Nature’s medicine
Naturopathy draws on medicines from nature to promote healing within the body.
These natural medicines include herbs, nutritional supplements, dietary and lifestyle factors, which are aimed at helping your body heal so that you can get back to feeling your best.
Herbal Medicine
Herbal Medicine is the oldest medicine, it has been used in all cultures of the world for millennia.
Nutritional Medicine
Nutrients and minerals are involved in the process of hundreds of chemical reactions and functions in the body.
Diet
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. — Hippocrates, father of medicine, 431 B.C.
Lifestyle
If you’re trying to live a healthier life, exercise, sleep, social relationships and environment are some of the key lifestyle factors that we will discuss.
Your Session
During your sessions at Sustainable Health and Wellness, time is taken to understand your health concerns, your wellness goals and how we can simply and effectively get you feeling better.
We offer a comprehensive and highly personalised approach, utilising pathology testing, and clinical analysis to identify and understand your needs and design the best approach to treatment for you. We use medical pathology to provide evidence so that we can deliver a practical and individualised treatment strategy.
Your individual treatment management plan will detail what we are working to achieve, what you will need to do and roughly how long it will take.
Where appropriate we may work in conjunction/or refer to other healthcare professionals for diagnosis or treatment.
There are many ways that naturopathy can help you restore your health and sense of wellbeing. Here are some of the issues that we can correct in the process of restoring optimal health.
Food allergies and intolerances
Skin problems
Hormone imbalances
Weight Loss
Chronic pain issues
Infertility
Menopausal symptoms
Heart Disease
Anxiety and chronic stress
HERBAL MEDICINE
Herbal Medicine is the oldest medicine, it has been used in all cultures of the world for millennia.
Modern Herbal Medicine or Phytotherapy, is a treatment modality using the inherent healing properties of plants as medicine. It combines the wisdom of ancient traditions, the clinical experience of modern practitioners, and is being validated by current scientific research.
In Australia, we are fortunate to have access to many high-quality standardised herbal extracts.
Plants are complex medicines with many actions available in a single plant. The active ingredients found in herbs are supported by the synergistic actions of all its other chemical constituents. This synergy allows the herb to exert its therapeutic effects and at the same time reduces the potential for unwanted side effects. This is quite different from pharmaceutical formulations that commonly have one action. Many herbs act as modulators. They may increase or decrease cellular responses. This is another unique inherent quality of using herbal medicine.
Herbal remedies are suitable for both acute and chronic conditions. Many herbs are tonics to specific organs or body systems such as gastrointestinal, nervous, urinary, immune, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems.
At Sustainable Health and Wellness Clinic we have a comprehensive herbal dispensary that allows us to create individualised herbal medicines based on the presenting symptoms and underlying causes. The unique benefit of dispensing a herbal formula, is that it is able to simultaneously treat a variety of symptoms or body systems, making it very cost effective.
NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE
Nutrients and minerals are involved in the process of hundreds of chemical reactions and functions in the body.
Nutrition or nutritional medicine covers both food as medicine, as well as nutritional supplementation to correct a deficiency or assist in the treatment of a condition.
Dietary changes and supplementation together can have a powerful effect on your health.
Nutritional supplements may contain one nutrient or mineral in them (for example magnesium), or a complex of multiple nutrients, minerals and herbs that are formulated to assist in the absorption and aid a specific function in the body. They are prescribed in scientifically proved dosages to treat conditions, deficiencies or improve symptoms.
We use practitioner only nutritional supplements as well as compounding to create a tailored treatment to suit your health requirements. Nutritional supplements are usually short term, once a deficiency is resolved, we reduce supplementation and support the body with food as medicine.
Nutrition can be very confusing, so we will work together to answer any questions you may have. This will give you a greater understanding of your nutritional requirements and what you need to do to move forward to reach your health goals.
DIET
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. — Hippocrates, father of medicine, 431 B.C.
Wholefoods provide us with the energy and vital nutrients necessary to remain healthy. Increased nutritional demand due to illness, medications, poor digestion, or absorption often results in the body being malnourished.
Diet is essential to support the healing process. Treating health conditions without the right diet is like sticking a band aid onto a dirty wound. A dietary change is not something to be feared. We tailor your diet to suit your health goals, lifestyle demands and preferences. Some diets, such as a gut healing diet may only be necessary for four to six weeks. Then it may be a matter of simply eating a healthy nutritious sustainable diet to maintain your health.
At Sustainable Health and Wellness, we provide you with effective dietary advice as well as lifestyle recommendations that help you to reach your goals.
LIFESTYLE
A healthier life, exercise, sleep, social relationships and environment.
If you’re trying to live a healthier life, exercise, sleep, social relationships and environment are some of the key lifestyle factors that we will discuss.
Stress management, selfcare techniques and low toxin living are an important part of your holistic treatment strategy and will ensure you are able to respond better to stress. Long term stress can cause nutrient deficiencies, fatigue, hormone imbalances, and adrenal fatigue.
Do you get a headache or feel nauseous in the cleaning aisle or walking through perfume section of stores? Chemical toxicity can be another stress on the body and affect you in many ways including the following: hormone imbalances, fatigue, weight gain, skin issues and headaches.
We understand that everyone’s lifestyles requirements are unique, that is why we spend time getting to know what will suit you.
Top 10 tips for living sustainably
Living sustainably is about forming new habits that are healthy for you, your family and the environment. Here are some top ten tips to get you started.
- Reduce your food waste
- Use reusable cups such as keep cups
- Install a water efficient showerhead
- Turn the thermostat down
- Say no to straws and plastic bags
- Switch imported for Australian made
- Walk, bike and use public transport whenever possible
- Upgrade your lights
- Go paper free
- Recycle and dispose of waste properly
A little thought and a few simple tweaks to your lifestyle can have a big impact on your environmental ‘footprint’, without requiring a lot of time and effort.
