What is Naturopathic Medicine?
Naturopathic medicine is primary care medicine. Receiving the same amount of training in the biomedical sciences as medical doctors,
a licensed naturopathic doctor is qualified to diagnose and treat
What is Naturopathic Medicine?
Naturopathic medicine is primary care medicine. Receiving the same amount of training in the biomedical sciences as medical doctors,
a licensed naturopathic doctor is qualified to diagnose and treat medical conditions.
Naturopathic medicine is holistic medicine. Using natural therapies to improve health and address the root causes of disease, naturopathic doctors look at the whole person, not just the parts.
Naturopathic medicine is evidence-based and innovative. Naturopathic doctors draw from many spheres of knowledge, including clinical research and empirical evidence, as well as time-honored traditional healing practices.
Principles of Naturopathic Medicine
1. First Do No Harm:
Primum non nocere
The essential principle of medicine is to avoid harm, by taking into consideration both the short and long-term consequences of diagnostic methods and treatments, and by recognizing when harm could occur from lack of action.
2. The Healing Power of Nature:
Vis medicatrix naturae
Naturopathic medicine recognizes that the body is its own healer and has an ordered and intelligent self-healing process. Our role is to facilitate and invigorate that process by removing obstacles to healing and recovery and to promote self-healing by stimulating one’s innate vital force.
3. Discover and Treat the Cause:
The symptom is not the disease, but rather the harbinger of a system struggling to compensate from imbalances. Our goal is to uncover the deeper factors that are contributing to symptoms and to treat these underlying causes so that lasting improvements can occur.
4. Treat the Whole Person:
The patient is viewed as a whole, a physical being existing