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Answer for the clue "A method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process ", 11 letters:
naturopathy

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Naturopathy or naturopathic medicine is a form of alternative medicine employing a wide array of "natural" modalities, including homeopathy , herbalism , and acupuncture , as well as diet and lifestyle counseling. Naturopathic medicine contains many pseudoscientific ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context alternative medicine English) A system of therapy that avoids drugs and surgery and emphasizes the use of natural remedies (air, water, heat, sunshine) and physical means (massage, electrical treatment) to treat illness.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1901, a hybrid from comb. form of nature + -pathy . A correct formation from all-Greek elements would be *physiopathy . Related: Naturopath .

Usage examples of naturopathy.

Arabs in the past, a related race after all, hence the purely chemical tendency in medicine, whereas naturopathy, in the end it all boils down to the question of the organic and the inorganic as such: it was not without reason that Goethe identified the effort to make a homunculus not with Faust but with Wagner his famulus, because Wagner, it is safe to assume, represents the typically Jewish element, whereas Faust: because one thing is certain, they are without genius of any kind.