Policy Statement for the ICNM and The British Register of Complementary Practitioners (BRCP)
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ICNM Mission StatementThe Institute for Complementary and Natural Medicine's mission is to support the educational development and growth of the CAM profession whilst safeguarding the public.What we stand for... collaboration, excellence, facilitation of well-being, empathy, passion, energy, innovation, knowledge, commitment, honesty, never being satisfied... |
The Institute for Complementary and Natural Medicine (ICNM) is a Registered Charity to provide the public with information on Complementary and Natural Medicine. As part of that programme, it has initiated a research project to develop ways to control, regulate and research all the different disciplines and techniques within the field, in order to protect qualified Practitioners and ensure safety to the general public. The ICNM philosophy is to support Complementary Medicine as a unified profession, recognising a number of disciplines within a holistic framework. We recognise that ill-health and disease can stem from imbalance within the system as a whole. It is the aim of holistic practitioners to redress this imbalance with their holistic approach to health, and also to preventative healthcare. The ICNM accepts that the philosophy of allopathic medicine is more usually one of treating symptoms while the aim of Complementary Medicine is treatment of the whole person, body, mind, spirit, and vital force. This may be achieved at times with minimal intervention.
We can resonate with Plato in asking the question: "What is Healing?" -
"The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body."
- Plato