Pure Med Naturopathic Centre

WELCOME

Pure Med integrates naturopathic medical knowledge with mainstream medicine to provide you with effective, high-quality health care. Whether you’ve got an acute condition, a nagging chronic problem you’d like to get rid of, you’re interested in optimizing your personal health, or you’re simply curious about what alternatives are out there—Pure Med can help.

What is Naturopathic Medicine?
Naturopathic medicine is a distinct primary health care system that blends modern scientific knowledge with traditional natural forms of medicine. Naturopathic medicine is the art and science of disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention using natural therapies including botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, homeopathy, acupuncture and lifestyle counseling. The primary goal in Naturopathic medicine is to discover and treat the root causes of disease, rather than just simply treat the symptoms. A Naturopathic doctor treats the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of health with natural therapies to support and stimulate the body’s innate healing ability. Naturopathic doctors complement and enhance health care services provided by other health care professionals and refer patients to other practitioners when appropriate.

Why choose Pure Med?
At Pure Med, you’ll find high quality, professional medical care in a compassionate, healing environment. We will provide an individualized and comprehensive approach to the treatment and prevention of your specific health concerns.
Our multi-disciplinary naturopathic centre is conveniently located on Montreal Road between the Vanier Parkway and St. Laurent in the Vanier Medical Centre, just minutes away from the Ottawa neighbourhoods of Lower Town, New Edinburgh, Manor Park and Rockcliffe Park.

We welcome new patients

Health Tips

Natural health products are safe and effective if used appropriately.

Recent news reports have made claims that certain supplements, specifically antioxidants, might not have any health benefits and might even be harmful. It is true that natural health products, even though they have much fewer risks than pharmaceutical drugs, still have the capacity to cause harm in higher risk populations if not used appropriately. However, there were a number of important omissions from these news reports. Firstly, the scientific paper that was quoted in the news reports only combined studies of aged, very ill persons that used supplements and therefore, the same conclusion cannot be used for the general public. Secondly, most of the studies are done using synthetic forms of antioxidants that have been isolated as a single substance. An important antioxidant, Vitamin E, naturally occurs as a family with up to eight different forms. It has been known for many years now that taking only a single member of the vitamin E family, such as alpha-tocopherol acetate, can create an imbalance that can lead to disease. It is also well known that synthetic forms of vitamins are not as well recognized by natural receptors and are therefore, much more likely to have either no benefit or cause harm. Natural health products, as long as they are recommended in appropriate doses and types by qualified health care professionals, remain a very effective way to promote optimal health and prevent and treat disease.

Events

Professional Seminars

• Mucosal Immunity and Preventative Health Care- May 31
• Prevention and Treatment of Influenza- T.B.A.
• Vitamin D and Infectious Diseases – T.B.A.

Patient Seminars

Conscious nutrition- T.B.A.
How Naturopathic Medicine Can Help You and Your Family Prevent and Treat Colds and Flu. – T.B.A.

Help us celebrate Naturopathic Medicine Week!

May 4th to May 11th has been declared Naturopathic Medicine Week here in Ontario. The theme for this year's week is Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Contact us to learn more about how you can become involved in optimizing your health and preventing disease.

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by James Allen