Stress management, yoga and meditation are hardly the stuff of Naturopathy. Instead they are mainstream adjunctive therapies that even my General practitioners recommended to me decades before I had Cancer..
This illogical thinking that because one element is normal, the rest of the alternative medical theories are valid permeates the alternative medicine universe and lately the OCF forum. I've been doing Yoga for over 40 years and certainly agree it's a good thing but it in no way validates the naturopathic fallacy.
there is an interesting chapter in a book I'm reading by a doctor is the director of geriatrics about his patients who are enamored of naturopathic remedies. They are amazed when he "prescribes" nonpharmacologic interventions like meditation and yoga and massage therapy. There is no question that "non-Western" approaches have value but as he says: "show me the data". Yoga for example has randomized controlled trials showing it works for back pain. He says it so much more diplomatically than I
[quote]Some practitioners of alternative therapy contend that, since their inteventions are non Western or non traditional, the ways in which Wester medicine evaluates evidence does not apply to them. This is utter balderdash and usually inended t obsfuscate some other issue - namely the absence of effectiveness of their potions or ointments. I don't cared if we're talking acuupuncture versus nicotine patches to quit smoking or guided imagery versus Norvasc for blood=pressure reduction, any therapy given to human beings shuld be proven safe and effective by the same scientific criteria.
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So I do agree that Yoga, meditation and good diet will help you, but that's hardly naturopathy.
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