Natural Medicine
Publishers in Stellenbosch

Natural Medicine played a key role in educating doctors as well as the public in the uses and benefits of complementary medicine – in the early days, through its forerunner the Complementary Medicine Journal.
The first Natural Medicine magazine was published in October 2000, and one big change has to be the cover and the quality of the images.
In the early stages, Natural Medicine was mistakenly seen by some readers as a publication with ‘a pill for an ill solution’, because of its name and cover.
Natural medicine also encompasses nutrition, lifestyle, spiritual health, exercise, and emotional and mental wellbeing.
For Daleen natural medicine is more than taking a pill for an ill philosophy.

Natural Medicine has been dedicated in providing current information on the uses and benefits of complementary medicine to the general public and practitioners for more than 13 years. This publication integrates the most successful approaches to health maintenance, disease prevention and the treatment of ill health. The forerunner to Natural Medicine was published 16 years ago and was called The Complementary Medicine Journal. After three years, the current editor and publisher, Daleen Totten, decided to launch the magazine to the public, together with co-founder Dr Bernard Brom. Natural Medicine received an overwhelmingly positive response from the general public, trade and professionals; all wanting access to information they could trust. With more articles than they had space to publish, a decision was taken to go monthly with a new-look issue Many practitioners have come to understand how important it is to integrate complementary medicine into an allopathic practice and to look at their patients in a more holistic way and not just treat symptoms. Most people with an interest in health are aware of the importance of a preventive approach and have come to understand the role of optimal nutrition and the benefits of supplementation. Natural Medicine is available monthly through health shops, pharmacies and major retail outlets nationwide. DALEEN TOTTEN is editor, publisher and founding member of Natural Medicine. She has a passion for knowledge and believes that the physical body is the last manifestation of disease. The early articles were difficult to read, containing medical jargon few lay readers understood. The challenge was to ask the authors (all medical professionals) to write in lay terms. We now have clearly defined sections in the magazine, dedicated to the most significant aspects of health, such as NATURAL NUTRITION, IMPROVING HEALTH, NATURAL LIVING, NATURAL REMEDIES, NATURAL THERAPIES, and the MIND-BODY-SOUL connection. At first the doctors were very slow to use complementary medicines in their practices. We were dedicated to providing professional, well-researched and objective information on natural medicine. They not only wanted to read articles written by their peers, but their patients were asking questions about supplements and optimal nutrition after having read the journal. And what about how often the publication was printed at first, the number of pages to start with, and the number of copies in the very early days compared with today? Natural Medicine received an overwhelmingly positive response from the general public, trade and professionals, all wanting access to information they could trust. not a magazine article put together by a journalist and paid for by the advertisers. We had more articles than we had space to publish, and were so successful that we took the decision to go monthly with our new-look issue The key interest originally (in the first few journals) was in the various therapies, modalities and supplements. Supplements can support the healing process and prevent disease, together with good nutrition, a healthier lifestyle, awareness of the environment we live in, and natural therapies. ), as we believe that readers need a holistic view of these conditions more than, for example, to be educated on use of the herb Crateagus for heart support. Since its inception the publication has been the authority on natural medicine in South Africa, and it is a trusted source of objective information.