In a future article I’ll deal with the remarkable fact that if viruses don’t exist, remedies made from viruses produced excellent results in patients.
Sticking to our 3rd premise, if there is no conclusive evidence bacteria make a person sick and viruses are not even shown to exist, is there anything else left than the terrain theory of Béchamp? Wikipedia with its famous bias calls it ‘germ denialism’ and an ‘obsolete medical theory’, even though Pasteur said on his deathbed that Béchamp was right.
Why western medicine held on to Pasteur’s faulty theory? Maybe because there’s no money to be earned educating people to entertain healthy lifestyles and diet. And there is no fear to be induced in fearless people who are responsible and knowledgeable about their own body and health. On the contrary: when disease- and death-causing pathogens are undetectably lurking everywhere to make us sick or kill us, people can be persuaded to submit themselves to the most outrageous treatments and measures, even swallow poison to stay healthy.
When on top of that, not only are invisible aggressors everywhere, but their victims, often unaware they are invaded, can ‘transmit’ the pathogen to others. Danger is omnipresent. People suspected to be invaded or contaminated must be shunned. It gives raise to fear, blame, guilt and distancing. What a wonderful world!
These premises are so deeply intrenched we are not even aware they operate in the background, indeed, determine how we analyse and case and what treatment we offer.
Apart from that, more ‘holy cows’ of modern medicinal science turned out to be based on lose ground, to put it mildly. Interesting to learn the heart is not a pump, clogged arteries don’t cause heart attacks, high cholesterol is not dangerous, ATP is not our ‘energy carrier’, the so called 70-80% water in our bodies is actually a gel, auto-immune diseases don’t exist and so on. But all those believes and erroneous interpretations form our practices and determine what we try to accomplish.
Can we look at all those from another perspective? Can we embrace the idea that the body is perfectly equipped to keep homeostasis in an ever changing internal and external environment containing trillions of bacteria, fungi, toxins, moulds etc?
Can we be or become responsible for our own health and well-being as much as possible, given the context of fear and confusion we live in?
Beyond the prevailing paradigms, there are numerous factors influencing an individual’s health, such as lifestyle, family circumstances, diet, and personal belief systems. All these elements interplay in the encounter between patient and homeopath.
This adds numerous contexts to the homeopathic consultation, all at play at the same time and interacting with each other.
While the complexity of these factors may seem overwhelming and unmanageable, they can be understood through the metaphor of a tapestry, where the patient is represented by an intricate weave of different threads and colors forming a unique pattern.
Homeopaths, observing this tapestry, inevitably bring their own contexts and cannot attend to every single detail. Instead, by seeing the overall pattern from a distance, they are able to prescribe a remedy that matches this broader pattern, rather than focusing on individual threads or colors. This approach, emphasizing pattern recognition over minute detail, makes homeopathy manageable, even when taking all the varied contexts that contribute to the whole into account.
