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Theme: Encouraging, unwinding Natureâ€™s Recipes for Health with New Innovations in Treatment and Rehabilitation

Naturopathy 2017

Scientific Program

Renowned Speakers

Dr. Jason Mallia
Director and Principle Clinician - Integrated Health
Australia

Faris AlHajri
President & CEO- AlHajri Holistic Health & Wellness LLC
USA

Dr.Vanita Sharma
Vice President of Australasian Association of Ayurveda
Australia

Anne Hilarius-Ford
Owner Energy Reflexology and Aroma Blends
Australia

Azza Hafez elmedany
Professor
Egypt

Paul William Deravin Turner
Osteopath
Australia

Serg Mezhov
Acupuncturist Association of Victoria,Australia
Australia

Sean Lyons
Doctor of Chiropractic, Tucker Chiropractic
USA

Dr.Vidhu Sharma
Australasian Association of Ayurveda
Australia

Dr. Karen Phillip
Clinical Hypnotherapist- Central Coast Hypnotherapy and Counselling Center
Australia

Viviana Siddhi Vid
Mandala Transformation Foundation
USA

Sharon Tal
Melbourne Kinesiology and Detox Centre
Australia

Cassie Atkinson-Quinton
Body and Brain Centre
Australia

Jack Hammond
ACPHARM Gold Coast
Australia

Naturopathy 2017

We welcome all the participants to the Annual Meeting on Naturopathic Physicians & Acupuncturists to be held during July 24-26, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.

We invite all the herbalists, alternative and complementary medicine practitioners, researchers in the field of Phytomedicine, Pharmacognosy, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, people who believe in natural remedies to explore their research, case studies and practitioners of natural medicine at Naturopathy 2017.

This universal meet suspects many representatives including worldwide keynote addresses and oral presentations by eminent speakers and notice presentations by understudies, Herbal Exhibitions and delegates all around the globe which will make a stage for worldwide advancement of sheltered and viable common treatments. It gives global systems administration and chances to joint efforts with overall organizations and businesses.

Naturopathy 2017 will focus on the latest databases, curation and research done in each and every area of the body, mind, spirit, and emotions and its therapy which will help for optimal health and wellness. Through this Naturopathy 2017 meeting it will offer a unique opportunity for participants, investigators globally to meet, network, and perceive new scientific interactions for proper balance in life.

Conference Series has an enhanced and highlighted features of scientific partnerships and alliances with development agencies, Institutes, leading research organizations, non-government organizations, and other entities to promote the development-oriented research across the globe through live streaming, B2B and Scientific Meetings. Conference Series Medical Conferences provides an excellent opportunity for the budding scientists and young researchers through its special initiatives like Young Researcher Forum, Poster Presentation and E-poster. Conference Series Organizes 300+ Scientific Conferences every year across USA, Europe & Asia. Besides 500 Peer reviewed, Open Access Journals, Conference Series has collaborated with more than 1000 Scientific Associations and institutions worldwide to promote information on health care and technologies. These journals are enjoying the support of over 5 million readers; a team of 30.000 eminent scholars are providing editorial support.

Conference opportunities

For Researchers and Faculty members:

· Speaker presentations

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· Symposium hosting

· Workshop organizing

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· Association partnering

· Collaboration proposals

· Academic partnering

· Group participation

For students and Research scholars:

· Poster competition

· Young Researcher Forum

· Student attendee

· Group registrations

For Business Delegates:

· Speaker presentations

· Symposium hosting

· Book launch event

· Networking opportunities

· Audience participation

For product manufacturers:

· Exhibitor and Vendor booths

· Sponsorship opportunities

· Product launch

· Workshop organization

· Scientific partnering

· Marketing and Networking with clients

We invite you to join us in Australia to promote Naturopathic Physicians & Acupuncturists 2017!!!

On behalf of all the committee I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all to the Annual Meeting on Naturopathic Physicians & Acupuncturists, this year to be held in lovely Melbourne during July 24-26, 2017. It will feature the latest innovations in naturopathic medicine and also esteemed leaders in their field from all over the world. It is an honor and privilege to be elected as an organizing committee member by my peers where I will be also presenting at the conference on the management of chronic disease using an Integrative approach.

The event will be a great opportunity to network with already known colleagues and to meet new colleagues in the field from across the globe.

Past events have proven to be a major success and have been instrumental in further developing and solidifying our field as an important part of an integrative model in healthcare. I strongly encourage and welcome you to this wonderful uplifting event.

Yours in health and happiness

Dr Jason Mallia IMD PhD ND BHsc
Director and CEO
Integrated Nutraceuticals
Sydney, Australia

International Speaker & Author of: The Wounded Healer and Concepts of Integrative Medicine

Conference Series cordially invites all the alternative healthcare professionals across the globe from leading universities, clinical research institutions, diagnostic companies to share their research experiences at the “Annual Meeting on Naturopathic Physicians & Acupuncturists” to be held during July 24-26, 2017 at Melbourne, Australia. The theme of the conference is "Unwinding Nature’s Recipes for Health, Encouraging New Innovations in Treatment and Rehabilitation".

Track 1: Clinical Naturopathic Medicine

Clinical Naturopathic Medicine is a distinct type of primary care medicine that blends age-old healing traditions with scientific advances and current research. It is guided by a unique set of principles that recognize the body's innate healing capacity, emphasize disease prevention, and encourage individual responsibility to obtain optimal health. Naturopathy can be traced back to the European Nature cure, practiced in the nineteenth-century, which was a system for treating disease with natural modalities such as water, fresh air, diet, and herbs.

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Track 2: Acupuncture

Needle therapy is a type of option drug and a key part of customary Chinese solution TCM including slender needles being embedded into the body. Needle therapy is for the most part safe when done by a fittingly prepared specialist utilizing clean needle method and Single-utilize Needles. The decision of needle therapy focuses to be utilized is the most significant part of the treatment. The Acupuncturist must know the capacity of every needle therapy point and its cooperation with other needle therapy focuses. He can then arrangement the treatment to wipe out obstacles in the stream of Chi and to adjust the Yin and Yang. After the acupuncturist has inspected the patient and achieved an analysis, he chooses how the patient ought to be dealt with.

Track 3: Alternative Medicine

Alternative Medicine and drugs are barred in the science-based meds taught in helpful schools, and are not used as a piece of restorative practice where meds rely on upon consistent learning. Elective medications require consistent endorsement, and their ampleness is farfetched, defamed, or hard to illustrate. Elective medicine relies on upon religion, custom and superstition, trust in unprecedented energies, pseudoscience and missteps in considering, attention, or deception. Control and allowing of alternative arrangement and therapeutic administrations providers vacillates from country to country, and inside countries.

Elective medication has been reproached for being established on deluding announcements, antagonistic to science, coercion, or poor intelligent theory. Propelling choice remedy has been called perilous and unscrupulous Testing elective arrangement when in light of no sensible supporting has been known as an abuse of uncommon restorative research resources. Intellectuals have said "there is genuinely no such thing as alternative remedy, basically pharmaceutical that works and medication that doesn't and that the possibility of choice drug that works is limitless, as any treatment showed to work is basically arrangement.

Track 4: Complementary Medicine

Complementary Medicine or Integrative Medicine is when option drug is utilized together with utilitarian therapeutic treatment, in a conviction that it enhances the impact of medications. Notwithstanding, critical medication co-operations brought on by option treatments may rather contrarily impact treatment, making medicines less viable, remarkably malignancy treatment

Track 5: Herbal Therapy

Natural Therapy additionally Herbology or home grown medication) is the utilization of plants for therapeutic purposes, and the investigation of plant science for such utilize. Plants have been the reason for therapeutic medications through quite a bit of mankind's history, and such customary pharmaceutical is still generally polished today. Phototherapy, and phytochemistry work to apply advanced measures of adequacy testing to herbs and meds that are gotten from common sources. The extent of home grown solution is some of the time stretched out to incorporate contagious and honey bee items, and also minerals, shells and certain creature parts

Track 6: Ayurveda

Ayurveda is the customary mending methodology of the Vedic culture from India. It is said to be 2000 to 5000 years of age, which means it has stood the trial of time. Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word that truly deciphers as "the intelligence of life" or "the learning of life span". As per this definition, Ayurvedic pharmaceutical perspectives wellbeing as considerably more than the nonappearance of illness. The insightful soothsayers and sages of the time, naturally understanding the physiology and workings of the mind-body-soul much sooner than the approaches of cutting edge pharmaceutical, clarified the fundamental standards of Ayurveda.

Track 7: Meditation and Yoga

Reflection is a practice where an individual prepares the brain or incites a method of awareness, either to understand some advantage or for the psyche to just recognize its substance without getting to be related to that substance, or as an end in it. The term contemplation alludes to a wide assortment of practices that incorporates procedures intended to advance unwinding, manufacture inward vitality or life compel and create sympathy, cherish, tolerance, liberality, and pardoning. An especially eager type of reflection goes for easily supported single-guided focus implied toward empower its professional to appreciate an indestructible feeling of prosperity while taking part in any life movement.

Yoga is a gathering of physical, mental, and profound practices or teaches which started in old India. Yoga, as a trained technique for accomplishing an objective. Yoga, as systems of controlling the body and the brain. Yoga, regarding different words, for example, "hatha-, mantra-, and laya-," alluding to conventions work specifically procedures of yoga; Yoga, as the objective of Yoga practice. Yoga, as a strategy for going into different bodies, producing various bodies, and the fulfillment of other heavenly achievements .Yoga's objective as reflection driven intends to freedom in Indian religions.

Track 8: Chinese Medicine

China was one of first nations to have a restorative culture. In correlation with Western medication, the Chinese technique adopts a far various strategy. With a background marked by 5,000 years, it has shaped a profound and enormous learning of medicinal science, hypothesis, demonstrative strategies, solutions and cures. The Physiology of Chinese drug holds that the human body's life is the consequence of the adjust of yin and yang. Yin is the inward and negative standards, and yang, external and positive. The key motivation behind why there is infection is on the grounds that the two perspectives lose their amicability. Seen from the recuperation instrument of organs, yang capacities to shield from external damage, and yin is the inward base to store and give vitality to its partner

Track 9:Functional Medicine

Functional Medicine or Utilitarian medication is a type of option solution which defenders say concentrates on communications between the earth and the gastrointestinal, endocrine, and safe frameworks. Professionals endeavor to create singular treatment gets ready for individuals they treat. Useful pharmaceutical includes various problematic and disproven strategies and medicines, and has been condemned for being pseudoscientific. Advocates of utilitarian pharmaceutical contradict built up restorative information and reject its models, rather receiving a model of sickness in light of the thought of "precursors" "Triggers" and "middle people. These are intended to relate to the fundamental causes, the quick causes, and the specific attributes of a man's disease separately. A useful prescription expert will devise a "lattice" from these things which goes about as a reason for treatment

Track 10:Holistic Medicine

Holistic Medicine or all-encompassing Medicine is the workmanship and examination of recovering that addresses the whole individual body, mind, and soul. The demonstration of far reaching pharmaceutical directions standard and elective medicines to thwart and treat contamination, or more all, to propel perfect prosperity. This condition of complete prosperity is portrayed as the unlimited and unhampered free stream of life drive imperativeness through body, cerebrum, and soul. All encompassing Medicine consolidates all shielded and appropriate modalities of conclusion and treatment. It consolidates examination of physical, restorative, characteristic, energetic, significant and lifestyle parts. Comprehensive Medicine focuses upon patient preparing and support in the recovering strategy.

Track 11: Integrative Medicine

Integrative prescription is recuperating focused pharmaceutical that assesses the entire individual (body, psyche, and soul), including all parts of way of life. It accentuates the restorative relationship and makes utilization of all proper treatments, both traditional and option. The field of integrative wellbeing reaffirms the significance of the relationship amongst expert and patient, concentrates all in all individual, is educated by proof, and makes utilization of all proper helpful methodologies, medicinal services experts and callings to accomplish ideal wellbeing and recuperating. Basically, integrative wellbeing and drug offer prescribed procedures for ideal wellbeing and mending.

Track 12:Hydrotherapy

Hydrotherapy some time ago called hydropathy is a some portion of pharmaceutical and option solution, specifically of naturopathy, word related treatment and Physiotherapy, that includes the utilization of water for agony alleviation and treatment. The term includes an expansive scope of methodologies and helpful techniques that exploit the physical properties of water, for example, temperature and weight, for restorative purposes, to invigorate blood flow and treat the indications of certain diseases. Various treatments utilized as a part of the present-day Hydrotherapy utilize water planes, submerged back rub and mineral showers

Track 13: Osteopathy

Osteopathy is a kind of option prescription that underscores knead and other Physical control of muscle tissue and bones. Its name gets from Ancient Greek "bone" (á½€στÎον) and touchy to .In the United States, osteopathic doctors are prepared and are affirmed to practice drug. They speak to a branch of drug called Osteopathic Medicine. Osteopaths prepared somewhere else are prepared just in manual osteopathic treatment, for the most part to calm strong and skeletal conditions, and are alluded to as osteopathic experts. They are not permitted to call themselves Osteopaths in the United States to evade perplexity with confirmed doctors. In the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand osteopaths are enlisted and directed by law as specialists yet may not hone medication.

Track 14: Nutritional Medicine

Nutritional Medicine is based on the principle that nutrients, including essential Micronutrients, are required for the proper functioning of all the biochemical processes on which our bodies depend. Therefore, when treating symptoms or diseases, we look for the underlying causes which, although often partly genetic, are usually very much tied up with nutritional and Environmental factors. This is in contrast to the tendency in the conventional medical approach to treat symptoms by means of drugs or surgery

Naturopathy is both an art and a science .A system of therapeutics in which neither surgical nor medicinal agents are used, with dependence being placed only on natural remedies called naturopthy. Naturopathy or naturopathic medicine is a form of alternative medicine employing a wide array of "natural" modalities, including homeopathy, herbalism, and acupuncture.

The World Health Organization, estimates that between 65 to 80 percent of the world's population (about 3 billion people) rely on naturopathic or homeopathic medicine as their primary form of health care.

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Importance & Scope:

Naturopathy -2017 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Naturopathy and Acupuncture. It also provides the chance for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the fields of Naturopathy and Acupuncture.

Naturopathy -2017 is an international platform for presenting research about Treatments, exchanging ideas about it and thus, contributes to the dissemination of knowledge in Naturopathy and Acupuncture for the benefit of both the academia and business. Naturopathy -2017 is where the future of Naturopathy and Acupuncture intersects. This event brings together Researchers, Professors, surgeons to explore emerging trends techniques and Advancements in Naturopathy and Acupuncture. This is an exclusive study for naturopathy and acupuncture. The Study is describing all segments of Naturopathy and state the market and, the developments from 2013 and the following years and the prognosis to 2015, 2020 and 2025.

Why Australia?

The practice of Naturopathy in Australia today is science and evidence based and highly professional in its delivery. In Australia, Naturopathy began with the knowledge and skills of new arrivals, Naturopathy forms an increasingly significant part of the Australian healthcare setting, with high utilisation of naturopaths by the Australian public and a large therapeutic footprint in rural and regional Australia.

Major Naturopathic Associations in Australia

Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia

Australian Natural Therapists Association.

Complementary Medicine Association

Australian Integrative Medicine Association.

Natural Therapy Associations

Major Naturopathy Associations around the Globe

Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors

The American Association of Naturopathic physicians.

Manitoba Naturopathic Association

Wisconsin Naturopathic Doctors Association

Cyprus medical association on witch-hunt for Natural medicine practitioners

The British Naturopathic Association

Naturopathic Nutrition Association

British Naturopathic and Osteopathic Association

Association of Natural Medicine

Natural Therapist Insurance and Association Alternative

Association of Naturopathic Practitioners

Naturopathic Nutrition Association

The British Homeopathic Association

Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians

The California Naturopathic Doctors Association

World Naturopathic Federation

Indian Naturopathy and Yoga Graduates Medical Association

Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors

Clinics of Naturopathy

Melbourne Natural Medicine clinic.

Plymouth Naturopathic Clinic.

Clinic of Natural Medicine.

Thornhill Naturopathic Health Clinic

Central Council for Research in Yoga & Naturopathy

Naturopathic Medicine Clinic

Yellowstone Naturopathic Clinic

Universities for Naturopathy

National University of Natural Medicine

University of Natural Medicine

Texas State University

Georgetown University in Washington

University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport.

National University of Health Sciences

Research Institutes

Endeavor College of Natural Health / Office of Research

International Network of Integrative Mental Health (INIMH)

Naturopathic Physicians Research Institute (NPRI).

Annual Meeting on Naturopathic Physicians & Acupuncturists 2017

Naturopathy 2017, hosted by Conference Series were successfully held during July 24-26, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. The conference highlighted the theme “Encouraging, unwinding Nature’s Recipes for Health with New Innovations in Treatment and Rehabilitation”.

The conference was a congregation of eminent speakers from various reputed organizations with their paramount talks enlightening the gathering.

Conference Series hosted a diverse panel of key members of the Alternative Medicine community from Academia, Research lab, Eminent Scientist, Scholar Students to discuss the theme of the conference, on the latest databases, curation and research done in each and every area of the body, mind, spirit, and emotions and its therapy which will help for optimal health and wellness. This event was aimed to exchange and experience across a variety of topics that cover the latest insights in important aspects of Naturopathy and Acupuncture, and perceive new scientific interactions for proper balance in life.

The conference witnessed an amalgamation of peerless speakers, who enlightened the crowd with their enviable research knowledge and on various alluring workshops related to the field of Alternative Medicine, carried out through various scientific-sessions and plenary lectures.

The highlights of the meeting were the eponymic Keynote lectures from:

1. Dr. Jason Mallia, Integrated Health, Australia

Title: Management of Chronic Conditions using an Integrative, genetic and blood type approach

2. Dr. Faris Rashid AlHajri, AlHajri Holistic Health & Wellness LLC, USA

Title: Holistic Health, Water Therapy - Aqua Calidum Therapy (ACT)

3. Dr. Serg Mezhov, Acupuncture Association of Victoria, Australia

Title: Acupuncture controversy: false or true? Observation on studying of the applications in muscular- skeleton disorders

4. Viviana Siddhi Vid, Mandala Transformation Foundation , USA

Title: Personal Transformations

5. Anne Hilarius-Ford, Energy Reflexology, Australia

Title: Facial and Foot Reflexology: History and Healing Powers

6. Dr. Karen Phillip, Central Coast Hypnotherapy and Counselling Center, Australia

Title: Virtual Hypnotherapy - alternative healing method. Learn to create subconscious change to thoughts, responses, attitudes, behaviors and feelings creating healing and new inner beliefs

7. Dr. Cassie Atkinson-Quinton, Body and Brain Centre, Australia

Title: SEA-sickness: the spine, eyes and ears involvement in dizziness and nausea

We sincerely thank our moderator Dr. Faris Rashid AlHajri, AlHajri Holistic Health & Wellness LLC, USA

We would also like to thank all the session chairs and co-chairs for helping us in smooth functioning of the sessions.

We extend our grateful thanks to all the momentous speakers like:

Sean Lyons, Life University, USA

Christopher deLisle Hammond, ACPHARM Gold Coast, Australia

Azza El-Medany, Alexandria University, Egypt

Paul Turner, RMIT University, Australia

Vanita Sharma, Australasian Association of Ayurveda, Australia

Vidhu Sharma, Australasian Association of Ayurveda, Australia

Pranab Goswami, Government of NCT, India

Sharon Tal, Melbourne Kinesiology & Detox Centre, Australia

Conference attendees who contributed towards the successful run of the conference

Naturopathy 2017 Organizing Committee would like to thank the Moderator of the conference and all other attendees who contributed effervescently for the smooth functioning of the event. The conference attendees shared their knowledge on various topics related to the field of Alternative Medicine:

· Clinical Naturopathic Medicine

· Acupuncture

· Alternative Medicine

· Complementary Medicine

· Nutritional Medicine

· Integrative Medicine

· Chinese Medicine

· Holistic Medicine

· Homeopathy

· Ayurveda

· Osteopathy

· Aromatherapy

· Meditation & Yoga

· Current Challenges and Future Directions for Naturopathic Medicine in Australia

Annual Meeting on Naturopathic Physicians & Acupuncturists July 24-26, 2017 Melbourne, Australia was a great success with the support of International Multi-professional Steering Committee and coordinated by Journal of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Traditional Medicine & Clinical Naturopathy and Alternative & Integrative Medicine

We are obliged to various delegate experts, institutes and other eminent personalities who actively took part in the discussion and meetings. We sincerely thank the Organizing Committee Members for their gracious presence and continuous support towards the success of Naturopathy 2017 Conference.

With the unique feedbacks from the conference, Conference Series would like to announce the commencement of the “2^nd Annual Meeting on Naturopathic Physicians & Acupuncturists” to be held during August 22-23, 2018 Tokyo, Japan.

Let us meet again@Naturopathy 2018

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Sydney, Australia