A Balanced Approach
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:27 pm
Looks like some of us exhibit an EITHER - OR approach to medicine;
life is mostly not like that - It is not microbes OR terrain, toxins
OR terrain , Allopathy OR homoeopathy, Allopathy or Ayurveda
An inclusive approach - that says perhaps it is microbes AND terrain,
external forces AND internal milieu - that is right; none of the
causative factors for ANY disease are 100% exact or right or
demonstrable.
Uncertainty is built into systems.esp biological systems. People who
talk about quantum physics should know about that...All of us (
including allopaths) are stumbling together to make things work; help
from whatever quarters is welcome.... at the same time wherever
possible we try to follow where there is a general consensus- like we
accept that for the most part a stone thrown up will come down.... we
can however argue that a stone thrown up does not come down of its own
- someone is catching it and throwing it back - which is not
impossible as an alternate explanation - but which we tend to discount
because there are more plausible explanations... Occam's razor etc...
As homeopaths what we need to do is get to know the main established
approach first- this would allow us to understand the basics of
current thinking in the medical field and then question it and review
it and then come up with something or expanding the existing one to
suit our orientation and make it more helpful, more
"non-reductionistic" and more capable of guiding us in treatment...
We understand that the allopathic scheme of understanding has serious
flaws; allopaths themselves know about this...they are also trying to
make things right - but the problem is they are bound by their
framework of reference and any system related problem cannot be solved
within the system's framework and that is what happened when
Hahnemann jumped out of it to found homeopathy - and when we adapt
allopathic research and understanding we can always absorb what we
need- as long as we are also aware that as a system we need input from
outside to correct ourselves...and is the alternative explanations
that we give better than that? more actionable? more guiding? more
encompassing? non-reductionistic? generate more remedies or at least
ease the finding of the remedy?
We should not lose sight of the fact that the help we render is
minuscule compared to what is being done worldwide- pointing
accusatory fingers to show one-up manship is not wholesome and looks
unhomeopathic.
When we point with one finger we should not forget that 3 other
fingers of our own hand point to us...We need voices of dissent as
long as this does not muffle cries for co-operation
As they say "Physician heal thyself" applies to us and to our hang-ups
as well...
life is mostly not like that - It is not microbes OR terrain, toxins
OR terrain , Allopathy OR homoeopathy, Allopathy or Ayurveda
An inclusive approach - that says perhaps it is microbes AND terrain,
external forces AND internal milieu - that is right; none of the
causative factors for ANY disease are 100% exact or right or
demonstrable.
Uncertainty is built into systems.esp biological systems. People who
talk about quantum physics should know about that...All of us (
including allopaths) are stumbling together to make things work; help
from whatever quarters is welcome.... at the same time wherever
possible we try to follow where there is a general consensus- like we
accept that for the most part a stone thrown up will come down.... we
can however argue that a stone thrown up does not come down of its own
- someone is catching it and throwing it back - which is not
impossible as an alternate explanation - but which we tend to discount
because there are more plausible explanations... Occam's razor etc...
As homeopaths what we need to do is get to know the main established
approach first- this would allow us to understand the basics of
current thinking in the medical field and then question it and review
it and then come up with something or expanding the existing one to
suit our orientation and make it more helpful, more
"non-reductionistic" and more capable of guiding us in treatment...
We understand that the allopathic scheme of understanding has serious
flaws; allopaths themselves know about this...they are also trying to
make things right - but the problem is they are bound by their
framework of reference and any system related problem cannot be solved
within the system's framework and that is what happened when
Hahnemann jumped out of it to found homeopathy - and when we adapt
allopathic research and understanding we can always absorb what we
need- as long as we are also aware that as a system we need input from
outside to correct ourselves...and is the alternative explanations
that we give better than that? more actionable? more guiding? more
encompassing? non-reductionistic? generate more remedies or at least
ease the finding of the remedy?
We should not lose sight of the fact that the help we render is
minuscule compared to what is being done worldwide- pointing
accusatory fingers to show one-up manship is not wholesome and looks
unhomeopathic.
When we point with one finger we should not forget that 3 other
fingers of our own hand point to us...We need voices of dissent as
long as this does not muffle cries for co-operation
As they say "Physician heal thyself" applies to us and to our hang-ups
as well...