Treatment without medication
So who are my patients?
My patients fall into two categories.
The first category
This is the largest group. These are people who have tried every possible class and kind of pharmaceutical on themselves and realised that, apart from temporary relief at best, various side effects and the loss of precious time, this method of treatment carries nothing useful — except in cases where prescribing pharmaceuticals is genuinely necessary and justified.
I write about that below.
The second category
These are people who, for one reason or another, have already understood that one can first try methods as close as possible to the nature of the human organism — all the more so because these methods have been tested over millennia.
This group is luckier, and the key difference is the word “first”, because people in the first group decided they would try these methods “last”.
I did not choose the word “try” by accident — it shows very precisely how lightly most people treat the state of their own health.
To try comes from “trial, experiment”.
So it turns out that people voluntarily allow experiments to be run on them — and pay for the privilege.
Conventional medicine
For everyone else there is so-called conventional medicine with its many methods of treatment and, so to speak, all the consequences that follow: we heal one thing and harm another.
But in fact we harm both — only one harm is hidden and the other is visible.
And in general, have you never wondered why, despite the abundance and variety of medicines, there are more and more sick people every year?
By the logic of things, if these remedies are effective and humanity has chosen the right path in helping people, the number of sick people should be falling and falling.
And what happens in paediatrics is no longer a quiet horror but a loud one. A child has barely sneezed and is already being fed chemistry.
You know, with things arranged this way, a healthy nation is simply a made-up story — one that is very, very convenient for very, very many people.
Conditions in which I do not rule out the use of pharmaceuticals
Severe illnesses such as cancer, epilepsy, psychiatric conditions, autoimmune diseases and others like them.
It is for such borderline conditions that the pharmaceutical industry should exist. Its main contribution here, I would say, is easing a person's suffering during life. For some reason unknown to us, these people acquired or were born with these or similar conditions and now carry that burden.
In acute inflammatory processes, in infectious diseases and in surgery. Why? I do not think that needs explaining here.
I would also, of course, call the use of pharmaceuticals justified in various emergencies, when a person needs urgent medical assistance.
To sum up
It is fair to say that in certain conditions and on a certain scale pharmaceuticals really are needed. But what is happening now, where people are driven not by helping their neighbour but by profit, has made the scale limitless — and “certain conditions” have turned into absolutely all of them.