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Definition of Holistic medicine
1. Noun. Medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors. "Holistic medicine treats the mind as well as the body"
Medical Definition of Holistic medicine
1. Various systems of health protection and restoration, both traditional and modern, that are reputedly based on the bodys natural healing powers, the various ways the different tissues affect each other and the influence of the external environment. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holistic Medicine
Literary usage of Holistic medicine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"holistic medicine, 5 vols. Wiley, Sussex, England. ... Directory of Holistic
Medicine and Alternate Health Care Services in the US Health Plus, Phoenix, ..."
2. Indigenous Knowledge and Its Uses in SA by Hans Normann, Ina Snyman (1996)
"My observation of disease as a natural occurrence, is to see it as "holistic
medicine". If a person gets ill he must be treated and cured in his community, ..."
3. A Time to Heal: The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain by Jerry L. Gaw (1999)
"... breakdown and disintegration of organic tissue cells holistic medicine— the
comprehensive and total care of a patient, including physical, emotional, ..."
4. Global Challenge and Local Response: Initiatives for Economic Regeneration by Walter B. Stöhr (1990)
"... by applying empirically successful (though scientifically not fully rationalizable)
methods in what is called 'alternative' or 'holistic' medicine. ..."
5. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"The true embracing of holistic medicine including integrated trials is required
and they will produce results. The health system needs integrated organic ..."
6. Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing by Larry Chang (2006)
"... and cell-receptor communication system is the psychobiological basis of mindbody
healing, therapeutic hypnosis, and holistic medicine in general. ..."
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