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Eastern Holistic medicine diagnoses, treats and prevents disease. It treats the whole person, including their mental, physical and spiritual needs, and their environment. It

Indian Ayurvedic medicine and Siddha. Ayurveda is herbal medicine. The Siddha system uses five elements - earth, water, fire, air, and ether as the basis of all things. It also holds that the body and external world are intimately connected.

Three of the elements: air/vata, fire/pitta, and water/kapha are fundamental to our health, and imbalance creates dis-ease. Each man/woman has a proportion for their physical and mental type. Thus, the internal air/vata connects to the external air, internal heat or fire/pitta connects to the external heat, and internal water connects to external water. The internal-external connection is similar to Antoine Béchamp’s (1816–1908) Terrain Theory.

In 2014, Dr Shiva Ayyadurai published a paper showing that Ayurveda and Siddha used an intelligent systems engineering approach (defined in the West in the 1930s) to health 5,000 years ago. For example, different yoga postures heal different vata, pitta or kapha imbalances.

Systems Theory Diagram Flows

Ayurveda Diagram Flows

Another example is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), of which there are several types: Chinese herbal medicine, Acupuncture, Tai Chi and Qigong.

The broader diagnosis of the whole body and imbalances often leads to different treatments for people with the same physical symptoms. The Eastern approach views the body as a garden that needs tender care and balance in all areas to thrive.

As shown above, Eastern holistic medicine has existed far longer than Western allopathic medicine.

In Western medicine, the person receives a treatment based on their symptoms, so different people with the same symptoms receive the same treatment.

The Western approach is also reductionist. It views the body as a machine with a faulty part that needs to be fixed with surgery (cut), radiation (burn) or drugs (poison). In this regard, some say the medical profession are ‘mechanics’. It reduces illness to a physical explanation with a physical cure. For example, a doctor may prescribe pills for anxiety to correct a chemical imbalance. 'A pill for every ill.' Nor is the Western approach preventative.

Is this why the holistic health field is so large and growing?

Many have realised that:

There are many different types of IM: integrative and functional medicine, naturopaths, complementary therapy, acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and herbal medicine.

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