Study Guide- Healing Traditions

  1. How to tell if someone is a quack

  • They will boast about how good their product is working-the health benefits

  • they will be bitter to other orthodox practitioners

2. There are 2 types of quacks

  • those who truly believe they are helping the public but don’t have a lot of knowledge

  • those who are hoodwinking the public

3. 8 Divisions of the soul

  1. Ka-the person that walks around in the tomb, could eat, drink

  2. Ib-heart-controlled moral awareness

  3. Khat-physical-stayed behind and decayed

  4. Khabibit-shadow-separate form physical body and travel at will

  5. Akh-everlasting divine spark-intellect-brain-could go into the heavens

  6. Sahu-if they passed ultimate judgement and encompassed abilities of the person-spiritual body

  7. Sekhem-The life force of the deceased that lived in the heavens

  8. Ba-human headed bird that flies around tomb and brings air and food to the deceased

What happened during the different periods

Age of individualism-18th century

  • anyone could claim to be a doctor without legal constraints, lay healers, midwives and bonesetters

  • no effective licensing system/ training

Gilded age

  • 2nd half of 19th century, lifestyle importance was brought to the public, education for public schools, Attention to importance of prevention

  • Wellness is a positive state of health far above mere absence of disease

Romantic

  • Natural life was intended path of the creator, healthful living in the face of increasing industrial civilization was primary objective

Enlightenment

  • Moderation-golden rule

  • perfect human shell

  • power of education to reform and elevate human, faith in power of science to answer all questions and provide some level of control, encouraged natural laws of health could be exploited to get rid of disease altogether

Progressive

  • managerial and fitness success, physical fitness-push past limits,

  • Horace Fletcher-the Great masticator

  • Bernarr Macfadden-professional wrestler and body builder-sexual vigor was an element of total health

Be able to identify the different treatment approaches of each as well as educational growth and changes.

Botanical medicine,

  • Using herbs, roots as drugs to heal the body instead of heroic medicine and drugs

  • Effectiveness of treatment

  • Perception of illness

  • Combination drugs and Individualism

Homeopathy

  • Like cures like-law of similia

  • Cinchona-Jesuit bark

  • Law of infinitesimals-the smaller the dose the more stimulated your body will be to fight the disease

 Thomsonism

  • opposed heroic medicine

  • vitalism-body has the vital energy to heal powered by heat

  • Curative power of nature-man could do it himself without doctor intervention

  • Used steam baths to create own healing method

Osteopathy, especially issues DO’s faced with MD’s and licensing

  • affects of disease were obstruction or imbalance of the of the fluids

  • licensing issues caused more hours required by the states-same as MD schools

  • MD’s minimized roles of DO and wanted to drive out the DOs

  • Not all states had DO licensure yet and MD’s often accused DO of practicing without a license

  • lesion-structural diagnosis vs broad osteopaths efficacy in manipulation-developing scope of practice

  • Needed hours of drug therapy training and AOA fought this

chiropractic

  • Impersonators of the true DO

  • spinal manipulations

 Hydrotherapy

  • Using water internally and externally to heal the body instead of allopathic-drugs

  • Female workers who helped women for specific reasons

  • used as sedative, antipyretic-lowering heat, and astringent

magnet therapy

  • there’s an invisible universal magnetic fluid flow throughout the body and that too much or too little of this flow in any area of the body is what caused disease