Naturopathy Study

1) From the top of the body downward

2) From the inside outwards

3) From the most important organs to the least important.

4) Cure happens in reverse order to the onset of symptoms.

This is when main organs of elimination become congested, the body therefore will detoxify itself via an alternative route (vicarious elimination).

E.g. when the skin takes over from the bowel in conditions such as acne

Reabsorption of toxic wastes from the bowel. Examples are fermentation and putrefaction.

Hydrotherapy is the therapeutic use of water as a healing agent.

This is the use of very cold water to decrease inflammation and pain, reduce cellular metabolism and promote vasoconstriction.

Epsom salt baths are a source of magnesium and their main benefit is the removal of acids (lactic acid, for instance) via vasodilation of the skin pores.

They create an alkaline medium within the water (due to high magnesium).

People with regular acidity in their tissues will benefit from regular (3 a week) alkaline baths.

Distilled water.

This is the only water we can guarantee is 100% pure.

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Empty Heat.

Deficient yin causes a relative excess of yang.

We call the heat 'empty' because it is the emptiness/deficiency of the other (yin) that has caused it.

Empty Cold.

We call the cold 'empty' because it is the emptiness/deficiency of the other (yang) that has caused it.

• - Low grade fever or feeling of heat in the afternoon
• - Dry throat
• - Night sweats
• - Red peeled cracked tongue
• - Floating empty rapid pulse

• Eat YIN nourishing foods (i.e. cold promoting) - yoghurt
• - apples
• - pears
• - tomatoes
• AVOID warming foods:
• - Spices
• - Meat
• - Pumpkin
• - Sweet potato

• 1) Qi
• 2) Blood
• 3) Body Fluids
• 4) Essence (Jing)
• 5) Spirit (Shen)

• It is called True or Normal Qi (Zhen Qi) and is made up of:
• - Nutritive Qi which flows through the acupuncture channels
• - Defensive Qi which flows mostly between the skin and muscle

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• Essence is an extremely condensed form of Qi, and is Yin (cold) in nature. There are 2 types:
• - Pre-heavenly essence (what you are born with)
• - Post heavenly essence (what occurs during the life cycle)

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They are 4 pairs:

• - Exterior | Interior
• - Hot | Cold
• - Full | Empty
• - Yang | Yin

Heat is normally seen in the uppermost or superficial body parts i.e skin, blood, muscles, hair etc

• Soya beans
• Peas
• Garlic
• Lemon

AVOID: Cow's Milk, Wheat, Corn

INCLUDE: Organic beef, rice, walnuts

AVOID: Cow's milk, oranges, bananas

INCLUDE: Peanuts, almonds, lentils

AVOID: Pork, bacon, sweetcorn

INCLUDE: dairy foods, papaya, millet

AVOID: Cow's milk, oranges, bananas

INCLUDE: Cauliflower, cranberry, celery (3 C's)

By diluting the substance, shaking or banging the vial, and then diluting it again. This process can be done again and again. We call it "succussion and dilution".

*Note: succussion means to shake a solution vigorously.

The higher dilutions, or higher potencies, are diluted hundreds or thousands of times. The more you dilute and success a remedy, the more potent it becomes. In fact, the effect of a very high potency remedy can occasionally be too powerful for a patient in a weakened condition and it is preferable to begin with a lower potency.

Potency = the strength of a homeopathic remedy. Determined by how many times the remedy has been succussed and diluted during preparation. A number and a letter are associated with the remedy name to indicate which potency scale has been used.

• The different scales of potency are as follows:
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• D potencies
• C potencies
• LM potencies

The most common potencies in England are the C potencies. The most common are:

• - 6C
• - 30C
• - 200C
• - 1000C (1M)

• Lower potency - 1C to 30C
• Middle potency - 30c to 1M
• High potency - above 1M

If somebody is using heavy medication or is in a very sensitive state, there is a special potency called "LM Potency" which can be repeated daily. The bottle is successes before each dose, which slightly increases the potency each time.

A very strong desire for lemons

The person has an aversion to milk.

The patient's symptoms are better for having hot drinks.

The symptoms are worsened when drinking alcohol.

• - Liquid Potencies
• - Sucrose Pills
• - Lactose Tablets
• - Ointments
• - Powder
• - Ampoules

Apis (animal) comes from the honey bee and has been used to treat:

• - Allergies / Anaphylaxis
• - Cystitis
• - Swelling, redness, oedema
• - Burning and stinging pains
• - Endometriosis

• - Bruising Injuries
• - Muscle soreness
• - Bleeding under the skin
• - After a long run/ marathon

Another name for Hypericum is St John's Wort, and it is a mental nerve remedy. It is used for emotional healing as well as nerve injuries.

It can help:

• - Injury to nerve rich areas - fingers, toenails
• - Depression
• - Anxiety
• - Insomnia
• - Car door injury

When a homeopath takes a small dose of a plant and observes the symptoms that they get. These are then the symptoms that the diluted and successes homeopathic preparation is used to treat. It is a testing process.

• Shape
• Body Colour
• Coating
• Cracks
• Spots / lumps/ sublingual veins

• Tongue-shaped = Normal
• Swollen = Damp, Phlegm
• Thin = Blood deficiency
• Deviated = Wind
• Teeth Marks = Weak digestion

• Pale pink = normal
• Red = heat
• Pale & Moist = Yang deficiency
• Pale & Dry = Blood deficiency
• Purple = Blood stasis
• Purple / red = Blood stasis with heat
• Mauve / blue = Blood stasis with cold

• Thin white = normal
• Dry yellow = excess heat
• Greasy yellow = damp heat
• No coat = yin deficiency 
• Peeled = yin deficiency 
• Cracked = yin deficiency

*Note = diagnose by area that the cracks appear in

• Red Spots = Heat
• Purple Spots = Blood Stasis
• Raised Lumps = Stagnation 
• Purple Sublingual Veins = Blood Stasis
• Yellow Sublingual Veins = Dampness

• Superficial = Yang Organs (HEAT)
• Deep = Yin Organs (COLD)
• Positions Nearest The Wrists = Chest
• Positions In The Middle = Epigastrium
• Positions Towards The Elbow = Lower Abdomen

• Speed 
• Regularity
• Force
• Depth

• Slow = under 60BPM = Cold/Yang Deficiency
• Relaxed = 60-80 BPM = Normal
• Rapid = 90-120 BPM = Heat
• Racing = Over 120 BPM = Extreme Heat

• Regular = Normal
• Irregularly Regular = Blood Stasis
• Regularly Irregular = *Red Flag = may be a serious heart condition so refer.
• Irregular Force

• Very forceful = Excess
• Moderate = Health
• Weak = Qi Deficiency
• Thin/Thready/Fine = Blood Deficiency
• Hidden = Extreme Yang Deficiency

• Superficial (felt on light touch) = Yin deficiency if weak, or an external pathogen if full
• Middle (felt on moderate touch) = Normal
• Deep (only felt on heavy touch) = Yang deficiency, disease is on the interior

Also known as 'cold deficiency', symptoms are:

• - Low grade fever or feeling of heat in the afternoon
• - Dry throat at night
• - Night sweats
• - Malar flush (cheeks)

The tongue is normally red, peeled, cracked and dry, and the pulse is normally floating empty, possibly rapid. (A very YANG condition)

• Feeling of distension
• Abdominal masses that appear and disappear
• Depression
• Irritability

*aetiology is anger, frustration and resentment

• - Avoid fried foods that burden the liver
• - Eat Qi moving foods - marjoram, crayfish, prawns
• - Regulate emotions (avoid anger and frustration)

Note* liver qi stagnation with yin deficiency may progress into liver yang rising, or extreme liver qi stagnation can progress into liver fire blazing!

• Distention after eating
• Weak Limbs
• Loose Stools
• Pale Face

*Note spleen qi deficiency can progress into qi sinking

• Avoid fried foods
• Eat qi nourishing foods - eggs, potato, pumpkin
• Avoid cold and hard to digest foods - dairy
• Eat regularly in a relaxed environment

Astringent means to cause the contraction of cells and body tissues, it aids the process of 'drying out'.

Astringent herbs promote a feeling of dryness in the mouth, dries out wounds, mucous membranes, reduces excess discharges, tones and strengthens the tissues. First aid treatment for wounds

• Agrimony 
• Raspberry Leaf
• Meadowsweet

(ARM)

Having a sharp, pungent taste or smell.

Bitter herbs trigger production of saliva, digestive juices and bile. They stimulate liver function and detoxification.

• Gentian
• Berberis
• Wormwood

(GBW)

Infusions are for delicate parts of leaves and flowers.

Place the herb in a warm teapot, add boiled water, cover and leave 10-15 minutes, strain and drink.

3 cups daily.

Usual dose - 1-2 heaped tsp per cup.

These offer high extraction of chemicals and allow for good patient compliance.

They preserve for 3-5 years

Rapidly absorbed into the blood stream.

Alcohol content is reduced by adding boiling water or removed by simmering. Traditional maceration (soaking in liquid) for 1 lunar month, shaken daily, poured off, pressed. 

Fluid extracts are 1:1 (1kg herb to 1 litre alcohol/water) made by cold percolation. Allow greater level of herbs in the daily dose.

• 1) officinalis = medicinal
• 2) vulgaris = common
• 3) pratensis = of the meadow
• 4) purpurea = purple
• 5) millefolium = thousand leaved

Sleep promoting herbs are also known as sedatives, which calm the nerves and promote sleep.

• - Passionflower
• - Skullcap
• - Valerian

IBS is treated with nervines and carminatives to relax the constricted colon. 

Nervines - nutritive to the nervous system with varied actions (calming, relaxing)

• - Camomile
• - Hops
• - Valerian

Carminatives - relieve flatulence and gas and promotes digestion

• - Oregano
• - Peppermint
• - Angelica Root

• Children (age 3-4) - 1.09g protein per kg of body weight
• Children (age 9-10) - 0.99g protein per kg of body weight
• Adolescents (age 13-14) - 0.95g protein per kg of body weight
• Young adult (>19) - 0.75g protein per kg of body weight
• Elderly - 0.75g protein per kg of body weight

• Histidine
• Isoleucine
• Methionine

• Lysine
• Leucine

• Phenylalanine
• Threonine
• Tryptophan
• Valine

• Folic Acid
• Vitamin B12
• Iron
• Calcium

Your body needs 22 types of Amino Acids to function properly. Adults can synthesise 13 of those in the body (non essential AAs) but the other 9 must come through diet (essential AAs). It is these ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS that derive the classification of protein as either complete or incomplete.

Complete proteins - are those that contain all of the Essential AAs in sufficient quantity - these are typically animal-based proteins. E.g. meat, fish, dairy, spirulina, soy

Incomplete proteins - are those that don't contain all Essential Amino Acids in sufficient quantity - and must be supplemented with other protein sources. These include nuts and seeds, legumes, grains, vegetables.


Just because they are incomplete does not make them inferior, though, they just need to be combined to provide the right balance of Essential AAs. Proteins that, in combination, make a complete Amino Acid profile are known as complementary proteins. For example, rice and beans, spinach salad with almonds, hummus and wholegrain pittas.

1. Prevention is preferable to cure

2. The root cause is treated, not the branches (symptoms)

3. The individual is unique; each person responds in a different way

4. The person is treated, NOT the disease!

In homeopathy, nosodes is when diseased tissue (e.g. Tuberculinum - products of tuberculosis) is used in homeopathic remedies.

In homeopathy, this is when remedies are derived from glandular ssecretions of human, animal or plant origin.

Think S for SECRETIONS, S for SARCODES

This is in homeopathy, when remedies are derived from energies e.g. electricity, X rays, sun moon etc.

• Qi = YANG
• Spirit (shen) = YANG

• Blood = YIN
• Body Fluids = YIN
• Essence (Jing) =YIN

In herbal medicine, this is something that reduces nausea and vomiting.

• Vision
• Immunity
• Growth & Development
• Adrenal Hormone Synthesis

Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity

• Yoghurt
• Oyster
• Apples
• Pears

• Spices (ginger, cayenne)
• Sweet potato
• Pumpkin
• Meat

• Sweet potato
• Pumpkin
• Squash
• Tomatoes

(Advise for SPLEEN QI DEFICIENCY - WE WANT TO BUILD THE QI)

• Majoram
• Crayfish
• Prawns
• Garlic

Involving use of the sense organs (smell, taste, texture, sight)

• Miso
• Tamari
• Tempeh