1. Criteria of a healthy Health Care. The „seven" criteria: effectively optimizing health, cure of many disorders, a health care close to the people, largely natural without any harmful side-effects, a joy for everybody who works in it and at such low costs, that everybody, including the poorest,
can optimally benefit from it. WHC is part of www.vitalworld.org

2. Nowadays alternative, complementary and holistic ways of medicine are booming. The number of consultations in the Netherlands alone runs into millions a year. At the time of writing 37% of all Americans prefer to take herbal remedies rather than allopathic prescription drugs. The courses - e.g. offered in natural medicine, homeopathy and acupuncture - are numerous, for doctors, therapists and lay people alike. Many magazines are publishing articles about a healthy lifestyle, phytotherapeutics, wholesome cooking and self-treatment of simple disorders, in almost all their editions continuously. Even universities are doing research in the effectiveness of alternative techniques and methods. Most insurance companies offer a limited number of alternative methods in their package. Health food stores and drugstores, selling wholesome food and natural remedies are doing good business.

Spiral of Degeneration
From bad to worse

3. Humanity is in a deep crisis. Therefore, allow me to go straight to the point. Everyday practice shows a rather gloomy picture about the functioning of Western health care. Increasingly, only those diseases that promise a (huge) profit are part of the diagnostic schemes. Disorders that cannot be “treated” by technological “solutions” simply don’t exist. Scientific research too is only for those illnesses that promise future profits. They have to be suitable for pharmaceutical, surgical and radiation therapy. It is thus not so that health care exist for the benefit of the people, but the people exist for the benefit of the profit making health care. One direct consequence is that early stages of disease are not part of the equation. In fact the more chronic a disease the more profit is made. A terminal health care creating terminal patients. A second consequence is that our “health care” is not interested in real cure. By suppressing symptoms the causes and the pathological processes that are underlying them are in no way included in the therapy. So, while being “treated” the chronicity of the disease is getting worse. While the patient thinks “he is getting better” the opposite is the case. This is not a reason for concern to the medical establishment. On the contrary, its existence depends on a constant “supply” of chronically ill people. The more serious the disease the higher the output of pharmaceutical, surgical and radiation diagnostics and therapies and with it their annual profits. Under the surface of a highly impressive technological medicine the degeneration of humanity – precisely BECAUSE of this modern medicine - is worsening with rapid strides. The key problem is that the ruling elites don’t care. Aren’t their interests linked to the increase of disease? Obviously, a symptomatic approach to the corrupted health care won’t solve the problem. Only a therapy that goes to the roots can turn the tide.

4. However, despite this development, "alternative medicine" still doesn't have any impact on the structure of health care. Public health is still dominated by regular medicine. The choices of the people are still made on an individual basis only. It does not reflect the real situation, anymore. Very soon a major structural adjustment has to be made. Isn’t it e.g. an increasingly disturbing fact, that people, who are truly seeking health, are still forced to pay their monthly premiums for a system, they don’t want anymore? Those people have to add their monthly costs for a healthy lifestyle and of their consultations to alternative practitioners to it. Which is a punishment, rather than an encouragement. Regular medicine after all, doesn’t promote health, but waits until the disease has become chronic, in such a way, that the patient fits in its pre-fixed diagnostic schemes. These "terminal" schemes being nothing more than the entrances to pharmacological, surgical and radiological treating of symptoms. The definition of health by the WHO, as „the well-being physically, spiritually and socially", therefore does not relate to reality. In practice, “wellbeing” has been (purposely) degraded to health as the absence of symptoms.

5. The problem is „simple" and can be drawn back to one single cause. It is because of the fact, that about 150 years ago - the beginning of technological, cellular medicine, a very young branch indeed – medicine shifted to treating symptoms, rather than promoting health. And this is how it still is. The so-called „health care", is not a care for health, but a system of treating, read suppressing of symptoms. It is one of the main medical errors of today. A system based on suppressing symptoms is benefitting from disease, rather than promoting true wellbeing of the people.

6. What is desperately needed is a health, rather than a disease-oriented medicine.
It is said that the former director of the WHO, Robert Muller, considered the various ways of traditional medicine in the world to be able to prevent, improve and cure around 60-70% of all „civilization" related diseases. This is confirmed by the experience of countless doctors and researchers in many countries. Dr. Bernard Levin, specialist of M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, U.S.A. - saying that 65-85% of all cancers may be prevented by lifestyle changes - is just one of them. Like in my 44 years of practice, most of these doctors are taking health as the starting point. With health as the central issue, everything changes at the spot. The body-mind appears to be a self-managing system, aimed at survival. A simple example: the self-healing of a wound. We are an integrated Whole, in which everything is interconnected. Crucial for its survival is optimal vitality and the integration in the natural, social and cultural context. Symptoms are (very) often not an expression of „abnormality", but rather the visible part of the strategic natural healing power of the body. Instead of isolating them, the solution to almost all problems is found by putting them in their meaningful context.

We need an integrated health care

7. Based on the principles and practice of the Flow System, a totally new and powerful vision of a New Health Care has been developed. It consists of three concentric layers or echelons. The inner circle belongs to Self Care. It is the foundation. Since health can only be achieved by a healthy lifestyle - which no doctor can do for you - and moreover 60% of all disorders can be prevented, improved or cured by it, Self Care should be the basis of the New Health Care. It includes everything an individual can do to optimize his/her own health. Together with other approaches - think of Chinese barefoot doctors techniques, practical body-mind therapy etc. - the Flow System may serve as a context, a reference and practical guide. Self Care should be part of everybody’s experience. It can be taught to children at a very early age. In the community it can become the model for self-reliance and mutual help. It includes all health strategies, which can be executed at the most basic level, like health promotion, education, prevention and therapy. Our model has both been tested in developed, as well as in developing countries, among the rich, as well as the very poor (1998 Brazil). In both cases it was received with enthusiasm. We have therefore decided to start the training of Basic Health Consultants, members of the community, who after a short training in the Flow System, will be able to initiate, develop and optimize Self Care as the foundation of the New Health Care worldwide.

We are aware of and appreciate the benefits of regular medicine in areas
where it is really needed. See text below.

8. If Self Care proves not to be sufficient, if problems appear to be too complicated, difficult or dangerous, then a patient „will be sent" to the second concentric layer, that of Holistic Medicine. The term "alternative medicine" should better be skipped, for Holistic Medicine has a tradition of its own - in fact used to be the mainstream of medicine - for 2000 years in which it successfully treated those diseases which nowadays are causing most of the trouble. It includes all methods and techniques, which are promoting the natural healing power. It seems only too logical, that whenever the self-healing power of the patient - his own immune-system - is still intact and can become activated, that this should be the next system of choice. The second echelon (then) is exclusively executed by professionals, those who up till now work as „alternative, complementary and holistic" doctors, practitioners, therapists, nutritionists, physiotherapists and psychologists. They may use an „extended" Flow System Therapy, added by all biological methods available, as there are natural (biological) medicine, homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, orthomolecular, phytotherapy, chiropraxy, neural therapy, physiotherapy, simple psychotherapy etc.

9. In most cases, improvement of health, cure and an optimal vitality will be achieved. This echelon - Holistic Medicine - may include 30-40% of the total services of the New Health Care. If however, this appears not to be sufficient, the Technological (Regular) Medicine serves as a last resort. As a complementary (...) and emergency - „terminal" - approach, it has all possibilities at its disposal to repair or compensate (excessive) damage, make life bearable for those in great pain, to treat rare or difficult chronic diseases, rehabilitate, to give pharmacological, technological and surgical solutions where others fail, and save a patients’ life. Something in which Technological Medicine is specialized and which cannot be done by others. In our New Health Care, where most of the work is done in the first two echelons, its volume (of Regular Medicine) occupying the last 20-30% of the total health care package. Re-arranging health care in this way, the benefits will become visible very soon. All the things necessary for putting it into action are available right now. So let’s face the challenge!

This integrated approach is corresponding with the five principles of the Charter for Health Promotion of the WHO, as adopted in Ottawa in 1986:”To build a healthy public policy, to create supportive environments, to develop personal skills, to strengthen community action and to re-orient health services”.

10. We go one step further. Because “alternative” medicine is the cure of choice of millions of people, the PEOPLE have a right that Self Care, Holistic and Technological Medicine gain equal importance. It cannot be that the whole of medicine is dominated by technological medicine alone. Medicine is an inclusive discipline with emphasis on self-awareness, self-experience, tradition, natural medicine, integral approach, the priority of healing and science. I dare to say that Self Care is the most important of the three. Every citizen has his/her own responsibility with regard to health. It can be illustrated by the principle of subsidiarity. This principle not only applies to the structure of society (see my book “Origin” 3, Community Democracy ch. 44) but also to one’s health. “What you can do for yourself, you should do”. However, most people are still rather ignorant about it. It is the lack of education that created an enormous gap. It implies that not only Self Help and its organizations (which are many) should be heavily subsidized by the State, but also health education, to start with basic school up to high school, the media, private organizations and the universities. What we see today (in the EU) that “alternative” therapists should have a grade in “basic (regular) medicine”. This is a reasonable demand. Equally reasonable is – because millions of people ask for it – that general practitioners (g.p.s) (in Dutch “huisartsen”) compulsory conclude a basic holistic medicine training*. Nowadays many g.p.’s are fed up with being “prescription boys/girls” of regular drugs. They have their hands tied in the red tape of regulations imposed upon them, though. Many would quit the system if they got the chance. The solution is to express solidarity with the people and their demands. With regard to their training the faculty of “Health Sciences” (University of Maastricht, NL) could i.e. develop a curriculum for them. Additional help could be offered by German institutions (Erfahrungsheilkunde, Paracelsus Schulen). In Holland the AIM has started a curriculum too. Just like the regulars, holistic medicine should create its own system of recognition, a system of quality control of the approved physicians and therapists. The rightful place of Biological/Holistic/Integral medicine also implies an equal share in scientific research, subsidies and sponsoring. Time and again one hears “regulars” say “is there any scientific proof?” This is totally hypocritical where regular research is flooded with money, while the “alternatives” have to “bite on a piece of wood” (Dutch saying). Last but not least we offer our expertise to health organizations, the WHO, the UN, the various governments, insurance companies, (alternative) health businesses, NGO’s, citizen’s initiatives, think tanks and others.

*This should include i.e. Pischinger’s “Ground System”, Capillary Pathology, Regulation Therapy, Flow System Therapy, the Holistic-Dynamic Pathology (“Homotoxicology acc. to H.H.Reckeweg) while the minimum demands for practice-oriented skills should include nutrition, inner body cleansing (detox) and immune-therapy (i.e. Chinese Guasha). An overview of the latter is provided by our Personal Health Plan (PHP) in 10 steps. Go back to the index page of this website.

MESS
Multi-Etiological Sumtotal Syndrome
Excerpt

11. It is here that a gross fallacy is made. Firstly, diseases are (almost) never mono-causal, but multi-causal. Example THE cause of ME, migraine, heart attack or cancer doesn't exist. There are always several factors interacting: COLLECTIVELY, SIMULTANEOUSLY, UNINTERRUPTEDLY and OVER A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME. The second point is that we already know those causal factors everyone more or less is exposed to. These include: Industrial agriculture and ditto food, junk food and eating habits, drinking too little, lack of exercise, our toxic environment, the amalgam syndrome, iatrogenic factors (adverse drug reactions), electro-magnetic pollution (EMF)(Computer, smart phone, wifi), the digital addiction and last but not least the stress, the pressure, the overkill of impressions and "information", the hazards of the workplace, the insecurities, the angst, meaninglessness and loneliness, to name but a few.

12. These disease causing factors affect EVERYONE continuously and simultaneously. It is a multiple etiology - a "causal swamp" - from which no one can escape. Everyone is day and night exposed; the etiological complex has an undisputed continuous effect on body and mind. E.g. everyone has an intake of at least tens of thousands different chemical substances each day, (of which not yet 1% has been studied on harmfulness. P.S. While herbs are scrutinized!), everyone lives in a permanent electro-soup of the most different types of radiation. "Everyone has stress", most have amalgam in the mouth and takes drugs regularly. That same majority also lives unhealthy with poor diet, drinking too little, an excess of stimulants and lack of exercise. This "Sumtotal" of etiological factors acting in the human body through e.g. accumulation, interaction, synergy, antagonism and facilitation. The degree of effectiveness and thus harm, depends on 1. the vulnerability of the person concerned (unborn, babies, children and the elderly), 2. the kind of harmful influence (electro-smog, toxins), 3. the individual biography (the effect is primarily related to someone's "weak spots"), 4. the synergistic effect of the various influences are often the result of the COMBINED effect of antibiotics, pesticides and additives in the diet, smoking, the 70.000! different chemicals in our house, electro-smog of wireless networks, the CO and benzene from our car, mercury poisoning from amalgam etc.etc., TOGETHER, enough reason to distrust all so-called "safe" maximum dosages and toxicity limits of single substances. They are - intentionally or not - eyewash. The figures are indeed devastating: despite all "protective measures" our health deteriorates by the day.

*MESS is extensively discussed during MeiMei’s courses and trainings.

One example out of “thousands”
So-called “Mild Cognitive Impairment”

13. It concerns a condition where cognitive functions – memory, concentration – are declining without being a dementia (yet). Reports say that 15% of the population suffers from this. It starts with putting a label on you. In this case “MCI”. This diagnosis is purely made on the basis of your symptoms. It is a description rather than a diagnosis. Actually it is some kind of “password” to a certain predetermined series of steps. First the neurological (brain) function is examined, mostly with the help of an MRI. Second daily activities are screened like doing homework, bookkeeping, contact with others. Other somatic and psychiatric disorders are excluded. Possible side-effects of medication are screened as well This is completed by laboratory tests, for instance Hb, BSE, vitamins, liver and kidney function. The treatment consists of psychological support and simple physical activities. The course of the disease has to be monitored. The patient, the family and the doctor should have good cooperation. This is it. It is typically a regular, reductionist approach, whereby the patient is reduced to a couple of physical and psychological tests. From the standpoint of MESS this is a wretched performance. From its holistic insight that everything is connected to everything, examination of the patient includes an extensive anamnesis, to start with parents, pregnancy, birth and later life, whereby every detail is equally relevant. This is followed by an equally detailed anamnesis of basic metabolic functions (in our case “Flow System Therapy”: nutrition, digestion, blood transportation, cell-function, detoxification and elimination). An overview of the patient’s lifestyle is vital. Physical examination includes full body overview with emphasis on humoral pathology, for instance connective tissue, capillaries. face, eyes, tongue, nails and abdomen. A psychological screening (stress, depression, burn-out, addictions, emotional balance, loneliness, relationships, workplace) has equal importance. Last but not least environmental assessment is made like toxic exposure and electro-magnetic radiation (exposure to computer, smart-phone, dect-telephones and wifi, telephone masts nearby). It is absolutely reprehensible that these last factors are (deliberately) omitted from regular diagnose schemes, especially in cases like this where brain function is involved. The outcome of the holistic approach is clear. Therapeutic perspective exceeds the regular approach by far. That doesn’t mean we reject an MRI or laboratory tests, for instance. It is just a matter of sequence. We start with the whole person, while later focusing on the specifics, instead of the other way round. The results are accordingly. An estimated 30-60% of all chronic disorders can be improved/cured by Holistic/Integral Medicine. That in case of doubt we send the patient to Technological Medicine goes without saying.

In order to be able to cope with current challenges
all sectors of health care have to cooperate

14. Current health care is a good example of a deteriorated Flow System. Instead of our input - the insurance premium - to be an investment in our own health (input), it is rather a subsidy for the existing medical system (accumulation). The irony now is, that the more we pay, the sicker we become. The premiums go up all the time, while no real cure is achieved. Hence, without re-considering the money flow we won’t be able to bring about the necessary change. Let’s first have a closer look at the health benefits of the existing system. You go to your doctor with some minor complaints, headache etc. After short examination he/she gives you a painkiller. Health benefit? Zero. Or you visit him/her with e.g. a common inflammatory disease: bronchitis. He/she gives you antibiotics. Health benefit? Zero. Or you visit him/her with e.g. the symptoms of a chronic disorder: hypertension. He/she will give you medication, usually an anti-hypertensive drug. Health benefit? Zero. In none of these cases your health has been improved, in no way whatsoever. Since the treatment of common complaints, inflammatory and chronic disorders constitute the largest bulk of medical services, the overall health benefit of the existing health care system is..... (almost) zero.

15. This - shocking - evidence has led to the following conclusion. Since let’s say 40% of the health care (realistically) lies in our own hands, so the corresponding amount of money. Of every euro or dollar we spend, 30-40 cents should go to Self Care. Thirty cents go to the Holistic Medicine, while the remaining 30 cents will be spent for emergencies. The first 30-40% will go to the local democratically chosen Self Care district council. The premiums we pay for the Holistic Medicine - the 30% - will be put on our own bank-account though. It will be our own investment in health. As long as we we cannot withdraw this money - it has to support us in times, in which we could possibly need it - but the interest will be ours. Hence, the healthier we live, the more financial benefits, a rare example of healthy accumulation (...). Through this, it will be possible to finance the Holistic Medicine ourselves. If there are high personal health related costs, exceeding the normal costs of living, we will be entitled to withdraw this money.

16. The role of the future insurance company, an organization which is run by the people and exclusively working in their interest, will merely a facilitating one, receiving itself only the costs of their services and administration. Having Self Care and the Holistic Medicine as „buffers" - sifting 70% of all the cases out - the money spent for regular treatment, will diminish in a dramatic way. While nowadays our entire money is spent for „terminal" care, only an overall of 20-30% will be left. In individual cases though, the financial consequences of an accident, a terminal disease or rehabilitation can be still quite high. However, because they have become much more rare, the above mentioned 30% of our total spending for Technological Medicine, is realistic, provided people are committed to Self Care and Holistic Medicine*. Large scale education has to fill in the gap here. The premium, necessary for covering these last-mentioned risks are thought to become part of the existing accident insurances. If desirable, a part of the old age insurance could be used as well, since most of the emergencies are related to it. Most elderly are sick during their last ten years.

* Which in particular is crucial in an "ageing society". Only the combined efforts of Self Care and Holistic Health can take care of optimal health e.g. regeneration, something Technological Medicine is not able to achieve.

Education, education, education...

17. In order to establish the New Health Care, emphasis has to be laid on health education. Its foundation should be Self Care. With the help of the Flow System and medical system theory, educational systems on all levels of learning - from primary schools to universities - could be easily introduced. At the same time, adult education should start without delay. Cooperation with existing initiatives is of course recommendable. Moreover, international organizations, governments and local governments could benefit a great deal from our expertise. Our approach not only provides a surplus value to the existing health care system, but could also become a powerful factor in innovating it altogether, as today’s national and international health policies increasingly require. Through the New Health Care public health services will become more effectively organized with considerable reduction of the costs. Both poor and rich countries may greatly benefit from it. Unlike the commercial, cost-consuming, self-serving, profit-making "disease industry" of today, which increasingly is losing itself in (irrelevant) details, our approach is inclusive, direct, reliable, transparent and (highly) effective.

WHC Manifesto
New (World) Health Care
To begin with Europe

19. There has to be a snag somewhere. In the USA CAM – Complementary and Alternative Medicine – was introduced supported by renowned universities (Harvard, Duke, Mayo). It aims at “integrating” regular and non-regular systems of prevention, cure and rehabilitation. At first sight this sounds good. In particular the “equal” status and the possibility of scientific research for alternative medicine. The problem is that Natural Medicine, for instance, has to submit itself to “evidence-based” science. This means that the current science based on quantitative research will become the standard. It also means that automatically the regular vision on health and disease will prevail: health as the absence of symptoms. To “Integrative Medicine” – the new name for CAM – this will be the norm. Patients will be diagnosed according to regular standards. Just like it is today. And that’s the rub. The background of this all is that Regular medicine is in decline. It fears to lose its dominant position. In order to survive it cunningly tries to incorporate Alternative Medicine. In order to hide its true intentions it butters us up with “equal status”, “scientific” and “integration”. In reality we become its appendix, losing our inherent uniqueness. The point is that a multi-dimensional system (Holistic Medicine) can never be a part of the one-dimensional, reductionist approach of the current system. True Integral Medicine like I have defined below, based on centuries of Integral, Natural, Biological, Holistic Medicine has a fundamentally different view on human life (and that of other creatures). It puts into the centre the Wholeness of Existence of which humans are a part. “Integral” means a Unity that is more than the sum of its parts. Integral Medicine therefore is NOT a pile of random alternative therapies, selected according to regular standards and criteria (“evidence based”). The latter creates a medicine where “integrative” medicine nicely decorates regular diagnosis and treatments with some “complementary” natural remedies. Only those remedies that are approved by “big pharma” of course! Knowing that standard research cannot “measure” individual variables, therefore creating iatrogenic damage in countless cases, considering that 85% of all medical research is superfluous, not to mention the manipulation of results in favour of future profits, the current “Gleichschaltung” is totally unacceptable. This is proven by a simple example from daily practice: a cold. The main symptom is a catarrh from the nose. To regular medicine this is considered a “disorder” which has to be “cured”. It will prescribe a nose catarrh suppressing drug. To Holistic Medicine this is a blatant medical error though. In almost all cases a cold is an attempt of the body’s own self-healing effort to get rid of accumulated metabolic waste-products an/or toxins. (“emergency valve”). The LAST thing one should do is to suppress it. Moreover, the strength of Natural Medicine is its individual approach. Every human being proves to have an specific combination of etiological factors, in spite of some main similarities (See MESS). It is the reason why people go to an alternative healer. The dynamic humoral, energetic, evolutionary, holistic pathology of Holistic Medicine opposes Regular Medicine diametrically. Therefore all attempts to make Integral Medicine an appendix of Technological Medicine have to be strongly resisted. “Integration” as a first step to control it! We have taken the lead by emphasizing: 1. The bottom-up structure of our New Health Care 2. With Self-Care as its foundation (first echelon) 3. The principle of subsidiarity in which the echelons are “organically” connecting to each other 4. Each echelon is free to develop its OWN unique principles and practical, “evidence-based” approach 5. Self Care referring to the second echelon (Holistic Medicine) for those therapies that support the self-healing power (immunological response) 6. And only when the latter fails one takes the last resort in Technological Medicine 7. True equality of Holistic Scientific research with equal opportunities for finance, promotion, publications etc. has to be introduced. With regard to the cosmic, spiritual, psychological, cultural, social, ethical and ecological aspects of Integral Medicine, my BOOK “Origin” (including Book 1,2 & 3, see my website) gives an unparalleled introduction to it.

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