Sevenfold Cure

The day that I learned that my blood blisters were caused by moldy food, I began to view cure differently. I was like Helen Keller when she realized that Anne Sullivan was signing the word for water, and let her cup fall to the ground and break. My old idea of cure, which I had learned through medical training as something that doctors do for patients, broke. I realized then and there that cure was my goal, and that I could define it for myself.

I began to ponder several questions. What is cure? What is my cure now? How can I define it in a way that would enable me to “peel the onion,” that is, to pinpoint my most  problems one at a time and to find a way to eliminate each in turn? The answer lie in that question. I could own my cure, take it step by step, and, with patience, create a new and fulfilling life better than any I had imagined before.

With that, I had hit on the sevenfold cure that suited my sevenfold paradigm of the body and my Sevenfold Healing Systems, which would now become systems of cure as well . I could return to the timeless empiricism that underlies every tradition of healing and cure in the history of our species, and engage in the self-experimentation that is  integral to allopathy, and that Dr. Barry Marshall  recently used to uncover the cause of gastric ulcers. I could stop trying to conform to modern concepts of normal and free myself to create my own cure one step at a time.

To follow my ongoing experiments with personal cure, you can follow my blog and read my upcoming short book entitled From Now On, which will be available on CreateSpace and Amazon by mid-June.

Next Time: The blank belly and the umbilical hernia

To learn more about medical detection, you can read the stories of Berton Roueche and browse the website of the Centers for Disease Control. If you are a doctor, you can ponder the possibility of join with your patients in applying science at the grass roots as recommended by Dr. Thomas Chalmers in his proposed N of 1 randomized trial, which practitioners of personalized medicine are reviving.