御教え『手術』

「文明の創造、科学篇」昭和27(1952)年

近来、医学は大いに進歩したといい、取り分け手術の進歩を誇称しているが、私から見れば之程の間違いはあるまい。考える迄もなく、手術が進歩したという事は、実は医学が進歩しないという事になる。というと不思議に思うであろうが、手術とは言う迄もなく、病に冒された機能を除去する手段であって、病其ものを除去する手段ではない。判り易く言えば、病気と其機能とは密接な関係はあるが本質は異っている。従って真の医術とは病だけを除って、機能は元の侭でなくてはならない筈である。

処が医学が如何に進歩したといっても、病のみを除り去る事が不可能であるから、止むを得ず二義的手段として、機能をも併せて除去して了うのであるから、此事を考えただけでも、手術の進歩とは、医学の無力を表白する以外の何物でもない事が分るであろう。斯んな分り切った理屈でさえ気がつかないとしたら、今日迄の医学者は驚くべき迷蒙に陥っていたのである。従って何としても大いに覚醒して、初めから行り直すより外あるまい。即ち医学の再出発である。処が今日迄其意味を発見した者がなかったが為、盲目的に邪道を驀進して来たのであるから、何年経っても人類は、病気の苦痛から解放されないにみて明かであろう。

以上の意味に於て考えてみる時、手術の進歩とは、医術の進歩ではなく、技術の進歩でしかない事が分るであろう。そうして尚深く考えて賞いたい事は、造物主即ち神が造られた万物中最高傑作品としての人間であるとしたら、仮にも神として人体を創造する場合、五臓六腑も、胃も、筋肉も、皮膚も、何も彼も無駄なものは一つも造られていない筈である。之は常識で考えても分るであろう。

処が驚くべし、二十世紀に入るや、人間の形はしているが、神以上の生物が現われた。其生物は曰く、人体内には種々な不要物がある。盲腸も、片方の腎臓も、卵巣も、扁桃腺もそうであるから、そんな物は切って除って了う方がいい。そうすればそれに関した病気は無くなるから安心ではないか、と言って得々として、メスを振っては切り除って了うのである。何と素晴しい超人的、否超神的存在ではなかろうか。

処が不思議なる哉、此大胆極まる暴力に対し、現代人は無批判処か、随喜の涙を雫している。而も、人民は疎か、各国の政府迄も有難がって、之こそ文化の偉大なる進歩であると心酔し、援助し奨励迄しているのであるから、其無智蒙昧さは何と言っていいか言葉はないのである。としたら此現実を見らるる流石の造物主も、呆れて唖然とされ給うと察せらるるのである。そうして右の超神的生物こそ、誰あろう近代医学者という人間である。としたら全く彼等の人間を見る眼が強度の近視眼にかかっており、近くの唯物科学だけが見えて、其先にある黄金の宝物が見えないのであろう。

然し私は、唯物科学を敢えて非難する者ではない。人類は之によって、如何に大なる恩恵を蒙り、今後と難も蒙るかは、最大級の讃辞を捧げても足りない位である。といって何も彼もそう考える事が早計であって、唯物科学にも自ら分野があり、越えてはならない境界線がある。ではそれは何かというと、有機物も無機物も同一視する単純な考え方では、駄目であるという事である。つまり唯物科学は、生物である人間も他の動物も、無生物である鉱物や植物と混同している錯覚である。

というのは本来動物なるものは無生物ではないから、唯物科学の分野に入れてはならないに拘わらず、どう間違えたものか、入れて了った事である。之が根本的誤謬で、それによって進歩して来た医学であってみれば、手術といふ人体を無生物扱いにする行り方も当然であろう。又斯ういう点も見逃す事が出来ない。それは唯物科学の進歩が、余りに素晴しかった為、何も彼も之によって解決出来るものと信じて了った科学至上主義である。処が実際上動物はそうはゆかない。成程医学によって、一時的には効果はあるようだが、根本が誤っている以上、真の効果が挙らないにも拘わらず、それに気付かず、相変らず邪道を進みつつあるのである。

そうして右の如く私は生物と無生物の関係を大体かいて来たが、今一層掘下げてみれば生物の中でも人間と他の動物とを同一視してはならない事である。といっても之は根本的ではないが、相当の異いさがある。例えば人間に対って、結核といえば直に神経を起し、悪化したり、死を早めるが、牛の結核を牛に言っても、何等の影響もないのである。従ってモルモットや二十日鼠を研究して、人間に応用しても、決して良い結果は得られないのである。

茲で前に戻って、再び手術に就て筆を進めるが、成程一時手術によって、治ったとしても、それで本当に治ったのではないから、暫くすると必ず何等かの病気が発生するが、医学は其原因に気が付かないのである。そんな訳で手術後の先には余り関心を持たないのである。然し考えても見るがいい。体内の重要機能を除去したとすれば、言わば体内的不具者となるのであるから、全然影響のない筈はない。

例えば外的不具者で足一本、手一本処か、指一本、否指の頭だけ欠損しても、其不自由さは一生涯の悩みの種である。況んや内的不具者に於てをやである。而も外的不具者なら、生命に関係はないが、内的のそれは生命に至大の関係があるのは当然である。例えば盲腸の手術で、虫様突起を失うとすればどうなるであろうか、元来盲腸なるものは、重要な役目をもっている。

それは人間の背部一面に溜った毒素が、一旦右側背面腎臓部に溜って固結し、少しずつ盲腸部に移行固結するが、或程度に達するや急激な浄化が起り、発熱、痛み等が発生し、溶解された毒素は下痢となって排除され、それで治るのであるから、実に結構に出来ている。処が可笑しいのは、此際医師は手遅れになると大変だから、一刻も早く手術せよというが、此様な事は絶対ないので、手遅れになる程反って治る可能性が多くなる。之は理屈ではない。私は何人も其様にしたが、一人の間違いもなかったのである。寧ろ手術の為不幸になった例は時偶聞くのである。

又盲腸炎潜伏を知るのは訳はない。医学でもいう通り、臍から右側斜に一、二寸位の辺を指で押すと痛みがあるから直ぐ判る。然し原因は其奥にあるので、盲腸部だけの浄霊では全部の痛みは除れない。盲腸炎の場合、右側腎臓部を指で探ると必ず固結があり、押すと痛むからそこを浄霊するや、忽ち無痛となり全治するのである。治る迄に早ければ十数分遅くとも三、 四十分位であって、間もなく下痢があり、それで済んで了うので、再発などは決してない。としたら何と素晴しい治病法ではなかろうか。

処が医学では手術の苦痛も費用も、並大抵ではない。其上不具とされ、運の悪い人は手術の跡の傷が容易に治らず、数年かかる者さえある。稀には手術の為生命を失う者さえあるのだから、我浄霊と比較したら、其異いさは野蛮と文明よりも甚だしいと言えよう。処が手術によって盲腸炎は治ったとしても、それだけでは済まない。

前述の如く盲腸なる機能は、背部一面の毒素の排泄機関であるから、それが失くなった以上、毒素は出口がないから、大部分は腹膜に溜ると共に、腎臓部の固結も大きさを増すから、それが又腎臓を圧迫し、腹膜炎に拍車をかける事になる。之が主なる悪影響であるが、其他の個所にも溜るのみか、手術後腹力や握力が弱り、持久力や粘り強さ等も薄くなり、性欲も減退する。之等は体験者の知る処であろう。

次は腎臓剔出であるが、此手術は腎臓結核の場合であって、痛みや血尿があるので、そう決められ剔出するが、此成績も面白くない。大抵は何かしら故障が起る。その中で一番困るのは、残っている一つの腎臓は二つの負担を負わされるから、病気が起り易いと共に、剔出する事も出来ず、どうしていいか判らないという惨めな人もよくある。というのは誰しも保有毒素が相当あるから、残った腎臓へ溜結するのである。その外全身的には弱体化し、歩行にも困難があり、腰を捻ったり、正坐すら出来ない人もあって、先ず半分廃人である。処が最初から浄霊によれば、手も触れずして簡単に全治するのである。

次は胃癌の手術であるが、之も仲々厄介である。之に就て遺憾に思う事は、切開してみると、癌が見当らないという過失をよく聞くが、患者は全く災難である。幸い予定通り切り除つても、大抵は時日が経つと僅かでも残った癌が広がってゆき、再度の手術をするようになるが、三度目になると不可能で、最早致命的である。そうして手術が成功しても、縮小した胃と腸と繋ぎ合すので、食物も少しずつ何回も摂らねばならず、而も医学の統計によれば、手術後の寿命は平均二年半とされている。

それに就て医学は斯ういうのである。どうせ半年か一年で死ぬべきものを、手術によって一年でも二年でも延びるとしたら、それだけ有利ではないかと。成程其通りにゆけばいいが、事実は放って置けば三年も五年も生きられるものを、手術の為に縮められる例を、私は幾人となく経験したのである。又医学は癌の治療にラジウムの放射をするが、之は反って悪化する。というのはラジウムは癌を破壊すると共に、組織迄も破壊して了うからである。

右の解説は真症胃癌に就てであるが、実は真症は少なく、大部分は擬似胃癌であり、擬似は勿論薬毒が原因である。それは薬の性質にもよるが、一旦吸収された薬は、時を経て毒に変化し胃へ還元し固まる。それが癌とされるのであるから、之は浄霊によれば非常に衰弱していない限り、必ず治るのである。

右の外卵巣除去、乳癌の手術、中耳炎、瘍疔(ようちょう)、眼科、肋膜炎の穿孔、痔疾、横疲(よこね)、睾丸炎、瘭疽(ひょうそ)、脱疽、整形外科手術等々種々あるが、之等も大同小異であるから略すが、茲に二、三の書き残しをかいてみよう。それは各種の腫物であるが、之は手術をせず放っておけば、腫れるだけ腫れて自然に穴が穿き、そこから血膿が出て完全に治って了うものである。処が患者は痛みに堪え兼ねるので、医療は早く治そうとして手術するが、之が大変な誤りである。というのは手術にも時期がある。充分腫れてからなら左程の事もないが、そうならない内に行うと、今迄一ヶ所に集中していた膿は、其運動を止めて了い、他の近接部へ腫れ出すのである。之は手術処か、一寸針で穴を穿けた位でも、ヤハリ集溜が停止されるので、之は知っておくべき重要事である。

之に就て斯ういう例があった。以前私は頼まれて某外科病院へ行った事がある。患者は四十歳位の男子で、よく訊いてみると、初め頚部淋巴腺に鶉の卵位の腫物が出来た。早速医者へ往って穴を穿け、膿を出して貰うと、間もなくお隣へ同じような腫物が出来た、それを切ると又お隣へ出来る、という具合で、遂には反対側の方にも出来、それも次々切ったり出たりする内、遂には腫物の数珠繋ぎとなって、私を招んだのである。そんな訳で外部には腫れる場所がなくなったので、今度は内側へ腫れ出した。恰度其時であったので、私と難もどうする事も出来ず、断って辞したが、其後数日を経て、咽喉が腫れ塞がり、窒息で死んだとの知らせがあった。之等は全く手術の為の犠牲者である。というのは最初腫物が出来た時、放っておけば段々腫れて、恐らく赤子の頭位に大きくなったであろうが、それでも放っておけば、終には真ッ赤にブョフョになって穴が穿き、多量の血膿が出て、完全に治って了い、痕跡も残らないのである。

次は、近来一部の医師で、脳の手術をするが、之等は勿論癲癇とか、脳疾患等の場合行うのであるが、之は何等の効果もない。何故なれば頭脳の機質性病患でなく、精神的のものであるからで、つまり霊的原因である。之に就ては霊の項目に詳記するから、茲では略す事とする。次は近頃流行の結核に関する手術療法で、之は肋骨を切り除ったり、空洞のある患者には、合成樹脂の玉を入れたり、横隔膜を手術したりするが、之等は一時的効果で、反って後は悪いのである。要するに再三言う通り、手術なるものは、如何に有害無益なものであるかは、医学が一層進歩すれば分る筈であるから、最初に述べた如く手術の如き、野蛮的方法は、是非全廃して貰いたいのである。


Surgery

“Creation of Civilization” written by Mokichi Okada in 1952

It is said that medical science has made great progress in recent years and the advancement of surgery is especially boasted. From my point of view, however, nothing is much more wrong than this. Needless to think, the advancement of surgery means that medical science has not progressed. You might wonder why I say so. Surgery means, needless to say, the treatment of removing the function affected by the disease. It means that the disease itself cannot be removed by surgery. In short, the disease and the function affected by the disease are deeply related but essentially different. Therefore, the true medical art should remove only the disease but leave the function as it is. No matter how much medical science has improved, however, it is impossible to remove the only disease. Consequently, it is unavoidable to take a secondary way that is to remove the function as well as disease. Just thinking of this, you would understand the advancement of surgery is nothing but to confess the powerlessness of medical science. If medical scientists didn’t realise such an obvious theory, they would have fallen into astonishing error until now. Therefore, they should be aware of it by all means and cannot but do it all over again. In a word, it is a fresh start in medical science. Since no one has discovered this truth until now, medical science has blindly dashed the wrong course. As a result, people have never been released from the pain of diseases for a long time. This fact proves the error of medical science very much.

Thinking of what I described above, you would comprehend that the advancement of surgery does not mean the progress of medical science but just technical advancement. You should also think deeply that a human being is presumed to be the masterpiece in all things, which is made by the Creator, or God. What if God created the human body, He would never make useless parts of the body. The heart, spleen, liver, lung, large intestine, gall bladder, urinary bladder, stomach, small intestine, triple burner kidney, muscle, skin and all other parts of the body must be created to use. You would understand this even based on common sense. What surprises me is that human-shaped creatures have appeared in the twentieth century. They are beyond God and say there are various useless parts in the body such as the caecum, one of kidneys, ovary, tonsils, which should be cut and removed. Consequently, the diseases related to those parts never occur, which is such a relief. They proudly say so and remove them with a scalpel. What wonderful super gods rather than superhumans they would be! However, I wonder why modern people shed tears of gratitude to, rather than criticize such bold violence. Furthermore, not only general people but also the governments of various countries are grateful for and fascinated with them as they represent such great progress of culture. The governments also support and encourage them. I have no word for such ignorance. Seeing this reality, even God is supposed to be surprised and astounded. Then who are the super gods that I described above? They are humans called modern medical scientists. If so, they are extremely short-sighted when seeing human beings. Therefore, they could see only material science nearby but would not see a golden treasure ahead of it.

However, I am not a person who dares to criticize material science. We don’t know how human beings greatly benefited from it in the past and would have in the future. We could not give the highest praise to them enough. Having said that, it would be premature to conclude that everything could rely on them. Since material science has its field and it has a boundary that must not be crossed. Then, what is it? Material science has the idea that organic and inorganic matters are equated. Such a simple idea is not good. In a word, material science has the illusion that confuses human beings and other animals as living things with minerals and plants as inanimate objects. Since animals are not inanimate objects, they are not originally categorized into the field of material science. Nevertheless, I don’t know why they were categorized into this field. This is a fundamental error, and as a basis of this error, medical science has progressed. Therefore, it is natural that surgery has been done as it is the way to treat the human body as an inanimate object. There is another point which cannot be overlooked. That is the progress of material science was so wonderful that people believed in scientific supremacy that everything would be solved by it. However, as for animals, they don’t be worked out like that. It would be right that medical science temporarily works for them. Since it makes a fundamental mistake, it cannot achieve the true effect. Nevertheless, it doesn’t realise this falt and keeps going down the wrong course.

As above, I roughly described the relation between living things and inanimate objects.  Then I dig into it deeper. In living things, human beings are not equated to any other animals. They are not basically but considerably different. For example, when a person is informed that he suffers from tuberculosis, it immediately affects him mentally. Then it would make his disease worse and then hastens his death. As for cattle, they are not affected at all when they are told to suffer from bovine tuberculosis. Therefore, a good result is not achieved even if the research for a guinea pig or mouse is applied to human beings.

Here I go back and describe surgery again. Even if the disease is cured by surgery, it is temporary but not truly cured. Therefore, some sort of disease must occur after a while. Since medical science cannot find why it is caused, it has less interest in what happens after surgery. You would see there must be some effect on the patient as he had his part of the body removed, or so to speak, he has a physical disorder. For example, a person becomes externally disabled when he loses his finger, or even the tip of his finger, much less his leg or hand. That will bother him forever. What if he became internally disabled, he would be much more bothered. Furthermore, the external disable is not fatal, whereas it is obvious that the internal one might cause death. Let me give you an example. When a person has surgery to remove the appendix, what happens to him? The appendix originally takes an important role. The toxins, which was accumulated all around the backside of the body, once accumulate and solidify in the back of the right kidney. Then they move to the appendix and solidify little by little. When they reach a certain amount, purification rapidly occurs and causes fever, pain and so forth. Then toxins are dissolved and discharged as diarrhoea and the appendicitis is cured. It is very well operated. Nevertheless, doctors say that the patient should have surgery as soon as possible before it becomes too late. It is funny because it never happens. The later it becomes, the more it is possibly cured. It is not theory but from my experience. I have never failed when I left many people as they were. I contrarily often hear that surgery rather worsen the condition of the patient.

You can easily find latent appendicitis. As medical science also explains, when you press about three to six centimetre lower right of the navel, you will feel pain there. However, the cause of appendicitis is not there but in the inner part of it. Therefore, all the pain won’t be released when you perform Johrei only targeted at the appendix. There must be solidified substance around the right kidney. When you press it, it hurts. It immediately becomes painless when you perform Johrei there. Then the appendicitis is completely cured. It takes as early as a dozen minutes and about three to forty minutes at the latest. Soon after receiving Johrei, the patient has diarrhoea. That is all and it never recurs. If so, what a wonderful treatment Johrei is! On the other hand, in medical science, the pain and expense of surgery are remarkable and worse still, patients become disable. Some operation scar is unluckily hard to be cured and some might take a few years. In rare cases, some of them die after surgery. Comparing medical science with Johrei, therefore, their difference would be far beyond the difference between barbarianism and civilization. Even if the appendicitis is cured by surgery, it is not finished yet. As I explained above, the appendix is the function of excreting toxins that accumulate all around the back of the body. When the appendix is removed, toxins lose their exit and most of them accumulate in the peritoneum. Along with this, toxins around the kidney increase in amount and press the kidney, which consequently accelerates to cause peritonitis. This is the major bad influence when the surgery is undergone. The others are not only that toxins accumulate in other parts of the body but also that abdominal and grip strength becomes weak, endurance and toughness decrease and libido is also decreased after surgery. There would be some patients who have experienced such symptoms.

Then I explain nephrectomy surgery. This surgery is undergone when a patient suffers from kidney tuberculosis. Because the patient has pain and passes blood in his urine, he is decisively diagnosed with kidney tuberculosis and then the kidney is removed. This has also poor results and generally causes some failures. The most serious problem is that the patient has only one kidney remained. This kidney has to work hard to cover the part of the removed kidney. In this condition, he is prone to other kidney diseases but cannot have surgery to remove the remaining kidney. Someone might be at a loss what to do. That is so miserable. It is because everyone has a considerable amount of toxins in the body. As for people who had their kidneys removed, the toxins accumulate in their remaining kidneys. Besides, some of them become weak in the whole body, cannot walk properly, twist their body at the waist or are unable to sit on their knees.

They become half disabled. When they receive Johrei from the beginning, they are easily and completely cured even without touching them.

Then I explain surgery for stomach cancer. This is also quite bothersome. I often hear the surgical negligence that there is no cancer found when making an incision. I think it’s regrettable and it’s very much unfortunate for the patient. Even if the stomach cancer is removed just as planned, even a little remaining cancer might spread as time passes and the patient would be forced to have surgery again. If it happened three times, it could not be treated by surgery and be already a fatal condition. Even if the surgery is successful, the patient has to have a little amount of food many times as the remaining stomach and intestine are sutured. According to medical statistics, the average life span of post-operation is two and a half years. Medical science would reply that the patient would die in six months or a year without having surgery. Therefore, it would be advantageous for him to live one or two more years after surgery. It has no problem if that is the case. However, the truth is that patients would live for three or five years if they left their cancer as it was. I have experienced many cases that people whose lives were shortened by surgery. In medical science, radium therapy is also undergone for stomach cancer. It contrarily worsens the condition as it destroys normal cells along with the cancerous ones.

I described genuine stomach cancer above but genuine cancer rarely occurs. Most stomach cancer is suspected and caused by toxic medicine, of course. It depends on medical properties but medicine is once absorbed and becomes toxic as time passes. Then they return to the stomach and solidify. This condition would be called stomach cancer. As long as the patient doesn’t grow weak, he will be cured by Johrei.

Other than surgery for stomach cancer, there is a variety of surgery for ovarian removal, breast cancer, otitis media, boils, eyes, pleurisy perforation, haemorrhoid disease, buboes, inflammation of the testis, whitlows, gangrene and orthopaedic surgery and so forth. Since they are not much different from surgery for stomach cancer, I will omit to describe them. Here I describe a few things I haven’t explained yet. One of them is a variety of swelling. When you have swelling, please leave it as it is. Then the swelling becomes big enough to make a hole naturally. Bloody pus comes out of the hole and the swelling completely disappears. However, a patient cannot endure its severe pain so that medical science tries to cure it quickly and conducts the surgical operation. This is very wrong because the surgery should be undergone at the exact timing. It is not the case that surgery is done after the swelling becomes big enough. However, if surgery is undergone before that, pus, which accumulated on the swollen part, stops focusing on there. It contrarily moves nearby where the swelling was previously formed and then becomes swollen. It is not only the case when having surgery or even piercing a hole stops pus from concentrating. You should know this important thing. Concerning this, I describe my experience. I was once asked to visit a certain surgical hospital. There was an about forty-year-old male patient. He told me what happened to him in detail. He first had a small egg-sized swelling of the cervical lymph node. Then he immediately visited the hospital and a surgeon pierced a hole and discharged pus. Soon after that, a similar swelling came out of the part where pus was discharged nearby. Then it was incised but another swelling came out and likewise. He finally had a swelling opposite side of where the first swelling came out. Then it was incised but another swelling came out and likewise. Those swellings finally became linked together. Therefore he asked me to visit him. Under this condition, there were no external parts to have swellings so that they came out of the inner part instead. I visited him at that time. Even I couldn’t do anything for him and turned down his request. After a while, his throat became swollen and blocked, then he died from suffocation. I was informed that. He is a real victim of surgery. If he had left his first swelling as it had been, it would have gradually become swollen. It might have reached the baby head size. Even so, if he had still left it, it would have finally become bright red, got flabby and had a hole. Then a large amount of pus would have come out, it would have been completely cured and no trace would have remained.

The next surgery I explain is for the brain. Some doctors recently have brain surgery of course, for epilepsy, brain diseases or so. It doesn’t work at all because they are not caused by an organic disorder of the brain but mentally caused. In a word, they are spiritually caused. I will explain it in detail in the chapter related to spirit so that I omit it here. Then we move on to surgery for recently spreading tuberculosis. For this disease, a patient’s rib is cut, a plastic ball is inserted if a patient has a cavity in the lung, the diaphragm is operated and so forth. They are temporarily effective but become worse afterwards. As I repeatedly explain, surgery does more harm than good in short. It must be revealed when medical science further progresses. As I mentioned at the beginning, savage way such as surgery should be abolished by all means.

Translated by N.H.

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