Can we correct vertebral subluxations or aid in correcting vertebral subluxations by increasing the quality of the matter? Apparently that is what some chiropractors attempt to do by using therapeutic procedures. It may be possible to accomplish that objective, but that philosophy is not chiropractic. In fact, it is medicine. It is medicine’s objective whether they realize it or not. If people get well (and by well I do not mean temporary relief but true health), it is because DIS-EASE has been corrected. Wellness or health only occurs when the body is receiving a full complement of mental impulses from the innate intelligence of the body. People become asymptomatic for short or long periods of time because the body, in spite of continued nerve interference, can often muster sufficient strength to bring the person back to a higher level of function. But that is not restoration of health or wholeness. If the spark plug to one of my car cylinders is not firing, I may be able to ride on 5 cylinders but that is not a healthy car. It was designed to run on six.
Medicine can occasionally and usually temporarily increase the quality of the matter. This increase is called treating diseases. Medicine tries to change the matter. Occasionally, usually by dumb luck, they succeed. When they succeed in changing matter so that the body can restore normal nerve supply by correcting its subluxations, people get well. More often they do not succeed. That has been the reason for the failure of medicine over the centuries and the reason for chiropractic’s existence and its success. We do not attempt to change or improve the matter so that it can correct a vertebral subluxation, instead we give the innate intelligence of the body and external invasive force to work with, circumventing its limitations of matter so that it can correct the vertebral subluxation itself. You can take either approach in the restoration of health. Improve the matter so the body can correct its own vertebral subluxation that’s medicine. Or give the body an innate force it cannot otherwise get so that it can correct the subluxation that’s chiropractic. People will only get well when the restoration of vital mental impulse has occurred. Either method will do it. Chiropractic does it consistently and effectively.
Medicine does it occasionally and unintentionally. v7n3