Naturopathy's Essential Science-Discarded Vitalism: NUNM President Schleich's Coding in NDNR 2018-03

here, an example of naturopathy's typical opacity regarding their essential sectarian science-ejected premise, vitalism, from the guy who runs their oldest school in the U.S., as published at NDNR recently:

001. in Naturopathic Doctor News and Review of March 2018, Schleich, D.J. (PhD UT), President and CEO of NUNM, who is not an ND, writes in "What's It Really Like Out There? 10 Top Market Realities of Naturopathic Medical Education" (2018-03) [2018 archived]:

"when the alignment of these natural medicine and related health sciences career competencies is consistently with the 'healing power of nature' [HPN], the presence of these [naturopathic] universities in the higher-education and health-services sectors is strengthened [...]";

so, HPN.  Notice the piggy-backing of science to 'natural medicine', as if, and the emphasis of 'through the HPN lens.'   Additionally, it's a horrible sentence.  'Is consistently' what?  Seems like a word is missing.  And, by the way, in this entire issue of NDNR, nowhere is there "life force" or "vital force", "vitalistic" or "vitalism".

002. now, at NUNM, we're told in "Naturopathic Principles of Healing", currently, up-front, unlike the Schleich piece, this doozy:

"the practice of naturopathic medicine emerges from six principles of healing. These principles are based on the objective observation of the nature of health and disease and are examined continually in light of scientific analysis. These principles stand as the distinguishing marks of the profession. [#1] The healing power of nature — vis medicatrix naturae. The body has the inherent ability to establish, maintain, and restore health. The healing process is ordered and intelligent; nature heals through the response of the life force. The physician’s role is to facilitate and augment this process [...]";

now, to boil it down to what is simply stated there: HPN is life force, which is vis medicatrix naturae, aka "this process".  This is what naturopathy is aimed at, as an activity or practice via "facilitate and augment".  Now, a "life force" is actually science-discarded.  That is an objective fact.  It's a nonparsimonious science-blocker, in terms of the history of biology particularly.  Yet, here, it is claimed to survive scientific scrutiny.  But that's not true.  So, therein, naturopathy is essentially a pseudoscience, often as you see, disguising its premises.  And, combined with Schleich's language from the NDNR article, HPN is the sectarian frame or lens that naturopaths view the world through to do their "medicine."  That is truly sectarian medicine: narrowly doctrine-bound and doctrine-distorted, nontransparent, manipulative, and simply wrong-headed.