What can Integrative Medicine do for patients?

1. Integrative Medicine is a healing-oriented approach that focuses on the whole person and uses all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals, and disciplines to promote optimal health and healing for the whole person—body, mind, emotions, spirit, and relationships. It reaffirms the importance of the body’s innate ability to heal and the relationship between the practitioner and the patient/family.
2. Evaluate the totality of all the symptoms, considering that each symptom is a message that should help formulate the healing path.
3. It addresses the root causes that influence health.
Helps the patient achieve optimal health by addressing physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, environmental, and social circumstances influencing health. Optimal health is defined as functioning at the highest potential for the patient as a unique individual.
It helps define the healing path using scientific evidence, practitioner expertise, and the patient’s goals.
It helps communication among different health professionals and facilitates selection among conventional and integrative methods that facilitate the body’s innate healing response.

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What can Classical Homeopathy do for patients?

1. Homeopathy can help with a wide range of conditions manifested by symptoms in the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual spheres.
2. It can be used at any age and by pregnant and nursing mothers.
3. It induces gentle healing and acts fast. In acute disturbances, remedy acts within minutes to hours; in chronic, usually within 3-6 weeks.
4. It helps decrease the need for medications with potential side effects and the cost of iatrogenic illnesses caused by side effects.
5. It is cost-effective. The main cost of homeopathic care is increased practitioner time. Homeopathic prescriptions are affordable.
6. It is evidence-based.

Classical Homeopathy is a complete holistic healthcare system that aims to restore physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health in the shortest, surest, least harmful way, according to clearly defined principles and protocols. It uses nano doses of specifically prepared remedies that stimulate the body’s innate healing ability. With the advances in quantum physics and basic sciences, it is finally possible to evaluate how the remedy that does not contain molecules of the original substance still carries the characteristics of the source.

According to the 2019 WHO Global Report, over 200 million people worldwide use homeopathy, making it the second most preferred treatment system.

A French survey indicates that 87% of patients prescribed homeopathy did not later see another healthcare provider for the same problem. When homeopathy becomes part of medical treatment, the number of Western medications significantly decreases, and with that, the cost of iatrogenic illnesses caused by their side effects.

More info on Homeopathy:

https://www.hahnemannlabs.com/homeopathy.html

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About Maverick Integrative Pediatrics

At Maverick Integrative Pediatrics, we understand that each patient and family has unique health goals. We tailor our healing plans to meet these goals, offering personalized advice based on scientific evidence and our expertise. Our aim is to support you through healing journey respecting body’s innate ability to heal.

Our practice combines Western Medicine, Classical Homeopathy, and Integrative Medicine. When appropriate, we may incorporate other healing modalities and refer you to specialists such as Chinese Medicine practitioners, Ayurveda practitioners, Chiropractors, Nutritionists, Cranio-Sacral therapists, Herbalists, Naturopathic doctors, etc.

We believe in a collaborative approach to healthcare. While we provide consultations based on our unique principles, we do not provide primary care and encourage each patient to have a primary care provider (PCP). We strive to work with your PCP and other specialists involved in your/your child’s care to ensure coordination and comprehensive care.

Jelena Vukicevic, MD, CCH, FAIHM

Jelena Vukicevic is Board certified pediatrician, Classical Homeopath and Integrative Medicine specialist with over thirty years of experience. She completed residency in pediatrics at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford (LPCH) after graduating with a medical degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her additional training includes a four-year program in classical homeopathy at the Institute for Classical Homeopathy (ICH) in San Francisco, earning a degree as a Certified Classical Homeopath (CCH), and Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine in La Jolla, California (AIHM), earning a degree as a Fellow of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (FAIHM).

She has had the privilege of working with wonderful patients and colleagues at UCSF, Stanford University, Welch Road Pediatrics, and Menlo Medical Clinic and always expresses deep gratitude to her patients and coworkers, acknowledging their role in her learning and growth. She practices at Maverick Integrative Pediatric office in El Granada, California, where all that she learned over the years is applied to find the unique healing path for each patient.

After finishing homeopathic school, she continued to study with renowned homeopathic practitioners, including Henny Heudens-Must (Studiecentrum voor Homeopathie, Leuven, Belgium), Dr. Farokh Master (Bir, Dharmashala province, India), Dr. Gheorghe Jurj (Romania), and Raquel Blach CCH, in Mountain View, California. In 2015, she became a certified practitioner of classical homeopathy (CCH) by The Council for Homeopathic Certification in the United States and registered with the North American Society of Homeopaths. In 2024, she completed a two-year fellowship at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (FAIHM) and joined the Health Volunteers Oversees organization (hvousa.org).

In addition to her love for patients and their families, she enjoys hiking with family, friends, and dogs, knitting, swimming, and learning ways of healing, with great respect for nature and reciprocity.

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