Reduce Suffering and Enhance Health Worldwide

Through Traditional and Integrative Therapies

 

First Medicines is a organization with a mission to reduce suffering and enhance health worldwide through traditional and integrative therapies.

We help individuals marshal innate resources, either through belief or spiritual perspective, with mind/body or lifestyle tools ranging from meditation and hypnosis to massage and reiki, to gardening and the arts.

Our first focus is the alleviation of pain and suffering for those living with or dying from illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, Cancer, MS, and other serious illnesses, plus the impact of their treatments.

We train individuals in self-care tools and strategies that can help them remain comfortable, strong, and healthy longer.  We provide private therapies and group programs through our practitioners network.

We also offer training programs for providers and caregivers to help them maximize the effectiveness of their interventions through the natural inclusion of these tools.

FIRST MEDICINE PROVIDES:

Critical Care Interventions

Palliative care for the dying, tools for surgical prep and recovery, comfort for the distressed, traumatized, or injured

Chronic Care Interventions

Education and Self-Care strategies for management of chronic conditions such as HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Hepatitis, Diabetes, Heart Disease, etc.

Prevention

Education on Stress Management, Nutrition, Behavior, and Activity to retain vital health

 

THROUGH:

Direct Interventions

First Medicines Therapists and Trainers at Affiliate offices

Indirect Interventions

Training programs for Physicians, Nurses, Traditional and Integrative Providers and Caregivers

 

First Medicines promotes and/or provides therapies that are non-pharmacological, non-invasive, and easily adapted for self-care.

They include the following:

Consciousness Counseling Hypnotherapy Meditation Spirituality Arts Media

Bodywork Massage Acupupressure Reiki Yoga Tai Chi & Qi Gong Energetic Healing

Lifestyle Nutrition Hygiene Exercise & Activity Substance Recovery Prevention Gardening