A system of health in which the intangible as well as the more material aspects of life are given equal importance. Our existence is physical as well as mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual. Our emotions are intertwined into our physiology. Stress is implicated in 85% of chronic diseases. A health care system where therapies are directed to each of these aspects of our existence is called Integrative Health. This fundamental approach is crucial to the life’s wholeness. Integrative health is about understanding and recognition of the importance to consider all the vital dimensions of health as body, mind and spirit. Just treating the physical body by drugs and surgery may be effective but not enough to solve the problem of Chronic diseases. No Integrative Health system is complete without Consciousness based model of health and disease. This is what is found in the ancient system of Ayurveda. Integrating Ayurveda with advances in modern medicine will help create a better health care than any one of them practiced separately.
