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Wisdom of the body.

¹H. H. Humphrey Center for Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. Gershom@md2.huji.ac.il

Medical Hypotheses

|July 23, 1999

Summary

Modern medicine overlooks the body's innate self-healing capabilities, termed the Wisdom of the Body (WOB). Understanding and utilizing WOB offers a new approach to treating diseases and maintaining health.

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Area of Science:

Physiology
Integrative Medicine
Philosophy of Medicine

Background:

Modern medicine struggles to explain self-healing processes, often dismissing them as placebos.
Hippocrates recognized these as the 'healing force of nature,' advocating physician support.
Starling and Cannon defined these unexplained physiological processes as the 'Wisdom of the Body' (WOB).

Purpose of the Study:

To apply the concept of Wisdom of the Body (WOB) for a rational approach to health and disease treatment.
To highlight the significance of WOB in understanding and managing physiological processes.
To re-evaluate the role of unexplained bodily processes in medical practice.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis and application of the Wisdom of the Body (WOB) framework.
Review of historical and physiological concepts related to innate healing.
Integration of WOB into a model for patient examination and treatment.

Main Results:

The Wisdom of the Body (WOB) is an inherent attribute of living organisms, shaped by evolution.
WOB possesses an innate capacity to anticipate, encounter, and heal diseases.
WOB actively maintains and improves health by regulating bodily processes.

Conclusions:

The Wisdom of the Body (WOB) is crucial for maintaining health and should be a central consideration in patient care.
Recognizing WOB offers a paradigm shift from solely external interventions to supporting innate healing mechanisms.
Further investigation into the 'language' of WOB is warranted for clinical application.

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