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by Gerald Ochs Rappahannock News Special Writer
na • tu • rop • a • thy: a system of treatment of disease that avoids drugs and surgery and emphasizes the use of natural agents (as air, water, and sunshine) and physical means (as manipulation and electrical treatment) (WWWebster Dictionary).
I had been under the impression that this naturopathy, this wholistic business, was some sort of new wave quackery, reliant upon pyramids and archaic diagnostic techniques and cauldrons and moonbeams and ginseng and other forest herbs to treat various sorts of malaise or maybe even a headache or two. Was this true? What, I wondered, did Kathy Edwards’ naturopathy practice at the Healing Center in Sperryville involve?
Her business card called her practice “Healing with Love”, and included a series of acronyms following her name: N.D., CNC, CNHP. More babble, quackery—what was this
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