The term Holistic Medicine has become common among practitioners of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine to denote an approach to medicine and medical methodology that tries to treat the person as a whole. This approach assumes that disease is not made up of visible symptoms alone.

Holistic health is a non-medical philosophy of well-being that considers the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life as closely interconnected and balanced. Advocates of the holistic health philosophy typically seek or use a wide variety of alternative practices, the most common of which include acupuncture, ayurveda, Siddha, chiropractic, naturopathy, yoga, aromatherapy, Cannabis cultivation and homeopathy.

One of the oldest but newest treatments in holistic medicine is used for tears in your knees, backs, shoulders and more called "Ultrasound Directed Prolotherapy". Advocates of alternative medicine often employ the use of the holistic health philosophy to claim that conventional medicine does not address the needs of the patient as a whole.

Supporters of conventional medical practices dispute that claim and point to certain trends within conventional medicine that could also be described as "holistic", such as wellness programs focusing on whole-body health programs of nutrition, exercise, and preventive care.