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Practitioner: Chalimah Jeanne Paul Ameisen |
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About Naturopathic Medicine |
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Naturopathy is a
system of natural healthcare that emphasises optimal wellness, disease
prevention and patient education. Symptoms are viewed as signs that the
physical, emotional or spiritual body is in disease and struggling to
remove a build up of waste products and other toxins. Practitioners tend
to emphasise a holistic approach to patient care. The
cause of an illness is sought and the body’s natural ability to heal
itself is supported with simple, natural, gentle & effective remedies.
Naturopathic medicine utilises a broad array of modalities including
dietary protocols, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, flower
essences, homeopathy, iridology, counselling, environmental medicine,
aromatherapy, and manual therapies such as massage and reflexology.
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About
Herbal Medicine |
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‘More than 75% of the world’s population, still use herbal medicine for
illness’ WHO
Herbal medicine is the most ancient form of medicine and is practiced in
every country in the world.
Modern herbal medicine draws on thousands of years of practical and
empirical knowledge and integrates them with the latest
developments in scientific technology and medical research.
Herbs can be used
to alleviate illness, prevent disease and will nourish the body to
improve health
and wellbeing.
Herbal medicines act on the human physiology to influence bodily
activity, enhance or inhibit organ function, and are prescribed with the
aim of correcting imbalances and resolving patterns of dysfunction. For
example, bitter substances found in certain herbs stimulate the
production and release of digestive juices, thereby improving digestive
function.
Chalimah has an
extensive liquid herbal dispensary which enables her to select and blend
tailor-made herbal formulas which results in a very specific and
effective medicine. The benefit of using liquid herbs allows her to
prescribe medicine particularly suited to your condition, to optimise
the therapeutic effect and reduce the number of medicines prescribed. |
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About
Nutritional Medicine |
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The average human
consumes 25,000 kg of food over a life time.
One of the
greatest impacts you can have on your health is to improve the quality
of your diet.
Nutritional
medicine uses food, and individual nutrients for medicinal and
therapeutic effects. Nutrients are involved in the creation of every
molecule and the maintenance of every system in the body. The body
requires more than 45 nutrients to maintain health.
The nutrients provided by the foods we eat are essential for growth,
development
and repair of the body.
They help regulate
metabolic
functions,
assist in the formation and functioning of bones, tissues and organs, as
well as the production of hormones, nervous system chemicals, and
genetic material.
Nutrient
deficiencies ultimately contribute to the development of degenerative
diseases.
The
rising incidence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular
disease, obesity, high cholesterol and many types of cancer have been
positively correlated to the Western diet. Nutrition therefore plays an
important role in virtually every medical condition.
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Today’s consumers are flooded with information about what they should be
eating to improve their health, this overload often leaves people
confused and unsure about what to eat. The use of antibiotics and
hormones in animal produce; pesticides and herbicides sprayed on crops;
the use of chemicals and preservatives in food processing burden our
detoxification systems and can leave us depleted of essential
nutrients.
Australian soils
are notoriously mineral
deficient further rendering foods low in essential minerals.
Food processing, long-term storage and handling can significantly reduce
the nutrients present in our food. The combined effect can make it
difficult to attain everything we need from our food for optimum
metabolic function and ultimately affect the growth, development and
repair of ourselves and our children.
Chalimah is trained in clinical nutrition and has the resources to guide
her patients around such problems by giving simple and achievable
dietary modifications. She
aims to optimise
nutrition according to individual biochemistry, as well as environmental
and health states.
Her
emphasis is always on fresh, organic where possible and unprocessed
foods.
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