All of us know that ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ but it is very difficult to convince health workers and general public that there is a necessity of essential revolution in the field of health science as regards to its sole Concept. Everyone thinks that the treatment and health system of today is complete and advanced as it imbibes the latest knowledge in any field anywhere around earth. They think that a new and novel technique will make it even better and hence the latest the best.
After the introduction and establishment of modern medicines (Keeping apart all the so called pseudo sciences) almost all diseases known to mankind has come under surveillance and addressed. Allergic rhinitis, skin complaints, asthma, renal diseases, osteoarthritis, psoriasis, diabetes, myocardial infarction, stroke, cardiac block… so on.
All emergency conditions are managed convincingly. All infectious diseases are managed effectively. All acute diseases and acute exacerbations are effectively treated. Medical science has a perfect command over every discipline of health. Even then none of any of these diseases are irradiated. None of these can be prevented. None of these cases could be forecasted. An idea about many diseases as regards to probability of its occurrence is known yet can not be prevented. Why? Cause and course of any of these diseases to its establishment has not yet been convincingly excavated. A (at least) trace of uncertainty is left back in every single disease story. You can browse any disease on internet or texts for a perfect narration of disease except for the tail end sentence which goes like- ‘the real reason is unknown’ or ‘the exact mechanism is still unknown’.
There being a lot of concepts on health and all of them being almost incomplete or fantasies, how can any human intervention or interference into the health of living being be correct, complete or just? Who decides if the set of symptoms that we call a disease is actually a disease at all? And if at all correctly judged who decides that the human intervention into the crisis( medical, supportive or supplements) is genuine. What are the parameters for correct indulgence?
Why is FOH so sure about this???
FOH is sure about this because of a simple reason that if our understanding about health, disease and treatment were perfect, their convergence could have created magic. Mankind could be free from diseases by now and all that would have left behind should be some communicable diseases, epidemic diseases, emergencies such as accidents , poisoning, animal poisoning (like snake bite and dog bites), and management of terminal old age cases and its management.
Please imagine what would happen if the whole medical system vanishes from the surface of earth for a whole month. No nurses, doctors or hospitals for a month…. The world will go two centuries back with the same health status of those times or may be even worse than before as we are now addict and dependent to many of our modern treatment plans, supportive measures and supplements. These strategies and knowledges have saved many lives (pushed the death forward)and helped many to survive complications of accidents for sure but not improved the quality of health over time and with these crippled tools nowhere in future would we achieve a healthy life or population. We have for centuries violated the rules of natural selection and of course breached the natural modes of bodily instincts of resistance in the name of modernization. This being the reality can any old new or modern treatment strategies survive or be complete.
In olden days our ancestors had many health problems due to under nutrition because of lack of food. Later even ample food supply could not keep away certain deficiency diseases. Now, when there is no starvation we are preached to take food like medicine or else you might need to take medicine as food… What an irony