What is Integrated Medicine?
As an expert in the field of Chinese herbology, homeopathy and supportive nutrition, InteMedica’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. W. John Diamond, has a different perspective to medicine as few physicians have experience in these three CAM modalities combined with a conventional medical degree. Further, as a former pathologist, Dr. Diamond has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of disease. Using this knowledge and experience, Dr. Diamond reviewed and analyzed over seventeen years of clinical data from 15,000 patients and over 100,000 patient visits and has developed and practices a new way of thinking about CAM formulas:
It is optimal to combine homeopathic remedies, herbs and supportive nutritional products to achieve a more reliable and predictable result, rather than to use them alone.
The reason for this revolutionary finding relates to the specific activity of each remedy, and how each affects different parts of the body:
Homeopathic remedies act almost 100% on the electromagnetic information of the body and mainly affect the emotional-body connection.
Chinese herbs have some electromagnetic information, but mainly support the metabolic, immune and energy producing activities of the body.
Supportive nutritional products are important as a material substrate, or as necessary substances for building blocks or co-factors in enzymic activities in the body.
The body is energetic, metabolic and material, therefore, it is necessary to combine two or all of these CAM modalities together for a complete and optimum effect. Each individual reacts differently to each remedy, and formulas need to be designed to produce the broadest possible response. Having developed and perfected this concept through clinical experimentation, Dr. Diamond has formulated specific protocols for a variety of acute and chronic ailments. For more information on these modalities, please click here.
The InteMedica system of product lines and protocols is based on Integrated Medicine, where natural healing modalities are integrated with Western medicine. By using this combined approach, the practitioner is able to use the modality, be it CAM or conventional, that is most appropriate for the patient. Furthermore, our clinical data strongly suggests that a combination of the two in many cases is the most efficacious treatment solution.
