What is naturopathy?

Naturopathy takes a holistic approach to wellness. Naturopathy supports a person to live a healthy lifestyle. The foundations of naturopathy are based on the importance of a healthy diet, clean fresh water, sunlight, exercise and stress management.

Naturopathy aims to educate the person to look after their own health and the health of their family, minimising symptoms of any illness, supporting the body’s capacity to heal, and balancing the body so that illness is less likely to occur in the future.

A range of therapies are used to support the person. Therapies may include nutritional medicine, diet advice, herbal medicine, homeopathy, lifestyle advice, and tactile therapies, such as massage, acupressure or Bowen technique.

Naturopathy uses a series of principles and beliefs to create individual treatment plans.

These principles and beliefs are:

Self-healing

Identifying and removing obstacles to recovery, allows for natural healing.

Underlying symptoms

Rather than stopping symptoms, a naturopathic doctor can resolve underlying physical or mental issues by treating the body, mind, and spirit.

Harmless treatment

Treatment plans should not have harmful side effects or control symptoms negatively.

Holistic treatment

A naturopathic doctor must recognize individuality to treat all aspects of a person’s health effectively.

Education in treatment

Naturopathic doctors teach self-care to help empower people against ill health.

Prevention

It is good to remove toxic substances from a lifestyle to prevent problems from arising.