Time has come to abandon the disease era of medicine. We have to concentrate on the whole human organism for the future management of altered physiologies.
“There is no science of man,” wrote Nobel Laureate Alexis Carrel in his celebrated book Man, the Unknown. Modern medicine, even today, nearly 85 years after the death of conventional science following Werner Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, is buried in the linear science of Newtonian Physics which believes that man is made up of matter, which follows certain deterministic predictability patterns. That was before the new awareness in science of the atom having been made up of smaller sub-atomic elements. Even more earth- shattering was the discovery that atoms emit various strange energies such as X-rays and radioactivity.
Newer discoveries in physics showed that matter and energy are the two sides of the same coin — a duality. (Hans Peter Durr). One should read his article, Matter is not made out of matter, for the lay people to get a better idea. The human body is but the human mind in an illusory solid shape. As the famous Johns Hopkins physicist, Richard Conn Henry, put it in 2005, “This world is immaterial — mental and spiritual.” Atoms are made out of invisible energy; not tangible matter. Quantum physics speaks a strange language of “now you see it, now you don't.” Each atom or molecule has its own unique energy signature.
Everything in this world, including you and me, radiates our unique energy signature. This new science, which will be the new science of man, nullifies our idea of organ based diseases, which we started 450 years ago from the time of Vesalius. All organs have their cells and atoms that have their unique energy signature. Human body is a colony of 50 trillion happy individual human cells that did exist as unicellular organisms for millions of years before getting together as this multicellular colony. Fritz-Albert Popp, a German physicist, has been able to map all our cells using his biophoton camera where he defines “health as a state where the cells are vibrating in synch with one another; disease is when they fall out of synch!” The latest development of science has now accepted the definition of Whole Person Healing (WPH) for future. (Late Professor Rustum Roy at the IOM meeting in February 2010). Time has come to abandon the disease era of medicine. We have to concentrate on the whole human organism for the future management of altered physiologies. The new definition of health is “enthusiasm to work and enthusiasm to be compassionate.” This comes close to the definition of health in Ayurveda, a much more scientific healing art, which followed quantum physics from day one long before physicists discovered quantum physics. Durr does write that the concept of Indian advaita is a better understanding of quantum world compared to his definition of a-duality.
Our old model had a linear structure which followed the Ford Motor style assembly line. If biochemical transmission failed between points A and B, the precursor chemical could accumulate at point A and point B will be depleted of it. The holistic model is that if there is any such lapse, the effect could be felt in multiple areas and systems. One example will clarify this. When you are bitten by a spider you get a severe swelling and itching in the area due to release of the powerful histamine, locally. But if you treat that with an antihistamine, the latter will go round everywhere and have dangerous distant effects even in the brain. While histamine increases capillary permeability locally producing swelling, in the brain histamine enhances the neuronal function for better output. In our present thinking we give you antihistamine and your itching stops but the same antihistamine blocks the brain histamine levels and your brain cells function less, making you very drowsy! This tells us why the biggest killer today is Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR). Further studies have shown that any drug we give helps only because of the faith the patient has got in the doctor (placebo) and the drug has only side-effects! This earth-shaking discovery was made recently in a multi-centric study in the four leading universities. (Science Translational Medicine March 2011).
Biological systems like man are redundant. This redundancy makes the same signal to be used in multiple places in the body to achieve many things economically with varied behavioural functions. This was the fallacy of our old reductionist model where we thought one defect one effect and one drug molecule to rectify it. That is why nature has just given us 25,000 genes. One gene could look after so many functions. In addition, we have trillions of genes acquired from a multitude of germs that have become a part of us over millions of years and they live a symbiotic existence, the so called human meta-genome. When we disturb the germs inside us, we fall sick! This shows how foolish our expensive search for genetic modelling and genetic engineering, including stem cell research is. In fact, studies have elegantly shown that body cells, if needed, could transform themselves into pluripotent stem cells. Richard Becker showed way back in the 1950s that while a bone fractures, the blood clot seen under the periosteum could make the red blood cells there to gradually acquire a nucleus and then put out pseudopodia to become stem cells to heal the fracture — holistic natural healing!
Physicists have failed to inform the lay public of the purely mental nature of the universe (man included) and biologists and physicians are yet to understand quantum physics. There is a nice simple book by a Nobel Laureate biologist; Albert-Szent Gyorgyi, Introduction to Submolecular Biology. Today bio-chemistry provides the mechanistic foundation for biomedicine. That branch of science is so out dated that our researchers have no understanding of the molecular mechanisms that truly provide for life. The very word animate comes from the proteins in the genetic chain. They twist and bend like a snake to give us mobility at the molecular level right up to our movements! In truth, quantum properties of matter can influence the biochemical reactions as shown above. It is the invisible forces of electromagnetic energy that keep us alive and all those frequencies like cellphones, microwave ovens, radio frequencies and even the scalar energy affect our DNA, RNA and protein synthesis. Similarly the right frequencies of electromagnetic energy could be used for healing any cell in any organ under any circumstance. We are using such frequencies to treat killer diseases like heart attacks, brain attacks and any other damage in the cells of any organ. An added advantage is that energy signals travel at a phenomenal speed of 1, 86,000 miles per second, while chemical transmission is just one centimetre per second!! While drugs take months to get one back on one's feet after a major illness, energy healing takes only hours to days!
Living organisms must receive and interpret environmental signals in order to survive. The signals reach the single cells through their antenna in the cell wall. So our connection with the outside world is through the cell wall, our true brain. The environmental signals are our true saviours, God if you like (Bruce Lipton). When this signal dies, organism dies only to enter another shell to be reborn! Eastern wisdoms like Ayurveda, Tibetan medicine, Chinese medicine and many other systems adopted quantum physics eons ago and their ideas of energy channels in the human body are now proving to be highly scientific. We condemned the whole lot of them as unscientific mainly because of the pressures from the drug and instrument lobbies.
Instead of understanding human physiology properly, modern medicine created the monsters of “killer diseases” which are nothing but deviations in physiology and behaviour from some hypothetical norm as unique disorders and dysfunctions. The gullible public thinks that they are all killer diseases, thanks to the 24X7-hour advertisements. Let us understand the human being and try and set the deranged cell frequencies with suitable alternatives to get man back on his feet.
(The writer is a former professor of cardiology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London and former Vice-Chancellor, Manipal University. His email is: hegdebm @gmail.com)
Keywords: modern medicine, human physiology, quantum physics, killer diseases

Layman like me can understand what Dr. Hegde has conveyed in this article. It is unfortunate that a Physicist while giving a comment on this article has questioned whether Dr. Hegde knows physics. It is equally applicable for that gentle man also. How can he comment on a doctor's opinion...has he undergone any medical course? Old habits die very hard. But yet we have to come out of our stupidities!
Dear Mr. Hedge, On the first read I honestly did not understand what you wanted until I went back to the top of the page and read the jist "Time has come to abandon the disease era of medicine. We have to concentrate on the whole human organism for the future management of altered physiologies". My humble opinion is "destroy the cause and the illness will be no more". Well that would not be good news to the Medical and Pharmaceutical companies!!!.
I've been a classical homeopath for 15 years and recently became a digital homeopath. The 'energy' homeopaths have been speaking of as therapeutic for hundreds of years is, we now know, electromagnetic. I use electromagnetic frequencies everyday in the diagnosis and treatment of my patients. It's incredibly accurate and successful.
It is frightening to see so many people consonating with this pseudo-
scientific article. It is all the more bewildering to see this coming
from a professor in medical school! I am a Physicist and can say with
some authority that the writer's understanding of Quantum Mechanics is
extremely shallow and should not be taken seriously. Can he accept
somebody without formal medical training as a doctor in his medical
school and allow him to do surgery? Why is the author uses his
pseudo-knowledge from a field he knows nothing about, to interpret
things in his own field? Things like biophoton camera, energy
signatures and energy healing fall way outside scientific scrutiny
that no sensible scientist takes them seriously. This guy lambasts
genetic engineering as too reductionistic and yet talks about quantum
mechanics (which is way too reductionistic) and its effects on human
body! Isn't that contradictory? Before quoting non-names as
physicists, he should read Feynman, Penrose or Hawkings.
It is true that : modern medicine created the monsters of “killer diseases” ; and propogated its fear among the gullible population through 24x7 media , govt & corporate lobbies , mainly because of the pressures from the drug and instrument Cos . Otherwise why do you think all the killer diseases occur like serial killers - hepatitis B, bird flu, swine flu all occuring one after another . And it is being recognised by modern medicine that a holistic approach is needed; that eastern wisdoms like Ayurveda, Tibetan medicine, Chinese medicine and many other ancient medicine are now proving to be more scientific in reality than modern medicine . Illnesses that modern medicine had given up on , is being treated succesfully in ayurvedic hospitals like Kottakal in Kerala, and is one real example of this truth . Unfortunately the world belives only in western mediacine still because the west still controls the world of media and the Govts in developing / newly developed countries .
Modern medicine is as broken as capitalism - both preached by the west, didnt solve the worlds problems yet . Eastern wisdom instead always had and still has solutions for all world problems ."Concentrate on the whole human organism- 'physical and spritual'-holistic approach was the basis of ancient sciences like Ayurveda etc . But western line of thought turned all such wisdom on its head .And capitalsim spread the concept of modern medicine , for profiteering . Thank god the world is now beginning to recognise the real truths concerning man and the universe he lives in .Nice article .
As usual Dr Hegde is peddling pseudo-science as the real thing! He claims:- "Let us understand the human being and try and set the deranged cell frequencies with suitable alternatives to get man back on his feet". This is sheer nonsense, unless we are also told how to "set the deranged cell frequencies with suitable alternatives". Dr. Hegde is talking through his hat...His statements about the universe being "mental" too is absurd. There is enough is evidence that the universe existed for millions of years before organisms capable of "mental" activity evolved in one corner. We have every reason to believe that the universe will continue to exist even after all organisms with mental ability goes extinct!
The advances in bio sciences has produced a deluge of information that often,leads to more anxiety inducing to the doctor and threatening the patient.Many of the accepted norms of medicine have been turned on their heads.Aspirin,drugs for osteoporosis,Mammograms,control of diabetes,salt are unconvincing .Increase in the number of specialists has led to increasing and often conflicting views..Normal patients are no longer fine.They are just pre-symptomatic. We should go back to treating a person and not his organ.
After reading this article, I visited the author's website bmhegde.com. The site contains many similar thought provoking articles on medicines, yoga, science, etc. Very unusual for a person who had a long stint with western health science practice, to have a very holistic view of human body and mind. Thank you for your insights.
Quantum theory never says 'human body is but the human mind in an illusory solid shape'. I wish the author will give the proof for his statement.Medical researchers know about this placebo effect for a long time. That is why most major trials are double blind placebo controlled ones.
This article conforms to the teachings of our Vedic seers that all the universe is pure
energy
No, please stop presenting such naive and misinformed science. Please people who are reading this, if you don't have rigorous patience to deal with the mathematics of the Heisenberg principle don't draw any lay man conclusions offered by these psuedo logic. Physicists have not failed to inform the mental nature of the universe, it is that some people cannot fully comprehend what the physicists have to say about duality and draw their own twisted inferences. Please if you are not sure how to know about this, read Sir Roger Penrose or Stephen Hawking to understand the amazingness of the new physics we have discovered. Though I have no authority in biology, this article by far should be taken as another view point or hypothesis, rather than a break through in our world view. If this theory of energy healing gets peer reviewed and extensively tested, only then we should accept such a proposition. Science doesn't work on belief , it works on evidence.
Excellent article.Extraordinary ideas.
I couldn't get it. The whole article is so confusing.
Sir - Don't you think in the today's world, where almost every food item has some extra chemicals(either as preservatives or as thro" the container which is used to hold them) in it, human body and its composition is not the same as what it used to be when these ancient Asian medical systems were prevalent. Our body is corrupted with so many chemicals that you are forced to take these modern medicines to keep them & their reactions under control. Else the diagnosis using these ancient mechanism wud itself take days to figure out the problem..I am an engineer but based on what I see this where I feel the need for modern medicine & the systems around it. If someone can stay away from the chemical infested food and environment, then these ancient medicine system would work.
Great Article. Thought provoking and action provoking. Ancient Literature like Vedas and Upanishads have propounded this reality centuries ago that it is the play of different energy frequencies which makes and unmakes a human being.Thus the significance of Yoga Breathing Exercises and Meditation.Meditation is the highest vocation in life.The science of Kriya Yoga which is important chapter in Paramahamsa Yoganandas Autobiography of a Yogi discusses this in essence.Everyone in this world radiates our unique energy signature is the most significant sentence of your article. Each of us is a MASTERPIECE. Master"s piece with unique nomenclature in terms of our energy dispositions in the body and thus the need for Holistic Healing. It has been proved beyond doubt that Meditation is the Medication for Mankind.Your article establishes this cardinal fact.
I am glad that more and more modern research gets us back to our old philosophies on which the entire Ayurveda is based. The article reminds everyone to look back to our roots and our own healing arts eloborated in Ayurveda. We should stop looking for modern RCT's to find evidence for AYURVEDA rather practice it ourselves and experience the truth.
Separatist, reductionist, math-bound, ration-bound, empiricist-dogmatic scientists are always going to balk at notions of holism and the primacy of consciousness over matter, and this is because they refuse to open their hearts and experience simplicity of a profound sort. The diehard 'objectivist' scientist is often (not always) quite guilty of practicing dichotomous thinking, and often gets in tiffles with religious folks, to whom they attribute the same fallacious thinking. One can embrace ration/science/physics, and still leave room for mystery/personal mythos. As a matter of fact, if you are an artist (or a musician, in my case) you really have no choice but to allow intuition.inspiration, and other non-quantifiable uses of 'the mind' to, at least, access your being, otherwise any attempts at 'art' will be pedantic and uninspired. the intellect, with all its attributes, is an AWESOME tool, however;it is a mistake to think that it is the only lens with which to view the world
One gets into such irrationalities by the error of misunderstanding what matter and energy are. Matter and radiation (another type of matter)are some kinds of existing stuff having identifiable properties. Energy, as with mass, is a relationship between matter and/or radiation. There is no making of matter from energy or matter giving off energy. There can only be relative changes in energy relationships between matter and radiation.
Right on! It's about time we get to an holistic view of the human entity and its place in the planet's ecosystem.
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