Ecology and health, or in other words Body Ecology has a name : Holistic Health.

There must have been a starting point : How can we heal  using methods that can really improve our well-being without destroying our environment or another part of ourself ?

One of the purposes of holistic therapies is to use massages and chiropractic that would reduce our stress that’s causing a lot of our mental and physical pains.

Psychotherapy has also been very popular and more “normal”. Holistic therapy is certainly not a medical specialty, but psychotherapy is now a subject in the training of Medical Doctors such as Psychiatrists or even General practitioner MD. It shows that even scientists have noticed that healing with our natural ability can be helpful and would avoid the use of any chemical medication in certain cases.

In other cases, medications are necessary. That’s how homeopathy and naturopathic medecine were born. When the use of modern chemical medications is necessary, it often helps the root of the problem, but in some cases, destroys our body in another way.  Holistic therapies aim at the underlying source of the illness, to prevent recurrence.

Also, the very purpose of homeopathy and naturopathic medecine is to use as many natural organisms of our wildlife that wouldn’t destroy its abundance, but also that would affect us in a positive way. A lot of these techniques were inspired by the traditional Chinese medicine. Even more that 2000 years BCE, the classical Chinese belief was that life and activity of individual human beings have an intimate relationship with the environment on all levels. It doesn’t only has a countless number of therapies and remedies, but it is also a philosophical concept that the human body is a small universe with a set of complete and sophisticated interconnected systems, and that those systems usually work in balance to maintain the healthy function of the human body.

And more that being the ancestor of Holistic medicine, it could simply be the ancestor of Ecology itself.

Holistic therapy is also about nutrition, which brings me to my next point : Ecology and food.