Grow integrative medicine seeds (zaadz!) and create community. Whether you are just learning about integrative medicine or have a full-time practice, please ask, teach and discover with us.
As inspired by Dr. Andrew Weil’s precepts, integrative medicine refers to:
- A partnership between patient and practitioner in the healing process - Appropriate use of conventional...(more) and alternative methods to facilitate the body’s innate healing response - Consideration of all factors that influence health, wellness and disease, including mind, spirit and community as well as body - A philosophy that neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative medicine uncritically - Recognition that good medicine should be based in good science, inquiry driven and open to new paradigms - Use of natural, less invasive interventions whenever possible - The broader concepts of promotion of health and the prevention of illness as well as the treatment of disease - Practitioners as models of health and healing, committed to the process of self-exploration and self-development (less)
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Communal place for sharing information on the bazillions of supplements available. Please try to source your information if possible, if not, just mention that you don't know the data to back up the claims, or ask if others might know....(more)(less)
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