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AIDS/HIV Naturopathic Treatment
treatment principles
Integrative Therapies
definition
Naturopathic treatment principles for Patients with AIDS/HIV
1. Reduce antioxidant stress using antioxidants
2. Optimize nutritional status by improving gastrointestinal nutrient absorption and mucosal immunity, eliminating food allergens; optimize gastrointestinal ecology health, removing GI parasites and providing optimal therapeutic and dietary nutrition
3. Eliminate co-factors (sexually transmitted disease and their residual, possibly miasmatic effects, yeast, and viral co-factors)
4. Botanical and hydrotherapeutic anti-viral therapy
5. Immunomodulation through botanical medicine and exercise
6. Increase oxidation of tissues through exercise
7. Opportunistic infection prophylaxis
8. Recommend or provide psychoneuroimmunological support
9. Provide support for patients receiving pharmaceutical drugs (prophylactic antibiotics and antiretroviral drugs)
footnotes
HIV/AIDS: Naturopathic Medical Principles and Practice. Standish, Leanna J., Ruhland, John F., DiDomenico, Beth, and Kjersten Gmeiner. Bastyr University AIDS Research Center. November, 1997.
Special Thanks to Leanna Standish, N.D., Ph.D and the staff of the Bastyr University AIDS Research Center.
Reprinted with permission from Pizzorno J, Murray M, The Textbook of Natural Medicine. Revised Edition. London/New York: Churchill-Livingston, 1999.