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Age old medical practice
offers a new alternative
B> Bob Waite
Emerald Contributor
Naturopathic medic ine is not .1 form
of new ago healing It is an age old
ineilu al practice that combines modern
medic ill tec liniques with older natural
remedies inc hiding good health and
diet habits, said l)r (.ar\ Dreger. ()re
gon Stale licensed lugene uaturopathii
doctor
I he Naturopathic Health ( are ( enter
at 11Mr> Arthur St looks like main oth
er medical clinics a one-story building
nestled on manic ured grounds divided
into a reception area business office
and patient examination rooms The of
lice houses two of iaigene s live natur
opaths Dreger and Di Debra Marlin
Hellevdle
Dreger said he was drawn to natur
op.ttln because he witnessed two .1111
dental deaths on operating tables as .1
former hospital employee
The trauma of llns experience he
said led him In the naturopath college
111 Portland in scan li of gentler medic al
methods
\c 1 circling to a clinic pamphlet, Ihe
naturopath seeks less intrusive methods
of health practice' like less reliance on
knives and needles to heal humauitv s
varums ills
I he naturopath s substitute foi sharp
metal objec Is is ijatuial medic me that
stimulates the both s healing proc esses
Dre ger said mam people see Nils be
cause then have been to medic al doc tors
without good results 01 because their
presi 1 died drugs have side effec Is \ Ds
presciibe natural medicines that are
more gentle Dreger said
(omeutional medicine has rejected
n,ilur.it medicines. he s.iiii. because
pi.mt medicines cannot be patented
"There are limits to our medicine."
Dreger said "We don't do major surger
ies When a patient calls in the middle
of the night with a rupturing appendix,
we rush them to (a hospital emergent \
room)
Naturopathic mode ine has a long his
ton At ( onling to a November lfIMti ar
tide inSItnlhuil Srlf-Caiv magazine, na
turopathy was founded by Dr Benedict
Lust, a 1 ‘Itfi century physit ian.
Lust believed "the human body pus
sesses an inh' rent ability to heal ilsell
through the mi’i hanism of homeostasis
restoring the balance in structure and
function and adapting to environmental
i hanges
According to Afet/fovi/ .S'e//-Cure, l)r
|ohn Kellogg, brother of cereal i timpani
founder W K Kellogg, adherent of
I.list's "nature i are" method and itiein
hei of the 7th Day Adventist ( hurt h. de
veloped Kellogg's (lorn Flakes as the ii.i
lurnpath's breakfast lood of i hoit e
I rant ine Delmore who teaches
yveight control classes at a Kugene Sex
enth Day Adventist church, agreed that
Kellogg yyas influenced by the ( (lurch's
interest in natural cures
Kellogg expanded his interest, as a
trained phvsiiian. to help form natur
opathy as a nexv branch ol medicine
that similar to the Adventist’s methods
seeks to i lire by teat lung good health
habits
Some \ Ds I low ey cl added other old
et methods of healing sti< h as at upuni
lure acupressure and Chinese herbal
medit me |)|egei said that while Asian
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