Naturopathic approach in management of acute & chronic disease

Naturopathic
approach in
prevention of acute
& chronic disease
Dr. Satyendra Singh
BNYS, MD

Intro
✘ Naturopathy is a system of man building in harmony with
the constructive principles of nature on physical, mental,
moral & spiritual state of a being.
✘ It works on principle of cooperation with the natural laws
of life which works within all of us & in our environment.
✘ Using those natural elements like air, water, heat,
exercise, food, electricity, magnetism is used for disease
management.

Illness & health
✘ “Illness is a condition characterized by a deviation from
normal health state which is manifested by physical &
psychological symptoms” – Kozier
✘ “Health is a state of complete physical, mental, social
well-being & not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity” - WHO

Acute & chronic disease
✘ “Disease with an abrupt onset & usually of short
course” - short duration, progressive
✘ “Disorder or disease developing slowly &
persisting for a long period of time, often for the
remainder of the lifetime of the individual”
Ref: Mosby’s medical dictionary

More aggravated
Not treated at acute phase

Healing models
1. Hippocratic coction – early model of healing
2. Louis kuhne’s – Curative crisis – unity of cause & cure
3. Lindlahr’s healing crisis- unity of disease & cure through
nature cure
4. Tilden’s degeneration – healing model-Toxemia
5. William’s A. Mitchell’s – The equation of the Vis Model ,The
Vis Medicatrix Naturae & vitality – Differences &
interconnectedness

Naturopathy Health & healing
concept
Zeff, J., Snider, P., & Myers, S. (2019). Naturopathic Model of Healing-The Process of Healing
Revisited. Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.), 18(4), 26–30.

Cause of disease –
naturopathy
✘ Primary cause of disease – violation of nature’s
law
1. Wrong food habits
2. Wrong thinking
3. Wrong living
✘ Manifested as:
1. Lowered vitality
2. Abnormal composition of blood & lymph
3. Accumulation of morbid matter & toxins

Lowered vitality
✘ Night work
✘ Excess stimulants
✘ Consumption of unhealthy/poisonous drugs
✘ ill advised invasive procedures

Abnormal composition of blood &
lymph
✘ Combination of food especially that leads to the lack of
organic minerals, salts & essential nutritional elements.
✘ Choice of food
✘ Duration in between meals

Accumulation of morbid matter
✘ Due to lowered vitality & abnormal composition of blood
& lymph as well as:
✘ Faulty diet
✘ Overeating
✘ Use of alcoholics
✘ Narcotic stimulant drugs
✘ Suppression of acute disease by drugs

How these
conditions should
be approach ?

Unity of disease & unity of
treatment – Dr.louis kuhne
✘ Return to nature – Daily regimen, living foods, physical
exercise, massage & other nature cure therapies.
✘ Vital force – proper rest, relaxation, right mental attitude,
natural, seasonal & healthy food.
✘ Healthy Elimination- Judicious fasting, hydrotherapy, air
bath, sunbath, manipulative therapy or herbology.

Foreign matter theory
✘ Those substances which are either present in the body or
enter the body via various routes due to faulty habits,
improper digestion & improper elimination of
morbid/metabolic end product.
✘ These are unabsorbed, uneliminated & unassimilated
inside the organ & organ system & hamper the
functioning of particular system.

Clinical examples
✘ GOUT (Deposition of Uric Acid)
✘ Diabetes Mellitus (increase in blood sugar level)
✘ Jaundice (Increase in bilirubin level)
✘ Hypercholesterolemia (increase cholesterol level in blood)
✘ Constipation ( accumulation of waste matter)
✘ Hay fever ( due to pollen grain)
✘ Sinusitis ( accumulation of fluid)

Toxemia
✘ Toxemia is a condition in which the toxins are present in blood, it is also
known as blood poisoning.
✘ When the metabolic end products exceed their level it results in toxemia.
✘ Disease is a crisis of toxemia which indicates that toxins are accumulated
in the blood above the toleration point.
✘ In process of tissue building (metabolism) there is cell building (anabolism)
& cell destruction(catabolism).
✘ The broken down tissue is toxic & in health when energy is normal – it is
eliminated from the blood as fast as evolved.
✘ When nerve energy is dissipated from any cause – physical & mental
excitement or bad habits- the body becomes enervated, when enervated,
elimination is checked, causing a retention of toxin in the blood or toxemia.
✘ This accumulation of toxin when once established will continue until nerve
energy is restored by removing the causes.
✘ So called disease is nature’s effort at eliminating the toxin from the blood.
Also, so called diseases are crises of toxemia.

Main cause of disease – enervation
✘ Fatigue of nervous system.
✘ Nervous system consists of brain, spinal cord, motor &
sensory nerves.
✘ It is well known as neurasthenia, nerve weakness, nervous
break down.
CAUSES:
✘ Mental & psychological causes
✘ Sensory impairment or sensuality excesses’
✘ Nerve leaks
✘ Excess & abuses of diet
✘ Addiction, bottled carbonated drinks
✘ Lack of physical activity
✘ Social & financial causes
✘ Lack of rest & sleep

Deposit of metabolic end
products in system - Disease
✘ Disease gradually develops due to accumulation of metabolic
end product due to following causes: continued abuses &
accumulating toxins/toxemia.
✘ Every acute or chronic diseases caused due to accumulation
of waste & due to which disease manifests as symptoms-
pain, fever, aches, mucus, diarrhea
✘ Catabolic waste matter
✘ Waste matter of undigested & unassimilated food
✘ Waste matter due to infective live foreign bodies or pathogen
✘ Waste matter due to foreign substances which are dead
✘ Medicinal waste or unabsorbed drugs

Acute disease – remedial
process
✘ Acute disease is manifestation of body’s natural & normal
way of eliminating accumulated toxins out from the body.
✘ It can be expressed as- fever, mucus flow, coughing,
diarrhoea, inflammation, headache, lose of appetite,
weakness, heaviness, desire to sleep, sore throat,
muscular aches.
✘ Naturopathy beliefs- acute conditions should be permitted
to express themselves without treatment/suppression.
✘ Fasting & resting is indicated in such conditions for rapid
restoration & to support innate healing force.

MANAGEMENT
OF ACUTE &
CHRONIC
CONDITION
WITH
NATUROPATHY

External treatment whether natural,
allopathic, ayurvedic, homeopathic
give only relief, do not cure the
body.
✘ Naturopathy focuses on patient education or advises
which makes the mind peaceful & quiet.
✘ Calm mind play an important role in healing & recovery.
✘ Naturopathy therapies

Patients own will to get well,
determination & faith are necessary
things for nature cure treatments
✘ Patients own faith & determination plays vital role in
treatment.
✘ Patients –Physician relation is also very much important.
Therefore, earlier naturopaths were known to be teacher.
✘ Patient who has positive hope & faith in physician &
patient who follow physicians advise seriously recover
faster as compare to others.
1. Kennedy BM, Rehman M, Johnson WD, Magee MB, Leonard R, Katzmarzyk PT. Healthcare Providers versus Patients' Understanding of Health Beliefs
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Unity of disease & unity of
cure
Primary life requirement
of the cell
Proper Ennervation
Healthy nutrition
Drainage
Primary manifestation of
the disease
Restores vitality
Healthy composition of
blood & lymph
Proper elimination of
morbid matter which
obstructs venous & lymph
channels
Return to
nature
Economy of
vital force
Proper
Elimination

Internal Variables
Responsible for health & illness:
✘ Perception of symptoms
✘ Nature of illness
✘ Characteristics of person
✘ Emotional response to illness
Tomljenović A. Effects of internal and external environment on health and well-being: from cell to society. Coll Antropol. 2014 Mar;38(1):367-72. PMID:

External variables
✘ Visibility of symptoms
✘ Social group
✘ Culture & values
✘ Economic variable
✘ Accessibility of health care system
Tomljenović A. Effects of internal and external environment on health and well-being: from cell to society. Coll Antropol. 2014 Mar;38(1):367-72. PMID:
24851644.

BIOCHEMICAL/ CINICAL CO-
ORDINATES OF TOXINS
✘ Obesity
✘ Gout
✘ Jaundice
✘ Diabetes mellitus
✘ Constipation
✘ Sinusitis
✘ Atherosclerosis
✘ Fatty liver
✘ Oedema
✘ Arthritis
✘ Renal calculi
✘ Tumours
✘ Cyst
✘ Psoriasis
✘ Hypervitaminosis

Salutogenesis health &
disease
Lindström B, Eriksson M. Salutogenesis. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2005 Jun;59(6):440-2. doi: 10.1136/jech.2005.034777. PMID: 15911636; PMCID:
PMC1757059.

Creating environment for
body to heal itself
Sakallaris, B. R., MacAllister, L., Voss, M., Smith, K., & Jonas, W. B. (2015). Optimal healing environments. Global advances in health and medicine, 4(3), 40–
45. https://doi.org/10.7453/gahmj.2015.043

OHE 1– INTERNAL DOMAIN
WE TREAT BODY AS A WHOLE

OHE 2– INTERPERSONAL DOMAIN
WE EDUCATE PATIENT & MAINTAIN A GOOD PATIENT-PHYSICIAN
RELATIONSHIP

OHE 3– BEHAVIORAL DOMAIN
NATUROPATHY = WAY OF LIVING

OHE 4– EXTERNAL DOMAIN
NATUROPATHY = MIND-BODY SPIRIT IN EQUILIBRIUM WITH NATURE

REFERENCES
✘ Myers, S. P., & Vigar, V. (2019). The State of the Evidence for Whole-System,
Multi-Modality Naturopathic Medicine: A Systematic Scoping Review. Journal of
alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 25(2), 141–168.
https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2018.0340
✘ Finnell, J. S., Snider, P., Myers, S. P., & Zeff, J. (2019). A Hierarchy of Healing:
Origins of the Therapeutic Order and Implications for Research. Integrative
medicine (Encinitas, Calif.), 18(3), 54–59.
✘ Tripathy J. P. (2015). Can naturopathy provide answers to the escalating health
care costs in India?. Journal of traditional and complementary medicine, 5(2),
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