About Naturopathic medicine:

Licensed Naturopathic physicians attend a minimum of four-years in accredited colleges where they receive scientific, evidence-based training comparable to that of conventional primary care physicians, including a minimum of two years clinical experience.
They also receive their characteristic training in a range of natural medicine traditions.  This allows them to have an expanded "tool box" to apply along with their integrated philosophy.  Each practitioner distinguishes her/himself by the unique treatment combinations they use. 

Aside from conventional pharmaceuticals and procedures which we are able to use and apply, some of the modalities used by naturopaths include:

- Botanical medicine
- Clinical Nutritional therapy
- Counseling
- Craniosacral and similar therapies
- Drainage, homotoxicology
- Exercise and physical therapy
- Homeopathy
- Hydrotherapy
- IV therapy
- Massage, Shitasu or similar therapies
- Minor surgery
- Naturopathic manipulation
- Neurofeedback

What unifies the field of Naturopathy are the following six philosophical tennets:

1. Primum No Nocere: First do no harm
2. Vis Medicatrix Naturae: The healing power of nature*(see note below)
3. Tolle Causam: Identify and treat the cause
4. Tolle Totum: Heal the whole person
5. Prevention
6. Docere: Physician as teacher

* Regarding the Vis Medicatrix Naturae:  we believe the body has an inherent hability to heal.  As a matter of fact, symptoms could be regarded as an effort by the body to heal.  This effort might be weak, over-reacting or misdirected.
As physicians, we strive to address the impediments, to support and/or to modulate the body's own efforts.  In doing to do so we also consider non-physical factors affecting a person; the whole person.