AHHA Featured Article of the Week March 25, 2008
The American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA) supports practitioners
in their evolving personal and professional development as healers and
to educate physicians about holistic medicine. You can contact AHMA at
(425) 967-0737 or visit the AHMA web site at holisticmedicine.org.
The American Holistic Health Association has compiled a collection of
self-help articles to support your efforts to enhance your own health
and well-being.
This article is part of the
article category
WHAT IS HOLISTIC?
and the sub-category
HOLISTIC MEDICINE
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Principles of Holistic Medicine
Holistic medicine is the art and science of healing that addresses the
whole person - body, mind, and spirit. The practice of holistic medicine
integrates conventional and alternative therapies to prevent and treat
disease, and most importantly, to promote optimal helath. This condition
of holistic health is defined as the unlimited and unimpeded free flow
of life force energy through body, mind, and spirit.
Holistic medicine encompasses all safe and appropriate modalities of
diagnosis and treatment. It includes analysis of physical, nutritional,
environmental, emotional, spiritual and lifestyle elements. Holistic
medicine focuses upon patient education and participation in the healing
process.
The Principles of Holistic Medical Practice
Holistic physicians embrace a variety of safe, effective options in the
diagnosis and treatment, including:
a. education for lifestyle changes and self-care
b. complementary alternatives; and
c. conventional drugs and surgery
Searching for the underlying causes of disease is preferable to treating
symptoms alone.
Holistic physicians expend as much effort in establishing what kind of
patient has a disease as they do in establishing what kind of disease a
patient has.
Prevention is preferable to treatment and is usually more
cost-effective. The most cost-effective approach evokes the patient's
own innate healing capabilities.
Illness is viewed as a manifestation of a dysfunction of the whole
person, not as an isolated event.
A major determinant of healing outcomes is the quality of the
relationship established between physician and patient, in which patient
autonomy is encouraged.
The ideal physician-patient relationship considers the needs, desires,
awareness and insight of the patient as well as those of the physician.
Physicians significantly influence patients by their example.
Illness, pain, and the dying process can be learning opportunities for
patients and physicians.
Holistic physicians encourage patients to evoke the healing power of
love, hope, humor and enthusiasm, and to release the toxic consequences
of hostility, shame, greed, depression, and prolonged fear, anger, and
grief.
Unconditional love is life's most powerful medicine. Physicians strive
to adopt an attitude of unconditional love for patients, themselves, and
other practitioners.
Optimal health is much more than the absence of sickness. It is the
conscious pursuit of the highest qualities of the physical,
environmental, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of the
human experience.
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This material is used with the permission of the the American Holistic
Medical Association (AHMA). Various professional members of the American
Holistic Medical Association (AHMA) contributed to the development of
these principles.
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