Frontiers in Alternative & Traditional Medicine

Naturopathic Medicine

Naturopathy or naturopathic medicine is a formula of alternative medicine. It employs an assortment of pseudoscientific practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or endorsing "self-healing". The practices of naturopaths, the practitioners of naturopathic medicine, vary extensively and are tough to generalize. Treatments range from outright quackery like homeopathy, to broadly accepted practices like psychotherapy. The ideology and procedures of naturopathy are created on vitalism and folk medicine, rather than evidence-based medicine (EBM), although some practitioners may use methods supported by EBM.