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Botanical
Medicine
Most European countries recognize the
effectiveness of medicinal plants, include them in their official
pharmacopoeias and regulate them as drugs or over-the-counter
remedies. At least 14 scientific journals worldwide are devoted to
the study of botanical medicine.
Clinical Nutrition
The dietary approach to prevention and
treatment of chronic degenerative disease, championed for more than
a century by naturopathic physicians, has recently gained the
attention of orthodox medicine. Each of the seven dietary guidelines
in the 1988 U.S. Surgeon General's report on nutrition and health is
a traditional part of naturopathic practice. More than 40 scientific
journals worldwide are devoted to clinical nutrition, and articles
on the therapeutic use of diet or supplements also appear regularly
in conventional medical journals.
Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a system of medicine more than two hundred
years old and there are more than one hundred homeopathic medical
colleges worldwide. A recent review article in the British Medical
Journal performed a meta-analysis of 107 controlled clinical trials
of homeopathic substances, and found positive evidence supporting
their effectiveness.
Homeopathic therapeutics use medicines made
from natural substances. It utilizes medicines that stimulate the
body's immune and defense system to initiate the healing
process.
Naturopathic Physical
Therapies
Naturopathic Manipulative Therapy (NMT) has been an integral
part of the practice of naturopathic medicine since the founding of
the naturopathic profession, and throughout its
existence.
Naturopathic manipulative therapy is
performed and prescribed as a "therapy".
A wide rage
of both cutting edge genetic testing along with conventional testing
is available.
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