symptoms are signals

The medical establishment often puts far too much focus on "curing" the symptoms of illness rather than investigating the root causes of disease.

Often, a lifestyle change is far more effective than a pill regimen, though it's certainly not as easy or convenient.

Rather than think of illness as an inevitable disaster or unavoidable misfortune, we think of it as a powerful and useful message.
-- Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization