Nature has innate healing powers

naturopathy /na·tur·op·a·thy/ (na″cher-op´ah-the) a drugless system of health care, using a wide variety of therapies, including hydrotherapy, heat, massage, and herbal medicine, whose purpose is to treat the whole person to stimulate and support the person's own innate healing capacity.naturopath´ic

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A system of therapeutics in which surgery and prescription medications are avoided, and preparations such as vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbs are used to treat and prevent disease.

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naturopathy

[nach′ərop′əthē]

Etymology: L, natura + Gk, pathos, disease

a system of therapeutics based on natural foods, light, warmth, massage, fresh air, regular exercise, and the avoidance of medications. Advocates believe that illness can be healed by the natural processes of the body.

naturopathy [na″chur-op´ah-the]

a drugless system of healing by the use of physical methods, such as light, air, or water.

naturopathy (nāˈ·ch

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n therapeutic system that relies on using natural agents like light, natural foods, warmth, massage, and fresh air. Naturopaths believe in the power of the body's natural processes to heal illness.

naturopathy

a system of healing that views disease as a manifestation of alterations in the processes by which the body naturally heals itself. It emphasizes health restoration as well as disease treatment using diet modification, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, hydrotherapy, massage, joint manipulation and lifestyle counseling.

naturopathy

Natural medicine, natural therapeutics, naturopathic medicine, naturopathic therapy, naturology Alternative medicine A healing philosophy that attributes disease to a violation of natural laws, and uses the forces of nature as therapeutic modalities. See Alternative medicine; Homeopathy.

Naturopathy's six principles

First, do no harm–primum non nocere

Prevent rather than cure

Nature has innate healing powers–vis medicatrix naturae

Holistic approach–the 'whole person' is treated

Treat cause of disease, not symptoms–tolle causum

Teach prevention

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