Great Construction

Fallacies of Western Medical Science

     Prior to a discussion about health, it is only natural that the reality of disease, what disease is, be addressed and understood. To that point, the interpretation of disease by contemporary western medical science has fallen into an astonishing degree of error. The most convincing evidence for this error is that in spite of the great advances in medical science, even the cause of the common cold has yet to be clarified. With this example as a starting point, I will carefully explain.
     The cause for sickness and disease is a natural physiological process the principle behind which can be observed in all. In the affairs and matters of everything in creation, impurities will accumulate, and these impurities are proportionally cleansed in a naturally-generated activity. This cleansing is an absolute natural law. On a large scale, impurities accumulate in the heavens and on earth and so strong winds and rain occur. The wind blows away impurities, the rainwater cleanses, and the sun dries. On a small scale, dust and grime accumulate in the home which are dispersed with a feather duster and broom and discarded in the trash. When the trash of many households have been collected, it is incinerated. The same process can be observed in the human body.
     Impurities like dirt and grime are continually accumulating in the physical and spiritual aspects of the human being, and to cope with this accumulation, a natural cleansing function is generated. This is disease. The best of evidence for this is that when purification is generated, fever develops. Impurities, or more properly speaking, toxin that has accumulated over time solidifies and has to be dissolved by heat which is the fever. With fever, solidified toxin becomes liquefied, and through forms such as phlegm, nasal mucous, sweat, urine and diarrhea, is expelled from the physical body. Physical pain accompanies this purification process, and this pain is what is called sickness or disease. Through the cleansing of the internal regions of the physical body, health increases. Thus disease is a natural physiological function whose purpose is to advance health, nothing more beneficial. Sickness should be considered God’s greatest blessing.
     Contemporary medical science has developed without any understanding of this basic principle so physical phenomenon is interpreted in exactly the opposite manner. There is nothing to say but unbelievable the fact that the entire world has fallen into such an unimaginable fallacy and that for so long this fallacy has not been perceived. To think of the countless number of precious souls who have been sacrificed for this fallacy, the grief and gloom is unavoidable. Because medical science has developed on such a basis, this is the degree of fallacy from which it will only continue to proceed along the same wrong road, and that it completely loses the right path is a foregone conclusion. Indeed, conspicuous are the differences between typical pathological interpretations and the reality. Ignorant people interpret these differences as beneficial steps toward the development of medical science, and indeed it is a great problem that more effort and research is poured into these fallacies. How tragic! When close inspection is applied to this situation, indeed there is no betting on a future for humanity if these fallacies are not discovered. Throughout the following pages of this volume, I will continue to clarify my principles.

 The Divinely-Inspired Approach to Health, Jikan Library, Volume 10, page 8, April 20, 1950
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“Igaku no Gobyū” originally appeared as the first chapter of the volume Shinji no Kenkōhō, Jikan Sōsho Daijū-hen (The Divinely-Inspired Approach to Health, Jikan Library, Volume 10), published on April 20, 1950. As far as is known, “Igaku no Gobyū” has appeared neither in a Japanese anthology or in translation.