Cure

11 Cure, HealingHealing
Healing is natural, self-evident. A trauma like a cut in the skin heals by itself. An infection like flu heals "by itself" after a while, most of the time. So the question is not why there is a disease, but why it does not heal. The answer is that there are blockages. One is not free, the immune system is not free, the natural, inner, healing power is not free because it is blocked by something. The blockages are the personalities with their own will, thoughts and emotions, especially when rigid.
Health
Illness is heavy, dark, gloomy, chaos, imbalance, tired, unhappy, not yourself, not knowing.
Healing is then the opposite, a relief, something that makes it easier. Health is light, bright, balance, central, happiness, self, in the middle, loving, knowing. And that is what patients tell us after a good healing. After a good therapy one feels lighter, happier, more oneself, more centred, more independent of circumstances, more humorous, easygoing and loving. Desires, needs and addictions reduce and disappear. One makes peace with relatives and friends. One has more energy and desire to live. One uses less and gives more. One is less anxious and has more confidence in life. One understands oneself better and is less negative about oneself. In general: one feels better.
Release
Central to healing is letting go, releasing. It is an understanding and releasing of one's own personalities. You only understand your personalities when you are healed of them. Until then, you see the effects, but not the core of the matter. They are like a blind spot.
Cure happens when we see that we have identified with a personality and can let it go. This happens when we become conscious of the identification and the realisation that we are not that personality. The result is that we feel more free and light. The energy that used to go to the personality gets freed up. We feel more ourselves, or our Self. This will be described more in the chapter "Self".
Hering's Law
Healing processes follow a certain pattern, known in homeopathy as
the Law of Hering. It is known as Hering's law, although it was already
described by Hahnemann. It is expressed in four rules, but the central
idea is the problem has to go out of the body and mind. Healing hap-
pens from inwards to outwards, from important to less important
structures and functions, from new to old complaints and goes down-
ward in the body.
Examples are asthma being replaced by eczema, as the skin is more su-
49perficial than the lungs. Healing is when a psychosis is replaced by an arthritis. Healing is when an eczema on the head is shifted to the feet. The opposite is that the patient becomes more ill by diseases going inward. This is a well-known phenomenon in medicine: a streptococcal throat infection that turns into a heart inflammation, or a kidney inflammation or an arthritis. Or a diarrhoea that transforms into rheumatoid arthritis. Or chronic fatigue syndrome after fevers treated with antibiotics.
In surgery it is well-known that discharge of pus is very important. The toxins have to be discharged, an abscess has to be cut open to let the pus come out.
Psychologically you see the same thing in projection: the negative has to come out. But then you forget that negativity is in everyone, that it is an expression of the paradox in life: we are ourselves and the others at the same time.
There is a great logic in Hering's law: the most important part must be the most protected, while superficial things can be sacrificed to maintain the essentials. This is what people do when problems arise. From this you can see what is most important in a person's life.
Levels of disease
The hierarchy of organs in which diseases are present, is as follows.
1. Skin.
2. Mucous membranes: coryza, bronchitis, cystitis.
3. Muscles.
4. Organs.
5. Nervous system.
6. Brain.
7. Psyche.
Palliation
The opposite of cure is palliation, a reduction, alleviation of discomfort. Palliation is nice, but it solves nothing. It is similar to alcoholism.
Alcohol gives a relief on the short term, but on the long term it gets worse and worse. Heroin gives a short relief, but in the long run one becomes more and more addicted: one needs more to find relief and the side effects get worse and worse. This is an expression of Hering's law: there is no way out, no avoidance of the essential problem. The problem is not solved.
A good example is opium addiction. In the beginning opium gives wonderfully beautiful results. One feels quite happy and free. But the effect wears off after a short time. With the next doses the nice effect is shorter and less deep. Gradually the positive effect is less and the side effects get worse. You need more and more to get a positive effect. Overdosing becomes more of a danger.
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This pattern is general for all drugs. It is not only with drugs, it is a general occurrence. It is a problem with all therapies, medicines, with all distractions, entertainments and amusements. That is why drug trials are usually limited to six weeks. This is the honeymoon period. From this kind of experience arose the saying: "The remedy is worse than the disease".
Suppression
It can be said that a therapy that is not entirely appropriate cannot cure the problem. Then the problem has to find another way out. The symptoms are suppressed and eventually come out in a different way. You can see this process with drug addicts, like alcohol or heroin addicts. In the beginning the drug is great, they later become a problem in themselves.
Spiritual
Healing is a spiritual path. In older cultures the function of priest and healer are practised together, the practitioner is often called shaman. The spiritual is letting go of personalities and realising who we really are. Healing is being able to use personalities, but not giving them the power to decide.
Unification
There is a particular consequence of these laws of Hering. Organ specialisms make no sense when diseases can have symptoms in many kinds of tissues and organs. Specialisms limit the vision of doctors to one organ and thus they cannot see the whole anymore.
The description of diseases has aspects of all organs and functions of the living being. It is a description of them as a whole. This leads to the unification of specialisms. As discussed in the previous chapter, such a unification is a sign of great importance for a science.
Rosa's case continued
The woman takes Cadmium silicatum monthly. She gradually feels better and better and has more energy. After each dose of the remedy she distances herself more from the problem, lets it go a bit more and hands it more over to her lawyer. Often there is an improvement in the court case after taking the remedy, with minor or major breakthroughs in the deadlocked situation. After six months, the tumours in her kidneys become smaller and their lobes become less fissured. After more than a year, the tumours have disappeared. Her general practitioner is completely amazed that such a thing is possible, and he thinks he must start believing in miracles.