Who coined the phrase, integrative medicine?

Andrew Weil has popularized the term. Has been integrative medicine’s greatest ambassador. Created incredible demand for it.

Pretigious medical schools across the country have developed departments of integrative medicine in the last decade. (Including Duke University, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, San Francisco, University of Arizona, Columbia University, University of Maryland, University of New Mexico, Thomas Jefferson University, University of Massachusetts, Albert Einstein/Yeshiva University, Georgetown University, and the University of Minnesota, among others.)

I don’t recall being aware of the terms, integrative health, integrative medicine, integrative healing, before about 1988 or 1989.

Earliest reference I can find to “integrative health” is this (more…)

Herbal supplement manufacturers don’t stress this. (A bottom-line issue for them?) Yet it was foundational in the herbal texts and trainings I went through in the ’70s, ’80s and even early ’90s. I don’t hear it any more.

And I wonder why? It didn’t suddenly quit being true.

I was taught by traditional Chinese, English and American herbalists, that you should always take herbal remedies in cycles, or “rounds.” Such as, take the herb (or herbal combination) for two weeks, then abstain for a week, then resume for two weeks, and then abstain for a week. Or, take for two months and then take four months off. (Sort of a wash, rinse, repeat routine.)

This is because the body adjusts to the herbs, adapts to the herbs, and then develops tolerance or resistance, and the herbs lose their (more…)

The following is an excerpt from my 1985 metaphysical / quantum-physics novel, Conversations with the Moon, (which had a first, small, private print-run under the title, Blue Suede Shoes) © ken winston caine, all rights reserved:

The brunette is uncertain whether she is hearing sounds on The Other Side.

But, she is certain she senses music… Music tickling her; music caressing her… Music filling, feeding, sustaining her.

Here, on The Other Side, she may be music. She may be a sustained chord; a full chord; a sweet chord; a round chord. She may be C Major…

She’s not sure. She is sure she senses music.

Music.

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Music is a drug. The sounds, rhythms affect the brain and encourage the release of endorphins — natural morphine — and can release a cascade of sexual excitement hormones, or any of a prescription list of brain chemicals (more…)