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What is Integrative Medicine?
Definition of Integrative Medicine“
(…) Integrative medicine means an integration of conventional biomedicine with traditional and complementary medicine. All appropriate therapeutic approaches and healthcare disciplines are used to achieve an improved health status for the patient, while recognizing and respecting the unique contributions of various medical systems.
Integrative health and medicine affirm the importance of the healthcare professional-patient relationship, the active participation of patients in this process and emphasize interprofessional collaboration, network systems and multidisciplinary teams”.
- Portuguese Society of Integrative Medicine.
The principles that govern Integrative Medicine are:
- Patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process;
- Effective, natural and less invasive interventions
- Health promotion and disease prevention;
- Mind, spirit and community;
- Conventional and Complementary Medicine (integrative medicine does not reject conventional medicine nor accept alternative therapies without criticism);
- Self-exploration and self-development;
- Conventional and alternative methods (the appropriate use of conventional and alternative methods facilitates the body's innate healing response);
- Good “medicine” is based on good science.
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