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Integrative Pharmacy Service (natural medicine consultation)
In natural medicine pharmacy (integrative pharmacy), there is holistic approach to preventing and determining the root cause of a concern, rather than only treating symptoms.
You may have heard of other terms, such as holistic, natural, complementary or integrative medicine.
A trained natural medicines Pharmacist (or Integrative Pharmacist) considers a patient and their health as a whole being, rather than mainly paying attention to symptoms.
To do this, they will do a deep dive into a person's symptoms, background, needs, wants and other motivations or reasons for their current health concern.
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60 min initial consult
In this consultation, your Integrative Pharmacist will complete a thorough examination of your health background, to create a personalised plan addressing your needs.
They can assist with digestion, pain and inflammation, immunity, stress, anxiety and fatigue.
30 min follow up consult
Your Integrative Pharmacist will sit down with you to assess how the treatment plan has been working so far.
They will consider your original and current symptoms and may make suggestions for changes to be made, depending on the feedback you provide.
15 min repeat consult
This is check in with your Integrative Pharamcist to get refills as necessary for your treatment plan.
Once your personalised plan is established and you are comfortable with how to manage it, this will be an ongoing consultation until your health concerns or bothersome symptoms have subsided.
60 min initial consult
In this consultation, your Integrative pharmacist will complete a thorough examination of your health background, to create a personalised plan addressing your needs. They can assist with digestion, pain and inflammation, immunity, stress, anxiety and fatigue.
30 mins follow up consult
Your Pharmacist will sit down with you to assess how the treatment plan has been working so far. They will consider your original and current symptoms and may make suggestions for changes to be made, depending on the feedback you provide.
15 min repeat consult
This is check in with your Pharamcist to get refills as necessary for your treatment plan. Once your personalised plan is established and you are comfortable with how to manage it, this will be an ongoing consultation until your health concerns or bothersome symptoms have subsided.
What is an Integrative Pharmacist?
An Integrative Pharmacist, or trained natural medicine Pharmacist, is a healthcare professional who understands and recommends both conventional and evidence-based practitioner-only vitamins, supplements and medicines.
The reason for this holistic approach is to better treat the patient as a “whole”.
What health conditions do Integrative Pharmacists address?
Our Integrative Pharmacists are trained to support customers with the following health concerns:
Customers who find their health concerns are not being resolved by traditional prescription medication, may find it helpful to add other types of “tools” to their healthcare and wellness toolkit.
This is where science-based vitamins and supplements can come in.
What can I expect at my Integrative Pharmacy consultation?
Location and duration
During your in-pharmacy consultation, your Integrative Pharmacist will speak with you in a one-on-one setting.
As they must first learn all about you, your health background and other areas, your first consultation will be approximately 60 minutes, with follow up consultations of around 30 minutes.
Identification of symptoms
To identify treatment that is right for you, your Integrative Pharmacist will ask you to complete a questionnaire, going into detail about your experiences and symptoms related to stress, mood and fatigue, pain, digestive and immune health, skin health and women's health if applicable.
Prescriptions
Following this, they will prescribe practitioner-only vitamins, supplements and/or therapies suited to your situation, to help alleviate the symptoms you described.
These therapies may also aid in the prevention of greater impacts caused by your health concern from evolving or reappearing.
Balanced options
Far from a one-solution fits all, your trained natural medicine Pharmacist may recommend practitioner-only vitamins and supplements or pharmaceuticals, if these are deemed necessary
Careful consideration of prescriptions
Be assured that prevention is key in this practice, and that pharmaceutical prescriptions are not dispensed without due course.
Allied support
If you need the support of a greater healthcare team, we can refer you to appropriate allied health professionals and work cooperatively with them, to support you.