Naturopathy

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'''Naturopathy''', or naturopathic medicine, is a field of practice in healing and maintaining health wherein licensed medical doctors also use various forms of [[woo]] to treat their <s>victims</s> patients.
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'''Naturopathy''', or naturopathic medicine, is a field of practice in healing and maintaining health wherein licensed medical doctors also use various "natural" remedies to treat patients. Naturopathic medicine disfavours surgery and drugs, preferring more friendly and fuzzy treatments like herbal medicine or outright [[woo]] such as "natural energy fields".  
  
Fourteen of the [[United States]], and every province in [[Canada]], license naturopathic physicians.<ref>http://www.naturopathyworks.com/</ref>
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==Licensing==
  
There are currently seven colleges and universities that offer a ND (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine) degree in North America. <ref>http://www.aanmc.org/</ref>
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Although naturopathy has most of its modern roots in Europe (and can, in a sense, trace its roots to ancient Greece and the original Hippocratic Oath) it is most prominent in North America. Fourteen of the [[United States]], and every province in [[Canada]], license naturopathic physicians.<ref>http://www.naturopathyworks.com/</ref>
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There are currently seven colleges and universities that offer a "ND" (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine) degree in North America.<ref>http://www.aanmc.org/</ref>
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 22:38, 14 September 2009

Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a field of practice in healing and maintaining health wherein licensed medical doctors also use various "natural" remedies to treat patients. Naturopathic medicine disfavours surgery and drugs, preferring more friendly and fuzzy treatments like herbal medicine or outright woo such as "natural energy fields".

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Licensing

Although naturopathy has most of its modern roots in Europe (and can, in a sense, trace its roots to ancient Greece and the original Hippocratic Oath) it is most prominent in North America. Fourteen of the United States, and every province in Canada, license naturopathic physicians.[1]

There are currently seven colleges and universities that offer a "ND" (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine) degree in North America.[2]

See also

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Footnotes

  1. http://www.naturopathyworks.com/
  2. http://www.aanmc.org/
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