Nature Cure was developed during the lifetime of James C Thomson, particularly at Kingston, Edinburgh, a residential Clinic, between 1938 - 1988. With herbalism and homeopathy it became one of the first alternatives to medical practice and relies on an improved dietetary and a more robust approach to healthy activities such as walking and cycling as exercise.

Crucially it aims for a much more proactive involvement by the patient, stresses the recognition and role of the healing Power of Nature and encourages the development of self awareness.

Massage and the use of hydrotherapy are important tools, with the practitioner also offering advice, explanation and encouragement. The object is to have a patient in charge of his own health care, who can recognise that prevention is the better part of cure.

Members of this group do not advocate or use any of the pills or potions or vitamin extracts associated with the "alternative".

In 2005 through to 2006, we published 5 Files containing information on The   Nature Cure Story: