understanding natural healthy

Natural health is a reasonable & respectable approach to health care. It refers to the beliefs, ideas, & attitudes held by those who practice natural health care. There is similarities that run throughout all natural health practices.

Natural health is a natural healing practice, or a subset of alternative medicine, that only looks towards nature for answers & explanations. Natural health is about a few Western forms of alternative medicine which NCCAM has classified as Biologically Based Therapies & their Mind-Body Interventions for stress management. Natural health has nothing to do with magic or new age mysticism. Historicallyin the past, Natural health is about the natural healing therapies of prevention & healthy lifestyles, eating natural whole foods, nutritional supplements, physical exercise, & stress management.

Natural health has nothing to say about the creation of life, beliefs in religion, & other worlds or dimensions other than that all health, wellness, disease, & healing can be positively affected by simple & cheap natural therapies.

While the renewed interest in natural health can be called a resurgence of the Popular Health Movement, within positive parameters prevention & healthy lifestyles have been proven to work over & over again by science. There is nothing anti-intellectual or anti-scientific about natural health. It is a powerful aim basis, like any other natural philosophy has by definition.

Natural Health as Complementary Medicine

Natural health, thus, excludes all belief systems that say disease is a result of anything other than natural causes. If health, wellness, disease, & healing is held to be caused by something that cannot be physically measured or detected then it is not about natural health. This would accordingly exclude faith & psychic healing, supernatural forms of alternative medicine, & some Eastern philosophies.
Logically, if a faith or psychic healer can perform miracles then there is no point in working on your diet or exercising. Hence, faith & psychic healing are not an element of natural health. Likewise, Eastern philosophies with beliefs in other worlds or dimensions that are invisible to our normal senses are excluded from natural health (such as beliefs in spiritual, karmic, or ancestral forces & personal auras or energy flows around the human body).

History of Natural Health

Nothing about natural health prevents its alternative healing methods from being used alongside conventional medical treatment. Thus, natural health can be viewed as a complementary or adjunctive type of therapy.

as the hygienic movement added the word natural to separate itself from biomedicine which had by the 20th century incorporated hygiene in to its practices, natural health added the word health to separate itself from natural hygiene. Natural health, as an eclectic practice, is most usually associated with the advocacy of the use of vitamin supplements; a practice which natural hygiene considers a prohibited use of drugs.

Natural health did not become part of common usage until near the finish of the 20th century with the advent of vitamin dealerships, the Net, & perhaps with some health food stores. Historicallyin the past, natural health developed from the the Popular Health Movement (1830s-1840s) in the United States.
While both the nature cure & natural hygiene movements historicallyin the past developed out of the necessity for treating serious infectious diseases, natural health developed out of the exclusive require for stopping lifestyle diseases. Natural health seldom attempts to treat serious infectious diseases or any acute medical emergences. The nature cure movement, historicallyin the past called for a return to nature, but the natural health movement advocates only the use of natural therapies.

Further, both the hygienic & the nature cure movements did not originally address the stress of modern civilized life; whereas natural health is partially defined or historicallyin the past developed out of the notion that the stresses of modern life has an impact on physical health. More exactly, the core tenet of holism evolved to include the idea of the mind-body connection, or the notion that stress, or our mental states, has an impact on our physical health. The mind-body connection has a Western origin.
Natural heath as a process of philosophy is logically the most inclusive of all the natural healing practices. The ideologies of natural health holds that all health, wellness, disease, & healing can be positively affected by simple & cheap natural therapies.