(2-AUDIO CD DISC SET) What Have We Learned from Our Elders?

A century ago, our naturopathic founders generated abundant literature addressing the key health concerns of the time. Reviewing those journals and books, one discovers miraculous clinical outcomes which today may seem impossible. The heroic measures that naturopathic doctors undertook when faced with life threatening diseases before the era of big pharma and hi-tech biomedicine will surprise modern naturopathic doctors. It is uncanny how the history of naturopathic medicine reveals how our use of the word "nature" has been transformed. At the turn of the last century, the concept of nature cure and the idea of nature dominated the practice and language choices of naturopathic medicine, and essentially defined the core of our healing modalities. Our founders and our elders established that nature was at the heart of our medicine. Their unwavering faith in the power of nature manifested in large numbers of books, serial publications, and beautiful sanctuaries of healing and popu