What is Therapy?

Nothing has been so little understood and so much misunderstood as the word "Therapy" today. It has taken the application of symptom suppressing pain killers as a form of cure. In reality they do nothing more than suppress the symptoms creating deadly chronic and dreaded diseases later. With the help of Dr J Tilden views on therapy, I would like to illustrate what a real therapy means. "Therapeutics is that branch of medical science which considers the application of remedies as a means of cure. The drug idea is supposed to relieve and cure. In the very nature of man, the drug-and-relief idea is bad; but if man is one thing more than another, he is a habit-forming animal and if his habits are bad and work for his destruction, he will accept relief rather than stop his habit which is a natural cure - if to stop a disease-producing habit can ever be considered in the sense of a remedy or cure. Drugs, or anything that will relieve without removing cause, is questionable good, and certainly an outrage and a crime where the remedy blinds the physician as well as the patient to the need of searching for the cause and removing it”. NO DISEASE CAN BE CURED WITHOUT REMOVING FIRST THE CAUSE.