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Homeopathy History and it's principles Flashcards

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Who was the founder of homeopathic medicine?

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Samuel Hahnemann

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Who was the discoverer of the law of similar

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Hippocrates

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who decided the Law of Similars should be applied to guide how we prescribe our remedies and medical treatments

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Hahnemann

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Who:
- Rejected that gods cause diseases
- Promoted the use of healthy food, etc.
- Vis medicatrix nature
- Balance the four humours

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Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)

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who said: “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”

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Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)

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Greek physician, was still an influence
into the late 18th century (bloodletting…)

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Galen

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“An Essay on a New Principle to Ascertain the Curative Powers of Drugs” in 1796.

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Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)
From the start, homeopathy attracted a lot of positive and a lot of negative attention from the medical world.

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Who Rejected that gods cause diseases and Promoted the use of healthy food, etc.

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Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)

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what are The 4 humours/temperaments:

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blood
black bile
yellow bile
phlegm

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sanguine describes what humour

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blood

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melancholic describes what humour

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black bile

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choleric describes what humour

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yellow bile

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phlegmatic describes what humour

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phlegm

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(dependable, affectionate, slow/lazy)

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phlegmatic - phlegm

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(passionate, charismatic, bossy)

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choleric - yellow bile

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(creative, kind, introverted)

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melancholic - black bile

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(extroverted, social, impulsive)

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sanguine - blood

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A Persian physician (980-1037), the “father of early modern medicine”, he influenced medieval medicine in Europe until the mid-18th century.

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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

19
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who believed there were natural causes to disease and promoted holistic medicine by addressing physical and psychological factors, environment, diet…

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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

20
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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)

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John Brown

21
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who was more orthodox and opposed john browns views

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William Cullen

22
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what did HAHNEMANN propose?

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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

23
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Common treatments included:

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  • Polypharmacy (herbs, metals, toxic compounds), ingested, injected, topical…
  • Bloodletting
  • Emetics, purgatives, blistering agents…
  • Cauterization, amputation, surgery (no antiseptics, anesthetics)
24
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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)

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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

25
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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.

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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

26
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  • 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
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empirical school

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  • 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
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rationalist school

28
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follow the nature, the symptoms, don’t suppress them

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vis medicatrix naturae

29
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what were HAHNEMANN’S DISCOVERIES (3)

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The Law of Similars must guide medical practice

The highly diluted, potentized remedies

The theory of chronic miasms

30
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Hahnemann’s discoveries challenged

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the status quo and the established practices in medicine.

31
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Why was Hahnemann a target

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He wanted the truth to be known and was vocal about it

32
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Homeopathic doctors were doing very well in the _______. In the US, they were making more money than the average doctor. But pressure was put on them to give up homeopathy.

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1800’s.

33
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what lead to the death of homeopathy in the US and Canada

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The developments of modern medicine and the closure of homeopathic colleges and universities

34
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In the 1970s, homeopathy regained strength, doctors were trained by _____________, a classical homeopath, and naturopathy also started to thrive again into the 21st century…

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George Vithoulkas

35
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Hahnemann also gained followers like

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Constantine Hering and
Clemens M. F von Bönninghausen

36
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the healing power of nature

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vis medicatrix naturae

37
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6 PRINCIPLES OF NATUROPATHY

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  1. Do no harm
  2. Work with the healing power(s) of nature
  3. Identify and treat the cause(s)
  4. Treat the whole person
  5. Doctor as teacher
  6. Prevention
38
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classic homeopathy can be described using 4 principles. What are the principles?

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  1. law of similars
  2. single remedy
  3. minimum dose
  4. the totality of symptoms

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