HEART DISEASE: ORIGINS OF DISEASE - ANGINA'S DANGER

To treat the symptoms by stopping the pain and lowering nervous awareness is not to tackle the underlying disease. Indeed, such treatment is almost certain to produce more painful and frightening experiences in the future. This result, although explicable by simple logic, is shrugged off as 'unfortunate coincidence; no real connection' by the physician, even though his patient may come to suspect cause and effect.

Although complicated in structure, and dependent upon elaborate controls, the heart is one of the strongest organs of the body. It may be influenced to unusual action by nervous tensions arising elsewhere but, although sometimes spectacular, these irregularities are transient and indicate no loss of cardiac vitality. Where true physiological changes are occurring, the heart is the last vital organ to exhibit signs of distress. Before the heart begins to complain, almost every other vital organ in the body will have given indications of grave difficulties. (Not necessarily noticed and understood by the patient, however.)

To retrace the path, from degeneration back towards health, it is essential to give understanding attention to liver, lungs, skin, kidneys, the glandular system and the alimentary tract. There is no cut-and-dried procedure for this, and the form and intensity of treatment must be suited to the individual patient's needs and capacities. However, unless conditions are provided to enable the system to regain overall physiological effectiveness, one cannot hope for regeneration of the heart structure itself. The practitioner must use all his powers of observation and deduction to guide the patient away from destructive activities and situations, and towards wholesomeness. The patient, in his turn, must bring an open mind to the solution of his problem; it is useless to make mental reservations and to persist with destructive habits.

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