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Naturopathy’s Black Book

Recently I became aware of a reference book—commonly referred to as the “Black Book”—which Bastyr University students could use as a treatment guide. It has no identified author or publication date, but the information appears to have been reproduced in 2005 from a set of 14 floppy discs that contained a total of 269 topics, each in a separate file. When I received the files, I assembled them into a searchable 631-page PDF document. A former Bastyr student whom I asked about the book has told me: Naturopathy students are required to compile/create a “clinic notebook” which contains naturopathic pearls of info that we picked up throughout our training. I assume that the black book grew out of this requirement. I don’t think it was …