Different Treatment Choices Of Naturopathic Doctors

Actually, what naturopathic doctors practice to cure their patients is different in each country. This is because they choose to practice diverse for of medicines to heal their patients. In the practice of naturopathy, naturopathic doctors cure their patient’s disease by using the nature of power without using a particular stethoscope and its part like Littmann stethoscope parts or other medical equipment. Lots of stethoscopes at medical supply stores but naturopathic doctors choose to treat their patients by combining supplements and herbs with traditional prescription medications.

To treat any type of conditions and illnesses, naturopathic doctors choose to practice homeopathy, clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, and manual medicine. These are the more general and current methods of remedy that they use. Usually, naturopathic doctors select one specialization of treatment in which they concentrate on.

Botanical Medicine

The more universal modes of treatment that naturopathic doctors suggest to their patients are herbs and other botanically sourced medications. The reason for this is because many mostly proffered herbs have less toxicity compared to conventional medicine and are seldom stored in the body. Compared to other synthetic medicines, most of the herbs have fewer, if any at all, side effects.

Clinical Nutrition

To treat or heal many disorders that plaque people, most naturopathy doctors initially recommend proper nutrition and a good diet. The reason for this is that the foods we ingest and the beverages that we drink also cause many of our poor health problems. Developments in the conditions that we have can be greatly affected by just changing one’s diet. Some naturopathic doctors may also suggest supplementation together with the appropriate diet.

Homeopathy

Homeopathy is the most well liked alternative medicine type for most naturopathic doctors. This method of treatment is based on the fact that we can ultimately treat a lot of our conditions by creating alike symptoms as the conditions. This works best by using some natural substances and ingredients that are believed affect the conditions.

Manual Medicine

Chiropractic and massages fall under this heading. There are lots of other forms of curing and treatment that entail manipulation of one’s body to treat diseases and conditions. Not all naturopathic doctors are well versed in these forms of manual medicine so they might advise professionals in this field to their patients.

Eventually, naturopathic doctors prefer to use these natural ways of curing and treatment rather than modern ways of synthetic medicines. Nevertheless, they generally advise their patient to traditional doctors of medicine in certain cases when the assist of modern medicine is needed.

NATURAL MEDICINE FOR LOW BACK & LEG PAIN

Low back pain doesn’t happen overnight and once understood, can resolve quicker than you realize. We have to look at our lifestyle, nutrition, how we think & feel, etc. to undo the ailment. You could take a pain reliever but still the underlying imbalance will be there after the relief is gone. The key word for low back pain is DEFICIENCY.

Contributing Environment: Our work and personal life may be stressing us out to the degree that our circulation is constricted not allowing nutrients to feed our organs and toxins to be eliminated. Our dietary preferences in the U.S. are excessive while empty of nutrients, full of preservatives, pesticides, hormones and processed with additives. Our generation has to manage more stress, life events, media exposure and emotional changes thus disturbing our sleep quality. The result is we lack the necessary energy or life force to be our best. This further makes us irritable in our relationships which worsens all the scenarios described before.

As we break down our energy, immunity and support, our self image and esteem parallels our internal organs ability to weather the challenge. Specifically, our adrenals and kidneys have become depleted of energy or weak, necessitating our attention to re-establishing our essence, life force and our quality of living.

To begin, we need to construct successful strategies in the areas of nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle. This resource is designed to provide some winning solutions so you can quickly re-engage living rather than aging or dying too soon.

The source of deficiency stems from 4 main areas: 

• LEFT KIDNEY DEFICIENCY
• RIGHT KIDNEY DEFICIENCY
• KIDNEY ENERGY DEFICIENCY
• EXTREME CHRONIC FATIGUE

FOOD THERAPY: LOW BACK PAIN 

This issue may involve not only low back pain but also sciatic pain complicated by other syndromes such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, Epstein Barr, etc. Four causes of low back and leg pain.

There are several categories based on Chinese medicine nutrition and Traditional Chinese herbs that support and correct low back pain:

LEFT KIDNEY (yin) DEFICIENCY:
Characteristics: Heat symptoms such as 1) dry throat and mouth, ringing in the ears, slight fever or heat wave, low back pain, dizziness, weakened leg strength, excessive spontaneous pirspiration, involuntary seminal emission, excessive weight loss, tongue (red) and/or shiny

Foods: millet, barley, tofu, string bean, black bean, black soy bean, mung bean, mung bean sprouts, kidney bean, azuki bean, and most other beans, kuzu root, watermelon and most others, blackberry, mulberry, blueberry, huckleberry, water chestnut, wheat germ, potato, seaweeds, spirulina, chlorella, black sesame seed, sardine, crab, clam, eggs, pork, cheese
Herbs: marshmallow root, rehmannia root, Asparagus root, aloe vera gel, colloidal silver (If the constitution is cold and/or most or low back & sciatic is cold and/or moist then choose from the groups below)

RIGHT KIDNEY (yang) DEFICIENCY:
Characteristics: cold symptoms in the body such as cold extremities, weakened knees, weakened lower back, avoidance of cold environments, pale skin, depression, lethargic thinking, deficient libido, intermittant menstruation and clear vaginal fluid

Foods: walnuts, black beans, onion family (onion, garlic, chives, scallions, leeks), quinoa, chicken, lamb, trout, salmon
Spices: cloves, fenugreek, fennel seeds, dried ginger
Avoid cooling foods, fruit, raw foods, excessive salt, use seaweed cautiously.

KIDNEY ENERGY (qi) DEFICIENCY:
Characteristics: low energy, low back pain, weak knees, pale tongue, minor cold signs, frequent urination, incontinence, inability to urinate, dribbling, involuntary seminal emission, other seminal/urinary problems.

Foods: wheat berry, sweet rice, parsley
Herbs: rose hips, oyster shell, clam shell, schizandra berry, raspberry and blackberry leaves, gravel root

EXTREME CHRONIC FATIGUE (Jing Deficiency):
Characteristics: dizziness, ringing in ears, loose teeth, loss of head hair, painful knees and lower back

Food: micro-algae (chlorella, spirulina, wild blue-green), fish, liver, kidney, brain, bone and its marrow, human placenta, cereal grasses, wheat grass,solomon seal, almonds, ghee (clarified butter), goat’s milk, nettle leaves, royal jelly, bee pollen, Doddler seeds, millet, wheat, black sesame seeds, soybeans, chestnuts, mulberries, raspberries, strawberries, seitan, walnuts
Herbs: deer antler, deer horn velvet, Deer Placenta, Lycium fruit, Polygonum multiflorum root, Eucommia bark, Dendrobium stem, Cinnamon bark, white ginseng, semen cuscutae, astragali seed (complanati), cordyceps, astragalus, codonopsis, reishi, morinda, eleuthero root, paeonia , gambir, gecko, cibot rhizome, tianshan snow lotus, tibet carthami

For final decision on which foods to choose for your condition, please consult a trained master herbalist with in-depth knowledge of Traditional Chinese herbs and food therapy, American herbology and other nutritional systems.

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