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He can also use the meridians in the body, which he also finds in
the head. The Traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine treatments
are based on these techniques.
These methods and many more help Naturopaths find the best
way to understand where the pain is coming from, to know and decide
what the best treatment for this person could be.
Naturopaths also use the methods Hippocratic doctors used to find
the best way to help a person. Just as in the treatments by Hippocratic
doctors, we also use the basic approaches of diet and lifestyle, baths,
massages, sun therapy, and physical exercises, plus the characteristics
of the season, the “passions of the soul” habits and also the most
important, the therapeutic properties of natural products.
The earth provides us with a lot of tools to help us bring our
body back into balance, to recover itself. Our body contains all the
possibilities to help itself return to the balance it has lost.

Back to integration following the teachings
of Hippocrates

Here, we could conclude that the best way to help somebody
recover his balance should be to stimulate the re-union of all these
methods as a basic approach in the medicine. The ideal world
should be to use the integrative methods of Naturopathy (Natural
Medicine) based on the principles of the Hippocratic ideal as the
basic method. As an alternative treatment, we could also use current
regular (alternative) medicine to approach somebody’s health situation
to create an optimum method to help someone recover.
Then we could say that when this has been used in health recovery
practices, when the basic techniques of Naturopathy (Natural Medicine)
has not helped at all, a physician can use the wonderful modern
techniques (alternative methods, based also in Hippocrates techniques)

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