For example, Bronchitis is an inflammation in the bronchial tubes. The symptoms are coughing, pain, discharge and temperature increase - but no bowel spasms, diarrhoea or intestinal bloating. Colitis is an inflammation of the colon. The symptoms are abdominal cramps, loose stools, discharge of mucus and some bloating – but no coughing, chest pain or breathing difficulties. Why? The bowels can’t cough and the lungs don’t pass stools.This is why many different and apparently unrelated conditions in the body improve or disappear when we restore the structural, chemical and emotional contexts to balance.
WHAT HAPPENS IN ANY DISEASE -AND WHY ALL DISEASES ARE SIMILAR
The body has two responses to the introduction of a threat to its structural,chemical and emotional integrity. The first is
resistance
which is active and in many cases dramatic actions, such as rashes, swelling, fainting or vomiting. As resistance is expensive of energy, and the body does not have a limitless supply, resistance cannot be maintained indefinitely. If the attack continues, the body’s enthusiasm for resistance sadly gives way to the apathy of
toleration
or adaptation. The spirit of the fight is lost and acceptance of unsuitable things lays the foundation for chronic illness and inevitable death.
The body degenerates in the following order (virtually all body problems can be located in the following eight steps):
1: Enervation.
Lack of energy, locally or generally, due to going out of balance by exceeding the biological laws by having too much or too little oxygen, pure water, wholesome/unwholesome food,exercise, rest, sleep, sunshine, emotional poise or electrical disturbances.
2: Toxaemia.
The lack of energy has reduced elimination of waste and thus toxins begin to build up. The person is tired and feels sluggish.
3: Irritation.
Waste has reached irritant proportions. The body may initiate a resistance at this stage if there is some energy to do itwith. Otherwise passive acceptance, stiffness, pains and deposits remind that all is not well.
4: Inflammation.
Irritation and toxaemia have reached threatening levels, so energy must be mustered from within to activate the inflammation process, which means more blood (redness), more white cells (pus discharge) and more lubrication and neutralisation(mucous). That is, the immune response is in full swing, and the body is actively resisting and processing. Depending on where the inflammation occurs, it is usually labelled as an “itis”, eg appendicitis, colitis, tonsillitis.Unfortunately, at this point the process may be suppressed with drugs (more toxaemia), or the energy reserves may fail and thebody changes out of desperation to an adaptation/toleration mode.
5: Ulceration or necrosis.