evil habits (overeating, alcoholic drinks, drugs, use of tea, coffee, meat eating, improper hours of living and sexual and social aberrations.)2)Corrective habits (correct breathing, exercise, correct mental attitude and other things in moderation.)3)New principles of living (proper fasting, selection of food, light and air baths, mud baths, osteopathy and other forms of manipulation, mineral salts and steam baths.)The philosophy of naturopathy is explained in the following six principles:1)Vis Medicatrix Naturae (the healing power of nature)The body has the ability not only to heal itself and restore health but also to ward off disease. Illness is not simply caused by an invasion of external germs but is a manifestation of the organisms attempt to defend and heal itself.2)Treat the whole person Within the body, the different systems are intimately connected and balanced. Disease or any imbalance in one part directly affects all other parts of the whole body. There is never a single cause for disease.3)Primum no nocere (first do no harm)Because the organism has the ability to heal itself, the physician must be careful of the side effects of treatments.4)Tolle causam (identify and treat cause)Causes originate on many levels but are more often found in the patients lifestyle, diet, habits or emotional state. When only the symptoms are treated, the underlying causes remain and the patient may develop a more serious, chronic condition.5)Prevention is the best cureOne cannot be healthy in an unhealthy environment and it is the responsibility of both the physician and patient to create a world in which humanity may thrive.6)Docere (doctor as teacher)The physician must educate the patient and encouragement self-responsibility. The physician must recognize that each patient is an individual who shapes their own environment.In the naturopathic method, healing is not a matter of attacking the disease with extraordinary outside sources, but rathe...
