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The Treatments used by a Naturopathic Doctor include:
Clinical Nutrition the use of foods, special diets and nutraceutical supplements to fortify a patients dietary intake.
Botanical Medicine the use of plants and their constituents as medicine. Naturopathic Doctors use herbs from around the world in the form of capsules, teas, tinctures, foods and salves.
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine The insertion of sterile needles along meridian points to stimulate the bodies own healing energy( Qi). Chinese herbal patents, food choices and lifestyle factors are also employed to achieve balance.
Homeopathy Based on the principle of like cures like, minute quantities of animal, vegetable or mineral are given to strengthen vitality and heal body, mind and spirit.
Lifestyle Counselling Examining ones life to find ways to alleviate stress and burden, to actively seek harmony at work, at home and at leisure.
Physical Medicine includes soft tissue massage, spinal manipulation and hydrotherapy.
Infrared Suana On site sauna provides supportive treatment for whole body detoxification, pain, skin problems and weight loss.
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