What is Naturopathy?
Naturopathy is a healing modality that seeks the underlying or ‘root’ cause of illness and disease. Naturopathy focuses on guiding the body to restore its natural balance (homeostasis).
- Natural medicine is one of the oldest healing arts in the world, Western herbal medicine dates back to the time of Hippocrates.
- Hippocrates believed the human body should be treated as a “whole” not as a sum of its parts. His firm belief was in the healing power of nature within the human body.
- Each and every body is unique, with a multitude of environmental and biological factors affecting its function.
What are the aims of Naturopathy?
- Promote optimal health.
- Prevent disease or disease progression.
- Provide a support base for health care.
- Initiate innate healing and restore balance when things go wrong.
What do I do as a Naturopath?
- My approach is about the individual.
- I see my role as a Naturopath is to clear the murky waters and identify the most appropriate treatment on an individual level.
- Help identify the underlying source of health concerns and address them before they cause disease.
- Patients are often surprised at the difference naturopathy can make to how good they feel each day.
- Small changes to your lifestyle, diet and the support of nutritional supplements and herbal medicines can provide balance.
- Every one of us has an innate ability to heal ourselves given the correct treatment and combination of nutrition, exercise, relaxation and awareness.
- I take the time to understand every part of your physical make up – your medical history, lifestyle demands and stresses, your goals, attitudes, nutrition, physical and emotional predispositions.
- Working with me, is a positive step towards rewriting your health journey and in gaining an understanding and ownership of where you are right now.
Naturopath Consultations
A consultation will be summarised into a report that will include:
- Advice regarding nutrition and lifestyle
- and may include:
- herbal
- nutritional or
- homeopathic remedies specific for your condition.
