Introduction

Naturopathic Medicines and Therapies

Introduction

‘Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional’ is a quote from Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Many Huntington’s Disease families have complained that their medical doctor is unable to cope with HD symptoms and their effect on the family and friends.

The tradition of naturopathic medicine and natural therapies arises from the needs of our ancestors to cope with problems and illnesses. They aim to remove those things which hinder healing.

These are all holistic philosophies that automatically consider the whole person and what each needs to do to be responsible for themselves to live a healthy and satisfying life.

Although Naturopathic Medicine is based in the ancient healing arts it is ever growing and changing art adopting those therapies and techniques that fit their holistic philosophies and benefit their patients and leave behind those now known to be ineffective.

Naturopathic medicine sets out to remove those things, which prevent healing. Practitioners are trained in many ancient and modern healing skills, from traditional herbalism, to genetic research, nutritional science, diet and exercise, manipulation, homeopathy, counselling, and pharmacology.

http://www.pandamedicine.com/   Naturopathic Medicine Network tells you what is available in the USA.

http://hdlighthouse.org/ The Huntington’s Disease Lighthouse, also in the USA, has always served the HD community under the astute direction and discretion of Lighthouse Keeper, Jerry Lampson. While caring for his wife with HD he established the website and set out to find almost every article printed about HD. He is able to assess it for its quality and passes it to a specialist in that area. Every one of the one million HD related documents has his note to and date to give the reader guidance. He hopes that the site will assist you in the proactive treatment of HD

Instead of setting up our own web site to specialise on care of HD, he suggested that he offer Jerry his technical services to upgrade the site. Jerry accepted it with much enthusiasm and it is exciting to see it functioning so fully and accurately and quickly.

As a consumer in NZ there is this huge range of practitioners to select from all of who treat each person as an individual and stress a healthy lifestyle.

 

Homeopathy, Osteopathy, and Traditional Chinese Medicine are the GPs of Naturopathic medicine. The others are the specialists.

It was Antoinette Berridge’s articles in ‘Horizon’ the newsletter published by the Huntington Society of Canada telling how she had used alternative therapies and medicines to enhance her life with HD. That gave me some basic information and the confidence to use them to keep myself as well as possible for as long as possible.

As I live near Wellington most of my personal contacts and resources are local.

I found the text documents in our weekly newspaper, Kapi Mana and rang the practitioners and got their approval to use them on this site.

My personal experience with naturopathic practitioners for over 20 years.

To learn more about each topic I used xtramsn‘s search engine, within NZ and only went on the web if there was too little information here.

NZNetGuide magazine is happy for me to use any of their content that is appropriate.

Remember that no matter where you live ‘Yellow Pages’ from your local telephone directory to be the best source of local therapists.

The following article is my rewriting of Antoinette’s articles especially for this web site.

 

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