Adventist Heritage of health, Hope & Healing



Adventist Heritage of Health, Hope, and Healing

Thesis Statements

“Sprituality plays significant role in the healing process”

“Healthcare and wellness is belong to Relegion and Theology”

“ Helping poor is healthcare provides spiritual and internal satisfaction”

Introduction

The book Adventist Heritage of Health, Hope, and Healing is the valuable, significant, and knowledgeable for the students and other people interested in healthcare theology and spiritual process of healing. This book is written by a well known author Dr. Andress. She is well known author for the healthcare and history of health and medicines. He has shown his motivation in history of healthcare. He has given significant and comprehensive details of Christian Theology and the process of healing and wellness connected. The whole book depends upon the life of a man that is connected with health of body, mind, and soul. His work is commendable in the theology. He has given the actual work and his motivation in the Christian theology and the healing and wellness associated with it. The book has significant finding and interesting historical facts that bring people inspiration in Christian spirituality.

Discussion

According to the book, Greek medicine contributes significantly to a coherent scientific picture of the world. It grows two branches, one empirical and one philosophical, that have persisted ever since. Greek medicine continues uninterruptedly from the ancient civilizations. Greek doctors belonged to the asclepiads, or clan of Asclepius, god of medicine, one of the clans or guilds of work. In Greece, as in ancient civilizations, the doctor had some aristocrat and was mainly to the powerful. The treatment of ordinary people was in the hands of charlatans who used old and traditional magic remedies (Kelly, 2005).

The first impulse of Greek medicine is associated with the almost legendary figure of Hippocrates physical. The so-called Hippocratic body is a mass of medical treatises written probably between 450 to 350 C., and its tone is decidedly clinician. It is thought that medicine is art-techno-heal the sick. These medicines also practiced in America till the up until civil war.

The book has discussed the significant popular health movement. From the year 1830-1850 the alternative medicine has faced great changes in the health care, and health moment. In the United States of America the popular health moment started, this was the starting moment of the era when the alternative medicine came into being. In this era, the alternative health practices started and therapies were introduced. Herbal therapies and theories, homeopathy and its medicines, and natural hygiene developed in this important period of Health Reform Movement.

Solely, homeopathic medicines and therapies, natural hygiene manages to from 1830 and all through the 19th century. The Alternative Medicine denotes all kinds of methods, excluding regular medicine, contributing essentially to good health. There are over one hundred different types of alternative medicine and the number is still growing.

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