A medicine, so many medicines
If I work on the body through energy techniques, what role will physiotherapy have to play outright ? If the approach to the body is only mechanical, will the disorder tend to reappear? Can the body be taught how to heal? And, if this is true, what happens to or what role do the specialists in sectors in which the disorder has been seeking for decades and not the area of health that exists in every human being ?
They are all open questions, which would require a constant comparison between researchers and clinicians, therapists and experts in the various sectors of natural disciplines and well-being.
At European level we are getting there. If nothing else, one feels the need to see the patient, to listen to him as a whole, as the complementary or unconventional medicines and practices teach. Especially in oncology, the integrated approach really looks like the future.
At a general level, there is a strong need to rethink the treatment, in an extended sense, also by re-evaluating holistic medicine, natural therapies and those deriving from millenary traditions, as in the case of ayurvedic medicine or traditional Chinese medicine.
Internal cleansing, illness, hygiene
In reality, we also find backlit visions of the disease. And not too far behind. In these fields we always return to a classic nostalgia, we search for Paracelsus, we peek among the Presocratics. There is no need to deny the advancement of official medicine and get excited about excess by triumphing only unconventional practices. Surgery has made great strides, but this invasive aspect has at its core a whole series of precepts that would be worth repeating our own.
Just think of Florence Nightingale and remember some of the assumptions of this great British nurse and writer: Diseases are not individuals organized in classes and categories, like cats and dogs, but conditions that develop from one another.
Is it not living continually in the wrong way that leads us to break the balance? Are there not factors such as internal and external cleanliness and dirt that cause people to feel good or sick?
Valdo Vaccaro very well describes this enlightened figure: He said unforgettable things about infections and diseases, and his positions were advanced and modern to the point that even the sophisticated and post-technological medicine of today has much to learn from her.
Reinstate these visions, combine them with today's acquisitions, seek and never stop searching. This in movement as in nutrition as in manual therapies .
ECIM and global patient care
The ECIM, European Congress of Integrated Medicine, is in its 5th edition and will be held in Florence from 21 to 22 September 2012 and will be inaugurated on 20 September with a ceremony in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio.
We are very interested because we will deal with topics related to integrated oncology, chronic pain, psychopathologies, pediatrics, treatment of allergic forms and other topics that are treated daily even at the level of complementary medicine with excellent results.
Space will also be given to agro-homeopathy, biodynamic agriculture and food, sectors that should not be underestimated, if we assume that what we introduce has a good percentage of effect on the functioning of the entire system. The European criteria for the production of homeopathic and phytotherapeutic drugs and the application in Italy will also be examined .
The event is promoted by the Tuscany Region - Toscana Network of Integrated Medicine, University of Florence and Order of Physicians and Dentists of Florence, together with the Charité University of Berlin, in collaboration with other Tuscan universities and the regional agency of Health, with the patronage of numerous national and international bodies and institutions.
We await this international event to understand how integration is progressing and shed light on gray areas. Ready for that kind of overturning, so maybe what has remained in the dark zone until now turns out to be a harbinger of light and care when the balance fails.
