Medicine
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Naturopathic medicine is defined by its practitioners as the practice of attempting to improve health through naturopathy, i.e. a method of treating disease, using food, exercise, heat, etc., that assists the natural healing processes (Webster Unabridged definition). It is practiced and regulated widely differently throughout most of the United States, but prohibited in two states.
Naturopathic medicine utilizes physiological, psychological and mechanical methods, such as air, water, light, heat, earth, phytotherapy, food and herb therapy, psychotherapy, electrotherapy, physiotherapy, minor and orificial surgery, mechanotherapy, naturopathic corrections and manipulation and natural methods or modalities, together with natural medicines, natural processed foods and herbs and natural remedies. Naturopathic medicine excludes major surgery, therapeutic use of x-rays and radium and the use of drugs, except those assimilable substances containing elements or compounds which are components of body tissues and are physiologically compatible to body processes for maintenance of life. Naturopathy is a broad term encompassing a variety of fields of practice.
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