Integrative Primary Care
What is Integrative Medicine?
Integrative Medicine is a personalized treatment plan that incorporates both modern medicine and ancient healing techniques in order to promote physical, spiritual and emotional well being.
Are these treatments proven?
Integrative medicine has been proven to be effective in multiple medical journals and articles. Despite this proof, the FDA remains reluctant in supporting alternative medicine and therapies because of their financial gain from the pharmaceutical industry. Growing public interest is concerned with less invasive, safer, and less damaging treatments for chronic and terminal illnesses. New research in favor of alternative healing emerges every day. The World Health Organization actively engages in campaigns supporting the regulation and formal research of complementary and alternative therapies. The American Cancer Society and Cancer Treatment Centers of America both recognize integrative therapies as important techniques that can prevent and improve the negative effects of chemotherapy. Integrative medicine aims to improve the quality of life without the negative or addictive effects of traditional prescription drug therapies.
Nutritional Counseling
Many qualifying Medical Cannabis patients have gastrointestinal complications due to their various conditions. Knowing what food is best for your specific body type and health concern can often been a difficult task. We simplify this entire process by assigning you a registered Dietitian who will walk you through your own personalized treatment plan including shopping do’s and don’t’s, cooking tips and more. Your Dietitian will closely coordinate with you and your physician in order to help regulate your metabolism, energy levels and maximize healing potential throughout your entire treatment plan with the Healing Clinic.
Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic Medicine is a system of health care that focuses on the use of natural therapeutics to promote health and address the root causes of illness and imbalance rather than covering up symptoms. This distinctive field of medicine has a primary focus on the prevention of chronic disease, to allow the healing power of nature transform the body and mind towards greater health and vitality.
Craniosacral Therapy
Pain plays a huge role in our ability to live the fullest life possible. It often impairs the ability to complete simple tasks and activities. Many medical cannabis patients experience chronic pain. Medications are available, but they affect your ability to function properly throughout the day. By complementing the body’s natural healing processes, craniosacral therapy is an extremely benefactory therapy for all conditions. CST can be characterized as “energy work,” but in reality there is a scientific basis for this unique type of body work. CST is increasingly used by patients as a preventive health measure for its ability to bolster resistance to disease, and is effective for a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and dysfunction.
Reiki / Light Touch Therapy
Reiki is an effective medical treatment beneficial to patients suffering from a variety of conditions including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic brain injury, seizures, multiple sclerosis, all forms of cancer, and Crohn's disease. Reiki utilizes principles of 'light touch' therapy, positively affecting chronic illnesses with feather-light touch. Reiki therapy is a formative and developing therapy. The Healing Clinic strives to provide the most effective and informative Reiki services in Illinois. Variations of massage, including Reiki, light touch, and foot massage largely affect the reduction of anxiety, depression, and pain.
