The difference is that he thought that the best way to remedy every condition was with "natural" methods This included, for example, restricting coffee and tea intake and warning against excessive masturbation
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Seeing them side-by-side it's always quite striking how many of the major alternative medicines came from the same school of (flawed) thought at the end of the 1800s 10/n
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Reiki is another interesting one - much more influenced by the traditional Japanese systems of thought, it was invented by Mikao Usui in the late 1800spic.twitter.com/nMxLOXiBmi
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Similar to the above examples, he believed that an unmeasurable force controlled all of human health ("qi" or "chi") He went a step further and argued that you could influence this force in other people by passing your hands over them
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In many ways, this is just a natural progression. Once you've accepted the existence of an invisible, unmeasurable, unknowable force, the idea that you can manipulate this force somehow makes sense
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Osteopathy is another great one. As I said, it was invented a bit prior to chiropractic by Andrew Taylor Still Similar to Palmer, Still posited the existence of a vital force that drove most of human healthpic.twitter.com/SsGekQ7vlq
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The basic beliefs of osteopathy are basically identical to chiropractic, which is why many people believe that Palmer stole Still's ideas
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Still believed that the body was controlled by a vital force that transcended physicality, and could be manipulated by correcting problems with the musculoskeletal system He thought that any illness could be cured through the body's natural defenses, aided by osteopathy
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Another common theme through all of these systems of thought is that you can cure all disease using them Similarly, they are all pretty much entirely wrong
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Yes, they claim all diseases can be attributed to a single cause, which is probably what makes them attractive to many people. It just occurred to me that many of these systems assume that there is a perfect body state, and that illness is caused by us disrupting that state 1/2.
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Yeh it was a common belief in the 1800s. Not sure of the exact origin tho
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The moralistic aspect is interesting too, the idea that someone got the flu because they are not maintaining the "perfect state" and you are.
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