Allopathic vs Naturopathic Medicine

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Time: 4:08	Added: 8/30/2011
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How are they different? Dr. Michael Farley talks about the difference and how treatments are then different. Dr. Farley says it basically comes down to treating symptoms versus treating cause.
Contributor(s): Farley, Michael N.D.
Tags: symptoms, disease, aspirin, health care, naturopathic care
Transcripｔ: Hide Transcript Interviewer: Doctor, the role of herbs is that basically to help boost the immune system. Is that the reason that a lot of these diseases... Doctor: Yes. Interviewer: Take hold. Doctor: The reason a lot of these diseases actually take hold is because of the medications that allopaths are using to treat the diseases. As I said before, aspirin is a simple example. You put somebody, because they have a heart problem, on an aspirin a day. And, they develop a peptic ulcer from it. Or, they bleed from it. And, instead of using total willow bark, which has exactly the same benefits but none of the side effects. So, we try to educate the physicians and the patients. That's one major difference between allopathic and naturopathic medicine. The number of lawsuits on...against naturopths, virtually unheard of. The rate of lawsuits against allopaths? Now they're talking about now we better reform the lawsuits. How about we reform the medicine? It seems like a more obvious approach. But, the reason is that allopaths treat symptoms. That's what we're taught to do. Treat symptoms. If they have high cholestrol, we give them a statin. If they have a high fever, we give them medicine that will stop the fever from progressing. When the fever is actually what our body is trying to produce... to kill the invading organism. In other words, it's all symptomological medicine. It's all memorized. And, if you can't remember the newest drugs, and I can't remember half of the new antibiotics that come out. Half of the new anti-fungals that come out. Then, you have it on your palm held Ipad that you can scroll through and see. That's good medicine. No, that's not good medicine. Naturopaths treat cause. We always look for cause. When we treat cancer. When we treat any disease we look for the cause of...Cancer, we would look for the cause in the failure of the immune system. That's why I would say we would do a hormone profile. We would do litho-site sub-site panels. We would do the tests I mentioned before simply because we want to find the cause of this problem. I have never seen a cancer patient that didn't have either or both a fungal infection they had had for quiet some time or a bacterial infection they'd had for quiet some time. Now, a fungal infection: fungi love the same environment cancer does. Love sugar. They love acidic environment. Just like cancer cells do. Bacteria require a whole different part of our immune system and is recognized as a more eminent threat than a cancer would be. Because we're producing cancer cells all the time, when our body sees a bacterial infection as a real quick life threatener. And, it can be. So, our immune system switches over to fighting this bacterial infection while they're developing cancer. So, unless you get these primaries, or find these primaries. And, there's several ways you can do it, several tests you can do. You want to get rid of the bacterial infection. You want to get rid of the fungal infection. In order for the body's immune system to be able to put cancer in the forefront and fight that disease.