Natural Hygiene

Natural Hygiene is a branch of alternative medicine that claims to provide "all the life requirements brought to bear upon the living organism in due proportion and according to need" of human beings for preservation and restoration of health (see Shelton 1968 Chapter X). It claims that the human body is a self-maintaining and self-healing system who's natural lifespan is between 120 to 150 years old.

Natural Hygiene vs naturopathy

The beliefs of natural hygiene and naturopathy are quite similar. Naturopathy developed from the water and nature cure in Europe during the 19th century. Natural hygiene developed from the water cure in America during the 19th century. Natural hygiene talks about blood toxemia while naturopathy talks about the accumulation of morbid matter. Naturopathy, however, is a lot more eclectic than natural hygiene is. Natural hygiene prohibits all use of drugs including herbal and homeopathic medicines. Natural hygiene's primary treatment method is fasting, and does not use any manipulative therapy. Naturopathy on the other hand as an eclectic art uses both herbal and homeopathic medicines as well as the manipulative therapies of body work or massage therapy, osteopathy, and chiropractic.

Related Topics:
Naturopathy - Manipulative therapy - Body work - Osteopathy - Chiropractic

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