A New Healing Discipline For The 21st Century

“SOMIATRY”.

The word “Somiatry comes from two Latin words: Soma – pertaining to the entire body of an organism and Iatric – pertaining to the work of a Physician or Healer.  

The practice of western medicine has been focused on the saving of lives, and the cure or at least management of disease. This philosophy centers on the belief that living organisms are enlivened (animated) by a series of Bio-Chemical Reactions. From this point of view, a compromise in health is most attributed to altered biochemistry, due to germs, viruses, poisons, etc., or a space occupying growth altering normal biochemistry. This way of thinking holds well for Medical Physicians and Practitioners when it comes to the sudden (Acute) onset of life threatening situations and conditions or life threatening growths within the body. There is general agreement today that much of our health and healing is the result of our thoughts, behavior and the choices we make in our day to day lifestyle.

In modern times Homeopathy, then Chiropractic, Naturopathy and more recently Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture were the continuum of healing thinking and the healing mission and served as an alternative to western medical thinking. The spirit of desegregation and integration during the 1950’s, through the 1970’s was mostly focused on issues of ethnicity and gender within our society. However, , a third area within our society, the marketplace of ideas was also impacted. During the late 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s efforts to address and correct discrimination wherever it was found was the attitude of the day. This had a major impact on the Healing Mission as Alternative Thinking once referred to as “Quackery” became known as Alternative Medicine.    

In 1974 the state of Louisiana became the last state to license and regulate the profession of Chiropractic making it the largest bastion of alternative medical thought licensed and regulated in all 50 states. At the same time the desegregation movement was mandating insurances reimbursement for Chiropractic serves. However, those areas mandated to reimburse for Chiropractic services were established to cover the cost for medical care and only now is attempting to integrate health care into its medical reimbursement system. The only way to address the mandate to integrate healthcare into the medical care system was to redefine healthcare as medical care and pay for its services as medical procedures.

Over the past 200 plus years, the healing mission was referred to as quackery, however, in more recent times the healing mission has come to be referred to as; Holistic, Wholistic, Alternative, Complimentary and now Integrative. Today’s integrative medical movement now unifying the once segregated medical/healing mission, is a prime motivator for the 21st Century Mission of Somiatry.

The Somiatric mission mentored by QUANTUM~VERITAS International University Systems (QVIUS) is a nondenominational ecumenical movement of all health care professionals coming together in a common movement to heal humanity by any means necessary and the truest means. The primary mission of Somiatry is not to save lives, cure or manage disease, but rather enhancing health while facilitate the growth of a true and natural state of well-being. This is accomplished by establishing an environment most conducive to an individual, placing and maintaining such individual in a most appropriate environment as the natural state of health and wellness is “Grown”. As with everything in nature, support systems are developed. The same is true within the union of medicine and healing. Although the two schools of thought are built upon separate platforms, the means of bridging, solidifying and ultimately uniting the two missions is through the environment of academia.