26/02/2025
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Examining Board of Natural Medicine is a Self-Regulatory body for Natural Medicine Practitioners© & Practitioners of Natural Healing® Under TM/CAM-Naturotherapy, who are identified by protected and trademarked titles.
TM/CAM-Naturotherapy & Natural Medicine
The data herein is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, or do not replace a visit with a doctor.
The Examining Board of Natural Medicine and its affiliates are not responsible of the errors and omissions of its registered members or their practices. As well as recommendations made through the different approaches utilized in the practice of TM/CAM-Naturotherapy and Natural Medicine or any bodily harm or illness that may result of such a treatment provided by a registered member.
Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicine-Naturotherapy is a Natural medicine practice that focus on a complete state of wellbeing of a person as a whole, not just a disease process or condition. It works by stimulating the body’s natural ability to heal. Not by curing symptoms, attacking pathogens. In Traditional Healing Medicine or Traditional Naturotherapy Practice, the principles of diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis are based solely on the laws of nature and its restorative care.
Modalities employed include Naturotherapy, Ayurveda, Oriental Medicine, Osteopathy and other Traditional Healing modalities; as energy healing, diet, homeopathy, stress and lifestyle management and Physiologic therapy as stretching to include specific meditative exercises. Always observing the laws of nature and use them to diagnose and treat illness, based on the phenomenon of return to a natural state of being, wherein all efforts to restore or preserve health are employed in the practice.
Please note: the information and recommendations contained herein are provided only as an educational source and does not constitute a medical opinion or replace a medical health consultation. The EBNM and its affiliates EBNMP CA and EBNMP LLC are not liable for errors or omissions of the practitioner and decline any responsibility for the public following these recommendations and any physical injuries or ailments that could result from this type of healthcare. Before going for a consultation, one should first consult with primary healthcare.
Traditional Naturopathy-Natural Medicine practice is a complete system of medicine used as an adjunct to conventual medicine. Conventional often called Western medicine, is a system of healthcare that uses drugs, radiation or surgery to treat disease and symptoms. It is based on scientific reach and is taught in medical schools. The TM/CAM-Naturotherapy and Natural Medicine approach to healthcare is an approach to wellness that simultaneously addresses the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual components of health. It often is a complete system of medicine that focuses primarily on stimulating the body's self-healing ability. The practitioner’s interventions aim primarily to activate, nourish and strengthen the inherent body systems, thus encouraging a person’s body to rebalance and rejuvenate itself. Various modalities are used in the carrying out of this type of healthcare, most come form Eastern Medicine as Acupuncture and Ayurveda. Others have their roots in Naturopathic practice as Nutritional and Botanical therapy along with Manual or hands-on therapies ranging from passive joint stretching to techniques to enhance range of motion. Some practitioners practice only practice Homeopathy, while other use lifestyle and stress management techniques of QiGong or Energy rebalancing. Collectively they are intended to be non-invasive, often quite gentle with an intent to a return to a natural state of being as possible.
Definition & Scientific Position: The basic premise of TM/CAM-Naturotherapy Medicine is that ill health is fundamentally a functional imbalance, or disequilibrium within the body. Disease is a plethora of symptoms produced by the body’s attempt to re-establish homeostatic balance. Therefore, if the body's defense’s no longer function, it is because they have been weakened by ignorance or non-compliance with the rules of nature, or man in harmony with life. The responsibility of maintaining a healthy diet, vital hygiene and preventative care (all the stuff you do to keep from getting sick) form the basis of a daily routine, which the patient is largely responsible for. When not adhered to, a return to a more natural state of being can only occur by turning to nature, provided that it is given the means to do so. The patient takes charge by taking responsibility, by being advised and guided by the practitioner on his path to healing.
A typical visit to a Natural Health practitioner involves a detailed patient history, with the practitioner asking various questions seeking to get a general understanding of your current health, a history of past health concerns, your diet, stress, lifestyle and sleep patterns. A physical exam can follow in order to take vital signs, and can include a tongue, eye and pulse diagnosis. What the practitioner is seeking to do is to discover the root causes of discomfort before an assessment can be made and then a treatment plan can be prepared in order to restore balance. An initial visit is usually longer than a follow-up appointment in order to get all your symptoms and information. Then a treatment plan will be explained to you.
On a follow-up visit a review of your progress will be discussed with any changes that you have noticed since your last visit. Questions include: E.X. the symptom of pain
Where do you feel pain? When did it begin? What does it feel like? How long does it last? Have you had it before? Is it constant or intermittent? What makes your pain worse? What helped? What did not help? Does it affect your daily life?
The treatments offered will be in accordance with the natural medicine and natural healing approach: E.X. involves a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to achieve recovery and optimum health incorporating pain messaging reduction treatment strategies to include
– Functional Training (specific body part and core strengthening)
– lifestyle and nutritional changes
– Homeopathic medicine
– Acupuncture to specific points
– Physical Manual therapy to include use of mint lotion
– Herbal and vitamins supplementation.
Types of Regulation for the practice of Naturotherapy
There are three primary forms of regulation used to grant individuals the right or privileges to perform certain activities: licensure, certification and registration.
• Licensure is the most restrictive way that entails the creation of a monopoly on the regulated activities of a profession through enactment of profession-specific practice acts. Licensed practitioners gain an exclusive right to deliver services and the profession enjoys protection of its titles.
• Certification is less restrictive than licensure and is achieved through the use of title protection acts (trademarks & copyright) that give a designated recognition to individuals who meet qualifications set by a regulatory agency. Non-certified individuals may still offer services but they are prohibited from using the designated titles.
• Registration provides a roster of practitioners’ requirements set up by a specialty board.
Administration of Regulation
The actual regulation of a profession is carried out through administrative structures and laws that establish the regulatory framework for the profession.
• TM/CAM-Naturotherapy-Natural Medicine is not yet regulated in Canada therefore most groups are self-governing. With self-regulation the governing body, whether an Association, Board, or Council, is responsible for all decisions both administrative and professional-specific, including clinical, ethical, investigative and disciplinary. A majority of the members who serve on the Board of Governors are Members in Good Standing of the profession who may either be appointed or elected from the membership.
• In a broader sense, “self-regulation” means that a member’s professional conduct is judged by a jury of their peers, regardless of the bureaucratic form of administration. The hallmark of self-regulation is peer review in clinical review and disciplinary proceedings.
Examining Board of Natural Medicine is a Self-Regulatory body for Natural Medicine Practitioners© & Practitioners of Natural Healing® Under TM/CAM-Naturotherapy, who are identified by protected and trademarked titles.
The Examining Board of Natural Medicine Practitioners Canada and EBNMP LLC are the affiliates of EBNM a non-legislated Healthcare Association that is the governing body for our Specialists and General Practice-Naturotherapist who are Practitioners of Natural Medicine and Healing, who have met the standards in TM/CAM-Naturotherapy education and the delivery of Natural Medicine Health care as established by the World Health Organization standards: Regional Health Plan 2002-2004 benchmarks.
• The practice of Natural Healing is an art involving the application of innate therapeutic agents and restorative methods. It is therefore based on natural therapies which are in harmony with the inherent nature of man and his environment. Natural therapeutic agents are material products composed of organic or inorganic constituents in native form. These techniques make use of material and energetic agents which are harmoniously oriented to processes in nature. Such agents and therapies are employed as part of TM/CAM-Naturotherapy-Natural Medicine practice and can be applied for the assessment of bodily systems, prophylactic or curative purposes.
• It recognizes that numerous Natural Healing healthcare systems belong under the term TM/CAM-Naturotherapy simply because they share a common treatment protocol: They do not make use of synthetic chemical remedies or invasive techniques, but rather employ a methodology that is in harmony with nature.
• Please note that Naturotherapy is more encompassing than Naturopathy.
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