Getting to the Heart of the Matter 1. There is a serious problem which is common to both, conventional and alternative approaches to disease. It is the inability to analyse in sufficient depth the physical causes of mental, emotional, and bodily disorders. More particularly, there is a problem in identifying certain physiological faults and their causes. Most doctors and therapists can do little, if anything, to identify the really deep and basic causes of disease, such as primary faults in the autonomic nervous system, the enteric nervous system, the limbic system. Yet these can lead to serious degenerative diseases such as arthritis and schizophrenia……