Holistic practitioners believe the body can be stimulated to heal itself of almost any disease Naturopathic and many Asian forms of healing agree either completely or to a certain extent that human cells have the capacity, when given the right stimuli and environment, to fight virtually any disease According to some alternative and even many mainstream health care practitioners, consumers take too many drugs and undergo surgery far more often than they need to Western treatment covers up

Twenty years ago, Noetic scientists decided there needed to be a body of literature dedicated to collecting and organizing reports of patients' diseases mysteriously going into remission These were patients who chose not to receive drugs or surgical treatment for disease Some were receiving minimal care for these diseases Their conditions were expected to worsen but instead they improved or disappeared, for good or for a period of time Scientists wanted to know what was going on and