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Naturopaths are trained specialists in a healing art that only use non-invasive natural medicine and methods. The goal of a naturopathic practitioner is to treat the whole person with natural therapies instead of with prescription drug, which only serve to suppress symptoms.

There are several areas naturopathy does well, one is helping by natural means the body’s own healing abilities, and the other is empowering individuals to make lifestyle changes necessary for their long term health and well-being. While naturopathic doctors treat both short bouts of illness (acute), they are renowned for helping chronic conditions, prevention of disease and in particularly patient education.

They are not orthodox medical doctors (M.D.s) Naturopathic doctors (N.D.s) are trained intensively in subjects such as anatomy, physiology,  chemistry, pathology, dietary evaluations, nutrition, clinical nutrition, medical herbology, homeopathy, iridology, food intolerance, and hydrotherapy. Courses are generally four years, full time study.

Some practitioners do additional training – specialties like reflexology.

In practice, naturopathic practitioners take an in-depth case studies analyzing lifestyle, nutritional and dietary assessments, metabolic analysis and other evaluative procedures. Naturopaths are trained to use a wide variety of alternative natural methods.

Naturopathy is based upon a belief in the body’s innate natural life-force and its ability to heal itself if given the right set of circumstances.

Seen as their fundamental values

Naturopaths need to provide the best care possible with the least exposure to risk for their patients.

Use natural remedies and treatments that encourage the self-healing nature of all humans

Identify and remove the causes of an illness instead of suppressing them

Educate and inspire people to be responsible for their own health

Treat each person according to his or her individual needs

Promote good health to help prevent disease in the individual

To view the bigger picture the health of their community and the world

Naturopaths are not involved or practice medicine in any shape or form, and do not use any pharmaceuticals drugs, they do not perform any kind of surgery. In reality, naturopathy deals very well with chronic conditions, prevention, and relief from conditions which are the result of stress whether from mental, nutritional, environmental, or physical.

What is the history of naturopathy?

The modern form of naturopathy can be traced to 18th- and 19th-century natural healing systems. Such systems include hydrotherapy (water therapy), which was popular in Europe the home of nature cure, based on the use of food, air, light, water, and herbs to treat illness.

Benjamin Lust, a German immigrant, first introduced naturopathy to the United States in 1902 when he founded the American School of Naturopathy. In the mid-1920s to1940s, while allopathic medical training, use of pharmaceuticals and medical technologies gained ground, the use of naturopathic medicine declined. It was not until the 1960s that naturopathic-style holistic medicine started to make a come back. Today naturopathy is extremely popular in Australia, where there too courses are four years, full time study.

Allopathic doctors seek to treat the joint pain by reducing the joint pain. This can be done with the use of pain killers, nerve blockers or any number of procedures. Naturopaths are committed to removing the joint pain by finding and removing the cause. Perhaps this may prove to be an acid/alkaline or deficiency caused by either a primary or secondary nutritional deficiency. For naturopaths, the correction of the cause is the only possible view, eliminating the symptoms, restoring health to the person, is their ultimate goal.

The naturopath at the a Haven Spa and Clinic is also a nutritional therapist and reflexologist with nearly 20 years experience treating people with various chronic conditions. She trained in England and Australia. She is also a published author in the UK and the US, on the subjects of nutrition and reflexology.