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What is Naturopathy?
Naturopathy is a field of health care which works with the body's own self-correcting systems, or efforts to preserve homeostasis. This method of therapy relies on natural remedies.
It is a holistic system, meaning that naturopathic doctors try hard to find the reason of disease by indulgent the patient as a totality of body, mind, and spirit. Most naturopathic doctors use a broad range of treatments and techniques like nutrition, homeopathy, herbal medicine and acupuncture.
Naturopathy uses a combination of therapies, including
Nutrition
Herbal medicine
Homeopathy
Physical medicine
Exercise therapy
Stress management
Acupuncture
Natural childbirth
Hydrotherapy
The Main Uses of Naturopathy
Practitioners report that chronic illnesses respond very well to naturopathy.
These can include :
Arthritis
Asthma
High blood pressure and hardening of the arteries
Gastrointestinal problems like ulcers
Digestive disorders including IBS and chronic constipation
A Brief History of Naturopathy
Both Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine believe the body has its own healing abilities, so the principles of naturopathy have common ground with other systems of health and wellbeing. The “life energy” is termed “vital force” by naturopaths. The Ancient Greek physicians maintained that the body needed exercise, plain food in small amounts and rest for it to perform well and stay healthy. Dr John Scheel, a New Yorker, first used the name “naturopathy” in 1895. It is thought that the emphasis on fresh air, exercise and sunlight in the spa towns of Austria and Germany in the 19th century was the real basis for naturopathy or “nature-cures”. Other key names in the history of naturopathy are Claude Bernard - a French physiologist, developed the concept of homeostasis, and Benedict Lust, who introduced naturopathy to the US in the 1890’s.