Inflammation and Disease

Current medical theory holds that disease causes inflammation. Quite often, when we turn conventional theories on their head we arrive somewhere closer to the truth. 

What if all illness were to begin with inflammation? This is one of the basic tenets in the ancient system of Ayurvedic medicine. And what if all inflammation begins with toxicity? The body's system has become unbalanced. Inflammation is due to the increased activity of the cells around an area of injury. They work hard in order to multiply, divide and replace their fallen comrades.

Rapid multiplication of cells in a furiously growing baby is felt by the mother in utero.

Thermography picks up the presence of heat in rapidly multiplying cancer cells. 

This rapid multiplication of replacement cells repairs a breakdown in the organism. The remains of their dead co-workers are swept away by the lymphatic system, and this creates a void in the structure. They have to divide and multiply in order fill it. The fuel used as they sub-divide, generates the by-product of heat. After repeated divisions the daughter cells get smaller, weaker. This is the reason why cancer cells are smaller than normal cells.

When we persist in subjecting the body to unceasing attack by toxins, supporting and increasing this inflammatory process, the cells are over-taxed, and at a critical point they revolt. You are now the enemy. Cells are revolting against a rotten government. They no longer take orders from the nervous system, they cut off the nerve supply. They become recidivist, primitive, monocellular entities, taking orders only from themselves. The nervous system is blocked, but they carry on being fed by the bloodstream. And the revolutionary group grows. Ungovernable by normal nerve stimuli, they multiply out of control.

There is all the information necessary in each one of your cells to produce a clone of your body, but because of the pressure being exerted on them by you, the host, they carry on in insularity, dividing. They revert to a self-motivated, primitive method of sugar dependent fermentation. No longer do they share in the vital economy of the body.

Now we are bad governors. Like idiots we attack the revolt, the cancer, like a foolish government attacks a rebellious people. We see very much the devastating results of this unintelligent approach with a certain middle eastern government today which attempts to convert its people by poisoning them.

As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul, is a saying attributed to the hermetic philosopher Hermes Trismegistus. When emotions, ideas and impulses disagree, affecting body chemistry, or when other forms of toxicity are introduced into the body, it becomes the battlefield, and at the microscopic level reveals just as much devastation.

We squirt things into our organism, killing it with treatment. We radiate it, laser it, but the one thing we don’t do is give up the bad government.

But then, grossly dissatisfied with the way things are going, the damage being done, if the treatment we give the body is too noxious, there can come a time when we are thrown back onto our own centre, the centre of higher intelligence. From this centre, we can start behaving ourselves better and the government improves. 

Diet, exercise, emotional patterns and habits change. Sources of toxicity (including emotional sources which affect the body through the glandular system) are dealt with. And with the increase of nutrition, cancer cells abandon their takeover bid and once again begin to co-operate.

When the focus is placed whole-heartedly on an intelligent solution to the problem, the universe opens up its ocean of possibilities. The person of religious persuasion might call it God showing the way. Another may call it cosmic ordering. It lies for me in the mystery of unfolding in the body, and in our intimate connection with the universal field of power which, with our help, works to bring us back to full health.

Without detoxifying the body and inhibiting the source of toxins, the inflammation continues furiously. And without providing the body with the nutrition that has been depleted, there is no longer the arsenal of chemistry it needs in order to deal efficiently with what emerges as disease. The capacity of the body's central intelligence ceases to be able to deal with the disease. It's one of the reasons why the majority of people in the western world have congested livers. It is no coincidence that this organ, so important to life, is called the liver. Livers are so wonderfully efficient that they can still operate effectively until their functionality is reduced to 30%. It is at this point that serious illness begins to set in.

A young child suffers a fever one day and the next it has abruptly gone ... as quickly as it came. This exhibits the strength of the child's vitality. Interfere with the healing crisis — characterised by the inflammation — with the introduction of drugs, vitality is reduced, and the healing crisis is compromised. Drugs per se do not heal, they treat symptoms, and often they drive the symptoms deeper into the body. The child's inflammation is a symptom of its auto-immune system's development. Better to treat fevers in the first instance with cool baths, castor oil packs, homoeopathy and the herbal remedies that our bodies have evolved to sympathetically accept. Aid the developing immune system instead of compromising its effectiveness.