Functional Medicine is a term that has been used in Europe for many years. It is just beginning to be used in America in recent months.
Functional medicine is a complement and extension to traditional pathology based medicine.
Most people under the age of fifty often do not yet have evidence of organ damage or tissue change. Yet many people in their thirties and forties have a host of symptoms from which they suffer and from which orthodox techniques including drugs and surgery offer no relief. For this large group of patients, functional medicine in many cases offers answers to these problems. Functional medicine uses many natural modalities of therapy including diet and nutritional supplements, phytotherapy, homeopathy acupuncture and its related modalities, as well as chiropractic and massage. These modalities gently direct the body toward self-healing rather than forcing organs to do something they are not doing.