Welcome to Healing Medicine: How to Use This Site
Start here. What Healing Medicine is, why posts are grouped into series, and how to get the most value from the Foundation, Four Layers, and Alice’s Journey.
Blog
Welcome to the Healing Medicine blog, where we explore the future of integrated healthcare through the lens of both Eastern and Western medical traditions. Our mission is to illuminate the path toward true health by understanding the complete continuum—from vibrant wellness to disease—and how different healing modalities can work together at each stage.
Featured Posts
Posts
What Does It Mean to Be in Balance?
Balance is not a fixed state but a responsive process. This post weaves Western physiology (homeostasis, allostasis, allostatic load) with Chinese medicine (yin and yang, qi, blood, fluids) to explain why labs can look "normal" while the body feels off, and how to read signals, reduce load, and restore resilience.
This is Alice
A concise introduction to Alice’s journey: cured of cancer but struggling with fragmented, post‑treatment fallout—pointing to the need for systems‑based, integrative care that restores rhythm, function, and confidence.
Meet Alice: When Cancer Treatment Creates Ten New Problems
Alice’s post‑treatment story shows how fragmented care creates new problems—and how a systems‑based, integrative plan restores rhythm, function, and confidence.
Introducing Medicine 3.0
Medicine 3.0 reframes health as resilience in living systems, integrating modern science with classical insights to align rhythms, restore balance, strengthen relationships, and honor ecological context.
The Four Layers: A Framework for Seeing Health Whole
The Four Layers framework organizes health into Regulation, Flow, Transformation, and Structure. Rooted in Dr. John Shen’s clinical model and translated for modern systems medicine, it shows how symptoms cluster when layers lose balance—and how to restore resilience. We use this map to read Alice’s story coherently and guide care that rebuilds rhythms, improves circulation, strengthens digestion and metabolism, and replenishes deep reserves.
The Big Picture: Systems Thinking vs. Symptom Whack‑a‑Mole
Modern care often treats symptoms in isolation—medicine as whack‑a‑mole. This post reframes health through systems thinking: open, adaptive networks where symptoms are signals from interconnected loops. We show how restoring circadian rhythm, reducing inflammatory load, supporting stress recovery, and improving cellular energy can shift the whole system. The goal is precision in service to pattern, so patients like Alice are seen and treated as living systems, not fragmented parts.
Discover the Invisible Wall Dividing Medicine
Alice’s story reveals an invisible wall dividing modern care: precision without pattern on one side, systems without specificity on the other. This piece proposes a semi‑permeable medicine that lets insight flow between paradigms—keeping precision in service to pattern, and pattern in service to the person.
Convergence: Three Ways of Seeing One Body
Convergence shows how three lenses describe the same body. Through Chinese medicine’s pattern language, systems medicine’s allostatic load, and network medicine’s connectivity maps, we read Alice’s symptoms as one system seeking balance. The post makes the “wall” permeable—keeping precision in service to pattern—so practitioners can coordinate care that restores flow, rebuilds reserves, and rewires healthier networks.
What is Health?
What if health isn’t a checkbox but a journey? Through Alice’s story, we explore Medicine 3.0’s view of health as resilience, balance, and a living system in motion.
Welcome to Healing Medicine: How to Use This Site
Start here. What Healing Medicine is, why posts are grouped into series, and how to get the most value from the Foundation, Four Layers, and Alice’s Journey.