CURING

People consult health care professionals for many different reasons. Some want to be free of a particular illness or set of symptoms. Others want to prevent an illness from occurring. Still others, already quite healthy, want to be the best they can be. Generally people consult a practitioner because they want to improve their health. When choosing which type of health care professional to consult it is often helpful to consider whether their emphasis is upon 'healing' or 'curing'.

'Curing' involves removing symptoms, treating a part of the body, or controlling a process.

Curing involves judging whether a symptom is 'bad' or 'good'. For example many measures of health such as blood pressure are assigned a value. After various testing one either has 'good' or 'bad' blood pressure. This model attempts to control those symptoms (ie; high blood pressure) which are viewed as inappropriate.

If your health declines, curing techniques (medications or other procedures designed to remove symptoms) can be very beneficial and they may be invaluable in emergency situations. Curing techniques may be a valuable part of the healing process and a stepping stone to greater levels of health.

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