The current scope of Naturopathic Practice includes, but is
not limited to:
Clinical Nutrition: “Food is the
best medicine” is a cornerstone of Naturopathic Medicine.
Nutritional support and dietary recommendations are integral
to ensuring that the body has the needed building blocks
to sustain and aid healing. Treating with foods, removing
food sensitivities, and using nutritional supplements can
help to heal, and have few complications and side effects.
Naturopathic Doctors use nutrition and nutritional supplementation
to address deficiencies, assist the body in eliminating
toxins, stimulate healing or address specific health concerns.
Homeopathic Medicine is based on the principle
of “like cures like.” It works on a subtle yet
powerful energetic level, using minute amounts of a substance,
and gently acting to strengthen the body’s healing
response.
Botanical Medicine uses herbal teas, tinctures
or capsules as an alternative to drugs for treating specific
health concerns and aiding the body in recovering from injury
or disease.
Counselling: Mental attitudes and emotional
states will influence, or even cause, physical illness.
Stress management, visualization, meditation, breathing
techniques and other therapies are used to help heal on
the psychological level.
Hydrotherapy, or ‘water healing’,
uses Earth’s most essential resource, and it’s
various temperature gradients, to promote health and soothe
and restore the body.
Physical Medicines are hands-on techniques
using soft tissue work and stimulating techniques to provide
support for healing. Includes healing techniques such as
bowen and massage therapy.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is an ancient
system of medicine that harmonizes the flow of energy (Qi)
in the body. It includes the use of Chinese botanicals and
the energetics of food.
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