DISEASE - CURE (Cure without Medicine - 3)

Emotion and Bodily Changes

(Excerpts from book “Cure without Medicine”)

Do emotions bring about organic change? (Physical change)

Our answer is ‘Yes’, fully documented as well as properly substantiated.

Right from Hippocrates down to Dr. Alexander, all fully subscribe to the view that emotions necessarily play a major role in the aggravation of disease

Experiments reveal that anger stops normal flow of saliva and also affects the adrenal gland. It is equally well known that all emotions accelerate blood circulation. Blood vessels are known to burst through anger as well as through joy. It is also important to be realized that whilst process of thought seems to be localized in the head, emotions are felt throughout the entire body. When a man suddenly comes face to face with danger, vibrations of fear course through the whole of his physical being, he experiences a sinking in the pit of the stomach, he breaks out in cold sweat, and his skin becomes pale, his mouth dry, his breathing difficult and his heart races.

The action of the sympathetic system in an emergency emotion is of special interest to the student of psychology. It includes dilating pupils of the eye, lifting the lid over-wide and protruding (swelling) the eyeball, increasing the rate of heart beat, raising the blood pressure and taking from the organs of sex their supply of blood with the result that they tend to become flabby (hanging loosely).

History of Nationals, Religion and Science and Emotion’s role 

The extreme extent to which emotions can affect the body (and also beyond body) is best and most strikingly seen at its highest levels when one considers the history of nations, religion and science.

Thousands of patriots have sacrificed their lives for their feelings and faith. Millions have preferred tortures of the very worst kind giving away life of ease and comfort. Crores cared nothing for war wounds. They threw themselves in the imbroglio (complicated and difficult situation) for the sake of their country. Medical authorities may read the lives of researchers who sacrificed their very lives for success of their mission. Scientist in Russia like Minch and Mochutkovsky infected themselves with poison for the sake of experimental confirmation of their analytical theories. Noguchi, another scientist, allowed his brain to be affected. Sir Ronald Ross allowed himself to be infected by material-carrying mosquitoes.

From Emotion to Disease

We have seen that emotions create organic disease is unquestionable. Relationship between emotions and disease is a concept universally accepted. Now the next question to be considered is whether –

1.  Every disease results from emotion

On our part, we are convinced that satisfactory evidence exists to prove a relationship between every kind of disease and emotion.

We shall list some important arguments but before it is done, we should consider some important points.

2. An emotion does not necessarily result in immediate illness

This is the primary difficulty which should be overcome. A time lag (between emotion and illness) is certainly possible and it often occurs. On many occasions, an emotion is suppressed, so that such suppressed emotion does not result in an immediate observable bodily reaction in the form of disease. Certainly, it is true that we can defer the disease temporarily, when we suppress emotions. But in the long run, it will be observed to have erupted with greater intensity. Hence, the question of paramount important is – Will the disease never erupt?

3. Immediate link may not be possible

What begins as emotion (A) ends in an illness (B). An immediate link A to B cannot be located on every occasion for Nature gives us a long rope indeed to hang ourselves with! When no immediate link is observably created, it still does not indicate its total absence.

4. Can doctors link real cause to disease?

Any critic has no right to demand that a proponent of Recipropathy is duty-bound to offer proof positive on every individual occasion that emotion leads to disease. This is because critics and even doctors themselves are unable to trace back every disease at its source or to its first cause, if one prefers that phrase. In fact majority of the diseases are treated without its true origin having been located. In the startling yet true words, Dr. Carrel says “Doctors do not cure disease, they change it”.

5. Circumstantial evidence supports Recipropathy

Even in those cases where a direct relationship between emotion and disease has not been established, the circumstantial evidence is in favor of the hypothesis.

In the state of emotion an individual prefers the very most tortures, which may be normally termed as disease (illustration – A soldier going to doctor for operation vis-à-vis going for all-out war. Page 46 of the book gives the illustration). This point will be further established later in mathematical terms. With the help of the laws of mechanics and mathematical equations, the correlation of emotions and disease will be established.

6. Purpose of disease and pain

Suffice is to say here that modern researchers agree that the purpose of disease and pain is to teach the human mind through emotions.

7. Can medicines cure patients?

All thinkers concede that medicine cannot cure patients en-mass. No two organisms on this earth are quite alike. Medicine which would cure all and sundry is impossible to be discovered. Because each individual is absolutely unique and distinct from the rest of the world. This uniqueness of the individual prevents the possibility of a mass-scale medicine.

8. Individual separate identity – The difficulty in proving.

Even the origins of bodily pains are diverse. Under a given set of circumstances, various individuals react differently depending on their basic emotional combination, turning each reaction into different disease. Everything, including the rate at which emotion is turned into disease, the process whereby the result accrues, the mode, the intensity, the complications – all these would differ from one to another depending solely on basic combinations of emotions in the individual concerned. That is why a difficulty arises in actually co-relating every emotion with specific disease. Pathways of emotions and disease stand delineated (just like image of each other).

(To be continued..)

Vijay R. Joshi.