Holism is the common name of philosophical approaches that emphasize the view that the whole is something beyond the parts that make it up. According to this approach, the whole cannot be understood by analyzing only its component parts. All the elements that we can hear and see the truth constitute the whole. From this perspective, the holistic approach maintains its validity in the field of medicine.
“It is not possible to improve the part unless the whole is good.” – Plato
The claim of holistic health is that the human being is a multidimensional being consisting of body, mind and soul, that it cannot be reduced to individual organs and systems, and that the human being is more than the sum of all these parts. In this respect, holism is the approach of addressing the human being with all its being and personality, without separating it into parts, by overcoming the biomedical model that separates both the physical body within itself and the mind and physical body from each other.
The main theme of Holistic Health is not “How to treat disease” but “How to maintain health”.
In this sense, the fundamental issue of holistic medicine is not illness, but health. Holistic medicine emphasizes the determinant role of people's relationships with each other and their environment, their lifestyles, and their mental states on their general health. Illness results from an imbalance in all of these elements. A person has the potential to heal within themselves to overcome this imbalance.
In this system, which is the understanding of health of today and the future, traditional, complementary methods are used together with Modern Western Medicine. In addition, other scientific methods (psychology, sociology, social work, education, natural - transformative agriculture, etc.) and art are used. Treatment is recommended that is specific to the person, their mind, body and metabolism structure, rather than disease - symptom-based categorical treatment.
Everything that happens in the macrocosm (the Universe) also happens in the microcosm (Human). Both have rhythms and cycles. The planets, the atoms and subatomic particles that make up matter, and energy also move and rotate in a spiral. Nothing is fixed in the universe. Movement is in constant development. If we understand the cycles within ourselves and can harmonize them with the cycles of nature around us, every abnormal situation called “discomfort” will turn into normal and automatically tend to disappear.