Kind of Medicine

Medicine reached a conceptual impasse. It lacks medicine a consistent theory which accounts for three characteristics of the organism:

• Complexity
• Equilibrium (homeostasis)
• Optimality

Physicians always appreciated these characteristics and adhered therefore to the following principles:

• First do not harm (Primum non nocere) (since the organism is extremely complex)
• The body is most healthy, when it has its elements in balanced proportion to each other (Galen) (equilibrium)
• Nothing is done by Nature in vain ( Galen )( optimality)
• While physician treats, only nature heals.  (vis medicatrix naturae) (self-healing)
• Always consider the  patient's reserves (Hippocratic prognosis)

Modern medicine attributes  these rules to ignorance,  and calls ancient medicine "Placebo Medicine". Yet history teaches that ancient doctors  were competent and successful. They knew how to exploit the self-healing capacity of the organism.

Modern medicine ignores the fact that most diseases are more or less self-healing. Sophisticated equipment reveals structural details which confuse the physician. Technology lets physicians to meddle in processes whose intricacy they barely understand.  In order to resolve this confusion, medicine tries to deduce function from structure. Which is hopeless since  structures (functions), interact. More,  they interact optimally. This optimality notion sounds to the modern physician bizarre and esoteric, and yet it is essential for a proper treatment.