5. Development of TEN
TEN does not regard itself as a historically and textually closed system, but is in a state of dynamic development. This concerns elements of its thinking and working model as well as also diagnosis and therapy. Decisive for the fact whether a method can be allocated to TEN depends on whether it is in keeping with the criteria described in Section 3, resp., whether it is practiced in accordance with it. Examples for more recent developments are iris diagnosis, which only fulfils the criteria of TE as a method for the analysis of the constitutional situation, or the methods of bioelectronic function diagnostics (BFD), the results of which only become compatible with this system by incorporation into the thinking and working model of TEN.
It is therefore not possible to assign a method as such to TEN, resp., to exclude it. The mode of application, resp., of interpretation is decisive.
6. Practical Meaning of TEN
6.1 Fields of Application of TEN
In principle, TEN offers options for the treatment of all diseases of all age-levels with the exception of the conditions described under 6.2.
The main clientele of TEN is represented by patients with chronically occurring and degenerative diseases which had been treated without success by conventional medicine.
TEN does not only focus on the treatment of the currently prevailing disease but on the general stabilization of the constitutional situation of the patient, too, – also in the sense of prevention and salutogenesis.
TEN is mainly performed in practices or health resorts by alternative practitioners and naturopathically oriented physicians; it is, however, also integrable into physiotherapy.
6.2 Limits of TEN
As in every domain of healing activities, the range of the states of illnesses for which a therapy according to TEN criteria is successful and satisfactorily possible for the patient, significantly depends on the educational level, on the experience and on the sense of responsibility of the therapist. Decisive is also the inner attitude of the patient and his/her individual ideas with regard to the method of treatment. Thus, in the case of a patient who is primarily interested in a speedy elimination of his symptoms, TEN will sooner reach its limits, resp., the limits of the patient, than in the case of lengthy chronic diseases, which cannot be treated with satisfactory success by other systems of medicine.
Against this background, we can name the first limit of TEN:
It is unsuited for fast and symptom-suppressing treatments.
Substitution
Limits of TEN also exist in cases of an irreparable and not compensatable functional failure of an organ or a tissue, resp., its removal. Here, a substitution according to the criteria of conventional medicine will have to take place. However, the combination of substitution and compensation promoting therapies of TEN makes sense.
Overshooting Fire Processes
Although acute inflammations (mainly when they take place on surface organs, accompanied by fever) are regarded by TEN as the most important and most efficient defence strategies of the organism, they can proceed with such excessive heat processes that due to this, the energy reserves of the organism can be exhausted in such a way that a life-threatening emergency situation might occur.
Such disease situations require the reduction of the heat processes by means of antibiotics, corticoids, and other anti-inflammatories, – also in the knowledge that this does not lead to a healing but only takes away the ‘tip of the iceberg’.
The limits of the naturopathic treatability of such disease situation, however, are not universally definable; they strongly depend on the individual situation of the patient and on the competence of the therapist.
Emergency Medicine
In the entire emergency medicine (traumas, heart attack, embolisms, apoplexy and many others), TEN can only offer support, resp., promote healing and rehabilitation after the acutely life-threatening phase.
Surgery
Also in all cases of disease with indication of a surgical intervention, TEN can also stabilize and promote the current and constitutional overall situation of the patient only before, resp., after the operation.
Further fields of indication, in which the limits of TEN are very tight:
- Arterial hypertonia
- Psychiatric conditions
Diagram: Sources, foundations and levels of TEN with their typical teaching and methods.
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Pictures and Photos
Cover picture 4 Elements: Christian Raimann
All further graphics and photos are taken from the book “Grundlagen der traditionellen europäischen Naturheilkunde TEN”
8. TEN on the Internet
Making no claim to be exhaustive:
http://www.ten-buch.com/ Webseite zum Buch “Grundlagen der Traditionellen Europäischen Naturheilkunde TEN”
http://www.bacopa.at/ Bacopa-Verlag
http://www.svanah.ch/ Schweizer Verband der approbierten NaturärztInnen und NaturheilpraktikerInnen, mit Fachgesellschaft TEN
http://www.trad-nhk.org/ TEN-Aus- und Weiterbildung bei den Humores-Seminaren
http://www.natura-naturans.de/ Natura naturans – Arbeitsgemeinschaft für traditionelle abendländische Medizin
http://www.tem-akademie.com/ TEM-Akademie (Ausbildung in Traditioneller Medizin in Österreich
http://www.anhk.ch/ Akademie für Naturheilkunde in Basel (TEN-Ausbildung in der Schweiz)
Publication of all pictures and graphics with the kind approval of the Bacopa Publishers.
Contact
Friedemann Garvelmann
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