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Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics, Vol. 1 (Volume 1)

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Lindlahr's books are not new, but then Natural Medicine isn't "new" either...

The fundamental laws of Natural Medicine handed down even from Hypocrates's time and before have changed very little - only the tools have been refigned.

These basic laws of Natural Medicine are thoroughly explored and explained in this the first volume of Lindlahr's texts.

A word of warning to the critic by nature: Heed not the phrases outdated and better understood from today's perspective [e.g. White blood corpsules = nothing but flowting isles of debree] explore the basic understandings of health and disease explained beautifuly as they are in this volume instead!

Enjoy & Good health!

Chen Profesorsky, Naturopathy and Chinese Medicine

Thank you for getting the book to me before class. I have not used it yet, and the condition is perfect. Like brand new

The clarity of this text is a must for all Naturopathic practitioners wanting a deep understanding of Hippocratic principles.The Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics

Lindlahr's "Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics" is my main example of naturopathy's essential 'article of faith' amalgam: their 'vitalistic, spiritistic, teleological, autoentheistic woo-woo.' I hate to visit such terms on the reader, but they do cover naturopathy's sectarian set: 'purposeful life spirit / god power within' / 'healing power of nature / vis medicatrix naturae' keystone belief obligations {the metaphysical, supernatural, idealistic, theistic / religious}. I attended UBCNM, where I was taught that 'modern nonsectarian scientific medicine' is founded upon such flapdoodle: that within the scientific is the unevidenced, the nonscientific, the scientifically-ejected, and the scientifically-discarded. Lindlahr was a required author, along with Kent and Hahnemann, Kaptchuk and Goodheart, to name a few. Some quotes from this book pertaining to FNPLA naturopathy's woo-woo: "life or vital force [...is] the primary force of all forces [...] an expression of divine intelligence [...of] the divine energy which sets in motion the whirls in the ether [...an] intelligent energy [that] can have but one source: the will and intelligence of the creator [p.023...] the life force, [is] itself a manifestation of the great creative intelligence which some call god, others nature, the oversoul, brahma, prana, the great spirit, etc. [...] this supreme intelligence and power acting in and through every atom, molecule and cell in the human body, which is the true healer, the 'vis medicatrix naturae' [...aka] 'the healer within' [p.024...] everything is done to improve and economize the vital force [p.029...] health is dependent upon an abundant supply of life force [p.032...] just what this vital force is and where it originates we do not know. It is the manifestation of that which we term god, nature, the higher power, or the divine within [p.273]." How is the belief that god and the godly are within oneself NOT a religious type? The book is full of archaic crappola which is interesting from a 'history of sectarian medicine in America' point of view.