Always make sure your Natural therapist is qualified!!!

In 1945, Benedict Lust, who was the first person to use and define the term Naturopathy stated- "Now let us see the type of men and women who are the Naturopaths of today. Many of them are fibre, upstanding individuals, believing fully in the effectiveness of their chosen profession- willing to give their all for the sake of alleviating human suffering and ready to fight for their rights to the last ditch. More power to them! But there are others who claim to be Naturopaths who are woeful misfits. Yes, and there are outright fakers and cheats masking as Naturopaths. That is the fate of any science -any profession - which the unjust laws have placed beyond the pale. Where there is no official recognition and regulation, you will find the plotters, the thieves, the charlatans operating on the same basis as the concsientious practitioners. And these riff-raff opportunists bring the whole art into disrepute. Frankly, such conditions cannot be remedied until suitable safeguards are erected by law, or by the profession itself, around the practice of Naturopathy. That will come in time."

So.....we still wait! The individual Natural therapy associations regulate their own members, but have no power over the frauds and charlatans. Until we have regulation, the public are at risk of being defrauded, or potentially harmed, by greedy, selfish con men. And sadly, each time a fraud is exposed our profession is tarnished.

Always make sure you check the qualifications of your Naturopath, Homeopath, Nutritionist etc, dont just take someones word for it! Xo