Acupuncture and Causes of Disease

“Another reason we are not winning the fight against disease is that going back perhaps 100, 200 years, ‘named’ diseases like arthritis, back pain, rheumatism were very often caused by people having to work outside, badly clothed, badly fed and badly housed. Being exposed to these harsh conditions affected the physical body. People got sick. Now, at least in the West, everyone’s pretty well housed, everyone is pretty well fed. If it rains and you have an outside job, now you can come inside. You don’t have to work up to your knees in mud like they did 100 years ago. You have all the facilities under the sun available. And yet there is still as much arthritis, back pain, rheumatism as there was 100 years ago. But now the cause is internal, not external. The disease is being caused now by worry, fear, grief, hostility, anger, hatred, jealousy: all of these are now manifesting in the physical body as rheumatism, etc.” - JR Worsley

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