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“The Phrase ‘Medical Treatment’”
Medical Science Fragments Thirteen

     It will astonish when I say that medical science cannot treat illness at all, but as it is the truth, I have no choice but to so state. Who is it that treats illness then? It is your own body. If medical treatment could heal disease, no need would be there for surgery. Because medical treatment cannot heal the parts of the body affected by illness, the only choice left open is for them to be surgically removed. In the case of pain, the pain cannot be cut out, so the nerves that feel the pain are paralyzed, creating a state in which the patient feels nothing. When an injury is sustained, what tries to stop the bleeding and create new skin over the wound is the human body itself. Practitioners of medical science stress that they are trying to aid this process, but their therapies actually disrupt the healing process, and recovery time is lengthened. When these points are considered, they show that medical aid and treatment are meaningless.

Eikô, Issue 161, June 18, 1952
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