Forget the Cures, Find the Cause
Rayna M. Gangi
Reviewed by Sabrina Williams
Stop treating the symptoms and treat the cause. It sounds like advice
from our mothers, doesn't it? Unfortunately, today's society at large
has turned away from the wisdom of our elders and our knee-jerk
reaction is to pop a pill for whatever ails us. In Forget the Cures,
Find the Cause, Rayna M. Gangi makes a case for eliminating the quick
fixes that have become a staple of American life, yet never seem to
truly solve our medical dilemmas. Gangi explains why treating every
pain or ailment, whether physical, mental, or spiritual, fails to work.
The reason modern medicines and treatments fail to work is simple: we
have failed to eliminate the cause. Gangi leads the reader through a
path of self-discovery and a return to common sense as she illustrates
how today's lifestyle is actually destroying our very existence.
According to Gangi, a Holistic Health practitioner, the path to
wellness lies in changes in diet and our ways of thinking. She points
out that most medical professionals earnestly want to help patients,
but are restrained by threats of lawsuits and are locked into their own
idealistic interpretations of what are currently known as traditional
practices, clouded by cultural biases. As patients, we force ourselves
into vicious cycles of self-destruction when we medicate our
insecurities rather than attempting to discover the circumstances
causing our pain. Gangi believes that humans react to every situation
either from love or from fear. Choosing to react from fear can actually
cause that which we fear most to materialize.
Utlizing Native American medicine and lore combined with Christian
spirituality, Gangi provides us with some simple steps for improving
our own physical health. She speaks with a motherly compassion for
humanity as she accompanies us on our journey through our Earthly
existence. Part instruction and part inspiration, Forget the Cures
serves as a crucial reminder to mankind to slow down and stop letting
the chaos of modern life prevent our bodies from completing the
self-mending they were designed to do.