I don't know about you, but I abhor the sight and smell of pills, medicines, hospitals and wailing ambulances ripping on the streets. What 's your take on the stench of medicine and the eerie, sanitized atmosphere of the sick and wounded? Do you know what it is like when you had to endure the never-ending turmoil of having had to lie down and have surgery? I would kill to have an alternative for this and lucky for me and you, there is a way out: Natural Medicine. Although it isn’t as popular as commercial medicine is, it is one of the best ways to nurture and heal our bodies.
Natural Medicine is Ancient
Natural therapies have been in use for a long time and have always been employed to treat diseases and conditions. Herbs and their use in healing have probably been the very first accounts to come to the forefront about the mysteries of natural healing. Every culture had done its bit in trying to harness the power of this therapy --herbs and their uses have been unmistakably mentioned both in the new and old testaments.
The reason most of it remains vaulted is because very little of this priceless information has been written down or documented for our purposes. Ever since the ancient Romans, Chinese and Asian era, and even among American Indians, sciences like Nutritional Therapy, Hydrotherapy and natural healings have been passed down through the ages orally, to be guarded as family secrets.
History of Natural Medicine
Hippocrates is considered as the father of Naturopathic Medicine and the Hippocratic School is reported to have treated diseases with the help of diet, controlled fasting, judicious use of herbs, hydrotherapy, exercise and spinal manipulation -- all of which form the basic foundation for what is now known as naturopathy or natural healing.
Ever since, naturopathy has evolved. Each of the methods mentioned above -- including hydrotherapy and spinal manipulation -- have all been used, perfected and employed by thousands of physicians around the world to get naturopathy to a stage where it was finally recognized as a distinct medicinal discipline.
Amidst a tumultuous growth and sustainability story in the early America and Europe, Natural medicine had to fight and battle valiantly for its survival. However, today, it is a respected medicinal science and potential physicians even take up 4-year degrees to master it.
Natural Medicine -- when combined with modern therapy -- is the best, no-nonsense and an absolutely fabulous way to get treated. However, natural medicine is about treating people and not just diseases. It is an earnest endeavor to invoke our body’s miraculous self-healing efforts and to finally remove the disease and not just the symptoms; to cure it, not just to postpone it.