Dr Friedrich Staebler

This is a term used for a medically trained doctor who uses complementary treatment options to help the body to help itself. Integrated refers to the fact that we use medical skills at the same time as applying complementary methods. Some integrated doctors prescribe medical drugs, but I personally no longer do that. Instead, if I feel that specific medical treatments are required, I refer the patient to a trusted colleague.

The body is a miraculous mechanism. Its proper functioning, or health in other words, relies on the interplay of opposing forces, which need to exist in a balance of harmony. This is true on all levels. Whether it is our heart, expanding and contracting like a pump to supply the body with fresh blood, the lungs doing a similar thing breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide, or our muscles showing the right amount of tension, neither too contracted (hypertonic) nor too lax (hypotonic).