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Adelaide offers a wide selection from a wide range of Practitioners of all Natural Therapies Modalities as well as Natural Therapies Colleges.
General Natural Therapies Information and Facts
What is Naturopathy?
Although the term "Traditional Naturopathy" originated in the late 19th Century, this Natural Healing Art and Traditional Medicine Modality can be traced back through Germany into Greece, to Hippocrates himself, and even beyond.
In Germany the name for a Naturopath is Heilpraktiker - meaning > a practitioner for healing, or Healing Practitioner, or Health Practitioner.
While Naturopaths recognizes that allopathic health care is necessary, they understand that many accepted allopathic treatments may be harmful or ineffective in promoting health.
The allopathic approach tends to look at the symptom and the disease as one and the same, so that when the symptom has been eliminated, it is presumed that the disease is cured.
The naturopath, however, sees a symptom as nothing more than a signal that something is wrong.
According to naturopathic belief, when a symptom alone is eliminated, it is most likely being suppressed. Unless the original cause has also been eliminated, the symptom may return later in a chronic form.
A Naturopath teaches clients how to live a healthy, holistic lifestyle, with the main the principle of : "Do no harm"
Naturopaths have to undergo extensive training and have to be members of a recognised Natural Medicine Associations.
For more ... please read the Article : What is a Naturopathy
Naturopaths are often called "Holistic Practitioners", because they believe that a patient has to be seen and treated as a whole being and not just as separate parts which may present certain symptoms.
Holistic Practitioners or Holistic Natural Therapy or just Natural Therapy are just "General terms", not treatment modalities.
Holistic simply refers to the concept of seeing the physical - mental and spiritual body as one. The name Holistic means whole. Most categories within the Natural Therapy field have an underlying philosophy of treating holistically.
This is contrary to the medical system which treats symptoms and the individual parts of a whole being in isolation.
Typical modalities which are associated with the term Holistic Natural Therapy are :
and .. others such as
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The Mind and Spiritual Modalities:
Counselling - Coaching - Hypnotherapy - NLP - Psychics - Reiki - Spiritual Healing .. and many more
Pain Relief is another general category, and it is not a treatment modality, rather a specialty which can encompass many different modalities, but is often a specilality for a Naturopath..
Pain relief can be achieve by various different modalities, depending on the type of pain, and where the pain is situated.
By Example: joint pain, as in neck or lower back pain, etc.... may be relieved by physical means, such as Massage, Chiropractic, Acupuncture, and similar, as well as specific treatments with specific pain- relieving equipment.
If the Joint pain is classified as any form of Arthritis, a Naturopath may be specialised in that form of treatment, combining Pain Relief with Naturopathic practices to eliminate the possible cause of the disease.
Therefore the category of Pain Relief or Pain Relief Centres, may encompass all of these various forms of treatment, or even all of them if the practitioner is truly holistic, seeing that most ailments, including pain have a physical, mental and spiritual element.
Another category within this directory is " Health Centre".
Health Centres are holistic in the widest sense.
Most Health Centres have a wide variety of natural therapists working in many different modalities.
Health Centres usually have "Wellness Programs", which introduce the client to a truly holistic way of treatment.
Lifestyle Coaches are often part of a Wellness or Health Centre, and so are Nutritionists.
One more important modality, esp for detoxification, which is needed for most health modalities is Colonic Irrigation -
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