Process Of Proper Diagnosis In Human Beings

Importance Of Proper Diagnosis

In an advanced country like the U.S.A., where people are aware of the side effects of drugs, the average medical cost in 1992 was about $1300 per man, woman, and child. The cost of medical services was over 10% of the Gross National Product (Income).

• In their best-seller book, “Take Care Of Yourself’, Donald M. Vickery, M.D., and James F. Fries, M.D. said, “Among the billions of different medical services used each year, some are life-saving, some result in great medical improvement and some give great comfort.
• But some are unnecessary and harmful. You can even suffer physical harm if you receive a drug that you don’t need or a test that you don’t require.”
• “Drugs have many beneficial effects and so they are consumed. However, from time to time, it can have undesirable effects – called the side effects or adverse reactions.” Some of them are simply annoyances, and some are more serious, though not dangerous.
• Finally, some are dangerous leading to severe diarrheic, erratic heartbeats and palpitations, throbbing headaches, kidney problems, etc. “Such adverse reactions are serious and capable of causing death and so outweigh the benefits of drugs.”

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“There are two types of side effects – those that are obvious to the patient and others that can be detected only through laboratory tests.” “There are about 40 drugs which may cause diarrheic.

• About more than 20 drugs which may cause fluid retention. About 40 drugs may damage the nervous system. And more than 20 drugs that may cause blood diseases.
• All these drugs are commonly and immensely consumed.” These quotations are taken from “Family Medical Guide” by the editors of Consumer Guide (having a sale of over 30 million copies in the U.S.A.) – Ila J. Chanson M.D., Jeffery W. Ellis, M.D., and Zachary S. Fenman, M.D. “The patients may take the drug improperly or at the wrong time or too frequently.
• They may continue drinking alcohol or taking other drugs perhaps not realizing that such things as pills for colds, oral contraceptives, and vitamins could affect the action of the prescribed drug.
• The result may be that the patients do not get better; perhaps they may suffer a dangerous overdose.” Editors of Consumer Guide for Prescription Drugs – 1991 edition. “People over the age of 50, constitute about a quarter of the general population, consume more than half of the prescription drugs, and most adverse drug reactions and interactions take place in older people.
• Drugs work by causing subtle changes in the body’s chemistry. However, the effects of drugs are not always localized and this is one of the reasons that drugs have side effects.”
• “With increasing age, there is small blood flow to the liver. (The amount of blood your heart can pump in a minute’s time decreases by 1% per year.) In addition, the liver gets smaller with age.
• As a result, your liver becomes less efficient in metabolizing some drugs. The kidneys also become less efficient with age. Drugs that are not inactivated by the liver usually depend upon kidneys for termination of their effect.”
• The list of possible adverse side effects attributed to each drug is almost always long. Many adverse drug reactions are the result of drug interaction. The more drugs you take, the more likely, there will be interaction in some way.

“Diseases can modify your response to Drugs,” quotes Brian S. Catcher, Pharma D in his book, ‘Prescription Drugs’.

• In the API Textbook of Medicines, where the chief editor is Dr. Shantilal J. Shah, M.D., it is mentioned by Dr. Ashok B. Vaidya, M.D., in his article, “Drug Interactions in Clinical Practices” about the side effects and interactions which are not known.
• Thus, even assuming that the diagnosis was correct and proper drugs were taken at the proper time, the serious side effects of prescription drugs have been admitted by doctors in the U.S.A. and India.
• As such one can imagine the dangers of side effects if the diagnosis, in the first place, is not correct or if proper medication is not given to counter the reaction of the drug.
• In a country like India, (it may be the same or worse; in other developing countries) drugs to remove worms from the intestines of children are freely given. Such drugs are advertised and available without prescription.
• Parents are not aware of the fact that these drugs could adversely affect the liver so further medication to improve the function of the liver and changes in diet are necessary.
• Moreover, the doctors also do not warn the parents about such drugs. Consequently, nothing is done to activate the liver or have necessary changes made in the child’s diet. So gradually, the digestive system of the child gets damaged and he becomes a long-term patient.
• Often fast fast-acting pain relievers are taken without restraint, which later on damages the heart and could develop into Rheumatoid Arthritis. In the same way, heavy dosages of antibiotics should be given only after urine culture and finding out which drug is more effective and least harmful.

However, in most cases, such antibiotics are administered without doing a urine culture. While doing so, there is a great possibility of severe side effects, if the drug does not suit the patient.

• In advanced countries, several books are available, wherein detailed information about the side effects of different drugs is given and people are conscious.
• Moreover, given the legal action which a patient can take, the doctors there, take precautions while prescribing such drugs. Even then there are side effects. In most cases, such side effects and adverse reactions to such drugs are slow, but go on accumulating in the body. Only when it is concentrated in excess and upsets the patient with some other disease, then its side effects be found.
• Furthermore, in advanced countries, there is a strict drug control policy that, prevents the production of drugs of sub-standard quality. Despite this, there are still cases, where drugs have caused severe side effects.
• Sometimes, these side effects are found after a generation, and such drugs are banned and the manufacturers are forced to withdraw such drugs from circulation.
• In the meanwhile, thousands of patients and their children are adversely affected, e.g. Thalidomide, a drug formerly used as a sedative, was withdrawn from use in 1961, as it was found to cause fetal abnormalities involving limb malformation when taken by pregnant women.
• Such things will happen even in the future because, in this fast-moving world, scientists do not have sufficient time to test the drugs on human bodies for a longer period.
• At this juncture, credit should be given to Ayurveda, in which a deep study about the interaction and side effects of not only drugs but also eatables was made throughout two generations by a group of research medical practitioners. And that is why Ayurveda is becoming popular in Western countries.
• If this sorry state of affairs persists in advanced countries, one shudders to think about the extent and gravity of side effects in other developing countries, where there are no laws to protect patients, and as such the medical practitioners take less precaution.
• Moreover, there is little or no proper drug control. Often the medical practitioners do not have enough time to go through the patient’s medical history and so to the root cause, and treatment is given based on symptoms narrated by the patients.

Such a grave condition worsens when the proper diagnosis is not made. The patient is in a hurry to get rid of whatever symptoms he is suffering from and the medical practitioner does not have time to discuss the effects of the drugs he is prescribing.

• Moreover, many patients do not have enough time and money to undertake several tests if necessary, and they do not ask the doctor to give slow-acting drugthatch have the least side effects.
• Now, one can imagine the dangers of severe serious side effects if the diagnosis itself is not correct, and heavy dosages of high-power drugs are given to the patient. The side effects are of such a grave nature that they sometimes impair the whole life of the patient and sometimes they prove fatal.
• Recently, two cases came to me of about five-year-old boys. In both cases, it was informed that these boys had high fever after taking triple injections and the fever was brought down by heavy dosages of antibiotics.
• In the case of one boy, the speech was so damaged that he could not even stammer to be understood. The damage was found to be in the brain. This happened because of excess heat created by the drugs. Parents gave him treatment as prescribed by me in their home and to their great surprise the boy got his speech to normal within a month.
• In the case of another boy, the movement of his legs was impaired. On examination, his Pituitary, Pineal, Adrenal, Thyroid – Parathyroid glands were found to be damaged along with point nos. 1-2-5 of the brain.
• On further inquiry, the parents informed that since 18 months, the boy had difficulty in walking. It was a case of Muscular Dystrophy. Treatment was given accordingly and within 90 days there was remarkable improvement.
• Thousands of such cases can be mentioned about the side effects of drugs under the popular therapy of Allopathy. Let us look at the way of diagnoses in various other therapies that are practiced in India.
• In Allopathy, several tests, many of them quite costly, are required to come to the exact diagnosis. Even then many a time, the problems created by the malfunctioning of endocrine glands are not located.

A few months back, two eminent, qualified doctors from the U.S.A. came to our center. They were allowed to sit by me and watch how the diagnosis was done. After an hour, they admitted that it was amazing to come to such a correct diagnosis within two minutes.

• They mentioned that to come to such a diagnosis in the U.S.A., they would require several tests over a minimum period of seven days and people who were not covered under the Health Insurance would not be able to afford such tests and consultations.
• Where Homoeopathy is concerned, long sittings between the patient and the Homoeopathic consultant are necessary for the latter to understand the tendency of the patient and to find out the root cause of the disease.
• Sometimes, the symptoms are so similar that the homeopath is not able to find out the proper root cause and has to refer to the “trial and elimination” method. This takes a long time.
• In the case of Ayurveda, India’s ancient health science, nowadays, there are very few practitioners available who are capable of finding out the root cause just by examining certain pulses situated at the base of palms. Such examination is called Nadi Parish.
• In the case of Nature Cure, a useful health science, it is practiced on the Western concept that all people are alike and so the same treatment is prescribed for all types of patients without going deep into the root cause.
• Sometimes, therefore, such treatment is not suitable. According to Ayurveda, all people are divided into three categories of VAT-PITT-KAPHA’ PRAKRUTI and require different treatments according to the type to which the patient belongs.
• Moreover, they do not correct the Solar Plexus, so such treatment of Nature Cure may suit one type of people, but may not suit other types. The worst is that most clinical tests are lengthy, costly, and sometimes not necessary.
• And despite undergoing numerous tests, the root cause has not been found. For example, in most cases of cold and Asthma, the root cause is ‘Cold due to heat’. However, treatment is given to increase the heat in the body and suppress the cold.

But such cold is not cleared from the system, of course, it is temporarily suppressed, but as soon as the body becomes powerful, it again tries to throw out the suppressed cold. This cold then becomes chronic and ultimately develops into Allergy and Asthma, and becomes the root cause of Arthritis and Rheumatism.

• Further, it has been admitted by Western experts that very little is known about the complex workings of the endocrine glands and it has been difficult for most of the therapies to diagnose problems connected with the malfunctioning of these endocrine glands, for example. migraine.
• During the last twenty years, I have observed that the root cause is the malfunctioning of one or more endocrine glands, e.g. when Thyroid/Parathyroid glands are overworking, calcium in our food is turned into solids, i.e. calcified and called ‘stones’ and despite operations to remove the stones, new stones go on forming till these glands are corrected.
• In cases of retention of water, which is considered to be a kidney failure, and the patient is kept on dialysis; the root cause is found to be malfunctioning of the Pineal gland.
• In some cases of heart problems, the root cause is malfunctioning of the Thyroid/Parathyroid gland. In psychological cases, it is observed that these problems are due to the malfunctioning of one or more endocrine glands. Therefore, in this book Chapter 2 is devoted to these endocrine glands.
• Proper diagnosis has great importance when treating young children, who cannot speak or explain their problems. Child specialists have admitted that in many such cases, they take ‘a shot in the dark’.
• Because these children require immediate treatment and cannot be exposed to certain tests like X-rays, instant and proper diagnosis is most vital and can be made with Acupressure. And so this ‘Do It Yourself therapy is a MUST in every home, children’s clinic, and hospital.
• Today, society and nations of the world are more worried about increasing cases of Retardation, Thalassemia, Deafness, Dumbness, and even Blindness and Muscular Dias trophy among children. One of the root causes is the damage to the sex glands of the parents.
• Now HIV is spreading like wildfire and innocent wives and children are the victims. All these problems can be PREVENTED. During my studies about HIV/AIDS in the U.S.A. in 1994, I was surprised to learn the HIV gets directly into the blood and damages the spleen.

Generally, HIV infection is not suspected even for 10 to 15 years. However, the affected patient can transmit this disease to his/her life partner and children born after such infection. And so in the free and easy society of Western countries and Africa, it is spreading in a big way.

• In countries like India and other developing countries, where little care is taken about the hygiene of women engaged in sex business, the problem of HIV is spreading like wildfire.
• During my health camps in various parts of India, I was surprised to observe the high number of HIV cases. In case of doubt, I have made it a point to call the husband, his wife, and all the children below the age of 15 years and I am shocked to find HIV in most of such cases.
• Such detection is made even in the elementary stage of HIV, while in advanced stages of HIV and AIDS, the detection is very simple and instant.
• It is now high time when not only W.H.O. and all those engaged in the noble profession of medical service but also all the health-conscious people of the World should put Acupressure to a drastic Test and only when satisfied with the results should accept it.
• Acupressure is the health science of Nature and the only therapy capable of prevention, instant proper diagnosis, and cure of most of the diseases without cost and side effects.
• If mankind desires to lead a healthy life free from dreaded diseases like Cancer, Heart problems, Muscular Dystrophy, Brain problems, and HIV/AIDS, it will have to terminate its prejudices and vested interests and unite to give Health to all by the year 2005, so that man can be more happy and healthy in the 21st century and thereafter.
• Before we refer to Diagnosis, it is important and necessary to know our body. The more we try to understand its organs, its endocrine glands, and the complex system of their functioning, the more we will realize how our body is the most wonderful and compact creation of nature.