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ReviewComplementary medicine research2024

The Earth as a Living Organism: Contribution of Integrative Medicine to the Healing of Our Planet (One Health).

Harald Matthes, Erik W Baars, Benno Brinkhaus, Moritz Christoph, Friedrich Edelhäuser, Christian Grah, Carsten Gründemann, Christian Keßler, David Martin, Andreas Michalsen and 6 more

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Review in Complementary medicine research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Harald MatthesInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Erik W BaarsLouis Bolk Institute, Bunnik, The Netherlands.
Benno BrinkhausInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Moritz ChristophAcademy of the Society of Anthroposophic Physicians, Munich, Germany.
Friedrich EdelhäuserIntegrated Part-Time Study of Anthroposophic Medicine (IBAM), Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
Christian GrahResearch Institute Havelhöhe (FIH), Berlin, Germany.
Carsten GründemannDepartment of Pharmaceutical Science, Translational Complementary Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Christian KeßlerInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
David MartinInstitute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany.
Andreas MichalsenInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Bernd RosslenbroichInstitute of Evolutionary Biology and Morphology, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
Jana SirokaClinic Arlesheim, Arlesheim, Switzerland.
Georg SoldnerMedical Section, School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland.
Michael TeutInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Jan VagedesTübingen University Children's Hospital, Tübingen Universtiy, Tübingen, Germany.
Stefan N WillichInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundConsidering the analogies between the disruption in ecological systems and in individuals, the concept of integrative medicine is extended to the One Health concept and integrative medicine is introduced as an innovative model for guidance/correction in patients' therapy as well as in ecological realignment. SUMMARY: The specific elements of integrative medicine that can be applied to human health as well as to environmental health are described (e.g. self-regulation, salutogenic healing processes, transdisciplinary multimodal approaches, methodological pluralism). The need for sustainable use of limited resources in medicine and pharmacy is pointed out. As examples for urgent action, the need of taking into account the whole life cycle of pharmaceutical products as well as the impact of diet for human and planetary health are mentioned. KEY MESSAGE: Self-regulation plays a crucial role in human and environmental health; sustainable promotion of self-regulation enables people to become co-creators of their own health. Such a fundamental change requires transformation of one's inner relationship to nature and to oneself. The aim of the mini-review was to concretize individual fields of action and to investigate the question of whether the concepts of integrative medicine can be transferred from humans to the environment and thus to planetary health and whether this makes sense.

Indexed as

Integrative MedicineOne HealthComplementary TherapiesEarth, PlanetEnvironmental HealthHumansEnvironmentNachhaltigkeitPlanetare GesundheitPlanetary healthSelbstregulationSelf-regulationSustainabilityTransformationUmwelt

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PMID39068929
PMCPMC11466444

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