text: Depends on who you talk to. Conventional medicine would disagree with me but  as a practising naturopath I come from the premise that all disease state are as a result from poor mental/emotional patterning and or energy (chi) blockages. These make you susceptable to infection due to imbalance or if you like predispose you to infection. We breathe in and out and carry millions of pathogens each moment of each day, why then do we become sick all of a sudden from a pathogen we have carried for years? The energetic conditions were right. Thoughts influence us at every level including physical, for instance depressed people look depressed, rounded shoulders, poor digestion, lowered immunity etc and they think depressed thoughts, profoundly negative. Tibetan monks for instance are said to be the happiest people on the planet and think very happy thoughts, they frequently live till ages far and beyond western people with little or no ill health.\nThe treatments numbers are far ranging and their effectiveness is varying. Most natural therapies are approached from the premise of healthy mind/emotions/spirit=healthy body so any of those modalities are considered treatments, examples would include reiki, reflexology, massage, counselling, herbalism, Accupuncture and many, many more.\nThis is a topic that there is a great deal of literature available on and you can do Diploma courses on them. Puch in your question to google and sit back for about the next 50 years and go for it.\nAs a foot note the vast majority of my clients are patients that western or convetional medicine has failed for one reason or another, they end up on my door step and in  the majority of cases the approach I use brings lasting positive results, world wide there is a massive swing to natural health and healing therapies, ask yourself why.\nHope this helps you.\n\nCraig - Naturopath.