Past Karma and Present Disease

Modern medicine has developed to the point where new medicines and healing practices are appearing constantly. However, people still become sick, and illnesses are becoming increasingly bizarre. After getting sick one will go see a doctor, take pills prescribed to them, receive injections, or get an operation. Modern medicine believes that for every kind of disease, there are corresponding ways to heal it. In support of this theory, antibiotics were invented to fight viral and bacterial diseases, and vaccines to prevent viral diseases. However, whenever microbes or diseases become resistant to the medicines, there has to be a new search for a cure. As for those strange and difficult to cure diseases, there are no reliable methods of treating them. Patients who suffer from these kinds of seemingly incurable illnesses often turn to other kinds of treatments, like traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, or qigong. These types of treatments usually are able to help alleviate the symptoms. How come modern medicine cannot cure these diseases yet those traditional practices could? In the end, what are the causes of illnesses?

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