Naturopathy
Defn: - a distinct form of healing
• a philosophy, science, art and practice which
seeks to promote health by stimulating and
support the body’s inherent power
• Naturopathy its root is to the healing
technique of ancient China, India and Greece
and native American culture

Principle of Naturopathy
Modern naturopathy is founded on six basic principles
1. Nature has the power to heal it self
2. Treat the whole person
3. First, don’t harm
4. Identify and treat the cause
5. Prevention is as important as cure
6. Physician should be teacher

Treatment method of Naturopathy
• Naturopathy is not a single modality treatment, but
draws up on an array of natural healing interventions
• Depending on your situation, your naturopath may
take one or more of the following approach:
 Ayurvedic medicine
 Herbal medicine
 Traditional Chinese medicine
 Homeopathy
 Hydrotherapy
 Detoxification
 Nutrition

• Practitioners may also specialized in a specific
problems or areas
• It uses interventions that are largely free of
side effects

Naturopathy Diagnostic Method
• Diagnostic procedure may include
–Physical examination
–Conventional blood test
–Conventional urine test
–Urine indicant test
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Area of practice
• Naturopathy is particularly strong in the area of
preventive medicine, treatment of acute illness and
in chronic disease
• Naturopathy, belive that symptoms represent the
body’s attempt to heal, so they don’t try to suppress
them rather than relieving the cause
• e.g. Inflammation – an increase in healing blood flow
to an area
• Fever – indicate part of the body’s way of killing
harm full organism

• If a certain healing response is repeatedly
suppressed, the body’s response to produce that
response may became weakened
• It is belived that, even if symptom suppression drug
temporally relieve discomfort, but can undermine
the body’s self healing mechanism response
• If body loses its ability, to produce healing response,
chronic disease can be established

• Naturopaths treat a variety of disorders, but the
most common complaint they treat are:-
 Allergies
 fatigue
 colds
 headaches
 digestive problems, sinusitis, infections disease etc
• There are no studies about the efficiency of
naturopathy as a whole

Clinical Trial
• Naturopathic treatment may resolve a wide range of
problems in patient, but these multiple gains are not
reflected by most randomized clinical trial
• Most research focus on single, specific substance
rather than multi modal programe