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Botanical medicine

Clinical nutrition

Physical medicine

Lifestyle counseling and stress management




Botanical medicine uses various types of plants as medicinal agents in the treatment of disease. Also known as Herbal medicine, this form of treatment takes advantage of the integrity of a whole plant as opposed to the isolated components used in allopathic pharmaceuticals that usually have side effects.

Clinical nutrition is an area of medicine that seeks to identify and treat medical disorders in humans that result from improper or inadequate diet, or from diseases that make the body unable to handle the nutrients delivered to it in the normal diet.

Physical medicine is the application and use of the principles of physics (heat, light, electricity, water, massage and manipulation) in the treatment of pathological conditions, injuries, and physical anomalies affecting the human body. There are specialties within the field of physical medicine, roughly defined as a Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and other.

Lifestyle counseling and stress management are tools to help patients cope with stress and any mental/emotional issues with which they may be dealing.