The challenge of translating knowledge (from both research and from practice experience) into practice is an increasing challenge for the field of medicine. A 2002 analysis of knowledge management in health care, for example, suggests, “…there have been a number of problems and challenges in practice, not least a considerable naivete around the issue of knowledge transfer and ‘knowledge into practice’ within health care organisations.” (1) Importantly, however, codification of naturopathic medicine extends far beyond knowledge management. Its main goal is to amass, synthesize and articulate the research, scholarship, theories and models underlying its understanding and key concepts explaining a defined healing process in living organisms, and to demonstrate how that knowledge is implemented in practice. In the FNM textbook, this involves ‘knowledge mapping,’ described by Landry (2006) as, “…locating, accessing, valuing and filtering pertinent knowledge; extracting, collecting, distilling, refining, interpreting, packaging and transforming the captured knowledge into usable knowledge.” (2)