Concord Medical Theory
E. F. Block IV
March 2004

The essential meaning of the word "concord" is harmony, from the Latin meaning "with heart". Living in harmony with our environment is that which ensures our well-being. This implies that we as mammalian organisms are capable of responding to our environment in an appropriate manner. As our environment changes through time, we also need to be able to change with the rhythms of our environment. Anything that disrupts our ability to change our internal milieu in response to the changes in our environment will eventually lead to a condition known as illness or disease. This work will attempt to delineate a theoretical background as to the causes of disease. The treatment of disease is complex and will not at this time be discussed.

Living entities possess the capability to utilize scalar energy. Please review the concept of scalar energy at Bioscalar for an explanation. The coordination of utilization of scalar energy by living entities ultimately is a manifestation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Most microorganisms do not possess chromosomes, the protein-DNA complex found within cell nuclei. Single celled plants and animals are the exceptions. The means to coordinate scalar energies reside then with non-nucleate and nucleate life forms; this discussion applies to those forms that possess a nucleus within the cell center. Coordination of events in time by DNA in the nuclei of cells follows the changes in the local environment inhabited by the cell. The evolution of life forms has yielded the human form.

The human form is composed of cells living together in a local environment manufactured by those self same cells known as the body. The means of coordination for utilization of scalar energy is the same in the cells of the body as for those of single-celled life forms. However, evolution has yielded other means for the coordination and utilization of scalar energies in the Human form. This means is chemical, as one might posit realizing the nature of the origin of life in the aquatic environment. The neuro-endocrine system of the vertebrate life form is the means that the body collective coordinates the background internal aqueous/chemical milieu that bathes every cell of that body collective. Please refer to the article found here for a discussion of the neuro-endocrine/hormonal system of the body. Another chemical system also developed to coordinate the movement of the whole body and it is known as the nervous system. It is the ability then of each individual cell within the body collective and the neuroendocrine system of the body collective to respond to the rhythmic changes in the environment that ensures our health. Again, anything that disrupts this ability will cause illness and disease.

The internal milieu of the body collective in maintained by components of the Central Nervous System (CNS) that is composed of the brain and spinal cord. A concept known as homeostasis refers to the ability of nerve cell loci within the CNS to maintain relative levels of specific compounds within the blood and interstitial fluid of the body collective. The elements of this rheostasis system are complex, involve many different tissues and works via negative feedback. It is a subject known as a part of physiology and will not be discussed at this time. The specific narrow range of compounds in the blood and interstitial fluid are required in order to maintain the normal life processes in every cell within the body collective. An example is the relative amount of electrolytes such as dissolved sodium, calcium, chloride and bicarbonate to that of water. Many, many others kinds of relative levels of compounds are coordinated as well, such as blood glucose, blood oxygen, blood triglycerides and blood plasma proteins.

The coordination of personal events in time is coordinated by the CNS and is known as behavior. Behavioral responses are both instinctual and learned in humans. Ultimately, all behavior is the result of DNA expression, expression coordinated through time in response to the environment. Breathing and digestion for the most part is controlled by the upper part of the spinal cord and the brain stem. Otherwise, the brain controls all voluntary muscular activity. Behavioral expression and voluntary muscular movement then allows the body to manipulate elements of the environment for the purpose of ensuring survival of the body collective and perpetuation of the species through time.

It is obvious that a balance of components internally and externally is needed for survival. One may consciously change one's external environment in order to maintain a balance of required elements but most do not know how to consciously change one's internal environment in order to maintain a balance. Blance is accomplished at the unconscious level by the components of the CNS involved with rheostasis. To a great extent, industrial man has learned to ameliorate the adverse elements of the environment such as windstorms, rain and dampness, drought and dryness, summer heat and winter cold. Foodstuffs, clean water and shelter are also not a concern by industrial man. What then is the cause of disruption of the balances of the internal milieu of the body in the industrial setting of modern man?

The causes of disruption can be of an external nature such as adverse environmental changes as stated above or it may be due to some sort of trauma. Trauma can be physical or chemical and a combination of both; examples include: injury, bites, stings, parasites, poisons, toxins and improper diet. Mental and emotional trauma from an external source can be equally disruptive. All these external forms contribute to an internal imbalance within the body and the ability to CNS to maintain homeostasis in response to the number and severity of disruptive elements. When one thinks of injury, it is mostly that of broken bones, cuts and contusions. However, trauma to the body is also caused by exposure to fields of alternating current (AC), fields of inductive AC motors, microwaves, radar, etc., i.e., electromagnetic pollution. Electromagnetic pollution affects the body collective by causing derangements in normal metabolic processes of cells. Please refer to the article here for a discussion.

The causes of disruption can be of an internal nature as well. This mostly includes responses to external stimuli that result in diminished capacity in some manner and the accumulation of the pathological products of deranged metabolism as a result. These products are edema, phlegm, retained water and blood stasis. Perhaps the most insidious is "improper thought" leading to diminished capacity, as it tends to be reactive to external stimuli and to be self-delusional. It seems that strong emotions disrupt the functions of the organs directly.

The crux of the matter for the cause of illness and disease is ultimately anything that disrupts the free flow of energies within the body, whether scalar or biochemical in nature. This means anything that causes diminished capacity of the CNS to maintain homeostasis of the body collective or any cell within the body collective to maintain its optimum functionality. This also means a diminished capacity to maintain optimum response to the changes in the external environment through time. The pathological products of deranged metabolism obstruct the free flow of energies within the body.

In this author's opinion, a derangement in the balance of energy flows within the whole body will occur before any manifestations or signs of disruption will be evident. The primary cause then is a disruption in the balance of energy flow within the whole body. Secondary causes are the manifestations, signs and pathological products of deranged metabolism. Chronic derangements afford opportunity for microorganisms and parasites to invade the body collective. Pathogenic microorganisms do cause trauma but most microorganisms are opportunists living on the products of deranged metabolism by adversely affected cells within the body collective that is deposited in the extracellular matrix (EM) around them. These products are deposited in the EM due to the derangement of the processes of lymphatic flow, extravasation of blood due to physical trauma and overwhelming the capacity of local white blood cells and tissue macrophages to do deal with the resultant debris. Because of this fact, treatment should always be such that the cause and the manifestations both are to be monitored through the time course of the healing process. The applied treatments will change as the course of the illness progresses through the various systems of the body collective.

Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine are trained to alter the course of treatment to suit the course of healing within the body collective as the nature of the pathogen changes and until it is expelled from the body collective. The treatments applied to assist the body collective in removing the accumulated pathological products of deranged metabolism plays a major role in the healing process. Again, the cause of illness and disease is always a disruption in the normal flow of energies within the body collective. The manifestations of illness and disease are the result of the pathological products of deranged metabolism accumulating within the body collective and then possibly becoming the cause of further disruption.

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