Naturopathic medicine is a comprehensive primary health care profession distinctive by its unique philosophy and practice.  It seeks to promote health through education and the scientific use of natural therapeutics.

The Philosophy of Naturopathic Medicine

 The philosophical foundation of naturopathic medicine is based on the following five basic principles:

1.      Prevention: The highest goal of the doctor is to teach people to live a life that is conducive to good health.

2.      Primum non nocere: In spite of the best prevention, people will become sick or be injured and in intervening the doctor must not do further harm to the patient.

3.      Tolle causam: In treating the sick, the doctor must seek and address the fundamental causes of the ailment.

4.      Vix medicatrix naturae: Only Nature heals.  It is the innate capacity of the organism that heals itself, not the intervention of the doctor or the treatment.  The doctor’s duty therefore is to seek to understand, support and accelerate this process inherent in each individual.

5.      Holism: The holistic approach, intrinsic to naturopathic medicine, evaluates the patient in his environment, seeks the primary causes of the ailment, emphasizes approaches that will help to integrate the mental, emotional and physical aspects of the human being, and encourages spiritual growth.

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