At Authenticity we view Naturopathy as a philosophy and principle that teaches that our state of health is simply a matter of lifestyle and that being healthy must be as natural as it is to be alive.

"Disease is the monitor and rest, the cure."

We adhere to the principle that behind disease there is a definite cause. It is therefore essential to identify and permanently remove this cause, whether physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. Providing the 'right' environment where cleansing, detox-ification and complete rest is possible, will allow the body to assume its natural inherent functions and re-establish order (balance/homeostasis). Health is therefore viewed as an orderly functioning of the whole organism.

Dr. John H. Tilden a prominent physician of the last century said "....disease is simply health thrown out of an ideal state by a thousand-and-one environmental (exogenous) and internal (endogenous) influences...."

Ancient Greeks physicians, who also had a very good understanding of what constituted good health, made no clear distinction between mind, spirit, body and soul. Physical, moral and intellectual excellence were all described by a single word, arete (virtue). Health and illness were therefore viewed holistically. Hippocrates, the well known and prominent physician of his time, considered the state of a person more important than the disease. He declared that it was more essential to the outcome of the therapy to know what type of person had the disease than what disease a person had. Disease overall was seen as the absence of ease, a state (once again) of disorder. The physician's role in centres operating along these principles was to assist the innate natural healing process by balancing the elements of the environment in which the person lived. The use of water therapies (Thalassotherapy/Hydrotherapy), Sun Bathing (Iliotherapy), Meditation (spiritual harmony), Manual Therapies (eg Massage), Fasting and resting, the use of natural foods and herbal formulas common to the time (nature’s apothecary) were mandatory.

"Germs, food, sunshine, air, all the elements, are friends or foes to man. They are his health or his disease, depending entirely upon how they are used." Dr. John H. Tilden

At Authenticity Health Retreats and Naturopathic Practices we follow the same principles and apply therapies such as Colon Hydrotherapy, Balneotherapy - Spa and Steam Bathing, Dead Sea Mud Wraps, Micronized Marine Algae Wraps, Counseling, Massage, Scientific Dieting, Massage and Reflexology as an integrated system of Therapy.

Prevention is better than Cure

We see that once health is restored to its ideal state, the same principles that apply to healing need to be used in every day living, if one is to maintain good health.