Photoessay #1565 - Difference between Allopathic and Naturopathic medicine

Here's an example:

Have you ever felt like some major force has hit you. Fatigued and fuzzy. All you want to do is just crawl into bed. That sounds like a better idea that going to UW Bothell and trying to figure how to read newspaper from microfilm. Sounds like a better idea than just about anything. Do you recognize it as a sign that you're probably going to come down with something any minute now or tomorrow.

I felt that way last Monday and Tuesday. I worried because I'm going to Connecticut on Monday and I do NOT want to be sick. Just so happened that I had two doctor appts scheduled on Tuesday. One with an MD endocrinologist who I see every 10 weeks for various. And my naturopath I see every two weeks for my upper back condition.

So I tell the first doctor (MD) how I feel. He looks at my throat, listens to my chest, takes my blood pressure. Says he doesn't see anything, I just fine, just worried about my trip.

Later I tell my second doctor (ND). She listens and says "Sounds like something is happening, here why don't you take these supplements (Andrographis Complex), this will beef up your immune system to beat off whatever you're trying to get. Take two right now and one with every meal for awhile."

So, I buy the jar of whatever it is and start taking it. By the next day, I feel fine. Fatigue is gone. I'm going to keep taking these until I leave.

I reflect, isn't that the way? Western medicine looks at some body parts, doesn't see any obvious disease and dismisses your fatigue, tells you there's nothing's wrong. Naturopathic medicine acknowledges your symptoms, recognizes them as real and meaningful and gives you some tools to address what is obviously happening. Are you really making up your extreme fatigue to be difficult or lazy or something?

From a naturopathic website:

Any sign of sickness is the body’s way of saying balance needs to be restored in order to ensure proper functioning. In absence of balance and an ignorance of warning symptoms, the body will submit to disease.

I support naturopathic medicine. It's worked very well for me. We are fortunate in Seattle because of the presence of Bastyr University which has resulted in respect for naturopathics in the conventional medical community.

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