Our health is the most important part of our lives, and often neglected too. It is the richest wealth any of us can possess. There is a harmony in being healthy, in functioning well. As they say, a sound mind dwells in a sound body. Every frame of our life achieves coherence only when our physical and mental health is maintained.

Diseases are not uncommon to us. It has been prevailing as long as us. But as we can observe, there has been a paradigm shift in the class of diseases that we are encountering. In the last couple of years, the disease burden across the world has been increased.

A naturopathic treatment plan uses therapies that are gentle, non-invasive, effective, and do not have adverse side effects. A conscious effort is made to use methods that do not suppress symptoms. The body has an inherent ability to maintain and restore health. Naturopathic physicians facilitate this healing process by removing obstacles to cure and identifying treatments to enhance healing.

Naturopathic physicians treat the underlying causes of illness rather than just the symptoms of disease. Symptoms are an external manifestation of an internal imbalance due to any combination of physical, mental, or emotional causes. Symptom management may be important, but it is more important not to disregard the underlying cause of disease.

The Latin root of doctor is docere, which means "to teach." The primary role of naturopathic physicians is educating, empowering, and motivating patients to assume more personal responsibility for their health by adopting a healthy attitude, lifestyle, and diet. Thomas Edison once said, "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest patients in the maintenance of the human frame, in diet, and in the prevention of disease." It is more effective to teach than treat patients.