Naturopathy Clinics
For when modern medicine can not heal you ails.
Purpose / Function
Naturopathy Clinics, more commonly known as Hippie Hospitals, are clinics that provide alternative medicines during diseases, wounds, and mental health issues. The people who run such clinics believe that modern medicine has caused more problems than they cure if they cure anything at all. And that returning to natural medicine is the only way forward to living a healthy and balanced life.
These people are typically anti vaccinations, anti-medical intervention, and anti modernization. They live more traditional or natural lifestyles avoiding modern comforts such as electricity, cars, air conditioning or heating, etc.
Their most controversial belief was that the apocalypse was intentionally created in order to return them to a more natural lifestyle.
Architecture
Hippie Hospitals can vary greatly in their building architecture. Most clinics are typically very basic buildings, with four walls and a roof, that offer little to no privacy from other patients. There are some clinics with more expensive architecture due to increased profits, but these are rare.
The buildings are almost always never up to code for practicing medicine. Some people will practice Naturopathy out of their homes.
History
Naturopathy clinics began to pop up in Dragon's Heart around the time of Alex's wife's death. Since she could no longer focus on ruling over the city with a close eye, the clinics took advantage and began peddling natural remedies. They started off as scams. Vendors would sell oddities such as bull urine with blended horns or maple syrup, honey, unpasteurized expired cows milk, and pink salt combination(a very popular remedy), and claim it would cure the T virus or better yet prevent it. The scams gained traction when people started believing that the remedies cured other illnesses as well.
Once Alex was back and able to regain control over the city fully, the Naturopathy clinics moved out of Dragon's Heart and to less monitored towns where they grew in numbers.
Alternative Names
Hippie Hospitals
Type
Clinic
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