Botanical and Nutritive Therapies

Botanical and Nutritive Therapies…

Botanical Therapy

Botanical medicine is the use of herbs as medicine, nature’s offering to us for various ailments and conditions. Naturopathic Medicine has a broad history in the use of herbs as medicine. For example, they can be used as teas for stomach upset or sore throats, or applied as poultices to draw out infection and administer analgesic effects. They are the source for many modern antibiotics and other pharmaceutical. Whole herbs have the benefit of working gently yet effectively when prescribed in the correct manner and dose. Nutritive therapies are the use of foods, vitamins, and minerals to restore biochemical balance such as correcting deficiencies that may be the underlying cause of a condition.

Nutritive Therapy

Nutritive therapies are the use of foods, vitamins, and minerals to restore biochemical balance such as correcting deficiencies that may be the underlying cause of a condition.Dr. Mikel uses Standard Process whole food supplements and Physicians Therapeutics medical food products as as preferred sources of complete vitamins and optimal utilization for therapeutic effects.