Is regulation a cosmic principle?
Where do we find the rules that keep everything together inside us?
Regulation follows rules as the word says. That sounds so self-evident, but it isn't. Since on can think, scientists have been trying hard – in different ways – to define the rules according to which the courses of time, natural phenomena that we observe and a part of which we are. And we, ourselves structure, regulate and organize our coexistence.
Physics and chemistry do this on one level, biology on another. Economics and sociology on a totally different one. In all fields it is all about identifying the laws, the rules of forming and functioning. This happens depending on the basic philosophy in different ways. The river we are standing in is the same and yet another. This is the Tao, not esotericism, just a different way of thinking that underlies becoming and flowing as a metaphor. Not the appearance, being and not the difference between subject and object.
In some areas we are used to taking on this way of thinking. We have become more familiar with this way of thinking through far Eastern marshal arts and healing methods. Yet when regarding the body as a medical body, then it is difficult for us to see it as a large entity as a very complex regulatory system.
The medicinal body
The body is an autonomous and self-regulating system or also the blind can see colors
We have been growing up with illnesses and diagnoses from childhood onwards. We learn at an early stage how important it is to make the right diagnosis in order to be treated in the right way. Whenever it is possible, samples are taken from the living body and sent to the pathologist to learn the result of the pathological examination, the diagnosis. In many cases the right diagnosis is made after death.
In other cultures like in traditional Chinese medicine, one differentiates rather between various physical conditions. There are hot and cold illnesses and all stages in-between. One doesn't look for a triggering cause but regards the condition of the whole body that the treatment is orientated towards.
In the last few years we have learned that we have to learn a lot during treatment with Biestmilch, too, to find out the body's condition of activity. That has brought around a change of thinking causing the diagnosis being forced to the background.
Organisms – and thus our bodies – are operationally closed systems. Living organisms produce themselves. Even if organisms closely interact with their environment, they still function according to the rules characterized for them. These rules define the way stimuli/impulses are processed irrespective of their origin or whether they come from the environment or inside the body.
An eye, for example, turns stimuli into pictures. The eye doesn't care what kind if stimulus comes in. Through pressure on the eyeball, even the blind can see colors.
In our body, the nervous system, immune system and hormones stand for characteristic regulatory bodies and thus produce an own stimuli-processing system for each system. The three systems are also interlinked in a complex way and produce as a mutual result the stress response. If the regulation of the body doesn't work perfectly, the body becomes a body of medicine. Medicine then looks for the cause. The results in the case of regulatory disturbances are frustratingly meager.
The patient often just doesn't feel well
The characteristics of being ill can vary. They range from undefined not feeling well to massive regulatory problems of the organs and organic systems. Typical for regulatory problems is that they often go beyond our diagnostic possibilities and measuring processes are not accessible. Either a diagnosis has to be invented to calm the patient down or the diffuse vegetative regulatory disturbance is diagnosed. Headaches, backaches, pains in the groin or knee, but also nausea and gastrointestinal problems belong to this category.
After the doctor has finally found a cause for the symptoms, then the disease is often so advanced that methods of treatment already hit the brick wall.
