What is Real Natural Health^tm?

with Casey Adams, D.Sc., A.M.P.

In real natural health therapy we see the patient as a whole person, and we seek to re-establish a body-mind-spirit harmony. This requires understanding the factors of health and metabolism on a functional basis and how the forces of nature and toxicity impact their balance. We utilize traditional healing philosophies that have been mostly overlooked while our medical institutions have been striving for technological and chemical solutions to illness. Though the traditional health philosophies and practices seem out of date, they do have thousands of years of application and safety, and their effects are typically gentle and long-lasting. Rather than standard diagnosis and treatment, traditional health therapists seek to provide functional explanations for the root causes of poor health, and suggest non-toxic methods for rebuilding ones constitution and vitality. And as we expected all along, over the past few years modern science has begun to apply traditional therapies to controlled research, with overwhelmingly positive results.

Contents

The source of vitality

The vital force and its connection to health

Guiding principles

Healing traditions

What Natural Health is not

Naturally....

• Health is the holistic union of the vital force (spirit), the mind, and a physical body synchronized with the elements of nature
• Disease is the breakdown and disharmony of this holistic balance of health, leading to a subsequent weakening of constitution and defense mechanisms within the body
• Healing is one's unique journey leading to humility and wisdom
• Remedies are elements of nature applied in specific and unique combinations to encourage vital balance and well-being
• Diet is the honoring of one's individual needs with nurturing foods nature provided in whole form with as minimal processing as needed to allow for assimilation
• Nutrition is the determination of dietary factors needed for effective physical well-being and balanced metabolism
• Lifestyle is the balancing of activities that promote spiritual wisdom, service and compassion while sustaining the needs of the physical body
• Death is the natural journey of the living spirit or vital force out of the body at the time intended

Healing Traditions

In order to increase one's vitality and life balance, increase immune response, and strengthen constitution, we seek to assist a person in establishing his or her unique formula for health and vitality using various traditional healing approaches:

·        western and eastern herbology

·        classical homeopathy

·        diet and food-based nutrients

·        ayruvedic rejuvenation therapies

·        energetics and vibrational therapy

·        hydrotherapy

·        aromatherapy

·        bach flower remedies

·        relaxation techniques

·        biorhythm and natural sleep therapy

·        detoxification therapies

·        pH balancing methods

·        colon health

·        immune system boosting

What Real Natural Health is not.....

Because of its complex nature and potential conflicts with well-being we do avoid the following (without criticism of those who are skilled enough to do so without harm):

• clinical diagnosis or treatment of disease
• chemically-derived medications
• surgery or other invasion of the skin by mechanical means
• chemically isolated constituents derived from plants or herbal products to make constituents or nutrients outside of their natural combinations and constituency (we promote whole plant or whole plant extracts and food-based nutrients)
• radiation or other electronic intrusion of the body or foods with rays that are considered outside natural spectra
• unnecessary cruelty to animals or human beings
• deforestation and dumping of toxic substances in the water or earth

Naturally.....

We prefer to encourage a person to first evaluate the major driving factors for their vital being, including lifestyle, diet, exercise, fresh air and relaxation as well as goals, values, and other factors which give their life meaning. Then we can assist one to uncover sources of metabolism dysfunction within the body. We may provide a person with activities to promote rejuvenation and vitality, suggest natural remedies that encourage well-being and a stronger constitution, or devise other tools to bring balance back to the person. A stronger constitutional vitality infused with purpose and goals are ingredients for a fully-functioning system, and a life that may be more fulfilling and sustaining.

Casey Adams, D.Sc., A.M.P. holds a Doctor of Integrative Health Sciences, a degree in Traditional Naturopathy, a Liberal Arts BA with pre-med coursework, and diplomas in Aromatherapy, Clinical Nutritional Counseling, Blood Chemistry/Urine Analysis, Colon Hydrotherapy and Bach Flower Remedies. He is board certified as an Alternative Medical Practitioner; a member of the American Naturopathic Medical Association, the American Association of Nutritional Consultants and the American Herbalists Guild. He has 20 years of experience in the fields of herbalism, organic foods, nutrition and natural health; and has mentored under nationally-recognized herbalists and holistic medical specialists. He is not licensed to diagnose or treat disease.

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