Daniel David Palmer

 

 

History of Chiropractic

The modern-day system and theory of chiropractic was founded in 1895 by Daniel David Palmer, a longtime student of physiology and anatomy in Davenport, Iowa. In the fall of 1895, a janitor named Harvey Lillard entered the office of Palmer. Lillard had been deaf since straining himself seventeen years earlier while working in a cramped position. Upon examining the man, Palmer discovered a painful prominent vertebra in the upper spine, which Lillard confirmed had been the source of the original injury that had led to his deafness. Palmer applied a sharp thrust, repositioning the bone, and Lillard's hearing returned better than ever. Thus chiropractic was born.

Manipulation of the spine had been a part of the healing repertoires of virtually all traditional cultures, from the ancient Greeks to the Pacific islanders to the Native Americans. What Palmer pioneered was the modern theory of joint-oriented nerve interference that quickly brought supporters. The first chiropractic college was formed by Palmer in 1897. The first state licensing law for chiropractic was passed in 1913. 

Palmer described his approach as a means of connecting "man the spiritual" to "man the physical" by eliminating interference to the flow of "innate intelligence" through each individual. All living beings are endowed with this "innate intelligence. " Palmer believed that this intelligence regulates all the vital functions of the body as it flows through the central nervous system. Because of this belief, Palmer felt that the primary task of the chiropractor was not to treat conditions but to remove nerve interference caused by subluxations so that the innate intelligence could carry out its role of maintaining the body's health and equilibrium without obstruction. 

Palmer was very fascinated with Innate Intelligence and its relationship to the nervous system. This philosophy formed the basis of his chiropractic theory. Chiropractic, he said, embraces "the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton. " Any disease process anywhere in the body is affected, at least in part, by the ability of the nervous system to enervate and enliven that area. Hence, any disease process can potentially benefit from chiropractic. 

 

History of Colon Hydrotherapy

 "Despite treatment dating back to Biblical times, there still seems to be a great deal of ignorance about the healing benefits of colon therapy" Dr. J.E.G. Waddington.

Colon therapy is a very ancient method of treatment and form of healing. Enemas were recorded as early as 1,500 B.C. in the "Eber Papyrus", and ancient Egyptian medical document, but the Chinese used it long before then. So did Ayurvedic medicine from India, where techniques such as panchkarma included colon cleansing as part of their routine .Hippocrates, Galen and Pare also promoted the use of enema therapy. In these earlier times, people implemented enema treatments in a lake or river using a hollow reed to allow water to flow into the rectum.

At an early time in America ...enemas were a commonly used procedure to help maintain health and stave off disease. For example, before the departure of the Lewis and Clarke expedition, a physician instructed them in the appropriateness of using enemas in cases of fever and illness.
Our grandparents and great-grandparents grew up with the use of enemas as a widely accepted procedure for reversing the onset of illness.

In the early 1900's in Battle Creek, Michigan.. John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., extensively used colon hydrotherapy on some forty thousand of his patients. In 1917 he reported in the Journal of the Medical Association that in all but 20 cases--he used no surgery for the treatment of gastrointestinal disease in his patients.

"In times past, knowledge of the bowel was more widespread and people were taught how to care for the bowel. Somehow, bowel wisdom got lost and it became something that no one wanted to talk about anymore" Bernard Jensen D.C.

The popularity of colon hydrotherapy reached its apex in the 1920's, 30's and 40's. At that time, colonic irrigation was regularly used in Doctors surgeries and hospitals. But in the ensuing 50 and 60 years the public's use of, and access to , this valuable health treatment greatly decreased. The public's present lack of knowledge regarding this, and other personal health care treatments, together with the widely held belief by orthodox medicine that such treatments are no longer useful may be the single most important factor in the current ill-health of our population.

Proper bowel management and health will never be achieved through the use of drugs and / or surgery. The answer lies in a time-proven and natural approach.. ..Colon Hydrotherapy !

In the last 10 years there has been a resurgence of interest in complimentary medicine and personal health care responsibility. Once again people are discovering the many health benefits of maintaining a strong and biologically sound colon. This return to using colon hydrotherapy has been bolstered by the development of colon hydrotherapy techniques, which make this therapy both safe and convenient. It is hoped the grass roots movement towards personal health responsibility, using complimentary health therapies to restore and maintain superior health, will be joined by traditional health care practitioners.

 

Massage therapy dates back thousands of years. References to massage appear in writings from ancient China, Japan, India, Arabic nations, Egypt, Greece (Hippocrates defined medicine as "the art of rubbing"), and Rome.

Massage became widely used in Europe during the Renaissance. In the 1850s, two American physicians who had studied in Sweden introduced massage therapy in the United States, where it became popular and was promoted for a variety of health purposes. With scientific and technological advances in medical treatment during the 1930s and 1940s, massage fell out of favor in the United States. Interest in massage revived in the 1970s, especially among athletes.

According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, which included a comprehensive survey of CAM use by Americans, an estimated 18 million U.S. adults and 700,000 children had received massage therapy in the previous year.

People use massage for a variety of health-related purposes, including to relieve pain, rehabilitate sports injuries, reduce stress, increase relaxation, address anxiety and depression, and aid general wellness.