Natural Medicine Consultation in Greenville, SC
Natural Medicine Consultation at IHP Greenville — TCM, in-house herbal pharmacy, functional medicine. Dr. Hendry, DAOM. 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
Patients who come in saying "I want to try natural medicine" usually have a very specific thing they're actually asking: they've been on a medication for years that isn't fully working, or they've received a diagnosis they don't want to manage with drugs indefinitely, or they have symptoms that conventional workups keep failing to explain. I start by identifying what's actually driving the clinical picture. Then I build a treatment plan from the modalities that fit the mechanism — acupuncture, herbal medicine, targeted supplementation, dietary intervention, injection therapy. The modality comes after the diagnosis, not before.
How Natural Medicine Consultation Works
Natural medicine consultations follow a comprehensive intake process covering your chief complaints, complete health history, Chinese medical diagnosis, and functional medicine systems review. From this, Dr. Hendry identifies the most appropriate natural medicine interventions — which may include acupuncture, herbal medicine, dietary modification, targeted supplementation, ozone therapy, or injection therapy — and presents a clear, prioritized plan.
Conditions Treated with Natural Medicine Consultation
Integrative Natural Medicine Consultation vs. Fragmented Specialist Referrals
The conventional specialist referral model is designed for organ-specific pathology: the cardiologist addresses cardiac risk, the endocrinologist addresses hormonal parameters, the gastroenterologist addresses GI symptoms. For patients with single-system acute pathology, this model is appropriate and effective. For patients with chronic multisystem dysfunction — the majority of the chronic disease burden in functional medicine practice — the fragmented specialist model produces a collection of diagnoses without a unifying framework. A patient with autoimmune thyroiditis, irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, and chronic fatigue may see four specialists, receive four pharmaceutical prescriptions, and still have no clinician who has assessed the relationship between intestinal permeability, immune dysregulation, HPA axis dysfunction, and nutrient depletion that underlies all four presentations. The integrative natural medicine consultation does precisely this: it constructs a systems map of the patient's physiology, identifies the upstream drivers, and builds a coordinated treatment protocol using acupuncture, herbal medicine, targeted supplementation, and dietary intervention. The outcome is a clinical plan that addresses root causes rather than managing each symptom branch in isolation — and a patient who has a single clinician who understands their entire picture.
Research & Evidence
An integrative natural medicine consultation synthesizes herbal medicine, nutritional biochemistry, acupuncture, and lifestyle medicine into a single coherent clinical assessment. This systems-level approach is particularly suited to complex chronic conditions where multiple physiological domains are simultaneously dysregulated. Zhang H et al. (Metabolism, 2008;57(5):712-717) demonstrated berberine's equivalence to metformin for glycemic control — a finding with direct implications for integrative management of metabolic syndrome that a conventional consultation focused on a single biomarker would not capture. Dodin S et al. (Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2013) documented acupuncture's efficacy for menopausal vasomotor symptoms, while Zhang W et al. (Maturitas, 2007) showed that Chinese herbal medicine supports bone health in the same population — two findings that together support a comprehensive integrative strategy for menopausal transition that no single-modality consultation delivers. The integrative consultation model allows cross-domain root cause identification: a patient presenting with fatigue, weight gain, and brain fog may receive a conventional workup that returns normal thyroid labs, while the integrative assessment identifies subclinical insulin resistance, gut dysbiosis, and B12 insufficiency as the converging drivers — all addressable through targeted natural medicine interventions.
Your First Appointment
This consultation is ideal as a starting point if you are unsure which specific treatments you need. Come prepared to describe your health concerns in full, including any conventional diagnoses and treatments you have tried. Dr. Hendry will guide the conversation toward the most relevant areas for assessment.
Why Dr. Hendry for Natural Medicine Consultation
Dr. Hendry's breadth of training — DAOM, functional medicine, AAOT membership, injection therapy certification — makes him exceptionally qualified to offer a truly comprehensive natural medicine consultation that covers modalities unavailable at most integrative practices.