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The Natural Path to Health and Healing
Energetic View Of The Human Organism

Naturopathy is based on the belief in the body's innate God-given nature to heal itself.
Naturopathic doctors are conventionally trained in areas of anatomy, physiology, nutritional
counseling, herbology, homeopathy and bio-energetic medicine. Often referred to as 'drugless
practitioners,' naturopaths are not involved in the practice of conventional medicine, but deal
with wellness and the identification and the elimination and/or relief of conditions that are the
result of stress; whether from mental, nutritional, environmental or physical factors.
The non-invasive healing modalities the Naturopath chooses are tailored to the needs of the
individual.

A Bio-Energetic Health Analysis is a non-invasive and natural comprehensive wellness evaluation
that helps you achieve optimal health by detecting and recognizing disturbances that affect the
quality of your health. In addition, she utilizes numerous modalities that when coupled with the
assessment are most powerful in aiding in rapid detoxification without experiencing any intense
healing crisis.
Our emotions, environment and lifestyle choices determine our health and well-being more than
anything else. A holistic approach to helping an individual deal with health problems begins with
providing them with comprehensive education and support.
By offering modalities that improve the immune system, she facilitates in the creation of an
environment conductive to healing.

What Is Health?

"Health" and "well-being" have become relative terms. Medical professionals vary as to the true
meaning of health. Does chronic disease begin when its symptoms show up? Can disease be
underway in our bodies without any apparent symptoms? Are we healthy when our bodies are
symptom free? A patient who had a serious disease years ago has been symptom free for a long
time, but a major emotional stress causes old symptoms to return. Has this patient been healthy
all this time? Health is removal of disease, not absence of symptoms. Symptoms can be
suppressed, masked, compensated, or even accepted as normal after a while due to their
mild/chronic nature(example: low energy, fatigue).
True health is when the mind and body are without disease. It is when a person can feel good
and full of energy almost all of the time. It is when the mind, body, and spirit are at peace or
"ease", particularly when under stress. It is also living at full potential and the capacity to adapt
to others and whatever comes one's way. It is fact that we all want to be and feel healthy, but
only a privileged few actually experience true health and vitality.

Energetic View Of The Human Organism

"We, as humans organisms, are a series of interacting multidimensional subtle-energy systems, and ... if
these energy systems become imbalanced there maybe resulting pathological symptoms.. The
Einsteinan paradigm as applied to vibrational medicine sees human beings as networks of complex
energy fields that interface with physical/cellular systems. The recognition that all matter is energy,
forms the foundation for understanding how human beings can be dynamic energetic systems.
Through his famous equation E-mc2, Albert Einstein proved to scientists that energy and matter are
dual expressions of the same universal substance. That universal substance is primal energy of vibration
of which we are all composed. Dr. Gerber

Although both pharmocologic and surgical approaches have provided significant strides in the
diagnosis and treatment of human illness, both subscribe to the Newtonian view of the human
body as an intricate clockwork mechanism of physical organs, chemicals, enzymes and
membrane receptors...However, humans, unlike machines, are more than the summation of a
pile of combined chemicals. All organisms are dependent upon a subtle vital force, which creates
synergism via a unique structural organization of molecular components. Because of this
synergism, the living whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. The vital force creates order in
living systems and constantly rebuilds and renews its cellular structures. When the life-force
leaves the body at death, the physical mechanism is slowly degraded into a disorganized
collection of chemicals. This is one of the uniques principles which distinguishes living from
nonliving systems, and people from machines."
Vibrational Medicine, Richard Gerber, MD., Bear & Co.(P28-41)
Clinical Homeopathy
Years ago, around the turn of the last century, the town doctor made house calls in his rig,
riding out with horse and buggy. Traditionally, he carried a little black bag from which, as the
story goes, he dispensed sugar pills to his ailing patients. Now we are entering a New Age and
some things from the good old days are coming with us. Among them are the sugar pills ...
Through those decades of change, there has always been a small group pf persevering and
conscientious practitioners who have continued to bring health to their patients and clients by
dispensing sugar pills. Of course, no one has ever gotten well eating sugar so you're absolutely
right if you're expecting to learn more.
Although they can work like magic, these 'sugar pills' are not magic, they are the milk sugar
carriers of homeopathic remedies, the medicine of homeopathy. You will be surprised to learn
that homeopathy is a formal branch of medicine recognized under federal law. Homeopathic
remedies are FDA approved and available without prescription through health food stores and
homeopathic pharmacies.
As a system of healing, homeopathy has been used in the U.S. for about 160 years. It is based
on what is known as the law of similars:"Similia Similibus Curenter." This means that like cures
like symptoms; in other words, in order to produce a cure, you must treat the problem with
something that will produce the same unhealthy symptom in a healthy person. For example,
many of us have experienced the kind of cold that causes the eyes to water and the nose to run
with a seemingly unstoppable flow of clear thin mucus. This is the same symptomology that we
may have either observed or experienced when peeling raw onions. This type of cold would be
treated using homeopathically prepared onion(Allium cepa). The actual word homeopathy is
derived from the Greek words homoios ('similar') and pathos ('suffering").
The concept of like curing like symptoms can be traced back two thousand years to Greece and
the origins of the saying 'the wound heals' which is attributed to the Delphic Oracle. Aspects of
the philosophy can also be found in the writings of Hippocrates, a Swiss physician who practiced
in the 16th century.
However, as a system of healing, homeopathy came into its own with the work of Samuel
Hahnemann. In 1790, Dr. Hanhnemann was a well known and highly respected author. About
that time, he writes" ... I renounce the practice of medicine, that I might no longer incur the risk
of doing injury". Although he rejected the bleeding and purging practices of his day, he
remained interested in the medical field. He began his own investigation into concepts of healing
after reading an essay by a colleague on the healing mechanisms of quinine in the treatment of
malaria.
Refuting the idea that quinine healed because of its bitterness, Dr. Hahnemann began to
self-administer the herb cinchona (quinine), and soon found himself to be manifesting the same
symptoms as those of Malaria patients. Since Dr. Hahnemann was himself a scholar, he was
knowledgeable about the precedents of both Hippocrates and Paracelsus. Working by himself
and with other professionals who became interested in his idea. Dr. Hahnemann developed the
homeopathic system of healing.
In 1810, after twenty years of intense work, Dr. Hahnemann published the Organon Of
Medicine, presenting the tenets of homeopathy, declaring that 'the physician's highest ideal of
cure is rapid, gentle, and permanent....' This book introduced a new and entirely different
system of medicine, one that was totally opposed to medicine as it was being practiced in Dr.
Hahnemann's time. Of course, the European community was in an uproar over it. However,
because of its dramatic results, homeopathy was soon in widespread use throughout Europe and
in other parts of the globe.
Homeopathy began to be used in America in 1832. Although it was considered as 'unscientific'
by part of the medical establishment, it was widely practiced here by the mid-1800's. The
American Institute Of Homeopathy was established in 1844, two years before the AMA, and by
1910 there were 22 homeopathic medical schools, 100 homeopathic hospitals, 1000 pharmacies
and 14,000 homeopathic doctors. Unfortunately, homeopathy did not continue to flourish and
by the end of World War I, it had largely been replaced by allopathic medicine.
During these last 70 years, homeopathy has bot been a dormant science but has continued to
grow all over the world, India, Great Britian, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Brazil, Argentina,
Mexico, and South Africa all sustain numerous homeopathic practices. Homeopathy is widely
embraced by the British where a homeopathic physician has traditionally been appointed to
serve the royal family. The British carried homeopathy to India and today, there are some 40
homeopathic colleges located throughout the country.
Due to the impetus of the holistic health care revolution, Homeopathy is definitely on the move
again in America. At this point, it is not recognized by mainstream medicine; however, Jonathan
Harger, editor for the American Center for Homeopathy, states that as many as 5000 allopaths
and osteopaths practice homeopathy "to varying degrees" (Medical Self-Care, Winter 1983)
According to American Homeopathy, there are now more than 25 companies selling
homeopathic products in this country. In 1979, there were only 10. They further report that in
1982, the annual sales for homeopathic remedies reached $20 million, however this has more
than doubled today. Though noting that this is but a fraction of the %15 billion spent on other
non-prescription medicines, it represents an increase of more than 300 percent over the
previous four years.
Homeopathic remedies come in three physical forms: liquid drops, little lactose granules or balls
and lactose tablets. These include individual remedies(only available through homeopathic
pharmacies), cell salts and combinations as well as through hompeopathic pharmacies.
It is the remedies that are the real phenomenon of homeopathy. When Dr. Hahnemann first
began to experiment with the concept of homeopathy, he used the symptom causing drugs and
poisons in their crude form. Although he was able to cure his patients, these crude substances
were very hard on them, causing intense aggravation of their symptoms before health returned.
Dr. Hahnemann began to dilute the remedies with the inert substances which are still used
today: distilled water, alcohol, and lactose(milk sugar). The problem he encountered was that as
the remedies became weak enough that they no longer distressed his patients, they also became
too weak to cure them.
Then something remarkable happened.. one of those coincidences of consciousness which have
no reasonable explanation. Hahnemann discovered that if the dilute solution was shaken
(succussed), the new substance not only retained its healing property, but actually increased its
power(potency) and has no side effects. Thus the homeopathic remedy came to be.
Each remedy is prepared by a controlled process of successive dilutions called 'potentizing'. The
substances are diluted one part remedy to 99 parts inert substance, and then they are succussed
or ground with lactose (triturated). The first time this process is completed the remedy is 1x
potency and is called a tincure. The number beside the x tells you how many times the original
substances has been successively diluted and potentized. Potencies commonly used by the lay
person are 3x, 6x, 12x, and occasionally 30x. The number also indicates the amount of original
material remaining in ratio to the amount of inert substance: 3x is 1/1000th part remedy, while
6x is 1/1,000,000th part. The higher the potency or power, the smaller the actual amount of the
basic remedy, and the greater the possible therapeutic effect.
The amazing thing about this phenomena is that past 24 dilutions there is no longer any trace of
the molecule structure of the original substance, yet the remedy still cures. At this point, dear
reader, you will begin to understand why many of those involved with orthodox medical practice
find homeopathy so confounding. It is also at this point that the real fascination with the healing
power of homeopathy begins.
There are several explanations for the healing phenomenon of the homeopathic remedies. One
author gave this explanation, "...the remedies carry a message, or drug picture, to the brain.
The drug picture for a remedy with a low potency will be less specific than the drug picture for a
remedy with a higher potency." (Natural Foods Merchandiser May 1983) It logically follows that
the body's defenses are then stimulated to react against the offender. However, the question
arises as to how the brain will be stimulated by something which isn't there? Or at least, it is not
there in any form which we are capable of measuring.
Dr. Hahnemann himself understood the body to have a 'vital force.' That vital force is the
difference between life and death. Within the philosophy of homeopathy, disease is considered
to be a dynamic state existing within the dynamics of the body. Since potenized remedies are
also dynamic, they work to remove the diseased state. According to George Vithoulkas,
world-famous homeopathy, "Dr. Hahnemann had discovered that there lies hidden in every
substance in nature some inner life, and that we can mobilize and use this force if we know how
to process the substance."
We are speaking here about energy, like gravity, electricity, and magnetism. And it is the
energy, or vital force, of the substance which is transported by the remedy which stimulates the
healing energy, vital force, of the body. In these times of acupuncture, biofeedback, and Rupert
Sheldrake's M-fields theory, we can not only appreciate the machinations of energy levels, we
can use them to our benefit even if they can't be explained in terms that all of us find satisfying.
The homeopathic practitioner understands disease as an energy imbalance, a disturbance of the
vital force. Just as with any natural healer, the practitioner also sees symptoms as an attempt by
the body to heal itself and to signal distress. The homeopath doesn't work with pathology
(disease states) as the allopath does. He believes that the organisms which accompany certain
diseases invade after the development of a morbid physical environment. In other words, it is
not these organisms which cause disease. They thrive in the diseased condition. The remedy
stimulates the body to return to a healthy condition, healing not by removing the illness but by
increasing health.
Two conditions are necessary for this healing reaction to take place. In the first place, the
afflicted person must be using the right remedy. Secondly, that person's vital force must be
strong enough to produce a reaction.
The basic law of homeopathy is like-cures-like, NOT kind-of-like-cures-like. At best, the wrong
remedy will cause temporary alleviation of symptoms, not cure. At worst it won't have any effect
at all. You will again see the importance of the symptoms to the designation of a remedy. The
correct remedy demands a complete diagnosis of physical, mental, and emotional factors. Since
homeopathy recognizes no diseases as such, but only diseased individuals, six people with colds
might each be using a different remedy to regain health. (We mentioned colds with clear fluid
runny noses: there are also remedies for colds when you're stuffed up and can't blow your nose:
colds with fevers: colds that were caught when out in the rain... lots of different kinds of colds,
each with a different remedy.)
Regarding the second condition, strength of the vital force, it is possible for the vital force to be
so weak that the remedy will not be able to evoke a response. This can be the case with chronic
disease when the person has been using powerful drugs or medications for relief. Long term
cancer or arthritis patients might fit this category. On the other hand, a remedy for an acute case
can be overpowered by the immediate use of an over-the-counter drug or a strong or spicy
food(like garlic). For example, you wouldn't combine a homeopathic combination remedy for
colds with the use of an OTC anti-histamine.
This individualized treatment requires extensive examination and observation on the part of the
practitioner. A good homeopath could spend an hour or more interviewing you on the first visit.
This might include questions about your attitudes toward life, do you prefer hot or cold, what
kind of things cause you to feel irritated, what position do you take when you sleep? S/he will
want detailed information about your health problems. No symptom is treated as
inconsequential because each is considered as a part of the imbalanced state.
The right homeopathic remedy restores health on all levels. Although the Homeopath doesn't
treat for disease, Susan Ellis reports, "There have been case histories of homeopathics treating
and curing patients with chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, eczema, and nephritis."
She also mentions colitis, bronchial conditions, dysmennorrhea, migraine, allergies fatigue, and
grief. The ability of the remedies to alleviate mental symptoms such as grief, anxiety, and
depression is truly remarkable. (Health Express, December, 1983)
Symptoms will typically subside within a few days, often faster, and sometimes you will
experience immediate relief (as with arnica in the treatment of certain kinds of pain.) If the
remedy is right, you can expect symptoms to heal in the following order. From top down, from
the inside out, from a more important organ to a less important one, and in the reverse order of
their appearance.
The most commonly used homeopathic remedies right now are the combination remedies. The
classical homeopath avoids using more than one remedy at a time. (This would make it
impossible to determine which one had been effective). However, these remedies represent a
combination of those single remedies which have most often been helpful for that particular
state. If the combination includes the right remedy, the person gets relief. If not, there will be
no effect at all.
These combinations are often in liquid form and you administer them by the drop according to
the instructions. Some combinations are in tablet form. These will also have label instructions.
The labels on both these types of combinations remedies will also carry a prominent listing of
the symptoms (also called indications). The drops are placed under the tongue, while the tablets
are allowed to dissolve in the mouth. They are absorbed without the aid of digestive juices.
Sometimes you will experience an aggravation of symptoms before you get relief. This will be
hardly noticeable in acute disorders but can be an actual healing crisis in chronic disorders. The
homeopathic concept was recently given an interesting application. The Winter 1984 issue of the
Journal of Humanistic Psychology offered an article entitled"A Homeopathic Model of
Psychotherapy.' This interesting point of view was presented by Linda Riebel who suggested that
a more effective way of dealing with feelings was to go with them (homeopathic) instead of
against them (allopathic). She noted, "People commonly offer 'assistance' to friends in turmoil,
exhorting them, "Don't cry," "Think of how lucky you are, " etc.. (By attempting to assuage the
feeling by banishing it)..The underlying message is, "This feeling is not pleasant, so stop feeling
it." Ms. Riebel advances the hypothesis that by asking the client to continue to have, repeat, or
intensify the very experience he or she wishes to eliminate, a homeopathic approach is being
applied, and through the experience the client can be healed, not left with residues of his/her
mental distress. "With homeopathy, either it makes sense to you, or it doesn't....Robert Schore,
MD Homeopath."

Holistic Health Care

Holistic Healthcare

Philosophy of Naturopathy

The philosphy of naturopathic medicine is based upon three basic principles. Naturopathic principle
of healing are based on the objective observation of the nature of health and disease, and are
continually reexamined in light of scientific analysis.

The first principle is that the body possess the power to heal itself through internal vitality and intelligence.
The vital force is the foundation of naturopathic philosophy and all the naturopathic practintioner does is to
create the most affordable conditions to stimulate and enhance this healing power of nature.

The second principle is that disease is a manifestation of the vital force applying itself to the removal of
obstructions to the normal functioning of organs and tissues. The naturopathic practitioner always seeks to
discover and remove the basic causes of disease whether they be; chemical, mechanical, and/or physiological.

Chemical: i.e. An imbalance in the in the chemistry of the body fluids due to dietary deficiency or dietary excess,
retention of waste products due to insufficient functioning of the lungs, kidneys, liver, bowels or poor circulation
of body fluids.

Mechanical: i.e. Muscular tension, strained ligaments, stiff joints, poor posture due to occupational factors, as well
as spinal misalignments, leading to an interference as seen in the functioning of the nervous system and
musculoskeletal system.

Psychological: i.e. Impaired function induced by stress, which may be due to worries and upsets in personal and
domestic life and or anxieties and pressures at work.

The third principle is that naturopathic medicine is a holistic approach to health. In other words, disease
affects the whole person-body, mind and spirit, and not simply an isolated organ or system. Each person
responds in unique ways to his or her environment, each has individual strengths, weakness and needs. Their
body's reactions to the same stress may be very different depending on their level of health, inherited
tendencies, previous medical history, etc. In treating the whole person the naturopathic practitioner searches
for causes at many levels and attempts to eliminate the fundamental cause of illness, not simply to remove
symptoms.