NATUROPATY: Natural alternative, 

non conventional and holistic "medicines"

Naturopaty is not a medicine, rather it is a set of natural techniques whose purpose is to stimulate the human organism in order to restore the psychophysical equilibrium.

These are techniques which can strengthen the organism in moments of particular energy deficiency: stress, nervousness, sexual fatigue, proneness to infection, psychological discomfort, etc.

 The principle on which naturopaty is based is that man can restore the organism to a state of psychophysical well-being by making use of the means provided by nature.

 Hence according to naturopaty, the equilibrium is 'by natural endowment'  in the mind  and body of us all.

It is modern life, with the stress to which it submits us, the environment and a whole host of other causes which make us lose or upset it.

Thus this great human potential of self-help should be recovered, cultivated and developed if possible.

The field in which naturopaty works to the maximum of its possibilities is undoubtedly prevention.

'Conventional medicine' itself  has absorbed certain basic teachings of naturopaty: from the need, for example, for physical exercise, to muscular relaxation; from care about diet to relaxing massages, etc.

According to naturopaty, psychophysical discomforts are nothing else but messages (often positive) sent to us from our body and mind, to warn us of the presence of upsets in our existential equilibrium.

Hence it is advisable to seek  remedies to avoid the actual pathologies.            

Mother Nature can intervene ' by urging the vital forces present in each of us, not only to fight against the symptoms, but also to stimulate the organism to identify and eliminate the very cause of the upset.

 Currently  naturopaty is practised throughout the world: an ancient tradition in such sense exists in Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany and Italy, in Europe, but also in China, Japan, the United States and Canada.

Schools and University Faculties of Naturopaty are being set up in many countries.

European legislation appears to be on the point of defining the official figure of naturopaty, considering him or her to be a health professional without necessarily a degree in medicine, rather  with a sound educational background which could guarantee his or her preparation. In Germany recognition is already granted to diploma-holders with a three-year course involving basic preparation of medicine and actual teachings of naturopaty.

The Naturopathic Practitioner (health operator) operates in harmony with nature using relaxation techniques, light massages, natural diet and generally all those methods which do not prescribe the use of drugs or invasive methods; this is within a strictly 'holistic' approach where mind and body are two absolutely indissoluble elements.

In a symbolic interpretation of the disease, with a holistic approach, the discomforts affecting us are not casual, rather they are always and only symptoms of a precise interior disorder.

And, not for nothing, we are living in a society which is experiencing a strong increase in discomforts and stress-related  pathologies.

The frenetic and competitive life of today often makes us forget that the only true reality which counts is that of one's own life, in a healthy, social, friendly and family  relationship.

"To like oneself", to think of oneself every so often, should not be at the expense of one's professional activity and certainly not one's social standing, rather this can make everything easier and nicer.

The  'natural techniques' of alternative holistic "medicine" act on psychophysical relaxation. Therefore they produce a general invigorating action on the body, thus raising the threshold of resistance and adaptation to situations of fatigue.

Moreover they help to improve the co-ordination between the nervous system and the muscular system, with consequent strengthening of the immunity system.

The 'alternative', 'complementary', 'non conventional' 'holistic' and 'new age' medicines are highly effective and can give rise to optimum results: certainly they are not the solution for all man's needs, but nevertheless  and beyond any doubt, they represent a  great help and 'healthy' 'natural' response to the difficult quest of modern man to alleviate the existential discomforts caused by today's frenetic life.

The physician and traditional medicine have the sole task of being concerned with the diagnostics and treatment of illnesses.

Instead, the naturopathic practitioner and natural alternative techniques have the task of collaborating with the psychophysical well-being of the individual, however in complementary relation to official medicine.