Our mission is to provide authentic
Integrative Wholistic Healing, through area hospitals, to
the communities under their care.
Integrative Wholistic Healing is a
free-standing, public organization based in Moline, Illinois.
This organization works with area hospitals
to set up centers and retreats in Integrative Wholistic Healing,
as well as working with administration of hospitals and educational
institutions to offer a variety of authentic complementary
healing methods for the community under their care. As the
word Integrative implies, we work with physicians and hospitals,
combining Wholistic methods of healing as an optional addition
to the care provided.
Wholistic refers to Mind, Body and
Spirit.
Integrative Wholistic Healing is sponsored
by The Institute for Cultural and Healing Traditions, Ltd.
a 501(c)3 organization. The Institute also encourages Independent
Scholars and, for this purpose, provides a public forum every
Thursday evening during fall and spring. Often the forum is
attended by patients at both the chronic stage of their ailment
as well as at recovering stages. Preventive care is an important
emphasis of our work.
Our Work
1. INTEGRATIVE WHOLISTIC HEALING RETREATS:
Designed by The Institute, the IWH retreats are divided in
three segments:
a. The “backbone” of meditation and yoga –
or parallels.
b. The afternoon sessions by acceptable complementary modalities.
c. Evening retreat presentations that are open to the public:
Evening sessions are presented by physicians
on aspects of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
modalities and their usage.
2. DIRECT WORK WITH AREA INSTITUTIONS.
a. The Institute and its officials work with area hospitals,
healing institutions and training institutions to introduce
CAM modalities into the community under their care.
b. Additionally, The Institute provides a Network of Integrative
Wholistic Healing professions and CAM practitioners for the
local area.
3. OUR TRACK RECORD:
Healing modalities introduced:
• After our first retreat yoga was introduced in the
local hospitals.
• After our second retreat, hospital privileges for
Medical Acupuncture as a method of healing was included at
Genesis Health Care System.
• After our third retreat, prayer was included in the
operating room during cardiac-surgery at Genesis Health Care
System.
• With the assistance of the local hospitals, Chi-Quong
and Yoga are offered to community members.
• Workshops in the art of interior arrangement to enhance
health, happiness and well-being were introduced to the community.
Healing concerns and issues addressed:
• Frank Claudy, MD and Rev. Merlin Cannon Whittmer discussed
the use of metaphor in the expression of pain among patients.
• The uses and the dangers of Herbs was discussed by
Nicole Nisly, MD, member of our Core Group as well Director
of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Clinic at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
• David B. Larson, MD., Director of the National Institute
for Healthcare Research, Washington DC gave a series of presentations
on the power of prayer to both the community as well as the
hospital administrations of both the area hospitals. This
series lead to the inclusion of prayer in the operating room.
• Wellness in the East: Dr. David B. Sands, MD. Director.
Maharishi College of Medicine, Fairfield, Iowa discusses the
concept of wellness in the east and the use of Ayurveda.
• Kirk Witherspoon, Ph.D. clinical psychologist
• Christine Deignan, MD discussed the use of acupuncture
in modern medicine.
• H. Ahn, MD discussed the use of acupuncture in modern
medicine.
• Paul Pomreh, MD. Dept of Preventative Medicine and
Dean, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, discussed
the concept of wellness in the west.
• Uses of Complementary and Wholistic Medicine have
been discussed by Evan Kligman, MD, Chair of the Dept. of
Family Medicine, University of Iowa .
• The new paradigms of health care were discussed by
Myron Fields, MD, from the Fields Surgical Clinic, Rock Island,
Illinois.
• Establishing centers in Integrative Wholistic Healing
in collaboration with area Hospitals.
Past Work:
• After our first retreat yoga was introduced in both
hospitals.
• After our second retreat, hospital privileges for
Acupuncture as a method of healing was included at one of
the area hospitals.
• After our third retreat, prayer was included in the
operating room during cardiac-surgery.
• Chi-Quong and Yoga are offered to community members.
• “Feng Shui” the knowledge of interior
arrangement to
enhance health, happiness and well-being, was introduced to
the community and workshops provided.
• A Dream Workshop was given by invited guests and
shared by participants.
• The uses and the dangers of Herbs was discussed by
Nicole Nisly, MD, member of our Core Group as well
Director of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Clinic at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
• David B. Larson, MD., Director of the National Institute
for Healthcare Research, Washington DC gave a series of presentations
on the power of prayer to both the community as well as the
hospital administrations of both the area hospitals. This
series lead to the inclusion of prayer in the operating room.
Future work: Establishing
centers in Integrative Wholistic Healing in collaboration
with area Hospitals and educational institutions.
Network
The Institute network includes healers
and care givers providing traditional and complementary healing
to their communities. The network is structured to reflect
the authenticity of the traditional care provided.
The Institute reviews credentials among
other aspects of its networking members.
Sponsors
The Institute for Cultural and Healing
Traditions, LTD. Genesis Medical Center
The University of Iowa Dept. of Complementary
and Alternative Medicine
Questions
A University of Iowa study showed that
most people considered "complimentary" medicine
to mean "free" medicine, as in complimentary coffee,
or breakfast.
We need to highlight the frequent confusion
of the two words.
COMPLIMENT refers to a kind word: Something
good said about someone.
COMPLEMENT refers to the addition of:
Something that completes or makes perfect.
At Integrative Wholistic Healing, we
avoid the use of the term "complementary" medicine
because of the judgmental flavor of the term. Differing traditional
practices differ in countries and cultures. For example, what
is traditional in China is not what is traditional in the
United States.
History
INTEGRATIVE WHOLISTIC HEALING-three
words complete in themselves.
INTEGRATIVE medical healing refers
to those allopathic medical practitioners that have been trained
in western medicine and are open to the authentic healing
practices from other philosophies outside the realm of western
allopathic medicine.
WHOLISTIC refers to mind, body and
spirit. The healing for the body refers to the actual physical
taken in through the influences of medicine, and/or surgery
and other direct influences on the body. The Mind refers to
the powers of ones own mind in healing one's physical ailment,
often known as self healing, while the Spirit refers to the
influences of forces from another realm-namely the dimension
of prayer, environmental forces, and vibrations that are larger
than the individual. This has been referred as to Era 1, Era
2, and Era 3 respectively. In the 1970's the word for Wholistic
healing was spelled with a "W" and the "W"
signified the Spirit. In later years, the "W" was
dropped due to the controversy regarding the inclusion of
Spirit. The word "Holistic" was coined and used
to refer to the Mind and Body.
HEALING encompasses the entire range
of healing by ingestions, applications, surgical as well as
self-healing including the change of life-styles. All three
of the healing methods referred to above are included.
Historic Article
The White House Commission on Complementary
and Alternative Medicine Policy was created March 8, 2000,
by executive order. The 2-year commission will ultimately
report to the president on legislative and administrative
recommendations for ensuring that US public policy maximized
the benefits of complementary and alternative medicine.
This is the first article that the
chair of the commission, Dr. Gordon, has written regarding
the work of this key advisory body.
We believe that this is a historic
article and needs to be acknowledged as such and well circulated.
James S Gordon chairs the White House
Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
and directs the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington,
DD. He is the author, most recently, of ‘Comprehensive
Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative , Complementary and Conventional
Therapies (Perseus Press, 2000).
THE WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION AND THE
FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE.
James S. Gordon, MD
Ninety years ago, at a time when medical
education and the standards of physician practice were wildly
variable, Abraham Flexner, a Carnegie Foundation consultant,
issued a report titled Medical Education in the United States
and Canada. Aided by the American Medical Association, Flexner
graded North American medical schools according to the scientific
standards of Johns Hopkins, which in turn was basing its rigorous
curriculum on the German model. Flexner’s report, with
its emphasis on full-time faculty in the basic and clinical
sciences and extensive laboratory and hospital facilities,
set the standard for medical practice and licensing, as well
as medical education, for the 20th. century.
In July of this year, the newly appointed
White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Policy began to undertake a study that may conceivably exercise
as profound an effect on 21st.-century medicine as Flexner’s
report has had on 20th.-century medicine.
The medicine that Flexner’s report
catalyzed, and the subsequent infusion of capital from John
D. Rockerfeller, helped to produce the extraordinary gains
in scientific research, high-technology treatment of illness,
and rigorous scientific education that have been the hallmark
and pride of American medicine. But the medicine of Flexner’s
heirs, though enormously powerful and precise, had inevitably
been incomplete.
In using a stringent set of criteria
to judge medical education, Flexner, and those who followed
his recommendations, eliminated some of the diversity that
marked early 20th. century medicine. Schools of homeopathy
– and those emphasizing herbal and natural healing-disappeared,
as did a number of those serving women and minorities. The
scientific medicine of the ensuing 90 years has made many
advances, but in the process has ignored or dismissed many
other healing traditions and many practices as having only
historical, anthropological, or sociological interest.
Over the last 30 years, increasing
numbers of Americans have begun to experience the limitations
of the medical care they receive and begun to look to these
other traditions and practices to help them with their healthcare
problems. In a very real sense, this search ahs been stimulated
by the success of the Flexnerian enterprise. It is, in fact,
those who have had all the benefits of modern scientific medicine
who have led the search.
These people are not turning their
back on conventional medicine, but they are painfully aware
of its limitations and side effects and therefore are exploring
approaches that would complement this medicine – or
be alternatives to it. They include men, women, and children
with life-threatening illnesses like cancer and HIV, and many
more with chronic pain, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, neurological
disorders, chronic depression and a host of other conditions.
They are looking for therapies that
are both more helpful and less toxic. As managed care becomes
pervasive, many of these people are searching for something
else as well. They want more time with the professionals who
will provide care to them, a sustained healing partnership
rather than a brief consultation, and an opportunity to participate
in their own care as well as follow doctors’ orders.
A survey published in the Journal of
the American Medical Association in 1998 showed that 42% of
all Americans were using therapies other that those their
doctors prescribed, many along with and some without conventional
care: chiropractic and massage for back pain; supplements
and herbs for headaches, depression, diabetes and weight loss;
and a combination of dietary therapies, exercise, meditation
and group support as an option to cardiac surgery. In 1997
Americans made 649 million visits to alternative care practitioners,
243 million more than they made to their primary healthcare–
MC–providers.
In fact, the actual number of Americans
using these approaches is probably significantly higher that
revealed in the survey. People who didn’t speak English
and didn’t have phones were not included. Many of them
are recent immigrants for whom what we call “alternative”
or “complementary” is, in fact, primary care.
In recent years the movement to integrate
complementary and alternative care and to create a more holistic
and patient-centered approach has gained significant numbers
of adherents among teachers of medicine and present and future
healthcare professionals. Approximately three quarters of
all US medical schools have at least an elective offering
in alternative medicine. Many thousands of practicing physicians
are each year seeking advanced training in mind-body medicine,
nutrition, herbal therapies, and Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine.
And thousands of college graduates, many with excellent academic
credentials, are now entering non-MD training programs in
complementary and alternative approaches-among them chiropractic,
acupuncture, naturopathy, herbalism and massage therapy.
Congressional legislation, supported
by an extraordinary bipartisan coalition, reflects the breadth
and power of this movement. In 1991, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
created the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National
Institutes of Health. In the years since then, the office’s
original budget of $2 million – a “homeopathic
level of support”, according to the office’s first
director-has risen to $ 100 million. The office has been upgraded
to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine,
and rigorous research on therapies that were ignored and disparaged
10 or even 5 years ago is proceeding apace at many of our
leading academic medical institutions.
At the beginning of the 20th. century,
Abraham Flexner worked with the American Medical Association
to survey the medical landscape and to bring high scientific
standards to the training of physicians as well as to the
services they offered their patients. At the beginning of
the 21st. century, congress and the president are asking a
commission of conventional physicians and researchers, complementary
and alternative medicine pioneers, citizen advocates, and
business people-men and women of many colors and ethnic backgrounds-to
design a blueprint for a new medicine that is both scientific
and inclusive.
The job of the commission-our job-is
to establish guidelines for scientifically exploring approaches
that have come from other cultures, and practices that have
flourished outside of conventional care; to gather information
about and describe models that can successfully integrate
the most effective of these practices into conventional care;
to make this information-about what works safely and what
doesn’t – easily available to all Americans; and
to recommend legislative initiatives that will make the best
of these therapies, and training in them, an integral part
of medical and other professional education.
In July we began this work. At the
first commission meeting in Washington, DC, we created a blueprint
for six 2-day commission meetings over the next 9 months-2
each on research and access to services, one on professional
education, and one on public information.
We decided to hold a number of town
hall meetings as well, to give Americans around the country
(those who offer and those who receive healthcare) an opportunity
to tell us what kind of healthcare and research and information
they want. At our first town hall meeting in San Francisco,
61 people testified-concerned parents and hopeful advocates,
clinicians, and researchers from a dozen different healing
traditions.
Flexner’s report established
standards in medical education and practice and helped to
give birth to generations of distinguished scientific physicians.
The White House Commission’s mandate is to help those
scientifically trained physicians to turn their attention
to other promising avenues for helping and healing, to formulate
ways to bring together ancient wisdom and modern science and
conventional practitioners whose primary training is in complementary
and alternative approaches, and to educate the American public
as well as professional caregivers.
Flexner gave physicians an authority
in which patients could trust. Even as it deepens that authority,
the commission’s work will help extend our options for
good care, enlarge the range of practitioners available to
all Americans, and encourage patients and their caregivers
to establish the kind of sustained healing partnerships we
all want.
Events
January 2007
INTEGRATIVE
WHOLISTIC HEALING RETREAT:
Ayurveda (Ayur means long life. Veda
means wisdom)
Ayurveda is The Wisdom of Long Life.
Saturday, Jan.13th from 2:00pm to 4:00pm:
• Eating according to the seasons and body type.
• Effective control of Obesity, Depression,
and Insomnia in Ayurveda.
Sunday, Jan. 14th 2007 2:00pm to 4:00pm:
• How Ayurveda can assist in management of Allergies,
Inflammation and Dietary disorders.
Private Consultations with Arun Sahi
Ph.D, M.Sc are available:
$50.00 per consultation.
Please call 309-762-9202 to schedule
a consultation.
Payments go directly to Dr. Sahi.
About the Presenter:
Arun Sahi Ph.D, M.Sc is visiting us
from Chicago, Illinois, where he has a practice in Ayurveda
since 1997.
Prior to Chicago , Dr. Sahi had practiced Ayurveda in New
York for 3 years and in India for 10 years.
He is a third generation Ayurvedic doctor.
Event is held at The Moline Club 2nd
Floor.
513 16th Street, Moline
Refreshments will be available.
The event is sponsored by The Institute
for Cultural and Healing Traditions, Ltd.
and is free and open to the public.
April 2007 - SPECIAL
Dr. Prachi Garodia
December, 2006 visit was cancelled due to winter blizzard.
Event will re-schedule April 28th and 29th, 2007. Details
to follow.
Past Events:
2006 June, December
2005 - May 14th.2005
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.,
Image Guidance Intensive for Professional
Healers
Location: Larson Center - Illini Hospital
Hosted by: Integrative Wellness Center
2002 - The Integrative
Wellness Center
2526 41st Street
Moline, IL 61265
2000 April 19th
"A Walk in the Garden: Herbs your
patient may be taking"
Presentation by John W. Golden, MD
Medical Director, The Integrative Wellness Center of the Quad
Cities
1999 Integrative
Wholistic Healing Retreat
3rd. Annual Retreat.
1998 Integrative
Wholistic Healing Retreat
2nd. Annual Retreat.
1997 Integrative
Wholistic Healing Retreat
1st. Annual Retreat.
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