Naturopathic physicians are professionally trained herbalists, using whole plants as medicinal agents to treat disease. Although allopathic pharmaceutical agents are also derived from plants, the components of the plants are typically isolated or synthetically produced causing harmful side-effects. We use a variety of herbs in different preperations to treat people with acute (colds, flu, bronchitis, allergies) as well as chronic (hypertension, diabetes, arthritis) diseases.