What is Naturopathic medicine?

  Dr. Hutchinson graduated from NCNM (now NUNM) in 2011. The school was founded in 1956 and is the oldest accredited naturopathic university in North America. Naturopathic medicine dates back thousands of years but has been a health care profession in the United States for the last 100 years. Methods of healing include botanical medicine, nutritional therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, homeopathy and manipulative therapies.

Naturopathic philosophies are rooted in understanding  the body has an innate ability to heal, that life, health and disease follow certain laws and principles that are logical and that you must treat all aspects of an individual. Six principles guide naturopathic care all over the world:

primum non nocere: First, do no harm. Therapies chosen are to be the most gentle and non-invasive to achieve a reduction in symptoms.

vis medicatrix naturae: Healing power of nature. The body has an innate wisdom to heal.

tolle causam: Treat the cause. Health and disease happen for a reason, healing comes through treating the root cause.

tolle totum: Treat the whole person. Disease effects the whole person, not a specific organ or organ system.

docere: Doctor as teacher. Teaching the individual about factors that affect health and disease help them maintain their own health.

principles obsta: sero medicina curatur. Prevention. Developing a plan to prevent disease.

Learn more about Naturopathic Medicine through: 

WNDA (Wisconsin Naturopathic Doctors Association): 
https://wisconsin-nd.org/naturopathic-medicine

AANP (American Association of Naturopathic Physicians):
https://naturopathic.org/page/AboutNaturopathicMedicine

NUNM (National University of Natural Medicine, (previously National College of Natural Medicine)):
 https://nunm.edu/programs/nd/