HEALTH: Strategy and Tactics

To prevent illness, or wait till a disease presents itself and then take care of it. Two different tactics that do not exclude each other, and should be complementary.

Louis Pasteur, is considered the father of modern medicine for his valuable discovery of penicillin:  a magic curative substance to which many of us owe a great deal of gratitude for having been saved from potentially fatal infections. Although there is much merit in the honour extended for his great contribution to medical science; that fact in itself is evidence of how much priority is given to CURE, which so called traditional medicine relies so heavily on, over PREVENTION.

Yet, there is growing conscious awareness of the need to rescue such tactics:  PREVENTION being the first and most efficacious way to care for one's health. The mistake of waiting for the illness to occur is an error that must be avoided. More so, it's fundamentally obvious that health not be considered as another business to exploit, and instead welcome the strategy of maintaining a healthy body by guarding it from unwanted ailments.

PREVENTION is a tree with many branches, all producing beneficial fruits. Vital among them is nutrition, considered by many to be our best medicine.

There is historical evidence that various cultures discovered and developed knowledge of the inherent nutritional and medicinal power of foods, spices and herbs. Knowledge that must be assimilated into the fundamental base of medical science, in order to move effectively forward in the fight against ailments that our world suffers from.

In maintaining health, either through prevention or cure, it is primordially necessary to maintain and individual's peace and tranquility. Tranquility so that one's organism may by itself absorb the good and eliminate the harmful.  This our bodies are able to accomplish naturally. It is the imbalances in our bodies that in most cases causes disease. The balance between the body and mind is vitally important in this natural protection. Our systems will respond to whatever level we allow it. Each cell in our body is able to act on its own. Let us not withhold any conscious support. As soon as our conscience alerts us, our system enters into action.

Let us prevent more, so that we may lament less.