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Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine. [ 1] A wide array of practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting "self-healing" are employed by its practitioners, who are known as naturopaths. Difficult to generalize, these treatments range from the pseudoscientific and thoroughly discredited, like ...
Died. 4 April 1901. (1901-04-04) (aged 66) Nationality. German. Occupation. naturopath. Louis Kuhne (14 March 1835 – 4 April 1901) was a German naturopath primarily known for his cold water hydrotherapy methods that were meant to improve detoxification functions of the body by stimulation of the lower abdomen.
Heilpraktiker often specialize in a complementary and alternative field of healthcare that could be anything from faith healing, homeopathy, phytotherapy, Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, to reflexology or acupuncture. A heilpraktiker is a person who is allowed to practice as a non-medical practitioner using any unconventional therapy.
Died. September 5, 1945. (1945-09-05) (aged 73) Butler, New Jersey, U.S. Occupation (s) Naturopath, writer. Benedict Lust (February 3, 1872 – September 5, 1945) was a German-American who was one of the founders of naturopathic medicine in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Sebastian Kneipp (17 May 1821 – 17 June 1897) was a German Catholic priest and one of the forefathers of the naturopathic movement. He is most commonly associated with the "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy (often called "Kneipp therapy" or "Kneippism" [1] [2] ), the application of water through various methods, temperatures and pressures ...
Propaganda interview with Dr. Karl Kötschau, discussing the aims of German New Medicine. Illustrierter Beobachter (1936) New German Medicine (German: Neue Deutsche Heilkunde) was a movement in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s that aimed to integrate conventional scientific medicine with various forms of alternative medicine, including naturopathy and homeopathy.
Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians. The Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians ( German: Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte, GDNÄ) is the oldest scientific association in Germany. [1] [2] It was founded in 1822 by the German naturalist Lorenz Oken. [3] Carl Gustav Carus, Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber ...
Physician, naturopath, writer. Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland (12 August 1762, Langensalza – 25 August 1836, Berlin) was a German physician, naturopath and writer. He is famous as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany and as the author of numerous works displaying extensive reading and a cultivated critical faculty.