What is Physiomedicalism and how does it vary from other forms of homeopathic medicine?

Question

What is Physiomedicalism and how does it vary from other forms of homeopathic medicine?

Answer 1

EDIT: I saw that Jade Wind merely copied a quote from a website (http://www.toddcaldecott.com/physiomedic... so I'll add more to address your worthy question.

-----The two overlap in that Samuel Thomson (connected with physiomedicalism) and Samuel Hahnemann, M.D. (who developed homeopathy) lived during the same period. Hahnemann was born 14 years earlier (1755), although both men died in the same year (1843).-----

* Physiomedicalism

"Samuel Thomson (1769-1843) had initiated a rebellion against depleting, 'heroic' medical practices in America in the early 1800s by combining simple herbal remedies with steam baths and enemas. His system placed heavy reliance on two chief herbs: cayenne (Capsicum spp.) and lobelia (Lobelia inflata). A botanic medical reform movement of Neo-Thomsonian doctors developed which in 1852 came to be known as physiomedicalism, a term denoting 'nature's medicines.'" (http://www.herbalgram.org/youngliving/he...

-----Both men shared views (Thomson following Hahnemann) about addressing health through hygiene, immunization, nutrition, and natural treatments.-----

* Homeopathy in the context of the evolution of general

(Excerpted from  "Planet Medicine" by Richard Grossinger, pp. 165-166)

"Hahnemann regarded his own work as general medicine, and he made many contributions, of which homeopathy was one.  But at the time he presented his ideas and throughout most of the nineteenth century, the full body of Hahnemannian science was considered homeopathy.  After all, that is what Hahnemann named it himself.  [EMPHASIS MINE]: Much of the material, however, dealt with diet, hygiene, immunization, the preparation of medicines, and even the origin of germs and techniques of surgery (nonhomeopathic topics).

"At the same time, nineteenth-century allopathy bore little resemblance to current allopathy, or mainstream medicine, which is actually a mixture of traditional beliefs, innovations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the single self-critical thread of scientific experiment that runs through its very fiber.  The innovations came partly from American science, but even more from early twentieth-century British medicine; in addition, Hahnemann's non-homeopathic philosophy of therapeutics was adopted in toto by the establishment.  Only his homeopathic principles were ‘invalidated' and dropped from general practice....

"Homeopathy, then, had its heyday before the formal split into allopathy and homeopathy, i.e., as a different system than it presently is.  By the Civil War, it was the American medicine and what we know as standard medicine almost became extinct. Homeopaths were wealthier, more popular, and maintained a network of prestigious medical schools and hospitals. Through their joint efforts with other sectarian medicines, bloodletting and dosing with mercury, which were the mainstays of regular medicine, were successfully criticized and gradually eliminated.  Allopathy eventually replaced them with other surgeries and dosing with other drugs, but homeopathy scored a permanent victory on at least these specific items.  Hahnemann's philosophy, though it did not succeed in establishing homeopathy as universal medicine, led the way to a general revision of the medical profession in the United States.  After that, it no longer existed in its traditional form, though it came to exist in its purest form as simply the homeopathic principles.  Only after mainstream medicine adopted general Hahnemannian thought was it equipped to dismiss specific homeopathic thought."

*. Physiomedicalism

"The physiomedicalists emphasized the use of sanative, or nonpoisonous, botanical remedies to balance functions and enhance vitality. They promoted nutrition of tissues and excretion of waste, restoration and maintenance of proper tone of diseased tissues, and removal of obstacles to vitality. Obstructions to health were perceived as irregular action of the nervous and/or circulatory systems. These deranged functions led to a loss of equilibrium and chemical destruction of tissues, manifesting as disease symptoms. Physiomedicalists used combinations of herbal remedies to assist in the correction of these pathological imbalances. However, with the death of Alva Curtis in 1881 physiomedicalism began its decline in America."  (http://www.herbalgram.org/youngliving/he...

-----In terms of healing modalities today,

homeopathy is unrelated to physiomedicalism except in their respective developer's similar lines of thinking. Rather, homeopathy is a separate field, parallel to acupuncture and chiropractic in terms of being comprehensive (complete in itself). Physiomedicalism was the predecessor of naturopathy (not western medicine). Naturopathic doctors are medical doctors who also train in natural ways to treat health problems as electives (e.g., homeopathy, herbology).

This link will provide more information about homeopathy, if needed:

http://nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/

Answer 2

look out for both b/c they do not work and if anything can exacerbate anything that you are trying to have treated.

Answer 3

Physiomedicalism

Physiomedicalism is the form of North American herbal medicine that developed out of the practices of Samuel Thomson during the mid-1800's, which quickly developed into a full-fledged medical profession in a few short decades. Although bearing a striking resemblence to the more ancient system of healing called Ayurveda, the profession was dealt an untimely end with the advent of the modern age, when all diseases could supposedly solved by the 'magic bullets' of vaccines and antibiotics. Now, 100 years later, these 'magic bullets' have proved to be something of a double-edged sword, and have contributed, by the most conservative of estimates, to making modern medicine the third leading cause of death in the United States. Physiomedicalism is the foundation of modern Western herbal medicine, and there is renewed interest among both practitioners and the general public into this intriguing system of healing.

I don't know about the comparisons, however....Sorry