What is the Manifesto of Natural Medicine?
The manifesto of Natural Medicine [1] highlight the values that a Natural Doctor should practice, in order to promote a Natural Medicine based on scientific evidence [2] , and closer to the people.
Natural Medicine, or Naturopathy is a body of practices aimed to help the body heal itself. Natural Medicine suggest the use of herbs, massage, acupuncture, exercise, and nutrition therapy. Natural Medicine is based on empiricism, from the ancient Greek word empeiria, "experience", stating that current knowledge is based only on past experience. [3]
The key points of Natural Medicine, are as follows:
Treating the individual, not the disease.
Acknowledging that each individual is different
Addressing the root cause of the illness, not just managing the symptoms.
The manifesto is published by Fempton Institute, and is closely inspired by the Agile manifesto of software development. [4]
It says that:
We're uncovering alternative ways of preventing and treating health conditions, by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
- Lifestyle and interactions over processes and drugs
- Balanced nutrition over dietary supplements
- Human values over economic reward
- Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
Footnotes
[1] https://www.fempton.com/uxton/manifesto
[2] https://www.quora.com/Are-you-sure-evidence-is-always-evident/answer/Brian-Tracy-25
[3] https://www.britannica.com/topic/empiricism
[4] https://agilemanifesto.org/
Footnotes
[1] https://www.fempton.com/uxton/manifesto
[2] https://www.quora.com/Are-you-sure-evidence-is-always-evident/answer/Brian-Tracy-25
[3] https://www.britannica.com/topic/empiricism
[4] https://agilemanifesto.org/
