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The Way Medical Science Thinks


     The fundamental fallacies embodied in contemporary medical science are the subject of my essay. These fallacies stem from the shallowness of the reasoning behind medical science, so I would like to introduce two or three examples of how shallow that thinking is.
     One fallacy, for example, is the idea that a patient can supplement externally a deficiency in vitamins. A human being lacks vitamins because there is some obstacle or damage to the vitamin-producing function within the body. All that is necessary is for the hindrance to the function that produces vitamins to be eliminated, but sad to say, medical science has not been able to discover that hindrance and so has no recourse but to introduce vitamins through the mouth. Intriguingly though, people in the days before the “knowledge” of vitamins appear to have been healthier than the population today.
     I also teach that diarrhea is an elimination process of impurities within the body, and since the stomach is thus cleansed, it is an excellent way to maintain health. But, there is probably nothing so fallacious as medical treatment which aims to stop these processes and halt elimination. Truly absurd is the fact that when people speak of diarrhea they say that their stomach is “broken,” but for us there is probably nothing else so foolish. The human stomach is not made of pottery or glass so I laughingly tell my followers a stomach could not possibly be “broken.”
     In the same way, medical science also seeks to stop coughing, phlegm, nose mucous, and sweat which are other processes of elimination. Medical treatment calls for applying cold to cool the body for fever and cutting out an appendix that hurts. If one feels a pain in the appendix, there is a reason it hurts, and all that has to be done is to remove the source that pain, but instead the appendix is cut out, the explanation for doing so being equally insipid. The appendix is said to be a useless appendage in the human body, and that is safer, healthier not to have it. Even God who created human beings must be laughing bitterly at the foolishness of this interpretation. Likewise with the kidneys. If something is thought to be wrong with them, they are surgically removed. When viewed in this way, the low value placed on life and how roughly the human body is treated can said to be truly astonishing. Such treatment is termed to be indicative of the progress of medical science. This “progress” differs in no way from driving bad persons away because they are nuisances instead of trying to form them into better persons. Truly the courses of action that medical science take are indeed uncivilized!
     When I previously wrote in an essay that the surgical practices of contemporary medical science were the epitome of barbarism, I was summoned to the police station, given a good dressing down, and made to pay an administrative fine. Such a response shows not only the barbarism of medical science but that of the judicial system as well. Plainly speaking, chilling a fever is like trying to calm individuals who are angry by hitting them, and equally, stopping the elimination of phlegm, nasal mucous, sweet, and diarrhea, akin to nailing down the lid on a garbage pail to make it so one cannot clean. Nothing less than flabbergasting is it, however, that the general public worships medical science with deep gratitude and entrusts to it its very life. These remarks are some of my frank observations on contemporary medical science, and I hope that they have helped to clarify the errors of modern medical science. It is truly lamentable that I have to spell matters out so clearly.
     To conclude, the thinking of those involved in medical science has been until now to attempt to suppress what appears on the outside. Medical science has been devoted entirely to the surface and has not developed an appreciation for and undertaken research of what is below. As a result, the true cause of disease has not been uncovered, and the science of medicine continues on a mistaken path. I truly hope that the field of modern medicine will reconsider its position and awaken to the fact that for everything there is a cause and there is an effect.


Eikô, Issue 123, September 26, 1951
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