Naturopathic medicine is a health method that uses natural, non-toxic therapies that treat the whole person and encourages a self-healing process. For cancer, naturopathic providers believe that cancers arise from an imbalance that causes a systemic breakdown within the body. If naturopathy helps renew the spirit and body wholly, then naturopathic medicine will improve the health of cancer patients.
Naturopathic medicine is a distinctive system of primary health care professions that emphasizes prevention, self-healing processes, and optimal health by using natural therapeutic methods and substances. The practice of this type of medicine includes modern, traditional, scientific, and empirical methods (The American Association of Naturopathic …show more content…
The human body is made up of trillions of cells, which normally grow and divide to form new cells as the old ones grow old and die (National Cancer Institute, 2015, paragraph 2). When cancer develops, this process becomes irregular causing cells to live instead of dying and new cells are not formed when needed. These cells then divide constantly and create growths called tumors. Cancerous tumors are malignant, meaning they can spread or invade nearby tissues (National Cancer Institute, 2015, paragraph 5). As these malignant tumors grow, they can break off and travel into other places within the body or lymph system to form new tumors far from the original tumor (National Cancer Institute, 2015, paragraph 5). Unlike malignant tumors, benign tumors do the opposite. They do not spread or invade into nearby tissues, but they can be quite large. Once removed, they usually do not grow back, whereas malignant tumors do on …show more content…
Other CAM practices for cancer
a. Patients with cancer are willing to do just about anything in order to combat the disease, manage their symptoms, and cope with the side effects of treatment.
b. This is when many turn to complementary health approaches, such as: all-natural products, herbs, botanicals, dietary supplements, meditation, acupuncture, massage, and yoga. Patients usually find this kind of treatment nourishing and uplifting because it is outside the practice of modern medicine.
V. How naturopathy can be negative
a. Unfortunately, some people do see naturopathic medicine as being a negative. Since naturopathic providers do not use invasive or suppressive measures, few find that giving immunizations is a wrong thing to do. Vaccines are important to everyone because they are spread from person-to-person, if vaccinated that percentage will significantly drop. If a person in a community obtains an infectious disease, they can spread it to others who are not immune. Yet, if a person who is immune to a disease because they have been vaccinated, they can’t obtain the disease or spread it to others. The more people who become vaccinated, the fewer opportunities for a disease to
Naturopathic medicine is a distinctive system of primary health care professions that emphasizes prevention, self-healing processes, and optimal health by using natural therapeutic methods and substances. The practice of this type of medicine includes modern, traditional, scientific, and empirical methods (The American Association of Naturopathic …show more content…
The human body is made up of trillions of cells, which normally grow and divide to form new cells as the old ones grow old and die (National Cancer Institute, 2015, paragraph 2). When cancer develops, this process becomes irregular causing cells to live instead of dying and new cells are not formed when needed. These cells then divide constantly and create growths called tumors. Cancerous tumors are malignant, meaning they can spread or invade nearby tissues (National Cancer Institute, 2015, paragraph 5). As these malignant tumors grow, they can break off and travel into other places within the body or lymph system to form new tumors far from the original tumor (National Cancer Institute, 2015, paragraph 5). Unlike malignant tumors, benign tumors do the opposite. They do not spread or invade into nearby tissues, but they can be quite large. Once removed, they usually do not grow back, whereas malignant tumors do on …show more content…
Other CAM practices for cancer
a. Patients with cancer are willing to do just about anything in order to combat the disease, manage their symptoms, and cope with the side effects of treatment.
b. This is when many turn to complementary health approaches, such as: all-natural products, herbs, botanicals, dietary supplements, meditation, acupuncture, massage, and yoga. Patients usually find this kind of treatment nourishing and uplifting because it is outside the practice of modern medicine.
V. How naturopathy can be negative
a. Unfortunately, some people do see naturopathic medicine as being a negative. Since naturopathic providers do not use invasive or suppressive measures, few find that giving immunizations is a wrong thing to do. Vaccines are important to everyone because they are spread from person-to-person, if vaccinated that percentage will significantly drop. If a person in a community obtains an infectious disease, they can spread it to others who are not immune. Yet, if a person who is immune to a disease because they have been vaccinated, they can’t obtain the disease or spread it to others. The more people who become vaccinated, the fewer opportunities for a disease to