Natural Therapies

Since the beginning of time, natural therapies have been used to treat disease and every known culture has attempted to use the healing power in plants. Both the Old and New Testaments speak of herbs and their uses.

Hydrotherapy, or the use of water in healing disease, is also very ancient. In fact, early written records describe various uses for water therapy well before either the Roman or Christian eras.

While these natural therapies, on a few occasions, were written down, for the most part they were transmitted by word of mouth, as was the case with the American Indians who were unfortunately seen as the “bad guys” by the self-proclaimed “good guys”.

Back in the days of Hippocrates, who was considered the father of naturopathic medicine, disease was treated with diet, fasting, herbs, hydrotherapy, exercise, and spinal manipulation (chiropractic’s), prescribed from a basis of principals of healing that are now used as the foundation of naturopathy.

The most basic tenet of naturopathy is that ‘only nature heals’ and it emphasizes the body’s ability to heal itself if given the chance.

But slowly and steadily orthodox medicine, with Big Pharma as the leader, gained political power and united against the naturopathic profession.

Not only were naturopaths declared illegal and prosecuted in many states, but so were midwives and many other health professionals who were seen as either financial or philosophical threat.

In the 60s there was a rebirth of awareness and interest in all things “natural”. The 70s and 80s brought about a reemergence for naturopathic practitioners and a new generation emerged that no longer accepted the status quo blindly.

All aspects of modern society were scrutinized, including that of modern medicine. Thalidomide, DES (the synthetic female hormone) -induced cancer, and other drug related tragedies have led the general public more and more to ask, not how effective a drug is, but how safe it is.

Today, the naturopath’s offer alternatives. Their training encompasses both traditional and modern techniques of diagnosis and therapy. They are trained in 4-year state accredited private naturopathic medical schools.

Their program includes all the basic science, diagnostic, and medical courses standard to any other medical training institution. In addition, the naturopath is trained in a wide variety of natural therapies to be used to help the body repair itself.

The aim of naturopathy is to treat people, not disease; to remove the cause of disease, not merely its symptoms; and to cure disease, not just postpone it.

The natural therapeutic approach maintains that the constant effort of the body’s life force is always in the direction of self-cleansing, self-repairing and positive health.

The philosophy maintains that even acute disease is a manifestation of the body’s efforts in the direction of self cure. Disease, or downgraded health, may be eliminated only by removing from the system the real cause and by raising the body’s general vitality so that its natural and inherent ability to sustain health is allowed to prevail. It also maintains that chronic diseases are frequently the result of mistaken efforts to cure or attempted suppression of the physiological efforts of the body to cleanse itself.

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Sources:
www.holisticonline.com
www.widwife.org
www.naturopathic.org

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Natural Therapies