WELCOME

Daniel Weber, PhD M.Sc.

Introduction to Living Medicine

Medicine is a living thing; it changes, grows and evolves. Medicine is both art and science. It is scientific because we need reliable and replicable remedies for human disease and the need to understand the mechanisms, which underlie these remedies. An art because the application of reliable medications does not happen in a vacuum; medicine is in a large part about seeing the whole person not just the disease. The word medicine is derived from the Latin ars medicina, meaning the art of healing.

Living medicine is a medical approach, where the main concern is humanity, the end or reduction in human suffering. But it is also concerned with evidence of efficacy, some proof that an herb, a word or a touch has some objective demonstration of working successfully.

Somewhere between superstition and laboratory reductionism is the medicine of the clinic, where in the relationship between patient and practitioner they work together to heal. The living patient is unique, presenting their suffering in a jumble of genetic, epigenetic, social and life-style constructs.

Medicine is medicine because it works repeatedly, whether it is orthodox, traditional or complementary. If it doesn’t work, it’s not medicine.

My name is Daniel Weber and I am committed to finding what works and why, and I practice Living Medicine