Am posing this question as I get asked it so often, remember I live in remote Qld, Australia!
What is the difference between Homoeopathy and Naturopathy?
I answer differently every time - usually giving too much information and confusing some people. Please could the list have a go with 100 words or less?
with thanks,
gillian saunders
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100 words or less!
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Tanya Marquette
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Re: 100 words or less!
Dear Gillian
I usually define naturopathy as an umbrella concept that covers many holistic modalities of healing. Homeopathy is a particular and specific holisitc modality
tanya
I usually define naturopathy as an umbrella concept that covers many holistic modalities of healing. Homeopathy is a particular and specific holisitc modality
tanya
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Soroush Ebrahimi
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Re: 100 words or less!
Homoeopathy works on the principle of symptom similarity. Easy to
understand.
Naturopathy is a collection of various effects experienced with out any
under lying principle.
E.g. in a case of diahorrea, you can use natural yoghurt and cooked rice and
there is a relatively quick end to the diarrhoea. That is if the pt can
keep the mixture down. What is the principle involved? I don't know?
Is it permanent? Not always.
Compare to Ars when you patient is discharging at both ends!!
Soroush
understand.
Naturopathy is a collection of various effects experienced with out any
under lying principle.
E.g. in a case of diahorrea, you can use natural yoghurt and cooked rice and
there is a relatively quick end to the diarrhoea. That is if the pt can
keep the mixture down. What is the principle involved? I don't know?
Is it permanent? Not always.
Compare to Ars when you patient is discharging at both ends!!
Soroush
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gunterma_bar
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Re: 100 words or less!
Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic Medicine, or Naturopathy, is a system of medicine that uses
natural substances to treat the patient and recognition that the
patient's mental, emotional, and physical states must all be treated for
a lasting effect.
Though the term Naturopathy was coined in 1895, this type of medicine
had been practiced for hundreds, if not thousands of years prior. In the
mid and late 1800s in the United States, the standard medical schools
taught herbal, homeopathic, and nutritional medicine along with surgery
and other more heroic type medicines.
Gradually, the pharmaceutical direction to isolate components of the
herbs created more potent, but potentially more txic drugs. Further,
with the advent of antibiotics, the long-term adverse consequences of
drugs was not understood and the slower, more gradual effects of
Naturopathic medicine almost pushed it into disuse in the early 1900s.
The current resurgence is due to a recognition of both the
accomplishments and the limitations of the current medical system and
the efficacy of Naturopathic medicine.
The foundation of Naturopathic medicine is the vitalistic philosophy of
the "healing power of nature." This means that within every human
organism there is a healing energy, which includes our immune system in
the fuller sense of both the physical and the psyche, which is
responsible for our wellness and our ability to heal and maintain
health.
Following this first premise is the second, that the therapies used to
support and stimulate this healing power of nature must be in "the
gentlest, least invasive, most efficient manner possible".
The third Naturopathic premise is "to diagnose and treat the cause".
Naturopaths do not simply treat the manifestation of the disease but
rather search for the cause and treat it.
To accomplish these goals, Naturopathic medicine incorporates many
therapeutic modalities: herbal medicine, homeopathy, nutrition,
hydrotherapy, food, exercise therapy, physical therapy, manipulation of
the bony and soft tissues, lifestyle and counseling. Additionally, some
Naturopaths elect to continue their education to receive a license to
practice natural childbirth.
Natural Medicine
Naturopathic medicine treats the patient from the preventive stage
through to serious, chronic and debilitating disease. Therefore, people
can go to Naturopaths for colds, bronchitis, allergies, as well as for
heart disease, diabetes, and malignant diseases.
Naturopaths are recognized in the state of Oregon as licensed physicians
who are trained not only in the naturopathic therapeutics but in the
conventional fields of diagnosis: lab tests, x-rays, physical exams and
other procedures. On account of this broad training, Naturopathic
physicians are best able to integrate conventional and alternative
medicine.
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Naturopathic Medicine, or Naturopathy, is a system of medicine that uses
natural substances to treat the patient and recognition that the
patient's mental, emotional, and physical states must all be treated for
a lasting effect.
Though the term Naturopathy was coined in 1895, this type of medicine
had been practiced for hundreds, if not thousands of years prior. In the
mid and late 1800s in the United States, the standard medical schools
taught herbal, homeopathic, and nutritional medicine along with surgery
and other more heroic type medicines.
Gradually, the pharmaceutical direction to isolate components of the
herbs created more potent, but potentially more txic drugs. Further,
with the advent of antibiotics, the long-term adverse consequences of
drugs was not understood and the slower, more gradual effects of
Naturopathic medicine almost pushed it into disuse in the early 1900s.
The current resurgence is due to a recognition of both the
accomplishments and the limitations of the current medical system and
the efficacy of Naturopathic medicine.
The foundation of Naturopathic medicine is the vitalistic philosophy of
the "healing power of nature." This means that within every human
organism there is a healing energy, which includes our immune system in
the fuller sense of both the physical and the psyche, which is
responsible for our wellness and our ability to heal and maintain
health.
Following this first premise is the second, that the therapies used to
support and stimulate this healing power of nature must be in "the
gentlest, least invasive, most efficient manner possible".
The third Naturopathic premise is "to diagnose and treat the cause".
Naturopaths do not simply treat the manifestation of the disease but
rather search for the cause and treat it.
To accomplish these goals, Naturopathic medicine incorporates many
therapeutic modalities: herbal medicine, homeopathy, nutrition,
hydrotherapy, food, exercise therapy, physical therapy, manipulation of
the bony and soft tissues, lifestyle and counseling. Additionally, some
Naturopaths elect to continue their education to receive a license to
practice natural childbirth.
Natural Medicine
Naturopathic medicine treats the patient from the preventive stage
through to serious, chronic and debilitating disease. Therefore, people
can go to Naturopaths for colds, bronchitis, allergies, as well as for
heart disease, diabetes, and malignant diseases.
Naturopaths are recognized in the state of Oregon as licensed physicians
who are trained not only in the naturopathic therapeutics but in the
conventional fields of diagnosis: lab tests, x-rays, physical exams and
other procedures. On account of this broad training, Naturopathic
physicians are best able to integrate conventional and alternative
medicine.
homeonewbie-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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Nancy Siciliana
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Re: 100 words or less!
Gillian Saunders wrote:
>
In a word, the difference between these two schools is PARADIGM.
Naturopathy is basically an allopathic approach, using "natural" biochemical
medicines (herbal tinctures and extracts, nutritional supplements--bascially
crude, natural forms of these chemicals) in much the same way that
conventional medical doctors prescribe pharmaceuticals. Naturopaths also
ascribe to the same understanding of disease as allopaths--and often target
a "materia peccans" (e.g. organism, virus, spore, gene) as the cause of
disease.
It CAN be a holistic approach in that often supplements or herbal treatments
can be used to "strengthen" the whole body's resistance to those "disease
causing" germs--but basically you're substituting natural medicine for
pharmaceuticals--or using them together in treating illnesses or symptoms.
Homeopathy is based on the Law of Similars. Treatment is highly
individualized and focused on correcting a dynamic mistunement of the vital
force, which is understood to be the cause of all disease, by carefully
selecting remedies which have been specially prepared to act to that end.
How's that?
Nancy Siciliana
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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>
In a word, the difference between these two schools is PARADIGM.
Naturopathy is basically an allopathic approach, using "natural" biochemical
medicines (herbal tinctures and extracts, nutritional supplements--bascially
crude, natural forms of these chemicals) in much the same way that
conventional medical doctors prescribe pharmaceuticals. Naturopaths also
ascribe to the same understanding of disease as allopaths--and often target
a "materia peccans" (e.g. organism, virus, spore, gene) as the cause of
disease.
It CAN be a holistic approach in that often supplements or herbal treatments
can be used to "strengthen" the whole body's resistance to those "disease
causing" germs--but basically you're substituting natural medicine for
pharmaceuticals--or using them together in treating illnesses or symptoms.
Homeopathy is based on the Law of Similars. Treatment is highly
individualized and focused on correcting a dynamic mistunement of the vital
force, which is understood to be the cause of all disease, by carefully
selecting remedies which have been specially prepared to act to that end.
How's that?
Nancy Siciliana
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp