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What is Naturopathic
Medicine?
Founded upon a
holistic philosophy, naturopathic medicine combines safe and effective traditional
therapies with the most current advances in modern medicine. Naturopathic
medicine is appropriate for the management of a broad range of health
conditions affecting all people of all ages. Naturopathic medicine
is a distinct system of primary health care - an art, science, philosophy and
practice of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of illness. Naturopathic
medicine is distinguished by the principles which underlie and determine its
practice. These principles are based upon the objective observation of the
nature of health and disease, and are continually reexamined in the light of
scientific advances. Methods used are consistent with these principles and
are chosen upon the basis of patient individuality. Naturopathic physicians
are primary health care practitioners, whose diverse techniques include
modern and traditional, scientific and empirical methods. A NATUROPATHIC DOCTOR
Naturopathic
physicians (N.D.s) are the highest trained practitioners in the broadest
scope of naturopathic medical modalities. In addition to the basic medical
sciences and conventional diagnostics, naturopathic education includes
therapeutic nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathy, natural childbirth,
classical Chinese medicine, hydrotherapy, naturopathic manipulative therapy,
pharmacology and minor surgery. Naturopathic
physicians Diagnose, treats, and cares for patients, using system of practice
that bases treatment of physiological functions and abnormal conditions on
natural laws governing human body: Utilizes physiological, psychological, and
mechanical methods, such as air, water, light, heat, earth, phytotherapy,
food and herb therapy, psychotherapy, electrotherapy, physiotherapy, minor
and orificial surgery, mechanotherapy, naturopathic corrections and manipulation,
and natural methods or modalities, together with natural medicines natural
processed foods, and herbs and nature's remedies. Excludes major surgery,
therapeutic use of x-ray and radium, and use of drugs, except those
assimilable substances containing elements or compounds of body tissues and
are physiologically compatible to body processes for maintenance of life. |