Soin-et-Nature, your organic pharmacy specializing in natural medicines, offers you its new Naturopathy range online. Naturopathy is an alternative medicine that aims to balance the body's functions through "natural" means: diet, lifestyle, phytotherapy, manual techniques, exercises, etc. It is one of the alternative approaches that call themselves "holistic".
The naturopathic health practitioner accompanies you on your journey to well-being. Your naturopath's job is to teach you how to live as healthily as possible, take care of yourself, optimize your physical and mental health using natural means that combine common sense and logic, and give you preventive tools. He will tailor a program to suit your needs and abilities. As a guide and educator, the naturopathic healthcare professional delivers tools that will enable you to promote self-healing and prevent the onset of new pathologies. He or she masters the art of asking the right questions during the initial consultation and vitality assessment, so as to best personalize the techniques to be used and the lifestyle rules to be implemented.
Naturopaths have knowledge of psychology, botany, pharmacognosy, physiopathology, phytotherapy, biochemistry, toxicology and anatomy. The patient arrives with a number of disorders, symptoms or a lifestyle that needs improving, and the naturopath proposes tailor-made solutions. The setting for meetings between the patient and the naturopathic health care professional must be kind; the interview is a dialogue, an exchange. The naturopath passes on his or her knowledge of the body and solutions to various disorders. If the relationship between practitioner and patient is constructive, then the session will be highly beneficial. Under no circumstances will the practitioner stop medical treatment.
When, for example, you take a painkiller for a headache, you may be missing the beginnings of dehydration, when a simple intake of water could have eliminated not only the headache pain, but also the root cause, i.e. dehydration.
It's by rebalancing the various systems that make up the body that we can maintain optimal health.
Where a doctor will prescribe a drug to alleviate or eliminate a symptom, a naturopath will focus on the cause of that symptom and consider a way to help the body regain harmony.
A fever, for example, is an increase in the number of white blood cells designed to fight an infection. This proliferation of little soldiers leads to a rise in body temperature. The doctor will recommend lowering the fever with paracetamol or ibuprofen, and containing the infection with antibiotics. This will prevent the white blood cells from learning to understand the infection on their own. And if the infection recurs, the body won't be able to fight it again. The naturopath favors maximum rest for the body until the infection subsides, and seeks to cool certain areas to limit the discomfort caused by fever.
Diarrhea, to take another example, is a mechanism for emptying the intestines and thus cleansing them. To stop diarrhea is to invite it to remain in the intestines. The naturopath will suggest fasting instead, to free the digestive system from the effort of digestion and let it concentrate on elimination. He will also advise the patient to drink plenty of water to compensate for possible dehydration and encourage drainage, and therefore elimination.
The naturopath is a practitioner who complements traditional medicine. His or her primary aim is to guide patients towards a better quality of life and a better understanding of their bodies, with a view to bringing them well-being and relieving them of chronic illnesses.
Naturopathy concentrates on traditional methods, principles and practices that focus on prevention, understanding and holistic diagnosis of disease and its treatment. Its aim is to facilitate the body's ability to restore and maintain optimal health.
The techniques that the naturopath generally masters, applies and advises are mainly bionutrition & biodietetics, physical and respiratory exercises, hydrology, phytotherapy and all its sub-classes (aromatherapy, aromachology, aromatology, gemmotherapy, Bach flowers, mycotherapy, etc.), nutritherapy, homeopathy, reflexology, iridology, etc.
Naturopathy is about "restoring health naturally". It's what's known as "preventive medicine".
What's the difference with traditional medicine? One acts on the symptoms, the other on the cause. In other words, you come to see a naturopathic doctor to avoid getting sick.
For more information, don't hesitate to contact our expert naturopaths via the secure form for advice tailored to your situation. You can also read our advice on our blog: how to treat yourself with naturopathy?
Soin-et-Nature offers a wide range of naturopathic products, designed to meet a variety of health and well-being needs, based on natural approaches that respect the body. Here are the categories available:
These naturopathic products, available on Soin-et-Nature, enable you to take care of your health in a natural way, in harmony with the specific needs of your body and mind.
Soin-et-Nature offers a wide range of natural medicine products, designed to meet a variety of health and well-being needs through body-friendly solutions. Here are the categories available:
These natural medicine products, available on Soin-et-Nature, enable you to take care of your health in a holistic and respectful way, while relying on the power of nature.
