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Optiderma: Can you explain us what naturopathy is all about?Dr. Keyes: Naturopathymedicine works with the vis medicatrix or the healing power of natureand helps to stimulate the body’s vital force to heal. Everythingyou need to heal is within nature: we use natural substances, herbs,flower essences, homeopathy and food. It’s about aligning yourself withthe natural order of the world, the natural rhythms: the moon, thetides, getting up with the sun, going to bed with the sun, being insync with nature. When we fall out of tune with Mother Nature, diseasesensues. I would say that naturopathic medicine also works atthe level of spirit as well as at the level of biomechanics,biochemistry, and the mental/ emotional body. When we are out of syncand when we hold on to emotions like anger, jealousy, hatred, orimpatience, those vibrations and patterns affect our body.Dr.Bruce Hoffman, an MD in Calgary says that, ‘disease is just a reactionto the human experience’. So it is how we deal with the humanexperience. If we resist things, we get stuck in the trauma, we don’tflow with life and diseases manifests. However, when we embrace andlearn from our human experience, when we grow and expand withcompassion and awareness, we flow as a river. Optiderma: How could naturopathic medicine help people with skin problems?Dr. Keyes:There are a number of modalities that all naturopathic doctors aretrained in: nutrition, herbal medicine, acupuncture/ Chinese medicine,homeopathy, counselling, hydrotherapy, and, physical medicine. We arealso trained in chiropractic manipulation. However, NDs often referpatients to a chiropractic Doctor. The initial visit lastsabout one hour. We take the patient’s medical history, where is thedisease, when did it begin, what makes it better, what makes it worst,etc. We also go over family history. We look at current/ pastmedications or supplements. Then we review diet, your lifestyle, whatare your stressors. We also assess environmental factors. We also do areview of systems just to see if there are other pathologies that maybe related to your skin disease. For instance, skin diseases oftencoexist with asthma, hay fever, or seasonal allergies. On the second visit, I perform a complaint oriented physical exam. We also do Chinese tongue and pulse diagnosis. Treatmentbegins on the second visit. In the therapeutic order of naturopathicmedicine, we always start with diet and lifestyle. You can givesomebody homeopathy, supplements, but if they are eating candy barsevery day or if they are smoking a pack of cigarettes, that’s going tobe a huge obstacle to their cure. We are what we eat so it is aboutchanging a person’s diet. People with a skin disease are oftenprescribed fish oils, which are anti-inflammatory among other things.These people also tend to be aggravated by dairy. This is somethingthat is often removed initially at least and tested to see if there isa sensitivity. It’s important to look at family history too,if that person was breastfed, for instance. Often in children who havehad skin diseases, they have never been breastfed. So they would beintroduced with a formula at a very early age before the GI tract hadtime to develop, and then inflammatory processes are created. It’s alsoabout healing the digestive system. We use supplements, tinctures/herbs, teas and homeopathy, and also counselling. Optiderma: Does it mean you work on both physical symptoms and mental causes?Dr. Keyes:Yes, absolutely, I feel that is key. There is always a story underlyingthe physical pathology. It’s about getting to the root cause or gettingto that story or delusion (limiting belief system), as well assupporting the body with high vibrational food that is going toencourage healing and increase vitality. At the end of the day, we areall responsible for our own healing. We all have obstacles to face andto overcome. This is essential to growth. If we look at it this way wecan see that disease is not an enemy but instead a friend. Optiderma: Let’s focus on eczema for instance; Is early diagnosis and early treatment important for managing eczema?Dr. Keyes: Theyounger someone is, the less time they have had the disease, thequicker the treatment usually goes. If somebody has used topicalsteroids on their skin for many years, it usually takes longer totreat, because the disease has been suppressed, not cured. Basicallythe general guideline is that for every year you’ve had the skindisease, it may take one month of treatment. However, this is not ahard fast rule. Optiderma: What are the most common skin conditions for which you have received the best results with naturopathic medicine?Dr. Keyes: Dietis huge. We usually remove dairy and gluten, and that is often veryeffective. There is no protocol for one person. You can’t give the samethings to everybody. You have to treat everybody differently. Eachindividual requires a different homeopathic remedy that is specific tothe totality of their symptoms, that matches their essence. That partof the therapy is different. The diet is usually quite similar. Butagain, it depends on the individual.Probiotics are importantfor eczema, to re-establish good gut flora and to heal the digestivetract. Probiotics and fish oils are commonly used to treat eczema.There are many other things too: digestive enzymes, bitters, certainvitamins, zinc, red clover tea, and red clover cream. Optiderma: What's your view on medical treatments and how best do you involve natural treatments?Dr. Keyes:Allopathic medicine is very important in saving people’s lives, forinstance, emergency medicine. Some surgeries or medications for acuteproblems such as a serious infection are timely and appropriate forpeople. However, for chronic, sub-acute conditions, naturopathicmedicine gets to the root cause and can be curative.I think Albert Schweitzer said it best… ‘Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside’. Optiderma: Thank you very much Dr. Keyes.by Joséphine Toulemonde Useful links To know more about Dr. Keyes and Naturopathic medicine, visit Dr. Keyes' website at www.dr-keyes.comCanadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors (CAND)Alberta Association Naturopathic Practitioners (AANP)