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Naturopathy and Homeopathy Complement Each Other | Deerghayush

Holistic treatments are more favored now than the traditional treatments. Their raising popularity can be accorded to the easy, non-intrusive and attempt at treating the person in whole. Naturopathy and Homeopathy are two systems of treatments that complement each other.
Naturopathy is a method of treatment that targets to mend lifestyle and impose diet modifications to tackle a particular ailment or syndrome. It may use Homeopathy and other herbal remedies etc to tackle a disease. Homeopathy that way is part of Naturopathic treatment. Naturopathy as many other ways of handling a disease too.
Homeopathy is purely based on medications. A seasoned homeopath may advise some lifestyle changes but usually these practitioners give medicines to heal a disease from its root. While people claim that homeopathy does not heal a patients mind, a homeopath always takes a patients mental condition into picture. He individualizes the case and treats the patient, which means that the patient is dealt with in totality taking into account his past history, his mental condition, his likes and dislikes etc.
Naturopathy has evolved in the Western countries and people from all walks of life have turned to this form of treatment. Naturopathy is a vast science as it accommodates other alternative medicines like herbal products, homeopathic medicines, therapies, yoga, lifestyle modifications, remedial massage, and tackling nutrition. In general Homeopaths do not ask for any diet changes though they may ask you to keep away if they find you are allergic to some food.
Homeopathy believes in law of similar. It can shock those skeptics who have no faith in the medicine by curing a person of a disease in the fastest way. People who think that Homeopathic medicines are sweet pills and are placebo pills need to rethink. If a normal person is given the cure of itching for example he can develop itching which he did not have at all but the same medicine may cure a person with itching. It is difficult for people who use traditional medicine to understand this philosophy.
Both the forms of treatment have less commonality with traditional methods of treatment as both naturopathy and homeopathy get to roots of a problem and not cure just the top.

sukhasanthi on 2012-02-21

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I am not sure I agree with this. Naturopathy in my country is a hodge-podge mixture of western herbalism, massage, vitamin and mineral therapy, diet, detoxification, bach flowers,acupressure, and a version of homoeopathy that is too simple. It has no one underlying philosophy that guides it, but irrationally tries to tack all these different systems together. Most of the naturopathic practitioners I see use palliation and suppression to deal with their patient's complaints, or confuse the case by the use of so many different therapies. They will offer multiple explanations for why the patient is sick. They certainly don't use the law of similars for most of their treatments, which as Hahnemann said is the only way to truly cure. Even when they use our medicines, they use them with too narrow an understanding. I rarely see any naturopaths get to the root cause of a disease, which we know is the derangement of the vital energy. They tend to focus on physical effects and mechanisms not energetic (vital) ones, concentrating their efforts on the results of disease instead of the true cause. The don't use minimum dose, and in fact tend to overdose their patients much as the allopaths do. They don't use a single remedy, instead combining many medicines together with no real thought or understanding of the synergy of them, or any clue as to what medicine is really doing what. They often talk of looking holistically at a patient's health, but in reality they divide the patient up into parts and apply different treatments to different areas. They don't use anything like Direction of Cure to judge when a medicine is genuinely helping the patient. The don't seem to have any real concept of the hierarchy of symptoms and levels in human health so they cannot see the subtle movement of symptoms from the centre to the periphery.

Considering that Naturopathy either breaks or at least ignores our most basic laws in Homoeopathy, I fail to see how it can complement what we do. I spend a fair amount of time in practice undoing what naturopaths do. I often see, under the action of the simillimum, symptoms supposedly 'cured' by naturopathy, return, and need to be actually cured. The patients are confused by this, since our philosophy and that of naturopathy is so vastly different.

The only naturopaths I can work with are the ones that stick strickly to diet and massage, and who do not ask patients to engage in dangerous detoxification programs or eliminate normal foods from their diet (thus creating allergies). The rest just seem to interfere constantly in my attempts to cure patients.
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:04:37 GMT]

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