1 The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China 3 J.Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Flo...

While the intention of Integrative Medicine (IM) is whole person medicine, it has for the most part remained driven by individual modalities. Like the practice of IM itself, IM research too has been driven primarily by studies on individual modalities. There are significant challenges to moving research on whole systems medicine forward, with funding being at the top of the list. Historically, ...

1 The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 2Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 3Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA...

Marc Cohen is currently the Director of the Complementary Medicine Unit at Monash University and Vice President of the Australian Integrative Medicine Association. He received his MBBS from Monash Universi~. after completing a Bachelor of Medical Science and a PhD in Traditional Chinese Medicine. For the past six years he has been responsible for creating teaching programs in acupuncture and co...

Objectives. This study was aimed to determine the therapeutic principle and identify Chinese Patent Medicine (CPM) with corresponding indications for hypertension treatment. Methods. Three rounds of Delphi survey were mailed among 40 cardiovascular integrative medicine specialists. Items with agreement of more than 80% respondents were included in the consensus. Results. According to majority o...