ABSTRACT
Before we delve into the concepts of integrated medicine and its predecessors, we need to have a basic understanding of the underpinnings on which all physical form on this earth is based. This explanation is necessary because in medicine we never go far beyond the obviously apparent. The human manifestation is supported at all levels by the natural laws of physics that govern the cosmos, universes, galaxies, planet systems, and, indeed, our own existence as an energy-mass-information being. We need to understand that it is these laws of thermodynamics, entropy, and homeodynamic nonlinear equilibrium that we are dealing with when we try to cure a diseased patient, who really represents nothing more than a thermodynamically unstable system. This human system can, like the electron, be considered at any one time as a particle (mass) or as a waveform (energy), the yin and the yang as the Chinese describe it. The physics that relates to these issues in the universe includes the laws of thermodynamics, nonlinear dynamics, fractal geometry, and chaos theory.
