WHAT IS HOLISTIC INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE?

Holistic medicine by its very nature is humane to the core. The wholeness of its scope will create a new lifestyle, a new life for you and your pets. The techniques used in holistic medicine are gentle, minimally invasive and incorporate patient well-being. Holistic thinking is centered on healing through love, empathy and respect. 

​Build Up Immune System
Detox the Body
Reboot Broken Systems

Interactive
Intagrative
Curative

Holistic (or Integrative) Veterinary Medicine is the examination and diagnosis of an animal, considering all aspects of the animal’s life and employing all of the practitioner’s senses, as well as the combination of conventional and alternative (or complementary) modalities of treatment. When a holistic veterinarian sees a pet, besides giving it a comprehensive physical examination, he/she wants to find out all about its behaviors, distant medical and dietary history, and its environment including diet, emotional stresses, and other factors.This mixture of healing arts and skills is as natural as life itself. At the core of this issue lies the very essence of the word “(w)holistic”. It means taking in the whole picture of the patient—the environment, the disease pattern, the relationship of pet with owner—and developing a treatment protocol using a wide range of therapies for healing the patient.

The holistic practitioner is interested in genetics, nutrition, family relationships, hygiene, and stress factors. Many patients present in a state of “disease.” At this point the holistic challenge lies in the question “why?” By a series of analytic observations and appropriate testing the goal becomes finding the true root source of the pathology. A simple-appearing symptom may have several layers of causation.

Only when the true cause of the ailment has been found is there the possibility for a lasting recovery.

It is at this point that the most efficacious, least invasive, least expensive and least harmful path to a cure is selected.


PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Know their limits

“Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities.”

~John R. Lee, M.D.

CANCER, PRESCRIPTION TREATMENTS
Poisoning the body with chemotherapy and burning it with radiation: not enough and often too much. 

"Oncologists have nutritional knowledge deficiency" -Gary Dang MD. Sloan Kettering  

HUMAN INTEGRATIVE CARE SUGGESTION
SUNRIDGE MEDICAL CENTER 
Treatment and Recovery for Serious Illness

FIND HOLISTIC PRACTITIONERS

HOLISTIC VET ASSOCIATION:
FIND A HOLISTIC VETERINARIAN

Many holistic Vets offer phone consults if there are none in your area. Provide them with tests, records and make a list of questions beforehand to get the most thorough answers. Consider taping the call so not to miss any details.

HUMAN RESOURCES
We need to take care of ourselves too!


Emergencies, Combination Therapy



TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (TCM)

Eat what your environment provides, eat for the season. Foods are neutral, hot or cold. Disease and temperament can also be addressed be treated by using the energetics of foods depending on the nature of the illness. For example: A “hot” dog should avoid “hot” foods, a “cold” dog “cold” foods. Food can be a tool to help find balance.

Great resource on TCM: Dr. Ihor Basko, Kauai ~ Hawaii Why holistic medicine? | Dr. Ihor Basko – Worldwide Holistic Veterinary Care, Acupuncture, Diet Therapy


WESTERN MEDICINE - EMERGENCIES, COMBINATION THERAPY
In many acute situations, treatment may involve aspects of surgery and drug therapy from conventional western technology, along with alternative techniques to provide a complementary whole. This form of treatment has great value for severe trauma and certain infections however, keep in mind that the task is not complete until the underlying disease patterns have been redirected. The patient, as well as the client, will be guided to a new level of health applying holistic approaches Emergencies, Combination Therapyonce the acute symptoms have been treated.

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