Natural medicine recognizes the body’s inherent ability, which is ordered and intelligent, to heal itself. Physicians act to identify and remove obstacles to recovery, and to facilitate and augment this healing ability.
Identify and Treat Causes
The physician seeks to identify and remove the underlying causes of illness, rather than to eliminate or merely suppress symptoms.
Utilize methods and medicinal substances which minimize the risk of harmful side effects.
Avoid, when possible, the harmful suppression of symptoms.
Acknowledge and respect the individual’s healing process, using the least force necessary to diagnose and treat illness.
Physicians educate the patient and encourage self-responsibility for health. They also acknowledge the therapeutic value inherent in the doctor-patient relationship.
Physicians treat each individual by taking into account physical, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental and social factors.
Prevention
Natural medicine strives to create a healthy world in which humanity may thrive.
Wellness
Wellness follows the establishment and maintenance of optimum health and balance. Wellness is a state of being healthy, characterized by positive emotion, thought and action. Wellness is inherent in everyone, no matter what disease(s) is/are being experienced. If wellness is really recognized and experienced by an individual, it will more quickly heal a given disease than direct treatment of the disease alone.
