Many of our ideas about modern medicine come from Louis Pasteur and his theories about disease. According to Pasteur we have symptoms or a particular illness or disease because we have caught a virus or have picked up harmful bacteria. If this virus is not resolved by medical intervention then it could do damage or even kill us. Pasteur’s theories form the basis of modern medicine but are they fundamentally flawed?
Many people believe that when we get sick the cure comes externally via medicines, etc. However, there is evidence to suggest that we ourselves may play a big part in both the cause of the illness and the cure.
We are told that germs, bacteria and microbes are the enemy and should be suppressed with drugs and pills from the big pharmaceutical companies. These companies have based their existence on Pasteur’s theories and Pasteur himself was working in the 19th century, with 19th century equipment.
We have symptoms, we take a pill or apply some lotion and we are cured. Why were these symptoms there in the first place? Could they be a cry for help that we are in danger of something worse happening to us? If so, then suppression will not get rid of the cause, only the symptoms. If someone is drowning and we throw them a life buoy it may make them feel better but we still have to rescue them.
Often low level inflammation is part of the healing process. Supressing the system with antibiotics, which strip the body of its natural ‘good’ bacteria defence system, just pushes the symptom down deeper.
An alternative perspective that supports the non-use of drugs and creams came from Antoine Bechamp, who along with Royal Raymond Rife held the view that the body is the healer. Bechamp believed that instead of bacteria invading the host and causing the disease, the person’s body created the bacteria due to their internal composition and environmental conditions such as diet and living conditions.
The equipment Bechamp used was far more powerful than Pasteurs and his research reportedly far more thorough. He was able to see the way cells were influenced by living entities (which he called microzymes) and how tissues operated.
Bechamp found that when he put these microzymes into various solutions that represented different body conditions the result was a different set of germs.
Bechamp’s experiments proved that it is the body that regulates itself and decides how things work. It also proved that germs occur as a result of environmental conditions within the body. Yet, Pasteur’s theories were taken on and heralded by modern science and the big pharmaceutical companies, while Bechamp slipped into obscurity.
On his deathbed Pasteur admitted that Bechamp’s theories were correct and he was wrong but, unfortunately it was too late to stop the medical machine. It’s become a billion dollar industry based on theories that even their creator admitted were not entirely correct.