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Schulmediziner nehmen bislang an, dass eine Arznei im Körper als eine rein chemische Ursache wirkt – ähnlich einem Reagenz in einem Versuchskolben. Das Medikament ist ein Hebel, der in einem Apparat ganz bestimmte Schalter umstellt. Das Irritierende ist: Manche Medikamente wirken, obwohl sie nur zum Schein den richtigen Stoff enthalten. Sie können

On the other hand, very often we don’t know for a long time, if ever, what the doctor did for us. In other words, the market is testing whether or not the doctor can give us hope and the feeling of having been taken care of, not whether the doctor really makes us healthier. Feeling more or less hopeful is a pretty inaccurate test. Hope is even

It is to Paracelsus, the famed “father of chemo-therapy,” that we can trace the revival of interest in opium. The great sixteenth-century Swiss alchemist, medical reformer, and quack advocated and used opium on a lavish scale.

The definition also conveys the impression that the use of drugs and preparations is similarly science-based, and that ‘medicines’ are both appropriate and effective for the purposes for which they are employed. Unfortunately, however, nothing could be further from the truth; any healthcare practice that employs the use of ‘drugs and preparations’

Dr. James Fries, a professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

transforming medicine from a healing-oriented moral practice into a diagnosis-oriented science focused on discernible, and replicable, test results.