form of medicine, treating the patient rather than the symptoms. From TCM to Ayurveda to Native Americans, natural medicine has been healing people for centuries. That is a better track record than modern Allopathic “medicine.” Emergency medicine is also scientific medicine that benefits the patient.
Greek physician Hippocrates is considered the “father of medicine.” He accurately stated, “Diseases of any kind are crises of purification, of toxic elimination. Symptoms are the natural defenses of the body. We call them diseases, but in fact they are the cure of diseases.” German physician Samuel Hahnemann is considered the father of Homeopathy. German physician John H. Scheel termed “naturopathy” in 1895. Antoine Béchamp is considered the father of the Terrain Model. He accurately stated, “The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us.” His scientific research proved Hippocrates accurate. Before John Rockefeller created and marketed his oil-based “medicine” (that resulted in cancer), which eventually led to synthetic “medicine” (the drugs being pushed by most medical “doctors” today), most of America practiced Naturopathic medicine. Some practiced Allopathic medicine, such as blood-letting.
Unlike Allopathy, Naturopathy follows six (6) basic principles and uses whatever medical means they deem necessary to achieve these goals (such as massages, physical manipulation, reflexology, aromatherapy, herbal remedies, flower essences, nutritional counselling, etc., apart from synthetic drugs and their multiple negative side effects):
Primum Non Nocere (Do Not Harm): This is the philosophy of using non-invasive and the least toxic treatments they can.
Vis Medicatric Naturae (The Healing Power of Science): Like Homeopaths, Naturopathic doctors believe in the body’s ability to heal itself.
Tolle Causam (Identify and Treat the Cause): Also similar to Homeopathy, they find the underlying cause of the disease to address and remove it.
Docere (Doctor as Teacher): The heavy belief that you should educate your patients so they can take responsibility of their own body while treating their issues.
Tolle Totum (Treat the Whole Person): This is the holistic principle that recognizes the effect of lifestyle, family history, mental and emotional factors affect the patient.
Prevenic (Prevention): A strong emphasis on overall healthcare to prevent future disease.
Dr. Vernon Coleman has 12 laws of medicine that you would do well to understand. A good doctor should be familiar with these laws when dealing with patients. Patients should also be well aware of them.
Coleman’s 1st Law of Medicine: “If you are receiving treatment for an existing disease and you develop new symptoms, then, until proved otherwise, you should assume that the new symptoms are caused by the treatment you are receiving.
Coleman’s 2nd Law of Medicine: “There is no point in having tests done unless the results will affect your treatment.”
If your doctor wants you to have tests done, ask him how the results will affect your treatment. if the results of the tests won’t affect the treatment you receive (and aren’t needed as a baseline against which to compare future tests), then the tests aren’t worth having.
Tests and investigations are often regarded (by both doctors and patients) as being harmless. They aren’t. There is no such thing as minor surgery (Coleman’s 11th Law of Medicine), and even taking blood is an operation. There are dangers inherent in every test that is performed. And there is, in addition, the danger that the result will be wrong and that your doctors will treat the test rather than treating you.
Coleman’s 3rd Law of Medicine: “If the treatment doesn’t work, then you should consider the possibility that the diagnosis might be wrong. This is particularly true when several treatments have been tried.”
Coleman’s 4th Law of Medicine: “Screening examinations and check-ups are more profitable for doctors than for patients.”
Coleman’s 5th Law of Medicine: “It is doctors, not patients, who need annual check-ups.”
Along with cancer and circulatory disease, doctors are now one of the three most important causes of death and injury. Incompetent or careless doctors cause a horrifying amount of death or injury.
Coleman’s 6th Law of Medicine: “Hospitals are not suitable places for sick people. If you must go into one, you should get out as quickly as you can.”
Coleman’s 7th Law of Medicine: “There are fashions in medicine just as much as there are fashions in clothes. The difference is that whereas badly conceived fashions in clothes are only likely to embarrass you, ill-conceived fashions in medicine may kill you. The fashions in medicine have, by and large, as much scientific validity as the fashions in the clothes industry.”
Coleman’s 8th Law of Medicine: “The medical establishment will always take decisions on health matters which benefit industry, government and the medical profession, rather than patients. And the government will always take decisions on health matters which benefit the State rather than individual patients. What you read, hear or see about medicine and health matters will have more to do with the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry and the government, than the genuine needs of patients.”
Coleman’s 9th Law of Medicine: “Doctors and nurses know little or nothing about staying healthy. In particular, doctors and nurses know nothing useful about food, diet and healthy eating. (Sadly, the same is true of nutritionists and dieticians.)”
Coleman’s 10th Law of Medicine: “There are no holistic healers. There are only holistic patients.”
A truly holistic approach to staying healthy and treating illness depends upon using a wide range of possible remedies; treating the patient’s signs and symptoms (rather than his test results) and combining all types of alternative and orthodox medicine.
Coleman’s 11th Law of Medicine: “There is no such thing as minor surgery.”
Some operations are more complicated than others. Some take longer to perform. Some are more dangerous. All surgery should be taken seriously. It is never safe to describe surgery as ‘minor’.
Coleman’s 12th Law of Medicine: “Some patients will always be treated more equally than others.”
Today it is the elderly who are treated least equally.