“Conventional medicine usually attempts to deal with an unpleasant problematic symptom by attacking it with pills, knives or harsh procedures. This can seriously upset your internal balance and often results in trading off one set of unfortunate challenges for another.
“Alternative medicine explores the relationship between the natural state of wellbeing and all the varied elements of your present lifestyle. It then tries to create and maintain an optimum condition of health for the whole of who you are. This usually encourages your unpleasant problematic symptoms to simply fade away.”
-- Dr. Stephen Kravette
As a naturopathic physician, Dr. Stephen Kravette has worked with the full spectrum of modalities that comprise the broad field of alternative medicine: Homeopathy. Reflexology. Acupressure. Massage. Nutrition. Exercise options including yoga, walking, swimming, and tai chi. Vitamins. Herbal remedies and supplements. Fasting. Iridology. Sound and color therapies. Aromatherapy. Flower essences. Guided imagery. Biofeedback. Applied kinesiology. Bodywork. Chackra balancing. Hypnotherapy. Meditation. Past life regression. Magnetic therapy. Polarity balancing. Shamanism. And other techniques that work on physical, emotional, and vibrational levels to restart or restore good health.
Stephen believes that ongoing wellbeing is the normal and natural condition of life. And that if you are not experiencing it on a fulltime basis, you or some of your choices about your present lifestyle and beliefs have had something to do with creating the source of your dis-ease. Therefore, the key to reversing the situation is not treating your symptom or what appears to be the problem but going back to the source and recreating your wellbeing from that level outwards.
He is not opposed to invasive medication or surgical intervention in cases involving accidents, emergencies, or instances where things may have accelerated beyond the option for kinder, more natural solutions. Otherwise, he recommends considering all available alternative choices before consenting to any conventional mainstream medical treatment that may produce irreversible after-effects.
While he was a certified ND in Massachusetts, since moving to Arizona he has not chosen to apply for a medical practitioner license. Stephen comments, "My interests are pulling me in other directions right now. And I am currently using my naturopathic bag of tricks exclusively to maintain and preserve my own health (and my wife and family’s, of course) and to provide an up-to-date research base for future books, workshops, and seminars.”