CHAPTER 6: LIFE, HEALTH AND DISEASE
Life is the invisible, substantial, intelligent, individual, co-
ordinating power and cause directing and controlling
force involved in the production and activity of any
organism possessing individuality.
Health is that balanced condition of the living organism in
which the integral, harmonious performance of the vital
functions tends to the preservation of the organism and
the normal development of the individual.
Disease is an abnormal vital process, a changed condition
of life, which is inimical to the true development of the
individual and tends to organic dissolution.
Vital phenomena in health and disease is caused by the
reaction of the vital substantial power or principle of the
organism to various external stimuli.
The individual remains health when he is in a favourable
environment but as soon as he lands into an unfavourable
environment, disorder takes place.
When the vitality is exhausted or is withdrawn, the person
dies. All reactions to the stimuli by which the function and
activities of the living body are carried on originates in the
primitive(embryonic) life.
All the external stimuli produce changes and modifications
in the protoplasm by action on the brain and nervous
system.
The phenomena of life, as manifested in growth, nutrition,
repair, secretion, excretion, self recognition, self
preservation and reproduction all take their direction
from an originating centre. From the lowest to the highest
and most complex organism, this principle holds true.
Organic control is from the center.
Any disturbance in this center is manifested externally at
some point in the system and any injury or break in the
system is immediately reflected back to the center.
Same is applied for the concept of health and disease.
Anything that modifies the center is reflected back in the
form of signs and symptoms.
Vital resistance is the defensive reaction of living
substance to noxious elements and organism and to
disease producing causes and agents in general in
obedience to the inherent instinct or law of self-
preservation, which belongs to life in organism.
We don’t struggle against the disease but we struggle
against the cause. This cause is external, it does not exist
in the organism. They are foreign to man’s true nature.
MATTER AND FORCE:
Physical science declares that matter is indestructible.
According to it all energy exists in ether and matter may
be regarded as a condensation, a specific modified form
of ether.
Biological science recognizes at least tacitly the existence
of life as a substantial, entitative, indestructible power.
Dynamic centre means centre of power.
Biology, the science of life and living things, thus evades
the acknowledgement of life as as pecific power, principle
or substance and defines it as a state of the organism, a
condition or as arising out of physical and chemical
elements and forces.
Such a dfination fails to explain some of the most
important phenomena of living organisms such as growth
reproduction self repair and constant changes with
continued identity.
The explanations of the physics and biology serve equally
well for hom in its physical and biological aspects.
Ionization, for example, the breaking part of the
electrolytes into anions and cations by solution or other
process, chemical or mechanical is an adequate physical
explanation of what occurs in the preparation of
trituration, solution and dilution according to scale of hom
high potencies. ‘The theory of infinitesimal’.
THE NATURE OF DISEASE:
It has been said o hom that is is not a theory of disease
but a theory of cure.
