The average practitioner of orthodox medicine does not have a clear understanding of the basic causative principles involved in arthritis, his treatments and remedies are understandably symptomatic. The practitioner is not treating the disease, but the isolated symptoms of the disease. He or she treats an affected joint with injections, x-rays, and drugs as if it was a question of an isolated disease of the joint. Because treating symptoms is the only method orthodox medicine is trained to practice, they administer pain-killing drugs which will relieve pain temporarily. But, in the long run, due to their many undesirable side effects, these drugs only cause more damage and ultimately aggravate the condition instead of improving it.
Arthritis is a systemic disease which affects the whole body.
Therefore, the only measures that can be successful in correcting the disease, bringing it under control, and accomplishing a lasting cure, must be ones directed at correcting its underlying causes. This can only be accomplished by treating the total body to help overcome the systemic disturbances, normalize the metabolic processes, and help restore all normal functions of the body. Arthritis is caused by a metabolic disorder in the body. The distorted or disordered metabolism, in turn, is affected by health-destroying environmental factors, including faulty nutrition, overeating, emotional and physical stresses, sedentary life, etc. Arthritis is not an unrelated, localized disease of certain joints.