Naturopathy and Western Herbal Medicine: Principles and Ethical Practices

Naturopathy and Western
Herbal Medicine

Naturopathy is a study that includes medicinal system covering natural remedies for the
body healing and the treatment itself. It embraces various therapies, herbs, acupuncture, as well
as counselling related to nutritions as well whereas western herbal medicines comes under the
clinical practice of a human using natural plants, natural materials etc. These medicinal studies
have been opted in the health care services over the globes for their practices upon education
and prevention of the problems occur in a person, that can be mental as well as physical or can
be both at the same time (McIntyre and et.al., 2019). Due to changes in social and culture,
naturopathy have become first choice as the complementary medicine in the health care system
in Australia as well.
In this essay, the study of naturopathy and herbal medicines have been introduced to
understand their principles within the Australian health care system. Furthermore, the
relationship of principle with the ethical or professional communication practices are also
included for the understanding purpose.
Principles of Naturopathy and western herbal medicines
There are six principles of naturopathy as well as the herbal medicines exists are defined here.
Do No Harm is the first principle idea and have three percepts to make avoidance from
harming patient. One is naturopaths utilizes the herbal medicines to minimize the harmful effect
at maximum time at the place of force and intervention. Second is to suppress the symptoms as
they can interfere in the healing process. Third percept focuses upon self healing process with
nature's healing power so that the harms to the patients can be avoided (Seely and Verma, 2019).
Nature's healing power is the second principle of naturopathy. It is a inherent healing
process that is self organizing in the nature in between the living system. It establishes, restore
and maintains the health. As per the role of neuropath, this process can be augmented by identify
obstacle to the health and supports the creation of external as internal environment creation
(Oates, 2019).
Identification and cause treatment is the third one principle and as per this illness can
not show occurrence without any specific cause although there origin can be anywhere. For the
complete and efficient treatment of a person identification by symptoms as well as treatment of
that cause is mandatory to eliminate the further diseases.