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17 Cards in this Set
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What were the barefoot doctors responsible for?
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A strategy used by the WHO to enable developing countries to support herbal practitioners
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German Commission E monographs represent?
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Herbal monographs that have been scientifically validated
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Differences in approach from allopathic to herbal medicine?
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Allopathic medicine supplies a drug that will counter an over or under active system. Herbal practitioners will supply, medicine, lifestyle and supplements
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The eclectics mode of treatment
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Practitioners chose therapy to suitable individual such as homeopathy, allopathy and hydrotherapy
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Wooster Beach (1794-1968)
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founded the Reformed Botanical movement – based on indigenous herbs
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Role of the naturopath today
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to teach people to heal themselves
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What is heroic medicine?
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A series of practices such as blood letting, purging, vomiting by doctors in late 1700s (often with dire consequences)
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What was the basic tenet for Thomsonian medicine?
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Drastic measure for drastic conditions
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Main tenets of Thomsonian medicine?
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- Every man is his own doctor
- Heat is life and cold is death |
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What was the main focus of Physio-medicalists?
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Large materia medica of non-toxic herbs
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List four herbs introduced by the eclectics?
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• Echinacea – purple cornflower
• Hydrastis canadensis – golden seal • Iris versicolour – blue flag root • Cimicifuga racemosa -Black cohosh |
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What medical disaster helped bring life back to herbal medicine?
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Thalidomide
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On what were the Thomsonian medicines founded
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Native American medicines
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Who founded the Physio-medicalists?
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Alva Curtis
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From what system of medicine did the Eclectics evolve?
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The reformed botanical movement
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What major change did John Milton Scudder introduce to the eclectic movement?
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Small doses of one herb vs. multi herbal preparations
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What is the name of the report that led to the reformation of medical education in the US?
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The Flexner report
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