Integrative Medicine Consultation in Greenville, SC
Integrative Medicine Consultation at IHP Greenville. Dr. Hendry, DAOM — functional medicine, root-cause diagnostics, personalized care. Call (864) 365-6156.
"I can't say enough good things about Dr. Hendry. He really listens to your experience and what you need to share about your situation, is patient, and takes the time to explain clearly what acupuncture is about."
— Catherine Hosack · April 2015 · Google Review
Most patients who book an integrative medicine consultation have one thing in common: they've done all the right things conventionally, and something still isn't resolved. Labs look "within normal limits." Specialist appointments produced diagnoses that don't connect to each other. Prescriptions address individual symptoms but the underlying pattern keeps reasserting.
An integrative consultation is where I look at everything at once. I bring Chinese medical diagnostic training — pulse, tongue, constitutional pattern — functional medicine laboratory interpretation, ozone therapy, injection therapy, and herbal pharmacology to the same clinical assessment. I hold a DAOM (doctoral degree in Oriental medicine), spent nine years on staff at Prisma Health, have five peer-reviewed publications from my opioid-alternative research, and I'm an AAOT member. I'm not listing those credentials for decoration. I'm explaining why this consultation covers ground that no single specialty can cover.
If you've seen an acupuncturist and a functional medicine doctor separately, this is what you get when those two lenses are in the same room, held by the same practitioner, looking at your specific pattern.
How Integrative Medicine Consultation Works
Your integrative medicine consultation begins with a 90-minute structured intake. Dr. Hendry uses a whole-person evaluation framework that covers: (1) your current chief complaints and medical history; (2) Chinese medical diagnosis (tongue, pulse, pattern analysis); (3) functional medicine systems review (gut, hormonal, neurological, immune, detoxification); (4) dietary and lifestyle assessment; and (5) review of prior lab work and imaging. From this multi-dimensional assessment, he identifies the highest-leverage intervention points and builds a prioritized treatment plan.
The treatment plan may include acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, targeted supplementation, ozone therapy, injection therapy, dietary protocol, or a referral to appropriate conventional specialists — all coordinated around a coherent therapeutic strategy. Dr. Hendry acts as your integrative health quarterback, coordinating care rather than working in isolation from your other providers.
Conditions Treated with Integrative Medicine Consultation
Integrative Consultation vs. Standard GP Visit
A standard general practitioner visit averages 15 minutes and is structured around the presenting complaint. Diagnostic tools are matched to symptom coding: a patient presenting with fatigue may receive thyroid and CBC panels, but the appointment rarely investigates circadian rhythm disruption, gut microbiome status, HPA axis function, or the Chinese medicine pattern of Kidney Yang deficiency that may underlie all three simultaneously. The GP visit is optimized for rule-out medicine — excluding serious pathology — rather than root-cause resolution. Our integrative consultation operates under a different mandate. It assumes that most chronic presentations have multifactorial origins that require multifactorial investigation. A patient with treatment-resistant insomnia, for instance, may have co-existing blood sugar dysregulation, a sympathetic nervous system that never fully downregulates, and a Liver Qi stagnation pattern creating nocturnal heat. Each of these responds to a different therapeutic lever. By identifying all contributing factors in a single comprehensive intake, we build a treatment sequence that addresses physiology at every level — not just the symptom the patient brought to the door. This is not a critique of general practice; it is an acknowledgment that chronic disease requires a different investigative framework than acute care.
Research & Evidence
An integrative medicine consultation at our Greenville practice begins with a 90-minute intake that simultaneously maps biomedical history and Chinese medicine pattern diagnosis. This dual-lens methodology is grounded in systems biology: the same autonomic dysregulation that drives elevated cortisol can manifest as both hypertension on a metabolic panel and a wiry, rapid pulse in channel diagnostics. Rather than treating the chief complaint in isolation, the intake maps upstream contributors — sleep architecture, digestive function, emotional stressors, and inflammatory load — that conventional screening rarely quantifies. The World Health Organization reviewed controlled clinical trials across 28 conditions and confirmed that acupuncture-based care produces clinically meaningful outcomes when treatment is individualized (WHO Acupuncture Review, 2002). MacPherson et al. documented that effects established during a structured course of acupuncture treatment persist well beyond the final session, arguing for the value of thorough baseline assessment (J Altern Complement Med, 2011). Our intake creates the diagnostic foundation that makes all subsequent treatment decisions mechanistically defensible rather than empirically approximate.
Your First Appointment
Bring all prior lab work, imaging reports, and a complete medication list. If you have seen multiple specialists, bring a summary of their findings. Plan for 90 minutes of focused discussion. This appointment is deliberately comprehensive — the goal is to understand your health from every angle before recommending specific treatments. Many patients describe the integrative medicine consultation as the most thorough health evaluation they have ever received.
Why Dr. Hendry for Integrative Medicine Consultation
Dr. Hendry's 5 research publications and hospital privileges at Prisma Health reflect a level of clinical credibility that allows him to communicate with your other healthcare providers as a peer — not an alternative. He can coordinate your integrative care with your conventional medical team, flag potential interactions between proposed integrative treatments and your medications, and make evidence-informed referrals to other specialists when appropriate. This collaborative, medically informed approach distinguishes IHP's integrative medicine from practices that operate in isolation from conventional medicine.