In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in integrative medicine. One of the great strengths of integrative medicine is that it recognizes each person as a unique individual with many aspects that are vital to their health and well-being.
Integrative medicine differs from conventional allopathic medicine in some fundamental ways. While conventional medicine focuses on symptoms and disease, integrative medicine focuses on root causes and health. Allopathic medicine concentrates on the physical and breaks the body into separate, disconnected parts, whereas the integrative approach treats the human being—body, mind, and spirit—as a unified whole.
