Naturopathic medicine is a primary healthcare profession that focuses on prevention and uses natural methods. It is the art and science of disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention using natural therapies and gentle techniques.

Naturopathic doctors (NDs) are general practitioners of natural health care and employ a wide range of therapies to create a preventative, restorative and individualized approach to health care. These therapies include:

  • Detoxification
  • Clinical nutrition
  • Botanical (herbal) medicine
  • Acupuncture
  • Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)
  • Homeopathy
  • Physical treatments
  • Lifestyle assessments
  • Counseling
  • Lab tests

Naturopathic doctors focus on preventive health care, integrating scientific knowledge with traditional healing wisdom.

What Are The Principles Of Naturopathic Medicine?

The following tenets govern the practice of naturopathic medicine:

First, do no harm ( Primum non nocere )

Use methods and medicines that minimize the risk of harmful side effects, using the least force necessary to diagnose and treat.

Avoid, when possible, the harmful suppressing of symptoms.

Acknowledge, respect and work with the individual’s self-healing process.

Identify and treat the causes (Tolle causam)

The naturopathic doctor seeks to identify and to remove the underlying causes of illness, rather than to merely eliminate or suppress symptoms.

Doctor as teacher (Docere)

Naturopathic doctors share information and knowledge with their patients and encourage self-responsibility for health.

Treat the whole person

Naturopathic doctors treat each patient by taking into account individual physical, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental and social factors.

Emphasize prevention

Naturopathic doctors emphasize the prevention of disease by assessing risk factors, heredity and susceptibility to disease and making appropriate interventions in partnership with their patients to prevent illness.

Support the healing power of the body (vis medicatrix naturae)

Naturopathic medicine recognizes an inherent self-healing process in the person which is ordered and intelligent.
Naturopathic doctors act to identify and remove obstacles to healing and recovery, and to facilitate and increase this inherent self-healing process.

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