Lecture 1 History and Philosophy Flashcards
Who is regarded as the father of naturopathy?
Hippocrates 468 BCE
Vincent Priessnitz 1799
What was Samuel Thomson’s trilogy of healing? What title is her remembered by?
Elimination (herbs)
Restore body heat (cayenne)
Promote sweating (vapour bath)
The father of American herbalism
Describe the Scroth Diet
Alternate dry/ wet (drainage) days
Associated with rhythmic changes
Developed by Johannes Scroth
Describe 5 Naturopathic Principles
Healing power of nature Prevention preferable to cure Treat cause, not symptom Whole person is treated Health more than absence of infirmity Person treated, not disease Individual in unique Disease stems from imbalance Disease is due to internal environment Addressing deficiency and excess Ailments should not be suppressed Naturopath as educator
Give three examples of when suppression might occur
Painkillers Antipyretic Steroids Anti depressants Antibiotics
Explain how earthing (grounding) works
By walking barefoot on the earth, our bodies take up the earth’s negative ions thereby decreasing the electromagnetic stress and acidity in the body.
A client goes to sleep and wakes up at 4am most nights. What organ might you support based in the Chinese Clock.
4am is lung organ dominance
1-3am liver 3-5am lung 5-7am large intestine 7-9am stomach 9-11am spleen 11-1 heart 1-3pm small intestine 3-5pm bladder 5-7pm kidney 7-9pm pericardium 9-11pm triple burner 11-1 gallbladder
Where does the word naturopathy come from
Disorder of nature
Natura: Latin root for birth
Pathos: Greek root for suffering
If a patient with eczema is treated naturally and the rash clears first from the face, then the neck and arms, which of Hering’s Laws of Cure is demonstrated?
5 from above to below
1- inside out 2- more serious to less serious 3- mind improves before body 4- symptoms disappear in reverse order of arrival 5- from above to below
Who is considered the father of naturopathy for Australia and what did he believe to be the key to good health.
Maurice Blackmore 1906
Minerals
Who advocated bowel cleansing as the most important aspect in maintaining health. What substances were used for his cleansing protocol?
Dr. Bernard Jensen 1908
Bentonite clay
Psyllium husk
Also used chlorophyll and developed colon hydrotherapy
Who is regarded as the father of naturopathy and founder of modern hydrotherapy? What were his main accomplishments?
Vincenz Priessnitz (1799-1852)
Austrian farmer, contemporary of Schroth
Treated 40,000 patients of who only 45 dies
Understood bio-individuality
“Drugless healing” vegetarian diet of fresh vegetables, black bread unpasteurized goat’s milk, fresh air, exercise, rest and fasting
What is the Priessnitz bandage
Cold layer immersed in water
Plastic impermeable layer
Cover warm layer
Method used to draw out toxins
What is Heinrich Franke Rausse known for?
German 1805-1848
Hydrotherapy
Alternating hot and cod’s improves lymphatic drainage
Describe some of the accomplishments fo Sebastian Kneipp
He was also known as the father of hydrotherapy having studied under Priessnitz. He developed the idea of alternating hot and cold compresses. Established connection between American and European naturopathy.
Who is the author of ‘The New Science of Healing’? Explain the basic premise.
Louis Kuhne (German) The root cause was due to presence of foreign matter aka “unity of disease” theory needed to be addressed for healing. Established cold water hydrotherapy to stimulate the lower abdomen and improve detoxification.
American naturopath from Michigan who promoted the importance of intestinal microflora.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Advocated regular enemas to remove morbid matter and prevent a state of auto=toxaemia
Famous for his 15 hour work days, high fiber cereal and peanut butter
Adolf Just
Raw food and earthing
Disease punishment for not obeying the laws of nature
Rudolph Steiner
Austrian scientist and philosopher who developed systems of medicine, education and farming
Discuss Rudolph Steiner’s philosophy around poor health
Due to imbalance in the four planes of man
Physical is governed by the emotional thus emotions affect our physical cells
Emotional is governed by the mental thus emotions are governed by our thoughts
Mental is governed by the spiritual thus thoughts are governed by pure consciousness
Founder of scientific naturoapthy
Henry Lindlahr
Taught nature cure by Sebastian Kneipp
‘Healing crisis’ initial mobilization of toxins leas to aggravation of symptoms prior to their elimination.
Pioneer of iridology
Developed iris map
Inner reflection to aid well being
Arnold Ehret
Author of the mucusless diet healing system
Swiss naturopath advocated 50/50 raw food diet emphasizing fruit and founder of Bircher-Brenner Clinic in Zurich, renamed the vital force clinic
Dr. Max Bircher-Benner
Benedict Lust
Father of naturopathy in America cured from TB by Kneipp, founded first American college of naturopathic medicine in New York.
Against processed foods, ‘nature does not err’
Milton Powell
British Naturopath rallied naturopaths to form an association
Author of Outline of naturopathic psychotherapy
Dr. Max Gerson
Toxicity and deficiency are the two planks underpinning health. German. Alkaline body with organic vegetable juices and detoxify with coffee enemas
James C. Thomson
Fibre
Scottish naturopath trained under Lindlahr for four years
Set up The Kingston Clinic in Edinburgh in 1938
Stanley Lief
Established British College of Naturopathy (the Hygienist School)
South African, trained with Bernard Macfadden in Chicago
Dr. Herbert Shelton
Considered toxaemia to be the universal basic cause of all ‘so-called’ disease
Founded natural hygiene school in Texas
No intervention, let only nature do the work
Who was was the father of food combining and promoter of raw foods
Dr. Herbert Shelton
Which naturopath was invited to India by Mahtama Gandhi to talk about fasting.
Dr. Herbert Shelton
Alfred Brauchle
First historian of the nature cure movement
German
Director of Priessnitz hospital in Berlin
Wrote ‘nature cure in biographies’
Alfred Vogel
Believed that only fresh plants with their ‘life force’ are capable of curing
Switzerland, 3rd generation herbalist
Wrote “The nature doctor” trust in the healing power of nature
Maurice Blackmore
Father of Australian naturopathy
Believed minerals were the key to health
Helped set up the Australian National Naturopathic Association
Dr. Bernard Jensen
Jensen developed this chart after seeing thousands of patients
Heart, spleen lung problems reported sensation in a paticular area of the colon at the same time
Developed colon hydrotherapy
Louis Pasteur
Germ theory
Pasteurization
Disease from the outside view dominate thinking in western meidicne
Claude Bernard
French founder of modern physiology and “terrain” theory
Antoine Bechamp
Most diseases result from an acidic, low oxygenated “terrain”
Describe the terrain theory
Bechamp believed that germs are opportunistic and live with us symbiotically
Disease occurs from within the body and microbes are after-effects not causes
To prevent illness, he advocated not to “kill” germs but to promote health through diet, exercise, cleaning
Natural Therapeutics- Hygiene
The naturopathic term given for general lifestyle changes that support vitality and healing including: Exercise Earthing Sleep Sunshine Breathing
Describe the 5 tenants of Hering’s Laws of Cure
- From inside out
- From more serious organs to less serious ones
- The mind gets better before the body
- Symptoms disappear in reverse order to how they arrived
- (Healing takes place from) From above to below
