Rethinking medicine, complementary and unconventional practices

Rethinking medicine, complementary and unconventional practices

Integration, union, fusion? Is it possible to think and re-think an enriched, enhanced, sensitized medicine, beyond the schemes but always keeping the level of professionalism high?

Rethinking medicine, complementary and unconventional practices

One medicine, many medicines

If I work on the body through energy techniques , what role will physiotherapy tout court play ? If the approach to the body is only mechanical, will the disorder tend to reappear? Can the body be taught how to heal? And, if this is true, what happens or what role do specialists play in sectors in which the disorder has been researched for decades and not the area of ​​health that exists in every human being ?

These are all open questions, which would require constant discussion between researchers and clinicians, therapists and experts in the various sectors of natural disciplines and well-being.

At the European level we are getting there. If nothing else, we feel the need to see the patient, to listen to him in his entirety as they teach complementary or unconventional medicines and practices . Especially in the oncology field, the integrated approach really looks like the future.

On a general level, there is a strong need to rethink treatment, in an extended sense, also by re-evaluating holistic medicine , natural therapies and those that derive from millenary traditions, as in the case of Ayurvedic medicine or traditional Chinese medicine .

 

Internal cleansing, illness, hygiene

In fact, we also find enlightened visions of disease by looking back. And not too far behind. In these fields one always returns to a classic nostalgia, one searches for Paracelsus, one peeks among the Presocrats. There is no need to deny the advancement of mainstream medicine and get excited to excess by letting only unconventional practices triumph. Surgery has made great strides, but this invasive aspect has at its core a whole series of precepts that would be worth redoing our own.

Just think of Florence Nightingale and remember some assumptions of this great British nurse and writer: Diseases are not individuals organized into classes and categories, like cats and dogs, but conditions that develop from each other.
Is it not perhaps living continuously in a wrong way that leads us to break the balance? Are not factors such as internal and external cleanliness and dirt that determine whether people feel good or feel bad?

Valdo Vaccaro describes this enlightened figure very well: He said some unforgettable things about infections and diseases, and his positions were advanced and modern to the point that even today’s sophisticated and post-technological medicine has much to learn from her.

Reintegrate these visions, combine them with today’s acquisitions, seek and never stop seeking. This is in movement as much as in nutrition as in manual therapies .

 

ECIM and global patient care

The ECIM, European Congress of Integrated Medicine , is in its 5th edition and will be held in Florence from 21 to 22 September 2012 and will be inaugurated on 20 September with a ceremony in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio.

We are very interested in dealing with topics related to integrated oncology, chronic pain, psychopathologies, pediatrics, the treatment of allergic forms and other topics that are also dealt with daily at the level of complementary medicine with excellent results.

Space will also be given to agro-homeopathy, biodynamic agriculture and food , sectors that should not be underestimated, if we assume that what we introduce has a good percentage of effect on the functioning of the entire system. The European criteria for the production of homeopathic and phytotherapeutic drugs and their application in Italy will also be examined .

 

The event is promoted by the Tuscany Region – Tuscany Network of Integrated Medicine, University of Florence and the Order of Surgeons and Dentists of Florence, together with the Charité University of Berlin, in collaboration with other Tuscan universities and the regional agency of Health, with the patronage of numerous national and international bodies and institutions.

We await this international appointment to understand at what point the integration is and to shed light on gray areas. Ready for that kind of overturning whereby perhaps what has so far remained in the dark area turns out to be a harbinger of light and care when the balance is less.

 

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