Symptoms of Disease Are Like Sand in the Hand.

Symptoms of disease are highly changeable, if not unpredictable.

The causes of disease remain obscure to most medical practitioners and their patients.

A stomach catarrh, for example, may initially present as an irritation and then develop into an ulcer.

After that, it may be perceived as a hardening of tissue and eventually be diagnosed as cancer.

The course and intensification of pathological symptoms (signs of disease) may vary from person to person, and only a few people develop the cancer stage.

But the previous stages can be equally life-threatening.

As a matter of fact, many more people die from acute food poisoning and acute digestive problems than from chronic diseases such as cancer and coronary heart disease.

A stomach catarrh may be accompanied by various symptoms, including stomach upsets, nausea, vomiting, gastritis, and abdominal cramps.

In truth, there can never be two people suffering from gastritis who have the same symptoms.

One of them may be a very nervous person, and his symptoms (of gastritis) may include headaches and insomnia.

The other one may suffer an epileptic attack.

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As the stages of the disease become more pronounced, some, but not all, of the afflicted patients develop anaemia as a result of ulceration and putrefaction of cell protein.

Several people form haemorrhoids when stomach ulcers begin to occur, and some suffer stomach congestion where the food simply is retained and is thrown up every second or third day.

Modern medicine views almost each of these various symptoms as a different type of disease, each of which requires a separate approach or treatment by a different specialist.

This makes the whole approach of medical diagnosis and treatment so complex that even doctors are confused as to what measures to take.

Since each new disease produces different symptoms that may vary from person to person, the specialists are unable to identify the common cause of all these various complaints.

Since they haven’t been trained to look for the cause of the complaints, they merely tend to deal with the various symptoms, as if they were separate diseases.

To them, the initial stomach pain seems to have no connection with the inflammation of the catarrh; the thickening of the stomach lining is dissimilar to a stomach ulcer; and the ulcer is certainly not (yet) a malignant tumor.

A physician may be able to stop an initial pain in the stomach with an antacid or a painkiller, and when the catarrh occurs, he may give anti-inflammatory drugs.

As the developing ulcer becomes unbearable, a surgeon may decide to cut it out.

When the cancer appears, an oncologist may prescribe chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical removal of the tumor as well as whole parts of the stomach.

Yet none of these symptoms are diseases in themselves; they are all caused by something else, and without dealing with that something else, the disease will continue to appear in other, seemingly unrelated, forms and variations.

Symptoms are like sand in the hand.

They are fleeting and inconsistent.

Hence, they cannot reveal the true nature of the disease.

It is therefore in the best interest of the patient not to receive treatment for the symptoms of his disorder but to strive to find the real disease before treatment.