Let's look at this a little more closely. Say you and your friends went out to a not so fabulous restaurant and ate some potato salad that wasn't properly stored. Later that night all of you get stomach cramps. What's the best thing for your body to do? Throw the bad food back up; get rid of it, right?
What should your body do if the digestive tract is overrun by a pathogenic bacteria or virus? How about if you lose track of how many beer you've consumed and the alcohol in your system is becoming toxic? The best response for your body in both these scenarios is to vomit. That's the healthiest reaction for the body. A healthy body expels toxin substances from the upper digestive tract by vomiting. Even though you may not feel perky, the body is not sick. It is protecting you from becoming sick.
Too often we look at symptoms as being the problem rather than looking for the cause of the symptoms. Just suppressing symptoms can be dangerous. What if you stopped the vomiting in the situations mentioned and the toxins remained in the body? Far more serious damage would occur.
Back pain, neck pain, headaches, fatigue, sleeplessness, numbness, weakness; they are all just symptoms. What is causing the symptoms? That's what chiropractors try to find. Our primary job is to find vertebral subluxations that are interfering with the proper functioning of the nervous system. A variety of symptoms, not just pain, can occur when the nervous system is not working optimally. The key is to look to the cause of the symptoms and not just mask the symptoms. Just like inhibiting vomiting can be dangerous, covering up or numbing any symptom can also produce greater problems.
Symptoms, like vomiting, are a healthy body's signals to you that there is a problem. You need to fix the cause rather than eliminate the symptoms.
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