HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Primary Care, Allopathic Medicine, Chiropractic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2321
• Professor: Kirsti Bissada

Document Summary

Improvement in the quality of chiropractic education and increased intra-group cohesion. Chiropractic theory and the possible future of chiropractic. Naturopathy is a system of primary care that uses natural methods and substances to support and stimulate the. Naturopathy is based on the assumption that health and illness are both natural components of a total but unique (cid:271)od(cid:455)(cid:859)s i(cid:374)here(cid:374)t self-healing processes. human being spirit, body, and mind. Naturopathy includes a number of different healing streams, including botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, traditional chinese medicine and acupuncture, hydrotherapy, and homeopathy. The goal of naturopathic medicine is to assist the body in creating the most suitable conditions under which it can heal itself. Homeopathy, from the greek words homoios pathos, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:858)si(cid:373)ilar si(cid:272)k(cid:374)ess(cid:859), is (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) a (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)er of principles that are in opposition to allopathic medicine. Sickness is thought of as a message rather than a biological pathology. Naturopathi(cid:272) (cid:373)edi(cid:272)i(cid:374)e does (cid:374)ot treat diseases (cid:271)ut sti(cid:373)ulates the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:859)s (cid:448)ital heali(cid:374)g for(cid:272)es.