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Integrated Medical Biology

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human
frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. —Thomas Edison.
INTRODUCTION
Before we delve into the concepts of integrated medicine and its predecessors, we need to have a
basic understanding of the underpinnings on which all physical form on this earth is based. This
explanation is necessary because in medicine we never go far beyond the obviously apparent. The
human manifestation is supported at all levels by the natural laws of physics that govern the cosmos
universes, galaxies, planet systems, and, indeed, our own existence as an energy–mass–information
being. We need to understand that it is these laws of thermodynamics, entropy, and homeodynamic
nonlinear equilibrium that we are dealing with when we try to cure a diseased patient, who really
represents nothing more than a thermodynamically unstable system. This human system can, like
the electron, be considered at any one time as a particle (mass) or as a waveform (energy), the yin
and the yang as the Chinese describe it. The physics that relates to these issues in the universe
includes the laws of thermodynamics, nonlinear dynamics, fractal geometry, and chaos theory.
THERMODYNAMICS IN BIOLOGY
For the purpose of thermodynamics, the human body is a local system. This local system, however
is open because it can exchange matter and energy with its surroundings. Those surroundings
consist of nonbiological and biological entities, such as heat or perhaps a virus. The human body
and its surroundings constitute a miniuniverse in which we operate and exchange energy with our
surroundings. However, because our bodies operate as an integrated whole, the body itself, while
exchanging energy and matter with the outside, operates as a closed universe. All informa-
tion–energy–matter changes within the body will, by necessity, have an impact on the form and
integrity of all other parts. The Chinese were well aware of all these issues as evidenced by their
recognition of the effect of the weather and seasons on the balance of the body. They also described
the bodily organs without ever having performed an autopsy, not as physical tissues, but as
interrelated functional–emotional–energetic concepts. For example, the kidney, which regulated
some of the bodily fluids, was described as the seat of fear and the source of all energy within the
body. The organ concepts were all connected on the outside and inside of the body by the energetic
principal meridians and related functionally by the Ko and Sheng cycles. Changes in one area
produced changes in all areas.
Because we are part of the total universe, however, we have to obey the universal laws that
pertain to our particular manifestation, that is, as physicoenergetic beings. This leads to the first
principle of thermodynamics: energy is conserved in the universe, but may change its form. Thus,
the conversion of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to running muscles represents a conversion of
chemical energy to thermal and mechanical energy. This ability of the body to utilize energy to do
useful work is termed utility. These concepts are more or less common sense and are part of our


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