In 1990, when Dr. Van Heule wished to list his practice in the telephone book, he was told there was no category for Holistic health care. Today the term Holistic has become rather popular and often interchangeably used with alternative and complementary care. Alternative medicine basically amounts to using an alternative for what is considered standard care. An example of this would be the use of St. John's wort instead of Prozac to treat depression. Complimentary care is the use of an alternative method alongside standard medical care in the hope of achieving better results. These methods are focused upon managing the symptoms of a disease. Holistic health care on the other hand departs from an entirely different premise. Its aim is to observe the nature of the person who is seeking help. To study the path the soul has taken, its constitutional uniqueness and the way in which he or she has dealt with the challenges along that path ending up in the epigenomic expression in the patient. Integrating the philosophies, techniques and scientific applications of eastern medicine, homeopathy and bioenergetic medicine, nutrition and biochemistry, psychoneuroimmunology and kinesiology one is capable of observing and aiding in modifying imbalances leading to dysfunction (disease). The origins of most health problems observed today are multifactorial in nature. Labeling the compilation of symptoms as a diagnosis is merely for semantic purposes. The label itself rarely gives any information about the cause of the disorder or the unique way in which the patient may be experiencing this imbalance. For this reason, the treatment applies to the person, not the disease.
