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Dianetics claims that these engrams are the cause of almost all psychological and physical problems.

In addition to containing the experience of physical pain, engrams can also include words or phrases overheard by the patient while he was unconscious.

For instance, Winter cites the example of a patient with a persistent headache supposedly tracing the problem to a doctor saying " Take him now " during the preclear's birth.

( wordy / unclear ) Hubbard similarly claims that the cause of leukemia is traceable to " an engram containing the phrase ' It turns my blood to water.

'" While it is sometimes claimed that the Church of Scientology no longer stands by Hubbard's claims that Dianetics can treat physical conditions, it still publishes them: "... when the knee injuries of the past are located and discharged, the arthritis ceases, no other injury takes its place and the person is finished with arthritis of the knee.

" " reactive mind can give a man arthritis, bursitis, asthma, allergies, sinusitis, coronary trouble, high blood pressure ... And it is the only thing in the human being which can produce these effects ...

Discharge the content of reactive mind and the arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalog of ills goes away and stays away.