What is Naturopathic Medicine?
Natural therapies have been used to treat disease since our earliest beginnings. This is revealed in the first know written records when the healing power of plants was mentioned. When Naturopathy emerged as a distinct science, no one can say. Early Chinese texts dating to 3000 B.C. discuss herbal treatments. Both the Old and New Testaments speak of the use of herbs and water therapy. Hippocrates was known to treat disease with diet, fasting, hydrotherapy, exercise, and herbs. From these historic origins, naturopathic medicine has developed. In the early 1900s, allopathic medicine gained political power and stifled the naturopathic profession.With the free movement of the 1960s, awareness in all things “natural” sparked a steady re-emergence of naturopathic physicians. Recent pharmaceutical tragedies have led the public to question the efficacy and safety of modern medicine. With each new horrific story on the evening news caused by dru...
