NO SYSTEM OF MEDICINE CURES — THEY ALL MERELY PROVIDE RELIEF
- Madhukar Dama
- May 18
- 9 min read
A serious, fact-based essay exposing the limits of all healing systems — from allopathy to Ayurveda — and returning power to the human body
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I. INTRODUCTION: EVERY CULTURE, EVERY SYSTEM, SAME PATTERN
Everywhere in the world, people depend on some system of medicine.
The urban Indian family keeps antibiotics in one drawer and Ayurvedic churnas in another.
The Western household alternates between pills and meditation apps.
Some run to doctors. Others run to gurus. A few do both.
But the pattern is consistent:
No one is free.
Everyone is managing something.
No system cures. Every system relieves.
You think you're healing.
But you're rotating through therapies.
You feel better for a while.
Then symptoms shift, deepen, or return.
This is not healing.
This is management disguised as cure.
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II. THE GREAT MISTAKE: RELIEF ≠ HEALING
Pain goes away.
Fever comes down.
Swelling reduces.
Breath becomes easier.
Skin clears up.
You think you're cured.
You’re not.
What really happened?
A symptom was interrupted.
The body’s process was paused.
Your suffering was numbed — but not reversed.
You walked away without understanding why it began.
This is true across systems — whether you swallow a pill, sip a herbal decoction, take a constitutional remedy, or sit through reiki.
The discomfort ends. But the root remains.
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III. ACUTE DISEASE: ALL SYSTEMS BUY TIME, NONE REPAIR
Let’s take acute illness — fever, infection, pain, vomiting, swelling.
You can take:
Paracetamol (allopathy)
Giloy juice (Ayurveda)
Nux vomica (homeopathy)
Tibetan hot water rituals
Reiki or pranic healing
Acupuncture or energy tapping
What do they do?
Ease discomfort
Modulate immune signals
Support organ function
Relax the nervous system
But who does the repair? The body.
If your immune system is weak, no medicine saves you.
If your organ fails, no herb revives it.
If the terrain is toxic, no vibration balances it.
Medicines only assist — never heal.
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IV. CHRONIC DISEASE: ALL SYSTEMS BUILD DEPENDENCY
Now consider:
Diabetes
Asthma
Thyroid imbalance
PCOS
Psoriasis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Anxiety, depression
Fatigue, gut issues
No system cures them.
Allopathy offers pills for life.
Ayurveda offers protocols for life.
Homeopathy offers drops for life.
Supplements and therapies continue endlessly.
Ask anyone:
“Can I stop this treatment permanently?”
The answer will be vague.
Why?
Because no system knows how to restore what the body lost.
They only know how to balance dysfunction, not reverse it.
That’s not healing.
That’s chronic maintenance.
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V. DIAGNOSIS IS A GUESS, NOT A TRUTH
Each system gives names:
Allopathy says: IBS, GERD, PCOS
Ayurveda says: Vata-Pitta imbalance
Homeopathy says: constitutional disturbance
Energy healing says: blocked meridians
Others say: karma, aura tears, or trapped memory
But none can see the body in full.
No one sees the millions of biochemical, microbial, hormonal, and emotional interactions happening at once.
Diagnosis is pattern recognition, not total understanding.
That’s why:
Two people with “same diagnosis” heal differently.
One medicine helps one person, harms another.
You shift from one system to another endlessly.
You were never treated — only managed.
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VI. THE BODY IS THE ONLY HEALER
No system can:
Repair gut lining
Regrow liver cells
Detox lymph
Realign hormones
Calm immune aggression
Restore nerve pathways
Only the body can do these things.
And it does — when you:
Remove overload
Sleep deeply
Eat real food
Connect with nature
Feel and release emotions
Stop interfering with its signals
The body heals in silence, not in treatment.
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VII. NATURAL RHYTHM IS GREATER THAN MEDICAL THEORIES
Before medicine, healing happened.
Through:
Rest
Fasting
Sunlight
Sweating
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Crying
Fever
Bleeding
Silence
Warmth
Water
Every healing system came after these.
But instead of respecting them, systems now interfere.
They say:
"Stop the fever."
"Stop the cough."
"Stop the emotion."
"Interrupt the pain."
So the body stores what it cannot express.
And the illness goes deeper.
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VIII. EVERY SYSTEM CREATES DEPENDENCY AND IDENTITY
You are no longer just a person.
You are:
A “hypothyroid patient”
A “Kapha-vitiated body type”
A “sensitive constitution”
A “third-eye blocked soul”
A “Type 2 diabetic”
A “case” — for study, dosage, and journaling
Each system replaces your intuition with instructions.
Each gives you labels that become identity.
Each says: “Come back again.”
None says:
“You can stop. You are healed. Go live freely.”
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IX. THE BUSINESS OF PERPETUAL MANAGEMENT
Cures don’t sell.
Relief sells.
No medicine system profits from fully healed people.
No practice becomes rich from people who stop needing it.
Chronic clients are business models — not healing journeys.
So, all systems:
Offer partial understanding
Package ancient principles as branded cures
Introduce new names for old truths
Keep you dependent — intellectually or chemically
This is not conspiracy.
This is structure.
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X. CONCLUSION: THE ONLY SYSTEM THAT CURES IS YOUR BODY
There is no healer outside you.
There never was.
Systems can help temporarily — but only you, through your:
Rhythm
Breath
Stillness
Food
Honesty
Movement
Simplicity
Faith in biology
...can heal.
So stop running.
Stop comparing therapies.
Stop switching between brand names in different languages.
Sit. Eat real food. Wake with the sun. Breathe fully. Eliminate what’s not needed.
Let the body speak again.
And watch what every system failed to give you:
A life beyond sickness.
A body that knows.
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“IF NO SYSTEM CURES, THEN WHAT DOES?”
A healing dialogue between Madhukar the Hermit and a family of four medical generations — one home, four belief systems
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CHARACTERS
Dr. Suresh (68) – Retired allopathy doctor, stern, logical, believes in diagnostics and pharmacology.
Dr. Nandini (42) – Daughter-in-law, homeopathy practitioner, calm, firm, sees illness as energy imbalance.
Dr. Ravi (38) – Son, BAMS (Ayurveda), proud of Sanskrit texts, believes in balancing doshas.
Ajji (85) – Mother of Dr. Suresh, never took medicine, practices seasonal fasting, village diet, silence, and nature.
Madhukar (43) – Former veterinary scientist turned healer; lives simply in a mud house near Yelmadagi forest.
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SCENE: At Madhukar’s hermitage, under a banyan tree. The family arrives, tired. Dr. Ravi’s 9-year-old daughter has developed chronic migraines and eczema that haven’t responded to any system.
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I. ARRIVAL — MEDICINE VS NATURE
Dr. Suresh:
We’ve come to you because nothing seems to be working.
I’ve done all the tests. No tumors, no deficiencies. Yet my granddaughter suffers.
How is this possible?
Dr. Nandini:
Her symptoms respond to remedies briefly — then return.
I suspect miasmatic blocks, but it feels deeper.
Dr. Ravi:
We’ve tried nasya, virechana, ghee-based diets — still the skin burns, and the headaches don’t stop.
Ajji (quietly):
She eats every two hours, sleeps late, doesn’t go in the sun, and hasn’t missed a mirror in five years.
Madhukar (smiling):
Four doctors. Four systems. One child.
And no cure.
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II. DECONSTRUCTING EACH SYSTEM
Madhukar:
Dr. Suresh, what does modern medicine believe healing is?
Dr. Suresh:
Healing is when the symptoms disappear and normal function resumes.
Madhukar:
And how is that achieved?
Dr. Suresh:
We suppress pain, reduce inflammation, regulate hormones, restore balance through medication.
Madhukar:
But the body repairs itself, correct?
Dr. Suresh:
Yes, but sometimes it needs a push.
Madhukar:
Or a silencing?
(Suresh frowns.)
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Madhukar (to Dr. Nandini):
And homeopathy?
Dr. Nandini:
We stimulate the vital force gently. Disease is an energetic disorder — not a physical malfunction.
Madhukar:
Then why hasn’t the energy balanced?
Dr. Nandini (hesitates):
Perhaps because the terrain isn’t supportive — too many other suppressions.
Madhukar (nods):
So the system doesn’t work in isolation.
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Madhukar (to Dr. Ravi):
And Ayurveda?
Dr. Ravi:
Migraine is a pitta-vata issue. Eczema too. Her diet and sleep pattern are aggravating doshas.
Madhukar:
Your interventions?
Dr. Ravi:
Dietary correction, herbal support, cleansing.
Madhukar:
Yet it persists.
Ravi (reluctantly):
She’s not consistent. And... sometimes I think I’m not treating her — I’m treating her lifestyle.
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III. THE GRANDMOTHER SPEAKS
Madhukar:
Ajji, you’ve never taken any medicine?
Ajji:
Not even haldi in milk. When I fall sick, I fast. When pain rises, I sit alone in silence.
I’ve seen fevers speak truths. I’ve seen grief come out as cough.
Dr. Suresh:
But that’s risky, Amma. Some illnesses need immediate intervention.
Ajji:
Intervention is for breaking bones, not breaking cycles.
Dr. Nandini:
Do you not fear disease?
Ajji:
I fear forgetting my body. I fear distraction, not discomfort.
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IV. MADHUKAR’S INTERVENTION
Madhukar:
So let’s be honest.
Allopathy suppresses.
Homeopathy interprets.
Ayurveda regulates.
And fasting? It listens.
All four have value — but none of them heal.
Dr. Suresh:
That’s a bold claim.
Madhukar:
Then tell me — which of your systems can rebuild gut lining?
Regrow damaged villi?
Restore hormonal pulses disrupted by years of sugar and screen light?
(Silence.)
Madhukar (gently):
You’ve all become experts in managing symptoms.
But the child’s body wants none of that. It wants relief from your help.
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V. WHAT HEALING REQUIRES
Madhukar:
Your granddaughter’s body is not broken. It’s ignored.
She needs:
Light at sunrise
Hunger without snacks
Dirt under her nails
Water from a copper pot
Silence without fear
Sleep when it gets dark
Space to cry
Touch without condition
Food grown, not processed
You give her:
Remedies
Labels
Treatment
Diagnosis
Language of disease
But not life.
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VI. SHIFTING FROM SYSTEMS TO RHYTHM
Ajji (smiling):
She must fast from treatment.
Madhukar:
Exactly. Not just food — but stimulation, talking, screens, mirrors, overcare.
Dr. Nandini:
How will we know she’s healing?
Madhukar:
When she stops needing you.
When she smiles for no reason.
When she plays without a toy.
When her skin forgets it was ever angry.
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VII. SIX-MONTH TRANSFORMATION (FOLLOW-UP)
Month 1:
All medicines paused.
Only water, fruits, sun, and sitting under a neem tree.
The child weeps more. Sleeps more.
Month 2:
Headaches reduce. No screen allowed.
First time she laughs at a cow’s sneeze.
Craving for junk disappears.
Month 3:
Skin clears 40%. Cries less. Hugs more.
Touch becomes healing, not surveillance.
Month 4:
Walks barefoot daily. Sleeps by 8.
Eats simple millet gruel. Asks Ajji stories of her girlhood.
Month 5:
Migraines gone. Skin 90% clear.
No mirrors. No questions. No tantrums.
Month 6:
Madhukar visits. The child runs to him and says,
“Ajja, you know what? My body likes me now.”
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EPILOGUE: FOUR DOCTORS, ONE REALIZATION
Dr. Suresh:
We treated data. Not life.
Dr. Nandini:
We touched energy. But not rhythm.
Dr. Ravi:
We balanced doshas. Not disconnection.
Ajji (smiling):
The child healed when we left her alone.
Madhukar:
You all helped her heal — the moment you stopped trying to.
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“THE CHILD HEALED WHEN YOU LEFT HER ALONE”
for every doctor, parent, and believer in systems who forgot how the body speaks
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the kid had migraines,
rashes that looked like maps of forgotten countries,
and screams that made even god plug his ears.
so they brought her to the old man under the tree.
but they didn’t come alone.
they brought
degrees,
certificates,
protocols,
metal boxes of pills,
sanskrit verses,
sugar globules,
and herbal paste that smelled like regret.
each one had their weapon.
the grandfather — white coat, steel mind,
clutching lab reports like war flags.
“we’ve done the diagnostics,” he said.
“everything’s normal — except her pain.”
the mother — soft voice, homeopath,
whispering about the vital force
like it was some ghost hiding in the girl’s ribcage.
the father — ayurveda’s golden boy,
chanting about doshas and gut fire,
measuring her suffering in teaspoons of ghee.
and then there was ajji —
old, barefoot, never swallowed a pill in 85 years.
“she eats too much. talks too much.
has never missed a mirror,” she said,
with the kind of truth that cuts gently.
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the healer — madhukar —
didn’t nod.
didn’t diagnose.
didn’t open a book.
he just said,
“she’s not sick.
she’s surrounded.”
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he asked them to stop.
stop helping.
stop giving.
stop naming.
stop fixing.
stop treating her like a project
and start letting her be.
and they couldn’t.
because their minds had been trained
to chase every symptom
like it owed them an answer.
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they gave her
textbook cures
for a body that didn’t care
what the books said.
and that’s the thing —
the body doesn’t care.
it doesn’t care what your god said,
what your science found,
what your guru posted,
or what your therapist advised.
the body only wants
space.
rhythm.
breath.
a chance to cry without being stopped,
to poop without being evaluated,
to sleep when it’s dark
and wake when the birds do.
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so they did the hardest thing.
they backed off.
the girl cried more.
slept more.
screamed into the wind.
refused food.
watched an ant for 2 hours.
hugged a neem tree.
drank sun-warmed water
and refused her mirror.
and the body —
the damn body —
finally exhaled.
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the headaches left
like old tenants whose lease had expired.
the skin forgot it was ever at war.
the smile returned
not like medicine,
but like a river after drought.
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and one day,
the girl looked up and said,
“i think my body likes me again.”
and every system —
allopathy, ayurveda, homeopathy,
even the wise old grandmother —
went silent.
because none of them
could compete with that.
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healing is not a method.
it is what happens
when the war ends
and you stop sending troops
into your own body.
the child healed
when everyone else
finally
left her
alone.
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