Today’s Integrative Medicine (also known as Quantum Medicine) system uses both Modern Medicine and Alternative Medicine practices to focus on health promotion and disease prevention.

An individualized, wholistic plan of care is formulated by exploring the qualities of both the physical body (in line with Modern Medicine practices) and the subtle body (in line with Alternative Medicine teachings) which include feelings, emotions, thoughts, spiritual beliefs and even intuition.

Our physical and subtle bodies are interconnected from conception throughout our life journeys. Together, they create the whole human experience, which is unique to each of us.

Alternative medicine practices such as Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Indigenous, Naturopathy, or Taoist Medicine, have been used for hundreds and thousands of years by many cultures all over the world. As a matter of fact, they used to be the conventional medicine practices even on the American continent before Modern Medicine took over early in the 20^th century.

The ancient Greeks used an integrated health promotion approach, a combination of what they used to call “living intelligently” and “doctoring”. They believed that a person’s ability to fight disease was individualized and depended on an inner profile of healing mechanisms. Symptoms were seen as an inner communication system and used as a guide to target interventions towards the actual cause of the distress.

Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician seen as the father of Modern Medicine, believed that thoughts and emotions directly affected the body organs and systems via contact interaction.

Aristotle, one of the first integrative medicine doctors, also believed that every person was a combination of both physical and spiritual properties with no separation between the mind and the body.