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 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 other professional quality products as as preferred sources of complete vitamins and optimal utilization for therapeutic effects. Dr. Mikel has written and spoken extensively on the power of food as medicine and the relationship poor quality food including GMO, glyphosate, synthetic chemicals and additives contributing to disrupted health, gut microbiome and hormones. Be removing the offending cause, detoxifying and restoring deficiencies the body has an innate ability to find health and healing. The power of nature and live nutritious foods are by design our way to recover, restore and maintain optimal healthy.