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Fatigue
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
Naturopathic medicine is a “whole-systems” form of medicine that emphasizes prevention and individualized treatment of disease. This school of medical philosophy and practice centers on assisting the body’s innate ability to establish, maintain, and restore health. The naturopath’s role is to facilitate and augment this process, to identify and remove obstacles to health and recovery. It uses many modalities, including herbal medicine, acupuncture, osteopathy, nutrition, homeopathy, and lifestyle counseling, to address the underlying cause of disease. Fatigue or low energy is a common condition that requires attending to the root cause. Naturopathy provides natural therapies to encourage the individuals’ inherent self-healing process.
Ethical practice and professional decision-making
Published in Michael Weir, Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine, 2023
There are few reasons not to take steps in this case, as most principles point in that direction. The practitioner should contemplate whether there is any aspect of the decision based upon self-interest in reducing competition in the marketplace. In this case the balance would suggest that taking action to report this practitioner to the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia is justified and it is suggested that the registered TCM practitioner would have an ethical duty to take that course, though not a legal obligation. Advice to the client not to undertake any treatment from the practitioner involving skin penetration is essential on legal and ethical grounds. Case studyA naturopath prescribes vitamins and mineral supplements for a new client based upon the naturopath's assessment of the person's condition and asks the client to pay $250 for the consultation and the substances provided. The client says that as she works for a pharmacy she can get the substances or similar substances for substantially less and in addition the cost of the substances being charged is higher than that charged by other outlets in the same suburb. What should the naturopath do?
Understanding Classical Naturopathy: The Hippocratic Way of Healing
Published in Anil K. Sharma, Raj K. Keservani, Surya Prakash Gautam, Herbal Product Development, 2020
Srijan Goswami, Ushmita Gupta Bakshi
Naturopathy is an ancient and holistic form of treatment. But in the present age of scientific and technological advancements, this very promising system of healing has been marked as unscientific, pseudoscientific, and nonevidence-based procedures. And the medical professionals practicing Naturopathy are termed as “Quacks.” Several reputed websites and professionals’ claims that naturopathy practitioners are against conventional medical practices and protocols, vaccination, and surgery, and instead the Naturopaths depends on unscientific perceptions, often leading to diagnoses and treatments are not genuine. These are ad-hominem arguments—the arguments that do not argue the facts and disparage people. These types of arguments try to damage the prestige of their competitors, and this is exactly what happened to Naturopathy and other alternative medical practices for over the past 100 years.
Comprehensive study on the administrative, economic, regional, and regulatory prospects of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Published in Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021
Taraneh Mousavi, Shekoufeh Nikfar, Mohammad Abdollahi
Nonetheless, with the expansion of CAM use, more global regions have been willing to cover these services’ insurance, creating a 22% rise in the number of WHO member states with insurance coverage for T&CM. Regarding CAM practices, acupuncture (n = 20) followed by chiropractic (n = 16), herbal medicines (n = 16), homeopathy (n = 13), osteopathy (n = 13), traditional Chinese medicine (n = 13), naturopathy (n = 11) and Ayurvedic medicine (n = 5) have the highest insurance coverage worldwide; however, the type of insurance (i.e. private or public) and the level of coverage (i.e. full or partial) differ among regions [12]. As it is quite impossible to summarize all countries’ insurance coverage data, Table 5 included only regions where at least one study was conducted on IBD patients over the past two decades [12].
The Perspectives of Australian Naturopaths about Providing Health Services for People with Sleep Disorders
Published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 2021
Vibha Malhotra, Joanna Harnett, Keith Wong, Bandana Saini
Naturopaths reported that many patients viewed naturopathic treatment as a safe mode of treatment on a long-term basis. Yeah, yeah, usually they are quite open. Telling me the reasons why they come to me. It’s either … the conventional medicine doesn’t work or has side effects that they don’t like. Or they are just suspicious that long-term medication can do the harm. And … like naturopathic medications will not approach, less harm long-term. (Naturopath #03, Sydney)And then they might say to me, “I’ve been to the doctor, they gave me sleeping pills. The sleeping pills don’t really work.” Or they say they worked for some period of time, or sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t work. (Naturopath # 04, Sydney)
Public benefits, recognition, and the same old materialist conclusion: a lyric essay
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2019
All research is me-search, and it occurs to me now that I was probably seeking to shore up my own self-confidence, self-respect, and self-esteem by interviewing people whom I assumed to be more overwhelmed by bureaucracies than I. After all, the participants struggled with literacy and English; they experienced racism; the programs they used entailed stigma; the stakes were high because they used benefits to meet basic needs. Contrast those conditions with my most recent encounter with a bureaucracy: I spent 30 min on the phone with my (private) insurance company, seeking reimbursement for a visit to the naturopathic doctor. The insurance company said no; I self-paid. I suspected that my assertive husband might have achieved a different outcome, but I felt too proud to ask for help. By the end of the phone call, it felt like the morning had gotten away from me. The kids had a half day; there was no way I was going to get any writing done before it was time to pick them up from school.