THE STARTLING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE & NATUROPATHY

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If some of you have been wondering just what is a Naturopath, well we have presented a chart (courtesy of HerbalAccess) to give you some kind of an idea as to a comparison of Western Medicine M.D. versus that of a Naturopath N.D. You will find quite a difference. To start you off, we have included the Hippocratic Oath, taken by most all students of medicine. Does your physician or healthcare professional adhere to these?

The Hippocratic Oath I swear by Apollo the physician, by Aesculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment the following Oath: To consider dear to me as my parents him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and if necessary share my goods with him; to look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art if they so desire without fee or written promise; to impart to my sons and the sons of the master who taught me and the disciples who have enrolled themselves and have agreed to the rules of the profession, but to these alone, the precepts and the instruction. I will prescribe regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone. To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug, nor give advice which may cause his death. Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion. But I will preserve the purity of my life and my art. I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners (specialists in this art). In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction, and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves. All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or outside my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal. If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot. Hippocrates of Cos. (Courtesy of Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD) Out of the above, one might say the following (for these modern times): The Seven Guiding Principles of Patient Care Primum non nocere - First Do No Harm. Naturopathic medicine uses therapies that are safe and effective. Via medicatrix naturae - The Healing Power of Nature. The human body possesses an inherent ability to fight disease and to maintain health. ND physicians facilitate this process. Tolle causam - Discover the Cause. ND physicians seek to determine the underlying cause of a disease, not just the effect of the disease. Symptoms are often expressions of the body's attempt to heal itself. The origin of a disease must be removed. Tolle toturn - Treat the Whole Person. ND physicians are required to consider all health and disease factors pertaining to each patient and to treat the whole patient, not a disease that is expressed as symptoms. Docere - Doctor or Teacher. ND physicians have a duty to educate and motivate patients to be responsible for maintaining their health.

Allopaths (Western type medicine)	Naturopaths (N.D. and Others)
- AMA Trained Medical Doctors - MD's The body is part of an evolutionary process and some organs are left overs from evolution and so can be removed without significant loss.	- Privately trained Naturopathic Doctors - ND's. God designed and created the body in perfection and all the organs are necessary and provide a valuable function. They are all interrelated and are needed for whole-body health.
- The food we eat, toxins we ingest, poisons we use on lawns and home are relatively unimportant. Air, water, not relevant to health issues. Natural food is a fad. Food supplements are not necessary and may be harmful. Patients do not need vitamins or minerals.	- What we eat is crucial to our health. Manmade, highly processed, and chemical foods do not meet the needs of the body and can be toxic. Daily supplements usually are necessary.
- Crisis treatment of symptoms as disease develops. Treatments consist of chemical drugs, poisonous radiation, surgery, psychiatry and the psycotropic drugs. No concern for long or short term side-effects. Not oriented toward prevention or causes.	- Prevention is the main form of disease defense. Finding the causes of the ailments, and removing them by detoxification while maintaining proper nutritional balances is the treatment. Natural foods, herbs and supplements are used for healing. No toxic side effects.
- Very expensive. Emphasis on licenses, professional personnel, special government regulated facilities, controlled prices, expensive patents, making large amounts of money. All drugs come from labs.	- Economical. Natural foods and herbs can not be patented nor monopolized. Much can be do-it-yourself treatments. No expensive facilities, and in most cases the desire of ND's to heal is much greater than the desire for money. Many of the herbal medicines can be grown and prepared at home.
- Backed by the AMA which controls doctors, hospitals, medical schools, and insurance companies. Also backed by the FDA which controls drug manufacturers, and other special interest groups.	- Backed only by courageous alternative thinkers and grass roots organizations that understand the above.
- They do double blind studies on patients for research. This means that 50% of the sick patients get sugar pills, with no regard for helping them in case the medicine might work! The spin off pharmaceutical companies do horrible testing of their products on the animal kingdom at a great karmic expense.	- Never do testing on animals or people. Always strive to the best of their ability to heal each person. They never give sugar pills or do double blind studies.
- Schooling is very expensive training. Little to no emphasis on cures, prevention or nutrition taught. Many hours spent memorizing chemical drugs, disease names and anatomy parts.	- Schooling is inexpensive, and emphasis is on cure and prevention of disease. Disease names not a factor as each person is taken as an individual and their personal symptomatic picture and history is treated.
- Divided up into many categories of specialists that only deal with a certain part of the anatomy. No consideration that this area might affect another area of the body.	- No specialization of anatomical parts. Treats the entire body and understands that it is completely inter-related and co-dependant on all body systems and functions.
- State of the art medical fields diagnostic equipment. Cat scans, MRI's, etc., some of which are toxic, painful and aggressive and give inaccurate results, or the results are based on educated guesses. Patients very rarely ever allowed to view results. Everything written in code & hidden from patient.	- Use hair analysis to help determine body toxicity levels and malnutrition. Saliva and urine analysis to determine bodies nutritional needs. Live Field microscopy to determine condition of the patients blood. Patients always have access to laboratory results and can watch when microscope analysis is done.

So what are the Allopaths good for?

• Emergency Medical Care
• Emergency & Reconstructive Surgery
• Diagnostics in some cases - but not all
• Blood tests to determine some ailments - but not all

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