Questions Regarding Health in Light of Spiritual Science

If we consider the points of view that give rise to such a dispute about illness and health, for example, between the supporters of conventional medicine and the supporters of naturopathy, we hear the supporters of naturopathy say that conventional medicine seeks a specific remedy for every illness and is of the opinion that illness is something that affects people as something external, as if caused by an external factor, and that there is also this or that external remedy for the illness. With such characterizations, we should not forget that what is said by one side or the other often overshoots the mark, and we should not forget that in many things both parties do each other an injustice. But let us highlight individual accusations that can serve to clarify the issue. Advocates of naturopathy will emphasize that conventional doctors alleviate inflammation in certain cases with ice packs, that they try to help with rheumatoid arthritis using salicylic acid, and so on. Particularly extreme supporters of naturopathy will make strong accusations. They will say: if the stomach secretes too much stomach acid, then conventional doctors will try to neutralize this stomach acid. Naturopaths say that this misses the deeper essence of the disease and, above all, the deeper essence of the human being. None of this hits the nail on the head. Let us assume that the stomach really does secrete too much stomach acid. This is proof that something is not right in the organism. In a properly functioning organism, too much stomach acid is not secreted. Therefore, neutralizing the stomach acid that is secreted does not eliminate the tendency to produce too much stomach acid. So you shouldn't focus your attention on simply eliminating the stomach acid. — That's what those who polemicize against conventional medicine say. If you eliminate the stomach acid, you would actually stimulate the organism to produce a lot of stomach acid. One must therefore go deeper and seek out the actual cause. In particular, naturopaths, when they become fanatics, will rail against giving sleeping pills to someone suffering from insomnia. Sleeping pills eliminate insomnia for a certain period of time, but they do not eliminate the cause. The cause must be eliminated if one really wants to help the patient.