Why We Treat The Person, Not The Disease

At Ashland Natural Medicine, we can’t treat you for any health issues.

We also will not treat you for any diseases or conditions. And please don’t come to our clinic expecting to get treated for any syndromes or health problems.

We can’t, we won’t and we don’t do that at ANM. 

And for the record, we have never cured a single case of disease in our combined 40+ years of practice.

What we can treat is you.

We can spend ample time trying to understand what it is in your terrain that allowed an infection, a toxin, cancerous cells, inflammation or dysfunction in an organ to precipitate and ultimately create symptoms. What we can and always do is our best to understand what it is in your constitution that allowed you to get sick. Then, what we can do is figure out how to best remove obstacles to your wellness. And help you understand and implement healthier practices.

Our highest task is to try and understand why you got sick. Because if we don’t do that, then no matter how quickly you get you better from your current health struggle, you will fall ill again with the same pattern after a period of time.

This is also why we want our patients to continue their care with us even when they begin to feel well.

Disease is a process that takes years to manifest and symptoms are always the last thing to appear. If we only focus on taking away symptoms then the underlying process that started the disease will simply reappear some months or years later. Many patients have experienced this; they came and were treated by Dr. Miki or myself and after a period of time, they felt better. They then cancelled their follow-up doctor's visits. We didn’t see them for months or even years. Then at a later date, the same or similar problem returned. Why? Because the underlying disharmony which started the disease was never remedied. We weren’t given enough time to work through deeper layers of health, remove obstacles, and strengthen and detoxify the patient’s organs to allow all systems to operate optimally.

Unlike seeing a standard medical doctor in the conventional model of “Illness Care”, working with a naturopath should be a lifelong process. In some ways, it is very similar to maintaining a car. You wouldn’t get a single oil change and then wait for the engine to start smoking before you get another oil change – why would you do that with your body?

Our most successful patients (and the ones we enjoy working with the most) are those who allow us the freedom and time to continuously go deeper and deeper into their health over many years. And consequently, they build deeper and deeper reserves of wellness.

At Ashland Natural medicine we can’t cure disease but we can help get healthy so you are naturally resistant to chronic illness.

Good Luck and Good Health,

Dr. Chris Chlebowski