Naturopathy's Essential Vitalism - CNM UK, Langley ND '07 '

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Naturopathy's Essential Vitalism - CNM UK, Langley ND '07 '

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Naturopathy's Essential Vitalism - CNM UK & Langley, S. (ND ?) 2007, 2008: 01. at College of Naturopathy UK webpages, Langley S. (ND ?) states: 01.a. in "A Naturopathic View on Cure" (see http://web.archive.org/web/20070315225551/http://www.naturopathy-uk.com/library/2007/03/05/a-naturopathic-view-on-cure/ ): "naturopathic practice [...recognizes] the presence of a ‘vital force’[...] in India it is known prana, in China chi and in Japan ki [...] the vital force is the energy [!] that defines something as alive or dead [...it's] the very energy of which we are linked to, that enables us to be alive and to be conscious as a human being [...unlike] a corpse [...whose] life has left it [...and therein] there is no way that we can bring back the vital force or the essence of that person once it has left the body [...] the vital force intrinsically has the power to heal the body if given the right conditions [...aka] the healing power of nature [...] the vital force creates symptoms in the body [...] symptoms of disease in the body are viewed as the ultimate act of intelligence [purposefulness] on the level of the vital force [...] from minor symptoms like a runny nose to more complex symptoms like cancer, the vital force in essence is trying to keep damage to a minimum [...] the vital force is doing the best it can to try and keep the person alive [...this is] the vital force’s way of protecting the individual from death [...] a model known as Hering’s law of cure is used to measure the movement of health from pathology to an optimum view of health [...] cure occurs from the most important organ first to the least [...] the body will let go of symptoms in organs that are most important to the functioning of the body [first], as this is the greatest threat to [the] life force." Note: along the lines of such vitalism (and that in 01.b.), AHD 4th defines: a) animatism as (see http://www.answers.com/animatism ): "a belief that all animate and inanimate objects are infused with a common life force;" b) animism as (see http://www.answers.com/topic/animism ): "the belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects and phenomena; the belief in the existence of spiritual beings that are separable or separate from bodies; the hypothesis holding that an immaterial force animates the universe." 01.b. in "What is Naturopathy?" (see http://www.naturopathy-uk.com/home/home-what-is-naturopathy/ ) {accessed 02-26-2008}: "from Steven Langley’s ‘Naturopathy Workbook’ [...] naturopathy, or nature cure, is underpinned by a fundamental principle - vis medicatrix naturae - the healing power of nature [...] the same vital force or chi (qi) that [...makes] up the universe and nature [...flows] through man and [...it is] his dislocation from this source that [...causes] illness. Early naturopaths realized that if you could restore the vital force to the patient, the body would naturally heal itself [...] whilst never losing sight of the basic fundamentals of the nature cure, the modern-day naturopath might employ [...] herbs, homoeopathy, manipulation, flower essences, acupuncture or biochemical supplementation [...] these may be necessary to offset many of the suppressions brought about through living in our modern times with all its concomitant stresses that seek to strangle the life force in our bodies." 02. for an aggregation of naturopathy's essential vitalistic-animistic-animatistic belief-figment, visit http://thevitalismofnaturopathy.blogspot.com/ . 03. for the profoundly nonscientific status of vitalism, visit http://novfsinscience.blogspot.com/ . (for further enlightenment, visit http://standtoyourduty.blogspot.com ). (music by spaceScat, "alpha centariScat" excerpt). (also, take the "naturopathy blasphemy challenge," at http://mynaturopathyblasphemies.blogspot.com/ ).

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