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2007-11-01 17:33:07 · 8 answers · asked by jennaczar 1 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
The biggest problem with naturopathy is a semantic one.
Naturopaths are people who practice "natural" therapies.
"Natural" Therapies, sound good and make people want to use them and feel good about themselves for doing so.
However, what on earth are natural therapies? Turns out there isn't a clear technical definition of it.
The second problem comes from what the liscencing of the profession. Some states are set up so that naturopaths have schooling requirements to practice, and an accredidation means something in that state (ie. oregon, arizona, california), others however don't.
In the states that do, someone has to go through a fairly well done medical school, and really knows what they are doing, and a praticing "N.D." there would be someone excellent to see.
In states that don't, you can pay a couple hundred dolars, and get a diploma sent to you in the mail (strangely enough, the companies that make these are actually the principle opponents of naturopaths getting liscenced in a state, more so than the AMA). These sorts of naturopaths don't really know what they are doing, and hence can "randomly hurt people" or "not do anything that matters." On good ole quackwatch, a laundry list of naturopath victims was published (where people did stupid things like put something on a patients face that burned it off), and in every case the naturopath wasn't someone who had gone to school, and just a mail in diploma person.
I know a few natural healers that are self taught, and get good results using the "fake" ND certification who have helped a lot of people, but by and large the ND's that don't actually go to medical school should be avoided and viewed as a seperate profession.
So skipping the cons, for pros
*A lot of doctors I've met are grumpy pissed off unfriendly people who somewhat hate their life/job/themselves. However, I have never met an unhappy naturopath. It's the only medical profession where the doctors (from a patient or colleague viewpoint) are always pleasant to be around.
*Naturopaths tend to never get nasty side effects in their patients (whereas allopaths often do). This is because naturopath medicines are more "natural" which means they are lighter and less potentially damaging to the body.
*Naturopaths tend to know a lot more about the human body on a lot of different levels than most doctors.
*Some of the treatments and results they get are really cool
*The practice is being more and more popular (since naturopaths tend to be more liked by patients, and people are getting fed up with allopathys' short falls).
I'm still not sure if I want to go to medical school (so much work :|), but if I did, I would go to a naturopath college.
2007-11-04 00:30:29 · answer #1 · answered by Zen Cat 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The fact that we are living and breathing and able to do all these things. The fact that we are not rocks and some divine coincidence made use who we are instead of some inorganic atom. The fact we can give things worth. We can categorise. Its all beautiful, the sight, the sound, the feel, the emotion, the taste. Even pain. We can feel that not many other things can. Pain may be painful, but we can feel it just as we can feel happy. Its amazing really that out of all of this we can do these things. Although it seems to suck sometimes its still wonderful. random fact: if you shoot a rabbit, it doesnt know why it feels pain, it doesn't register that there is an explanation, it just knows it feels pain and as a reaction will run away, even if its dying. Shoot a human (even if they did not know what a gun was) it would realise its something launched, have some sort or knowledge of what to do and so on. I dont think this was relevant but its written now... But if youre looking for one reason it would definitely be pie.
2016-05-27 00:04:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Naturopathic medication has been proven to heal all kinds of ailments, and diseases. My son, was healed in only one week from a homeopathic medication given to him by a N.D. My son, Jason was scheduled to have surgery, and have a tonsillectomy and his adenoids removed. I took my son to a N.D and he was healed permanently! The surgeon was very upset that my son was healed, and yelled at me over the phone, telling me, that I couldn't cancel my son's scheduled surgery. I think that most Medical Doctors are egocentric, and terribly misinformed about Naturopathic medicine. The interesting true history behind N.D and homeopathic medication, has proven that Homeopathic Doctors are nor only more informed about healing people, but seem to care more about their patients than Medical Doctors do. In conclusion, Yes, I believe that the profession of a N.D is worth looking into.
Jaime Ann Carleton
2014-05-12 12:08:13 · answer #3 · answered by Jaime Ann 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naturopathy is not a new concept. People had been using the technics from long but now this system has been recognized. In my opinion if this system was effective enough, other disciplines of medicines may not have become popular. Every profession goes on but it will not become as popular as alopathy.
2007-11-01 17:44:19 · answer #4 · answered by ashok 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Naturopathy is a great profession, but i am pessimistic abt the monetary status of naturopaths. However, the future is quite bright for naturopathy.
2007-11-01 18:54:05 · answer #5 · answered by Advisor 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
i certainly respect naturopathic doctors...
not sure about pofessionally how well they do
2007-11-01 17:41:50 · answer #6 · answered by pinx 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The only reason allopathics are the most popular is becuase they have all the money with Big Pharmas backing.
If you dont believe that, they have some drugs to sell ya!
2007-11-01 18:22:10 · answer #7 · answered by Sowhat 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Kalos O is so correct.
2007-11-03 13:12:47 · answer #8 · answered by samharveymd 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋