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Our body has strong enough vitality to recover as long as we have enough patience. Disease and death is not the emblem of failure; commit suicide is the failure. Our aim is to learn to live with love joyfully and diseases teach us how to do so. Our focus is not on the disease itself, but on health and life. We believe that good food in nature, fresh air, rest, amusement, sleep, weather variations and physical therapy can cure diseases. Real curers know very well the value of torment and tribulation and that there is a way to change, self-healing and health during the course of disease experience.
When we get cold, we usually sneeze, which is actually an effective way for the body to discharge bacteria and viruses in the respiratory tract. At this time, if we take the initiative in make some more sneezing cold will soon be good; we often get rid of cold in this way. What's more, sometimes you may cough when you have tracheitis so I teach my students to take the initiative in coughing a few more times, and they will get over it soon. When they are faint, nervous, or hot-tempered, I teach them to take a deep breath; after a few times, troubles mentioned above all disappear. In addition, people who often breathe deeply are in good health relatively and broad-minded.
The following seven key concepts provide the basis for natural therapy:
(1) Natural healing power. Nature plays a great role in maintaining and regaining health by physiological and mental recovery mechanism. When these internal systems don't work, naturopathic doctors would try to regain and support them through methods and skills in compliance with natural process.
(2) The first is harmless. Naturopathic doctors believe that the non-invasive treatment methods are more advisable, which can minimize harmful side effects.
(3) Identify the cause of disease. Each disease has basic causes, which are often life, diet and habits of the individual. Trained naturopathic doctors should be able to discover root of the problem and help patients find out ways to overcome.
(4) We treat the whole person. Health or poor health are all caused by the complex interactions between various factors, such as psychology, sentiment, spirit, physical condition, diet, gene, environments and so on. Naturopathic doctors treat the whole person and all factors should be taken into account.
(5) Preventive health care. Generally speaking, health approach of naturopathy is to help people not get sick and prevent indisposition from developing into more serious or chronic, variant diseases. Patients are taught to how to live a healthy life and reduce the risk of serious illness.
(6) Health is inherent in every person. If people are really awareness of this and put this awareness into practice, they would get well faster than receiving treatment directly.
(7) Doctors are like teachers. The original meaning of the word doctor is teacher. One of the major aims of natural therapy is to teach patients and emphasize that they should be responsible for their own health. Naturopathic doctors also emphasize the role of relationships between doctors and patients in treating diseases.
In the past, people looked up to the success of modern biomedicine and believed that infectious diseases had been almost eliminated and the rest can be controlled by immunity and antibiotics. However, it is found that malignant bacterias present apparent drug resistant ability and acclimation ability. Old infectious diseases reactivate again and even outbreak seriously. Some unknown deathful viruses in the past emerge; what's more, factors such modern life style, communications, environments and so on increase the possibility of transmission of viruses.
We can see that health of human has been under serious threat; as a matter of course, in the struggle with disease people pay their attention to natural drugs. Now, natural drugs can be used to treat various diseases, including skin diseases. Nature offers a cure for herpes, a cure for nail fungus, and various remedies for all sorts of skin diseases. The beauty of these naturally occurring extracts is that they not only deliver incredible results to eradicate specific ailments, but do so without undesired side effects.
Natural drugs are made from natural materials, widely available with natural chemical compositions and smooth function. Their effectiveness is integral and bidirectional with little side effects; it is not easy to cause pathogenic microorganism to develop drug resistance; harmful residues seldom remain in animal body; and so on. Recently, natural drugs are considered to be very important because of the unique advantage in the treatment. To learn more, please go to http://www.naturespharma.org.
