Naturopathy focuses on disease prevention, led by the belief that given the optimum environment the body has the ability to self-heal using natural methods. The main principle being ‘heal through nature’ to avoid the negative side effects of pharmaceutical medications.
Like many natural treatment modalities, naturopathic medicine is both an art and a science. Treatment employs a blend of both scientific and traditional evidence in order to treat the person, not the disease. This strategy becomes all the more important in our modern world that encompasses environmental obstacles like stress, technology, environmental pollution and suboptimal nutrition.