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What is Natural Health
Medicine?
The past century has seen the field of conventional medicine grow
and dominate world health care, though the time worn and tested practices of
natural health medicine has far from become obsolete, rather many choose to use
it as alternative treatment when conventional procedures are ineffective or
prove to be too invasive.
Natural health medicine is also known as Naturopathic medicine, or
naturopathy, and includes many fields from all over the world, including
herbalism, acupuncture, aromatherapy, homeopathy, hydrotherapy etc. The
treatment concentrates on a holistic approach, where the mental well being of a
patient is treated along with his physical problems. The founder of Naturopathy
is believed to be Hippocrates, the Greek Physician, who promoted the use of
herbs, ironically Hippocrates is also considered as the Father of conventional
medicine. Though with the variety of fields that Naturopathic medicine covers,
one is left in doubt as to the true founder, as for each field there was a
different one.
In the modern day, natural health medicine has had a hard time
competing with the success of conventional medical practices. Yet due to its
long standing roots in many cultures, for example homeopathy in India and
acupuncture in China, naturopathy has managed to last through the depression
period, and is once again becoming the preferred met
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