city hospital and the best clinics in the world. The only difference is the
provision of instruments, medicines and service. MEDICAL THINKING at the
level of Уif there s a disease - there s a diagnosisФ and Уno disease - no
diagnosisФ, which could really make a difference between these institutions
is basically the same everywhere.

Moreover, the crisis of medicine is only one example of a crisis of
medicine is only one example of a crisis of civilisation and the acme of a
range of global issues facing humanity, from environmental to economic,
issues on which the survival of man as a species depends.

Medicine, with the exception of its important aspect hygiene is making no
contribution to the achievement of this aim. By a multitude of its
non-physiological means and methods it cultivates new diseases, rather than
promotes humankindТs genetic health. Of course, achievements of modern
official medicine in the fields of resuscitation, surgery, combating of
epidemic diseases, grave ailments in acute form are indubitable. Another
plus is that many medicinal institutions are stuffed with new
super-instruments and pharmacies abound in Уwonder drugsФ. But, on the one
hand, a tremendous number of people feel bad though their polyclinics and
hospitals can discover no ailments; while on the other hand, it often
happens that a disease has been discovered but medicine has proved
helpless. Such ailments include psoriasis, eczema, allergies, bronchial
asthma, prostatite, ischemic heart disease, encephalopathies, grave
anemias, neurosis, peptic ulcer, menТs impotency, infertility, womenТs
masthopathies and myomas, etc.
  Instead of Уhealth-oriented medicineФ official medicine has become
Уdisease-oriented medicineФ. Instead of putting man in good health, it only
removes pain and suppresses development of a disease - this is essentially
its goal and this is what its capabilities boil down to.
  Regretfully, years of this approach to health have led to a situation in
modern medicine in which the emphasis is not on the doctorТs skills but on
instruments and the pharmaceutical industry, to manТs being actually
divided up between narrow specialists. The crisis of modern medicine as
disease-oriented medicine certainly does not diminish its achievements, nor
does it mean negation of narrow specialisation. But, preservation of the
METHODS and Technology of official medicine as they are today leads to a
deadlock.
  What do we get as a result? Because we have no Уhealth-oriented medicine
we suffer from diseases. We can and must be healthy and sound. The answer
lies in an integral system medicine.
  An integral approach is essentially a combination of everything best in
diagnostics and treatment methods in traditional (old Chinese, Indian),
non-traditional (modern) medicine and certain folk healing approaches. How
do we get as a result? Because we have no "health-oriented medicine we
suffer from diseases. We can and must be healthy and sound. The answer lies
in an integral system medicine.
  An integral approach is essentially a combination of everything best in
diagnostics and treatment methods in traditional (old Chinese, Indian),
non-traditional (modern) medicine and certain folk healing approaches. How
do we switch to integral medicine? It's not so easy as it seems. A mere sum
of means and methods- swallowing a pill and an herbals preparation,
followed by two or three Herbal teas and self-suggestion- is not enough for
good health. This is not what is meant by integral, or system medicine.
  What is crucial is not subtraction but interaction of all sorts of
medicine. Human health depends not only on absence or presence of
diseases, but on harmony between the body, spirit and consciousness,
absence or presence of finer-than-disease disturbances- hereditary
weakness of organs, dysfunction, pre- and post- illness conditions. A
combination of fine disturbances undermines the health of man. This is why
methods of traditional medicine help to reveal and remove hidden multiple
disturbances. Modern medicine practically cannot do that, because its
diagnostic arsenal is always directed towards revealing and correcting
diseases alone.
  Thus, traditional and non- traditional medicines look at human health
from contradicting each other, they organically combine and are integrated
from both a diagnostic and treatment standpoint.
  Integration of traditional and non- traditional medicines is not a goal
approach of diagnostics and treatment.
  Looking at man his health from different aspects and different provides a
three- dimensional picture as a complex and cognisable system. Only such a
systematic approach allows individualisation, prediction and a disease-
prevention trend in medicine, treatment of man instead of disease, of the
root cause instead of the consequences. Only such an approach makes it
possible to understand that everybody has his own cause for any disease- a
cause for allergy and psoriasis, ischemic heart disease, polyarthritis,
paradontosis, prostatite, balding, bronchial asthma.
  Physicians, who have long been talking of an individual approach, will
be indignant. What is an individual approach as they understand it?
  Take for comparison s sake two allergic cases. At any allergy centre a
patient will be taken through allergic tests to determine his or her own
individual set of allergens. Then an anti- allergy preparation will be
chosen which suppresses the allergy in this particular person, in a dose
which corresponds to this person s age. Then he Сll take a course of
hyposensibilisation to the discovered allergen. And then doctors will tell
the patients to avoid contact with his specific allergens- this is what is
called an individual approach.

  Put yourself in the shoes of patients. All of them go on living with
their allergies, which as a rule develop into polyallergies. Allergens are
encountered at about every step and cannot be avoided. Mind you that anti-
allergic preparations are not harmless.
  What is a truly individual approach and system of disease prevention?
Above all, it has to be found out why this particular patient is allergic
to what thousands of other people are not? Many will object to this and
say that that s the problem and this is just what modern medicine cannot
do. In this article I mean to say that such opportunities exist, but they
cannot be translated into reality within the old four corners of the old
way of thinking.