4. Contrary to the term‘ Cure’ or‘ Treatment’ as frequently used by the modern medicine system, which focuses on physical body and its ailments, we as therapists and healers take a holistic view of the various aspects of the‘ Issue’ in question. It maybe a physical, mental, emotional issue as seen in first-go, but once we delve deep into the various aspects related to the issue we mostly discover that most issues have interlinked aspects. For example a physical pain may have an emotional trigger or a mental issue maybe triggering a physical or emotional symptom.
5. Most of us may have heard the storey of‘ Mr Wright’, who way back in 1957 was hospitalized in Long Beach California, after being diagnosed for cancer with tumors the size of oranges! He one day came to know about a latest drug named Krebiozen, made from horse serum, which was said to be effective against cancer. He begged his physician Dr Philip West for the new drug, who though a little hesitant gave him the medicine and three days later saw a jovial Mr Wright out of his‘ death bed’ talking laughing. His tumors too seemed to have dissolved magically! Two months later the healthy happy Mr Wright read that the horse serum was a quack remedy and like a curse the tumors returned. Seeing this doctor reassured him that the report was wrong and that a new super refined version of the Krebiozen was now available. This time he simply gave Mr Wright‘ pure water’ under the name of the super refined new version of Krebiozen. Again the tumors melted away like magic and Mr Wright was a healthy happy man for next two months or so, when one day another reputed authoritative medical report in a medical journal reported that Krebiozen, actually was just a quack remedy and totally ineffective in curing cancer! Two days later Mr Wright died!
6. So what do you all think happened in case of Mr Wright? Placebo Effect – maybe that’ s how most of us may call it, but even if that’ s true, it makes us question the very premise of‘ Cure-Treatment-Healing’! What are we actually curing, treating or healing, while heeling a case, which, has physical symptoms?