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Maria Edith

Diet and lifestyle

Most Hippocratic physicians were very capable and focused mostly
on diet and lifestyle to help a patient. They had a very good knowledge
about the therapeutic characteristics of natural products. Nowadays
a physician studies as a basic doctor, getting almost no information
about food, while food and diet were the basic focus of the Hippocratic
physicians. This is the biggest difference between doctors then and
doctors nowadays.
The diet for most Hippocratic physicians did not only include
food but also referred to lifestyle including exercise, massages, practice
of sun therapies, sexual life, tendencies, customs, and also dreams and
desires. (4)

Naturopathic Methods, Finding the cause
to recover the balance

Regular medicine is mostly symptom control, while in Naturopathy
– Natural Medicine – the focus is mainly on finding the cause.
Naturopathy uses the principles of the Hippocratic approach in order
to help someone recover and keep his balance.
An example: When somebody comes complaining about
headache, a Naturopath does not think immediately about giving
this person a remedy. He starts, for instance, by asking how long
this person has been having pain. For him the place of the pain is
also very important. Is this in the front of the head? Is this lateral?
Where is this, exactly? When he localizes the pain, this gives him a
lot of information about the complaint, the source, and the cause.
He uses a couple of methods, such as identifying zones in the head
which reflect every part of the body. This is the wonderful Reflexology
method (more about this in my next book).

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