BODYCURE naturopathica

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Nature Cure

One of the fundamental truths of healing is that all healing is performed by the patient. The power to heal illness and injury lies within the cells of every living body; animal or vegetable. Every cell of our bodies is pulsating with life force, expanding and contracting, absorbing electricity and radiating electricity, absorbing chemicals and excreting chemicals. Within this inherent life force is the power that heals.

A doctor can perform surgery, stitch a wound, kill bacteria, or put a broken limb in plaster, but all actual ‘healing’ is done by the patient. When we understand this basic truth, we understand that there is no healing power in anything outside the body.

Realisation then that the patient is the healer, necessitates that any effective health care system must be fundamentally supportive, not interventionist. Toxic and invasive procedures are never going to return health to a diseased body.

Nature Cure differs from orthodox medicine and most naturopathic treatment in that it does not use drugs, medicines, vitamin preparations, or electrical machines. Rather it classifies as a poison any substance which is not needed by the body as a source of food and which the body cannot profitably utilise for the purpose of providing energy or building tissues.

Even though Nature Cure is a drugless therapy, other treatments which do not use drugs cannot be classified as Nature Cure. For example, Acupressure, Acupuncture, Physiotherapy, Chiropractics, Reflexology, Massage therapy, Reiki, Pranic Healing, Touch for Health, Hypnotherapy and many more do not use drugs and can be used alongside Nature Cure, but they are not a part of Nature Cure. Nature Cure recognises nature as the only healer.

The Nature Cure physician endeavours to provide the optimal environment and conditions to enable the Life-force within the body to restore and maintain health by utilising the following natural factors: Natural Foods, Fasting, Water, Sunlight, Air, Earth, Exercise, Relaxation, and Positive Thinking.

The incorrect living habits that are the chief contributors to disease are;

1. The eating of nutritionally devoid foods


2. Drug use of any kind (including alcohol)


3. Lack of exercise, insufficient rest


4. Tensions, worries, fears, excessive stimulation, and unbalanced emotions.


5. Impure air, polluted water, chemical exposure via cleaning products and other ‘perfume/skin/hair care items’


6. Occupational strains and accidents.

Nature Cure maintains that no matter how positively we think, how much we exercise we do or how often we fast, if the food we eat is substandard we will never achieve the level of health of which we are capable. The secret of good nutrition is to eat plant foods as fresh as possible. In other words eat mostly organically grown raw fruit, raw vegetables, raw nuts, sprouted whole grains and a few other minor items. Food should be thoroughly masticated and taken in appropriate amounts.

Add to this recipe pure air on our skin, rhythmic breathing using our diaphragm (belly breathing), sunshine both through the food we eat and by direct contact with our bare skin, exercise and plenty of it and regular unimpeded foot contact with the earth.

Top it all off with a positive, cheerful outlook on life. Radiate love, gratitude and compassion; and grasp every opportunity to provide service to your fellow man and to the planet Earth. Aim to achieve grace and mental poise in your daily life.

Nature Cure is a purely natural way of healing or freeing the entire body from any kind of disease. It is letting the body do its work in healing itself, for the body is an intelligent system and it knows completely what to do, when to do it and how to do it. It’s time we understood this and let go of the misconceptions we have about our health, disease and cure, and accept that nature is the healer.

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Herbal Medicine

The idea of using plants and foods as medicine goes back many thousands of years and herbal medicine can be miraculous when you find exactly the right herb for the job at hand.

However many of the herbal remedies that are sold over the counter may not just be useless for your condition, they may actually be harmful.

Don't rely on the woman in the health food aisle, or your friend's multi-level marketing company or even an article in a magazine to tell you which herbs might be right for you.

Instead come to a professional medical herbalist who knows whether your adrenal fatigue issues will be resolved with Rhodiola, Korean Ginseng, Rehmannia or Schisandra.

You also need to know that the species of Echinacea you are buying is the one that has immune properties (Angustifolia or Purpurea) and that the herb extracted from the plant has been clinically tested to be sure it contains sufficient levels of the key active ingredient that you need to get that tingling sensation in your mouth!

All of the herbal products at Bodycure are provided through MediHerb of Australia, a pharmaceutical grade licensed herbal laboratory that uses a patented cold-extraction method for ensuring the vitality and medicinal activity of every single herb produced. They are the leaders in the world in clinical research, university educational standards for practitioners and supporting the environment by refusing to purchase endangered plants.

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About Your Practitioner

Paula Cartwright ND

Advanced Diploma of Naturopathy
Advanced Diploma of Western Herbal Medicine
Advanced Diploma of Nutritional Medicine
Cert IV in Massage Therapy
Cert III in Fitness

People often ask me how it was I became a Naturopath.
When I was 21 years old I had a serious health scare that required surgery and I began to question the state of my body.
At the time I was working in West End, Brisbane, and there was an alternative bookshop at the bus stop where I sat every afternoon. It was there that I first encountered the concepts of nutritional medicine and the true cause of disease states of the body.
I was shocked by this discovery.
I couldn’t believe nobody had told me these things before.
The doctors had given me drugs and performed surgery on me, yet they had failed to inform me that the poor diet and lifestyle I had been living had been the major contributors to my state of health.

I was angry that I, and the whole of society were being deceived by health authorities who, by their silence, were perpetuating the myth that the typical Western diet and lifestyle was not associated with the proliferation of disease states throughout the population.

Further investigation only fuelled the fire that burned in me as I also discovered the wonders of herbal medicine, iridology, nature cure, kinesiology, massage therapy, homeopathy and all the modalities grouped under the Natural Therapies banner. I had found my passion.

The fact that Natural Therapies was still considered ‘alternative’ or ‘unorthodox’ was a double edged sword.
On the one hand it was disheartening to hear well-meaning but ignorant medical practitioners criticising Naturopathy; but at the same time it served to fuel my fire.
I wanted to educate and inform society that they were being duped by the status quo,and that there were simple and effective ways to take control of their own health.

Within six months I was enrolled at the Australian College of Natural Medicine.
That was almost 20 years ago and I have been working and studying the many traditions of natural therapies ever since.
Over that time ‘Complimentary Medicine’ as it is now known has become more popular and mainstream, and Naturopathy is much closer to becoming a registered profession rather than an industry regulated one.

Whilst recognition of disease links to diet have also improved since then, there is still an enormous lack of understanding within society when it comes to the cause of diseases.
It is frustrating to hear stories of people undergoing years of pain, illness, investigations and surgery that could have been addressed initially by correcting nutritional deficiencies that are impacting negatively on the biochemical processes in the body.
And that’s just the start of the process.
Naturopathy has so much to offer.

I don’t mean to undermine the wonderful achievements of the medical profession.
Modern emergency treatment is lifesaving, as are many others aspects of modern medicine.
However the treatment of chronic and inflammatory disease states is not conducive to the drug and surgery approach offered by orthodox medicine.
Toxic and invasive procedures are never going to return a full state of health to a diseased body.
Orthodox medicine seeks to fix or repair, and not to support.
It refuses to acknowledge the part played by the patient in healing and resistance to disease in spite of the fact that one of the fundamental truths of healing is that all healing is performed by the patient.
Inability to recognise or accept this simple fact is one of the fundamental flaws of orthodox medicine.
A doctor can perform surgery, stitch a wound, kill an infection, or put a broken limb in plaster, but all actual ‘healing’ is done by the patient.

Realization that the patient is actually the healer necessitates that any effective health care system must be fundamentally supportive rather than interventionist.
The modern naturopathic physician provides all phases of primary health care using natural, non-invasive techniques to employ health and healing.
As health care cost skyrocket due to the ineffective orthodox model, there is a tremendous need for naturopathic medicine, and as such we are witnessing the birth of a paradigm shift in medicine. The concepts and philosophy of naturopathic medicine will persist and be a major part of medicine in the future.