In many cases, peoples ask the question what is the difference between naturopathy and Ayurveda ? Here we will explain the major differences between Ayurveda and naturopathy.

Naturopathy and Ayurveda are both natural and clinical sciences that, help people to feel better and reach their optimal health goals more specifically.

Naturopathy’s approach is based on the “healing power of nature” to treat different diseases by improving the body through modalities such as botanical medicine, diet, hydrotherapy, homeopathy, and physical medicine, with an emphasis on supporting the life force or “vital force” while encouraging the patient to make meaningful lifestyle changes.

Naturopathy considers all dimensions of the life of a person linked to the process of disease. The disease is also seen as an expression of the body eliminating excess toxins that have accumulated due to insufficient nutrition and lifestyle, hence presenting itself as the body attempting to heal itself.

Naturopathy attempts to harmonize the equilibrium of both biochemical and energetic balance through individualized treatments seeking to restore and maintain optimal health. Naturopathy prohibits the use, even in the case of an emergency, of major surgery or synthetic prescription drugs.

Naturopathy medicines can help to treat both acute and chronic conditions and some of the conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, infertility, and cancer.

In naturopathy, it uses nutritional medicine which starts with dietary changes and then uses supplementation in case if there is a deficiency or to strengthen the body.

Also used herbal medicines, which are plants as medicine, also have traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion cupping to treat some specific diseases. In naturopathy they also use homeopathic medicine, homeopathic medicine is using substances that highly diluted concentrations to treat specific conditions.

Benefits of Naturopathy:

1. Treatment with naturopathy is free from the possibility of chemicals causing negative impacts. Herbs, diets, roots, plants are used to treat diseases.

2. It offers lifelong disease relief focusing on psychological, structural, physical variables.

3. It takes into consideration physical, emotional, psychological factors and special therapies for each person.

4. Using several holistic methods it treats digestive disorders, headache, cold, asthma, skin diseases & even mental disorders

Ayurveda is an ancient medicine, which also focuses on dosha balances. It suggests that we should take everything in its order to maintain health according to your constitution. The focus of Ayurveda is more on creating an energy balance at the higher energy or inner level. Ayurveda understands that mental and emotional imbalances often precede, and are often the cause of, physical imbalances.

It sees all of nature’s life continually progressing towards a higher degree of consciousness. To encourage this, as well as herbs and ayurvedic nutrition, Ayurveda seeks to bind us with this intelligence inherent in nature and uses modalities such as yoga asana, pranayama, mantra, and meditation. And Ayurveda suggests avoiding substances or activities that can aggravate or throw our dosha out of equilibrium.

Benefits of Ayurveda:

1. It seeks the root cause of illness.

2. Natural herbs  are used to prepare drugs,  that have healing properties. It avoids sickness and decreases the risk of getting sick.

3. It controls the hormonal imbalance via a balanced diet and maintains the body’s weight.

4. It cleans the body by massaging/ or by using other ayurveda  treatment methods like panchakarma  to remove toxins and stimulates the best functioning of the body.

Both share the objectives of reducing the body’s toxins, improving one’s lifestyle, and restoring the body to its most natural state.