Naturopathy in the Management of Chronic Diseases
Abstract
Naturopathic medicine aims to identify factors that affect the patient's current state, with a focus on improving health thro-ugh health promotion, promotion, and disease prevention. By using different treatment modalities among complementary and alternative methods, the least harmful and most effective approaches in improving the ability to improve and maintain health are presented in line with personalized evidence-based treatments. There are six basic principles of naturopathy. These; first of all, do no harm, the healing power of nature, identifying and treating causes, teaching, treating and preventing the per-son as a whole. Observational practice results and clinical trial data report the efficacy of naturopathy in multiple chronic health conditions with high morbidity, including cardiovascular risk, hypertension, depression, anxiety, low back pain, and type 2 diabetes. In addition, it has been reported that changing patient behavior in various chronic diseases may affect the prognosis of patients. Although naturopathic approaches are both traditional and innovative approaches, there seems to be very limited evidence due to the lack of extensive experimental studies using these approaches. The aim of this article is to raise awareness about naturopathy, which is a complementary approach in the management of chronic diseases.
Keywords
Naturopathy, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease Management, Complementary and Integrated Medicine
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