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Medicine, Faith and the Healing Process · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There are a number of examples that lead to the conclusion that
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  it is not medicine alone that cures the patient.
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  A young man reported his own experience.
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  He was visiting India in the early 1970s and was afflicted by
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  a severe case of amoebic dysentery while there, to the
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  point that he was in extreme pain, bleeding and undergoing
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  constant bowel disruption. He asked some people where he
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  was staying, how he should deal with the situation and they
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  recommended a homeopathic doctor nearby.
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  They made it clear that taking allopathic drugs or seeing an
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  allopathic physician practicing western medicine would not be as
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  successful for him. His only prior had experience
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  had been with allopathic medicine and he had to that
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  point in time never encountered homeopathy.
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  Nevertheless, he went to the homeopathic physician who
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  started by asking him a number of questions seemingly
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  irrelevant, such as whether he preferred hot or cold showers
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  generally. After responding to the
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  questions, the physician gave him some pellets to take, which
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  consisted of sugar infused with the homeopathic remedy diluted
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  based on homeopathic principles to the point that no active
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  substance could be found if analyzed.
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  The doctor advised him to take a pellet and let it dissolve under
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  his tongue, and with that, he dismissed the individual with
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  the promising statement that by the time he got back to his
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  guest house 15 minutes away by rickshaw, the bowel movements
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  would come to a halt. He further advised that it would
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  take some time for the internal damage to heal, but the worst
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  was now over and the patient would be on the mend.
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  The doctor's certainty in the matter influenced the young man
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  and he followed the directions. Lo and behold, within the
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  designated 15 minutes, in fact, the bowel movements had stopped
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  and he began his recovery from that point.
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  Homeopathy is a controversial healing modality in the West.
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  The USFDA does not consider it to be real, but as this young
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  person found out and as many others have testified, it works.
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  The placebo effect is another instance where we can eliminate
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  the medicine as the curative agent.
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  As previously noted, some 30% of test subjects who received a
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  placebo recover without the actual medicine, and an unknown
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  number of those who received the medicine were aided by the
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  mental will and faith in the medicine, not simply by the
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  chemical biological action of the medicine itself.
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  Srioro Bindo notes quote It is not the medicine that cures so
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  much as the patient's faith in the doctor and the medicine.
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  Both are a clumsy substitute for the natural faith in one's own
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  self power, which they have themselves destroyed.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Powers
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  within Chapter 6 Faith page 54.