Coordinator of the Quantum Naturopathy specialization, Dr. Alexa Cambraia will take part in the Integrative Practices Congress on Cancer Treatment and Prevention, in São Paulo, an event held on March 31, April 1 and April 2, 2023, featuring 24 leading professionals in Integrative Health, with registration open.
Dr. Alexa's talk, on the first day of April, will cover Hyperthermia practices, a technique she brought to Brazil and that was used by the Japanese Dr. Nobuhiro Yoshimizu on countless patients.
As the name suggests, Hyperthermia involves raising body temperature, which is done in different ways and aims to promote patient relaxation. As a result, Hyperthermia relieves pain that may be felt as a result of various pathologies.
Dr. Alexa has hands-on experience with the cases of several patients who achieved significant improvements through hyperthermia. It's worth taking this opportunity to learn more about this and other therapies at the congress, about which Dr. Alexa comments:
“In our medicine, in integrative medicine, we bring countless practices that complement conventional treatments, which will make all the difference in your life: they will reduce the side effects of drugs, bring more health, quality of life, more hope, less pain… So I'm sure the information will be very valuable to you.”
Meet Dr. Alexa Cambraia
In addition to coordinating the Postgraduate Program in Quantum Naturopathy, Dr. Alexa has been a naturopath for more than 15 years, during which she has approached health in an integrated way, seeing the whole made up of the physical, emotional, mental and energetic body in people's health.
As a result, her participation will have a lot to add, both for other health professionals and for educating people dealing with oncology treatments: patients, family members and others who live with and help in some way with the treatment. And for everyone who is interested in the subject.
Dr. Alexa Cambraia is also a doctoral candidate in Integrative Medicine at the Canadian College of Integrative Medicine, and a specialist in Quantum Medicine, Hyperthermia and Hepatobiliary Detoxification. She holds postgraduate degrees in Nutritional Adequacy and Maintenance of Endocrine Homeostasis and also in Complementary Natural Therapies.
To see the naturopath's full profile, you can access the Quantum Naturopathy Ebook, which contains complete information about this postgraduate course.
Learn More About Integrative and Complementary Practices
Integrative and complementary practices are those that seek to see the patient as a whole, paying attention to support across different aspects of health, in the physical, emotional and social senses of human well-being.
In this way, integrative practices can work as complementary treatments to other, more traditional ones.
Conventional therapies are also crucial in confronting certain pathologies, but often under conditions that also carry side effects, or that are lengthy and draining, so that patients benefit greatly from forms of supplementary support, as Dr. Alexa aptly noted in the quote above.
The National Policy on Integrative and Complementary Practices
These practices are also part of Brazil's public health system (SUS) through the establishment of the National Policy on Integrative and Complementary Practices (PNPIC). This policy has been rolled out since 2006, with constant updates, adding new practices and establishing guidelines for their application.
So far, there are 29 practices covered by the PNPIC. Among them are naturopathy, as well as traditional Chinese medicine/acupuncture, ayurveda, homeopathy, aromatherapy, chiropractic, yoga and ozone therapy, just to mention a few of the therapies.
Naturopathy
Naturopathy, in turn, was added to the PNPIC in 2017, through Ordinance 849/2017, which defines the practice as:
“(…) A care approach that, through natural methods and resources, supports and stimulates the body's intrinsic capacity to heal itself. Its origin is grounded in the health care knowledge of diverse cultures, particularly those that consider vitalism, which is the existence of a vital principle present in every individual, which influences their organic, emotional and mental balance, in their worldview.”
Thus, Naturopathy does no harm, minimizing the risk of side effects, identifies and treats the underlying causes of disease instead of suppressing symptoms, teaches the principles of healthy living, treats the individual as a whole, emphasizes the prevention of harm and disease and the promotion of health, and supports the body's healing power.
Interested in the subject? The Integrative Practices Congress will be an excellent opportunity to learn much more about how this and other practices can help in cancer treatment and prevention.
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