Naturopathy
Hydrotherapy is a principle treatment within traditional Naturopathic philosophy. This understated and oft-forgotten therapy can be as simple as washing a wound, or as complex as a cryotherapy session. The basis is the same – water is a powerful natural element and can be harnessed to support healing.
Rachel Larsson was in the middle of a Bachelor of Public Health (Nutrition) when she realised it just wasn’t what she wanted to do. True to her nature, she finished the degree and then enrolled in Naturopathy at Endeavour.
After school, Claudia Milbourne studied what she was good at, not where her passion lay. Years later, in a different country and armed with valuable life and professional experience, she’s returned to her original dream.
The use of flower essences have gained world-wide recognition due to their contribution to holistic health and emotional healing. However, these subtle medicines can become somewhat “watered-down” as they are difficult to study on a biochemical level due to the limitations of science and research. Although this shouldn’t mean we ignore the thousands of years they have been used traditionally to heal physical and mental imbalances.
Do you eat the same five vegetables on rotation? Apples and bananas the two options in your fruit bowl? Variety is the spice of life and will feed lots of different species of friendly bacteria to keep the population strong and fend off the angry mobs.
As a young girl playing doctors, Ema Souness loved to blend up medicines using different plants from her parent’s country garden. Back then, she could never have guessed her own health would lead her to study naturopathy.
The idea of your first year in clinical practice can spark many different emotions – excitement, nerves, dread, curiosity and relief. Or maybe you are pushing the thought to the back of your mind until the last week of your last semester!
Acne can be like playing a game of whack-a-mole. On your face. Just when you get rid of one pimple, another seems to sprout somewhere else. If you experience more severe acne, this can equal a whole new breakout of cysts, just as the last patch begin to finally fade.
Lexie McPhee fell into Naturopathy quite by accident. She had never been to a Naturopath and never knew anyone who had. How did she get started?