NATUROPATHIC HEALTH CARE

The great physicians through out history would be happy to know that medicine's best-kept secrets are being used today by Naturopathic Physicians, doctors trained in the holistic, natural art of healing. Like MD's, naturopaths are trained and skilled in the conventional tools of diagnoses - lab testing, X-ray, physical exams, etc. Unlike conventional doctors, naturopathic doctors are also trained in the use of gentle, non invasive natural therapeutics. 

The natural state of the human organism is health, homeostatic balance. In this state, the human organism has the innate ability - the vitality to word off diseases and  heal itself. Vitalistic medicine maintains that when disease occurs, this self - healing ability has been blocked. Disease Symptoms (fever, rashes, this etc) are not simply caused by an "evasion" of external agents or germs, but are manifestations of the organism's attempt to defend and heal itself. The "disease" is the cure.

A physician's task, then is to help remove the agents blocking that healing process, bolstering the patient's own healing capacity, and this restore homeostatic balance; health.

The role of the Naturopath is to teach people how to restore and maintain their own health by living in harmony with themselves and their environment. Health and disease are often a reflection of the way we choose to live. The literal translation of the word "Doctor" is teacher. The Naturopath helps people to recognize their choices and to understand how their actions effect their health. Thus, counseling, in diet, exercise, occupational and environmental hazards, and other lifestyle habits is an integral part of Naturopathic practice.

Naturopathic medicine recognizes and respects the inherent cower of the human body to heal itself. The Naturopath utilizes techniques that work gently in harmony with these self-healing capabilities and avoids those treatments that might cause new illness or complicate the existing disease process. Thus, Naturopathic therapeutics aim to stimulate the body's natural homeostatic mechanism (balance) to restore a health structure and function.