About Our Practice
Natural Health & Wellness Center welcomes your decision to live a healthier and more vibrant life. Whether your condition is mild or more chronic, we can help. Natural Health & Wellness Center of Fresno was established in 2001 with the mission of providing “Natural healing for serious health issues”. Robert Espana, Registered Naturopath, has been in practice since 2001, specializing in difficult to treat diseases.
Our philosophy is that the Body-Mind heals itself; It was developed through the intelligence of the genes. Genes are recipe. Lifestyles are the ingredients. The genetic recipe is perfect, but can only produce health if all the ingredients are supplied to express that health.
Interferences that block or lower the function of the Body-Mind must be removed. Physiological stress and stress adaptation that changes the body’s internal function must be corrected to achieve health. The nervous systems responsibility is to control & coordinate the function of the entire body, plus adapt & relate to its internal & external environment.
Meet The Naturopath
Robert Espana
Registered Naturopath Diplomate
Robert Espana has been in practice as a Registered Naturopath since 2001. He holds Advanced Certifications in Cold Laser Pain Therapy, Functional Endocrinology and Blood Chemistry.
Homeopathy
Homeopathy emerged from the teachings and writings of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), a German physician. Dr. Hahnemann became disillusioned with the common medical practices of his day. This was a very primitive time for medicine and practices included the use of leaches, blood letting, purges and the use of toxic chemicals. In articles written in the 1780s and 1790s, Dr. Hahnemann was critical of these extreme medical practices. Here is a quote from Dr. Hahnemann:
“For several centuries, a whole range of causes, which I could not begin to enumerate, have led to the downgrading of that divine science, clinical medicine, to the level of a wretched, money-grubbing exercise in the whitewashing of symptoms and a demeaning traffic in prescriptions, in fact, God forgive us, to a more mechanical trade in which Hippocrates is lost to sight amidst a rabble of charlatans.”
Dr. Hahnemann advocated good hygiene, better nutrition, better housing conditions, fresh air and exercise as the way to achieve health. In 1790 he began translating A Treatise on Materia Medica, by Scottish physician and chemist, Dr. William Cullen (1710-1790). Dr. Cullen was a famous scientist and lecturer, and was also critical of the primitive medical practices of his day.
Hahnemann translated Cullen’s work, but also looked at it with a critical eye. In his work, Dr. Cullen recommended quinine for malaria because it was a good astringent. Hahnemann reasoned that there were better astringents that did not work on malaria. He also found that when he took the quinine, he developed the symptoms of malaria. From this he began to develop the concept of “Similars”—one of the basic principles of homeopathy. The principle of “Similars” can be simply stated as, “Like cures like”. In homeopathy, a substance that can produce the symptoms in a healthy person is likely to be the substance that cures a sick person. Homeopathy is a word coined by Hahnemann; it is from two Greek words: homeo, meaning “similar” and pathos, meaning “suffering”.
Hahnemann wrote his ideas in two books, A New Principle for Ascertaining the Curative Powers of Drugs and Some Examinations of Previous Principles (1796) and The Organon of Rationale Medicine (1810). In 1812 he began to teach homeopathy at the University of Leipzig.
Percussor
Percussive therapy is a gentle treatment approach for muscle and ligament problems and related myofascial conditions. The Percussor is a hand-held instrument that distributes waves of percussive impulses deep into the tissues of the body which promotes an increase in lymphatic flow and circulation.
Percussion also can be used to decrease muscle spasm, release joints, and to loosen up fixated areas without using heavy forces. From migraines associated with chronic TMJ to persistent lower back pain, percussor therapy can significantly reduce chronic pain.
Cold Laser
The Erchonia laser emits a visible coherent light that stimulates the body’s ability to produce ATP, which allows a natural healing of the body in decreased time. Through this process pain and inflammation decrease, the natural range of motion of the joints return and optimal function of cellular physiology occurs on a more permanent basis.
In one double blind study prepared for original FDA approval, it was documented that the Erchonia Laser decreased by an average of 59% while concomitantly increasing range of motion – both actively and passively.
Wound healing using the patented Erchonia Laser, compared to six other Lasers, was a minimum of 6-14% faster in therapeutic results. Peripheral neuropathies from injuries have been dramatically affected. This includes both intact neurological functions as well as several nerves. Wound healing acceleration has been demonstrated as well as scar tissue diminishment using Erchonia Laser. In all, this is a very powerful healing tool that, when used correctly by the practitioner, can result in miraculous changes to increase the humanality of patients that may have otherwise been considered unassistable.
Erchonia is the only company to receive FDA clearance for the use of Therapeutic Laser Application for injury and management of the Peripheral-Central Nervous System.
Health Plans and Pain Management
We offer Detoxification with Erchonia Footbath, gentle
and easy. Cold laser therapy for the aches and pains. Professional supplements for the rest of your ailments.
- Blood Panels
- Cold Laser Pain Management
- Adrenal Fatigue Testing
- Vitamins and Herbs
- Homeopathy and Enzymes
- Body Alignment