title: Integrative Medicine System Based on Music.
abstract: Today, the world's ever-changing lifestyles demand a reliable, comprehensive system of integrative medicine with minimal side effects. One of the most prominent candidates for such a system is music, an enjoyable health care approach, and in response to the need for that system, the present article formulates one that is music based. Specifically, the authors have explored the physician-patient interaction, developing a model of that interaction within the context of music therapy. That model is based on ancient Ayurvedic principles and on research from modern physics and biology, such as that on quantum consciousness, chaos theory, the statistical theory of communication, information theory, and neurodynamics. The authors formulated 6 dimensions for that model: (1) physiological-Tridoshas, (2) emotional-Trigunas, (3) sociological-temperament, (4) psychological-brain waves, (5) spiritual-Chakras, and (6) informational-landscape. The connections between music and those dimensions are explored in the current article. The model opens the doors for a reliable, enjoyable, holistic health care, using music, with minimal side effects.
authors.forename: Sai Venkatesh
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Balasubramanian
authors.forename: Gomathi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Balasubramanian
authors.forename: Ganapathy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ramanathan
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D055048:Integrative Medicine; D009146:Music; D009147:Music Therapy