Holistic Manifesto

This is a set of principles that guide our selection of therapies, treatments, and the practitioners who offer them.

1. Each patient is treated as a unique whole person - body, mind, and spirit - and in the context of family, community, culture and environment.


2. Holistic medicine emphasises the responsibility of each individual for their own health. Good therapy promotes understanding and self-care rather than treatment and dependence. Holistic medicine utilises therapeutic approaches that mobilise an individual’s innate capacity for healing.


3. Holistic medicine promotes health as a positive state, not just an absence of disease. Likewise illness is seen as an opportunity for discovery as well as a misfortune.


4. Holistic practitioners are not judgemental - rather they assist patients in pursing their own life choices according to their own beliefs.


5. Holistic medicine acknowledges that the cornerstones of good health are good nutrition, good exercise, good relaxation and good sleep.


6. Holistic medicine makes use of perceptions and diagnostic systems in addition to those validated by western material science.


7. Holistic medicine emphasis the potential therapeutic value of the setting in which healthcare takes place.


8. Holistic medicine demands an understanding of and a commitment to change those social, economic and environmental conditions that perpetuate ill health.


9. Holistic medicine transforms its practitioners as well as its patients.