What is the Integrative Medicine approach?

Integrative Medicine shifts the orientation of the medical practice from a disease-based approach to the healing-based approach. The healing approach tries to understand the disease state from a broader holistic perspective. This approach involves the whole human being, (body, mind and spirit) as well as his environment and community in the health restoring process. Prevention and disease minimization represent the foundation of integrative health care.

The integrative approach is based in a sacred partnership between the client and the practitioner. In this approach the best treatments and therapies are used to stimulate the body’s intrinsic healing abilities, to achieve optimal health.

Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.