Will watering a plant stop it from wilting? Take a moment here and follow this analogy.
So I am going to use an analogy here taken from Dr. James Chestnut as it pertains to research and proving is something has efficacy or not.
Imagine you had plants that were wilting. If your question was does intervention “X” result in less wilting of plants? Does intervention “X” slow the wilting of plants?
Let’s say intervention “X” is water. So 1 group of plants you gave water, and the other group of plants you didn’t give water. At the end of your study period 6 weeks or whatever timeline – both groups of plants were still wilting. What the conclusion for some might be is that water is of no use to wilting plants. If you understood how ridiculous that is, plants need water. Whether or not a plant can get rid of wilting is not the question that should be asked.
The question should be, do plants need water and are they sicker without water than with it. What’s the answer? Is water biologically necessary? Yes water if biologically necessary for plants.
So if water does not stop wilting as in the original question asked, and water was introduced, why would they still be wilting? If you only study one thing and make it so reductionist, it’s impossible to see the answer.
Let’s take another example. Maybe the plants don’t don’t have enough sunlight? So now if you just study sunlight alone you get the same answer as the plants will still be wilting.
So now you in the experiment testing sunlight, you have a real water group with fake sunlight, real sunlight with fake water, you have a group with both water and sunlight that are fake, and then you do your study and at the end they are all still wilting.
What’s the conclusion? If you only see the value in water or in sunlight to be having the plant not wilting, and if your question is do either of these stop the wilting your conclusion would be neither sun nor water stopped the wilting. Then you would give no value, yet in actual fact any plants will surely die without a sufficient amount of both.
But if your question is, can it stop wilting you would say they are useless. It is not until you change the question and ask, does it, (the plant), need water and sun to epigenetically express structure and function, you will still conclude that sun and water have no value because they did not stop wilting in the above experiments.
Why are they still wilting?
Well maybe there is not enough nutrients in the soil? So now a bunch more groups are tested similar to those above. Yet you still have the same question. But they are still wilting?
So you determine water, healthy nutrients, and sunlight are useless.
Anyone that offers those three things are a quack. These things have no value independently to a plant to stop it wilting.
Maybe someone is dumping diesel fuel into water supply that’s why they are all wilting.
So the question is not, will whether sun, nutrients and water independently stop/help or change the wilting? The question is not right.
So to question if chiropractic helped something or some condition is the wrong question. The question is; are people healthier when they have a healthy moving spine (Segmental motion to provide the motor unit with full range of motion to support afferent sensory nerve system input to fully express structure, life and function).
Is a human that has a healthier moving spine healthier than a person that does not have a healthy moving spine? YES.
People are healthier when their spine moves and when every joint in the spine moves through a full range of motion every day.