The naturopathy is an alternative medical system to the traditional medicine that is based on supposition that in the body exists a curativa force able to maintain and to give back the health to any ill person.
Therefore what persecutes the naturopatía is to harness this capacity of the body to arrive at the treatment by means of treatments that control the nutrition so that this one is correct and is in the line of which the body needs without excesses nor deficiencies, also is to lead back the type of life to move away it of behaviors or little healthful practices, can be resorted to dietetic complements to replace deficiencies or like reinforcing, sometimes also it resorts to the fitoteraphy using medicinal plants, or is made use of the homeopatía or the Chinese traditional medicine.
In anyone of the cases the aim that is persecuted is to reach the treatment of the diseases by means of the use of moved away remedies of the chemical agents that give form to most of treatments that are used in the traditional medicine.
Sometimes the propose solutions by the alternative medicine can be used jointly with chemical treatments, for example in the case of the fitoterapia or the use of acupuncture.
This way every time the use of all these treatments is having more acceptance that in some cases have a history of many centuries as in the case of the Chinese traditional medicine or as the use in the West of many plants like remedies that have been called homemade but that they have had his verified effectiveness.