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The Case for Homeopathic Medicine
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19274 |
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NATURAL SCIENCE
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7 / 1991 |
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William L. Bergman, M.D.
William L. Bergman, M.D., is the medical director at Hahnemann
Health Associates in New York City and president of the World
Medical Health Foundation, a nonprofit educational and
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We are experiencing a growing crisis in the American health care system, fueled by the high cost of today's high-technology medicine. Despite increasing dependence on new instruments and scanners of every kind, the rate of successful treatment and accompanying patient satisfaction are not keeping up. Herbert Benson, M.D., author of Beyond the Relaxation Response and director of the hypertension section of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, has written, "We know from research into this subject that the vast majority--or about 75 percent--of the people a given doctor sees can't be helped by specific medicines or surgical techniques."
But even the 25 percent who can be helped by conventional medicine are frequently affected by side effects, adverse reactions, or allergic phenomena. Many health professionals and members of the general public are turning to natural medical systems in an attempt to avoid the risks of conventional medicines and surgery.
As modern science clarifies the increasing danger of environmental pollution, the consequences of highly processed and refined foods, and the role of hereditary susceptibility, it is becoming increasingly necessary to expand our model of health and illness, taking a systemic view of the problem of human illness.
In this context, there has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in natural systems of medicine and healing, most especially acupuncture from the Orient and homeopathic medicine from Europe. The common denominator of these holistic modalities is the power of nature to heal, a theme also found in the increasing trend toward preventive medicine, natural therapeutics, and home health care.
A new paradigm
At the heart of this expanded view of medicine is the application of post-Einsteinian concepts of modern physics to medicine. Whereas surgery intervenes at the level of structural anatomy and pharmaceutical medicine at the level of cellular biochemistry, the Einsteinian model moves us away from the Newtonian, mechanistic worldview to one that looks upon matter as particularized energy, which is vibrational in nature, and the human body as a multidimensional energy field.
As the body attempts to adjust to stress in order to maintain homeostasis, subtle imbalances in the human energy field can become the source of illness. On this basis, we can understand that pharmaceuticals and surgical
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