NATUROPATHIC
DOCTOR
FOR NATURAL SOLUTIONS TO UNRESOLVED MEDICAL COMPLAINTS
Greg Prytula, BASc., N.D.
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
2117 Pelissier St., Windsor, Ontario. N8X 1N3
and
429 St. Clair Street, Chatham, Ontario.
(519) 258-4664
Covered by most private or corporate health insurance plans.
No referral required!
NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE - AN INTEGRATION OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND NATURAL HEALING
Naturopathic Medicine is a unique practice of medicine that comes from combining a thorough understanding of western medical science and drugs with a deep practical knowledge of natural medicines and of the healing potential of the body. The goal of naturopathic medicine is to help the person optimize their health and in so doing, to eliminate any adverse symptoms and to reverse disease processes. A naturopathic doctor undergoes a total of 8 years of training similar to a medical doctor at an accredited College of Naturopathic Medicine. The difference in training arises in the final 3 years where naturopathic training focusses on the natural diagnosis and medicines while medical doctors focus on pharmaceutical drug prescriptions. ( Top )
PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS AND HEALING
While most presceiption drugs can remove a symptom by suppressing it, this doesn't usually correct the underlying cause of the symptom and in many cases the symptom returns and / or new complications appear slowly over time. So you're given a stronger drug prescription and a new drug for the new side effects of the first drug, and so on until many drugs can become a nuisance if not a threat to your long term health. And you're not feeling any healthier or happier. ( Top )
THE SUCCESS OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE COMES FROM FINDING AND TREATING THE CAUSE
As Naturopaths we understand that to heal you must treat the original cause of the problem, not mask the symptoms. And since a person's STATE OF HEALTH IS THE RESULT OF A VARIETY OF FACTORS NOT JUST ONE FACTOR you must treat all of those factors that are obstacles to cure. These health factors MAY include your unique upbringing and family history, hectic lifestyles, emotional factors, trauma, infection, radiation, the poor quality of foods eaten, the toxins in food and the environment, and the toxic side effects caused by prescription drugs or large doses of herbal medicines. With so many factors contributing to one's poor health, you can appreciate that one type of medicine can't do it all, so a health professional needs to have lots of different medicines and needs to know how and when to use them. This is why Naturopathic Doctors (N.D.) are trained in the majority of natural medicines including nutrition and diet therapy, supplements, Western herbs, Chinese herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture, bydrotherapy, stress management, counseling and various unique physical therapies. None of these natural treatments alone hold all the secrets to health, but when used together and when properly chosen for the person, their symptoms and their condition, they all the person to attain maximum healing and optimal health. ( Top )
NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE WORKS ON EVERY BODY AND MIND WITH ANY CONDITION
Naturopathic doctors treat ALL AGES of people with ANY CONDITION OR SYMPTOM. This includes athletes with musculoskeletal complaints, people on the go who need to maintain their health and evergy to sustain their active lifestyle, to children with learning disabilities, asthma or ear infections, to the elderly, and to women and men with their gender-specific physical and emotional complaints. Many of you are coping with health problems because your medical doctor told you, you have to live with it because there is no known cure as far as pharmaceutical drugs are concrned or they might throw the problem back onto you and say your're getting older so you have to expect to have complaints or say that you're depressed. My answer is that if EVERY women had PMS or EVERY person over fifty had the same complaint then the MD would be right - it would be due to your age or your gender. What the MD really should be saying is, "Pharmaceutical drugs haven't solved your problem, maybe you should consider seeing a professional who is trained in healing with Natural Medicines." That person would be a Naturopathic Doctor. ( Top )
NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE - IT'S NOT JUST VITAMINS AND HERBS
Many of you who have tried self-prescribing for your condition from health books and / or the media may have had limited success, but at what expense - a lot of time and usually a lot of herbs and vitamins each month that only give partial relief. Those of you who have tried renovating your house through self help books know it's almost impossible to do everything without professional help. Your body and health are much more complex, so see someone trained as a helath professional. Some of you may have gone to a nutritionist, iridologist, herbalist, homeopath, or acupuncturist and may have had limited success (or spent a lot of money on things you don't need). This is like asking a carpenter that only knows how to use a hammer if he might try and renovate your house - plumbing and electrical systems included. They haven't been trained to diagnose ALL your factors and weaknesses and are unaware of the 20000 possible homeopathic remedies, 500 Chinese herbal remedies, 300 Western herbs, specific dietary and vitamin and mineral requirements, physical therapies, and nutrients specific for detoxification that may be more suitable as a total solution. Much like a tree that will not grow healthy without the right mix of sunlight, temperature, nutrients, water and oxygen so too must your body have everything it needs to heal to ifs fullest extent. For treatment of your specific condition I rely on literature that is based on the linical experience of thousands of Naturopaths. But for you as a unique individual with unique symptoms, I diagnose your weak digestive, organ, hormonal, tissue, blood or immune system function that have arisen from the many factors mentioned earlier. Most of these weaknesses do not show up on laboratory tests until you have disease. If you wait until then, your health will likely take longer and cost more to resolve. ( Top )
For more information, CALL: (519) 258-4664
Yours in good health,
Greg Prytula, BASc., N.D., Doctor of Naturopathic Doctor
NATUROPATHIC DOCTOR
FOR NATURAL SOLUTIONS TO UNRESOLVED MEDICAL COMPLAINTS
Greg Prytula, BASc., N.D.
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
2117 Pelissier St., Windsor, Ontario. N8X 1N3
and
429 St. Clair Street, Chatham, Ontario.
(519) 258-4664
Covered by most private or corporate health insurance plans.
No referral required!
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