At Lifepath Dental & Wellness, we are pleased to offer the services of our naturopathic doctor, Dr. Emma Stokes. As a Doctor of naturopathic medicine, Dr. Stokes uses naturopathic medicine to focus on enhancing health, preventing illness, and treating disease by stimulating the body’s ability to heal itself.
When life goes out of balance, we get stressed, and this can lead to illness. By treating the cause of the stress as well as the illness itself, Dr. Stokes can help you get back to your optimum health while preventing future illnesses.
As a naturopathic medicine doctor, Dr. Stokes is an expert in natural therapies, and she focuses on whole-patient wellness; this medicine is tailored to each individual patient and emphasizes prevention and self-care.
The goal of naturopathic medicine is to find the cause of the disease rather than focus solely on symptomatic treatment. At Lifepath Wellness Dental & Wellness, Dr. Stokes integrates her services with our team of healthcare and wellness practitioners to offer combined treatment services.
Naturopathic Medicine Principles
Naturopathic medicine follows the following six principles to celebrate the healing power of nature. Since it is dedicated to the study of nature’s own healing power, naturopathic medicine is dedicated to utilizing the most natural, least-invasive and least-toxic therapies to treat illness and promote wellness by viewing the body as an integrated whole.
1) First Do No Harm (Primum Non-Nocere)
Your naturopathic doctor chooses remedies and therapies that are safe and effective, to increase your health and decrease harmful side effects.
2) The Healing Power of Nature (Vis Medicatrix Naturae)
Your naturopathic doctor works to restore and support the powerful and inherent healing abilities of your body, mind, and spirit as well as prevent further disease from occurring.
3) Identify and Treat the Cause (Tolle Causam)
The primary goal of your naturopathic doctor is to determine and treat the underlying cause of disease.
4) Treat the Whole Person
In treating the cause of any condition, your naturopathic doctor takes into account not only your physical symptoms but also nany mental, emotional, genetic, environmental, social, spiritual factors.
5) Doctor as Teacher (Docere)
Your naturopathic doctor will assist you in understanding health and illness as well as becoming more capable of maintaining your own health.
6) Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Your naturopathic doctor applies all the above principles in a proactive form of disease prevention and health promotion.
