Does naturopathy offer something special or uniquely effective for the treatment of diabetes? Naturopaths are alternative medicine practitioners who claim to provide primary care, like medical doctors. Among naturopaths and their supporters, it’s regularly claimed that naturopathy offers something that conventional medicine does not. Naturopaths are described as doctors, using unconventional approaches to coax the body to heal itself with methods that are claimed to be safer and more effective than conventional drugs and medical interventions.