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Naturopathy, Complimentary
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Another form of Alternative Medicine, Naturopathy Medicine, is the natural medicine practice of assisting in the health of patients through the application of natural remedies.
I like the fact that most naturopathic healers consider their care complementary, not supplementary, to the care of a traditional medical professional.
Naturopathy developed from the water and nature cure in Europe during the 19th century. I lived in Africa for several years, so you can believe me when I say that I believe that water is divine. It is one of our greatest resources and it has many methods of treatment.
As an eclectic art, it uses both herbal and homeopathic medicines as well as the manipulative therapies of body work or massage therapy, osteopathy, and chiropractic.
Alternative Healing Medicine
This alternative natural therapy, Naturopathy, requires that the underlying root causes of disease must be removed for complete healing to take place. That makes a lot of sense to me.These root causes can exist at many levels:
- physical
- mental
- emotional
- and spiritual.
It is the physician's role to identify this root cause, in addition to alleviate suffering by treating symptoms.
The process of healing includes the manifestations of symptoms, so that any therapy that interferes with this natural healing process, by masking these symptoms is considered suppressive and should be avoided.
The natural life force of the individual should be supported to facilitate healing.
Alternative Homeopathic Medicine
There are two groups of healers who call themselves naturopaths:
- The naturopathic physician holds a naturopathic medical degree. These practitioners are often licensed(twelve states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and five Canadian provinces offer licenses) and are sometimes registered(as in Kansas).
- The second group refer to themselves as traditional naturopaths.
Naturopathic physicians are primary care physicians with licenses or registration. They graduate from four-year graduate schools and receive the same basic science and clinical training as conventional medical doctors.
Their training with respect to modalities is different, with a focus on nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, physical manipulation, pharmacology and minor surgery.
Some naturopathic physicians have additional training in natural childbirth and/or acupuncture.
Natural and Alternative Medicine
The second practice is traditional naturopathy. It recognizes that conventional medicine has value for individuals who are injured, suffering from trauma, suffering from congenital or genetic disorders, and otherwise need a highly-trained individual who can intercede to help them survive and recover.
The traditional naturopath practices in a complementary fashion by applying natural means to improve the patient's health.
Through application of good dietary and lifestyle practices, combined with the addition of modalities such as herbalism, bodywork, spiritual and mental exercises, this type of naturopath enables an individual to take ownership and better control of his or her own health and well-being.
Holistic alternative medicine consider these practices as being complementary rather than alternative.
Traditional naturopaths do not diagnose and they do not treat diseases. For these, they rely on medical doctors.
They believe there is a crucial relationship between the body, mind, and spirit and by using methods and practices that they believe have been successfully applied for centuries and in many societies, traditional naturopaths attempt to empower individuals to regain ability to live in the best possible state of health.
Traditional naturopaths and medical doctors can work with the same individual cooperatively in order to help the patient recover.
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