Similar to conventional medicine, Naturopathic medicine utilizes comparable diagnostic methods including physical exams and labs. Where we differ is mainly in our treatment methods and our philosophies. In the state of New Hampshire Naturopaths have a formulary in which they can prescribe a wide variety of pharmaceuticals, however; our first choice is naturopathic modalities.

Conventional medicine sees the symptoms as a direct cause of the illness while Homeopathy sees the symptoms as the body’s reaction against the illness as it seeks to overcome it and therefore a homeopathic prescription will stimulate and not suppress this reaction.

Homoeopathy is an holistic medicine. This means that it focusses on the whole person and believes that spiritual,mental, emotional and physical factors are all completely inter-connected and should not be regarded in isolation. It is based on the idea that symptoms are not the cause of disease, they merely show that "dis-ease" exists. Symptoms are the body's way of warning us that all is not well and attempting to restore balance.

Both conventional medicine and homeopathy define health as a state of well-being, with all body systems working in balance. Conventional medicine classifies disease by its perceived material cause and acts to suppress the cause and the symptoms. For example, sinusitis is believed to be caused by either a viral or bacterial infection traveling from the nose as a typical complication of a common cold.

Convention Medicine, often referred to with commonly used terms as Orthodox Medicine, Western Medicine, Allopathic Medicine, and Modern Medicine is a model of medicine that defines health as the absence of disease. This type of medicines’ focus is on diagnosis and treatment of illnesses and disease and usually looks at one body part at a time. Conventional medicine is divided into specialties of body parts and organs. Its value is in emergency, acute and infectious care.

Antibiotic therapy is based on the theory that inflammatory rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, lupus, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, polymyositis, ankylosing spondylitis, etc. have an infectious cause such as mycoplasma and other bacterial L forms. Significant evidence supporting this theory has been published in medical literature for decades.

No. Initially, you have to continue both the medicines simultaneously. Once your alopecia areata improves but about 25%, you have to reduce the dose of the conventional medicine; aiming at stopping it completely at one point.

While homeopathy and these healing arts are similar in that they do not employ drugs or other conventional medical procedures, each one is also quite distinctive. Naturopathy is a broad term encompassing a host of natural healing arts ranging from nutrition to water cures. Acupuncture is one branch of Oriental Medicine that stimulates and balances the body's energy. Herbal medicine, also known as "Botanical Medicine", uses material doses of plant substances for treatment.

Doctors of osteopathy (DOs) were actually the first to make use of manipulation to treat disease. Today, the practice of osteopathic medicine is very similar to that of medical doctors (MDs). However, the techniques started by osteopaths have been adopted by physical and massage therapists, as well as chiropractors.

Both biotechnology and conventional plant breeding share the same goal of increasing the desirable characteristics of that plant, such as increasing the nutritional value of rice. However, biotechnology is much more precise in that it carefully selects a specific gene or trait in one plant (or another source) and transfers only that gene to another plant.

Homeopathy medicines at higher potencies (strengths) contain little or no medicine that can be detected by any scientific means possible. The medicines are prepared using several simple mathematical scales. As there is no "actual" medicinal substance in the higher potencies, Homeopathy has been derogatorily called as placebo therapy. The cause (s) for the apparent increase in the intensity of the symptom might be many.

Naturopathic doctors are trained in conventional medical sciences as well as other complimentary and alternative treatments. Naturopathic medicine is an umbrella term for doctors that practice many different treatments, called modalities. These modalities include herbal or botanical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine (including acupuncture and herbs), clinical nutrition, vitamin supplementation, lifestyle counseling and homeopathy.

The phrase "alternative medicine" means any healing or preventive health practice that falls outside the mainstream of Western medicine -- and this includes homeopathy. But what sets it apart from some other alternative treatments is that it is based upon a complete system of beliefs and practices. Homeopathy relies on the tenet that "like treats like," meaning in order to cure something you have to expose the body to small but controlled amounts of the offending substance.

The primary differences between naturopathic and conventional medicine are the philosophical approach and the therapies used. Naturopathic physicians (NDs) treat patients as individuals by addressing the environmental, lifestyle, attitudinal, and emotional aspects of health. This allows naturopathic physicians to find and treat the cause of the disease using natural, non-invasive therapies.

Similar to Medical doctors, Naturopaths have their own pharmaceutical formulary which varies from state to state. Under New Hamphire’s law, Naturopaths are permitted to prescribe certain medication including; antibiotics, insulin, hormones, vaccines, and neutraceuticals. Additionally, Naturopaths are also trained in clinical physical diagnosis, lab analysis, and can perform physical examinations.

Nuclear Medicine specialists use safe, painless, and cost-effective techniques to image the body and treat disease. Nuclear Medicine Imaging is unique, because it provides doctors with information about both structure and function. Nuclear Medicine is a specialty of Radiography, and complements Radiography with information about function of specific organs, whereas radiology looks at anatomy.

Chinese Medicine concentrates on the normalization of the body’s Qi. Therefore, the therapeutic focus is on “wellness.” It is traditionally applied to keep the individual healthy. If there are changes of the body energy which adversely affect a person’s health, the treatment consists of correcting underlying imbalances in this body energy. The goal of Chinese Medicine is to address the underlying energy imbalance that results in symptoms.