NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE
A Naturopathic approach to medicine involves taking the time to understand you - in your entirety - not just the symptoms you are dealing with.
Your story is important. Everything from birth to present is instrumental to understanding your health; how you were born, your parent's health at conception, what you were fed, any antibiotic use, life stressors, traumas, exposures, family health, heritage, along with a complete medical history.
This information is assessed together to create a personalized health plan to promote longevity and resiliency into the future, all while improving quality of life in your day-today experience.
Naturopathy is a practice of medicine that encourages the use of natural substances and or exposure to nature and it's elements, as catalysts to restore balance in the body. Lowering the toxic burden and providing nourishment in cases of deficiency or to stimulate a healing response are other strategies to improve health.
Naturopathic medicine emphasizes uncovering and treating the root causes of symptoms. By using evidence-based therapies that are both integrative an eclectic, Naturopathy treats disease while minimizing prescription drugs or surgery, so the body can heal the way it is supposed to. It is preventative medicine.
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The doctor of the future will give no medication but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease
—Thomas A. Edison
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NATUROPATHIC PHILOSOPHY
Naturopathy is guided by the 6 principles of naturopathic medicine, and the 7 tenants of the therapeutic order.
6 PRINCIPLES
1. First Do No Harm (Primum Non Nocere)
2. The Healing Power of Nature (Vis Medicatrix Naturae)
3. Identify and Treat the Causes (Tolle Causal)
4. Doctor as Teacher (Docere)
5. Treat the Whole Person
6. Prevention
THERAPUTIC ORDER
1. Remove obstacles to health and establish the foundation for optimal healing
2. Stimulate the vis (your body’s self-healing capacity and life force)
3. Strengthen weakened systems
4. Correct structural integrity
5. Use natural substances to restore and regenerate
6. Use pharmacological substances to halt progressive pathology
7. Use high force, invasive modalities: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy