Traditional naturopathy is a branch of medicine that promotes healing with nature’s great medicinal resources: Pure air, water, sunshine, foods, herbs, minerals and vitamins. Nature is a sophisticated scientific laboratory that surpasses the wisdom of the laboratories of this modern era. Unlike these laboratories, nature produces inoffensive medicines proven through countless ages to be effective and perfectly balanced with human physiology. The basic principles underlying traditional naturopathic medicine are: The body is self healing and self diagnostic, serving as its own instrument to identify a particular disease, possessing the power to heal itself when the immune system is supported with natural protocols. However, traditional naturopathy’s concentration is on prevention because nutritional imbalances and stress factors are generally the precursors of disease.

Traditional naturopaths do not practice conventional methods of diagnoses in determining a disease state. Instead traditional naturopaths analyze the fundamental cause of chemical and physiological imbalances through scientific analyses of the body’s innate diagnostic mechanisms. The various analyses performed by traditional naturopaths are invaluable to minimize the trial and error process of implementing nutritional protocols. Additionally, more complex physiological problems can further be evaluated with functional laboratory testing for more conclusive analyses. The benefits of these modalities are invaluable for the well being of humanity. Thus the Naturopathic National Council Inc. was established to protect the rights of traditional naturopaths to practice this discipline legally.