Making Sense of Natural Healing: Autoimmune diseases: so The Body Really Does Not Know What It Is Doing!

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Part of my first course at Plaskett International is an introduction to naturopathic and natural healing philosophy. Their philosophy is simple and logical. It is as follows:

The human body has the innate capability of healing it self. Inflammation is seen as a major method of how the human body does that. We in mainstream medicine know this and believe in it. That is, we believe that one of the goals of inflammation is healing. Naturopaths see suppressing this inflammation prevents healing. They see the role of the practitioner is to support this natural process by providing our cells with the nutrients they need, taking away cells waste, and strengthening energy. I will describe these three pillars of naturopaths  therapy in another post.

So, as I am trying to make sense of this, I started asking myself: is the inflammation generated by our bodies in autoimmune disease an effort for healing and though should not be suppressed as we routinely do in mainstream medicine. Or are we correct in mainstream medicine and our bodies do not know what they are doing by initiating inflammation.