Natural healthcare emphasizes prevention over crisis intervention and seeks to improve overall health rather than simply treating a symptom. Natural practitioners believe healing originates from within the human body, not from medicines or machines, that toxins or stress in the body often cause disease, and that natural remedies that remove toxins help regain health.
It is Important to Know the Cause of the Disease, Not Just the Symptoms
When people seek natural care, they’re asking “why do I have this problem? I’m tired of having the doctor just treat the symptoms.” Natural caregivers teach that daily habits create the conditions for health or disease. Mainstream medical practitioners, rather, often see the similarities and treat everyone the same.
See Each Patient/Client as an Individual
Natural treatments are highly individual, so 10 people going to a natural doctor for a headache may leave with ten different remedies. In contrast, mainstream medical practitioners often see only the similarities and treat everyone the same.
The Body Knows How to Heal Itself
The evidence is clear; given the right treatment, the body can repair itself. For example, stem cells can turn into many types of tissue, such as collagen or new skin. Natural practitioners work with this idea in mind. They view symptoms like fever or inflammation as signs that the body is mounting an immune response to heal itself. Instead of trying to eliminate symptoms, natural therapy treatments work to enhance the body’s own natural defenses and healing vitality.
Natural Practitioners Empower You to Help Yourself
Many adopt the position of coach rather than doctor, allowing patients to rally and use the personal power of their own healing systems.
Lifestyle is Significant to Healing
Natural practitioners look beyond the physical symptoms and take into account a patient’s mental, emotional, and even spiritual life. Natural therapy is more subtle than drugs or surgery and so the healing effects of natural medicines can be slower but more permanent - a normal result of your body taking its time to do it right.