subject: Naturopathic Clinic Orange County Healing [print this page] When people learn about the good work being done at the naturopathic clinic Orange County, they want to know, what is the difference between naturopathic doctors (ND) and traditional medical doctors (MD). Is an ND a step or two below an MD? Is an ND not a real doctor? Does an MD go to school longer than an ND?
Naturopathic doctors are real doctors who study just a long as medical doctors. In fact, for the first few years, they study most of the same courses. The second half of an MD's schooling, gets her ready to be able to prescribe drugs, and either recommend patients for surgery, or actually perform them.
Naturopathic doctors do not study drugs and surgery because their philosophy is that surgery and drugs are over prescribed, as it is. NDs actually have more treatment options than MDs. They deal with causes, rather than manipulate symptoms, like drugs do. In those unusual instances when drugs or surgery are required, they will gladly recommend that their patient make an appointment with a medical doctor.
Some NDs are also MDs, in which case, they will get out their prescription pad, or send someone to a surgical specialist, as a last resort. Doctors of naturopathy have a lot more options than the drugs or surgery choices that MDs have, They believe that, in most cases, drugs and surgeries do more harm than good, while totally ignoring the causes of illness.
Medical doctors are experts at disease, illness, germs, viruses, and symptoms. They divide everything into parts. Naturopathic physicians prefer to see the big picture, and take a holistic approach. They are experts on health and wellness and the elements which work in tandem to keep people in their healthy status.
Naturopathy is founded upon the principle that the force of nature keeps people healthy. And, when someone is unhealthy it is because something got in the way of nature, so the simple solution is to find whatever is the cause of the interruption and deal with it. They view their patients, (or, nature within them), as their own healers, and they see their jobs as facilitating nature. Medical doctors think of themselves and their pharmaceutical chemicals that work against natural systems of the body, as the healers, and they discount the role of their patients in their own recovery.
When you go to a naturopathic clinic Orange County, you may have a conversation about how work is going, your relationships and what you eat. Physicians of naturopathy have studied how important nutrition as well as stress is to an individual's state of health. They may prescribe anything from a total change in food choices to relaxation protocols, like mediation. You may be given homeopathic remedies, massage therapy, medicinal herbs, vibrational medicine; or you could be told to get more sunlight exposure and exercise.
