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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.
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.