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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