Shefqet Deliallisi

It often happens that our body heals from disease without any clear medical explanation, even from serious diseases.

Modern medicine has appeared not more than 200 years ago, while the human being has managed to survive thousands and thousands of years…

Old books …

In the library I have some medical books from the beginning of the last century, inherited from my doctor father.

Medical treatises, monographs… Among them a Pharmacopoeia, a book describing hundreds of "cures" for various diseases.

Strange formulas.

Herbal ingredients (not coincidentally in Albanian the word barna is synonymous with the word medicine) that the pharmacist had to turn into powder, weigh, dissolve in alcohol, before giving to the patient.

Judging by today's knowledge, these strange "medicines" have simply been placebos.

The only benefit of them: an improvement from the idea that you are taking a useful medicine.

At the time, the only drugs that provided assurance of their effect were the flaxseed vaccine, malaria quinine, opium, or morphine to relieve pain.

That's it.

Browsing old books, a doctor writes in his diary:

"A patient came to visit me.

Bloody urine.

After examining him and his urine, I could not determine the diagnosis.

To gain time, to think, to read about this condition, I gave him an iron medication used to treat anemia, although he did not have anemia.

Days later the patient returned to thank me <the 'treatment' had been perfect.

The blood had disappeared from the urine.

In all likelihood, he unknowingly pulled out a silent kidney stone.

I was convinced that the medication I gave him had nothing to do with healing.

Anyway, my reputation had grown ”…

Most doctors realized it was not medication or any 'elixir' that cured, yet they kept prescribing.

"Doctor medicine"

A century ago, the doctor was very knowledgeable, with strong human ties to the patient, near his bed, though little could be done with the means and possibilities of the time.

His advisory and comforting role, with its psychological effect, constituted what is called "doctor medicine" which in many cases was (and is) effective…

Nowadays, the doctor does much more, there are endless tools available, medicines, sophisticated technologies, but the human connection with the patient is getting colder…

If we compare medicine yesterday with that of today, the difference is between a profession and a business, between a profession that grew and developed based on human tradition and one that grew and is growing, in terms of a profit-driven medical-industrial complex…

A little history

The self-healing ability of the organism has been noted since the time of Hippocrates.

One of the principles of his medicine is the healing power of nature (organism).

What the doctor can do according to this theory is only to alleviate the body's natural tendency for self-healing.

This principle was further developed by the famous French physiologist Claude Bernard (1813-1878), with the theory of the "Internal Environment", according to which body fluids nourish and keep in balance the cells of the body by providing independent conditions for good life.

Then went the American doctor Walter Cannon with the book "Wisdom of the organism" (1930) with hemostasis, the unattainable perfection of the organism to maintain stable life parameters of temperature, water, salt, sugar, proteins, fats, oxygen in the blood, and many others.

Hemostasis is the exclusivity of the organism.

An analogy…

Walter D. Longo, a biogerontologist at the University of California, writes in his book The Diet of Longevity (2018): "It is impossible to improve a Mozart symphony by adding cello numbers to the orchestra."

You have to be smarter than Mozart to do that.

Our organism is as virtuoso in its function as Mozart in music.

It is impossible to force the body for health by giving it some vitamins, supplements or through drastic restrictions on food or physical exertion.

The idea that we have long-term conscious control over the organism is just an illusion.

Two statements without comment!

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), one of the most prominent philosophers of the French Renaissance: "Doctors are neither healthier, nor do they live longer than their patients"!

Barbara Ehrenreich, in her book Natural Causes (2018), writes: to prevent.

Lucille Roberts, owner of a chain of 'non-smoking fitness centers', died of lung cancer… Jerome Rodale, creator of Prevention magazine, devoted to organic food, suffered a severe heart attack… Even the vegetarian diet "The famous Steve Jobs did not save the billionaire from pancreatic cancer."

Closing…

What we know about our body is far less than what we think we know.

Many of the challenges we face today: climate change, the destruction of the environment, the recent pandemic, the attitude towards disease, death, have a common root: the illusion that we have complete control over nature when in fact we are only part of it .

As we focus on producing health care, what we need is health.

Health care is just one tool to achieve this goal.

The link between health and medical care is not as straightforward as believed.

Medical care affects a limited number of diseases.

We live in an expensive health care system that serves many other purposes besides health.

Modern medicine has become a highly industrialized culture.

It has medicinalized life, damaging the body's ability to heal itself.

The saying "The doctor heals, nature heals" comes to us from the depths of the centuries.

It is Mother Nature herself who has arranged, continues and will continue to adjust the continuity of life.