Integrative Medicine
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Western Medicine and Asian Healing Arts:
East Indian, Tibetan, Ayurvedic, and Chinese Herbal
We assess your life patterns from an Ayurvedic-Chinese-Western Medicine long-term perspective and recommend a diet, daily routine, and individualized herbal formula to help achieve your optimum health and energy level.
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As a non-profit organization, our main aim is to preserve the rich and ancient physical-psycho-spiritual healing traditions of East Indian Ayurvedic Medicine, Chinese Medicine, and Tibetan Medicine. The ultimate purpose of Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine is to give selfless help to ALL. We are a network of kindred Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic , Chinese Medicine Acupuncture, and Western Medicine practitioners joined together to provide traditional Ayurvedic, Tibetan , Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture.
Ayurveda (pronounced: ah your vayda) is a Sanskrit word, which literally means “the science of life”, and has been the natural healing system used throughout India, Nepal, and Tibet and the Himalayas. Ayurveda was originally known to have been first developed and established 4000 years ago by the great sages who developed India’s original systems of meditation and Yoga. The study of Ayurveda includes herbal medicine, dietetics, body work, exercise, life style counseling, psychology and spirituality. It not only deals with medical science, but also with the social, ethical, intellectual, and spiritual life of all living beings. Ayurveda was deeply influenced by the compassionate-wisdom path and by the broadening influence of the Silk-Road interchange with wandering Indian-Chinese-Tibetan-Sri-Lankan-Burmese-Thai Buddhist Practitioners and itinerant Chinese Taoist priests, causing a rich hybrid cross-pollination with Chinese Medicine.
As a holistic paradigm, Ayurveda’s definition of life includes mind, body, and spirit. Ayurveda analyzes the anatomy and physiology, (including the emotions, and mind) of the person as the interplay of three governing principles–vata, pitta, and kapha. Imbalance and disease are characterized as being caused or governed by one or more of these entities called doshas. They regulate the bio-chemistry of the body. Ayurveda views the most important causative factors in health and disease are one’s diet and lifestyle and emotions.
Today, over 300,000 Ayurvedic providers practice worldwide, often working closely with doctors trained in Western, conventional medicine or in homeopathy. Integrative Medicine practitioners help patients to understand their unique bodily constitutions and show them how to use diet, massage, herbs, and lifestyle adjustments to harmonize body, mind, and spirit.
