Naturopathic Medicine...

Naturopathic medicine – focuses on the use of natural therapies to support and stimulate your healing processes. 

Naturopathic medicine starts with supporting the body in its amazing ability to heal itself.

What does that mean?  

Sometimes it is helpful to contrast and compare to explain what naturopathic medicine is. 

Mainstream medicine is based on diagnosing the disease process and then treating that disease process. 

Naturopathic medicine emphasis is upon assessing why your body is expressing a certain condition by looking at what we call the determinates of health (i.e. diet, life style choices, past illness or medical interventions, stresses, and/or toxic exposures) and then advise changes which would create optimally healthy conditions in your body.

This is oversimplifying but in mainstream medicine the doctor identifies the disease and then in a sense “does battle” with it using a certain therapy. Where as in naturopathic medicine the doctor’s work is to elicit healing by helping the patient to create or recreate the conditions for health to exist within them themselves.  Maybe the difference is subtle, but the idea is that in the one system the therapy is the cure, whereas in the other you are the cure.

At Red Canoe Family Naturopatchic Clinic we will use nutrition, supplements, herbs, homeopathy, body work, hydrotherapy, blood testing, mind body work, but these are only tools used in our system of medicine and as necessary to stimulate the process of health restoration through a hierarchy of therapeutic interventions, rationally applied.