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Frequently Asked Questions
  1. Country Doctor ~ Why use us?
  2. What is a Naturopathic Doctor?
  3. What is Designed Clinical Nutrition?
  4. What is this going to cost me?
  5. Does my insurance cover this?
  6. How long will it take me to feel better?
  7. Can I take my prescription drugs and take these products and feel better doing it?
  8. What is a Master Herbalist?
  9. How am I going to know I am doing this Natural Health Program correctly?

Country Doctor ~ Why use us?

A group of natural health conscious individuals dedicated to bringing you natural health and healing modalities that work.  What makes our products and health practices believable and useful to you is that everything that we suggest you use to improve your health has already been used and tried in our clinical setting before we even recommend it to you.  If a product does not perform or has not been proven to work for us then it will not be recommended to you.

There are many of my colleagues out there that have gone through many years of rigorous training to become Naturopathic Doctors and Master Herbalists, that have never practiced one day in a clinical setting.  Some of them are excellent researchers and can find everything you'd ever want to know about, written on the internet.  Many have written books, newsletters, etc. and have never touched or worked with a patient.

Our promise to you is that if we haven't used the product in our clinic and found it to meet all of our expectations to our complete satisfaction for wellness, then we'll never offer it to you.

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What is a Naturopathic Doctor?

Naturopathic doctors are trained specialists in a separate and distinct healing art which uses non-invasive natural medicine.  They are not orthodox medical doctors (M.D.s).  Naturopathic doctors (N.D.s) are conventionally trained in subjects such as anatomy, physiology, counseling, dietary evaluations, nutrition, herbology, acupressure, muscle relaxation and structural normalization, homeopathy, iridology, exercise therapy, hydrotherapy and oxygen therapy.  Some practitioners are also trained in additional specialties such as acupuncture or natural childbirth.

Naturopathic doctors tailor the healing modality of the needs of the individual with methods which are effective for both chronic and acute problems.  Naturopathic doctors cooperate will all branches of medical science, referring individuals to other practitioners for diagnosis or treatment when appropriate.

In practice, naturopathic doctors perform lifestyle analysis, laboratory testing, nutritional and dietary assessments, metabolic analysis and other evaluative procedures.  They are trained to use a wide variety of natural methods which involve the individual in the healing process.  Naturopathy is based upon a belief in the body's innate God-given natural ability to heal itself when given an appropriate internal and external healing environment.  Naturopaths are not involved in the practice of medicine and do not use drugs or pharmaceuticals, nor do they perform abortions or surgery (other than minor first aid).  They have been traditionally referred to as "drugless doctors".  In reality, naturopathy deals with wellness and relief from conditions which are the result of stress whether from mental, nutritional, environmental or physical factors.

Naturopathic doctors treat the cause not the symptom, when the cause of the illness turns to wellness the symptom goes away.

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What is Designed Clinical Nutrition?

Coming Soon!

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What is this going to cost me?

An important question to all of us that there is no hard and fast answer to.  The cost will depend on your level of wellness of where you are today, and how quickly your body will respond to the proper protocols of natural medicine.  To achieve wellness you need to commit to a program of care for at least one year.  You did not get ill quickly and your body will require at least one years to rebuild with proper cleansing and nourishment with available nutrition.  In answer to the question, "What is this going to cost me?" I can only give you a range of investment into your health and wellness of somewhere between $100 per month to $400 per month depending on your personal health level and level of commitment.

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Does my insurance cover this?

I honestly don't know, some health insurance companies do cover alternative health therapies but at the present time most do not.  You will have to contact your health insurance company and ask them if they will pay for alternative health therapies and if they will, request their claim forms.  We require that you pay us and be reimbursed by your insurance company.  Most so called health insurance companies are misnamed, they should be called sickness insurance because you do not use them unless you are sick.  If they would cover preventative medicine then you could reasonably call them a health insurance company.

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How long will it take me to feel better?

This question was partially answered in the question pertaining to "cost". Your timing in feeling better depends on many things.  Your current lifestyle, toxicity of your body, your willingness to follow a wellness program, your level of commitment, your mental attitude and your belief system.  Basically, in natural medicine there are no incurable diseases.  There are however some incurable people.

Three types of people are incurable:

1 Those people that enjoy illness, they enjoy the attention they receive from other others during illness.
2 Those people that will not follow a wellness program to completion.  You'd be amazed at the large number of people we place on a wellness program at the clinic that just will not follow through to total wellness.
3 Those people whose time has come to leave this world and they are aware of it.  we can make them comfortable, relieve their pain but you cannot bring them back to wellness.

Other than these three types of people there are no incurable diseases.  In answer to your question "How long until you feel better?", again depends on you and hard you are willing to work at good health and wellness, maybe a few days, maybe a few weeks and maybe a few months.  Bottom line, if you will be committed and follow a health designed program you'll feel better.

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Can I take my prescription drugs and take these products and feel better doing it?

Our products are herbal based, food grade, therapeutic wellness products.  Before we advise a client as to what products they need, to begin a rebuilding process we need to know all about their lifestyle, diet, past injuries, scars, current prescriptions, etc.  We would not recommend any herbal based product that would counter-indicated with any drug that you are currently taking.  Most of our herb based products are food grade, meaning "Can I take these with my prescription drugs?"  The answer most of the time is yes, however if we don't know what you're currently taking then its not likely we'll recommend a program of wellness for you.

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What is a Master Herbalist?

A master herbalist is an individual that has sacrificed the time, effort and money, literally given a portion of their life to the study of herbs and herbal medicine.  To become a master herbalist is a long exhaustive study where one trains under the highest qualified herbal practitioners and herbal pharmacists in the field.  The training received places one on the highest level of herbal competency in the world today.

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How am I going to know I am doing this Natural Health Program correctly?

There are a couple of ways to know if you are doing your program correctly.  Number one, you may start to feel more energy, more alert, more alive like you felt as a child or teenager.  Or number two, depending how toxic laden your systems are you may feel worse, or start through what we call a healing crisis.  You will not experience a healing crisis unless you are well enough to handle one.  A healing crisis may involve, a headache, diarrhea, vomiting, a skin rash, flu-like symptoms, etc.  If this happens to you it'll pass in 24 hours.  We heal from the top down and from the inside out, in reverse order of experiencing sickness symptoms.

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