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It does not recognise transcendant 'Whys'. It tends to look on 'Man-in-the-World' through halfblind eyes. It tends to label 'Man-who-dialogueswith-God' as duped, irrational or mad. Mechanistic materialistic medicine has blind spots. Holism and holistic concepts of health, disease and medicine contain elements of scientific medicine, art, poetry and mysticism. A poet's definition of mysticism is: 'Man's dialogue with God, Man-in-the-world-and-why' (Brendan Kennelly 1983).īy definition, a holistic concepts involve all possible component parts, how they interact (fit together), how they fit into the larger plan of Nature and (in the end) an artistic-intuitive search for aspects of the transcendant immaterial blueprint which religious people call God or atheistic physicists see as the infinite interchange of matter and energy.

something greater than the sum of the parts. INTRODUCTION A dictionary-definition of holism is: 'A philosophical theory according to which a fundamental feature of nature is the existence of wholes which are more than the composite assembly of the parts and which always tend to become more highly developed and complex'. Orthodox and unorthodox medicine may fail to help the patient, due to incorrect understanding of the case or because the defence mechanisms can not be activated sufficiently. Orthodox and unorthodox medicine may suppress the symptoms/remove dis-eased organs or functions. Orthodox and unorthodox medicine may help the organism to heal itself and to adapt to its new reality. Medicines, surgery, acupuncture etc do not cure disease! Implications: a. Theorem: the BODY HEALS ITSELF by its own defence/adaptation mechanisms. The exception is in cases where irreparable damage has occurred, for instance, death of nerve cells, inoperable malignant cancer, extensive fibrosis of the liver or kidneys etc, or where physical damage renders self-healing impossible (for instance in tuberculous spinal injury, severe dislocation of joints etc). In both philosophies, any dietary, medical, physical, psychological or other treatment which restores the balance of Qi or the balance between the external and internal environments will automatically restore health. There is considerable agreement between progressive, holistic Western concepts and ancient Chinese concepts of dis-ease. Chinese and unorthodox concepts recognise many more forces which can cause dis-ease (and many more ways of controlling dis-ease) than are recognised by orthodox science. This arises as a result of external or internal insults overcoming the body's defences.

In Chinese concepts, dis-ease occurs when the balance of the vital energy (Qi) in the acupuncture (AP) Channels2 is disturbed. These factors upset the balance between the external and internal environments and overload the capacity of the adaptive mechanisms.

Three or more factors in combination may be needed for the dis-ease to become manifest. SUMMARY In Western holistic concepts, disease seldom arises from a single cause.

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