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General premise of natural medicine

HISTORY: The Examining Board of Natural Medicine Practitioners known as “EBNMP” was first established in Ontario Canada by its founder and past president of EBNMP-NA Dr. Sheila McKenzie in 1998 to satisfy the demand for a registry for Natural Medicine Doctors and Practitioners. The organization name was amended in 2003 and re-named the Examining Board of Natural Medicine Practitioners-North America “EBNMP-NA” still an Ontario Canada Corporation. In July 2006 the Organization registered federally as a non-profit corporation in both the United States and Canada. Its sub affiliated boards are responsible for the administration of clinical competency examination.

Natural Medicine’s basic premise is that all ill health is fundamentally a functional imbalance, or disequilibrium within the body. Disease symptoms are produced by the body’s attempt to re-establish homeostasis. Natural Medicine Doctors and Practitioners are primary health care professional who are trained in the combined use of safe gentle Natural Medicine Modalities. Natural Medicine modalities enhance the body’s innate healing abilities to regain and maintain optimum health.

Within the past few decades there has been a phenomenal growth in the interest of Natural Medicine, more than in any other field of health care. The reason for this growth is that the public, at large amidst all the confusion about high-tech medicine and chemical health, and environmental pollution now on a worldwide scale, quest for a life that has a rapport with the laws of “Nature”. Reverent are the individuals and groups who managed to salvage and resurrect a body of traditional healing techniques known as Natural Medicine.

EBNMP-NA believes that the resurgence of interest in Natural Medicine should and will encounter close scrutiny from individuals within and outside of the profession of Natural Medicine. Some Natural Medicine Practitioners are still unregulated and this has led to a number of untrained individuals in the field of Natural Medicine. The public, for the most part, has no way of differentiating between qualified and unqualified Natural Medicine Practitioners. EBNMP –NA is seeking to create a greater awareness of professionalism, ethics, research and educational standards, to protect the public and to satisfy the growing need for an ever increasing, well-rounded health care system. EBNMP-NA believes that if we do not set standards for ourselves, OTHERS will set standards for us that are not in accordance with our philosophy and training as Natural Medicine Practitioners.

Qualified registrants must meet a specific standard of education to assure the public that they have met the educational, ethical and upgrading standards of a certifying body to which they are accountable. EBNMP-NA does not represent any one particular Natural Health Profession; it is comprised of a multidisciplinary group whose members are Naturopaths, Homeopaths, Acupuncturists, Osteopaths, Dentists, Naturally Oriented Medical Doctors (MD), Chiropractors, Orthomolecular Medical Doctors (O.M.D), Eastern Medicine Doctors and other practitioners who concur with its objectives.

Objectives:

• Maintain a North American Natural Medicine Practitioners registry.
• To collaborate with other groups within natural medicine with similar objectives.
• Certify and maintain educational standards for Natural Medicine Doctors & Natural Medicine Practitioners in North America.
• Establish North American clinical competency examinations and administer qualifying examinations for registration.
• Collaborate with the World Organization of Natural Medicine Practitioners (WONMP) to promote the effective delivery of Natural Medicine in North America and elsewhere.
• Spread Natural Medicine philosophy by advertising: Media, Sponsorship, Wellness Expositions, Seminars, and Lectures.
• To work in collaboration with other Natural Medicine organizations in the area of research.
• To contribute to the production of an International Practitioners Manual of Traditional Natural Medicine Modalities.
• To develop sponsorship and support for international relief and assistance projects.
• Recruitment of additional resource partners.
• Participate and co sponsor  WONM FOUNDATION Canada “ Clinics for Humanity”  projects in North America

DNM-DOCTOR OF (NATURE’S) NATURAL MEDICINE

A Natural Medicine Doctor  is one who practices (teaches) a system of medicine in which only natural  substances and techniques are used, including but not limited to nutritional and dietary therapeutics; phytotherapy (botanical/herbal remedies) and vegetable minerals as listed  in “Naturae Medicina”; electrotherapy, as a natural environmental force; Manual techniques (massage, manipulation, hydrotherapies etc), remedial exercises, mineral therapy and biochemical therapy(the use of natural minerals and cell salts), homeo-therapeutics( a dynamic use of mineral and plant extracts). The core philosophy of the Natural Medicine systems is the prevention of disease and the stimulation of the natural healing processes of the body to re-establish homeostasis when the body is in a state of disequilibrium

NATURAL (NATURE’S) MEDICINE DOCTORS
SCOPE OF PRACTICE

The practice of traditional Natural Medicine is the assessment of body systems and biochemical imbalances through traditional natural medicine techniques and treatments using traditional natural medicine therapies and techniques to promote maintain or restore health.

• Clinical nutrition- the use of specific diets and nutritional supplements to prevent disease or re-establish the body chemistry
• Botanical/herbal medicine-use for their balancing and nutritional value
• Homeopathic medicine- micro-dose of natural substances for stimulating the self healing response without side effects (note natural medicine doctors are not specialist in homeopathic medicine)
• Physical Medicine-therapeutic manipulation of soft and hard tissue, exercises, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, ultrasound and heat therapy
• Oriental Medicine-This system of medicine is not traditionally a western natural medicine healing system. Natural Medicine Doctors must receive acupuncture training and obtained a Certified Addictions Management Practitioner (CAMP) ® certification or Certified Bio-Puncture Practitioner (CBP) ® certificate of registration from the board or be certified with as an acupuncturist with a recognized acupuncture society.
• Lifestyle Counseling and stress management- Natural medicine practitioners are especially trained to offer coaching and education, nutritional balancing, stress management, hypnotherapy, and biofeedback and well as counseling on lifestyle and environmental factors that affects wellbeing of individuals.
• Emergency Medicine-Natural Medicine Doctors  and Practitioners must be trained in wilderness medicine and  or basic emergency medicine and hold current certificate of registration.

BENEFITS:

• North America recognition and accreditation(United States and Canada)
• Traditional DNM-Doctor of Natural(Nature’s) Medicine and PNM Practitioner of Natural (Nature’s) Medicine in North America are recognized as meeting the standards in Natural Medicine education as established by the World Organization of Natural Medicine Practitioners as authorized by its registrar.
• Natural Medicine Doctors and Practitioners standards under EBNMP-NA and its affiliated sub-boards are parallel and in some instances surpass “accredited Naturopathic” and other Natural Medicine Doctors curriculum both in Canada and the United States and is the gold standards world wide
• Standardized accreditation with portability  to more than twenty countries around the world(Asia, Europe, South America etc)
• Opportunity to participate in Clinic for humanity programs (Doctors and Practitioners without borders)
• Regional Congress & Educational Seminars
• World symposiums ( over twenty countries)
• Hospital internship and externship ( in partnership with WONM FOUNDATION  Clinics for Humanity program)
• Natural Medicine Journal
• Certification recognized by regional associations (United States, Canada and over twenty one countries and growing)
• Professional Continuing education workshops & Seminars
• Eligibility for special group rate on malpractice insurance
• Eligibility for reimbursement of service fee by some Major Insurance companies
• Monthly Email update
• Quarterly professional newsletter
• Membership directory distributed to affiliated groups and members 
• Prestige of belonging to a vanguard organization that is composed of highly trained, qualified professionals with strong ethical principles

Most of all a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment to know that you are helping to  propagate  the effective delivery of Natural Medicine & traditional health care  in North America and around the world.