Modern naturopathic history: a legacy of chiropractic

Modern naturopathic history: a legacy of chiropractic

dr. Benedict Lust (MD, DC, ND), a German doctor and chiropractor who emigrated to the USA in 1892 was America's first naturopathic doctor. Although Benedict lust of establishing the establishment because of his "revolutionary" ideas of movement, vegetarianism and healthy life, he founded the first health food store as we know it, and crystallized the focus of naturopathy on nutrition as the main path to health. He also founded the country's Health Spa in Butler, New Jersey, and founded the first naturopathic College in New York in 1902, the American School of Naturopathy and Chiropractic.

"Where there is no official recognition and regulation, you will find conspirators, thieves, charlatans, who work on the same basis as the conscientious practitioner ... frankly, such conditions can only be remedied if suitable protective measures are created by law or profession themselves, for the practice of naturopathy."

- Benedict lust, around 1902, the founding father of naturopathy.

Naturopathic medicine grew in the 1910s and 1920s, but in the 1930s and 1940s, the pressure of the pharmaceutical companies, the political leader, the rise of antibiotics and numerous other factors caused a strong decline: in 1910, when Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Die apprenticeship published the Flexner report in different ways (natural and conventional) institutions were criticized. He was mainly regarded as an attack on inferior natural medical training. Many of these programs were discontinued and contributed to the popularity of conventional medicine. Schools were closed, sanatories were closed and doctors withdrawn their privileges. Since the chiropractic universities exceeded the educational standards imposed by the "Flexner" reform of the medical facility, most of them remained open and flourished. But naturopathy with their herbs, naturopathy and the holistic view of the body was considered unscientific and was based on an unproven popular tradition. So it was almost lost.

Naturopathic medicine did not disappear. It was preserved by chiropracticians in Portland, Oregon, where graduates from the Western States Chiropractic College were enrolled for a two -year postgraduate studies and a degree in naturopathy. This lasted until 1956 when the program was stopped. In order to keep the practice of naturopathy, several naturopaths and chiropractors founded the National College of Naturalopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon in 1956. It moved shortly after Seattle and then returned to Portland where it is today. Naturopathy began to rise very slowly.

chronological events that lead to the birth of modern naturalopathy

The training in chiropractic was introduced in Portland in 1904 when Dr. John and Eva Marsh opened Marshes' School and Cure. In 1909 the college changed its name in Pacific College of Chiropractic.

The facility took over the Lindlahr College of Naturopathy in 1926 and introduced one of the first four -year courses in this profession in 1928.

The Pacific College of Chiropractic entered a new phase in January 1929 when College was bought for 20,000 USD by the former Dean of the National Collopractic in Chicago, William Alfred Budden, DC, ND (Chiropractor and Silit Practitioner). The timing was terrible because the US stock exchange crash and the beginning of the global economic crisis were only nine months away. Dr. Budden would fight for years to keep school alive, and finally found the facility as a non -profit Western States College, including lessons that led to deals in chiropractic and naturopathy. During his term at the head of the institution (he died in 1954 "in the saddle"), the Western States College, the School of Chiropractic and the School of Naturopathy, had a profound influence on the course of work, both through Buddent's activities within the Council on Education of the National Chiropractic Association (today's CCE) and about the various extraordinary Doctors he trained.

1932 the Pacific Chiropractic College was reorganized and to Western States College and Drugless Physicians (1932 - 1956). The college also offered a degree in naturopathy from the mid -thirties to the mid -1950s. Now called Western States Chiropractic College (1956 - today).

The Western States College has prevailed in the decades since Budden's death. The school finally separated from the naturopathic training, as the NCA had asked for since 1939, but maintained a very broad teaching program. Chiropractic and naturopathy were taught together until around 1955 the National Chiropractic Association stopped the accreditation of schools that also taught naturopathy.

in the mid -1950s, when the Western States Chiropractic College in Portland decided to stop the naturopathic training, knew Dr. Bastyr that it was time to take measures, and so he and some colleagues decided to open a school in Seattle. In 1956 the National College of Naturopathic Medicine was born and Dr. Bastyr and other practitioners became teachers. Dr. John Bastyr, the naturopathic doctor, after whom Bastyr University is named in Seattle.

A chiropractor, Dr. John Bartholomew Bastyr, ND, DC (1912-1995), is considered the father of modern naturopathy. Due to the influence of Bastyr, naturopaths were at the head of the rebirth of homeopathy in this country. He ensured that homeopathy in naturopathic training has the same importance as nutrition, hydrotherapy and botanical medicine. Dr. Bastyr considered manipulation as the most important therapy in his practice.

He immediately continued his choice and did his doctorate in naturopathy and chiropractic at the Northwest Drugless Institute or at Seattle Chiropractic College. In 1936 he received admission to naturopathic medicine.

The National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) is the oldest programmatically accredited naturopathic medical faculty in North America. NCNM had its beginnings in the early 1950s in response to the end of the naturopathic program on the Western States Chiropractic College. Professionals from Oregon, Washington and British Columbia planned the foundation of College and in May 1956 in Portland, Oregon.