However, experience shows that we do not follow a straight line of either health improvement or health deterioration. If we want to come close to such outstanding health, we have to work for it by consciously minimising the multitude of negative influences on our health and maximise positive factors instead. Here, health is regarded not just as a temporary absence of disease symptoms, but as a state of profound physical, emotional and mental wellbeing so that we simply cannot develop or catch a disease.Īnimals living in an unspoiled natural habitat in the wild commonly display this kind of health. However, holistic medicine, following in the footsteps of the old nature cure movement, aims much higher. This is what most patients want and according to their beliefs they either use drugs or natural remedies for this purpose. Frequently alternative or complementary medicine is used in the same way, instead of more or less toxic drugs just more benign remedies are being used. In drug medicine it is assumed that a patient who is free of disease symptoms is more or less healthy and the aim of drugs is to achieve this condition by removing any disagreeable symptoms. This concept of a healing crisis clearly shows the opposite perceptions that drug medicine and holistic medicine have of health and the healing process. In fact, these patients just experienced their first healing crisis on their long path to better health. When I ask about the symptoms they turn out to be mainly a profuse mucus discharge, sometimes also diarrhoea, but rarely are there signs of a real infection. When they come back two or three weeks later, they often say that they feel much better now, but a week ago they had a cold.

I routinely recommend to my patients to adopt a high-quality, low-allergy diet right on their first visit.

Road rash healing process