How many diseases have we cured in the past 20 years? The past 50 years? When was the last time our medical systems found a cure for a disease? I'm not sure, but, having studied cure extensively, I have a good idea which diseases can be cured and proven to be cured - and which cannot - both officially and unofficially. The answers are simple and clear.
Official Cures
Officially, cured is defined medically for a disease that can be cured by an approved medical treatment. That's why there is "no cure for the common cold" and many commonly cured diseases like influenza, measles, and the dreaded (forbidden word) flu. Most cases of these diseases are easily cured by natural healthiness, but, because they were not cured by "an approved medical treatment," all cures and all cases of cured are simply ignored. In addition to ignoring all of these cases of cured, there are no statistics of cases cured for any disease.
What are the diseases that can be cured by an approved medical treatment?
Officially, only infectious diseases can be cured. Officially, only some infectious diseases can be cured. Officially, only some cases.
Infectious Diseases
Only infectious diseases cured by approved medical treatments, either by a drug that kills the infectious agent or by a medical surgery that removes the infectious agent, with a significant or insignificant amount of flesh also being removed.
The claim of a cured status can only be made by an approved medical professional, based on an approved medical treatment. The importance of this requirement must be understood. The consequences are far reaching. Let's begin with a simple example:
- a child gets a sliver, which becomes infected. A mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, friend or neighbor pops the infected flesh, perhaps with a sharp object like a needle, removes the sliver, and treats the infection by washing the wound, which heals naturally. Was the illness cured? Of course it was cured. Was it cured by the person attending? Yes, of course. Was it cured by a non-medical treatment, washing the wound with water? Yes. it was. But medically, there was no cure. The person attending was not a medical professional, the water was not a drug. The patient recovered from the infection, but they were not cured.
- if, on the other hand, the child gets a sliver, which becomes infected, and they go to a medical clinic where a doctor punctures and drains the infection, cleans the wound, and administers an antibiotic, the disease was cured. However, even in this case, the word cure is rarely used. The US/FDA, for example, enforces the statement "only a drug can cure a disease." Most medical treatments, even those that can cure infectious diseases, are typically labelled as treatments, not as cures.
Avoiding the word Cured
– treat an infection
– defeat a cancer
– reverse diabetes
– conquer hypertension and heart disease
– put arthritis into remission
– banish migraines
None of these phrases requires a cure. We might say an infection was cured, but doctors are not allowed to say cancer cured, diabetes cured, hypertension or heart disease cured, arthritis cured. Of course, any doctor can "say" cured, but it can't be proven so the word is avoided lest the speaker be seen as a quack.
Avoiding Infectious Disease Cures
Which infectious diseases cannot be cured, in which cases of infectious disease can cured not be recognized. There is no scientific or medical test to prove an infectious disease is cured. The recognized medical test for an infectious disease cured consists of:
- Application of an approved medical treatment.
- Proof that the infectious agent has been killed or eliminated by the medical treatment.
- viral diseases cannot be cured and proven cured. The viral cause cannot be killed because viruses are not alive. It might still be hiding in the body. Even though there is plenty of evidence of individual cases of measles, influenza, and AIDS cured, the word cure is not used. This is most obvious with AIDS, where our medical professionals are attempting to define AIDS cured differently from other medical cures.
- chronic diseases cannot be cured, so chronic infections, by definition, are incurable. If a chronic infection is cured, the diagnosis was wrong. It wasn't a chronic infection. In truth, chronic infections have a chronic cause - over and above the infectious agent - which must be addressed to cure. But our official medical systems are not conscious of chronic cures, so they are classed as miracle cures.
- the common cold cannot be cured and proven cured. Why not? Because the cure is not medical. It makes no difference that almost every case is cured. "There is no cure for the common cold."
- trivial infections cannot be cured and when they are cured, cannot be seen to be cured. If it wasn't cured by a medical professional, then it wasn't cured. But wait, there's more.
- if an infection was cured by an alternative medicine or by an alternative medical practitioner, perhaps a chiropractor, a traditional Chinese medical practitioner, a homeopathy or a naturopath, then cured cannot be proven. Cured requires an approved treatment.
Non-Infectious Diseases Cured?
Cured is not defined medically for any non-infectious disease. Not one. There is no scientific or medical test to confirm any case of non-infectious disease has been cured. Can this be true?
The top ten disease causes of death in the USA according to the CDC are heart disease, cancer, influenza-19, accidents and injuries, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, and kidney disease. Which are curable?
Heart disease, cancer, injuries, stroke, chronic respiratory disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and kidney disease are non-infectious. All are incurable. Influenza and flu-19 are caused by viruses - therefore incurable. Only pneumonia can be cured. One-half of one of ten.
There is one small problem. Individually, many cases of these diseases are cured. Can this be true? How can this be true?
Most cases of influenza and flu-19 are cured easily by natural healthiness. More are cured with the addition of approved and forbidden medical treatments. But there are no statistics for influenza cured.
There are many books presenting cures for heart disease. There are many claims of cancers cured. Even stroke might be severe, or minor, cured by healing. Of course if chronic respiratory disease is cured - the diagnosis was wrong, it wasn't chronic. Alzheimer's? If Alzheimer's disease is cured, we can easily assume the same - the diagnosis was wrong. It wasn't Alzheimer's. Diabetes? There are many claims of diabetes cured going back hundreds of years, and many books presenting cures of diabetes. But officially, diabetes is incurable. It's a non-infectious disease - so all cure claims are simply ignored.
Non-infectious diseases are incurable because cured is not defined scientifically nor medically for non-infectious diseases. Looking for a cure of a case of non-infectious disease is a bit like looking for water with dowsing sticks. Even you find it - the find is easily dismissed, easily denied. The science is clear. No proof is possible.
Conclusion
How many diseases have been cured in the past 50 years? We have no idea. We won't have any idea until we have a theory of cure.
