What Is a Dis-ease

In modern medicine, the concept of disease is used to describe the end result of various complex processes which result in one or more usually distressing symptoms in the human body. The tendency is to label diseases with names and categorise them, presumably to allow for quick, standardized diagnoses and treatments. A troublesome organ may be removed surgically, without sometimes telling the patient about any possible consequences. Most of the time treatment is designed to get rid of the symptoms, and the patient is assumed to be well as soon as he/she can return to his usual way of life.

The problem is, 90% of the patient is on the other end of any disease. We can't simply treat the disease and neglect the 90% of the individual without taking the risk of overlooking the source of the problem. A symptom is the end result of something that has happened inside the body. The important question is, what has been going on to cause the particular symptom?



To be able to effectively assist anybody in recovering health, we need to know how an abnormal condition develops in the body and we need to evaluate the state of the various organs and physiological processes which are contributing to the problem. Then we are in a position to help that person doing something about it.



The term etiology refers to the origin of a disease. Modern medicine, most of the time, elects to trace the etiology of a particular disease to microrganisms such as bacteria and virusses, only rarely contributing an etiological status directly to imbalance of homeostasis in the human body. In natural healing, etiology of many so called disease states is related directly to violations of tissue integrity due to overloads of metabolic or other toxic wastes, excess acidity in the body, nutritional deficiencies and other sources of imbalanced homeostasis, most frequently in relation to inherent weaknesses or congenital anomalies which require special attention and care.

What Health Is Not

Unfortunately health is not only the mere absence of disease.

Health is not only about low-carb, high fat, no-yeast, or other silly notions of diets. Nor is it infatuation with this mineral or that vitamin.
Health is not living with regrets, nor its obsession with control of life.
Health is not the euphoria of eating nor is it the denial of dieting.
With rare exceptions diseases are not sudden departures from health.
Before we become sick enough for a doctor to diagnose disease, we go through variable periods of a dis-ease state. It is during this state of dis-ease that we have the most potential to use nutritional, environmental, our body's self regulatory healing system and fitness approaches to achieve optimal health.

What Is Health ?

"Absence of disease is not always the presence of health"
There are many definitions of health. I find it extremely difficult to define health in one short sentence. In my opinion Vibrant Health is:-

• waking up every morning with a sense of energy, doing our daily work with that same sense of energy, and returning to bed at night with it.
• having as much energy before meals as after them.
• the ability to treasure personal time in silence , with friends, family or alone
• waking up every morning with a deep sense of gratitude, gratitude not for any accomplishment of the day before or for accumulations of yester-years, but for simply being
• recognition of one's own divinity that gives freedom from chronic anger
• living with a purpose. It is one thing to understand the cause of eg. obesity and ill health. It is altogether a different matter to live a life of freedom from both. Life cannot be sustained without a purpose. Before understanding any efforts to change our view of food, eating patterns and psychical fitness, we need to recognise a larger need for a purpose in life.

"Vibrant Health is the right way of living, and we have to learn it before we can live it".

Launching my Blog

Hi Everyone,

My name is Dr. Adriaan Engelbrecht and I'd like to welcome you to my blog. Here you'll soon find a broad base of information related to Naturopathy and my practive thereoff. Please check back regularly as I'll be updating it as often as my schedule allows.

Naturopathy is an alternative approach to easing human "dis-ease". I approach healing wholistically and perform an in-depth analysis of my patients' symptoms, as Naturopathy aims to heal the cause of the symptoms and not the symptoms themselves. All medicine consist of natural herbs and ingredients, and have no ill effects on the human body. Truly for one aiming to live a healthy life, Naturopathic treatment might be the right option for you.

For more information please visit my website at: www.naturpath.co.za (powered by WebArtist).