Recent advances in contemporary medical theory and research have given credence to an integrated psycho-neuro-endocrine-gastro-immunological model that is beginning to replace, the obsolete, mechanistic paradigm of the “immune system” as a discreet, autonomous entity. All too often allopathic medicine, historically and institutionally rooted in an emergency management model, oversimplifies and compartmentalizes the concept of immune function and as well as other and other organ function as an independent systems. The new conceptualization of immunity as the outcome of integrated, coordinated functions comes closer to the holistic model articulated in the classical theories of Chinese traditional medicine.