Modern medicine can accomplish things that people mere decades ago considered to be firmly in the hands of God. There are ways to treat cancer, delay what once would have been inevitable deaths, and help people endure great pain. However, as wondrous as modern, conventional medicine is, there are just some things it can’t fix. For some illnesses and people, the prognosis under conventional medicine can be grim and fraught with lifelong pain. Yet, that prognosis does not always have to be the same when one goes for natural pain relief under an alternative system, such as naturopathy
Naturopathy is a medical philosophy and system that is considered an alternative to modern medicine, in the same way that
Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine are alternatives. Unlike the two examples, naturopathy is a much younger system, appearing on historical records sometime during the 1800s. Aside from natural pain relief, the system believes in using natural products and treatments to stimulate the body’s capacity for repairing itself. The methods and the system itself are considered modern and young, but the philosophical roots and theories stem from Greek,...