Naturopathy:

Naturopathy is a system of medicine that supports your body to heal itself and regain balance.

The natural remedies used are safe, free of side effects, non-habit forming and proven effective by hundreds of years of use and more recently, scientific studies.

Naturopaths can treat both acute illness and chronic conditions: those lingering health complaints that are temporarily relieved by the medicines from the pharmacy, but are not cured by them.

Do you want to:

• Feel energetic, positive and enthusiastic
• Enjoy a sound sleep every night
• Deal with the stresses of modern life effortlessly
• Have perfect digestion – assimilating nutrients and eliminating wastes with ease
• Experience regular, pain-free menstrual cycles
• Have a healthy, disease free urinary tract, regular and symptom free urination
• Thrive with a strong immune system
• Support your circulatory system to ensure all your tissues are nourished and cleansed, giving you healthy skin, joints, bones and muscles
• Have healthy, happy babies and children
• Give you body all the nutrients it needs to function optimally and ensure vibrant, glowing health

Working with a naturopath you can achieve these goals.

Too often nowadays people neglect their health – we are all so caught up in our busy lives, rushing around to attend to the next task, achieve the next goal that we forget to give time to ourselves.

We tend to only think about our health when we have developed serious symptoms that cannot be ignored. Often at this stage disease has progressed to a point where it is a lot more difficult to address. A far more intelligent approach is to address those niggling signs of ill health before they develop into disease.

Do you have any health concerns that you have swept under the carpet? Now is the time to make an appointment to have a chat about these concerns. A naturopath can recommend natural remedies and dietary and lifestyle changes that will help you to achieve and maintain wellness.

The investment that you make in your health is an important one – by allocating time and finances to caring for yourself you will find you are happier, healthier, more productive and more balanced, and have a lot more to offer the world. Also, you will spare yourself from pharmaceutical medications, doctors and hospital visits later in life.

Balance is a key concept in achieving health. It is an interesting exercise to consider how balanced your life is. Take a piece of paper and draw a couple of big circles. One is for your time and energy, the second is for your finances. Divide it up – often you will find it is imbalanced, with time, energy and finance for yourself rather lacking.

Or you may find you are spending a considerable amount of money on take-away foods, coffee, cigarettes and alcohol – when you know that if this money were redirected to health supporting means you would be a lot better off.

Ultimately only you are responsible for your health. You don’t want to get to a position of serious ill health and say to yourself “If only I had listened to those warning signs my body sent me! If only I had of spent that little bit extra on organic foods! If only I had of invested the time and money in caring for myself!”

So do it now. Make an appointment or drop in to the clinic to have a chat. You have nothing to lose, and a whole lot to gain.

About Jess Murray Naturopath