While nature inside you heals itself, it may be OK to have fewer symptoms as long as this doesn’t stand in the way of nature\u2019s healing. This is how most medications work. [see: \u201cMost drugs are sheer symptomatic<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even more, temporary relief of symptoms may be needed to get past an acute episode that might lead to negative consequences, even death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Listening to symptoms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In psycho-somatics, the symptom can frequently be seen as an attempt of communication from the deeper mind-body. In such cases \u2013 and there are many \u2013 it is better to listen. As such, one can also avoid the need for the symptoms to shout even louder. [see: \u201cThose Who Do Not Want to Listen, Will Get Symptoms<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, listening to symptoms this way is not always straightforward. That is why AURELIS lends much support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Merely symptomatic therapy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If the goal of therapy is only<\/em> to get rid of the symptom as easily and quickly \u2013 and cheaply \u2013 as possible, one may be asking for troubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nature calls \u2015 you don\u2019t listen \u2015 nature calls harder for you to open yourself. Keeping closed may be more comfortable in the short term, but not therefore in the longer term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poetically said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the flower bud doesn\u2019t open\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You may find two \u2018AURELIS metaphors\u2019 about this in free e-book 2 on this website (also on smartphone).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, much therapy is merely symptomatic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This includes all circumstances in which one relies exclusively on placebo. [see: \u201cPlacebo Based Medicine<\/a>\u201d] Placebo is one-way communication, an instrument that doesn\u2019t intrinsically respect nature. No invitation for the bud to open \u2015 quite the contrary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this, it is different from empathy. [see: \u201cEmpathy vs. Placebo<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patient consent<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is less evident but much more important that patients should know when their treatment is symptomatic and what this means in-depth, also in the long-term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scientific studies in this sense are challenging. In other words, we don\u2019t know much about long-term effects \u2015 but we should. In the long term, symptomatic therapy might be dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This may be a very inconvenient truth in many ways. It may be a healing one if we act upon it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [see: \u201cOnly Truth Can Truly Cure<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/menu_ebooks.jpg?resize=489%2C226&ssl=1\")
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