Influencing policy (training slides from Fast Track Impact)
7. The purpose of natural healthcare.pptx
1. The Purpose of Natural
Healthcare
Dr Megat Mohd Azman Bin Adzmi
Kolej Perdana
2. Learning Outcomes
At the end of this lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Recognise the purpose of natural healthcare
2. Describe what is unity of disease
3. Explain the process of unity of cure
4. Enumerate the laws of cure
5. Elucidate the meaning of healing and cure in naturopathy
3. Vitalism
A fundamental belief of naturopathy is that ill health begins with a loss of
vitality. Health is positive vitality and not just an absence of medical findings
of disease.
Health is restored by raising the vitality of the patient, which initiates
the regenerative capacity for self-healing.
The vital force is diminished by a range of physical, mental, emotional,
spiritual and environmental factors.
4. Vitality and Disease
Vitalistic theory merges with
naturopathy in the understanding
of how disease progresses.
The acute stages of disease have
active, heightened responses to
challenges within the body systems.
When the vital force is strong it reacts to
an acute crisis by mobilizing forces
within the body to ‘fight off’ the disease.
5. Modifying effects on health and
vitality
1. Constitutional strength—familial,
genetic, congenital
2. Diet—excess and deficiency
3. Exposure to fresh air, clean
water, sunlight and nature
4. Injury
5. External toxins (such as
pollution, pesticides and drugs)
6. Internal toxins (such as metabolic by-
products and cell waste)
7. Lifestyle—work, education,
exercise, rest and recreation
8. Health of organs of
detoxification— liver, kidney and
lymph
9. Health of organs of
elimination— bowel,
gallbladder, bladder,
respiratory, skin
10. Emotions and relationships
11. Philosophy, religion and an ethical life
12. Social, economic and political factors
6. Patient-centred Approach to Holistic
Consultation
Naturopathy aims to promote wellbeing through the whole person rather than
just the symptomatic relief of a disease.
To best enhance this holistic consultative process, a patient-centred approach
is used. This is where the emphasis is on patient autonomy; the patient and
practitioner are in an equal relationship that values and respects the wants and
needs of the patient.
The role of the practitioner is to develop a therapeutic relationship of rapport,
empathy and authenticity to serve the patient’s choices and engender the
healing process.
An essential component of developing a therapeutic relationship with the patient
is the ability to listen.
7. Causes of
Disease
Bases for all ill health (Unity of Disease):
1) lowered vitality;
2) abnormal composition of blood and lymph;
3) accumulation of waste matter and poison in the system;
4) germs, bacteria, and parasites which invade the body and flourish
because of optimum conditions for their flourishing;
5) consideration of hereditary influences, and
6) maladjustment of muscles, ligaments, bones, psychological disturbances.
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8. Primary Causes of Disease
1. Lowered vitality due to overwork, night-work, excesses,
overstimulation, poisonous drugs and ill-advised surgical operations.
2. Abnormal composition of blood and lymph due to the improper selection
and combination of food, and especially the lack of organic mineral salts
and other essential nutritional elements.
3. Accumulation of waste matter, morbid matter and poisons due to the first
two causes, as well as to faulty diet, overeating, the use of alcoholic and
narcotic stimulants, drugs, accidental poisoning and, last but not least, to
the suppression of acute diseases.
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9. Secondary Causes
1.Hereditary and constitutional taints.
2.Infective/toxic agents: Germs,
bacteria, parasites, etc. or pollution,
stress.
3.Mechanical: fractures, displacements of bony
structures, muscles and ligaments;
weakening and loss of reason, the different
forms of insanity and epilepsy; loss of will
and self- control, all of which results in
negative influences on the Vital Force.
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11. The Three Primary Causes of
Disease
1. Lowered Vitality:
All living forms of vegetable, animal and human life have a life span
determined by Nature in accordance with the laws governing their
growth and development.
If, during this life span, the vital force remains strong, no major disease
will occur and the person will enjoy a full and healthful life.
However, to reach this ideal of perfect physical, mental and moral
health, people will have to adhere to the natural ways of living and
treating their ailments.
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12. Health Positive - Disease
Negative
The greater the vitality, the more the positive resisting and
recuperating power.
The very foundation of life lies in the principle of polarity, of good and
bad, health and disease.
Disease is disturbed polarity. Exaggerated positive or negative
conditions, whether physical, mental or spiritual, tend to disease.
Lowered vitality means lowered resistance to the accumulation of toxic
matter. This is what we designate ordinarily as the negative conditions.
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13. 2. Abnormal Composition of Blood
and Lymph
All body processes must proceed in the
right order to ensure proper structure
and function of the component parts
and organs of the body.
The cells and organs receive their
nourishment from the blood and
lymph currents.
Therefore, these must contain all the
elements needed by the organism and
that depends upon the character and
the combination of the food supply.
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14. Food and
Health
The Diet plays a major role in increasing or
decreasing the Vital force of the body.
A majority of diseases are caused by an
unbalanced diet.
Wrong food combinations create an over abundance
of waste and morbid matter in the system.
Also, an unhealthy diet does not provide the
essential elements necessary for health.
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15. Exercise:
Regular physical activity and exercise helps
to keep the vital force high by:
A. helping utilization of nutrition and oxygen
to keep the blood and lymph pure,
B.And increasing elimination of toxic wastes
through lungs and sweat.
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16. 3. Accumulation of Morbid
Matter and Poisons
This is the third of the primary causes of
disease.
We have learned how lowered vitality and
the abnormal composition of the vital
fluids favour the retention of systemic
poisons in the body.
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17. If, in addition to this, food and drink contain
too much of the waste-producing
carbohydrates, fats and proteins, and not
enough of the eliminating positive mineral
and vitamins, then waste and morbid
materials are bound to accumulate in the
system.
Such accumulation of waste and morbid
matter in blood and tissues creates the
majority of all diseases arising within the
human body.
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18. Secondary
Causes
1. Hereditary and Constitutional Taints.
Hereditary states are a reflection of the genes from parents, as well as
their lifestyles (epigenetics).
The newborn child may reveal hereditary taints, and lowered resistance.
If the child is treated in accordance with the teachings of Nature Cure
philosophy, the abnormal hereditary encumbrances and tendencies may
be overcome and eliminated within a few years.
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19. 2. Germs and Natural Immunity
Germs cannot be the cause of disease,
because disease germs are also found in
healthy bodies.
Germs adversely affect only those bodies where
the vital force, or natural immunity is low.
Microorganisms are the secondary manifestations
of disease, and bacteria and parasites live, thrive
and multiply to the danger point in a weakened
person only.
If we keep ourselves clean and strong from
within, then we cannot be affected by disease
taints and germs from without.
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20. 3. Bony subluxations
and abnormalities
These arise due to poor posture or
movement, or due to accidents
and injuries.
They can result in long term disabilities
or pain in different parts of the body.
They can be managed with exercise and
manipulations.
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21. Physical and mental stress, psychiatric
disorders and emotional ups and downs
can also cause stress to our vital force
and bring it down, resulting in disease.
Lack of sleep and rest, or even too much
sleep can also cause a lowering of our
vital force.
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22. Conclusion
The practice of naturopathic medicine can be summarized most simply as
helping the body–mind heal itself in the least invasive, most
fundamentally curative manner possible.
As naturopathic knowledge of health and disease grows, new therapies
and approaches to health care will be added as they satisfy the principle of
vis medicatrix naturae.
With integration of the larger health care system, naturopathic medicine’s
place is assured as the profession that truly understands each unique
human being’s power to heal.
