‘Chamomile is God’s Xanax’: Integrative medicine gives patients more options

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Adding certain herbs and improved nutrition to Western medicine can have myriad benefits for patients with rheumatic and autoimmune conditions, said a presenter at the Rheumatology Nurses Society Annual Conference.“Integrative medicine is about giving the patients another option,” Iris Zink, MSN, RN, ANP-BC, a rheumatology nurse practioner and co-owner of