What is Naturopathic Medicine?

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Unique in its holistic, natural approach to health and healing, naturopathic medicine offers tailored treatments to help patients feel optimally well on all levels – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Wellness means more than the absence of pain and disease. It’s having the energy to work and enjoy life to its fullest potential. Naturopathic practitioners help restore health by finding the root cause of disease and supporting the body’s inherent healing mechanisms using natural and conventional methods. Naturopathic Doctors use the following methods to treat disease and restore your health.

What does Naturopathic Medicine Treat?

Naturopathic Medicine not only treats a wide variety of disease, it also treat the whole body and restore function in all areas of the body. For a more complete list of what conditions Naturopathic Medicine treats, click here.

Clinical Nutrition and Dietary Therapy

Hippocrates wrote, "Let your food be your medicine, and medicine be your food." Food is the best medicine and is a cornerstone of our naturopathic practice. Many medical conditions can be treated more effectively with foods and nutritional supplements than they can by other means, with fewer complications and side effects. Examination of the diet for sensitivities, allergies, and/or deficiencies is the basis for restoring health. Clinical nutrition is the use of both dietary therapy as well as the careful recommendation of researched vitamins, minerals and other nutriceuticals.

Herbal Medicine

Most European countries recognize the effectiveness of medicinal plants, include them in their official pharmacopoeias and regulate them as drugs or over-the-counter remedies. Naturopathic physicians are trained in drug-herb interactions to insure safety with the use of herbal medicines. Naturopathic physicians fuse centuries’ worth of traditional knowledge about herbal medicine with the enormous amount of ongoing scientific research on botanical medicine to treat many health conditions.

Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a system of medicine more than two hundred years old with more than one hundred homeopathic medical colleges worldwide. Often mistakenly equated to naturopathic medicine by orthodox medicine and lay persons alike, homeopathy is a single therapy within the larger scope of naturopathic medicine. When utilized by a skillful practitioner, homeopathy is a powerful and effective type of medicine based on the ancient medical philosophy, “Like Cures Like”.

Hydrotherapy

The value of water treatments, fasting and rest in treatment for chronic disease is recognized throughout the world. About half a million French citizens and nearly all employed German citizens each year receive insurance reimbursement for medically prescribed spa therapy. Naturopathic physicians utilize unique hydrotherapy treatments which are very effective against illness. Many hydrotherapy treatments can be used at home to restore health and vitality.

Behavioral Medicine

Naturopathic physicians are trained in various psychological techniques, including basic counseling, stress management, biofeedback, mind-body medicine and methods of lifestyle modification. A large body of scientific literature points to the importance of treating psychological factors and coping mechanisms in many illnesses and complaints.