This post is another step in my effort to give my opinion in how should medicine evolves.
Recently, I started learning about medical nutrition from a naturopathic approach. Before falling into preconceptions, you must realise that naturopathy as a philosophy started with
Hippocrates, as he states:
It is only nature that heals and wherever and whenever possible nature should be given the opportunity to do so.
A modest way to address naturopathic philosophy is to trust our body's innate capability to heal itself and only intervene when it is deemed necessary.
Having said this, this post is not to advocate for or defend the naturopathic medicine philosophy. But, there is an intriguing point that naturopathy has that we should look seriously into.
Naturopathy has a Law called the Law of cure that collect dispersed facts into one simple Law that once well understood can be applied in treating most of not all conditions. This Law is stated by
Lindlahr (1913) as
Every acute disease is the result of a cleansing and healing effort of nature.