by NDNR | Sep 11, 2018 | 2018, Education, Geriatrics, September
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Before the widely touted term, “integrative” (clever label), there was “complementary and alternative [CAM]” (opportunistic tosh). Integrates what with what? Complements what? Alternative to what? Sometimes, though, in that often...
by NDNR | Sep 11, 2018 | 2018, Clinical Pearls, Geriatrics, Nature Cure, September
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE I felt then that I would lay myself on the altar, and be burned with fire, if woman could be saved from the darkness of ignorance, and the untold horrors of her diseases. – Mary Nichols, 1851, p.29 The...
by NDNR | Sep 11, 2018 | 2018, Geriatrics, Mind/Body, Pain Medicine, September
Student Scholarship Honorable Mention Lee-Anne francois-dornbusch, ND Fraser Smith, matd, ND Pain is a challenging clinical syndrome that naturopathic physicians are well equipped to address. Society is realizing the shortcomings of conventional medicine’s...
by NDNR | Sep 11, 2018 | 2018, Geriatrics, Naturopathic Perspective, Oncology, September
Naturopathic Perspective Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO A patient with a rare cancer came to see me recently and left me pondering an interesting phenomenon. This patient has worked as a police detective for decades, an occupation that entails the careful collection and...
by NDNR | Sep 7, 2018 | 2018, Geriatrics, Oncology, September
Naturopathic Perspective Andrew L. Rubman, ND I graduated from NCNM (now NUNM) in 1982. Taking leave of my senses, I abandoned my plans to open an integrative practice with one of my TCM instructors in Portland, OR, and instead went to New York City after accepting...
by NDNR | Sep 6, 2018 | 2018, Geriatrics, Pain Medicine, September
Similar Thought Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND In my previous NDNR article, published in the June 2018 issue, I described the case of Alfred, a 50-ish-year-old man. He had complained of angry outbursts that would always follow a welling-up of energy in his stomach. He...
