A Natural Approach to
Children’s Colds and Flus

Did you know 60 million cases of the common cold occur each year it is estimated that 5% to 20% of Americans come down with the flu every flu season?

Bring your family to the SCNM Medical Center for natural cold and flu prevention and treatment! Our pediatric naturopathic doctors and student clinicians provide treatment utilizing the most-gentle natural approaches first but can also prescribe pharmaceuticals when needed. Our medical team knows what natural and over-the-counter medications, and doses, are safe and effective in children.

If you want to prevent your family from catching the flu or a cold, or if you’re looking for cold and flu treatments, our naturopathic medical team can help! Call 480.970.0000 to make your appointments today.

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More about Pediatrics at the SCNM Medical Center

Naturopathic doctors (NDs) are trained to look beyond superficial symptoms and explore nutritional, emotional, environment, hereditary and infectious factors that often are the cause or contribute to a patient’s condition. NDs offer healthy solutions to treat children for chronic conditions and acute diseases, perform wellness exams based on the same schedule and tools MDs use, offer vaccinations based on an individual child’s needs, can conduct routine and specialty lab testing, and much more.

Our pediatrics team is ready to treat:

• Asthma and allergies
• Eczema and rashes
• Obesity and nutritional disorders
• Autism
• Developmental delay
• Colds, flu and coughs
• Vomiting and diarrhea

Pediatrics Department Leaders

Dr. Baral is the chair of the Pediatrics Department and associate professor of pediatrics at SCNM. He has been a Defeat Autism Now practitioner for six years. Dr. Baral also designed the first naturopathic pediatric residency program in naturopathic medicine and serves as its Director.

Dr. Baral serves as the medical director of the Hamilton Elementary School Clinic, a free pediatric clinic that provides care to the students of one of the poorest school districts in Phoenix. Dr. Baral co-authored the first two books on integrative pediatric medicine, “Integrative Medicine for Children,” by May Loo, MD, and “Integrative Pediatrics,” by Timothy Culbert, MD. He serves as the pediatric contributing editor to the “Natural Medicine Journal” and the “International Journal of Naturopathic Medicine,” and is the founding and current president of the Pediatric Association of Naturopathic Physicians.

Dr. Mitchell graduated from SCNM in 2005 and became the first naturopathic pediatric resident in 2007. During her residencies, she participated in controlled studies on biomedical treatments of autism. Articles from this research have been published in “The Journal of Toxicology and BioMed Central Clinical Pharmacology.” She is currently working in conjunction with the Arizona branch of the American Academy of Pediatrics on their Obesity Committee as well as she is a founding member and the treasurer of the Pediatric Association of Naturopathic Physicians.

Dr. Mitchell is currently an adjunct faculty member of SCNM, where she oversees student medical rotations at the medical center and at a free clinic in Phoenix. Dr. Mitchell believes that the body has the innate ability to heal itself when given the appropriate environment and nutrients to do so. She believes in using the safest and gentlest medicine first. She utilizes homeopathy, nutrition, botanical medicine, hydrotherapy and environmental medicine in the care of her patients.