Clinical Nutrition
Diet and nutrition therapy is the hallmark of naturopathic medicine
and reflected in numerous professional journals or nutrition and dietary
sciences, validating its necessity and efficacy as a medicine. Many
medical conditions can be treated with macronutrients such as foods,
and therapeutic dosages of micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals.
Diet and nutrition therapies are as effective as they can be by any
other means, but with fewer complications and side effects! Here is
an insight from the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates ?Let food be thy
medicine, and thy medicine shall be thy food--
Botanical/Herbal Medicine
At least 120 of pharmaceuticals in the United States are originated
and synthesized by extracting active constituents from plants. When
you extract a single component from the whole plant, it becomes
more potent and faster acting if used properly. However, many of
them have undesirable and even dreadful side effects as what you
have experienced. Botanical medicine is safer and effective when
used in the right dosages and in the proper combinations with other
herbs by experts. Many forms such as teas, tinctures, capsules and
powder are prepared to meet the best of individual needs.
Homeopathic Medicine
Homeopathy is more than 200 years old and is widely accepted in
many European countries and India. In the law of Similar, ¡°like
cures like,¡± and Vital force in beings, homeopathic medicinals work
as they balance a dis-equilibrium or disturbance of the body¡¯s vital
force in a disease state and stimulate body¡¯s innate ability to
heal itself. Homeopathic medicinals affect on both the physical
and emotional levels, and some conditions for which conventional
medicine has no effective treatment, respond well to homeopathy.
It seldom has side effects.
Preventive Medicine
¡°An ounce of prevention is worth of a pound of cure.¡± This old saying
carries a hundredweight of truth when it comes to our health. Naturopathic
medicine emphasizes its role in preventing diseases before they
occur and improving quality of life. Many life threatening diseases
such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and HIV/AIDS,
are actually preventable with simple but committed measures such
as lifestyle changes, weight loss, and regular check-ups. Naturopathic
medicine provides you with right tools to reach you in healthy state
and to maintain when you are healthy. Preventive medicine saves
not only your life but also your money in long run!
Environmental Medicine
Patients seek ¡°Environmental overload¡± as a cause of their ¡°not-feeling-well¡±
after other conventional diagnosis and/or treatments have failed.
For many of them, environmental medicine is the last resort. The
most common conditions presented include fibromyalgia, myofascial
pain, chronic pain syndrome, degenerative arthritis, refractory
headache, pelvic pain, hypertension and asthma. Although there is
no single test that can show the total body burden of toxins such
as chemicals and heavy metals, there are tests available that can
indicate the presence of toxins in the body and naturopathic treatment
options that help you reduce ¡°environmental overload.¡±
Bio-identical Hormone Therapy
With prolonged life expectancy, men and women can expect to live
one third of their lives with some form of hormone deficiency.*
Through accurate testing and other naturopathic medical interventions,
well-compounded Bio-identical hormones can help you smooth a transition
of your life phases and prevent you from the risk of major hormone-related
diseases such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer¡¯s,
and some cancers. Hormone-therapy substance is documented as early
as in 1025 A.D. in Chinese medicine, and it was called Autumn Stone,
Qiu Shi and used for menopause or andropause like symptoms such
as hot flashes and spermaturia!
* World J Urol. 2002 May;20(1):4-10
Food Allergy
When gastrointestinal symptoms like bloating, gas, constipation,
diarrhea, abdominal distention and indigestion are present with
other health concerns, food allergy can be suspected and needs to
be evaluated. A wide variety of ailments have recently reported
in association with food allergy. Those are chronic allergies, sleep
disturbances, neurological diseases, attention deficit hyperactivity,
learning disabilities, psoriasis, autoimmune skin conditions, and
asthma, in which food allergies are significantly overlooked as
a contributing factor. Naturopathic medicine helps you finding what
you are allergic to, healing your impaired/injured digestive system
and inducing food tolerance.
Immune Support
Immune system is like a fence around a house for an elementary schooler
but in fact, a complex integration of segments that work synergistically
and continuously to maintain its homeostasis-its coolness- against
stimuli from both internal and external sources. Good health is
critical to support the immune system and supporting immune system
is critical to good health. Naturopathic medical approach to support
immune system involves lifestyle modifications, stress management,
exercise, diet, nutritional supplementation, glandular therapy and
the use of plant-based medicines.
