Natural Products, Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine

Natural Therapies

A type of complementary medicine is naturopathy, often known as naturopathic medicine. Naturopaths are its practitioners, who use a wide range of pseudoscientific techniques marketed as "natural," "non-invasive," or encouraging "self-healing." These therapies, which are hard to generalize, run the gamut from open quack medicine like homoeopathy to acknowledged medical procedures like psychotherapy. Naturopathic practitioners may employ procedures that are backed by data, but their ideology and methodology are founded more on vitalism and traditional medicine than on evidence-based medicine