Explore the Historical Eras
This archive invites you to explore that long arc of innovation, continuity, and cultural wisdom. Move through time, notice the patterns, and follow the threads that still influence clinical thinking and practice today.
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Library and ReSources
This section brings together two of the three foundational pillars of Nature’s Medicine Through Time: the Library and ReSources. Together, they make visible the material ground beneath the project—what we have studied, referenced, and returned to in order to understand how medical knowledge is formed, transmitted, and reinterpreted across time.
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What is Nature’s Medicine Through Time?
We are a participatory educational resource exploring the evolution of healing traditions across cultures and time
Nature’s Medicine Through Time is a digital archive and learning platform dedicated to the study of medicine’s natural roots. Through carefully curated timelines, biographies, and institutional histories, the site illuminates the enduring lineage of ideas and practices that shape modern integrative and naturopathic medicine. Designed for students, educators, and practitioners alike, it invites curiosity about how knowledge, culture, and healing have intertwined across centuries—and continues to serve as a living reference for the education and advancement of the healing arts.
What Nature’s Medicine Through Time™ is Doing
Enriching Education by Honoring People, Practices, and Institutions
To educate students, practitioners, and the public about the continuity of clinical traditions and to rediscover the ongoing relevance of historical and philosophical roots.
Preserving Traditions for Clinical Application
To preserve the cultural, philosophical, and clinical heritage of person-centered medicine and living therapeutic practices that are hundreds of years old and still effectively used.
Documenting and Interpreting Historical Lineage
To connect modern practitioners and scholars with the origins and evolution of natural therapeutics with the common theme of respecting the self-healing processes of living systems.
Providing Institutional Support for Teaching and Practice
To foster learning and support teaching and reference use in classrooms, clinics, conferences, and institutional contexts.
Empowering Us to Co-Create History
Inspire curiosity and continuity by highlighting the shared roots and evolving wisdom that connect ancient healing traditions with contemporary natural medicine.
Professional Formation Process Framework
To clarify how professional identity in natural medicine is formed over time: through exposure to lineage, engagement with primary sources, participation in institutions, and the gradual maturation of clinical judgment within living traditions.
Deep Gratitude to and Respect for Those Who Have Contributed
We Honor the diverse cultural, indigenous, and traditional medical lineages that shaped Naturopathic Medicine and express deep gratitude to key historical authors and texts that inform this project.
Nature’s Medicine Through Time™
A Landscape of People and Practices,
Principles and Institutions
Designed, Developed and Curated by
Mitchell Bebel Stargrove, ND, LAc
Editor, Co-Author, and Resident Historian
National University of Natural Medicine
University of Western States
Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
Site Design and Implementation
Christopher Thombs, Fort Creative
Icons, Collages, and Phase I Assistance
Gwyllm Llwydd
With early contributions from
Pamela Snider, ND, Craig Stuart Mehrmann, MPH, ND; Hunter Peterson, ND; Amy Neil, MS, MAP; Kelsang Tenpa, MA; Kelsi Ervin, ND; Laura Cotton, ND; Craig Fasullo, ND; George Luciano Gonzales, ND; Madeline Foley, DACM; Jared Zeff, ND, LAc; Jared Skowron, ND; Roger Newman Turner, ND, DO, BAc; Stephen Myers, ND, BMed, PhD; Don Warren, ND; Rev. Steven Bailey, ND; David J. Schleich, PhD; George Cody; Eric Blake, ND, LAc; Sussanna Czeranko, ND; Iva Lloyd, ND; Tina Hausser, HP; Francis Brinker, ND; Prudence Broadwell, ND; Peter J. D’Adamo, ND; Laura Farr; Bruce Canvasser, ND; Matthew Wood, MSc (Herbal Medicine), RH (AHG);
And ongoing support from
American Association of Naturopathic Physicians; Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians; Washington Association of Naturopathic Physicians; National University of Natural Medicine; Bastyr University; National University of Health Sciences; Oregon College of Oriental Medicine; University of Western States; Institute for Natural Medicine; World Naturopathic Federation
