History & Philosophy

Question 1

What is Naturopathy?

Answer 1

A system of healthcare that encourages and promotes the body’s own self-healing mechanisms.

Question 2

What are the 5 principles of naturopathy

Answer 2

1. The Healing Power of Nature
2. Treat the Cause, not a Symptom
3. Treat the Whole Person
4. Prevention is Preferable to Cure
5. Education

Question 3

Briefly explain what is meant by ‘the healing power of nature’

Answer 3

• The body can heal itself given the right conditions and treatment
• The body has a ‘vital force’ which can be stimulated or suppressed

Question 4

What is health?

Answer 4

Abundant vitality.

The best possible physical, mental, and emotional state.

Question 5

What 4 things does a nutritional therapist focus on?

Answer 5

1) Using whole and organic food as medicine.
2) Detoxification and cleansing
3) Looking at the constitution of the patient
4) Understanding the cause of the symptoms.

Question 6

What is a ‘nutrient’?

Answer 6

A substance that provides nourishment essential for the growth and maintenance of life

Question 7

What is ‘nutrition’?

Answer 7

The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

Question 8

What is ‘nourishment’?

Answer 8

The food or other substances necessary for growth, health and good condition.

Question 9

Define ‘food’

Answer 9

Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth

Question 10

Define ‘whole food’

Answer 10

Food that has not been processed or refined and is free from additives or other artificial substances

Question 11

Define ‘organic food’

Answer 11

Food free from fertilisers, pesticides, irradiation, GMOs, growth hormones and livestock feed additives

Question 12

What are superfoods?
And give 2 examples

Answer 12

Highly nutritious foods containing all, or nearly all, the vitamins, minerals and trace elements the body needs.

Eg.
Algae
Sprouts
Bee pollen
Wheatgrass

Question 13

What is junk food?

Answer 13

Substances that are not natural, have been altered, or are not suitable for maintaining health and growth

Question 14

When was Ayurvedic medicine first established?

Answer 14

5000+ years ago in India

Question 15

When was Traditional Chinese medicine first established?

Answer 15

Approx. 300 years ago

Question 16

Who famously said:

“Let food be thy Medicine, and Medicine be thy food”

Answer 16

Hippocrates (468-377 BC)
The Father of Medicine

Question 17

In what order of healing did Hippocates believe in?

Answer 17

Food as the primary source.
Then herbs.
Finally intervention

Question 18

What was Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897) known for?

Answer 18

Father of hydrotherapy

Cured his own TB by bathing in the river Danube,

Question 19

Explain hydrotherapy

Answer 19

The therapeutic use of water as a healing agent.

Cold water decreases circulation and numbs the area.

Hot water relaxes muscles and increases circulation.

Alternating hot/cold stimulates blood flow, increasing oxygen and nutritional supply to cells.

Question 20

What was Dr Max Bircher-Benner (1868-1939) known for?

Answer 20

Famous for Bircher muesli

Advocated a 50/50 raw food diet with emphasis on fruit.

Question 21

Before becoming commersialised, what was Dr John Harvey Kellogg’s breakfast cereal aimed at?

Answer 21

Improving bowel health and intestinal microflora.

Question 22

Who used the term ‘nature-cure’?

Answer 22

Henry Lindlahr (1862-1924)

Question 23

What is Gerson Therapy?

Answer 23

Max Gerson (1881-1959)

Alkalising the body through fresh organic vegetable juices and detoxification with coffee enemas.

Very high success rate for TB. Went on to use with cancer patients.

Question 24

What’s the significance of James Thomson (1887-1960)?

Answer 24

Opened the first training college in Britain in 1919 - The Edinburgh School of Natural Therapeutics.

He advocated fibre.

Question 25

What is Bernard Jensen (1908-2001) known for?

Answer 25

Advocated bowel-cleansing as the most important aspect in maintaining health. Used bentonite clay to help bind waste materials to clear out the bowels. Mapped out organs to different places in the bowels.

Question 26

Briefly outline key suppressions in Natural Medicine in recent history

Answer 26

2004 - BBC closed its web pages for complementary medicine. National newspapers also stopped reporting on healing successes. Several mainstream papers started printing overtly anti-alternative columns, 2010 - Advertising Standards Agency started censoring natural therapy websites and adverts in the UK

Question 27

Who is a key founder in the multi-billion pharmaceutical industry?

Answer 27

John Rockefeller (1839-1937)

Question 28

Compare 3 differences in how allopathy and homeopathy treat disease.

Answer 28

A - uses chemicals/drugs H - uses natural ingredients A - views symptoms as the disease H- views symptoms as an expression of disease, not the disease. A - treats the symptoms H - treats the whole person

Question 29

Briefly explains the Laws of Similars

Answer 29

Developed by Samuel Hahnermann 'Like cures like' Uses the thing that produces the symptoms to take away the symptoms. Birthed homeopathy.

Question 30

Give 3 examples of treating 'like with like'

Answer 30

Bee Venom for a bee sting. Snake venom for a snake bite Warm water (hot) for a fever (hot) Apply warmth to burns.

Question 31

Does allopathy use the laws of similar?

Answer 31

No as it does not treat like with like. Eg advice is to use cold for both frostbite and burns, which doesn't make sense.

Question 32

Define suppression

Answer 32

One gets the manifestation of an illness to disappear without having healed the illness

Question 33

Give 3 examples of suppression

Answer 33

- Antidepressants suppress emotions - Antiperspirants suppress body secretions and toxins can cause breast cancer - Corticosteroids for skin complaints compromise the immune system and inhibit waste elimination from skin. - Tonsillectomy for throat infections leaves them immune compromised

Question 34

What are the 5 Laws of Cure

Answer 34

1. From inside out 2. The more serious organs to less serious ones. 3. The mind gets better before the body 4. Symptoms disappear in the reverse order to when they arrived 5. From above to below

Question 35

What is the theory behind the TCM Body Clock?

Answer 35

It believes that each organ functions at its optimum capacity at certain times of the day. It's a valuable tool when exploring the timing of symptoms and possible organs relations. Eg. 1am - 3am = Liver 3am - 5am = Lungs 5am - 7am = Large Intestines 7am - 9am = Stomach

Question 36

What's the principles of Yin and Yang?

Answer 36

Yin and Yang are opposites but not in absolute. Nothing is entirely one or the other. Generally: Yin is cool, contracting Yang is warm, expanding

Question 37

Give 3 examples of properties of Yin foods

Answer 37

Cooling foods Plant food - low in calories Wet Sweet Refined Raw

Question 38

Give 3 examples of properties of Yang foods

Answer 38

Warming foods High in calories Fresh food

Question 39

Give 5 examples of Yin Food

Answer 39

Fruit Green vegetables Seaweed Salad Fish Sprouts Coconut

Question 40

Give 5 examples of Yang food

Answer 40

Red meat (meat in general) Chocolate Tea & Coffee Alcohol Black pepper Ginger Chilli Onion Root vegetables

Question 41

Explain what is meant by relativity regarding Yin and Yang

Answer 41

Whether something is Yin or Yang can be relative to what it's being compared with. Eg Fish is generally considered Yin but it's not Yin in relation to more Yin foods such as raw vegetables.

Question 42

Give examples of Yin/Yang cooking methods

Answer 42

Yin = steaming or boiling, juicing, blending, grinding Yang = fire, baking or roasting

Question 43

What polarities are there of Yin and Yang?

Answer 43

Hot / Cold Dry / Wet Heavy / Light