Siddappa Naragatti

Massage Therapy in Naturopathic Practice: A Critical Narrative Review of Mechanistic Rationale, Clinical Evidence and Conceptual Coherence

B. V. Bhoomika & Siddappa Naragatti · Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medical Research · 2026

Massage is among the oldest and most widely recognised components of naturopathic physical medicine, yet its position within the discipline has become unsettled. Naturopathic philosophy justifies manual therapy through claims about circulation, elimination, nervous regulation and...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jocamr/2026/v27i9773

A Naturopathic Framework for Personalised Therapeutic Sunbathing: A Critical Review of Photobiological and Epidemiological Evidences

B. V. Bhoomika & Siddappa Naragatti · Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medical Research · 2026

Deliberate exposure of the skin to solar radiation for therapeutic purposes has been practised for more than a century and remains embedded in naturopathic care as an expression of the doctrine that healing is assisted by ordered contact with natural agents. The practice now sits...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jocamr/2026/v27i8772