Healing and the Health Industry

The body has its own healing mechanism. Nature has provided us with all the necessary chemicals and organs to manufacture them. It is only if we abuse or not use our body that the body’s healing mechanism fails to fulfil its function. Only in such an event we need to supply the body with aid and support from an external source. I believe that no medication can heal anybody, what the medicines do is that they support the body to heal itself. Once the body gets back to its proper functioning, these medications should be stopped. This would mean a major percentage of loss for the medical and drug industry.

Today, unfortunately, there is a bigger industry outside that thrives on consumerism. They have to sell their drugs so that they can recover their investment. In the process from setting up the industry, research and development, to marketing, transport and educating the doctors about the drug, the company has to spend 800 million dollars. Where will they recover the money they have invested? They have to make sure that millions of people take the drug on a lifelong basis. When a drug company makes a project report, the important bottom-line is ‘How many people are going to consume this drug?’ The strongest link between them and the consumers are the doctors. Doctors all over the world are considered next to god, so naturally the patients cannot deny their knowledge. The industry is not only about drugs but also about machines and equipments. The hospitals buy equipments worth millions which can conduct tests; they have to be put to use otherwise they will become junk. Therefore, health check-ups have become a fashion. These machines never tell you your state of health but they tell you the state of dis-ease or imbalance at the time when the test is conducted.