Naturopathic Medicine is Naturopathy

The opponents of naturopathic registration like to play word games.
The recent MNHLRP Action Alert complains that "the website for theMNANP equates "naturopathic medicine" with "naturopathy."
In fact, most definitions equate naturopathy and naturopathic medicine.
Please examine a simple Google search to define "naturopathy":
http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+naturopathy

Definitions of naturopathy on the Web:

The practice of the use of natural substances to provide a healthier balance of internal chemistry.
www.achenet.org/resources/glossary.php

A system of therapy based on preventative care, and on the use of heat, water, light, air, and massage as primary therapies for disease. Some naturopaths use no medications, either pharmaceutical or herbal. Some recommend herbal remedies only. ...
www.medicinenet.com/alternative_medicine/glossary.htm

A form of health care that uses diet, herbs, and other natural methods and substances to cure illness without the use of drugs.
www.olympianlabs.com/html/glossary.aspx

Naturopathic Medicine, or Naturopathy, is a practice of preventing, assessing and treating conditions of the human mind and body. ...
www.wellbeing.com.au/natural_therapies_glossary

A drugless system of treating disease, largely employing natural physical agents or forces, such as air, water, sunshine, etc.
www.dhss.mo.gov/PainManagement/Glossary.html

The discipline of natural medicine and healing through the power of nature and all natural substances.
www.visitmelbourne.com/displayObject.cfm/ObjectID.1918F143-2857-4182-BB59A7817A64AC52/vvt.vhtml

A drugless system of therapy, making use of physical forces such as air, light, water, heat, massage, etc rather than surgery or medicine to treat disease.
www.lamasbeauty.com/glossary/glossary_N.htm

Naturopathic medicine, or naturopathy, is an alternative approach to health care that emphasizes preventive measures to maintain health, patient education, and noninterference with the body's natural healing processes.
www.bcbsmt.com/Providers/providers_specialtydefs-nonphysicians.asp

A holistic medical system that treats health conditions by utilizing what is believed to be the body’s innate ability to heal. Naturopathic physicians aid healing processes by incorporating a variety of natural methods based on the patient’s individual needs.
herbalgram.com/default.asp

Naturopathic Medicine, a primary health-care system, treats health conditions by utilizing the body's inherent ability to heal. ...
www.tlccenter.com/glossary.ivnu

applies to a belief system that holds the body as innately capable of recovering from injury and disease, and that health is the natural state. ...
www.womentowomen.com/womenshealth/alternativemedicine.asp

Naturopathy is used to diagnose and treat people using natural therapies such as nutrition, supplements herbal medicine and homeopathy. The philosophy of naturopathic medicine is to focus on helping the body to heal itself.
www.kera.org/community/onourownterms/tarrantresources.lasso

Naturopathic medicine is a feild of healthcare which works with the body's own self-correcting mechanisms, or efforts to maintain homeostasis. This system of therapy relies on natural remedies.
www.scandiaspa.com/aromatherapy-glossary-terms.html

a method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Naturopaths do practice Naturopathic Medicine.
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