Holistic Health Care

What is it?

Holistic medicine means consideration of the complete person, physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually, in the management and prevention of disease. It is underpinned by the concept that there is a link between our physical health and our more general 'well-being'. In an holistic approach to medicine, there is the belief that our well-being relies not just on what is going on in our body physically in terms of illness or disease, but also on the close inter-relation of this with our psychological, emotional, social, spiritual and environmental state. These different states can be equally important. They should be managed together so that a person is treated as a whole. In fact some feel that the word holistic should really be spelt 'wholistic'. A holistic approach means that the doctor is informed about a patient's whole life situation.

Holistic health care treats symptoms but it also looks for underlying causes of these symptoms. One way of explaining this is by looking for 'the story behind the story. Holistic medicine is something that alternative medicine practitioners traditionally use as a basis for their treatments. However, it is a common misconception that holistic medicine is just 'alternative' or 'complementary' medicine. It is true that holistic medicine allows for a wider range of holistic treatments approaches to be used together and encourages open-mindedness for these different approaches. Some of these approaches may include the use of complementary and alternative medicine but holistic medicine does not dismiss conventional medicine. It uses conventional medicine as part of the treatment approach. Nutrition, exercise, homeopathy, prayer, acupuncture and meditationare just a few other treatments that may be used together with conventional medicine as part of a holistic approach. Holistic nursing is also recognized as being an important concept.

We are a team of buttery ayurvedic on a mission to heal the world one foot at a time. We are melting pot of personalities, from all over the world, united as a team to serve. Each one of us on this team has experienced pressure relative to our lives and has practiced balancing the imbalance with passed down knowledge of Ayurveda and Marma.

Authored By: Dr. Kiran B Nair