Naturopathy: 

The origin of Naturopathy dates back some 2500 years and has evolved over the last hundred years. During the initial visit, a Naturopath will probably ask more questions on your health in general, your lifestyle, your eating habits and even the amount of daily stress whether at home or at work, more than your family doctor would. The Naturopath will also try to discover the hidden causes before treatment. For example, a reoccurring headache would not be treated with analgesics (Tylenol). Before suggesting treatment, the therapist will try to pinpoint where the headache originated from. Treatments offered will correspond to the naturopathic approach. 

Since there are not many scientific tests that can prove the effectiveness of the naturopathy therapy, there are however many typical naturopathic therapies and approaches that have been the object of clinical tests. The results demonstrated their therapeutic effectiveness especially in the areas of nutritional and herbal therapies. There is really no negative information on naturopathic therapies. It is a complete and coherent medical system set on the stimulation of the body’s natural auto-healing mechanism. The Naturopath’s intervention is to activate, nourish and strengthen these mechanisms rather than eliminating the symptoms or directly attacking the virus or germs. This therapy is gentle and non-aggressive.  

Some treatments used by a naturopath are herbal therapy, homeopathy, acupuncture, physical manipulations, stress relief techniques, nutrition …etc. Symptoms such as fever can also be part of the healing process. However to suppress the symptoms can cause more harm that good. Therapeutic techniques should facilitate the natural process of healing, not work against it. Traditional medicine has the tendency to suppress instead of understanding the origin of the symptom. 

A Naturopath studies the sickness, trying to find the elements that are causing it. In other words a Naturopath will not talk of the sickness but the type of disorder. They will look at many factors that can cause the disorder, nutritional, emotional, physical, energetic, environmental, and spiritual or even the psychic, whatever. The Naturopath will discuss with the patient the possibility that the disorder could be cause by one or more factors. When discovered, a natural and gentle treatment is initiated to assist in the healing. This is what is called the global approach. A session can vary between 30 minutes to 1 hour.