As more individuals demand qualified integrated health care, the likelihood of licensure increases. Please write or call your state representative and let them know you support licensure for Naturopathic medicine. Naturopathic physicians are the only primary health care providers clinically trained in a wide variety of natural and conventional therapeutic systems. Vis Medicatrix Naturae. Doctors of Naturopathic Medicine view the healing process as ordered and intelligent, and believe that the body has an inherent ability to restore itself to health as well as defend itself against disease.
Illness is seen as a manifestation of the body's attempt to defend and heal itself.
Therefore, the role of the physician is to identify and remove those agents blocking the healing process, support the patient's ability heal themselves, and support and direct the creation of a healthy internal and external environment. In this process, the physician does not separate the functioning of the mind, body and spirit of the individual. Treat the Whole Person. Doctors of Naturopathic Medicine believe that health and disease result from a complex interaction of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, environmental, genetic and other causes. The balanced, dynamic functioning of all aspects of an individual's life are important to health.