Deborah Frances, RN, ND Tolle Totum It is always the Spirits who heal. Many times the Spirit directed me what to do for people. I depended on prayer a lot. I am only a passageway for Spirit. (Black Star, Comanche medicine woman; personal interview, Medford, Oregon,...
Women’s Health
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Autoimmune Infertility in Women: Part 2
FIONA MCCULLOCH, BSC, ND This is a follow-up article to “Autoimmune Infertility,” in the March, 2011, Autoimmune & Allergy Medicine issue of NDNR.1 This article will detail new developments since that time, as well as address underlying causes of the immunological...
Balancing a Symphony of Hormones
One Woman’s Journey Rian Shah, ND Carla came to see me one bright morning as a new patient. Her main complaints were night sweats, hot flashes so bad as to “make me want to strip down naked in the grocery store,” depression, worsening joint pain and osteopenia, weight...
Female Infertility
Applying Therapeutic Order to Assessment and Treatment Kimberly Windstar, MEd, ND Corina Dunlap, ND Cand A 29-year-old female was referred to our clinic for infertility treatment after she and her husband had been trying to conceive unsuccessfully for the past 13...
Endometriosis: Theories, Evidence, and Treatment
Pamela Frank, BSc (Hons), ND Tolle Totum Endometriosis is a condition in which endometrial lining escapes the uterus, attaches to structures in the peritoneal cavity, and causes pain as the tissue grows in response to monthly fluctuations in estrogen. Endometrial...
Beat the Heat: Non-Hormonal Approaches to Hot Flashes and Night Sweats
Bradley Bush, ND Approximately one-third of women in the United States are approaching or have gone through menopause.1 Although menopause is a natural transition stage in a woman’s life, 75% of women (roughly 40 to 50 million) will experience menopausal vasomotor...
Naturopathic Applications of Mild Hyperthermia
Vis Medicatrix Naturae John H. Furlong, ND Naturopathic medicine sits at a crossroads. As we progress through the 21st century, we have an opportunity to re-assert our unique leadership place in natural medicine. We can challenge ourselves to build on our traditions...
Maintaining Healthy Bones: Embracing the Plants
Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH (AHG) Bones are the framework of our human structure. And yet, they are no good to us functionally without the ligaments and tendons, the levers and pulleys on the joint articulations. They are no good to us without the cartilage, acting as a...
Menopause Support On All Levels: Can Hot Flashes Be a Spiritual Experience?
Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH (AHG) Memoirs of a Perimenopausal Woman I’m lying in my bed at night, sound asleep, deep in a dream. From somewhere comes a feeling in my dantian—a clicking sensation, like a switch being turned. In my subtle awakened state, I recognize this...
Naturopathic Perspective: Estrogen Metabolite Ratios
JACOB SCHOR, ND Members of our profession pride themselves in being early adopters. We like to be ahead of the curve when it comes to implementing new theories and ideas into clinical practice. It is perhaps easier for us to do so than our colleagues in other medical...