P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 2464
Those persons licensed to practice as doctors [of] naturopathy may:
(a) Recommend or prescribe natural products that do not require a medical prescription. These products may not be distributed or sold in their own office.
(b) Make evaluations or diagnoses, and provide treatments and therapies proper to naturopathic medicine.
(c) Practice the following therapeutic methods:
(1) Aromatherapy. — Therapy based on the use of aromatic and medicinal plants.
(2) Batherapy (thermal water vapor, hydrotherapy). — Includes a variety of baths with therapeutic purposes conducted with water. It also refers to air, sun, and other baths.
(3) Chromotherapy. — Refers to the therapeutic use of color.
(4) Digipressure or acupressure. — A technique which uses digital pressure on points in the meridians that are to be stimulated.
(5) Phytotherapy (medicinal plants, syrups, poultices, compresses). — Is defined as botanical medicine.
(6) Homeopathy. — Refers to the treatment system based on the use of highly diluted and dynamized natural substances.
(7) Kinesics (energy of touch). — A technique to achieve muscular balance for therapeutic purposes. It does not use any type of substance or artifact since only the body’s source of energy is used.
(8) Lavages and douches. — Refers to the use of enemas or colonics and vaginal douches with therapeutic purposes to restore the homeostasis of the system, and/or remove toxins. These shall not be administered by the doctor [of] naturopathy, nor in his/her office. The same shall be administered by the person him/herself.
(9) Therapeutic massage. — Refers to the use of massage for therapeutic purposes.
(10) Musical therapy. — Refers to the use of music for therapeutic purposes.
(11) Reflexology. — Refers to therapy that is similar to “digipressure or acupressure,” limited to the area of the feet or hands, which establishes that any organ of the body can be stimulated from that zone.
(12) Biomagnetics. — Refers to the use of magnets for the treatment of illnesses.
The therapeutic methods of homeopathy and phytotherapy (excluding poultices and compresses) shall be used exclusively by naturopaths and doctors [of] naturopathy authorized by law to exercise said practices in Puerto Rico.
(d) Refer to the following tests for the diagnosis of physical conditions: x-rays, electrocardiograms, ultrasound, phlebotomy, clinical laboratory tests, physiological function, and other diagnostic procedures commonly used by physicians, which will provide more ample clinical information and contribute to an accurate diagnosis.
History —Dec. 30, 1997, No. 208, § 15; Aug. 28, 1998, No. 259, § 1.