--> No one would mistake homeopathy for allopathy, but sometimes people confuse homeopathy with naturopathy or herbalism because of their apparent similarities.
HOMEOPATHY AND NATUROPATHY
Both the naturopath and the homeopath believe in the healing power of Nature, Hippocrates' Vis Medicatrix Naturae, or vital force. The naturopath emphasizes the importance of diet, fresh air, exercise, and peace of mind, as does the homeopath. naturopathy is also holistic; the naturopath treats the whole person in an effort to find the cause of illness, rather than merely removing symptoms. |  REPPED: Mike: Does this philosophy of naturopathy stand at odds with much of what's going on in the pharmaceutical industry today, which is "sell more drugs no matter what"?
Dr. Pizzorno: Very much so. You mentioned the gold standard in the pharmaceutical industry, and this is from their own literature; to find drugs people will be on for the rest of their lives. A lot of the research going on right now is to find these designer drugs. Sometimes that's appropriate, but most of the time, that's not what's best for the patient. |  It is likely that the real practice of naturopathy has almost disappeared from the scene because of legal strictures. That is because a real naturopath diagnoses and treats disease, an occupation that is liable to result in his arrest unless he is a dentist, physician or chiropractor. The modern practitioner of naturopathy would for his own protection have to more or less disguise himself as some sort of consultant and even then keep his fingers crossed that the local medical monopoly would not take umbrage to his presence in the community. |  There is a saying in naturopathy: "Eat food that easily spoils, but eat it before it spoils."
The term organic is generally understood to mean that such food also has not been irradiated and is free of genetically engineered components and any added chemicals that are normally used during growing, storing, or processing. Organically grown food means that it is certifi-ably free of toxic agricultural chemicals and has been grown in healthy soil without the use of water-soluble fertilizers. Very harmful are nitrogen fertilizers, especially nitrates. |  He found a doctor of naturopathy who knew about and had used Protocel. He advised Ralph to obtain a bottle of it for Janis to start taking immediately, which Ralph did.
At first, it was difficult for Janis to take the formula and keep the liquid down. She was just barely able to manage the small doses throughout the day. Janis and her husband had no idea whether Protocel could help her, but they had no other options.
As Janis tells the story, after two-and-one-half weeks on Protocel she threw up for the very last time. |  Doctor of naturopathy), Ph.N. (Philosopher of naturopathy), M.T. (Medical Technologist),
*The American Cancer Society changed the name of its Committee on Quackery to the Committee on Unproven Methods of Cancer Management in the 1950s (Young, 1967:398). But Richards (1972), himself affiliated with the Society, continued to use the designation cancer quackery and an ACS official in Rockland County, New York, called Michael Schachter, M.D., a "quack" for his use of laetrile and other unconventional therapies (The Journal-News, Rockland, New York, December 28,1977). |  Doctor of naturopathy (N.D.) from a nationally accredited college of naturopathy. The individual you choose should be someone who keeps abreast of recent developments in this rapidly changing field. Robert Crayhon, author of Rooert Cray-hon's Nutrition Made Simple, suggests that you ask your nutritionist what recent developments in nutrition research have been most exciting to him or her. As Crayhon insightfully says, "A good nutritionist will follow the latest research like a stockbroker follows the stock market. Someone who doesn't have an answer to this one should be avoided. |  Medicinal approaches include medical herbalism, homeopathy, naturopathy, and drug-based orthodox medicine. All have in common the use of some form of medicine that is taken into the body to achieve the therapeutic goal. While the specifics vary, all such medicines can be seen as fruits of the earth. Whether herbs or synthetic drugs, they share a common origin in the physical world.
Bodywork includes all approaches that do something with or to the physical body. It focuses on structural factors as either causative of or contributing to illness. |  The founder of naturopathy, Dr. Benedict Lust, called for "the elimination of. . . habits such as . . . meat eating." Similarly, Henry Lindlahr, M.D., whose work has been widely read in naturopathic colleges, defined naturopathy as favoring a "strict vegetarian diet." After a detailed and thorough discussion of the blood-type diet's underpinnings, contemporary naturopaths Dr. Deirdre B. Williams and Dr. John J. McMahon conclude, "The blood type theory of diet doesn't have a leg to stand on.' |  At www.naturalcures.com if you went to back pain or cholesterol you would see all the choices without any bias. We take no advertising and we sell no products. We only want to provide you true information. My website www.naturalcures.com is in its infancy and needs your support to become what I envision it to be. Please go to www.naturalcures.com and become a member and encourage all of your friends to become members as well.
Chapter 8
THE INSIDER SECRETS THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
The perfect bureaucrat and politician is the man who makes no decisions and escapes all responsibility. |  Hoxsey described naturopathy as "the art and science of treating human ailments without the use of coal-tar preparations. With roots, herbs, foods, diets, light and water."51 By now, the AMA was also waging a full-throttle national campaign against naturopathy hatched at its 1953 convention. South Carolina, where there were only forty-eight naturopathic physicians, was the proving ground for the AMA's intensive lobbying in the state legislature, and only a last-ditch filibuster had put a temporary stop to it. |  Since naturopathy is a complete healing system, it's well-suited for treating virtually every type of illness. Many naturopathic physicians believe that it's best used in partnership with allopathic medicine. Conventional techniques are uniquely effective for treating acute and emergency situations, such as a heart attack. naturopathy, on the other hand, is well-suited for providing long-term protection. Thus, the two approaches naturally complement each other.
Suppose, for example, that you're about to undergo surgery. |  Such therapies were listed as herbal remedies, chiropractic, naturopathy, megavitamins, and chelation therapy (n = 188 of total n = 726). conducted on ginkgo standardized extract showing "promising evidence" for the treatment of dementia in older patients (Birks etal, 2002).
Healthcare providers should consider several important points when counseling patients on herbal treatments including: (1) herbal remedies are not usually as concentrated as conventional pharmaceuticals with some exceptions (i.e., some concentrated standardized extracts, e.g. | | Naturopathy, on the other hand, is well-suited for providing long-term protection. Thus, the two approaches naturally complement each other.
Suppose, for example, that you're about to undergo surgery. The techniques used in naturopathy can help ease the pain and discomfort of the surgery, reduce the length of your hospital stay, shorten your postoperative recovery time, and generally improve the outcome of the surgery.
IS IT SAFE? |  While allopathy's microbiological standards and technical competence have much to recommend it, as an ideology it prohibits the useful exploration and exploitation of complementary alternatives—extrapara-digmatic therapies such as homeopathy, naturopathy, and acupuncture, among the most notable.
Penetrating still deeper, we must consider how closely medical care cuts to the pith of who we are, how great an impact a style of therapeutics can have on our health, well-being, longevity, our biological viability, our philosophy, our sense of self, our molecular identity. |  English acceptance of vegetarian and vegan diets, naturopathy, homeopathy, acupuncture, spiritual healing, and many other alternative forms of health care is remarkable by American standards. Cancer patients have a wide range of options in treatment, and can blend unconventional and conventional approaches in a variety of ways.
Homeopathy is widely practiced, fully recognized, and paid for by health insurance plans in England, as it is in Germany, France, the
Netherlands, Italy, and many other countries worldwide. |  The chapters on homeopathy, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and naturopathy also touch on medicinal herbs, because herbs figure prominently in these alternative healing systems.
Healing Systems: Different Perspectives on Health
Mainstream medicine is a healing system. It has a distinct philosophy that lays the groundwork for a particular approach to diagnosis and treatment. Its proponents say that it can treat an enormous range of illnesses. And it relies on professional practitioners who use standard examination procedures and treatment protocols. | | They're discussed in part 2, along with other alternative therapies that are close to being healing systems: naturopathy, which is fast becoming an umbrella term for an amalgam of alternative therapies; and the manipulation therapies (chiropractic, osteopathy, and some schools of bodywork), which focus on musculoskeletal problems but may also have value for other conditions.
Making the Best Choice
Chapter 24 asks the question "Which therapy works best for what?" As you'll see, the answer has a lot to do with your own circumstances, preferences, and experience. | | Among the healing therapies now available are acupuncture, aromatherapy biofeedback, bodywork, Chinese herbal medicine, chiropractic, homeopathy, hypnotherapy, massage, meditation, music therapy, naturopathy, nutritional therapies, qigong, tai chi, visualization, Western herbal medicine, and yoga. | | In 1996, the AMA featured the book in its catalogue, touting it as an authoritative source of information on "unproven, disproven, controversial, fraudulent, and/or otherwise questionable approaches [such as] acupuncture, faith healing, biofeedback, homeopathy, naturopathy, colonic irrigation, and more!"45
HERE COME THE NURSES
The AMA's none-too-welcoming attitude toward chiropractic and other alternative approaches to healing is consistent with its longstanding attitude toward women. |  Seek out practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy, or medical herbalism for alternatives to drugs.
• In a study of 34,000 people who were at normal or low risk of developing cancer, those who had allergies were one-third more likely to develop cancer than those who reported freedom from allergies. Those with asthma were one-fifth more likely to be diagnosed with cancer. Antihistamines such as Claritin (loratadine), Hismanal (astemizole), and Atarax (hydrocyzine) are known to incite existing cancers to grow more quickly and more aggressively. | | This is why the American Medical Association (AMA) continues to attack acupuncture, biofeedback, homeopathy, and naturopathy as "un-proven, disproven, controversial, fraudulent, and/or otherwise questionable."9 This is why the AMA Journal hasn't written anything positive about acupuncture since Nixon went to China. | | To allow acupuncture, chiropractic, naturopathy, midwifery, homeopathy, herbs, massage therapy, and many of the other valid alternative methods fully into the medical picture would not only make medicine more effective, it would also incorporate a more compassionate perspective into medicine, for these approaches have in common that they nurture the inherent healing forces and potentials of the body, something orthodox medicine often neglects to do.
The medical myth casts an intimidating shadow. |  But in researching ways to cut health care costs, American Western discovered naturopathy. Today, the company maintains a full-time Wellness Line, staffed by trained naturopathic doctors who answer clients' health care questions.
Premiums for the Wellness plan are about 20 percent lower than for the company's traditional plans, says WolfKlain, "because we believe very strongly that if people do take care of themselves, if they take preventive measures, it's going to save us all a lot of money in the long run. |  Chinese medicine and Indian Ayurveda, the drumming and dancing of shamanism, the sweat lodges and purgations of American Indian healing, the foods and baths of European naturopathy, the orishas or spirits of West African healing, the little pills of European homeopathy: all are offering modern North Americans something that we are missing in our health care and in our lives. Often it is answers to the unanswerable questions that specific illnesses raise: How do I treat my cancer when Western medicine says nothing more can be done? |  Accreditation is provided by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), naturopathy's national professional organization.
The AANP strongly recommends that patients verify their naturopathic physician's certification with the AANP. The AANP warns that some practitioners who advertise themselves as N.D.s obtained degrees in courses at unaccredited schools or through the mail, rather than at accredited institutions. Naturopaths are licensed in ten states in the United States (see box), but practice in at least twenty-eight additional states. | | But for empirics—practitioners of holistic, complementary, energy medicines such as homeopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture, herbalism, and chiropractic—disease is precipitated by internal susceptibility and managed by microbial agents as a consequence of aberrations of self; healing is generated when the innate life force is encouraged to restore homeostasis and the self regains coherency. | | A therapy used by Chinese herbal practitioners in which mugwort is burned on or very close to the body at an identified affected site to increase circulation and promote healing. naturopathy (naturopathic medicine) A drugless therapy based on the body's own ability to heal itself, facilitated by a naturopathic physician trained to treat the cause rather than the effect of illness or disease. Treatments most often are diet- and nutrition-oriented with attention given to the patient's personal history and lifestyle. needling The primary action of acupuncture. | | The implicit goal in either case was to position all economic competitors to conventional medicine—chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, vitamin therapy, cell therapy—as "quacks." The priority targets, Lisa explains, do not use standard pharmaceutical drugs in their practice, which makes them direct economic competition to conventional medicine, which prefers to dominate the market. |  From the viewpoint of functional medicine and naturopathy, insofar as these glands and tissues contribute to the origin and development of mature immune cells, their function is regarded as vital for immune enhancement and general health. Liver detoxification to assist in the removal of toxins from the body, colon cleansing to improve GALT function, lymphatic cleansing, and thymus support are necessary elements of a complete immune-enhancing program. | |
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