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Medicine, Immune System Action, Faith Healing and Overcoming Illnesses · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  How to medicines work. What exactly do they do in the
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  body? How do we explain the effect of
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  placebos which are involved in a reasonably large percentage of
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  cures? What about cases of spontaneous,
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  remission of disease? Is it possible to recover from
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  antibiotic resistant bacterial diseases?
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  Can the vital sheath be strengthened to prevent illness
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  from entering the body? There are a large number of
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  questions that are wrapped up in the question of using medicines
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  versus Reliance on, either the body's immune system or some
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  external support of force, through the action of Faith or
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  receptivity, to the Divine Force.
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  Some medicines act to attack very on elements that have
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  entered the body. The class of antibiotics work in
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  that way. In-vitro, various antibiotic
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  compounds are shown to develop a zone of inhibition in which the
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  bacteria will not propagate. But at some point, the immune
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  response of the bacteria also kicks in and eventually they
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  mutate into forms that are considered antibiotic resistant.
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  Even when antibiotics work, they take some of the load off of the
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  internal immune system, which goes to work to fight off the
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  disease and eventually it is the immune system that wins the
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  fight, the actual power at work here with whatever adjunct evade
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  is provided. By medicines, is the immune
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  response of the body and the vital being, if the vital sheath
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  is strong and vibrant disease, Really has a hard time even
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  getting at the body. If the vital sheath is
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  strengthened through the effort of the Mind, the will or through
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  intervention of the Divine force from outside.
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  It provides substantial Advance immunity.
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  One way to understand the issue of immune response versus
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  medicine is to look at what is called the placebo effect.
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  In this case, a substance that does not have any active role in
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  fighting off the disease, is given to the patient research
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  has shown between 15% and 72 percent positive impact of a
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  placebo, depending to some degree on the length of time.
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  It was given and the nature of the information provided It in
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  this instance, it is clearly not the medicine affecting the Cure,
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  but the body itself, curing itself.
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  This opens up the idea that with sufficient receptivity faith,
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  and a strong body, and vital sheet and individual can build
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  up Health ongoing, wellness, and defeat disease without
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  medicines. to the extent, the individual has not yet achieved
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  this, of course, medicine or a placebo may be taken to
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  strengthen the resistance and the faith of the physical being
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  Too much faith in medicines. However, can be detrimental as
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  the individual may find. When some pill is not available
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  that he quickly succumbs to the illness, due to the expectation,
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  that he will be sick without the needed.
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  Medicines SRI aurobindo observes, quote medicine is
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  necessary for our bodies and disease, only because our bodies
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  have learned the art of not getting well without medicines
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  even. So once he is often that the
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  moment nature chooses for Recovery is that in which the
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  life is abandoned as Hopeless by the doctors.
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  Distrust of the Curative power within us was our physical Fall
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  From Paradise, Medical Science and a bad heredity, are the two
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  angels of God who stand at the gates to forbid, our return and
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  reentry. Medical Science to the human
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  body is like a great power, which in feebles, a smaller
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  state by its protection, or like a benevolent robber, who knocks
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  his victim flat and riddles him with wounds in order that he may
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  devote his life to healing and serving the shattered body.
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  In quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health of growth.
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  Urban centers of the body and physical Consciousness, faith
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  and suggestion Pages 98 to 101.