Homeopathy 1 Flashcards
“An Essay on a New Principle to Ascertain the Curative Powers of Drugs” in 1796.
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)
From the start, homeopathy attracted a lot of positive and a lot of negative attention from the medical world..
Who Rejected that gods cause diseases and Promoted the use of healthy food, etc.
Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)
“By the similars we prescribe, the ill do their good health find anew. Thus, whatever causes little urine to pass removes that which has already caused little urine to pass”
Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)
a Greek physician, was still an influence into the late 18th century (bloodletting…)
Galen Galenus
what are The 4 humours/temperaments:
blood
black bile
yellow bile
phlegm
sanguine
blood
melancholic
black bile
choleric
yellow bile
phlegmatic
phlegm
(dependable, affectionate, slow/lazy)
phlegmatic - phlegm
(passionate, charismatic, bossy)
choleric - yellow bile
(creative, kind, introverted)
melancholic - black bile
(extroverted, social, impulsive)
sanguine - blood
A Persian physician (980-1037), the “father of early modern medicine”, he influenced medieval medicine in Europe until the mid-18th century.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
who believed there were natural causes to disease and promoted holistic medicine by addressing physical and psychological factors, environment, diet…
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
who was teaching that there were only two diseases, sthenic (strong) and asthenic (weak), and two treatments, stimulant and sedative (he used alcohol and opium to treat patients)
John Brown
who was more orthodox and opposed john browns views
William Cullen
what did HAHNEMANN propose?
a system of treatment involving the administration of minute doses of drugs whose effects resemble the effects of the disease being treated
. His ideas had a salutary effect upon medical thought at a time when prescriptions were lengthy and doses were large, and his system has had many followers
like treats like
Common treatments included:
- Polypharmacy (herbs, metals, toxic compounds), ingested, injected, topical…
- Bloodletting
- Emetics, purgatives, blistering agents…
- Cauterization, amputation, surgery (no antiseptics, anesthetics)
Who was the founder of homeopathic medicine?
Samuel Hahnemann was the founder, though he is not the discoverer of
the Law of Similars; that was Hippocrates.
Hahnemann decided the Law of Similars should be applied to guide how we prescribe our remedies and medical treatments.
The smallpox vaccine is a good example of
A – Variolation (use of variola virus to prevent small pox)
B – Isopathy / Isotherapy (same cures same)
C – Homeopathy (like cures like)
D – Homeopathic prophylaxy (like prevents like)
is a good example of homeopathic prophylaxy (prevention) because they used the cow pox / horse pox virus (vaccinia
virus) to prevent a similar disease (variola) which was much more dangerous to human beings
True or False? Vis Medicatrix Naturae, one of the six basic principles of naturopathic medicine, is an example of the influence of the rationalist school of thought on naturopathy.
False. The rationalist school believes we can do better than nature, if
we get the right technology, medical advancements, etc. The empirical
school believes we should work with the forces and wisdom of nature.
-> The body is a complex adaptive system, not a simple machine
- dynamic (body is more than the sum: adaptive)
- holistic and individualistic
- test and observe phenomena, don’t theorize the use of “natural”, gentle measures
- vis medicatrix naturae- follow the nature, the symptoms, don’t suppress them
- most important are the peculiar symptoms
empirical school
- mechanistic (machine), materialistic view of the body and its function
- reductionist and grouping of disease
- “heroical” (even dangerous) theories and heroic treatments
- can do better than nature, better than vis medicatrix nature, eliminate the symptoms
- most important are the common symptoms
rationalist school
follow the nature, the symptoms, don’t suppress them
vis medicatrix naturae
what were HAHNEMANN’S DISCOVERIES (3)
The Law of Similars must guide medical practice
The highly diluted, potentized remedies
The theory of chronic miasms
Hahnemann’s discoveries challenged
the status quo and the established practices in medicine.
Hahnemann also gained followers like
Constantine Hering and
Clemens M. F von Bönninghausen
