Informed Choice: To Drug or Not to Drug?
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Article summary and topic for group discussion. Meetup facilitated by Jean Chuang Menges (http://wisdomhouseny.com/about/jean-menges/), L.Ac., Adv CBP
Informed Choice
To Drug or Not to Drug?
By Suzanne Humphries, M.D.
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In the years that followed I began to learn of more holistic means to deal with my multiple health issues, and willpower allowed me to cut down on the pills. But willpower alone was not enough to free me from the seduction of instant symptom relief. I think people get stuck at this place; liking a philosophy of holistic health but finding it difficult in practice. Without incorporating the truth into their psyche, they run back to pharma when the going gets tough. I needed some examples of people who were aging without drugs, getting infected and not taking antibiotics, and remaining healthy into their sixth to ninth decades. Once I looked for them, they appeared. Once I found this living proof, I had all the evidence I needed to shift my old belief system. What is missing in conventional medicine is the understanding that symptoms are not the disease,but rather they are the body’s attempt at compensating in an unbalanced milieu. Symptom suppression creates a dangerous backlog of the original “pathology.” In homeopathic terms, symptoms are the language of the illness. They represent different things for different people. This is why one-size-fits-all remedies are not used in homeopathy, and why it is impossible to study homeopathy in case controlled studies using the same remedy in all cases. Some people are vital enough that pill popping can be dealt with for a period of time. But the breaking point, where the chemistry doesn’t settle back to normal, is there for all of us. I know for a fact that the skeptics are drinking the allopathic Kool-Aid and are dependent on surgery and pharmaceutical drugs. We need vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies, and we need drugged vs. un-drugged studies. We need the magical thinking of health coming from a pill to be transformed into the belief in the real magic—of nature and human ingenuity combined. This never happens inside the walls of conventional medicine.
Resources
America’s Healthcare is Twice as Expensive with Sickest Population (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/expensive-results-health-care-u-s-costs-best-world-article-1.394841) Lauren Feder, MD, on Integrated Family Wellness and the Holistic Pediatric Alliance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ibZDUYNHA): Watch Lauren Feder, MD, president of the Holistic Pediatric Alliance, talk about the future of integrative family wellness practices. Pathways Connect: Using Groups to Foster Integrative Care (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_cl9Z9eRms): Watch three holistic practitioners talkabout why they recognize families need to be with each other to to find support for their holistic and conscious living choices in this Pathways Connect exclusive. “Expensive Without the Results: Health Care in the U.S. Costs the Most, Not the Best in the World,” http://www.nydailynews.com/news/expensive-results-health-care-u-s-costs-best-world-article-1.394841
Lauren Feder, MD, on Integrated Family Wellness and the Holistic Pediatric Alliance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ibZDUYNHA
Humphries, Suzanne, M.D.: www.drsuzanne.net (http://www.drsuzanne.net/)